RaceSco MBAlog

This site belongs to Scott Sanders, a 2004 graduate of Cornell University's Johnson School of Management. It chronicles two years in a top MBA program -- academic, career, social, and everything in between. Blogging was a way of sharing the MBA experience with colleagues, friends, family, and others who were interested. Scroll through the posts -- there's more than a few interesting tidbits.

Tuesday, January 03, 2006

Been searching for something?

Greetings! There's a good chance you've never been here before. If that's the case, let me show you around.

I started this site when I entered business school at Cornell in August 2002, and since then, I've tracked literally thousands of keywords that have been used to find this place. I've noticed some trends and thought I'd share them with you – and take a guess at what you might be looking for.
  1. Scott Sanders. Yes, people search for me! Or some other person with my name. Like this guy, or this one, or this one. Yup, not me.

  2. Cornell University, the Johnson School, and MBAs. There's a lot to read here about my two years getting my MBA. Some popular posts follow in this list.

  3. General Electric CEO Jeffrey Immelt. I wrote about Immelt is a couple of blog posts, including one great story where I overheard him quizzing some first-year MBAs.

  4. Chips Ahoy. I ranted about marketing research gone wrong when my favorite cookies had their taste changed for no good reason. (P.S. It was Chips Deluxe that changed, not Chips Ahoy.)

  5. Lehman Brothers CIO Jon Beyman. Beyman gave a moving talk about his role in the post-9/11 recovery of his company, having been across the street from the World Trade Center.

  6. Vistakon and other Harvard Business School cases. Sorry, I don't have the answers to any of these cases. You'll have to suffer through the case, just like I did.

  7. Betty Vinson, Bethany McLean, Worldcom, and Enron. The corporate scandals of several years' past fascinated me. I don't know why. I was also fascinated by business schools' seeming rush to teach ethics to us old students, which has got to be destined to fail. I wrote about these figures at various points on this blog: Vinson's Worldcom dilemma, McLean's book (and now documentary movie, too), and Enron's web of deceit.
Well, there are good odds that you were looking for some of the keywords above but not necessarily those subjects. Still -- I hope you find something here interesting.

I'll leave you with one last good post -- the one I heard most about from my friends and family, and the one that generated the most controversy. And I still stand by it today.

It was about the male:female ratio in business school. How true it is.
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