Note by Prof. Rishikesha Krishnan: [This post is written by DVR Seshadri, Adjunct Professor at IIM Bangalore. He has been a mentor to hundreds of students across institutions during the last decade and a half. DVR has been constantly striving to improve his teaching effectiveness and this post is based on some of his experiments in the last few years.]
Chanakya was an ancient Indian teacher, philosopher and economist. He is credited with having written the ancient Indian political treatise called Arthasastra . His management theories are timeless and are still very relevant today. Below are some of his sutras and how they apply to different facets of management in the modern day.
A Geographically, Meteorologically, Politically, Historically Apt time:
IFIM Business School, ranked amongst the top business schools in India, has announced its admissions for the PGDM and PGDM (Finance) Programs for 2015-17. Applications open on October 12, 2014. IFIM Business School offers industry focused program with a limited batch size of 120 students.
IFIM’s placement strategy of holding a pre-placement week was lapped up by the corporates, 30% of the entire batch has been placed before the placement season.
Shashi Subramaniam Sir, what should be the preparation for the last 2-3 weeks? I am still having some problems in grammar and vocabulary. Can anything be done to improve performance in the last 20 days?
In the 27th week of his extremely popular series on the best articles curated from the world wide web, Shreyas picks up stories about Google's future, the history of the credit card, the story of how Nigeria averted an Ebola Crisis, and the future of AI.
Walk into the introductory session of any class in any B-school, and a quintessential question that you would hear would be – “How many of you here have had the experience of working in an organization before?”. It must be duly noted that the afore-mentioned issue does not only arise in such classes, but quietly keeps tapping on our shoulders ever since we start thinking about pursuing an MBA degree. Separate points for work experience in the many entrance examinations and that too distributed non-uniformly across the duration of it – the entire mathematics that goes behind it is simply mind-boggling! But the importance of this coveted parameter can be truly judged once life in a B-school is underway.
Note by Prof. Rishikesha Krishnan: [This post is written by DVR Seshadri, Adjunct Professor at IIM Bangalore. He has been a mentor to hundreds of students across institutions during the last decade and a half. DVR has been constantly striving to improve his teaching effectiveness and this post is based on some of his experiments in the last few years.]
Chanakya was an ancient Indian teacher, philosopher and economist. He is credited with having written the ancient Indian political treatise called Arthasastra . His management theories are timeless and are still very relevant today. Below are some of his sutras and how they apply to different facets of management in the modern day.
A Geographically, Meteorologically, Politically, Historically Apt time:
IFIM Business School, ranked amongst the top business schools in India, has announced its admissions for the PGDM and PGDM (Finance) Programs for 2015-17. Applications open on October 12, 2014. IFIM Business School offers industry focused program with a limited batch size of 120 students.
IFIM’s placement strategy of holding a pre-placement week was lapped up by the corporates, 30% of the entire batch has been placed before the placement season.
Shashi Subramaniam Sir, what should be the preparation for the last 2-3 weeks? I am still having some problems in grammar and vocabulary. Can anything be done to improve performance in the last 20 days?
In the 27th week of his extremely popular series on the best articles curated from the world wide web, Shreyas picks up stories about Google's future, the history of the credit card, the story of how Nigeria averted an Ebola Crisis, and the future of AI.
Walk into the introductory session of any class in any B-school, and a quintessential question that you would hear would be – “How many of you here have had the experience of working in an organization before?”. It must be duly noted that the afore-mentioned issue does not only arise in such classes, but quietly keeps tapping on our shoulders ever since we start thinking about pursuing an MBA degree. Separate points for work experience in the many entrance examinations and that too distributed non-uniformly across the duration of it – the entire mathematics that goes behind it is simply mind-boggling! But the importance of this coveted parameter can be truly judged once life in a B-school is underway.
