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 >>RIP
on 5 Aug, 2007 in b-school | 0 Comments
May their souls rest in peace.
Two IIM-Indore students drownTwo IIM students drown in MP river
3 years and counting
on 14 Jul, 2007 in b-school, personal | 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 >>Big Bazaar’s Innovative Parking Scheme
on 19 Apr, 2007 in business, wonder why | 0 Comments
Have you ever wondered how unbusinesslike it is when you stop by at a store to make them profitable they charge you for parking? You might say, “heh, but the parking space costs”, but why charge all of them when some of them eventually make profits for the retailer.
Thats exactly how Big Bazaar in Chennai [...]
PHD’s regular blah #3
on 4 Dec, 2006 in Random | 0 Comments
“Hold on, hold on” the conductor shouted, “Nimmakuru yevarandi?” (who will be getting down at Nimmakuru?), he banged the door with the punching tool in his hand. The red bus came to a halt and we got down. I was clutching my granny’s hand tightly. She put her hand around my shoulder, I could hear [...]
Read More >>3 Cheers to IIM Indore
on 4 Nov, 2006 in Random | 0 Comments
My alma mater has created another “world record in IIM Indore” with the summer placements for the class of 2008. Even though the press release is not out yet, we, alumni got a sneak peek at the report and all I can say its a massive hit. [Will place a link here once its released.]
For [...]
Welcome to PHD!
on 5 Sep, 2006 in Random | 0 Comments
Its been 2 years since I have posted such a message. A recent look at my website statistics revealed that most of the visitors are first timers, and quite a few of them land here searching one of the “iim”, “indore”, “iim indore blog”, “iimi” or “chandoo iim”. So, let me take a moment and [...]
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