Category: ISB

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  • Celebrating Festivals @ ISB

    As written in my previous post, I had the good fortune of attending two pujas on Ganesh Chaturthi day – a Maharashtrian style puja early morning & in the evening and a Andhra style puja in the morning. In the Maharashtrian puja, we had the idol installation in the morning…

  • Celebrating “Ganesh Chaturthi”

    Had the fortune of attending the puja in both Maharashtrian and Andhra brahmin styles. Will write in detail about the experience in the next post. Here are some snaps …. “Techno” guruji performing the puja (in Maharashtrian style)

  • Lord Ganesha’s idol Ganpati Bappa Morya !!!

  • ISB @ WMBA tour in the US

    ISB is participating at the following locations in the WMBA Tour in the US: Date Time Venue 11 September 1300-1700 Los Angeles Wilshire Grand 13 September 1800-2100 S Frisco Hyatt 15 September 1800-2100 Seattle Bell Harbor Intl Center 17 September 1400-1800 NY Hilton 25 September 1400-1800 Toronto Metro Toronto Convention…

  • First Class of Term 4

    We had the first class of Term 4 today – “Government Society and Business” by Prof. Mudit Kapoor. The topic of discussion was institutions and institution building. Found Prof Kapoor to be a very friendly and gentle person. He plays cricket with the students regularly and was the star performer…

  • There goes another term break

    Before I knew, this term break is also getting to be over. Most of the time was spent in the business presentation (BP) workshop, LDP assignment and ELP classes. Went to the city on Friday and watched the hindi movie “No Entry“. It was what you would call “a total…

  • Term 4

    Term 4 begins on Monday. The courses this term and the professors teaching them are as follows: 1) Investment Analysis – Prof. A Subrahmanyam (UCLA) 2) Management of Organisations – Prof. S.Ramnarayan (ISB + Director {Change Management}, Center for Good Governance) / Prof. Tina Dacin (Queen’s School of Business) 3)…

  • Petition

    Please click here to access the petition and know more about it. This will take you to Bharani’s blog where it is posted. Had 2 days of business presentation workshops. Whatever little energy was left has been consumed by the LDP assignment. Have to next start doing the ELP related…

  • Rajeshwar Upadhyaya

    He is the prof who took our Leadership Development Program classes and is planning to take an elective for us on “Leadership Lessons from World Literature” in Term 8 of our course. He is probably one of the most well read persons I have ever met till date in my…

  • 3/8th of the road covered

    3 out of 8 terms over. Gave the last two exams of the term today – Corporate Finance (taught by PBC ….. here comes the PBC talk again) and Entrepreneurship. Corp fin paper was multiple choice except for the last question. Lack of opportunity to write much in the exam…

  • 2 down, 2 more to go

    Two exams of Term 3 over (managerial accounting & operations management). Needless to say, my record at ISB of commiting harakiri in the exams remains intact … …. yes, I did it this time too. Two more to go (Entrepreneurship and Corporate Finance) for the term to get over officially…

  • No term break this time ???

    Exams tomorrow and day after. Then there is supposed to be a term break till Sunday but only for people who do not have their business presentation workshops and experiential learning projects (ELPs) lined up and I am not one of them 😦 So the schedule goes like this: exams…

  • “I LIKE” slips

    We had an additional session of LDP today where Prof. Rajeshwar Upadhyay taught us 6 steps which if pursued seriously can lead us to greatness. One of the steps involved writing in slips of paper, what you felt were good qualities in your fellow classmates and giving the slips to…

  • Last class of Term 3

    We had the last two classes of Term 3 today – Entrepreneurship by Prof. Ramakrishna Velamuri and Operations Management by Prof. Sudhakar Deshmukh. For more details on the profs who taught us this term, please click here (an earlier post of mine). One thing that struck me was that the…