First snow on Norges Handelshøyskole
It snowed this night and we even had our first snow fight:
And the best thing is, that the snow was still there, when I got up in the morning:
Add comment November 16th, 2005
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NoWires: Project Kickoff
We met the company again on Tuesday and clarified our understanding of the company and their products. The main goal was to settle the subjects that we as a group will be working on. Giordana, Agnieszka, Stine, Dimed and I had met on Monday to prepare a presentation and an outline of our subject proposal (business plan). Both meetings were very good, the company is interesting, the group is fun and the task will teach us a lot about the business world. I am very much looking forward to this project.
On the photo from left to right: Agnieszka, me, Professor Kjell Hole, Dimed, Stine, Giordana
Add comment September 22nd, 2005
Busy weekend
I have to apologize for the long silence, but as many people will be visiting me in the coming weeks (most importantly my lovely girlfriend), I choose to stay at home during the weekend and finish some assignments way before the due dates.
Yes, here in Norway the way of studying differs significantly from the german approach (no interaction between students and professors until the exam). I finished assignments for Petroleum economics (mostly maths: 7pages - I have overdone it) and for Project Management (mostly prosa: 4pages - cheated to fit 6-7 pages on 4). And I still have to finish the paper for Business Location Decision before my brother arrives here tomorrow, so I’ll get back to work.
I will try to post some photos of the campus in the coming days (when the weather gets nice again).
Add comment September 13th, 2005
Business Location Decision: excursion
Excursion! The first excursion in my university career. We went together with the course in Business Location Decision to downtown Bergen, an office destrict and a TeleNor office building near the airport.
Continue Reading Add comment September 7th, 2005
Happy Birthday, Nick
Today was Nick’s 23rd birthday, we had a nice dinner with Marie, Florence, Jukka, Nick and me at our kitchen. And of course the most important things about birthdays: Nick got some presents!
Last group photo (from left to right): Marie, Nick, Jukka, Florence and me
1 comment September 5th, 2005
Entrepreneurship with focus on market evaluation
Tor Aase Johannessen presented the outline of the course and the entrepreneurial ventures, on which we will be working. This course is not a lecture in the common sense - we will be divided into groups of 6 students and will work each with a different company. We will then have to write business plans, market studies and other things as group tasks.
I will most probably choose NoWire - a IT research company in Bergen, run by a Professor of the University - and Life Care (I will then get one of these assigned). At the end of the semester we wil have to deliver a 50-70 pages report as a group - so each of us will have to contribute around 10 pages.
Sounds like a lot of work for this semester…
Add comment August 31st, 2005
Debating at NHH
We had our second debating session with our Kitchen Chamber Debating Society at 6pm in Aud. 12 in NHH. And the motions before the house were: “This house would introduce school uniforms” and “This house would allow same-sex couples to adopt children”. The debates were great fun and everybody had a very good start. I am very much looking forward to the next debates of the semester. Click on “continue reading” to see photos.
Continue Reading Add comment August 30th, 2005
Project Management
The first Project Management course was really crowded (~100 students) - people were even sitting on the steps. Professor Katarina Østergren explained her eductional concept: a combination of regular lectures and seminars in smaller groups (~30 students). Seminars will be held on even weeks and lectures on the odd ones. She also announced a heavy workload. We will have to write 5 papers compromising ~6 pages - one every two weeks to be handed in before the seminar sessions! In addition to these we will have to prepare a group-presentation of one of the articles and there will be an exam at the end!
Many students said that they will choose another course due to the workload, so the group might shrink to around 70 students. The subject seems very interesting and is presented with many links to real-world projects - I think it is worth the effort.
Add comment August 30th, 2005
Petroleum Economics
Today was the first session of Petroleum Economics. Professor Rögnvaldur Hannesson announced a math-heavy modelbased approach (suits me perfectly) to this field of economics and gave an overview of the oil market, prices and current forecasts. You can download the lecture outline & reading list here.
The course is much bigger than Business Location Decisions with around 80 people - but hopefully some students will drop out.
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Add comment August 30th, 2005