Life @ Great Lakes Inst. of Mgmt-Chennai

[nostalgiuz]

Originally Posted by theunkindmonk

Keep on rocking ppl and let the world know about Great Lakes.....
Ashutosh

Thanks a lot for all the help and guidance that you have provided UKM and it was great to hear u talk during the interaction session...

I am sure that our batch shall try to match if not increase the standards that you have set and at the same enjoy the experience to the fullest...

Cheers
Rj

[Skunk Ray]

Hi UKM ,

It has been great having you here. Getting settled here and that's taking some time. accommodation, assignments, heat , saravana stores, medu vada taking up most of the time. average sleep duration, four and a half hours. this is my first post after a long era. wish to get going back again and give a few pieces here and there for making it a Great Lakes.

stay in touch


FT08SUR

[meetgmat]

Originally Posted by Skunk Ray

Hi UKM ,

It has been great having you here. Getting settled here and that's taking some time. accommodation, assignments, heat , saravana stores, medu vada taking up most of the time. average sleep duration, four and a half hours. this is my first post after a long era. wish to get going back again and give a few pieces here and there for making it a Great Lakes.

stay in touch


FT08SUR

I totally agree Skunk Ray...
The help, support, motivation, inspiration, sugestions was just awe inspiring.
Thank you very much the UKM, Kay Kay and all the seniors. You just rock mates...

We as a new batch has settled as far as acco and all is concerned...
However the roller coaster ride has began...
Tomorrow we will be completing exact 2 weeks since the beginning of actual course. And within these 12-13 days the transformation was phenomenal. We are reading tons of pre read... are involved in atleast two projects now... the empirical study... started thinking about the committees and most of us has joined atlease one of the group like photography, the management book group, the blogging and similar innovative and exciting groups.

The mantra is to extract as much as we can from the eminent and world renowned professors, performing the best at the same time managing the time to run the institute and the batch through one of the committees.

So much change in such a short time... to be very frank i m not believing it... I have heard that it all will happen still havnet believed that it all will happen so fast...

Puys... we will be keep posting... abt the happenings... the turns and runs of our journey... the Odyssey of success
_
Murli
Class of 2009
Great Lakes, Chennai.

[Mysteez]

Hi seniors...
Can someone tell me about the jobs that one can get if you choose Marketting as a major. Most of the jobs looks to be in the IT industry only (marketting and sales). I presently have a year of exp in Product developement .. but i 'm lookin for a MBA to get away from this field... so how many ppl get placed in other FMCG and stuff... and when i looked at the placement profile 50% are in IT... can u please give me more insight into the situation.?

[The Hummer]

Thanks Ashutosh for all the insights and directions. The onus is now onto us to carry forward the legacy called Great Lakes that you folks had nurtured and nourished.

Cheers

[The Hummer]

Presenting before fellow puys the batch 2009 at the Great Lakes Institute of Management, Chennai. A bunch of highly motivated individuals who are aware of the level of commitment that a one year course demands, especially when it happens to be the progeny of Uncle Bala. The name doesn’t need any introduction particularly when we are talking about management education.
The kind of leap that the college has made in the past 4 years is not just remarkable but is also a testimony that if an institute has the mettle and substance, people will be bound to put their stake in it. This is exactly what each Great Laker has done here. Why else would an IES officer leave his cozy life style only to get grilled for the next one year. Why do you think would employees of AMD, Motorola, Accenture Consulting, O&M, Siemens, Frost and Sullivan, CSC, TCS and Infosys, to name a few, quit their princely lives to enter into Great Lakes. Several successful entrepreneurs, both small and big, are carrying out a remote management of their business from here so that the skills required for further efficiency can be honed in due course of time. To add to the diversity pool, we have bankers and lawyers. This is just a glimpse of the composition of the batch 2009.
One question that anyone might ask is “Why has everybody suddenly started talking about Great Lakes? Is a lot of hype being deliberately created behind it”. To answer this question, let me ask another question “How would it feel to discuss governance from none other than Mr. T. N. Seshan”. “How would it feel to do brain storming on real cases of Marketing with the guru Dr. Nirmal Gupta”. “How does it feel when you have CEOs of various companies talking and discussing about their career growth, future business trends and expectations from MBAs”. Honestly speaking it feels awesome. It feels as if it would have been a great loss had we not opted for this college. To cut the talk short, every Great Laker boasts of the faculty that teaches here and the kind of knowledge sharing that happens here.
The equation is simple: We offer Great Lakes our brand in terms of our experience and diversity and the Institute tags us as a Great Laker.
Visit the following link for more insight and to fetch answers to the numerous questions that I have left open-ended:
GREAT LAKES INSTITUTE OF MANAGEMENT, CHENNAI

Cheers...

[FromAlienWorld]

@The Hummer,

Thanks a lot for these inputs.
Well, I have one query here (it's my personal).
Like every other B-school boy you have talked all the best things about Great Lakes. Well, I am also quite excited about GLakes I must say. Can you please throw some light on the profiles of the most ordinary guys selected this year? If you rank the admits in descending orders of profiles, I would like to know about the last three in the list.

Well, Can you please share this? It'll be great for me.

[Robaroo...]

Thanks Hummer, for the useful post.
I second each and every point you have mentioned, lucky to be a part of this growing college... and more importantly the peer group.

@FromAlienworld,
Our class has a healthy mix of people with different experience levels, from various industries and domains. Each individual brings a different prospective to the class discussions which has a enriching effect...

Before answering your question... I ll say that
I hope you will agree that any management entrance exam is a relative exam and the CAT %iles varies for most of us on the D-day, this does not make any body's profile look inferior...

We have experience ranging from 7 months to as high as 8.5 years... (these are as per my knowledge, for official figures you ll have to wait for the website update) but then when a person with less experience is taken it means he/she has proved him/her self among the experience lot on some other parameters...

Hope I have answered your query...

Thanks to the peer group... Its just one month and I have learned a lot from Champions...

Regards,
GS

Originally Posted by FromAlienWorld

@The Hummer,

Thanks a lot for these inputs.
Well, I have one query here (it's my personal).
Like every other B-school boy you have talked all the best things about Great Lakes. Well, I am also quite excited about GLakes I must say. Can you please throw some light on the profiles of the most ordinary guys selected this year? If you rank the admits in descending orders of profiles, I would like to know about the last three in the list.

Well, Can you please share this? It'll be great for me.

[rec2mba]

Can you believe it? Just 3 weeks since we stepped into Great Lakes and already there is a change in our lingo and attitude!

Submitted the synopsis of the empirical analysis today...phew! Feels great to know that we will be under the nose of marketing Gurus like Dr. Nirmal Gupta, not to mention the Kotler-Srinivasan centre of marketing excellence - the two pillars of marketing research! Great Lakes is well on its way to become an institute par excellence for marketing!

Exciting days ahead

Cheers....
rec2mba

[umesh_wpc]

Very well said Hummer...what an exposure here. Folks from so many walks of life sharing a common platform...their plethora of experiences, multitude of achievements...it is simply amazing...yesterday i was talking to buddies from Merchant Navy and got so much informed about their adventurous life-styles,luxurious voyages,parties et al......I am sure this one year is going to be one of the most memorable ones....Thumbs up to fellow-mates..
Cheers....

Originally Posted by The Hummer

Presenting before fellow puys the batch 2009 at the Great Lakes Institute of Management, Chennai. A bunch of highly motivated individuals who are aware of the level of commitment that a one year course demands, especially when it happens to be the progeny of Uncle Bala. The name doesn’t need any introduction particularly when we are talking about management education.
The kind of leap that the college has made in the past 4 years is not just remarkable but is also a testimony that if an institute has the mettle and substance, people will be bound to put their stake in it. This is exactly what each Great Laker has done here. Why else would an IES officer leave his cozy life style only to get grilled for the next one year. Why do you think would employees of AMD, Motorola, Accenture Consulting, O&M, Siemens, Frost and Sullivan, CSC, TCS and Infosys, to name a few, quit their princely lives to enter into Great Lakes. Several successful entrepreneurs, both small and big, are carrying out a remote management of their business from here so that the skills required for further efficiency can be honed in due course of time. To add to the diversity pool, we have bankers and lawyers. This is just a glimpse of the composition of the batch 2009.
One question that anyone might ask is “Why has everybody suddenly started talking about Great Lakes? Is a lot of hype being deliberately created behind it”. To answer this question, let me ask another question “How would it feel to discuss governance from none other than Mr. T. N. Seshan”. “How would it feel to do brain storming on real cases of Marketing with the guru Dr. Nirmal Gupta”. “How does it feel when you have CEOs of various companies talking and discussing about their career growth, future business trends and expectations from MBAs”. Honestly speaking it feels awesome. It feels as if it would have been a great loss had we not opted for this college. To cut the talk short, every Great Laker boasts of the faculty that teaches here and the kind of knowledge sharing that happens here.
The equation is simple: We offer Great Lakes our brand in terms of our experience and diversity and the Institute tags us as a Great Laker.
Visit the following link for more insight and to fetch answers to the numerous questions that I have left open-ended:
GREAT LAKES INSTITUTE OF MANAGEMENT, CHENNAI

Cheers...