Category: ISB

  • Prof. Ziv Katalan (Decision Models & Optimization)

  • Prof. Harbir Singh (Competitive Strategy) & Prof. Raju

  • Prof. Krishna Kumar (Global Economics)

  • Prof. Jagmohan Raju (Marketing Decision Making)

  • Asst. Dean Savita Mahajan, Prof. Raju and Prof. Harbir Singh

  • Term 2 drawing to a close

    This is the last week of classes in Term 2 and we are not done yet with all the assignments. There has been a phenomenal increase in the number of assignments to be done this term as compared to the last one. There is a competitive strategy project which has…

  • Rains, rains and more rains ….

    Its been raining like crazy here. It rained almost non-stop yesterday and its been raining intermittently today too …. and guess what all of us are doing here???? Cracking assignments …. shit … how boring. Life would have been wonderful had there been “garm garm pakode” or “samose” and I…

  • My study group

    Our class @ ISB is divided into study groups. Each group has 4-6 members. You can do many things within your study group though the only thing you end up doing together generally is solving group assignments and participating in any group activities that may come up. My study group…

  • lenses for chickens ?

    If you thought we were still sane out here, here is the final nail in the coffin ….. the whole of last night was spent calculating the number of contact lenses to be manufactured for chickens, profit that can be achieved from this laudable activity and so many other figures…

  • My host family

    ISB has a host family program wherein students are allotted local Hyderabadi families with whom they remain associated (at least) during the year they are at ISB. The formal launch of this program took place this Sunday. Our (my study group’s) host is a well-known industrialist family. S, who represented…

  • Commanding Heights

    Commanding Heights was screened in the ISB auditorium today by Prof. Krishna Kumar. Really good video. Won’t bore people who are not interested with the details. Those who want to know more and want to watch it online: click here . You will really enjoy it, as we all did…

  • What the hell is this?

    That was precisely my reaction when I opened the question-cum-answer booklet of the mid-term global economics exam paper today. I thought they had wrongly given me some marketing paper … could only see case study type questions everywhere. Managed to regain composure and do whatever best I could. They allowed…

  • Farewell to profs ….

    Three of the four Profs who taught us this term are leaving as their teaching engagement with us for this year ended today. I really liked Prof Anjani Jain. He is the vice dean of Wharton, has been teaching for about 19 years there and had been coming to ISB…

  • sleep – where art thou ?

    Assignment submissions continue and stretching into the wee hours of the morning is becoming more of a routine. My classes this term start at 8:30AM in the morning and lack of proper sleep over the past few days has been playing upon me. Decision models and Optimization is an interesting…

  • Submissions and submissions and submissions ………

    Don’t remember doing anything else in the past week other than finishing assignments and submitting them one by one ……. and in case you just thought its all over, these submissions continue throughout the term. We have at least 3-4 assignments and 2 Markstrat decision submissions every week. There are…