And here’s what happened next…

The repercussions of Tim Shields’ article, direct from the New York Observer (November 24, 1997)
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Tim Shields, a student at the Stanford Graduate School of Business, spent the summer working as an investment banking summer associate for Salomon Brothers. He didn’t like it much. When he got back to Stanford, he wrote two articles about his [...]

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Wall St. & B-schools through a fun prism

Here’s a funny piece I found on the net (oh well, you know I’ve nothing better to do nowadays, while I think, think, think about my options) – A Stanford MBA student interning at Salomon Brothers, talking about the firm, the people there and his colleagues from other B-schools
Its a ten-yr old story, and I dont [...]

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Ironical?

Yesterday, I returned from H’bad, a bit unsure of my MBA dreams. Why?
I’d gone there to recruit for my firm from ISB – which is among the top Bschools in India after the IIMs. Friday was their Consulting day & after meeting more than 20 candidates for about an hour each, I returned to my hotel [...]

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Love is all around

I cannot believe the amount of love I’m getting today! Everywhere!
Sample these… 
Love sample 1: I was traveling today evening to Hyderabad (more on the ‘why’ later) and the airline had a special lucky seat gift for Valentine’s Day. You guessed it! I got the gift out of 200 odd seats, and the gift was, hold your breath…. [...]

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The 7 stages of B-school rankings

Reading the furore on BW forums over the latest FT rankings catalyzed these thoughts: Do rankings matter so much? My two cents…
I started my Bschool journey in sometime in April/May last year

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I can’t concentrate

This wait is just killing me!!!I’m trying hard to get a life… in the past 15 days:

I took M out for our belated (2 weeks overdue) anniversary  dinner in a plush 5 star
Invited a few ex-colleagues with their partners over for dinner/drinks – and cooked for them
Watched 11 episodes of Heroes season two (in 2 days) on Joox [...]

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New words in the Oxford dictionary

Following the second cricket test between India & Australia, the Oxford dictionary has decided to add some words to keep up-to-date with the times
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Ponting : (n) (adj) 1. A breed of strange animal that hunts humans~ occasionally found in the deserts of South West Australia 2. A bully 3. Also used as inhuman [...]

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Hmmmmm

I’ve got into this blog routine about 3-4 times a week. When I’m tense and nervous, it becomes daily. And when I stop, it means I’m in deep S#!T
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So what happened over the last 10 days?

workload got overwhelming: 13-15 hrs/day

managing the final sprint for HBS,Wharton & LBS: 5-6 hrs/day

thinking about preparing for my Tuck interview: [...]

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The Office at School

I got this in my email recently, though it seems a bit dated going by the long chain I got it thru.
It is about the pros & cons of the top US B-schools (especially the culture), with each school typefied as a character from the 1999 movie Office Space.
Very funny, and on-target! Enjoy!
1.) Harvard – Pros: The best [...]

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300

I just opened my blog, and was so surprised to see 14300 cumulative hits; why? because I sorta remembered it being ~13800 yesterday, which itself was a surprise SHOCK! I recall having started the blog sometime in May (though active blogging happened only from end July!) and my thoughts then

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