Business Seminar
Reflection
Business Seminar, taught by Professor Daniel Morgan, is a capstone class required by the University of La Verne for its Business Administration students. This class provides its students the opportunity to demonstrate all that they have learned in pursuit of their degree. This class was divided up into three teams that competed with each other and three computer simulated teams. The competition was based on the scenario that the government had broken up a sensor company into equal parts due to monopoly infringement. All six teams started with exactly the same value, resources, and etc. It was up to each team to select a marketing strategy, financial structure and etc. This was a competition that I wanted to win badly as I had not lost a competition or team exercise while a student at ULV. There were some very good competitors in the class. Now our team was called Andrews, and we worked together well. We only had a 1 week practice to get used to the software that ran the simulation. We felt lost at times in the first couple of weeks of the competition even though we were putting up good numbers. We had a specific strategy going into the game that we changed significantly after I started employing trend analysis that I learned in Business Finance. Our team had the goal of having the best run and most valuable company by the end of the simulation. Our team very quickly ran down our human competitors but we did not surpass the final computer team until the last week of the simulation. I include for you the work I did solely on my own for the benefit of team Andrews below.
One thing that is Interesting to me is how important it was for me to be on the winning team. I like to compete and I feel like if I work hard enough I usually have a good chance of doing well and even winning. Most of the time it comes down to hard work. That said, it was suggested to me that people who are very competitive are hiding insecurities. Wow! I did not like hearing that. it is true that I am insecure sometimes but that is no reason not to try to win! One thing that differentiates me from those who may be insecure is that I am genuinely happy for the other person or team when they win since I know that I will always work as hard as I am able to produce winning results. When I am beaten, and it happens, I try to learn from that experience so that I am better prepared the next time I compete. At the University of La
Verne we had to break up into teams and compete in nearly every business or management class and I was fortunate to be on the winning team every time. I would not have lost it if I had been a part of a losing team unless we had not done the work. That would be unacceptable to me. So, if I had to go two days without sleeping or making any other kind of sacrifice then I would do it. Not out of any insecurity but out of an obligation to myself to do the thing right.
One thing that is Interesting to me is how important it was for me to be on the winning team. I like to compete and I feel like if I work hard enough I usually have a good chance of doing well and even winning. Most of the time it comes down to hard work. That said, it was suggested to me that people who are very competitive are hiding insecurities. Wow! I did not like hearing that. it is true that I am insecure sometimes but that is no reason not to try to win! One thing that differentiates me from those who may be insecure is that I am genuinely happy for the other person or team when they win since I know that I will always work as hard as I am able to produce winning results. When I am beaten, and it happens, I try to learn from that experience so that I am better prepared the next time I compete. At the University of La
Verne we had to break up into teams and compete in nearly every business or management class and I was fortunate to be on the winning team every time. I would not have lost it if I had been a part of a losing team unless we had not done the work. That would be unacceptable to me. So, if I had to go two days without sleeping or making any other kind of sacrifice then I would do it. Not out of any insecurity but out of an obligation to myself to do the thing right.
Team Andrews
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