It was a routine day of first term and we had a Self & Leadership communication class by professor Sanjeeb Kakoty. The class began with the professor taking the attendance and was left wide open afterword. The agenda for the class was “Share your story”.
The below essay is an overview of a learning-team discussion on an ordinary b-school day. Typically, cases are first to individually analyzed, then discussed in the respective learning teams, and then go to class to a class discussion anchored by the professor. Learning-team discussions can be a well of learning and problem solving, and below is an illustration of the same.
There are some skills without which pursuing an MBA is a very difficult task. This is in no way related to the quantitative abilities that you may have acquired during your preparation or the English speaking skills that some people possess. Below is a brief on some of the skills which are essential for surviving two years at a B-school:
As the summer placement season approaches, many of you would be fantasizing about being an Investment Banker. We have all seen the money, cars, girls etc. in The Wolf of Wall Street, The Big Short, etc. You would have also heard about the terrifying fact of working 18-20 hours each day with no holidays even on weekends. Most of you would want to be an Investment Banker for one of the 3 reasons;
Corporate Competitions are one of the most interesting experiences in business schools and with it comes the challenge of choosing which ones to dabble in. the following is a domain wise classification of the top 20 Corporate competitions in IIM Trichy which may be common across top b-schools to enable students to get a feel of the contest before it actually visits campus. Do note that some of the observations are the authors own and some perspectives are taken from students who have participated in those contests. Links are provided for further details where they were available.
Class Participation also known as CP, was a term that I heard after joining a B-school. Well yes, I did know what class participation was but I never knew how important it was. When I joined NMIMS Mumbai, I was formally introduced to the term Class Participation. I always thought, was it really important to participate in a class? Wouldn't it suffice If I was more of a listener? However, as the days passed by I realised the importance of class participation. I realised its important to be a part of the discussion to gain value out of it. So here's my take on why I feel class participation is very important.
MBA and cases are almost synonymous. B-Schools are characterized with loads of cases and pre-reads for each and every subject. A statement often used by the b-school professors is “We are just facilitators. The onus of learning is on you!” And the best tool used to further this cause is the case studies. While these are mostly Harvard cases of the highest quality, the learning actually depends on the way the course is structured by the professors. Let us look at a few types of case-based courses:
It was a routine day of first term and we had a Self & Leadership communication class by professor Sanjeeb Kakoty. The class began with the professor taking the attendance and was left wide open afterword. The agenda for the class was “Share your story”.
The below essay is an overview of a learning-team discussion on an ordinary b-school day. Typically, cases are first to individually analyzed, then discussed in the respective learning teams, and then go to class to a class discussion anchored by the professor. Learning-team discussions can be a well of learning and problem solving, and below is an illustration of the same.
There are some skills without which pursuing an MBA is a very difficult task. This is in no way related to the quantitative abilities that you may have acquired during your preparation or the English speaking skills that some people possess. Below is a brief on some of the skills which are essential for surviving two years at a B-school:
As the summer placement season approaches, many of you would be fantasizing about being an Investment Banker. We have all seen the money, cars, girls etc. in The Wolf of Wall Street, The Big Short, etc. You would have also heard about the terrifying fact of working 18-20 hours each day with no holidays even on weekends. Most of you would want to be an Investment Banker for one of the 3 reasons;
Corporate Competitions are one of the most interesting experiences in business schools and with it comes the challenge of choosing which ones to dabble in. the following is a domain wise classification of the top 20 Corporate competitions in IIM Trichy which may be common across top b-schools to enable students to get a feel of the contest before it actually visits campus. Do note that some of the observations are the authors own and some perspectives are taken from students who have participated in those contests. Links are provided for further details where they were available.
Class Participation also known as CP, was a term that I heard after joining a B-school. Well yes, I did know what class participation was but I never knew how important it was. When I joined NMIMS Mumbai, I was formally introduced to the term Class Participation. I always thought, was it really important to participate in a class? Wouldn't it suffice If I was more of a listener? However, as the days passed by I realised the importance of class participation. I realised its important to be a part of the discussion to gain value out of it. So here's my take on why I feel class participation is very important.
MBA and cases are almost synonymous. B-Schools are characterized with loads of cases and pre-reads for each and every subject. A statement often used by the b-school professors is “We are just facilitators. The onus of learning is on you!” And the best tool used to further this cause is the case studies. While these are mostly Harvard cases of the highest quality, the learning actually depends on the way the course is structured by the professors. Let us look at a few types of case-based courses:
