Tuesday, 13 March 2007

What do you get when you cross

Afb012_1 Knightrider with Starsky & Hutch? You get this: Hammer and Coop. I think these are absolutely brilliant. Talking cars, sideburns, moustaches and unbelievably bad haircuts, what's not to like! And I'm convinced that I'm not the only one who wouldn't mind seeing an episode of Knightrider again :-)

We're in the middle of week 9 of our Spring Term (and this week, it really feels like spring, the weather's been gorgeous) and that means assignments, exams, case write-ups, presentations and businessplans all around, with next week the last week of term. And I'm getting all nostalgic already (which probably explains my newly found love for Hammer and Coop), after this there's only one more term left at school.

My classes this term have been really good, I loved Wally Olins The Unstoppable Growth of Branding for the great inspiration and best powerpoint slides I've seen, Prof Day's Product Innovation for reminding me how much I love the topic, Prof Lacey's Leading Teams and Organisations for reminding me yet again that I have so much left to learn and last but not least Prof Bates' New Venture Development for inspiring me to think about starting my own business and at the same time filling me with dread about doing it.

Speaking of New Venture Development, *start commercial break* one of my teammates and friends, Farhan, is helping out with the Entrepreneurship Conference later on this season. *end commercial break* I couldn't attend last year's conference, so I'm definitely going this year.

[what does the picture above have to do with this post? Hmmm. Nothing. But I like it. It's the reconstruction of the Globe Theatre and the Tate Modern in the background, one of my favourite spots in London]

13 Mar 2007 12:40:52 | LBS, London, Marketing

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Week 9 already? How did that happen?

Thanks for plugging the conference. As I'm finished with classes at the end of April I was looking for things to keep me busy in May!

We're going to start a major campaign about the conference in a few weeks time, for now we're looking for business plans for the competition. Email bplan-at-eflondon-dot-org for more information.

And sorry for using your blog for shameless promoting Miss N ;-)

Posted by: Farhan Lalji | Tuesday, 13 March 2007 at 02:55 PM

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