August 15th marks the beginning of a journey that India started with great hope and aspirations. At the outset, things didn’t go right. After being marred by the violence of partition, India stood up on its feet and from then has become an economic powerhouse in a short span of 64 years. An important element [...]
Archive for the ‘Random Thoughts’ Category
When Independence is Given….
Posted in Random Thoughts on August 16, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
My first rain experience in IIMA
Posted in Random Thoughts on June 10, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Friday, 3rd June 2011: It was a typical evening at the IIMA Campus, hot, humid and with only the sounds of occasional bird calls to break the silence. I was sitting alone in my room thinking about the unusually long weekend ahead (Saturday and Sunday!). Yes, it is unusual to have long weekends in this course, [...]
My days at IIMA: ‘LEM’ming mentality
Posted in Academics, Clubs & Interest Groups, Courses, Random Thoughts on January 25, 2011 | 1 Comment »
One of the many privileges I share with fellow WIMWIans is the ability to interact with a distinguished professor/ entrepreneur called Sunil Handa, who teaches a course on Entrepreneurship. His “Laboratory on Entrepreneurial Management” or LEM course is immensely popular among IIMA students and each year, there is intense bidding by the 2-year MBA folks [...]
A tale of two businesses
Posted in Academics, Globalization, Marketing Club, PGPX Thoughtbytes, Random Thoughts on September 28, 2010 | 1 Comment »
If there was one article that most business graduate remembers having read, it is an article penned by Prof. Theodore Levitt, Marketing Myopia. First printed in Jul/Aug 1960 – yes 50 years ago; Prof Levitt’s work still stands the test of time – call it prescience, genius, or the result of plain uncommon common sense. [...]
My days at IIMA – II: All good things must come to an end!
Posted in PGPX Thoughtbytes, Random Thoughts on September 3, 2010 | 5 Comments »
“Time’s up!”, announced the invigilator in the examination hall, marking the end of the end-term examination on a Marketing course called “Delivering and Managing Customer Value”. It was a profound moment for many of us as we handed over our answer sheets and trooped out of the room. Term II was finally over… It is [...]
An energetic day @ PGPX!
Posted in Random Thoughts, tagged Ahmedabad, class, education, energy, executive, IIM, IIMA, India, Industry, MBA, performance, PGPX, policy, Professor, ship on June 7, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Abhishek’s musings on his energy-filled day.
16.666667% done?
Posted in Random Thoughts, tagged Ahmedabad, class, education, executive, IIM, IIMA, India, MBA, PGPX on May 31, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Peyush’s random thoughts!
Blatant and Latent Needs!!
Posted in Random Thoughts, tagged Ahmedabad, class, IIM, IIMA, India, MBA, PGPX on May 26, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Well, the PGPX bullet-train hurtles along and I find myself barely hanging from a footboard trying desperately to stay aboard. There are 10 subjects in the very 1st term, each of them coming at you with an average of 8 cases, 2 quizzes, 5 submissions, and 1 end-term exam. While pursuing studies is the primary concern, I don’t want my life [...]
Birds and Nests…
Posted in Random Thoughts, tagged IIM, IIMA, India, PGPX on March 15, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
As I strolled today evening out from the tunnel to the old campus, flock after flock of birds returned back to the trees. After a day’s hard work, they were back to their safe places. The noises, the shaking of trees, the falling of dried leaves continued for a while. As dusk changed into night [...]
Kites are simple
Posted in Random Thoughts, tagged Ahmedabad, IIM, IIMA, India, Kites, PGPX on January 15, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
“I am not sure there is enough of a breeze”, I said. “Maybe up there it is ok”, Sudhir replied. We were looking up at the terrace of his building. The yellow kite with a red circle in the middle was struggling to take air and fly. “See you”, I said as I crossed the [...]
IIMA – for Leaders, not just Managers
Posted in Random Thoughts, tagged Ahmedabad, class, europe, IIM, IIMA, India, PGPX, Professor on November 19, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Its been a wonderful MBA experience here at IIMA. If there is one thing that stands out for me here, its the professor commitment to our development. I have not been at other schools but here I am amazed everyday by the commitment from my teachers. There is of course the famed quality of teaching and [...]
UFOs in IIMA
Posted in Random Thoughts, tagged Ahmedabad, class, CP, IIM, IIMA, India, UFO on November 19, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
When PGPX arrived at the ground, we were presented with the sight of a pink UFO floating around the field. On closer inspection, this extra terrestrial machine seemed to be imparting sustenance through the fingertips of the Greys team. The PGPX squad instantly huddled up and put CP about the edibility of the disk. After [...]
PGPX, CP and Social Responsibility
Posted in Random Thoughts, tagged Ahmedabad, class, CP, IIM, IIMA, India, PGPX, Professor on September 16, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Harvard is boringJ, we want the good old PGPX3 back: “Brownian motion combined with the survival of the most persistent”-This sums up how CP turns out in many discussions. By now, one is able to predict where a discussion will go if the baton passes on to a particular ‘speaker’. Alternatively, imagine you are sitting [...]
On to Term 2…
Posted in Random Thoughts, Term Structure, tagged Ahmedabad, class, experience, IIM, IIMA, India, PGPX, weekend on June 28, 2008 | 1 Comment »
After a tormenting first term which was a little extended than what everyone hoped…..we are in for the second term. From what we have heard, the second term is a continuation of the first term in terms of sleepless nights, midnight sandwiches, assignments, reports… The first surprise (a pleasant one for a change) came with [...]
Uncomplicating life
Posted in Random Thoughts, tagged Ahmedabad, class, IIM, IIMA, India, PGPX on May 28, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Yesterday was a day of introspection for a lot of people. They say when you want to identify a person’s native tongue, the best way to do it is to startle him in the middle of his sleep. It is natural for him to blurt out in the first language he learned growing up.Now, let [...]
Mid-summer night’s daze
Posted in Academics, Random Thoughts, tagged Ahmedabad, class, IIM, IIMA, India, PGPX, Professor on April 15, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Up, after the first splash! I am not a swimmer. Yet, aided by a life-jacket (yeah, not purist aquaphile) I have previously dived in to cold waters. When you hit the water for the first time, head down, the splash causes you to go in to a state of daze, until the buoyancy bobs you [...]
Dear friend…… (In the middle of term 2 at IIM Ahmedabad)
Posted in Random Thoughts, tagged Ahmedabad, class, IIM, IIMA, India, Industry, PGPX on July 31, 2007 | 2 Comments »
Already 4 months passed after I and my wife arrived in India. When I came here, I was embarrassed with killing-hot weather and auto-rickshaw running ruthlessly on the street. However, now my family and I feel so comfortable in the Indian life. Now I think the Indian traffic system without signal lamp is more effective [...]
Weekend Lessons…
Posted in Random Thoughts, Term Structure, tagged Ahmedabad, class, IIM, IIMA, India, MBA, PGPX, term, weekend on July 6, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Weekend classes in term two! ….did not sound fun when we received our Term 2 schedule. But the one on the first Sunday of July turned out to be interesting. On center stage for the first half of day were two brave souls from PGPX-2 who volunteered for a role-play interview with a real recruiter [...]
THE CP MANTRA
Posted in Random Thoughts, tagged Ahmedabad, class, CP, IIM, IIMA, India, MBA, PGPX, Professor, term on June 22, 2007 | 2 Comments »
Few must do’s to score maximum in class participation, in order of importance are: 1. Start speaking before raising your hand, that is breach of protocol, it’s like the fish moving in the opposite direction to the school of fish. You are bound to get noticed. Most common starting lines are “Sir, I have a [...]
0.2 X MBA – End of term 1
Posted in Random Thoughts, Term Structure, tagged Ahmedabad, class, IIM, IIMA, MBA, PGPX, Professor, term on June 9, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Of the ten lacs of my “expenditure”, two lacs today got reclassified as “expense”. To understand the difference you need to wait till you attend your first class of FRA at PGPX, IIMA. If you haven’t guessed what made the chunk of two lacs convert then let me tell you that it has nothing to [...]
Hit by Train Grand Vitesse
Posted in Academics, Random Thoughts, tagged Ahmedabad, class, IIM, IIMA, India, MBA, performance, PGPX, Professor, quiz, study group, term, test on April 30, 2007 | 2 Comments »
First month at PGPX is coming to an end and the whole month I have had the feeling of being atop a Train Grand Vitesse. The course had moved at such a frenetic pace that it was just not possible to see what was going on in the outside world. If you take a day [...]
Looks like mine is a ‘Gone Case’
Posted in Random Thoughts on April 6, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Our level of activity last week was so slow that except for eating and sleeping, the only other thing that we had on our “plate” was to take care of our physical and mental faculties and make sure that we were in tip-top shape to handle the famed IIMA rigor. And thankfully we were able [...]
MunnaBhai PGPX
Posted in Random Thoughts, tagged IIM, IIMA, PGPX on April 5, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
We are just two days into the program and most us have already lost our sense of date, day of week and what not. I had seriously started arguing with Tejbir that it was a Tuesday on the night of Monday. The rigor is not totally unexpected though. (All of us have happily embarked on [...]
PGPXII takes retail relationship building to the next level
Posted in Random Thoughts on March 28, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
This is my first post from the campus and needless to say the going has been great so far. I don’t want to write about our accommodation facilities here or our “dining” experiences because then I might risk jinxing it, especially considering the fact that we have only started out. But I can’t get to [...]
IIMA PGPX – A Survivor’s Guide
Posted in Random Thoughts, tagged IIM, IIMA, PGPX on March 13, 2007 | 4 Comments »
Back to school after years on a job? To IIMA? Oh! Oh!! All too soon we’ll be listening to lectures again, doing homework, studying for exams and juggling all sorts of campus activities while planning for our next job. It isn’t going to be easy. So here are some survival tips: Acquire/refresh quantitative skills: The [...]
Musings on cash flows!
Posted in Random Thoughts on March 9, 2007 | 1 Comment »
The PGPX 2nd batch would converge on campus this month-end, leaving behind cushy jobs to join the ranks of unemployed in this country. But none of us would be looking forward to the Employment Guarantee Scheme of the UPA , as all of us carry dreams and aspirations, with varying degrees of clarity and tons [...]
It’s raining jobs at IIMA
Posted in Random Thoughts, tagged IIM, IIMA, PGPX on February 25, 2007 | 4 Comments »
Trickles of placement information from IIMA about PGPX placements are catching every one’s attention. I have received numerous calls since morning from friends and well-wishers, either wanting to understand the full story behind placements and some inside information. This is after some media reports claiming a PGPX student getting a US$ 300K job offer. I [...]
Managed to perfection
Posted in Random Thoughts, tagged IIM, IIMA, PGPX on February 25, 2007 | 5 Comments »
I forget the bloke who defined man-age-ment as an activity that makes man age mentally at a real fast clip. Nevertheless, to me it definitely seems that he is a little too close for comfort. Age has always been a tricky thing when it comes to management. Is there a right age when a person [...]
Life at IIMA
Posted in Random Thoughts, tagged IIM, IIMA, PGPX on February 25, 2007 | 3 Comments »
Looking forward to a year of, sleep deprivation and surprise quizzes. Fuccha, Tuccha, Muggo, MANAC, dbabble, CP, RG, arbit, global – words that will become a part of our vocabulary, for life. and finally the dunking sessions… (especially in May when the mercury touches 45 °C.) — Uma
