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April 4, 2014

A B-Schooler’s Bucket List | XLRI Jamshedpur

B-schools are like snowflakes. Why do I make this odd comparison you ask? Well discerning reader, I shall tell you. Think of snowflakes. In all likelihood, they bring to mind images of fun and frolic, vacation days, carefree mucking about with your chums, engaging in snowball fights and diverse entertaining activities. But increase the intensity

By Akriti Gupta

March 31, 2014

The Business of Art

My mother is an artist. She paints, sews, carves, crochets and does all kinds of very creative things that, as a child, I used to look up to with eyes of awe. I wanted to become as adept at all things artistic as she is. But, the day I picked up a crochet needle (or

By Nadeem Raj

March 23, 2014

The “Jholewala” Business Leader: Rise of Social Entrepreneurship in India – Interview with Dr. Madhukar Shukla

One topic that comes up very frequently in business schools these days is that of entrepreneurship. And today “Social Entrepreneurship” has become quite the buzzword with many seminars and competitions promoting it. But what kind of sorcery is it exactly and from whence did it suddenly spring? Grave questions all. So I decided to interview

By Akriti Gupta

March 22, 2014

The fascination to fly ! (Why the airline industry is unprofitable)

My fascination with flying… Flying has always fascinated me. It so amazing how one can defy gravity and be so high up in the sky that huge cities start looking like doll houses when you peer down at them. An integral part of realizing this fascination, i.e. making me ‘fly’ is the airline companies that

By External Linkages

March 21, 2014

First issue of Magis – The News Magazine of XLRI

XLRI has come up with the first edition of its quarterly news magazine, “Magis”, encompassing the plethora of activities and events that have taken place on campus in the last quarter. It covers the JRD Tata Oration ‘14, graced by HRD minister Dr.Pallam Raju Mallipudi, where he extensively hailed XLRI for its endeavour on promoting

By Akriti Gupta

March 12, 2014

Food, Karma and Regional Nights @XLRI – Reflections of an Idle Mind!

Charles De Gaulle once very famously questioned, “How can you govern a country which has 246 varieties of cheese?”-a gastronomically and politically loaded question. Something very similar can be said in the context of India. And when you are in a meritocratic B-school like XLRI, you experience a mini-India with representatives from all states, in

By Nadeem Raj

March 11, 2014

A Tale of Two Cs: The CGPA-Career Correlation

An aunt once asked me where I would be interning. I told her. She had difficulty pronouncing the name of the company and 5 minutes later was blissfully unaware of it. However she was very interested in knowing details of the other big companies who had come to campus and was visibly excited at the

By External Linkages

March 10, 2014

CII Yi XLRI celebrates Women’s Day with its Female Workers

CII Yi XLRI participated in the celebration of the annual Women’s Day on 8th March 2014 by organizing a fundraiser and an event for the women workers of XLRI. The Yi members collected contributions from students to involve them in giving back to the women who take care of the campus and their stay here.

By Akriti Gupta

March 4, 2014

SAMARTHYA – The counselling initiative of budding managers at XLRI

My initial perceptions on business and society Most ‘common’ people perceive corporates as ruthless money mongers; people to whom ‘social causes’ or ‘giving back to the society’ is only a legal mandate and not something that stems out of their hearts. Under a similar impression, when I walked into the hallowed portals of XLRI, I

By Nadeem Raj

March 3, 2014

The Diversity Factor In B-school Admissions: Fickle Fad Or Novel Necessity?

#Throwback – Although this was published originally in 2014, the topic of diversity in a B-School is still debated across various forums. Like an obsidian creature rising from the depths of the ocean to destroy all in sight, the spectre of gender and background diversity based marks added to the final conversion criteria of numerous