MBA Lab Resources

Productivity Six People, One Financial Model: Keeping the Deck and the Numbers in Sync The number on the slide no longer matches the number in the model, and you find out during Q&A. A workflow that keeps a multi-author model and the deck built on it from drifting apart. 7 min read Collaboration Working on a Team Where English Isn't Everyone's First Language The common failure isn't language ability—it's airtime. Teams misread fluency as intelligence and quietness as disengagement, and lose real analysis doing it. 7 min read Productivity Using AI on MBA Group Projects: What Your Team Should Agree On Five people quietly using AI at five different intensities produces a deliverable nobody can vouch for. The agreements and verification habits that prevent it. 7 min read Collaboration What to Do When a Teammate Isn't Contributing Non-delivery has four different causes, and three of them respond to a conversation most teams never have. How to tell them apart, what to say, and when the professor is genuinely the right call. 7 min read Careers Turning Your MBA Capstone Into a Portfolio Piece The capstone ends, the grade posts, and the whole thing evaporates. How to turn it into one defensible artifact you can hand a recruiter—without breaking your sponsor's NDA. 7 min read Collaboration Running a Team When You're the Least Experienced Person in It You're 26, running a team with a former army officer and a physician on it. The job isn't knowing the most—it's making sure the work converges by Thursday. 7 min read Productivity Working Across Time Zones in a Global MBA Cohort With two time zones you have a workable overlap. With four you have almost none. The arithmetic of the shrinking shared hour, and how to run a team on handoffs instead of meetings. 7 min read Collaboration When Your Team's Recommendation Is Wrong and You Know It The strong feeling of being right is not evidence. How to test your own objection, raise it early enough to matter, and commit properly when you lose. 7 min read Collaboration Negotiating Team Roles When Two People Want the Same One Two teammates both want to build the model. Why the default resolution—co-leading it—is the worst one, and a method for deciding that doesn't hand every visible role to the loudest voice. 7 min read Careers Working With Sponsors on Experiential Learning Projects A real client changes the rules: the scope is vague, the data is late, and your grade depends on someone with a day job. How to manage a sponsor without annoying them. 5 min read Careers Choosing Electives When You Learn Best on a Team Course catalogs describe content, not format. How to read a syllabus for the thing that actually shapes your term: how much of the grade depends on other people. 5 min read Productivity Case Competition Logistics: What Separates the Top Teams Most case competition teams lose to the clock, not to the analysis. The logistics that decide a 24-hour case before you've read it. 5 min read