Great Lakes Admission Queries

[mkinra]

Krish Srikant @ Great Lakes

Great Lakes conducted its Annual Festival, Latitude 13′05, on 5th & 6th Jan’07. One of the events which every one enjoyed was the talk by Former Indian Cricket Captain, Krish Srikant. He took us through his experiences of World Cup’83 and quoted some of the funniest words during his talk. He told about how Kapil Bhajji (Kapil Dev) motivated the entire team and led them to the glorious world cup victory. He also stated many other incidences from his life and pointed on the importance of self belief and team work to achieve success. He also asked Great Lakers to think from their heart and not mind, as mind would never be able to give them a clear and conviencing answer.

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Rahul Bajaj, Chairman of Bajaj and Member of Congress was a keynote speaker at Conclave, a part of the recently concluded L’Attitude 13′ 05. It was a sheer pleasure hearing him speak. - Great Lakes Chennai

A couple of points touched by him were:

• Reforms need to be speeded up to bring prosperity to Indians. We need to focus on intrastrcuture, health and education.
• Good corporate governance is going to be a law whether businesses like it or not.
• There are still discretionary areas with the government which gives rise to corruption.
• “I am for the underprivileged and the Dalits” he said, “But I voted against the reservation bill in Parliament because what they need is high quality primary education to compete on merit”
• He was sceptical of a one lakh car project by the Tatas and said by the time it reaches the consumer it could probably be one and a half lakh rupees. He dismissed the suggestion that it could be a threat to the two wheeler market. He also added that Bajaj would enter the four wheeler segment in the LCV segment by 2008.
• He also asked the students to work so that not only India is the second or third largest economy in the world but also focus on metrics like per capital income and reduce the 30% population who live on less than a dollar a day to negligible.
• He was categorical that not everyone needs to do a masters degree to add to the mass of over educated and underemployed people, but that people who get second and third class in bachelor’s degrees should get into vocational training and add employable skills.

It was a pleasure having him over! And after the intellectual discussion, Rahul Bajaj announced donation of 25 L for Great Lakes Building, giving Great Lakes Family another reason to celebrate.

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Industry Recognises Great Lakes’ Increasing Brand Equity
http://www.glakes.org or http://www.glakes.org/report-2006.htm

Despite this being the first year for the concept of a one-month Fall Project, GreatLakes was able to build in capabilities and create opportunities for students withdifferent kinds of jobs that they loved to do. Fall Project was a testimony of theinterest that industry has shown towards this concept.
In addition to the regular recruiters, 2006 saw the entry of bigwigs like StandardChartered Bank, KPMG, Pepsico, Pricewater House Coopers and Deloitte,which recruited for the first time from Great Lakes. The growing visibility of theinstitute is reflected in many similar companies offering fall projects to Great Lakers.

As many as 81companies offered projects during the one month project phase, with37of them being first-time recruiters at campus.Great Lakes grew in reputation as a finance bigwig shone across again with nearly30%of the PGPM batch getting a finance profile. Premier Banks and Financial Organizations like Acumen Fund, Standard Chartered Bank, Kotak MahindraAsset Mgmt., KPMG, SBI Caps and Langham Capitalreaffirmed their relationshipwith the campus.FMCG and Retail majors too recognized the talent at Great Lakes with profiles inMarketing, HR and Finances being offered to students by ITC, Pepsico, RelianceRetail and others.With a booming industry sector and multiple profiles on offer, IT companies made acollective pitch for the MBA students. Major firms like Cognizant, Covansys, TCS,Oracle, Lehman Brothers, Flextronics & Wiprooffered attractive choices to thestudents.

Projects in consulting arena were also offered at Great Lakes by companies likeFrost and Sullivan, E&Y, Technopak Advisors, KPMG and Deloitte. Some companies, like Honeywell Automation, in FMCG, Manufacturing and other sectors also offered roles like Process Consultant etc.

Says Prof S. Sriram, the Executive Director at Great Lakes “The Fall Projects atGreat Lakes, Chennai displayed the sound academic foundation and an excellentindustrial interface. The diversity of the internships across horizontals and verticalson offer this time are indicative of Great Lakes equity in the industry. The successfulfall project is once again a reflection of the trust that corporates place on us”

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S.Ramadorai, CEO, Tata Consultancy Services @ Great Lakes

It was a pleasure to have amongst us Mr S. Ramadorai, CEO, Tata Consultancy Services for the CEO Conclave on 5th Feb. Mr Ramadorai spoke on how to make Chennai a gateway to South East Asia. He cited practical examples to substantiate his claims in taking Chennai to the next level. He also answered a few Questions raised by participants from B Schools in India, Singapore and Dubai.

He further went on to innaugrate the 3rd volume of Gravity, the inhouse publication of Great Lakes Institute of Management, Chennai. It was a thrilling experience to listen directly from the horse’s mouth!

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Gautam Ghosh @ Great Lakes

Gautam Ghosh,HR,OD and Business Blogging Consultant, was recently present at Great Lakes as a judge for the HR event during L'attitude 13'05. Gautam presently heads a Imagence Partners present in areas of Organization and Strategic HR and development consulting. He has been associated with companies like Delloite & Touche, Dell, HP and Satyam. Alumunus of XLRI 1999 batch, he is passionate about helping fellow HR professionals increase their level of competence. His blog was adjudged as a special blog in recruiting.com

Gautam possess amazing memory and his blogs on his visit at Great Lakes are testimony of the same. He did not take any notes during Rahul Bajaj's and Krish Srikant's talk but was able to quote some of best sentences mentioned by the key note speakers.
Gautam Ghosh has mentioned about Great Lakes on his blog, writing about his experience with "Rahul Bajaj", "Krish Srikant", "HR Case Studies", "Dumping Traditional Research - Indra Nooyi" and "Chennai here i come".

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@mkinra or fast-n-steady or anybody from the adcom

Hi,
I am planning to apply to Great Lakes with my CAT2005 score. I wanted to know that would the weightage of the last years score be lesser as compared to somebody with a similar score in CAT 2006.
i.e if two guys have similar percentiles but have appeared in different academic years, then will there be any discrimination on the basis of the year of test-taking??

Kindly help me out.
Thanka & regards,
Dhawal.

[fast-n-steady]

No discrimination

Originally Posted by dynamic_dhawal

@mkinra or fast-n-steady or anybody from the adcom

Hi,
I am planning to apply to Great Lakes with my CAT2005 score. I wanted to know that would the weightage of the last years score be lesser as compared to somebody with a similar score in CAT 2006.
i.e if two guys have similar percentiles but have appeared in different academic years, then will there be any discrimination on the basis of the year of test-taking??

Kindly help me out.
Thanka & regards,
Dhawal.

[mkinra]

Check out Great LAkes Publication (Online Version) at Great Lakes Institute of Management, Chennai

[dynamic_dhawal]

@ fast-n-steady --> Thanx for the prompt reply!!

Now i have a new problem. You see I sent my Reco letter (after filling in the front page) to a superior who is in a diffrent city, but i forgot to write my application no on the reco letter. Now he has filled up the reco & sent it bak to me.
Now i am gonna write the app no. on the envelope.
Please let me know whether this should be fine or do i have to get it written on the reco letter itself. (please note that in that cas i'll have to send the reco bak to him for his sign on the flap of the envelope, which means a loss of precious days)

Please guide.
thanks
dhawal.

[prof_calculus]

I am 42, teaching economics at UG and PG level since July 1994.

Due to lack of job satisfaction in state government run colleges (at my place of work), I wish to switch over toowards a better career.

I had appeared in CAT 2006 and scored 96.92 percentile in aggregate. My DI and QA scores are in the range of 82-83 percentile while VA is 99.90.

My queries are:

1. Will my experience be given some weightage at the time of admission (by institute) and "at the time of placement" (by recruiter)?

2. Is is worth for me to persue an MBA from Glakes "at my age" ?

3. My city does not have any IMS centre, nor do I own a credit card. No time is left for sending a requsition to Glakes and applying thereafter. What should I do?

Is it possible that I make a demand draft for application fee and you send me the application for by email ?