Launching a new product in a new market is in most cases a guessing game. When it comes to technology and financial services sector you also run into perception and regulatory issues which normally are not a consideration at a consumer product level. Our first intersectional case study combines elements of developing a new market…
Author: Jawwad
The Value at Risk online store goes live at Learning Corporate Finance
After a number of requests for an offline, easier to use, read and work with electronic version of our courses, Learning Corporate Finance announces the soft launch of its online course inventory store. For soft launch, our most popular Value at Risk (VaR) and Interest Rate Derivatives courses have been converted into PDF files with…
Aisam does a double, double: US Open Finals, Men’s double and Mixed doubles.
Way to go Aisam ul Haq and Rohan. A desi mens and mixed doubles final at the US Open. We are all rooting for you.
Thank you Aisam and Rohan: US Open and the IndoPak express
For giving our two nations a reason to smile today. Aisam and Rohan made it to the US Open doubles semi’s and Aisam with his mixed double partner became the first Pakistani ever to reach the final of the US Open (or any other Tennis Grand Slam tournament). We hope and pray that you…
Corporate Finance Blog gets a make over
Learning Corporate Finance, our Corporate Finance course portal started with the simplest of word press themes in February 2010. I had managed to get a crash course in word press management when Awab pointed out that my primary blog had been infested by spam injections that pointed the source on the page to everywhere but…
Google Adsense Adventure: Adsense revenue, impressions and clicks analysis for an online education business
Here is some additional detail on the review of traffic on the Learning Corporate Finance Portal that I ran a little earlier. I exported a simple dump out of Google Analytics to take a look at earnings and clicks in a given month. The graph below shows Adsense earnings and Adsense clicks on the vertical…
Google Adsense adventure: The search for traffic and adsense revenues continues
Figure 1 Corporate Finance Traffic Stats The search for incremental traffic and revenues continues on Learning Corporate Finance, the finance E-education portal I have now been running since early March 2010. First the good news. Apparantely all the directory submission work done in May 2010 has finally started to payoff. Either that or Google has…
Business School Admissions: Short answers for the road to your MBA Application
Business School Admissions: Twenty two answers for the road to your MBA application I wrote these answers 10 years ago. I had just started at business school and the pain of the business school admissions process to a top ten MBA program was fresh in my mind. Other business school applicants were now asking the…
Finally a show of spine…
Beginning to wonder if the only organization with a backbone in this country is the army, amongst all the other spineless representatives we have roaming around the globe at any given point in time. Regrettable incident but the exact response that was required. I wonder what our other delegations would have done if subjected to…
Top Ten MBA programs: 15 months as a MBA student at Columbia Business School
I put these together as an informal sampler of my business school education, a journey that started with an ideal conversation in March 1997 and ended on commencement day in April 2000 at Uris Hall, the Columbia Business School campus on 116th and Broadway. In March 1997 I never thought that an Ivy League MBA…