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 [...]

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How to Get Unique Items using Excel

By Chandoo at 4 September, 2006, 2:18 am | 2 Comments

I recently had to perform some analysis on a set of insurance companies in certain geography. After searching the net I found such list of companies operating in that continent. But the problem is,

These companies are listed multiple times, one time for each of their geographical area of operation.
I cannot count each company only [...]

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Overheard

By Chandoo at 15 June, 2006, 8:49 am | 0 Comments

Sex and Strategy are the two most abused words in this world

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9 sureshot ways to kill your audience using powerpoint

By Chandoo at 7 February, 2006, 5:18 am | 0 Comments

Lately I have been attending campus pre-placement talks by various leading companies in India. It would suffice to say that I have attended over half-a-hundred presentations of companies “trying to sell themselves” to us. Some of them were really good, and then some of them are so pathetic that it made me feel sorry about [...]

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Online Advertising

By Chandoo at 19 October, 2005, 5:20 am | 0 Comments

Sometimes the anomalies and opportunities presented by online advertising leave me surprised. One thing that I always question is why cant the online advertising make sense? Companies spend huge chunks of money placing their ads right behind customers mouse pointer. And the result? The online advertising becomes much more confusing than offline alternatives. If ad-clutter [...]

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Come again?

By Chandoo at 3 July, 2005, 3:45 pm | 0 Comments

Well, this is not an unseen sight in most of the business schools. In search of something more than the obvious facts most of us end up speaking gibberish clad, verbose rant when someone asks simple questions like ‘when is the class?’. Majorly this happens because everyone tries to be intellectual and superior by displaying [...]

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Know your internship insideout

By Chandoo at 21 June, 2005, 3:50 pm | 0 Comments

Note: This post has a face value of ZERO.
Come April and 99.999% of India’s total population’s sole concern is the summer heat. The rest 0.001% is profoundly worried about a strange exercise called summer internship. Once upon a time some body will say, “it is the minority which define the majority”. So lets talk about [...]

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