Understanding the Indian consumer market
Disclosure: This is not an attack on Indians. I love Indians a lot. Everyone around me know that. I love India. If I don’t I won’t make it a home for the past two years. It only makes business sens…
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MBA Diary
2014
It’s official, I’m an MBA grad
There is time for everything. A time to begin and a time to end. Yesterday “officially” marked my last day as an MBA student as my final semester result was released. It’s been 2 …
To whom it may concern
Got a minute. Writing this for the benefit of those who have labelled me in several negative ways recently (not that I care much about it though). Some who even think I am dead because they have no…
Kaizen and Problem Solving Techniques training at FKCCI, Bangalore
A step forward in knowledge, plus one more certificate added – that’s how we roll :-). Today, I attended the “kaizen (continuous Improvement) and Problem solving techniques”…
Are our strongest desires too weak?
Last Wednesday (22nd of Jan.), I took some moments off work to see the movie “Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit”. After watching the movie, all I can say is that [sometimes], in our “stro…
An act of kindness
Today, one of my lecturers extended a kind gesture to me by giving a gift. It was Makra Sankranti (one of the Indian festivals) last Wednesday. “There’s something we give our friends fo…
Time and practice
Oh the shock that hit me when I saw graduate students get scared of making presentations even to an audience of 50 fellow students. Not my fault, I eat presentations/speeches as breakfast all throu…
At Boot camp for start-ups
I just left the green campus of the Indian Institute of Management, one of the leading business schools in India. There I attended “bootcamp for startups” facilitated by Professor Saras…
“Only one has it all”: A case study of Pepsi One
It’s the first day of the year 2014 and I am sitting in front of a Compaq 5500 screen at the MBA lab as I complete the review of a case study given by my “Strategic Brand ManagementR…
2013
Trip to the Royal City of Mysore, India [with Pictures]
I visited the royal city of Mysore on Sunday. It was an all expense paid trip sponsored by the management of my institution, NMIT for all foreign students. I have been nursing the urge to visit the royal city since my friends recommended I visit few weeks...
