Category: ISB

  • “Mobile light” dinner

    There is a (emergency) power outage since morning here at ISB. This however didn’t prevent the professors from taking their classes. Our classrooms here are kind of closed from all sides, devoid of (openable) windows with just two doors for entry/exit. It gets really suffocating if the centralized a/c doesn’t…

  • Bad day …..

    Bad day … 8 hours of classes …… and then watched Sania Mirza go down fighting in the second round at Wimbledon. Kudos to Sania anyway …. she fought really well. Hope she gets a good trainer who can work with her on her shortcomings. She is sure to shine…

  • He came, He taught, He conquered !!!

    We had our first class of Marketing Decision Making by Prof. Jagmohan Raju today. We had heard a lot about him and he was, in my opinion, simply too good !! Though it is somewhat early in the term, I would probably rate him higher than the marketing profs we…

  • Bangladesh shock Australia (& me)

    Cricket: Was shocked & surprised when I read on the net that Bangladesh beat Australia by 5 wickets. Would have been interesting to see the match. Seems like ages since I watched a cricket match on TV. The sports club prez has promised to show all major sporting events on…

  • Yet another busy weekend

    This is yet another busy weekend …. 4 assignments to be done and lots of pages to be read before Monday’s class. Lots of group discussions to be done for the cases which are interesting but very time consuming, leaving little time for other things. We had classes daily for…

  • Does diversity help?

    You must have heard a lot that diversity is one of the factors that many of the top B-schools, including ISB, look for. How does diversity help? Take the case of our batch. Every time we have had a case study on a company or an industry, we have had…

  • Do B-Schools add value?

    There was a panel discussion on this topic a few days back in ISB. There was a similar discussion on CNBC TV that had almost the same panel members. To know more about this click here. Tomorrow my study group has a meeting in the afternoon with the powers that…

  • Term 2 begins

    We had our first class of Term 2 today – “Competitive Strategy” by Prof. Aks Zaheer. The first cold call of the session was directed towards yours truly who prefered silence to response. Bad start to Term 2. For the uninitiated, a cold call, in Prof Aks Zaheer’s words, is…

  • Life returns to campus

    Normalcy returns in ISB campus: Most of the students who had left for their homes in the term break are back. Term 2 classes begin tomorrow and there are about 100 pages to be read for the “Competitive Strategy” class. Went yesterday to a restaurant named HAVELI in Hyderabad (Lifestyle)…

  • Cricket: Students ‘vs’ Faculty

    We had an exciting game of cricket yesterday between the students and the faculty & staff. It was a two inning game with two different set of players representing their teams in each inning. Though the students won the game, I think the day’s hero was Prof. Mudit Kapoor. He,…

  • Movie marathon

    Have been watching a lot of movies to kill time. Went to PRASADS multiplex in Hyderabad yesterday to watch “D-Company”. Went to the ISB DVD library just 5 minutes after the exams got over but couldn’t find any good movies as other students had already got them issued. Watched whatever…

  • More on Term 2

    List of Term 2 subjects and the profs who will be teaching them is as follows: 1) Marketing Decision Making – Prof. Jagmohan Raju (Wharton) 2) Competitive Strategy – Prof. Akbar Zaheer (Minnesota) / Prof. Harbir Singh (Wharton) 3) Decision Models & Optimisation – Prof. Anjani Jain (Wharton) /Prof. Ziv…

  • The ordeal is over …. partly

    Its over …. first term has formally ended !!!! Feeling really happy …. didn’t have so much free time in the last 2-3 weeks. Don’t ask me about the exams …. to sum up, they were the worst I have ever written in my life. Could have done a lot…

  • Brain dead ???

    Thats what I am now. The only hope is that though brain death is irreversible (as of today), in my case, I may come back to life on Tuesday night after all the exams are over. Exams start tomorrow morning and my preparation is nothing to be proud of. Fellow…

  • Calm before the storm ???

    There was a sort of eerie silence in the campus last night. Everyone was busy preparing for the upcoming exams (on Mon & Tue) and not many guys could be seen around. We have the last 2 lectures of this term today. We also have a mammoth financial accounting assignment…