23 boat crews from schools including Harvard, MIT, HEC, IESE and London Business School will compete in the event organized by SDA Bocconi with Yacht Club Italiano and Rolex, in the Mediterranean at Santa Margherita on September 27-29.From 27 to…
Life at XLRI! Episode 2 - Every day is a new surprise!
http://sadashivpradhan.blogspot.in/2014/06/xl-meri-jaan-s01e02-every-day-is-new.html
My last week of IIM Indore was one of a hectic one with full of
assignments and case studies.The week passed by just like a day and a
hell lot of activities took place within few days.To correct here a bit
there is no word like day and night in this b-school.Here everything is
about pre and post sleep.A long cycle keeps on running and you tend to
take power naps in between these cycles.
I can confidently say that the past week has conditioned me to live my
next two years with full rigor and without cribbing.The journey here
started with my landing in the college in a group and then landing as
the first female candidate in the girl's hostel.I kept my bags ,took my
cycle and in a group almost toured the entire campus.The mornings are
quite hot here and rainy season is yet to come.We started from our
hostel and went down in a spiral to the sports complex.The journey along
the mountain was one of an experience.
We have a huge sports complex with all kind of facilities.Right from
swimming to tennis to lawn tennis to squash court to gym, you mention it
and it was present.After coming up from this visit we had some healthy
breakfast in MESS 1.I unpacked my bags,completed my bank
formalities,bought some goods from PI shop in the campus and settled my
things in the room.As such I was not a person to remain confined in a
room I started with my group of friends to again take a detailed tour of
the huge and airy campus.We located all the facilities required for our
survival in the campus and one should believe me when I say they are
more than enough.
Having done all these I started socializing with people.Its not easy to
remember all the good 450 people but yes I started with a HI and Hello
with most. In fact I welcomed most of them to the hostel as I was the
first one to enter.Life in Indore then started with a bang.Seniors
started a mock week with us to give us a feel of what was awaiting us in
the next 2 years.Assignments were announced every 2 hrs with deadlines
of 1 hr.We made groups ,we conspired and we perspired to finish the undo
able assignments.We hardly had 1 or 2hs of sleep in 3 days.Google was the only help for us.However "Plagiarism is
strictly not allowed here". This is what we heard every time.
The completed assignments were thrown on us saying to add a cover note
or write neatly.We needed to redo our assignments.Yoga started at 4 to 7
and we were made to do all sorts of weird yoga from cat calls to dog
barks.All were captured in videos.Classes were taken by seniors and we
were advised to be on time strictly.In one way it was good as in reality
if we are late in class by even 1 min we would be marked as absent in
the class.This would attract a penalty of degrading grade.Such things
went on for few days and finally we were given the bakra party.We were
shown all kind of weird moments that we faced these days and that was
followed by a DJ night.Thus 1 week ended in Indore and soon real classes
will start.However this week would be the most memorable week in my PG
IIM Indore college.
Episode 3 - For the greater good!
http://sadashivpradhan.blogspot.in/2014/07/xl-meri-jaan-s01e03-for-greater-good.html
Guest lecture by Gunajit Brahma, Cofounder of JeevAnksh:
“Mobile commerce is all set to initiate a tipping point growth in Indian retail, opening attractive avenues for venture investments”, prognosticates Gunajit Brahma, Guest Speaker at IIM Indore, Mumbai campus. Mr Brahma, cofounder of JeevAnksh, a company centered in organic healthcare and cosmetic products, believes that disruptive innovation is going to be the norm in Indian e-commerce, which he estimates to be worth almost $850 billion by 2020.
Participants of the Mumbai campus had an insightful and thought-provoking afternoon through Mr Brahma's guest lecture. The interactive session sowed much needed inspiration and knowledge to aspiring entrepreneurs, as Mr Brahma neatly outlined the need to innovate on opportunities and overcome challenges. The students were all ears as they were introduced to general models of the operation and business of top e-commerce players, and how today's fiscal and legal frameworks are aiding monetization of innovative ideas like never before. An alumnus of IIM Indore himself, he was quick to adapt his presentation style to the culture of IIM Indore – brevity, data, and cases-in-point.
Gunajit Brahma is also a strong voice for Green technology and environmental initiatives, aptly reflected in his business initiatives as well as his personal life. He believes that JeevAnksh and its products will promote systematic use of organic products, and as scales improve, the health benefits of his products will percolate to large sections of society. With a mission to provide top quality organic products, the company is already marketing successfully in Singapore and other ASEAN countries.