Category: ISB

  • Insightful CPs – Part 1

    I was just sitting in my room today doing nothing, as usual, when memories of being in Section D in the first four terms came flooding in. The first thing that came to mind after that was the CPs that used to happen. Here goes some “insightful” class participation (CP)…

  • Bloggers in the next batch

    The next batch is scheduled to join ISB on 15th of April and has quite a few bloggers. The following are links to some of the blogs of soon-to-be-ISBians that I know of and visit: Abhishek Jain Alok Jain Anuradha Sunku Chiranth Chanappa Deepak Mittal Disha Rustogi Kapil Mantri Karthik…

  • Dubya comes calling

    US President George W Bush visited the ISB campus today. There were so many security personnel here that it looked like the whole of Hyderabad police force had been deployed at ISB. Needless to say, it was entertaining to watch/hear the president speak 🙂 I was not among the ones…

  • Dis-orientation week for “Almost Alums”?

    Got a mail today from the admin people here that addressed us as “Almost Alums”. The mail had details of the graduation ceremony. The week before the ceremony has also been termed as dis-orientation week (The first week on campus was termed orientation week). Upon reading this, a few of…

  • Courses this term

    After sampling the courses, I have finally decided to choose the following three: 1) Managing Markets – Prof. Nirmal Gupta 2) Advanced Corporate Finance – Prof. Francesca Cornelli 3) Negotiation Analysis – Prof. Cathy Tinsley (Sessions 1 to 5)/Prof. Stephen Nason (Sessions 6 to 10) Decided to drop the “Leadership…

  • Term 8 begins

    Term 8 started today. I have to take 3 subjects this term. Have got 3 and am waitlisted in 1. So would have to choose 3 out of those 4 after sampling the classes today and tomorrow. I had just one class to attend today – “Leadership Lessons from World…

  • Bush to visit ISB?

    US President George W. Bush is expected to visit ISB when he comes to Hyderabad during his visit to India. More details are available at http://in.rediff.com/news/2006/feb/23bush5.htm

  • Update on placements

    More than 150 offers have been made till now in the first 3 days of the placement week. Today is the third day and some companies that are on campus today are yet to announce their offers. They will be doing so late in the night. A very close friend…

  • Its all started

    Placement week has started. All the consulting biggies were here yesterday to have their initial rounds of interviews. A few more firms also had their first few rounds yesterday. All these firms will be conducting the remaining rounds of interviews today and are expected to declare the results by tonight.…

  • A typical day (these days)

    This is how my typical day looks like these days: 8:00AM – Get up. Call Alok to see if he is up (he usually is) and ask him if he will come for breakfast. 8:30AM – Have finally gotten up, brushed my teeth and am off to the student dining…

  • 4 days to the D-Day

    Four more days to go for the placement week to begin. An IT company announced a part of its shortlists yesterday. All of its postings are for locations in the US or Europe. Interviews are being held today and they are expected to make up their mind by tonight. Pretty…

  • Rang De Basanti

    ISB had booked the entire 2pm show of Rang de Basanti at Prasadz today and what more, the movie, popcorn and coke were all on the house. The movie ran almost housefull possibly indicating that everyone here badly needed a break !! I liked the movie a lot, though I…

  • Tennis @ ISB

    The tennis court is probably the only place I had not visited on campus. KP (my quaddie) and Aditya play tennis regularly. Though I have been following tennis on TV, I hadn’t got an opportunity to even hold a tennis racquet till about two days ago when Alok (another quaddie…

  • More shortlists

    British Telecom (BT) released their shortlist for interviews. This time, CAS (our placement cell) decided to mail each of the shortlisted guys individually instead of sending a mass mail to all junta giving the names of people shortlisted. They did the same thing for the shortlist that Macquarie Bank released…

  • Shoppers’ day out

    Four of us decided to go shopping for stuff essential for the placement season last Saturday. It had been quite some time since we had gone out of campus. We took an auto from ISB to Hyderabad Central (a mall here). Since we barely know the way around the city,…