Back to B-school

First thing in the morning: news, coffee shot & mini
croissant :-)

This is going to be a great term. I know it! Last week was REALLY intense. I thought it was going to be ok. to take two (one-week) intensive courses at the same time but I was wrong. I did not even have time to do my weekly posting... I barely had time to sleep due to the work load but it was a good week though. Have you ever felt that even though you are really busy you really enjoy yourself? Well that was my case :-)

I took Alternative Investment and Wealth Management subjects and I felt I just learnt tones. I wish school offered both in a regular term! Cause the subjects are really rich and can get complex (at least for some of us that were not really into investments). From a pragmatic point of view, both subjects gave me interesting insights on how to build and evaluate the composition of an investment portfolio given an objective. Two of the concepts that caught my attention were risk arbitrage and behavioral finance. Anyways, I hope I can make some time to continue reading and learning about this. Now that the fifth term begins, these are the subjects I am going to take:

1. Venture Capital & Private Equity
2. Estrategias Bancarias en el SXXI (Banking Strategies in the 21st century)
3. New Statement of Cash Flows and its Impact on the Use of Financial Statements
4. Comparative Corporate Governance and Responsibility
5. Negotiation
6. Project Management

It is incredibly refreshing coming back to B-school. The fact of being part of such international class and -most specially- the opportunity of exchanging ideas with such gifted colleagues is truly enriching. I am really happy of being here, and even if it sounds a little bit nerdy, this is going to be fun. I can tell! :-)


Definitivamente este será un gran ciclo, lo sé! La semana pasada fue realmente intensa. Pensé que iba a estar de lo más normal tomar dos cursos intensivos al mismo tiempo pero me equivoqué. Ni siquiera tuve tiempo de escribir mi post semanal... apenas tuve tiempo para dormir debido a la cantidad de trabajo, pero fue una buena semana. ¿Alguna vez haz sentido que a pesar de estar súper cansada(o) al tope de paper work, aún así te diviertes? Bueno, ese fue mi caso :-)

Los intensivos que tomé fueron Wealth Management (Gestión de Patrimonios) y Alternative Investments (Inversiones Alternativas). Ambos cursos se me hicieron súper interesantes, aunque a momentos bastante complejos (desde la perspectiva de alguien que nunca ha trabajado en inversiones). Desde el punto de vista práctico, tanto Wealth Management como Alternative Investments, te dan una buena idea de cómo construir y evaluar un portafolio de inversiones. Me llamaron mucho la atención dos conceptos nuevos: risk arbitrage (arbitraje de riesgo) y behavioral finance (finanzas del comportamiento). En fin, tantas cosas! Espero encontrar tiempo para seguir leyendo al respecto. 

Ahora que el quinto ciclo ha comenzado, estos son los cursos que tomaré:

1. Venture Capital & Private Equity
2. Estrategias Bancarias en el SXXI 
3. New Statement of Cash Flows and its Impact on the Use of Financial Statements
4. Comparative Corporate Governance and Responsibility
5. Negotiation
6. Project Management

Es realmente refrescante volver a clases. El hecho de ser parte de una clase tan diversa y sobretodo de compartir discusiones con gente tan talentosa motiva y hace único cada día. Me alegra muchísimo estar aquí y aunque suena medio nerdy, puedo asegurar que este ciclo será divertido! :-) 

Another afternoon at school

Case-doing. Take a glance at the pile of cases I got to
read this term!

Weekend, finally! I got time to do my nails :-)
I've learnt how to do them myself #proud

The result! I am getting a little bit better
There is always room for improvement :-)