Mar1

A trip to Leuven – settling the tabs

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The entire week, from Saturday (12-April-2025) through Friday (18-April-2025)


Leuven is a college town. In Belgium, which is known for its beer. And it’s also sort of a tourist town?

What I’m getting at is that there were lots of pubs, and restaurants, and evenings spent carousing between settling in to our planning and scheming and negotiating.

Definitely one of those “work hard, play hard” situations… Though, truth be told, I was a bit underwhelmed by the actual working parts… but hey, that’s a story for in person. Maybe over a few good Belgian beers.

Feb27

A trip to Leuven – negotiating the flights

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Saturday, 12-April-2025


One of the big events of the MBA is the Negotiating for Value module. A week-long event, off campus, where we’d learn the theory of negotiations, while getting to put that theory to practice with a whole pile of day-long lectures and practical negotiations.

It all started with a flight from Dublin, a lovely jaunt above the Irish Sea, over the UK, across the English Channel, and into Belgium…