Author: Ramkumar R

  • Salutations to a great maestro …..

    This one might be interesting to you if you are a fan of carnatic music. Found a web site that has reviews of a lot of concerts of Sri T.N. Seshagopalan (also known as TNS). The site is maintained by a 69 year old fan of TNS who says that…

  • Solstice 2005

    “Solstice” is the name of the annual alumni-students meet. Solstice this year was organized from 9th Dec to 11th Dec 2005. Many alums were on campus and we had a lot of gyaan sessions organized by the placement committee and a few clubs to facilitate interaction between students and alums…

  • The Trip to Ahobilam – Part 1

    *** Giving details of the recent trip to Ahobilam below …. might prove useful for people planning a trip to the place in the future *** Ahobilam is located in Curnool district of Andhra Pradesh, about 380 kms away from Hyderabad in the Nallamalai Hills of the Eastern Ghats. It…

  • Visit by Goldman Sachs President & CEO

    Lloyd C. Blankfein, President and Chief Operating Officer, The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. is at the ISB today along with many members of the senior management team. Goldman Sachs Foundation will support ISB’s Centre for Analytical Finance by making a grant to support research work at the centre and to…

  • Octavia

    Octavia is the music competition which the music club @ ISB is organizing as a part of its annual inter B-School meet. In case your school would like to participate or know more about it, please click here.

  • Consulting Interviews – How to prepare?

    Yash (undoubtedly one of the toppers here) and Rohit (President, Consulting Club, ISB) have started a blog to share their views and insights on how to prepare for consulting interviews. URL of the blog is http://bigticketatisb.blogspot.com/ On the personal front, started late night, day before yesterday on a trip to…

  • ISB Founding Day

    2nd Dec 2001: ISB was inaugurated. Today is the ISB Founding Day. We have a flag hoisting ceremony scheduled to start in a few minutes time. We also have cake cutting and a torch run planned for the evening. Its amazing to see how much the school has achieved in…

  • Sanjay’s concert @ Hyderabad

    Went to attend Sanjay Subrahmanyam’s carnatic vocal concert at Keyes High School, Secunderabad. The concert was organized by Kalasagaram as a part of its 38th Annual Cultural Festival of Music, Dance and Drama. Details of the concert are as follows: Accompaniment: Violin: M.R. Gopinath Mridangam: Neyveli B. Venkatesh Ghatam: Trichy…

  • Concerts @ Hyderabad

    FYI …. Kalasagaram, Hyderabad is organizing a music festival this week at the Keyes High School for Girls, Secunderabad. The following are the concerts scheduled for the rest of this week: 29/11/2005 – Vocal Concert By Sanjay Subrahmanyam 30/11/2005 – Flute Concert By Jayaprada Rama Murthy 01/12/2005 – Vocal Concert…

  • Day 1 of Term 6

    One of the disadvantages of not getting sufficient number of elective courses in the initial round of bidding is that you have to sample many courses to decide upon what you will bid for in the next and final round. Thats precisely what I was doing today resulting in the…

  • A seamless transition

    Term 6 begins tomorrow. Term 5 was probably the longest term till now. There were no days off even after the exams with many assignments to be submitted. Finished all of my term 5 assignments today. Some people have an assignment to be submitted even tomorrow i.e., even after the…

  • Who decides what you specialize in?

    You land up in a B-school. Do hi cheezen ho sakti hain (One of two things can happen) … You either decide what to specialize in before coming or keep your options open. If you have already come with a motive, then do hi cheezen ho sakti hain …. you…

  • CAT @ ISB ?

    They say that managing time in CAT (IIM entrance test) is very difficult. Today’s marketing implementation paper went many steps ahead. Time management was taken for a toss. Every exam here is a revelation (of many things) !! One more to go …. and then what …. exams in the…

  • 2 down, 3 to go

    First two exams of Term 5 over. I really liked the marketing research paper a lot (irrespective of how I performed in the exam). It was so much application oriented and involved more of interpreting results of marketing research, making conclusions etc – things that a MBA in marketing is…

  • Once again – exams, what else?

    If there is anything that happens quite frequently here, its exams. End term exams of Term 5 start tomorrow. The first question which most students ask when they meet their batchmates during this time of the year is “how many exams have you got?”. With different people choosing different electives…