IIM Calcutta and XLRI Jamshedpur - two premier known business schools in eastern India clash every year for a much-anticipated sports meet. Incidentally, that is also the time when the campus cultures at both these schools stoop to their lowest.
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Now this is Shocking- disgusting - proud not to be from IIM's !
Wednesday, July 23, 2008
Wednesday, December 26, 2007
Barcamp @ IIM-Ahmedabad 19th Jan 2008- IT-Technology Event/Conference
India Shinning, and India Emerging! BarCamp hits Ahmedabad as IIM-A hosts 1st ever BarCamp @ thier campus.
The first BarCamp was held in Palo Alto, California, from August 19-21, 2005, in the offices of Socialtext. Since then, BarCamps have been held in over 31 cities around the world, in North America, South America, Africa, Europe, Australasia and Asia.
When ?
Jan-19/20th 2008, Saturday/Sunday!
Timing 9:30 am to 5:30 pm
So Whts BarCamp?
As per Wiki
BarCamp is an international network of user generated conferences — open, participatory workshop-events, whose content is provided by participants — often focusing on early-stage web applications, and related open source technologies, social protocols, and open data formats.In India, BarCampshave been organised in Delhi , Chennai , Pune , Kerala & Bangalore
The name "BarCamp" is a playful allusion to the event's origins, with reference to the hacker slang term, foobar: BarCamp arose as a spin-off of Foo Camp, an annual invitation-only participant driven conference hosted by open source publishing luminary Tim O'Reilly.
Topics of Discussion - Check Paras Blog on it
Now this is something amazing,an open forum full of ideas and information exchange, concepted , designed and executed by the particpants themselves.
For any queries send mail to BarCampAhmedabad@googlegroups.com
I will be there, where will be You ?
The first BarCamp was held in Palo Alto, California, from August 19-21, 2005, in the offices of Socialtext. Since then, BarCamps have been held in over 31 cities around the world, in North America, South America, Africa, Europe, Australasia and Asia.
When ?
Jan-19/20th 2008, Saturday/Sunday!
Timing 9:30 am to 5:30 pm
So Whts BarCamp?
As per Wiki
BarCamp is an international network of user generated conferences — open, participatory workshop-events, whose content is provided by participants — often focusing on early-stage web applications, and related open source technologies, social protocols, and open data formats.In India, BarCampshave been organised in Delhi , Chennai , Pune , Kerala & Bangalore
The name "BarCamp" is a playful allusion to the event's origins, with reference to the hacker slang term, foobar: BarCamp arose as a spin-off of Foo Camp, an annual invitation-only participant driven conference hosted by open source publishing luminary Tim O'Reilly.
Topics of Discussion - Check Paras Blog on it
Now this is something amazing,an open forum full of ideas and information exchange, concepted , designed and executed by the particpants themselves.
For any queries send mail to BarCampAhmedabad@googlegroups.com
I will be there, where will be You ?
The Indian MBA
MBA is the global buzzword , be it recruiters or students , parents or evn potential matchmakers - evry1 wants an M.B.A !
So u aspire to bell the CAT ? Why do u wanna do an MBA ?
By origin management education was meant to be different and dynamic , unlike the traditional post graduate degree like Mcom or Msc.
However the scence in country like ours is quite different. An MBA is not abt the management exposure , not abt team management skills or communication or people skills - its more of a Job Exchange. Dont get me wrong - its not that Indian MBA's lack in these , its just that the focuss of the entire process is getting the 10 figure package which one woudnt have got with the MBA tag.
This atitude flows down from the top to the bottom. Management fests are more about gala partyng , management books more abt getting CGPA - the whole essence of MBA is starkingly ruined. We Indians are still the best managers among the world - and that speaks for our abilities, but its not a reflection of our education system. The very system of taking in freshers for Mba courses and creating focuss on campus placements reduces an MBA to just like any other academic course - not a professional dynamic course that people associate an MBA with !
This is why we find a good percentage of us going for an 2nd MBA abroad later on. The trend is changing and the PGPX courses as well as ISB and GreatLakes are a new horizon in Indian management education , but it would be soime time before the culture , the atitude towards management education witnesses a considerable shift.
So u aspire to bell the CAT ? Why do u wanna do an MBA ?
By origin management education was meant to be different and dynamic , unlike the traditional post graduate degree like Mcom or Msc.
However the scence in country like ours is quite different. An MBA is not abt the management exposure , not abt team management skills or communication or people skills - its more of a Job Exchange. Dont get me wrong - its not that Indian MBA's lack in these , its just that the focuss of the entire process is getting the 10 figure package which one woudnt have got with the MBA tag.
This atitude flows down from the top to the bottom. Management fests are more about gala partyng , management books more abt getting CGPA - the whole essence of MBA is starkingly ruined. We Indians are still the best managers among the world - and that speaks for our abilities, but its not a reflection of our education system. The very system of taking in freshers for Mba courses and creating focuss on campus placements reduces an MBA to just like any other academic course - not a professional dynamic course that people associate an MBA with !
This is why we find a good percentage of us going for an 2nd MBA abroad later on. The trend is changing and the PGPX courses as well as ISB and GreatLakes are a new horizon in Indian management education , but it would be soime time before the culture , the atitude towards management education witnesses a considerable shift.
Tuesday, December 25, 2007
True Lies - PagalGuy.com B-School Rankings
PaGaLGuY.com - India's largest online MBA community launched perception based Indian Business School Rankingson 18th november 2007
Now thats a gr8 move by PG. However the robustness and validity of the methodology adopted is questionable.
Perception Based Rankings ? Now thts called adding fuel to fire - how do these perceptions form in the first place ? Yes u got it right - Perceptions are mostly just perceptions - half baked truths which lead to more perceptions and something called the Bullwhip effect !
The good news however is that One can TRUST PG RANKINGS ! Unlike the business of b-school rankings some of the Business Magazines have made of - PG rankings would surely be fair, straight from the horse's mouth and clean
What purpose such ranking would achieve is beyong my understanding though. Coz if im an aspirant and i wanna know if XYZ institute is good and what its standing is - id like to go beyond perceptions and delve into its truths - like wht are the actual quality of placements, infrastructure, students etc
PG has been always very relevant and useful to the students and asipirants. So such a ranking methodology would help its future members in making thier decison of choosing the right MBA institute?
It seems to be maddness , but there must be Method behind the maddness. PG surely must have solid research behind such a ranking methodology. Atleast Hopefully !
Welcome to the PaGaLGuY.com B-school Rankings survey! We have built an extremely fast, easy and effective way to rate the top Indian business schools. The ranking system is designed to become more accurate as more users submit their individual thoughts on business schools.
All we ask you is to compare each b-school with every other b-school based on your perception (it will take you just over two minutes). We are gathering the data in a scientific fashion which we will analyze to come up with the rankings of business schools in India. (Click here for a detailed description of our methodology).
You now have the power to decide the rankings of business schools. This will be the rankings of the people, by the people and for the people.
Now thats a gr8 move by PG. However the robustness and validity of the methodology adopted is questionable.
Perception Based Rankings ? Now thts called adding fuel to fire - how do these perceptions form in the first place ? Yes u got it right - Perceptions are mostly just perceptions - half baked truths which lead to more perceptions and something called the Bullwhip effect !
The good news however is that One can TRUST PG RANKINGS ! Unlike the business of b-school rankings some of the Business Magazines have made of - PG rankings would surely be fair, straight from the horse's mouth and clean
What purpose such ranking would achieve is beyong my understanding though. Coz if im an aspirant and i wanna know if XYZ institute is good and what its standing is - id like to go beyond perceptions and delve into its truths - like wht are the actual quality of placements, infrastructure, students etc
PG has been always very relevant and useful to the students and asipirants. So such a ranking methodology would help its future members in making thier decison of choosing the right MBA institute?
It seems to be maddness , but there must be Method behind the maddness. PG surely must have solid research behind such a ranking methodology. Atleast Hopefully !
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