Elective bidding...

For the first time in the 3 years, ISB is introducing elective bidding... While the first two batches had a rolickig time choosing which electives they wanted to take, this time, we have to bid as the student population has increased... before the announcement came, I was thinking about how students at kellogg bid for that solitary course from Philip Kotler and only a select few get selected... well, thats the reality now here as well...

some electives are in great demand... the market research course is fundamental for anyone planning marketing... there are many in this batch... the most popular course probably is the negotiation analysis course by madan Pilutla from LBS... its been so highly recommended by the alums that everyone wants to do this course... I met madan when he was here for the exec ed program to help him with some research... His research on bargaining and negotiations will stand with you fora long time... I only hope I get that elective... The other course thats popular is "Cases in finance" by Bhagwan Chaudry and the new IMF man, Raghuram Rajan... Everyone was anyways making a beeline for that one and more so now, after Raghuram Rajan was appointed by the IMF...

While we bid for the electives only at the beginning of the terms, we were asked for a tentative wish list so that the schedules could be drawn up... this is the first time that ISB is getting used to elective bidding and mathematical bidding model was done by 3 of our students with the help of Prof. Anjani Jain from wharton... He had taught us decision models and optimization and this has been a very interesting application of what we have been taught...

Term 4 classes have been very different... Gurcharan Das has been in a league of his own... he has never taught before and so is refreshingly different from the professors... that said, huggy rao has been simply amazing in class... he has been the best of all profs from Kellogg... For someone to make a course as dry as management of Organizations as interesting as he does is simply amazing... the information tech course has been easy going until now thanks to my background... investment analysis is quant, quant and more quant... suits me anyday! :)

lets see how this one goes...