Great Lakes New Campus: From Scratch to Concrete

Once upon a time, a professor from Kellogg School of Management     painted a picture of having a B-School   in      India which would walk the same steps with the best in business. In 2004,     the first batch entered and since then the school has travelled a long way. It [...]

Splash!

Holi-Day: For a change we did not have classes on the 11th of March .It all started when a few decided to shirk off their days sleep in pursuit of something more colorfully meaningful.  They went to the market to hunt for all possible coloring options. It was no day for dance and frolic for [...]

Kris Gopalakrishnan of Infosys was here…

Whenever there is a power talk scheduled, life seems to hit a flattish speed-breaker. Generally the first half of the day is when most of the power-talks happen and all classes, group-jobs take a break. Good for some.The guests who come and give the talks are the best in class and no one would [...]

Quelling the blaze…

12 AM ( 0000 hrs) Between 12th and 13th Feb : A few of us were sitting in the college library reinforcing our management ideals. By 11 :59 , just when the closing bell was rung, our security guards came running in, frantically yelling “Firing!!” four times. That was too unusual under any standards. [...]

The thing about an MBA.

The moment I type “Slumdog Millionaire” on one pristine blank document unearthed from the unending repository of Microsoft Works , a corrugated , wavy line appears beneath Slumdog. Spell check error. Right click -> ignore all; only to see all the Slumdogs in the document breathing a sigh of utter relief on being wafted [...]

NASMEI 2008

Another day, or rather a bunch of them, just passed by and left a good number staring in awe at the sheer brilliance of the scheme of things.  The NASMEI (North American Society for Marketing Education in India) international conference of this year came to a full stop on the 23rd. A two day research [...]

Uncle Obama!

November 4th happened to be a red letter day in the history of the world. Though looking at the picture here, a few eyebrows will raise a million Euros question.  What has the President of United States of America got to do with this blog? No, we are not trying to recoil our non-existent tails [...]

And then there was light…

…for the few of us who hadn’t gone home, ‘no diyas, no agarbattis, no lavang ke fataake, no hydrogen bombs’ all seemed to be the order of the day. ‘God, no one celebrates Diwali in Chennai’ were the catcalls for those of us still hoping.
Well whoever said ‘hope springs eternal’ spoke the truth.
A few of [...]

Sangamitra – I : Unmasking the other side of us

 

Its been a long time since anything worthwhile has been put up here in this blog by Class of 2009. All of us were tied and anchored and things were just not happening. But we are back.
  Volume One of the annual cultural fest of Great Lakes- Sangamitra was conducted with barrels of spirit and glee. [...]

Mr. Srivatsa Krishna visits Great Lakes

The Class of 2009 is alpine fresh after a scintillating session of a power talk by Mr. Srivatsa Krishna. He reached the campus dot at 16:45 yesterday, the 28th and the talk was scheduled at 17:00 hrs. But before we go any further let me take you through his profile.
Srivatsa topped the Indian Civil Services [...]

That same cliché

All else was fine but for a few pot-holes-turned-into-manholes in the islandish city of Mumbai. It was sometime in mid September, just after my twenty-somethingth birthday (blur intended). The sun at last took some time out and graced the wet-clothes which have been hanging on the miles long clothesline between Church-gate and Borivili since June. [...]

He Came, We Saw, and We were Conquered… !!

Well I am talking about CEO of Capgemini’s Financial Services SBU, Mr. Raymond Spencer, who had come to visit us at Great Lakes today as Guest Lecturer. During the course of one hour with us, he shared his experiences on many things including “How to successfully manage a Business”, “Keys to becoming a good leader” [...]

More heads per Great Lakes

A bunch of us was just going through the newspaper sometime in the extremely close past – little more than one third of an hour ago.  A few words were screaming from the pit of their underbellies, a couple of pages after the third one: Four thousand thirty something CAT 2008 forms sold on Day [...]

The good, the bad and the hypocrite

[Declaration: The author shall strangely try to be the least controversial till the very last full-stop of this piece of incessant keypad thumping. Despite this, if anyone wants to stamp on the author’s left toe, isn’t exactly welcome to do so]
It was 10th of June and the wristwatches scattered in this part of the [...]

Bauer College , Houston was here.

A bunch of 20 students from the prestigious Bauer College, Houston(http://www.bauer.uh.edu/mba/) visited Great Lakes as part of their India visit. The group comprised under-graduates, MBA students and scholars doing their PhD. An enriching discussion on students’ profiles in India and the US helped many to get a better feel of the diversities in management studies. [...]

As the week unfolds and the bomb ticks.

The war cry was just heard.
Saturday: It was a different day when pitted against the rest of the recent mornings. The sun was unusually quiet and had decided to take a break behind the surprisingly organized clouds. Quite a few of us were interacting with the students of Babson College, MA, USA who had [...]

A day with Babson,M.A.

Entrepreneurship is a path less taken. There is no method to it. But when a group of young and confident MBA grads come together and discuss it, it generates a lot of interest and enthusiasm. This is exactly what happened on May 31st, 2008. Around 15 students from Babson College, the #1 in Entrepreneurial courses, [...]

Green Coconut Days

My alarm clock can even turn a graveyard into a deranged discotheque. Probably a step closer to a medieval fire siren. That’s what one exactly needs when he wishes to be woken up in the middle of a deep slumber that started just three hours back. 25th April: a day before the outbound was scheduled; [...]