IIM Indore, one of the best experiences anyone looking for a professional education can ask for. The greatest arguments happen outside class and you discover your to be closest friends in class. I guess this is what a B-school is. For 120 of us in this batch at least, who have had the honour of calling this campus ours for the last four years. We have experienced detailed conversations on the probability of getting bitten by a stray dog on campus to experiencing conversations of alums, reliving their college days because they got tagged in an email by mistake.
IIM Indore is many things for many people. For me, it's home. I have left many schools when I had to, but never got attached to the place or they were changed beyond recognition for me to truly be nostalgic about them but not IIM Indore. It's not that it has not changed, there is a constant state of infrastructure upgradation going on, but the core essence of what makes IIM Indore what it is, hasn’t changed. Whenever I take the turn from AB road and see parts of the college, which is now iconic to the local crowd, I always have the same feeling of coming home, what I have always felt, since my joining in 2014.
“Goodbyes suck”. Nine months from now, when I will be standing in the glorified graduation robes, receiving my degree, it will be a bittersweet moment. Apart from my friends, I’ll be saying goodbye to this hillock they call IIM Indore, the 193 acres of it, the professors, who go to great lengths to educate us while being a parent like figures.
I still remember the most memorable class of ours was the Organizational Behaviour class, where the session spoke of collaboration in an organization. While the normal way of doing so could be through a few theories and models, but not in IIM Indore. The whole batch of 550 people was divided into groups, all working in teams, towards the goals set by them. Apart from learning about the theories, the point of the module was embedded in our head when trying to manoeuvre towards succeeding. Apart from this, the numerous simulations held in other subjects, for the real-life environment and focus on case-based learning helps us be ready to take decisions, even when it's not possible to know which decision is the right one at all times.
The ABG group company that I would like to work for- Hindalco Industries
Why- Founded 60 years ago, it is the market leader in Aluminium and Copper. True great leadership skills can only be acquired if one works here as Hindalco has created solved one of the greatest management dilemmas of how to differentiate in such a commoditized industry