term 4, elp, full swing...
Term 4 is in full swing... its a very different term... except for investment analysis which has more that the expected quant, the rest are all faff in ISB jargon...
ELP is the buzzword... the results were announced... I got my no. 1 bid... its for a US based startup called nSpace... my team is trying to design an entry strategy for nSpace into India... Looks exciting... we are interacting with the co-founder and the R&D director directly... lotsa conf calls and some hard work will be required... otherwise, everyone's going around asking which project each other is doing in ELP... there were some popular projects and everyone is curious to know who got these ones... new teams, new dynamics and many sessions of bonding and team building...
The whole week has been eventful... a new grade re eval procedure, ELP announcements, Gurcharan Das's classes... ISB never ceases to surprise you...
Gurcharan Das's classes have been totally different... he not being a professor shows... the campus never ceases arguments now about capitalism, socialism, ethics and communism... we had rawls, marx and nozic as readings for the first two classes! philosophy in b-school! these are topics that many of us would have discussed in leisure with friends without realizing that we are reflecting thoughts that are distinctly socialistic or capitalistic or communist... now its happening formally in a class and everyone jumps into the discussion as everyone has a strong opinion on issues of what is fair and what is not... Gurcharan Das has indeed managed to kindle this interest in us... one interesting statement I heard over lunch from a nearby table was this: "The whole debate about which is better, capitalism or communism is nonsense in any b-school... because anyone who is here is a capitalist and thats the reason he or she is here!" Now that set me really thinking... thats probably true... for even Gurcharan Das says that the only school in the world that does not subscribe to communism is the bschool! I have been reading "India Unbound" for the past one week, whenever I have found time and its a book I will surely recommend...
that was the week... as stressfull as it has ever been... so when i saw today was friday, i cudnt resist a trip to the city for a break... so off went atul, shilpi and I... today I had the costliest haircut I have ever had... shelled out 300 bucks for a new looking hairstyle that I am not sure is going impress the chics... somehow, i felt ripped off as all the guy did was make my hair look unkempt or so it seemed... anyways, verdict will come in tomorrow's first ELP project management session... lets see how many heads turn ;)
