The Most Ridiculous Questions Asked To An IIM Graduate
a. Akshay, you are a student at IIM, you will be earning Rs. 1 crore after graduation right?
Akshaykumar Sirsalewala
Why Are All These MBAs Becoming Writers?
I finished MBA from IIM Rohtak on March 25th this year. MBA was an experience of finding new ways to tell something about myself to interviewers and professors alike, while pursuing the goals and fulfilling my expectations from the degree. A master's degree in management teaches you the ability to plan your priorities right and that's exactly the reason for the delay in the answer for the questions asked in one of my first viral articles on MBA. The degree helped me fulfill the identity crisis by giving me a choice of identities to learn from every case-study, and the answer was in one of the most unexpected places.
Amit Pandey
Accepting Your Own Sexuality Is The Hardest First Step - #SpreadingPride
In a series that aims to capture coming-out stories across b-schools, this is the first brave entry. Why anonymous, you wonder? Because, as the interviewee points out, coming-out to yourself and close ones is as much of a milestone as letting the entire world know. Little-by-little, and one person at a time, so that you can be comfortable being in your element while sharing your most vulnerable details. A refreshing alternative to the more extroverted version of declaring one's sexual preferences. Read on.
Anonymous Writer
Why MBA? - An MBA's Perspective
Well, I see too many hearts break after CAT releases the scores. To be frank it hurts when you don’t perform as per your expectations but then that's life. The faster you accept it the more peace one gets and you get to improve yourself. Kudos to all those who scored well as per their expectations, as to other aspirants, this is a steep learning curve.
Debjyoti Bose
Brands We Love - Kodak
It's cleaning-weekend today, and the entire house is upside down. You can hear the clanking of vessels in the kitchen and screams from the storeroom (my brother is on bug-duty). I'm almost done with all the cupboards; cleaning the mirrors, arranging the clothes and putting fresh newspapers on the shelves. I have only one more cupboard left, but that isn't a worry because dad is the most organized of us all. His mirror is squeaky clean, his clothes are all arranged, his ties hang crisp on the side doors. Ah, only the annual newspaper change is what has to be done.
Sarika Nerurkar
In The Age Of Coming Out - IIM Bangalore's QUEst For The LGBTQ+ Community
Imagine you are on a roller-coaster. Sometimes, you feel your heart beating faster with pure joy before it is plunged into inexplicable sorrow the next second. Because everything you do makes you feel like you’re letting your family down. It makes you ashamed of your status as an ‘outlaw’ not entitled to the pure emotion of love. “The fundamental right to privacy, life with human dignity, equality, freedom and the pursuit of happiness; weren’t those meant to be in the American constitution and all those western liberalist agendas? We don’t tolerate such immorality in our culture, please.”
Abhishek Ghosh
Marketing Lesson Taught By A Salesman!
We were walking by the marina bay shopping mall, everything was so fascinating and so beautiful. Stores of luxurious brands one after the other, brands whose name I have never heard of, names which I couldn’t even pronounce, these stores were everywhere all around us, with beautiful lights and an enchanting aura around them. I couldn’t even afford to buy a single thing from here. This was the luxury segment about which I have read so much, In theory, I knew that wearing a $50,000 watch is luxury but now that I have seen it in front of me placed in the shelf. Now I can feel the ‘force’, and it was very compelling, tempting me to open the shelf and wear it, to walk out of the store with the watch on my hand and this frenzy was getting out of control. It was the voice of the salesman which brought me back to my sense. He was around 5”5’ lean clean shaved with neat black hair, wearing a black suit. He asked me, “what would you like to have, sir?” I came back to my senses. I could see it in his eyes, he wanted me out of there, or was it my own insecurity? I looked at him he was smiling and then he asked me again, “what are you looking for” I stepped back and told him “Nah...nothing I’m just looking at the stuff here, I can’t afford this” this was my defence mechanism! Somewhere in that moment, I felt in his eyes that he wants me out of his store. Then and there I had a realization, I was aspiring to that watch knowing fully that I can’t afford it.
Pankaj Mann
The Most Ridiculous Questions Asked To An IIM Graduate
a. Akshay, you are a student at IIM, you will be earning Rs. 1 crore after graduation right?
Akshaykumar Sirsalewala
Why Are All These MBAs Becoming Writers?
I finished MBA from IIM Rohtak on March 25th this year. MBA was an experience of finding new ways to tell something about myself to interviewers and professors alike, while pursuing the goals and fulfilling my expectations from the degree. A master's degree in management teaches you the ability to plan your priorities right and that's exactly the reason for the delay in the answer for the questions asked in one of my first viral articles on MBA. The degree helped me fulfill the identity crisis by giving me a choice of identities to learn from every case-study, and the answer was in one of the most unexpected places.
Amit Pandey
Accepting Your Own Sexuality Is The Hardest First Step - #SpreadingPride
In a series that aims to capture coming-out stories across b-schools, this is the first brave entry. Why anonymous, you wonder? Because, as the interviewee points out, coming-out to yourself and close ones is as much of a milestone as letting the entire world know. Little-by-little, and one person at a time, so that you can be comfortable being in your element while sharing your most vulnerable details. A refreshing alternative to the more extroverted version of declaring one's sexual preferences. Read on.
Anonymous Writer
Why MBA? - An MBA's Perspective
Well, I see too many hearts break after CAT releases the scores. To be frank it hurts when you don’t perform as per your expectations but then that's life. The faster you accept it the more peace one gets and you get to improve yourself. Kudos to all those who scored well as per their expectations, as to other aspirants, this is a steep learning curve.
Debjyoti Bose
Brands We Love - Kodak
It's cleaning-weekend today, and the entire house is upside down. You can hear the clanking of vessels in the kitchen and screams from the storeroom (my brother is on bug-duty). I'm almost done with all the cupboards; cleaning the mirrors, arranging the clothes and putting fresh newspapers on the shelves. I have only one more cupboard left, but that isn't a worry because dad is the most organized of us all. His mirror is squeaky clean, his clothes are all arranged, his ties hang crisp on the side doors. Ah, only the annual newspaper change is what has to be done.
Sarika Nerurkar
In The Age Of Coming Out - IIM Bangalore's QUEst For The LGBTQ+ Community
Imagine you are on a roller-coaster. Sometimes, you feel your heart beating faster with pure joy before it is plunged into inexplicable sorrow the next second. Because everything you do makes you feel like you’re letting your family down. It makes you ashamed of your status as an ‘outlaw’ not entitled to the pure emotion of love. “The fundamental right to privacy, life with human dignity, equality, freedom and the pursuit of happiness; weren’t those meant to be in the American constitution and all those western liberalist agendas? We don’t tolerate such immorality in our culture, please.”
Abhishek Ghosh
Marketing Lesson Taught By A Salesman!
We were walking by the marina bay shopping mall, everything was so fascinating and so beautiful. Stores of luxurious brands one after the other, brands whose name I have never heard of, names which I couldn’t even pronounce, these stores were everywhere all around us, with beautiful lights and an enchanting aura around them. I couldn’t even afford to buy a single thing from here. This was the luxury segment about which I have read so much, In theory, I knew that wearing a $50,000 watch is luxury but now that I have seen it in front of me placed in the shelf. Now I can feel the ‘force’, and it was very compelling, tempting me to open the shelf and wear it, to walk out of the store with the watch on my hand and this frenzy was getting out of control. It was the voice of the salesman which brought me back to my sense. He was around 5”5’ lean clean shaved with neat black hair, wearing a black suit. He asked me, “what would you like to have, sir?” I came back to my senses. I could see it in his eyes, he wanted me out of there, or was it my own insecurity? I looked at him he was smiling and then he asked me again, “what are you looking for” I stepped back and told him “Nah...nothing I’m just looking at the stuff here, I can’t afford this” this was my defence mechanism! Somewhere in that moment, I felt in his eyes that he wants me out of his store. Then and there I had a realization, I was aspiring to that watch knowing fully that I can’t afford it.
Pankaj Mann