The Musing Mill

When I first started the second year of my MBA program, it was looking like the most useful class (professionally) would be Financial Statement Analysis (FSA).

Don’t get me wrong, FSA is great. Basically, you can take a company’s financial statements and dissect them in ways that they can’t hide behind - at least as good as any paid stock market analyst could. Very useful.

But now, after a few weeks into it, the CLEAR winner is Modeling and Simulation Using Excel (QM880). Many thanks to Tina Thiarra for suggesting I take this class last Spring. In short, every week, we take 5-6 complex problems in Operations, Marketing or Finance, problems I previously would have thought unbelievably difficult to figure out.

We then solve each of them in 15 minutes using Excel. It’s a mindset. Just wait until I figure out how to apply this stuff to Internet Marketing…

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I have an interview with Product Management at Google tomorrow and I came across this document while doing research. The design and development philosophy expressed in it is very similar to the one we had at Revit. No surprise such a process yields a great product. They have a ‘Top 100′ list, we had a ‘Top 50.’ Oh well, I guess we weren’t as big!

Maybe there are similarities due to Sergey Brin’s russian heritage. He was born in Moscow, and his family came to America in 1979. His father was a math teacher. Leonid (founder of Revit technology) was born in St. Petersburg and WAS a math teacher (just kidding).

The notes were taken by Evelyn Rodriguez and posted on her blog. My great thanks to her for the insight into the way Google creates products.

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Although it might work technically, I think this is a bad PR move for Google, which publicly claims to have a philosphy of making money without being evil…

Google labs eavesdropping software

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