IIM Indore 2008 Placements
As usual my alma mater had a rocking placement year with 95 companies giving 367 offers to 173 odd students, salaries seemed to have peaked to new highs with lots of excellent offers and opportunities for the marketing / BFS and consulting candidates. IT companies offered some of the lowest salaries on the batch, indicating [...]
Read More >>3 years and counting
By Chandoo at 14 July, 2007, 1:18 pm | 0 Comments
Its been 3 years since this blog is launched. well, slightly more than that as the very first post was published on July 1st, 2004, my first day at IIM Indore. What started as chronicles of an engineer struggling in a b-school later transformed in to a full-time commentary on business, advertising, technology and life [...]
Read More >>In Mumbai Now
By Chandoo at 2 May, 2007, 9:18 am | 0 Comments
I flew to Mumbai on monday morning on some work, would be here till Thursday. If any of you my friends or campusmates would like to catch up drop me a mail at chandoo dot d at gmail dot com or call me 98 eight four 71 seven zero 72. Cya!
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Fresh MBAs and IT Companies
By Chandoo at 30 March, 2007, 7:26 am | 0 Comments
The combination sounds as inseparable as ctrl+c and ctrl+v. But when it comes to making a career choice there is a fair bit of confusion as to what an MBA will do in an IT company, especially in the first few years. Marketing companies have it easy, in the first 18 months, you would be [...]
Read More >>The problem with B-schools
By Chandoo at 26 March, 2007, 8:55 am | 0 Comments
The problem with (B) Schools is that, they grade you. You are A-pos or A or A Neg or B Pos or so on. The grading starts right from the first day first presentation, quiz, assigment, case study, cp and goes on till you leave the campus with all your bags.
So much that RG (relative [...]
Musings of a Married Manager
By Chandoo at 5 February, 2007, 1:28 pm | 0 Comments
“One Kg tamarind is Rs. 69? What the heck…! Has it always been this costly?” raced my mind through the grocery stand in the neighbourhood supermarket. “Lets buy this 2kg surf excel no? we get a bucket free” urged my wife. I mused for a while trying to keep me afloat in the fmcg quicksand [...]
Read More >>Dongdaemun
By Chandoo at 10 December, 2006, 4:57 am | 0 Comments
In a hurry to make most of the weekend, 4 of us rushed to the Chungmuro metro station, bought tickets for Yongsan[view Yongsan photos] and rushed to line number 4. The train came in a moment and we boarded it immediately. After a couple of stations Rhushi shouted, “Abe, we took the wrong direction. We [...]
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