National Business Systems

Sucessfully (will have to wait for a week to quite say that) Completed ModIV. After a gruelling 3 hour MGE exam, NBS did not seem that bad. As NBS was a group project everyone of our group members worked hard to get the paper out on Venezuela. Report came out to be 31 pages and we are quite happy about it.

We had struggled with the bibliography as MS Word did not offer a great and easy solution to handle the references/bibliography. At least, we were not aware of how to get them done in MS Word. I have looked at BibShare but it had steep learning curve. Another service on the web easyBib seems to be web based and can be accessed from anywhere and uses both MLA and PLA citation styles. Will have to look in to it.

Using LaTeX and doing bibliography using bibTeX was so much better when I was in graduate school. There are couple of flavors of MS Windows based TeX processing engines - mikTeX and http://www.hi.is/~tpr/latex/index.html. Will have to give it a try to see if it has the GUI interface and if the others in my group would want to use it or not.

For the time being, I am done with the Core courses and just picked up Prof. Rangan's course Global Strategic Management course material from the bookstore - at least 30 *big* cases in this course pack (~ 750 pages!). I am sure there is going to be a lot of reading involved in it.

But, for now, I am going to take it easy and get focused on Collagist.