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 [...]

Why do notebook page layouts suck?

My job takes me to numerous meetings, even though I hate to go to so many of them. Most of the time during the meetings I end up writing lots of notes about,

good ideas
things to do, action items
usual meeting notes
mind maps, diagrams
and of course doodles

well, this brings me to the point, I think the notebook [...]

Software or Strictware ?!?

A quiz for all the techie folks who visit phd.
What is the software that has the below features (apart from other)(1) The software will issue innumerable warnings if it ever occurred to the software that it is not genuine(2) The software would give users a time limit of 30 days to validate their copy [...]

Are fund managers poor marketers?

Come Ferbruary, every fund house worth its NAV comes up with a hoard of ELSS / Tax planning mutual fund offerings and promotions. These days you open any (business) magazine and you see atleast a dozen ads on how MFs can save you Rs. 33,360* or something on taxes. First up the claim that they [...]

Supply Creates Demand

The things I love about Chennai are many, filter coffee, trees, relaxed pace of life, amazing food, culture to name a few. But one of the important reasons is Landmark Bookstores.
During my second week in Chennai, Ashwin, one of my b-school classmates introduced me to Landmark. We went to the store located in the basement [...]

10 things that I cherish about 2005

Let me warn you, this is not a tag post. Now that you are relaxing let me take you through some of the most memorable things about 2005.

The year started with a weeklong wonderful time spent with my fiancee. Its one of the best vacations we ever had.
I got my Canon A75 Powershot. And thus [...]

Hols…

Its vacation time, I am busy having loads of fun without being harassed by mergers & acquisitions, marketing fundaes and management of negotiations.With all the hope and luck will be able to blog at the earliest when I am done with eating and sleeping all that I wanted to. Meanwhile you too have fun.