MBA Case Studies: Where are they now--Biopure

Oh Biopure, you so crazy...

Money Quote: "Moreover, the analysis of Biopure's experience, based on pooling of heterogeneous trials, we believe to be significantly flawed as it fails to meet the homogeneity criteria of meta-analysis, thus invalidating the conclusions."

I agree wholeheartedly with Biopure's stance on the homogeneity of their meta-analysis, I really do...but I just don't think it's in the cards for everyone's favorite blood-substituters.

Sorry, Biopure. I was pulling for you.

Great Moments in California History

In business school they have these things called Case Competitions. Basically, you get together at someone's school, and students organize a competition that pits universities against one another before a panel of industry judges. More than anything these are (like so much in business school) networking events. You meet the judges, and hopefully impress them, and you meet a bunch of students at other schools interested in the same industries you are.

I had the pleasure of competing in one such competition: The Open MIC--Music Industry Case Competition at UT, Austin in the spring of 2006.

As you can imagine, my team won. Like, whoa--we won pretty big. So big, that they had to give us an oversized novelty check in the hopes of immortalizing all that bigness (mission accomplished if you ask me.)

I bring this all up because the IRS just informed my wife that I failed to pay like $200 of tax last year on my portion of the prize money. Who knew that Case Competitions had tax implications??

My financial irresponsibility aside, the weekend I spent in Austin with my teammates and friends was one of the best I had in 2 years of grad school. I'd prefer to reminisce without forking over $200 bucks to Uncle Sam, but still. Great, great weekend.