Overall, 2008 was the year when a bull market suddenly turned into a bear and when the situation for thousands of MBA students changed in a ...

It has truly been a weird year and in the first of two summaries over 2008 I will write my comment on the presidential election in the US. W...

... after a very very tedious journey home with Swiss.. I am now back in Stockholm and that feels great. Couldnt stand yet another dumpling.

I have now surfed the web and read up on some issues regarding the news that Barack Obama enjoys an approval rating of approximately 82 % (R...

I logged on to DI.se - the Swedish business magazine (Norwegian DN.no is better) and read a tiresome article about 2008 where they had invit...

We have now arrived in Shanghai with the train D301. This was an express train with better facilities than the "Z" train. We also ...

The worlds largest auto manufacturer, Toyota , is apparently reporting a loss for the first time in 70 years. Well, this still does not mean...

Due to the terrible weather we are going back to Shanghai to stay at this hotel; Mercure Baolong . They have an indoor pool which Im definit...

Well... after being in Beijing for two days now I can honestly say that I prefer the city of Shanghai to the city of Beijing. However, I wen...

Well, we passed the final day of Hanukkah yesterday.. and in two days we are going to have Christmas here in Beijing. Weather.com says tha...

The weather today was absolutely horrible today - terrible and horrible. I think it was below 0 and powerful wind. We also encountered a mor...

We have now managed to reach Beijing with the Z.14 train from Shanghai to Beijing. To sum up: Cheap Fairly hard "beds" Fairly good...

Today, we had our final evening in Shanghai. Well, yesterday we had our final night out with the entire class. We also "lost" two ...

We are now having our final lecture with Dr Dunren Zhou . He is a senior professor at Fudan University in American studies and has had seve...

Today, I had a horrible experience at an ATM belonging to ICBC in Northern Shanghai. I went into the booth, tried to withdraw money but no ...

I am currently taking a break from the last course here in China. It feels quite good that we are seeing an end to this block here in China....

Today, the air was more crisp and "clean" than it has been here in Shanghai during my visit. Since I was here in 2005 and 2002 I ...

A lot of "noise" has been written about the current crisis about banks, CDOs and CFDs. A lot has also been written about a default...

So, here is another interesting article about the defunct bail out plan that the senate voted "nay" on in the US. I think this is...

It now seems that we are seeing the collapse of the US automakers . GM proclaims that they cannot sustain business the year out without gove...

... only 7 days left of actual studies here in China. Visited my old professor Espen Andersens blog and he posted a link on how it would be ...

Since I am in Asia, I have read some smaller articles (like Wiki ) on the occurrance of Japanese Keiretsus (I used the keiretsus as an examp...

I have recently seen a video from 60 Minutes called "Wall Street's Shadow Market" . I think this is one of the best summaries ...

Prospect Magazine , had a great article about the arrival of new classes in our society. Read about it here . And the link to the actual fro...

Today, it was a lot warmer in Shanghai.. i think, easily above 10 degrees celsius (i dont know the fahrenheit scale). I have also reserved a...

Its starting to get cold in the Shanghai area. Im wearing several sweaters but still i feel chilly. I have also read in the news that the o...

Carl S. told me this funny line a couple of days ago: "When Darth Vader was a teen, he had a problem with zits" Well, if you are a...

I read this article about the financial crisis in the Swedish newspaper Svenska Dagbladet. Its quite good.

Another week has passed here in China.. On wednesday Im off to the textile market to see if my bow ties turned out good.. If they are at lea...

I have found the following article about a research case made by scientist Erwin Daneels. The piece is called Disruptive Technology Reconsid...

I have found and read this story (called "The myth of disruptive technology")put forward by John Dvorak . He basically uses a cha...

I listened to the following interview on NPR (National Public Radio). Its really good and Charles Fishman clarifies some issues he made in ...

Well, this morning in Shanghai i re-saw the movie "The Dark Knight" . I must say that when I first saw it in the cinema in Stockho...

So, its now sunday morning.. i woke up at around 6.45. The weather seems to be ok and I can see the sky above, which in this case is sort of...

I have managed to have a horrible day today.. Slept really bad and woke up with a mixture of a funny feeling in my stomach, fever and pain i...

The food wasnt that spicy, the night out was fabolous.

During the last two days we have been to the city of Ningbo . Ningbo has the deepest natural harbour in China and has the second largest har...

I found this great picture from Nouriel Roubinis blog .

Here, Lars and Deepthi are having great fun in the class room at the campus in Shanghai. I am finally overcoming the jet lag that I have had...

So, Im now sitting in the my first class here in Shanghai - which is very interesting. I have moved into the Zheng Da Hotel, which is actual...

I am now in Stockholm for vacation and it is absolutely fantastic. Trying to relax and play some video games , go to the theatre and bought...

Block #1 is now over and I am back in Stockholm. We have finished several courses among them Applied Microeconomics with Dr Erik Grön. Durin...

Fantastic! Even if you don't agree with Obamas politics, its still amazing that he won. The value of a better American brand image is - ...

We are now done with one more course in block #1. We had a final examination in our marketing class. For this class, we prepared the followi...

Here is the work that the group and I handed in for the case "Pfizer's virtual CIO". We have also made a short slide show. Enj...

Went to bed way to late yesterday. I did a case in corporate finance.. at the same time, the Swedish I-bank, Carnegie took a very large hit,...

I once had a calm weekend, even though I worked about 7 hours yesterday. We are currently finishing off several courses in order to start th...

This last week has been a monster, a lot of work I mean.. this week end will be spent on preparation for an IT case about Pfizer after they ...

I made an analysis of Wal-Mart and their operations - if they would go into Sweden.

Here is an interview with famous Harvard Prof Michael Porter. The interview was made during 2008 and he discuss his new updated article abou...