Aeu Mihara's Online Journal

Being successful

Sun, 11 Dec 2005 17:41:41 EST

As I was writing the learning plan paper, I noticed that I repeat the word “success”. I questioned myself what is “success”. Because I notice the nuance of word I used in the paper was to be rich or financially secure. I found that it is sad to see myself thinking success is money. As I was growing up, I never wanted to be a money monster like other adults. Now I am turning into one. After my realization, I decided to myself be aware of the fact that money is not success. Therefore, the leaning plan reminded me another important thing.

internship

Sun, 11 Dec 2005 17:19:50 EST

I am trying to find a summer internship in Tokyo. I realized internships are not common in Japan. There are a lot of temporary part-time jobs offered in Japan; however, it is hard to define what an internship is and what is not. I thought it was interesting to see different countries have different business systems. In addition, I was thinking why Japan does not have internship opportunities especially in a big city like Tokyo. I think it is because there are so many part-time jobs available, so students will rather have a job which pays than have an internship. If I start a business, I will definitely offer internships in my company.

team

Sun, 11 Dec 2005 17:06:40 EST

The last day of MGMT 250, the professor gave students to talk about the high points and someone they want to recognize. I thought it was interesting to see many of them recognized their team leaders for HR simulation were the ones did well on their projects and had a good relationship in the teams. Thinking back about my team, no one recognized our group leader and we did not have a great relationship either. I just thought the outcome of the team is related to the relationship of the team. I hope I will have a better relationship with my teammates next semester.

learning plan part II

Sun, 11 Dec 2005 15:57:14 EST

When I first started to write the learning plan part I, I really didn’t think the assignment was useful at all. Moreover, I thought it was a waste of my time because it was long!! Then I start to write for the part II. Surprising I actually enjoyed writing and thinking. Although, some of the criteria were too specific to write about, I think it motivated me to start thinking about my future. I think a part of the reason I thought it was helpful because I personally have been thinking about the future. Therefore, it was a good reflection to write it down to remind myself.

Business major as an undergrad

Sun, 11 Dec 2005 15:43:26 EST

Recently I had a chance to talk to a graduate student about business major. He worked for a company for a couple of years and the company sent him to study for his master degree. I told him that I am not sure if I want to be business major. He responded to me saying, “It’s hard to be business major if you never had any job experiences.” Something cricked after this conversation. I felt that if I had job experiences, I would have felt more comfortable with the material we discussed in MGMT 250. Now I see the course in different perspective after the conversation with the grad-student. As a result, I enjoy the class more because I know that I have to fully understand everything in the class.

Japan

Sun, 06 Nov 2005 19:39:25 EST

In Japan, currently there is an issue about buying companies. Let me explain more. In America, it is normal that a company buy other companies’ stock and gain the control over the companies. This is frequently happening in Japan right now. In America, it might be a strategy for a company to expand its business. However, in Japan this strategy is not welcomed. Why? I think it is because of Japanese custom. I can’t really explain what it is but I can say that the strategies work in one country don’t mean they will work in different countries.

the New York Times

Sun, 06 Nov 2005 19:29:45 EST

I was reading an article on the New York Times. The article was about the CEO of the World Bank has been recruited by the Citigroup. I started to think who I am. This CEO is on the newspaper and going to be in charge of the branch in the Citigroup. I started to think it is about the connection. He was introduced to the CEO of the Citigroup by the common friend. Once you are in the community, you are in. The problem is how you are going to get into the community. You need to be good at something. “What am I good at?”

the learnig plan

Sun, 06 Nov 2005 19:10:17 EST

I really think that the learning plan was not fairly graded. Not only about the grade. I still don’t get the point of the whole project. I know the paper stated that the purpose of the project is to find who you are and where you are going. I don’t think writing the paper will lead us into our identity. I personally didn’t find anything new about myself after finishing the part I. I have talked to other students about the project and a lot people were confused about the purpose too. I hope we’ll find out by the final due date.

the jonah's case

Sun, 06 Nov 2005 18:58:53 EST

In the class, Alison claimed that Jonah’s action talking to the Bill was not important; moreover, it was pointless. I wanted to comment on it in the class; however, I was not selected although I was raising my hand. Anyways, I strongly disagree with her opinion. The meeting with Bill was necessary to convince Jonah’s belief. Before he met Bill, Jonah was debating if he was right. After he had a conversation with Bill, Jonah was able to follow his belief and argue with his superiors. I wish I could have said this in the class.

the system of the class

Sun, 06 Nov 2005 18:46:35 EST

I think the professor needs to restrain the rules of the class. I have noticed that there are some people talking and making comments without raising their hands. It has been happening for a while. At first, it didn’t bother me; however, now I think it’s over the line. It is distracting other students’ ideas. I have heard people complaining that they were interrupted by a student while they were talking. I don’t think that should be happening and it is an appropriate in the learning environment.

the team project

Sun, 09 Oct 2005 22:20:17 EST

We have assigned into small groups to do the project. I have five people in my group including me. Since the project is pretty big, we need to meet up other than the class time. And I definitely realized working with other people is so hard!! Even to decide the time is hard thing to do. When we discuss about the project, you realize how hard to bring different people’s opinion into one. I think I am good at compromising but some are not; therefore, it takes forever to decide one tiny thing. If the future job is the extension of this project group, I don’t know what I am going to do.

diversity

Sun, 09 Oct 2005 22:08:49 EST

I don't think diversity is necessary important because for business the most important thing is to be most profitable. A diverse company might look better in the surface; however, I don’t think a company should hire the person because he is minority. For example, there are tons of Indian doctors, Korean dry cleaners and Vietnamese nail salons. If they are doing fine by what they have been doing, why the change is necessary? I am minority and I still think diversity is something you can make it by plans.

my parents

Sun, 09 Oct 2005 21:45:51 EST

My parents run a company. When they started first, they had no idea how to manage the company. As time goes by, I think they learned how to run a company and how to manage the human resource by experiences. I personally think the management is not something you can learn from by lectures. I think that’s why we have a lot of projects in our course. You need to have experiences to improve yourself in the position of manager.

what's management?

Sun, 09 Oct 2005 21:06:55 EST

I came to Case to major Environmental Study however I had to double major with something. So I decided to major management concentration on finance. Honestly, I still don’t know what is management is. After talking MGMT 250, I think I am getting what it is; however, I don’t really think that’s really what I want to. I hope this class will get me more interested later on this semester because I don’t know what I am going to major if I don’t major management!

Hayland Software Company

Sun, 09 Oct 2005 20:26:25 EST

I have received a E-mail from Hayland Software Company which I had an interview for the Mock Interview. It was an offer to send an online application. The E-mail also said that they are impressed about my resume and they want to move on to the next step. I was really surprised because I thought it was just a practice for the real interviews. At the same time, I was really happy to hear the company was impressed about me!