Posted by: Aadisht on: September 16, 2008
My laziness and writer’s block resulted in Gaurav beating me to it when it came to expressing schadenfreude about all the I-bankers who’re losing their jobs. (I am of course a retail banker of repute and thus less affected.) This is just the beginning, though. What will MBAs do at placements time when their are [...]
Posted by: Aadisht on: March 4, 2008
You can approximate how fraud an MBA’s job is by looking at which Microsoft Office1 product he2 uses the most. Excel indicates the least fraudity, because the MBA here is working with real data and numbers, and is close to the truth of a particular situation. These are the consultants who do actual number-crunching, market research [...]
Posted by: Aadisht on: October 17, 2007
All the business newspapers (links: Mint, Business Standard) are shagging over the Lehman Brothers report titled India: Everything to Play For. The report says that India’s GDP can grow at 10% a year for the next ten years, given the right reforms. I’m about halfway through the report, and I have to say this: it’s awful. The [...]
Posted by: Aadisht on: July 16, 2007
When Chetan Bhagat writes a bad book, it is regrettable. It casts all MBAs in a negative light. People with an appreciation for literature- heck, for any good writing- will sneer at us and say ‘Oh, you’re an MBA. Like Chetan Bhagat.’ It’s hard, I tell you. Hard. Still, there are mitigants. At least the [...]
Posted by: Aadisht on: March 18, 2006
Which is better: joining a management consultancy, being paid 14 lakh rupees a year, and working 16/6; or being the heir to a small family business where your dad and some professional managers do all the work, you can take it easy, and all your needs are met (though you don’t actually own anything: you [...]
Posted by: Aadisht on: February 23, 2006
As mentioned in the earlier post, a German female who came down to IITM for exchange decided to do her MA thesis on IITM lingo. Was wondering how much of the IIMB lingo has actually come from IITM, and how much of it is original. Must start by mentioning that when i moved from IITM [...]
Posted by: Aadisht on: February 12, 2006
On my blog, I had recently written about the market for minus attendance, with the attendance in question being the attendance for company PPTs. I had written about the pricing of PPTs and how some juniors tried to undercut each other in order to make some quick money. The last couple of days have seen [...]
Posted by: Aadisht on: February 12, 2006
At the IIMs, campus recruitment happens through something known as the slotting system. Slot zero has the highest paying jobs, with the most (alleged) prestige attached to them. This slot typically attracts consultancies, commodity trading desks, and importantly for the purposes of this post- investement banks. As the investment banks have first crack at us, [...]
Posted by: Aadisht on: January 29, 2006
Jethro Tull is the main act at Unmaad, IIM Bangalore’s cultural fest. This does flip Unmaad into a league well above any other college festival- Euphoria or Parikrama just don’t compare to Tull. But it does have its downside. The main downside is that the Tull show is soaking up sponsorship money like nobody’s business- [...]