Finally...

Finally, I find some time for an update... the week gone by has been beyond words... The leadership summit followed by the alum reunion, "Solstice"...

Leadership Summit - Day 1: Wednesday

This was the day almost everyone in the campus has contributed for, for the past 4 months... Bright morning, beautiful day and participants from other schools were ready to take us on. The day started with the inauguration in the first event of the day and the summit, "Interface", a technology paper presentation competition. Organised by the Business Technology Club, in which I play a part, we had been working tirelessly, with dry runs until the day before, to ensure everyone, from the sponsors, to the judges to the participants were happy all the while. After a short inauguration the event kicked off with presentations by the 6 finalists, 3 from NITIE, one each from IIM A, C and ISB. The team from ISB won the contest, much to the delight of everyone around. Arti Gupta and Saurabh Khanna, both good friends of mine, were excellent in the way they covered the topic, the number one reason why they won according to the judges. The teams from NITIE and the one from IIM C were excellent to say the least and the presentation of the topic by IIM A was beyond words. It was a fitting start. The evening was reserved for the Entrepreneurship Case Writing contest, won fittingly by IIM A, followed by ISB. This was followed by some informals and good dinner.

Day 2: Thursday

This day also happened to be my birthday :) Morning was Brasstacks, a very interesting concept that Abhimanyu and Tushar from ISB conceived. We for students from different schools to team up and work together. So we had teams which had IIMs, ISB, XLRI. Pretty interesting. Combined with this was a stock market game, for which entry was thrown open in the morning. I was dragged into this and lo behold, ended up winning the game and 5000 bucks. The investment game required us to invest in the five teams participating in Brasstacks and live NSE stocks. The Nifty was going down and there was no money to be made in the two hour window we had. So, we took a gamle and invested all the money we had in the teams we thought would do well given intermediate financials in Brasstacks. This gamble worked. By birthday treats were paid for ;) The day ended with the Finfest, a divestment game devised by the Finance Club. In this one, I felt, the IIMs were far ahead of the ISB teams. IIM A and B won first and second respectively.

Day 3: Friday, the big day

this was the day when all the big honchos of the corporate world landed at ISB for some interesting panel discussions, themed "Think Asia". The focus was the emerging Asian economy, with topics varying from emerging industries, bottlenecks, nuances and advantages of doing business in Asia. The impressive list of speakers, lined up thanks mostly to some hard work by some of my mates here, made the day for the many delegates, media and alums who had wonderful takeaways from the four panel discussions. I wish I had all the time in the world to write pages and pages about all the takeaways :)

Solstice: The past two days have been a wild wild party at ISB, with alums from all over the world landing up here for our annual reunion... More about that tomorrow, for I am dead beat but have lots of assignments for the classes resuming tomorrow..

Have a class at 11 in the morning tomorrow and its back to the routine submissions, placements, EOIs and resume building... Oh what a depressing thought, after a rocking 5 days! ;)