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It looks like I am famous at last – well at least I am on a website reviewing the business school.

Check out the link here – and please click through to the new business website too!

http://www.businessbecause.com/samir-abid/why-i-chose-warwick-business-school

I have passed the Warwick MBA!

- 69.2% average

- 4 module distinctions (70%+)

- 79% for the dissertation.

These stats mean I rank near the top of the class too!  Fantastic.

More than the numbers, the whole experience has been absolutely class.  I did not realise I would learn as much as I have; as much about myself as well as the invaluable business knowledge.

MBA = Massive Brain Accelerator

Bring on the party

The MBA is complete and the parties are over.

The next cohort are probably installing nicely into their new home – looking forward expectantly to the opportunities that a year spent challenging yourself, your perspectives and your life objectives, that doing an MBA can give you.  MBA standing of course for “Massive Brain Accelerator!”

For me it is now about the next project.

Despite the recession, there seem to be plenty of jobs available for the ‘right’ people.   My direction is slightly different and I want to put the broad range of skills and knowledge into practise.   I am therefore working on a number of entrepreneurial projects looking at the electric vehicle ‘market space’ and developing some Internet ideas.

Exciting times ahead.

Best of luck to all the new MBA’s and for my year, I hope you discover what you were looking for to now realise your dreams.

I never thought I could write so much!  Twenty something thousand words and 140 pages later, the MBA dissertation is done.

So to is the course itself.

It has been a roller-coaster of a ride and I now find myself spat out the other end with new plans, new friends and new ways of looking at the world around us; much more than I ever imagined in fact.

Where next?  I am not sure.  There are some projects bubbling and I hope to start a new business in the near future.  Now however is a time for celebration of success and quiet moments to reflect on the last 12 months.  I am also looking forward to spending time with my wife again (an MBA widow of the last few months it has to be said!) and also catching up with friends.

For those reading this and starting on Monday, if you let it, the course will change your life for the better and for good.

Best of luck to those job seekers at the moment!  Sounds like you are having some success and this could be perfect timing to pick up on the recovery.

What a year!

I got my final result today –  I have passed all of the (14) modules from the MBA!

Now just the project to finish.  It has been so quiet on here because there have been a few hick-ups along the way with the project.  My recommendation to anyone setting out on a dissertation project in the future is to make sure you get a good brief and keep it simple.

Find these new useful tools in the MBA Resources area.

Here is a link to some thoughts and a top ten on start-ups and what they don’t teach you at MBA school.

The dissertation continues a pace. I am finding it an excellent experience and a tough slog at the same time.

The topic of my dissertation is looking at determining business feasibility (very interesting) combined with Motor Sport (extremely interesting!)  Through the company I am working with, I have been conducting primary research (i.e. new, not from a book research) with some successful and influential people in the Sport.

For example so far, a multiple Indycar and Indy 500 winner, a former F1 test driver and now successful team owner and an F1 team principal. Furthermore, I have interviewed a former England Rugby star and have other exciting meetings in the diary for the next few weeks.  What a different experience!

It is great to be involved and meeting these people, who have freely given their time (nearly 3 hours in one case) to help me with researching my project.  Having a chance to apply the MBA / business perspective is awesome.

The hard slog is when I am back at the desk, alone and needing to crunch through the information and pull together the report.  Like many, I am a people person so miss the energy of the class.

Through my dissertation research, I have been introduced to Mark Jenkins, Prof of Business Strategy at Cranfield. Follow his blog here.

Top Gun made an appearance in discussions today around my dissertation!  All those hours spent watching the film were not in vain.  How great!