MBA at IBA - a personal guideline: March 2012

3/25/2012

Human Resource Management

Human Resource Management (HRM) Course Outline
Human Resource Management Quiz

3/20/2012

Principles of Management - Course Outline

Principles of Management Course Outline

Micro Economics Course Outline

Course Outline - Consumer Behavior

Microeconomics

Course: Microeconomics
Course Instructor: Shama-e-Zaheer (The man is a genius)

Course Curriculum

Quiz 2
Microeconomics Final Exam

A few words about Mr. Zaheer

Everybody expects a female instructor to show up. That's the first thing.

Anyway, he is a great teacher. One of the best. Just pay attention in his classes. But again, he is so good that you wont have to try too hard. But his quizes! Can he twist things! Sometimes he twists questions so much that once the answer to a question turned out to be both "yes" from one perspective and "no" from another. So we all got our one mark for that one. But his questions are more like riddles. He will give you five minutes to answer 5 true/false questions. Sounds easy huh? And he is a true economist. After we insisted that he provided us hard copies of question papers instead of displaying them with the projector, he used to put every millimeter of paper to use for his questions.

Principles of Management - Assignments

Assignment: Decision making and creative problem solving

More PowerPoint presentations from Laura Mohiuddin

Sir had cited another example regarding creative problem solving. It goes like this:

The Japanese love fresh fish. However, the waters close to Japan have not held many fish for decades. So to feed the Japanese population, fishing boats got bigger and went farther than ever. The farther the fishermen went, the longer it took to bring in the fish. If the return trip took more than a few days, the fish were not fresh. The Japanese did not like the taste. To solve this problem, fishing companies installed freezers on their boats. They would catch the fish and freeze them at sea. Freezers allowed the boats to go farther and stay longer. However, the Japanese could taste the difference between fresh and frozen and they did not like frozen fish. The frozen fish brought a lower price. So fishing companies installed fish tanks. They would catch the fish and stuff them in the tanks, fin to fin. After a little thrashing around, the fish stopped moving. They were tired and dull, but alive. Unfortunately, the Japanese could still taste the difference. Because the fish did not move for days, they lost their fresh-fish taste. The Japanese preferred the lively taste of fresh fish, not sluggish fish. So how did Japanese fishing companies solve this problem? How do they get fresh-tasting fish to Japan? If you were consulting the fish industry, what would you recommend?