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Tag Archives: Life at Great Lakes
Workshop by IIMC Alumni Chennai Chapter & Career Guidance Sessions (Part 3, The Soapy Tales Case presentations)
The Part 3 of IIM C Alumni workshop started with a warm welcome extended by Prof. Swaminathan to MR. Ajay Jain Director, Enzotech Solutions Pvt. Ltd. who as a moderator staged the soap case study presentation with a detailed structure … Continue reading
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Workshop by IIMC Alumni Chennai Chapter & Career Guidance Sessions (Part 1)
“Once a sales man, always a sales man… its just that you graduate to selling your dreams” – Ashok Jayaram Certainly, “History is not a burden on the memory but an illumination of the soul” With the best of IIM … Continue reading
Bridge between learning & entertainment
Choosing between right and wrong is not always as easy a decision as it sounds. Because, what is right cannot determined in absolute terms; the movie ‘The Bridge on the river Kwai’ is a testimony to this observation. The movie … Continue reading
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Pride & Prejudice
“The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.” – Eleanor Roosevelt I have used this quote on countless occasions, in a number of essays and articles for an even greater number of applications, publications and … Continue reading
The other side of the midnight…
“It was 7 in the evening with the night sky almost whitish and clouds all over… “Thunder wow!!” Spoke one of the many who religiously worships the basketball court. No wonder, after-all sports and rain have an ethereal connection. In … Continue reading
Snatched Away from a Beautiful Dream… Great Lakes, We Love You! – Sign Off.
A week down the line, orientation begins for the new batch, with the registration process underway. We Gladiators slip into a nostalgic mode and talk about how our batch walked into the city office in Saidapet, Chennai not so long … Continue reading
The Last Lecture – Redux
The last lectures are always highly anticipated. Some become blockbusters, some taper into damp squibs. Some, however, become stuff legends are made of and told to generations. That happens if your name is a certain Randy Pausch or in this … Continue reading
The Journey Called Great Lakes
It was in April last year that we stepped in to the Great Lakes Institute of Management and one of the first comments that we heard from our seniors was ‘I assure you that you will go through hell, but … Continue reading
Coming together…
There’s a lot of activity at the G1G room…or the GiG room as we call it. A small bunch of people move in and out in a clandestine fashion locking the doors behind them. As they move out, they carry … Continue reading
The Spirit of Great Lakes!
When everyone at Great lakes came together to help rehabilitate the fire victims Continue reading
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Tagged Chennai, CSR, Great Lakes, KarmaYoga, Life at Great Lakes, Social Service, SocialService
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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 … Continue reading
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 … Continue reading
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Tagged b-plans, B-School Life, friends, Humor, Life at Great Lakes
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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 … Continue reading
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 … Continue reading
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 … Continue reading
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 … Continue reading
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 … Continue reading
Time To Loosen Up!
Loosen Up! Midnight binges of finance books and discussions on derivatives, seem to dominate one set of classrooms, while the other class rooms have smaller group giving the last minute touches for the assignments in ERP, while the HR students … Continue reading
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