Category: ISB

  • Blogs by ISBians

    Added many more blogs by ISBians to the list of blogs in the sidebar on the right. Check them out, especially the one by “Wife of an ISBian”.

  • Profs this term

    I had listed the subjects I have taken this term and the profs teaching them in an earlier post of mine. (Click here to access the same). Prof. Vikas Mittal is “the coolest one“. He is very accomodative, easily approachable (not that the other ones aren’t) and probably the most…

  • Life in Term 5

    “Kya se kya .. ho gaya ….” It suddenly seems like Term 1 days are back. New study groups have formed with the added complexity that the constituents differ for different subjects as different people have chosen different electives. Between the 5 subjects and the project that I am doing,…

  • Business & Arts programme

    Sanjay Bhattacharya, successful painter and Shekhar Kapur, famous director (of Elizabeth fame) were here on campus as a part of the Business & Arts programme. Sanjay Bhattacharya was the “Artist in Residence” this year and stayed at ISB for 3-4 days and made some lovely paintings. Heard he was very…

  • Dandiya Nite

    Dandiya nite today @ ISB was just awesome. All credit goes to the Spouses & Family Association (SFA) for organizing it and to students, their spouses & their kids, faculty and staff for such an enthusiastic participation. Sarovar people prepared a special Gujarati dinner …. certainly one of the best…

  • BCG Session

    Just came back from a 2.5 hr BCG session on resume building & insights into BCG’s recruitment process. Almost the entire student community was out there and it was very difficult to even find a place to stand. My study group for the logistics elective has spent most of today’s…

  • My quaddies

    Quaddies is how we refer to people who share a “shared” apartment (also called a quad) here. 4 quaddies share a quad .. now wasn’t that kind of obvious? My quaddies are KP, V & A. KP flies off to Delhi as soon as the last exam of a term…

  • Term 5 begins tomorrow

    Term 5 classes begin tomorrow. Life has returned to campus as many students are back from vacation. I have taken the following electives this term: 1) Marketing Research – Prof. Sachin Gupta/Prof. Vikas Mittal 2) Marketing Implementation – Prof. Nirmal Gupta 3) Consumer Behavior – Prof. Seshan Ramaswami 4) Logistics…

  • Back from Mumbai

    Came back from Mumbai yesterday. Spent 3 full days there mostly working on my ELP (project) which essentially meant that I couldn’t go site-seeing nor go home to Delhi this time too. Looks like I will be able to visit people @ home only after this course gets over. Mumbai…

  • One hell of a break

    This is the longest term break that we ever got and that we will ever get. The campus has never been so empty. I couldn’t find a soul yesterday night in my student village. Felt so bored that I went searching for civilization and finally found 2-3 guys in another…

  • Half-way through

    I am half-way through this management programme !!! 4th term officially ended today when the GSB exam got over. PBC (yes … you guessed right … Prof. Bhagwan Chowdhary) would say our MBA is over and its time to apply what we learnt in the core terms to the elective…

  • Exams of a different kind

    Term 4 has probably been the worst in terms of value addition. The last exam of this term (tomorrow) – the GSB paper sums it all up. We have to memorize data and vomit it all out. Anything that the prof has told in the class can be asked. Ex.…

  • Last day in Section D

    Prof. A.K.Shiva Kumar taking last lecture of GSB (last class as Section D) ************************************************************** We had our last class as a part of Section D (GSB lecture) yesterday. Sections will be disbanded once elective terms start as people will be pursuing different electives. Thoroughly enjoyed my time in D. Since…

  • Satellite view of DCE

    This is the Google Earth image of Delhi College of Engineering (DCE), the place from where I did my bachelors in engineering (BE), sent to me by a batchmate of mine there. I have tried to place appropriate labels … may need to zoom in to view labels clearly.

  • The Great Bidding Game

    A biding system is used in ISB to allot electives to students. The first round of bidding for elective courses of Term 5 got completed a few days back. A total of 4000 points can be used to bid for courses over Terms 5 to 8. Some people used almost…