The Spirit of Great Lakes!

When everyone at Great lakes came together to help rehabilitate the fire victims

Dwarfed amongst Giants!

In the village there is an ominous whisper to be heard.. among the trees, among the gathered folk. “They” have landed…
Everything is still for a moment… then screams, confusion and mayhem rule the roost. The fort is sealed and doubled up with sentries. Every able bodied soldier is bought out into the fray to fight. [...]

Headlines Today – The plight of an MBA student

“WHAT!? WHY!? HOW!?”
“Eww… look at that!”
“Yuck! What a sight!”
“What’s that sticking out of that thing!?”
“How can something so big and round be so sickening!?”
“Ohh… I think I’m gonna be sick!”
“Arrhh!… I think I’m having a heart attack…”
These were but some of the reactions I got when I went to class on the morning of 4th [...]

Ideas Galore!

Now that we are on a lean period here at Great Lakes, everyone has found something or the other to keep themselves engaged. The latest craze doing the rounds is entering b-plan contests. (Its got an even bigger boost since two teams from from Great Lakes made it to the final round of IIM-B b-plan [...]

LOVE is all around us….

At Great lakes we are privileged to have considerable time kept aside for LOVE. Oh Yeah! You heard that right… We have designated time set aside, that too with the permission of the management, for LOVE. It happens almost every Sunday (and sometimes on other days in the evenings) when a few of us get [...]

Livin’ La Vida Salsa…

The last 4 days have been lots of fun. We had Salsa and Jive week at Great lakes taught by Mr Unni.
26 (13 enthusiastic guys and 13 nervous girls – they were nervous seeing the guys’ extreme enthusiasm) of us signed up for the first session which lasted 4 days, 2 hours a day. As [...]

A typical day in the life of a Great Laker….

8AM: I am on the beach having a good  time…..and all of a sudden, the alarm rings and I find myself on the bed and switch it off hoping to get back to the beach but it simply does not happen….eventually, after 10 minutes, i lift myself from the depth of the bed and walk [...]

CREATIVITY… can it be taught ?

Boy, you must be kidding !! Nothing can be farther from the truth and this subject statement is completely Hogwash.
Well this bold statement was made by Mr. K R Ravi who’d come to deliver us a guest lecture on “Lateral Thinking & Creativity“. One has to keep one’s eyes and ears open when the speaker [...]

Fast track to success…

How would you define a fast track MBA program? 
Is it finishing Operations Management in 5 days, 4 hours each and being done with 1 Quiz, 1 group case study and a finals in the allotted 20 hrs? 
Or finishing Marketing management with 2 Quizzes, one group project and one finals in 20 hours?
Or finishing Corporate Finance [...]

Rock Solid!!

Disclaimer: This piece has been published after permission from Prof. Rakesh Singh
“Its Rocky’s class man…”
“Rocky? Who’s that?”
“Prof. Rakesh Singh… Our Macro Economics Prof.”
“So, why the long face?”
“You’ll have one too if you knew about him. He is supposed to be a terror… “
Thus was my introduction of Prof. Singh. But we’ve had tough Profs before [...]

The Seal of Zzugzzezzzzz…

Open Source Software (OSS) as a phenomenon has the potential of changing the business of software development around the world. OSS has come a long way from its infan… Zzzzzzzzzz….
A way for firms in the open systems business to gain traction and control over the market is to openly innovate and push their own boundaries. [...]

165 X 1 – Disaster!!!

Disclaimer: This piece has been published after explicit permission from Prof. Vishwanathan
Solve this riddle: What happens when you pit 165 of the best brains in the country against one of the best professors in the statistics? Who wins? The Prof or the students? After all, its 165 against 1. The odds for the students winning [...]

The Karma-Yoga Experience

At Great Lakes, it is part of the course on Intelligently Interacting With Others to do a Karma-Yoga project. In essence, it is social service. Karma – means Action, Yoga – Meditation (well, a crude definition). So it is “Meditation through action”, in raw terms. But is it? Well, that’s what it says…
Every group (consisting of [...]

The Clubbin Champs!!

TCB – What does it stand for with reference to Great Lakes? The Champions Batch… But a more relevant expansion would be The Clubs Batch… I reckon that’s what we are going to be known as.
Why? Coz as of the last count, there are 3 new clubs formed by members of the present batch. GLick [...]