The places makes you hate it initially for the rigor it puts you through and it makes you fall in love with it for eternity as it shows you who you are and makes you what you want to be for the rest of your life. It makes life HELL and then turns the HELL into your heaven. To sum up, you know you’re at IIM when:
This is the fourth story in our series on MISB Bocconi. We spent time in conversation with Professor Maurizio Poli. Prof. Poli is a faculty in the area of Quantitative Techniques with SDA Bocconi in a number of programmes, including their full-time MBA. His expertise and areas of interest range from Modelling, Simulation Techniques, Forecasting Analysis, Business Intelligence, Project Management and Data Analysis to Quantitative Instruments for financial planning and valuation. He is also the director of the global executive MBA programme. We spoke to Prof. Maurizio about a number of topics - ranging from the importance of statistical techniques in modern-day business, to the steps that students should follow to make a successful career in analytics. Below are the excerpts of the conversation...
Who is a Frugal Innovator?
As I stood on the balcony of my flat my gaze fell upon these three girls in the distance. These three girls looked like any other three girls I might have seen anywhere in Delhi. They were carrying notebooks- all of them and two of them held books that looked familiar- books I might have purchased whilst starting my preparation for IITJEE in 11th standard. I never actually read anything beyond the preface in either of them because that was sadly, the most interesting thing about them. You see the sad part about preparing for IIT was that none of the theory told a story- the prefaces did, which is why I will have read only the prefaces of most of the prep books. But don’t tell my mom I did that or hid Archies Comics in my Resnick & Halladay – she would be heartbroken.
Most people function as if they are eternal. They go through their assumed eternal lives chasing things that are hardly eternal; chasing careers, money, foreign postings... women. They become Assistant Managers and Managers and Associate Vice Presidents and Vice Presidents and if they are lucky, one day, they become something that sounds important enough to impress a waiter at a high end restaurant to arrange a table for them five minutes earlier than he would for an average walk-in.
Well, this is a pseudo intellectual thought that I have been harboring for a few years now.
A two syllable word with a range of denotation and with each interpretation involving a fresh discourse, Merit has its own sphere. It’s an agglomeration of reasons and every action committed has its own rationale for Merit. It cannot be judged, for it is in connotation with perspective of an individual.
I have always had reservations about reservations. On the other hand, a number of my good friends are quota- beneficiaries. But that doesn’t make reservations go away.
