tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-105217872024-03-14T09:21:09.109+05:30NuclioManiacThe frustration of b-school applications makes for the booze and parties experienced at ISB.
This Blog has now evolved to give readers a realistic view of the life at ISB, viewed from my eyes, which somehow always mangages to focus on attributes truly reflective of an exceptional program ;)yashovardhan guptahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15231377784537057360noreply@blogger.comBlogger93125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10521787.post-49519640149057236672010-09-16T15:13:00.001+05:302010-09-16T15:13:42.158+05:30have taken off my defunct website .. will put up a revamped one soon .. for now www.yashovardhan.com points to my twitter account ... check it out .. www.yashovardhan.comyashovardhan guptahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15231377784537057360noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10521787.post-27567592397637673292010-07-27T23:12:00.002+05:302010-07-27T23:16:19.190+05:30http://twitter.com/Nucliomaniacsorry guys, <br /><br />havent been updating this for a while now .. am fairly active on twitter also .. <a href="http://twitter.com/Nucliomaniac">http://twitter.com/Nucliomaniac<a href="http://twitter.com/Nucliomaniac"></a></a><br /><br />now that I have more control over my time these days, hopefully, Ill get the opportunity to blog more. <br /><br />cheers,<br /><br />Yashyashovardhan guptahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15231377784537057360noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10521787.post-48309074583907193462007-09-05T16:51:00.000+05:302007-09-05T16:54:19.101+05:30A letter to friends .. who are always asking .. Where have you been ?My turn now :-)<br /><br />Well I graduated from ISB this year and it was unbelievable experience. ISB is such a great business school and it surpassed all my expectations. I was extremely anxious upon choosing ISB as a business school, as I didnt know much about the school and was all set to go to the US for an MBA (was accepted at Cornell, Carnegie Mellon, Tuck (Dartmouth), Darden and Insead). But keeping my long term goals of being in India, and at least attempting to become an industrialist, ISB it was.<br /><br />ISB got hold of me from the word go and didn't let me go .. the year just zipped by. I didn't sleep a lot, but neither did I study. In fact, I doubt if i learn anything about an MBA at all, its just a degree i got hold of while networking for a year ... and boy oh boy did I do so major networking.<br /><br />I became extremely involved in ALL the extra curricular activities on campus. was elected as the Social events coordinator of the institute, which meant that anything non-academic fell under my control, things such as networking events, parties, speaker sessions, picnics, alumni interaction events, some more parties ... you get the drift.<br /><br />Apart from this, I was also heavily involved in the Entrepreneurship and Venture Capital club, and was elected vice president of the same. This club is Big in ISB, and managed to get the business cards of scores of young entrepreneurs from India. The icing on the cake, was an event which we call the Tie-Isb connect, which is an event, attend by over 60 VCs from silicon valley and hundreds of delegate entrepreneurs.<br /><br />anyway ... this went on for 9 months or so .. after which I ran away to HEC, Paris for an exchange. Paris was an unbelievable experience, and like Pramod, I not only used the opportunity to travel, but also develop some contacts in nuclear energy, which is big in france, fashion (was given a job by Moet henessy and Louis Vuitton) and European Private Equity. In my free time, I peeied on the Insead wall, pictures to follow ;-) Paris is a wonderful city and staying there for 4 months, I really learnt why people claim that travelling is the best way to learn.<br /><br />I did pop back in India, during the middle of the my stint in Paris, to attend our placement week and having developed a distaste for consultants (sorry Pramod) and investment bankers, I chose to apply to really off beat companies, such as Aditya Birla Group, some other Indian companies and a few European ones. I was finally given an offer by Jindal steel and power Ltd., and it was such an awesome role, that I accepted it right away, rejecting one really high paying offer.<br /><br />As of now, im cooling my heels in delhi, and understanding how Indian SME's transition from being an SME to much larger professional company and its wonderful. lots and lots of traveling, no time for a social life and a work schedule which would put an investment banker to shame, but I wouldn't have it any other way :-)<br /><br />If any of you ever come to Delhi, do give a call ... would be awesome to meet up.<br /><br />ohh btw: I majored in Finance as well as Entrepreneurship, mainly taking up courses, in real estate, private equity, capital raising strategies and hard core operations, things like logistics, supply chain and so on ... developed a distaste for soft courses pretty early into my programme, love Economics though.<br /><br />take care and keep in touch,<br /><br />With best regards,<br /><br />Yashyashovardhan guptahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15231377784537057360noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10521787.post-61883239985713110462007-01-14T05:33:00.000+05:302007-01-14T05:36:22.845+05:30movie lovers ahoyfound a really cool site, which gives you really really condensed versions of all the popular movies out there<br /><br /><a href="http://www.rinkworks.com/movieaminute/">Movie-a-minute</a><br /><br />the one i liked the most was for stanley kubricks "A Clockwork Orange which is one of my favourite movies<br /><br />"<span style="font-weight:bold;">Malcolm McDowell</span><br /><br /> I was having a right horrorshow time of it, O my brothers, crasting and drasting with my droogies all the nochy, viddying the vino flow. Then, those glooby bratchny millicents loveted me and hurled me in the plenny like a common prestoopnik. That vonny plenny wasn't for me, so I let some doctor vecks filly with my mozg to fix me up right skorry. Then I ittied on home like a good malckickiwick, but I couldn't slooshy my lovely Ludwig anymore without getting bolnoy. It was oozhassny, so I jumped out the okno. I've had rather a change of heart, and thinking of getting a zheena like a proper chelloveck, and all that cal. <br /><br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Audience</span><br /><br /> Eh? <br /><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">THE END</span>"yashovardhan guptahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15231377784537057360noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10521787.post-65170415129104941402007-01-01T21:20:00.000+05:302007-01-02T18:33:21.432+05:30The Famous Ultimate Frisbee video at the ISB - to the soundtrack of Dhoom 2<object width="425" height="350"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/5NK9jZsZ-bE"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/5NK9jZsZ-bE" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="425" height="350"></embed></object>yashovardhan guptahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15231377784537057360noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10521787.post-6562120554945506732007-01-01T00:44:00.000+05:302007-01-01T00:50:35.281+05:30Happy new year !!!!!<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;" align="center"><span style=";font-family:Arial;font-size:180%;" ><span style=";font-family:Arial;font-size:20;" >Wish you all a<o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;" align="center"><span style=";font-family:Arial;font-size:180%;" ><span style=";font-family:Arial;font-size:20;" ><o:p> </o:p></span></span></p><span style="font-family:French Script MT;font-size:7;"><span style="font-size: 48pt; font-family: 'French Script MT';">Happy & Prosperous New Year<o:p></o:p></span></span><span style=";font-family:French Script MT;font-size:7;" ><span style=";font-family:'French Script MT';font-size:48;" ><o:p></o:p></span></span><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;" align="center"><span style=";font-family:French Script MT;font-size:180%;" ><span style="font-family:'French Script MT';"><span style="font-size:180%;"></span><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style=";font-family:Arial;font-size:180%;" ><span style="font-family:Arial;"><o:p> </o:p></span></span></p>yashovardhan guptahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15231377784537057360noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10521787.post-5136103699398286972006-12-31T20:25:00.000+05:302007-01-01T21:08:33.418+05:30ISB Life at its very best - you simply have to check out this video !!!!<object width="425" height="350"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/nY8C77ai998"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/nY8C77ai998" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="425" height="350"></embed></object>yashovardhan guptahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15231377784537057360noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10521787.post-52211386627009325302006-12-31T00:53:00.001+05:302007-01-01T21:12:42.155+05:30The Xpult Video ;-)<object width="425" height="350"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/2_RYKsqR_78"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/2_RYKsqR_78" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="425" height="350"></embed></object>yashovardhan guptahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15231377784537057360noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10521787.post-70326168419709571042006-12-29T23:24:00.000+05:302006-12-29T23:41:30.433+05:30XPULTTTTTTTTTTTTTT ..... YeahhhhhhhAs more and more of our mba is coming to an end, the cooler and better our classes are becoming.<br /><br />quality management has been a pleasure!<br /><br />Applications have also been an awesome pedagogy and and testifying that fact is the recent <a href="http://www.xpult.com/">Xpult</a> experiment and demonstration we were subjected to in class.<br /><br />very briefly ... Xpult is a catapult and as students we needed to conduct experiments and create a model which maps a set of parameters to a result, which is the distant the ball travels. its an awesome way to teach about Design of Experiments and Taguchi Methods.<br /><br />we had to present our findings in class which was succeeded by an in-class demonstration of the reliability of our model.<br /><br />take a look at the setup of the experiment at our apartment -><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_fVbHebz009o/RZVZKPaC5DI/AAAAAAAAACE/4zXwm0Ll7ro/s1600-h/DSC00834.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_fVbHebz009o/RZVZKPaC5DI/AAAAAAAAACE/4zXwm0Ll7ro/s400/DSC00834.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5014011792616252466" border="0" /></a>yashovardhan guptahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15231377784537057360noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10521787.post-72824701335478461792006-12-29T20:04:00.000+05:302006-12-29T23:23:40.009+05:30In the newsI have been misquoted again ....<br /><br />these damn press folks .... Grrrrr<br /><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_fVbHebz009o/RZUnrfaC5CI/AAAAAAAAAB4/WIWiorYM0Ig/s1600-h/29Dec06Hyd049.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_fVbHebz009o/RZUnrfaC5CI/AAAAAAAAAB4/WIWiorYM0Ig/s400/29Dec06Hyd049.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5013957388265514018" border="0" /></a>yashovardhan guptahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15231377784537057360noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10521787.post-2280834665604779942006-12-26T03:39:00.000+05:302006-12-26T03:40:02.325+05:30MBA in 3 words !!!<span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:130%;" >Process, Process, Process ..... </span>yashovardhan guptahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15231377784537057360noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10521787.post-77713423311367051412006-12-25T21:02:00.000+05:302006-12-27T23:04:05.653+05:30Solstice 2006 !!!! - The Alumni reunion @ the ISB<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_fVbHebz009o/RY_yg_aC5BI/AAAAAAAAABM/jiuFcZnmmsk/s1600-h/DSC01686.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_fVbHebz009o/RY_yg_aC5BI/AAAAAAAAABM/jiuFcZnmmsk/s320/DSC01686.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5012491558877062162" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_fVbHebz009o/RY_yUvaC5AI/AAAAAAAAABE/d732hq0BdWA/s1600-h/DSC01631.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_fVbHebz009o/RY_yUvaC5AI/AAAAAAAAABE/d732hq0BdWA/s320/DSC01631.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5012491348423664642" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_fVbHebz009o/RY_yKvaC4_I/AAAAAAAAAA8/g-uRBS_pT_A/s1600-h/DSC01630.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_fVbHebz009o/RY_yKvaC4_I/AAAAAAAAAA8/g-uRBS_pT_A/s320/DSC01630.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5012491176624972786" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_fVbHebz009o/RY_xr_aC48I/AAAAAAAAAAk/qxG-1f3EWVM/s1600-h/Solstice+107.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_fVbHebz009o/RY_xr_aC48I/AAAAAAAAAAk/qxG-1f3EWVM/s320/Solstice+107.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5012490648343995330" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_fVbHebz009o/RY_xkvaC47I/AAAAAAAAAAc/NbvKMCGXbng/s1600-h/Solstice+106.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_fVbHebz009o/RY_xkvaC47I/AAAAAAAAAAc/NbvKMCGXbng/s320/Solstice+106.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5012490523789943730" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_fVbHebz009o/RY_xZvaC46I/AAAAAAAAAAU/gncCkGVj5o0/s1600-h/Solstice+002.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_fVbHebz009o/RY_xZvaC46I/AAAAAAAAAAU/gncCkGVj5o0/s320/Solstice+002.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5012490334811382690" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_fVbHebz009o/RY_wR_aC45I/AAAAAAAAAAM/nEwW6C44WN4/s1600-h/Solstice+001.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_fVbHebz009o/RY_wR_aC45I/AAAAAAAAAAM/nEwW6C44WN4/s320/Solstice+001.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5012489102155768722" border="0" /></a>yashovardhan guptahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15231377784537057360noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10521787.post-75444612846541140942006-12-19T05:10:00.000+05:302006-12-19T05:39:35.640+05:30Finally the real thing - Private Equity - Yeah !!!<span style="font-family: arial;">It's almost as if these guys were saving the best for the last.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: arial;">we have had some really awesome courses the last 6 terms, but the Investing in Private Equity takes the cake.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: arial;">2 awesome professors, no examinations - what could be better</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: arial;">the first half of the course is taught by </span><a style="font-family: arial;" href="http://strategy.sauder.ubc.ca/hellmann/">Prof Thomas Hellman</a><span style="font-family: arial;"> who teaches at Stanford and </span><big style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><big> University of British Columbia </big></span></big><span style="font-family: arial;">and the second half by </span><a style="font-family: arial;" href="http://finance.wharton.upenn.edu/%7Evbnair/">Prof <span onclick="BLOG_clickHandler(this)" class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_0">Vinay</span> Nair</a><span style="font-family: arial;"> who teaches at Wharton.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: arial;">If <span onclick="BLOG_clickHandler(this)" class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_1">thomas</span> was good <span onclick="BLOG_clickHandler(this)" class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_2">vinay</span> almost blew us away.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: arial;">This guy, came directly from a long haul flight, horribly jet lagged and delivered an exceptional class to 3 separate sections. he would be teaching 5 sessions to 3 sections within a week and covering material which he typically takes 3 months to cover in <span onclick="BLOG_clickHandler(this)" class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_3">wharton</span> in about 8 days at <span onclick="BLOG_clickHandler(this)" class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_4">ISB</span>. awesome guy</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: arial;">If <span onclick="BLOG_clickHandler(this)" class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_5">ISB</span> can continue to attract profs like this to come here, many <span onclick="BLOG_clickHandler(this)" class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_6">indian</span> students might not see the value add in going to the US.</span>yashovardhan guptahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15231377784537057360noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10521787.post-1165773371645125922006-12-10T23:17:00.000+05:302006-12-10T23:26:11.666+05:30Discussion Boards - a Wonderful way of keeping garbage, popularly known as "Class Participation" out of the classDiscussion Boards - a Wonderful way of keeping garbage, popularly known as "Class Participation" out of the class<br /><br />We have a course titled Managerial Decision Making taught by Prof. Joseph Russo from the Johnson School of Business at Cornell and in that he has opted for a very succesful form of grading Class Participation.<br /><br />We has instituted half the grade for class participation to a Discussion board on blackboard (an online student information medium)<br /><br />this has been very popular with the students, here at ISB with almost 80 entries notched by the first week alone. which is all the more surprising as that the class consists of only 65 students.<br /><br />Even yours truly managed to slide a couple of comments in ....<br /><br />On the topic of Framing - which is nothing but viewing a problem differently or out of the box thinking, I wrote a couple of comments ...<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Comment 1<br /></span> <p>Study groups or taking decision in teams is a wonderful method of counteracting the disadvantages on thinking through a specific frame. Diversified groups consist of people from a variety of backgrounds, each of whom apply a different frame to a problem and view it differently. The result is that learning teams/study groups achieve far superior results when compared to a individual effort. <o:p></o:p></p> <p>To cite from an exercise we did in a Quality Management class taught by Prof Ram Ganeshan recently...<o:p></o:p></p> <p>The objective of the exercise was to illustrate the different ways in which individuals as well as teams solve a problem.<o:p></o:p></p> <p>The task consisted of ranking a list of 12 items in order of importance for survival, when stranded at a plane crash site in -20 degrees Celsius. the items were things like loaded .34 calibre pistol, can of shortening, axe, blanket, 12 sets of shirts and pants, a large canvas, a bottle of whiskey, a lighter without fluid, a map, a compass and newspapers.<o:p></o:p></p> <p>This ranking was done by a team of 8 people and in parallel by 12 students, who did it individually.<o:p></o:p></p> <p>This was compared with a ranking performed by experts, which afforded best chances of survival.<o:p></o:p></p> <p>The results were not too surprising. The team's selection was better than the average decision of the individuals. Framing a problem in different frames, allows individuals to look at all aspects of a problem and reach at a far superior decision.</p><br /><p><br /></p> <span style="font-weight: bold;">Comment 2<br /><br /></span> <p>I have recently started reading a wonderful book called <o:p></o:p></p> <p><em><b><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Moneyball-Art-Winning-Unfair-Game/dp/0393057658">Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game by Michael Lewis</a></b></em><o:p></o:p></p> <p>This book is a wonderful rendition of how Oakland A's General Manager Billy Beane used innovative practices and viewed baseball differently when compared to other teams such as the famous Yankees and consequently maximised his dollar to win games in an as cheap manner as possible.<o:p></o:p></p> <p>The approach of most famous teams is to purchase the most successful hitter/pitcher at an insane price and win games by scoring home runs or pitching out the other team. This method is extremely expensive and yields a very low <strong>"No. of Wins/$ spent"</strong> ratio. <o:p></o:p></p> <p>Billy Beane of <st1:city st="on"><st1:place st="on">Oakland</st1:place></st1:City> A's decided to view the problem of maximising the <strong>"No. of Wins/$ spent"</strong> ratio through different frames and enjoyed phenomenal successes. Rather than focussing on stars, who were expensive, he focussed on aspects such as fielding and the importance of getting a guy on the first base. Viewing the act of winning a game by spending the least amount of money via a different frame than other managers, permitted Billy to implement very successful practices which have resulted in a wonderful performance by the <a href="http://oakland.athletics.mlb.com/NASApp/mlb/index.jsp?c_id=oak">Oakland A's</a><o:p></o:p></p> <p>Maybe Chappel can apply the principles of framing a problem differently and other aspects of a Decision Process to improve the woeful performances of the Indian Cricket Team.</p>yashovardhan guptahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15231377784537057360noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10521787.post-1165346985528695092006-12-06T00:41:00.000+05:302006-12-06T00:59:45.580+05:30The Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh visits ISBThe Global Logistics Summit (GLS), hosted by the Centre for Global Logistics and Manufacturing Strategies at the Indian School of Business, was inaugurated by the Honourable Prime Minister of India, Dr Manmohan Singh on December 5, 2006.<br /><br />read the full article <a href="http://www.isb.edu/PowerofFive/PM_Visits_the_ISB-Report.html">here</a><br /> <a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/x/blogger/5020/817/1600/602957/photo4.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/x/blogger/5020/817/320/580648/photo4.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/x/blogger/5020/817/1600/736436/photo6.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/x/blogger/5020/817/320/963872/photo6.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/x/blogger/5020/817/1600/664446/photo8.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/x/blogger/5020/817/320/123300/photo8.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/x/blogger/5020/817/1600/972978/photo1.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/x/blogger/5020/817/320/711447/photo1.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>yashovardhan guptahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15231377784537057360noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10521787.post-1165045488229684672006-12-02T12:59:00.000+05:302006-12-02T13:14:48.246+05:30Quality Management at ISB - Simulating Toyota's processessLearning via applications is personal favourite of mine and often proves to be a more effective pedagogy. A number of our courses such as Management in organization, Managerial Decision making, Logistics and supply chain as well quality management are a chock a block with applications.<br /><br />in quality for instance, in the first class wee took a VHS tape apart and calculated the cost and tried to redesign the product to obtain a lower cost. that was a wonderful exercise but the second class broke all records.<br /><br />We simulated Toyota's lean manufacturing concept, replete with kanban cards and the like - it was Awesome.<br /><br />Since pictures say it best, here are some pictures which show us as labourers trying to manufactures cars in a bid to make as much of profit as possible.<br /><br />They are obviously in order ....<br /><br /><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/x/blogger/5020/817/1600/372093/DSC_0272.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/x/blogger/5020/817/320/509501/DSC_0272.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/x/blogger/5020/817/1600/727811/DSC_0265.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/x/blogger/5020/817/320/536875/DSC_0265.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/x/blogger/5020/817/1600/41706/DSC_0266.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/x/blogger/5020/817/320/769457/DSC_0266.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/x/blogger/5020/817/1600/564897/DSC_0267.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/x/blogger/5020/817/320/635570/DSC_0267.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/x/blogger/5020/817/1600/930125/DSC_0269.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/x/blogger/5020/817/320/691330/DSC_0269.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/x/blogger/5020/817/1600/750220/DSC_0273.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/x/blogger/5020/817/320/226462/DSC_0273.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/x/blogger/5020/817/1600/578617/DSC_0274.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/x/blogger/5020/817/320/833383/DSC_0274.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>yashovardhan guptahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15231377784537057360noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10521787.post-1164202494968175532006-11-22T18:43:00.000+05:302006-11-22T19:04:55.020+05:30supply chains or supplier of chains !!!we just gave an end term examination on Logistics and supply chain management.<br /><br />the course could have been "supply chains" or "supplier of chains" and we wouldn't have known the difference.<br /><br />100 marks in 90 minutes and the paper stated "attempt as many as you can", in a way as to suggest that having hopes of attempting more than 50 would be out of the question.<br /><br />nevertheless, it always feels nice to finish a test.<br /><br />for=><br /><br />a) for having lasted through the ordeal.<br />b) and having one less exam to go through in whatever is remaining of this course.<br /><br />later ....yashovardhan guptahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15231377784537057360noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10521787.post-1164130789061011942006-11-21T22:30:00.000+05:302006-11-21T23:09:49.386+05:30Open book exam with nothing from the book - Electives are coolwell the subject line says it all.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Electives are Cool!<br /></span><br />The first end term examination of Term 5 (the 1st elective term) ended a few hours back and I answered an absolutely delightful paper on Branding.<br /><br />Branding, was touted to be quite a tough exam .... what isn't.<br /><br />It was scheduled to be an open book exam, and students meandered into examination hall carrying a variety of text books apart from lecture slides, self made notes etc..<br /><br />One particular student (a famous boisterous sardar of our batch) came in with 5 different text books, most of which I had never heard of or seen in my life.<br /><br />But Alas, they were of no use as the examination contained an 30 page long case and extremely open ended questions. I obviously enjoy these kind of examinations as I am always underprepared and these tests level the playing the field. The case was about the the famous <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Got_milk">"got milk" </a>campaign and was an extremely detailed and interesting read.<br /><br />the motto - Electives are cool and significantly reduces the pain of examinations<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;"></span>yashovardhan guptahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15231377784537057360noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10521787.post-1162832931144976392006-11-06T22:24:00.000+05:302006-11-06T22:38:51.206+05:30some more pictures !!!!<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5020/817/1600/IMG_2575.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5020/817/320/IMG_2575.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5020/817/1600/IMG_2573.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5020/817/320/IMG_2573.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5020/817/1600/IMG_2567.0.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5020/817/320/IMG_2567.0.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5020/817/1600/IMG_2550.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5020/817/320/IMG_2550.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5020/817/1600/IMG_2542.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5020/817/320/IMG_2542.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5020/817/1600/IMG_2537.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5020/817/320/IMG_2537.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>yashovardhan guptahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15231377784537057360noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10521787.post-1162831939775795782006-11-06T21:39:00.000+05:302006-11-06T22:22:20.140+05:30SKILL CITY @ XIM, Bhubaneshwarahhhhhhhhhh, 3 days of games and more games thanks to <a href="http://www.ximb.ac.in/start/">ximb</a>, we couldn't have bargained for more.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.ximb.ac.in/%7Expressions/events.html">skill city:</a><br /><br />was a 3 day event designed to test essential managerial skills such as leadership, negotiation, strategy, analytical abilities, drive and the like.<br /><br />but it turned out to be a 3 day fun fiesta revolving around a theme of the lord of the rings, replete with games such as the ones shown on the popular television show takeshi's castle on pogo.<br /><br />some of the games were:<br /><br />1. A physical Scotland yard<br />2. games to test your analytical abilities (anagrams, puzzles)<br />3. global manager (languages, geography)<br />4. A wonderful negotiation game (bargain for hotel room rates, negotiate with builders to optimize building materials)<br />5. physical puzzles/mind teasers ( played out in the open with beer bottles)<br />6. a cross between a maze, hop skotch and minesweeper.<br />7. military style endurance games (crawling through ditches, obstacle races)<br />8. strong man contest kind of games (pulling a cart with your teammates in them)<br /><br />Its been quite while since we had such a great time at a fest!!!<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5020/817/1600/IMG_2584.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5020/817/320/IMG_2584.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>the management and the efficiency with which events were conducted were unbelievable. I have never seen such a large number of volunteers, all of whom were given equal responsibility and no one fought for the centre stage. events took place in clockwork like efficiency and the result was one <span style="font-weight: bold;">Helluva well organized fest !!!!<br /><br />heres to XIMB, one of the most cohesive and unified b-schools in recent times.<br /><br /><br /></span>yashovardhan guptahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15231377784537057360noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10521787.post-1162829124928467652006-11-06T21:03:00.000+05:302006-11-06T21:35:24.986+05:30Phew!!!! lots to blog aboutI have been intending to write a post for quite some time now and had a looooong "to do" list of things/events i had to write about. I manage my "to do" list with one of these cool <a href="http://widgets.yahoo.com/">widgets</a>, you might wanna try them out.<br /><br />anyway,<br /><br />so ill just a give a brief write up of all things on my to do list and then jump write on to a detailed post about a more fresher and recent event.<br /><br />1)<br /><br /><a href="http://www.innovationchallenge.com/">innovation challenge @ the darden</a><br /><br />this was one super cool event and had teams of 4-5 people solve a business problem for a certain company. these problems were extremely open ended and as the name suggests, Innovation was a necessary precursor to victory.<br /><br />we were given the arduous though interesting task of promoting GE money and came up with a little too much of innovation ;-)<br /><br />54 hours and 3 red bulls later, we got this.<br /><br /><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5020/817/1600/IC1.0.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5020/817/320/IC1.0.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5020/817/1600/IC2.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5020/817/320/IC2.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5020/817/1600/IC3.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5020/817/320/IC3.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><a href="http://www.iimb-vista.com/html/schedule.php">Tata boardroom wars:</a><br /><br />this involved a simulation game between the best 54 future managers of the country. 9 teams participated, the IIM's, XLRI and ISB. IIMB had 2 teams thus rounding up the 9 teams and the prize money was a mammoth 1,00,000 INR.<br /><br />after a gruelling internal selection, we got the opportunity to go to IIMB and participate in one of the most popular fests in the country.<br /><br />apart from the mosquitoes and the drunk b-school students in the accomodation hall everything was perfect and we had a great time.<br /><br />well ..... I have lots more to write about but let me jump to the most recent event ...yashovardhan guptahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15231377784537057360noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10521787.post-1159880982371645282006-10-03T18:23:00.000+05:302006-10-03T18:39:42.423+05:30Victory tastes sweet !!!!we have finally tasted victory at a paper presentation competition called MANTHAN held at IMT ghaziabad.<br /><br />160 teams participated, out of which 8 were chosen and invited to the finals namely: IIM A/C/L/I, NITIE, NMIMS, IMT and ISB.<br /><br />as it is clear from the topic of the post we (Yashovardhan Gupta and Priyank Modi from ISB) won and IIM L came a close second.<br /><br />Now the story.....<br /><br />the paper was actually quite good and dealt with how, contrary to popular opinion Mergers and Acquisitions actually create value. but being our first paper presentation ever, we did not have a presentation or idea on what to talk about.<br /><br />The fact that we are habitual procrastinators did not help much and our presentation was made on<br />a) 0545 flight from hyd to dellhi.<br />b) then on the cab ride from delhi to UP border<br />c) then the autoscooter ride from UP border to imt, ghaziabad<br />d) while waiting in the audience as the first 2 teams were presenting (we were the 3rd in queue)<br /><br />nevertheless, we won :-) and are consequently richer by 15 grandyashovardhan guptahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15231377784537057360noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10521787.post-1159536845032822312006-09-29T18:59:00.000+05:302006-09-29T19:04:05.050+05:30WOOOOOAHHH 5000 hitsfinally after blogging for quite some time and putting a hit counter a couple of months back, I have finally managed to break 5000 hits barrier.<br /><br />God, my blog must really suck!!!<br /><br />I do hereby solemnly swear that I shall update my blog truthfully, faithfully and to the best of my ability. I shall respect other fellow bloggers, right insightful comments everywhere and strive to better my blog everyday.<br /><br />cheers till later!yashovardhan guptahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15231377784537057360noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10521787.post-1159051216078285942006-09-24T03:52:00.000+05:302006-09-24T04:10:16.090+05:30Phew, that was a hectic monththe fact that im posting after almost a month, to some extent explains how hectic the last month has been.<br /><br />the last time you guys heard from me, we were coming to terms with the insanity of term 3.<br /><br />Within 5 gruelling weeks, we had to study subjects such as corporate finance, Managerial Accounting, Operations management and my favourite Entrepreneurship. All in all, quite a useful but gruelling range of subjects. The only thing to look forward to at that time was the relatively lighter load in the 4th term.<br /><br />However, Subjects do not decide how easy a term can be.<br />The courses this term can hardly be said to be gruelling. We have 3 "faff" subjects and 1 insanely tough one, so all in all an academically manageable term.<br /><br />But, the sweet god of sleep still continues to elude us. This term is shorter than the regular ones by a whole week and also contains one of the <a href="http://www.tie-isbconnect.com/">BIGGEST AND GRANDEST</a> events I have ever witnessed in a b-school.<br /><br />Participating in the <a href="http://www.tie-isbconnect.com/">TIE-ISB connect</a> was an awesome experience, I have never seen such an awesome star cast of speakers and head honchos in any b-school event. the oppurtunity to participate in such an event was totally worth all the sleepless nights that we went through.<br /><br />Now, that the event is over and the term is almost over, its time to hit the books/laptop with gusto and hence, thou shall see more posts from me.<br /><br />PS: check out my <a href="http://www.isb.edu/pgp/visit/Yashovardhan_Gupta.html">Gyann</a> on the <a href="http://www.isb.edu/">ISB</a> website.yashovardhan guptahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15231377784537057360noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10521787.post-1156473226594523002006-08-25T07:38:00.000+05:302006-08-25T08:03:46.630+05:30Morning Classes are POISONThis term has been one of the worst in terms of class timings. We start at 0815 hours, yep I don't even know what the world looks like at that time.<br /><br />We have been badly pampered the last couple of terms with classes starting at 11:15/ 14:15 respectively. Little did we realise that it was the high before the crash.<br /><br />The result - borderline class attendance, even when I made it to class, I was one of the last guys to run in.<br /><br />However, with our Final Term Examinations round the corner, I have devised a unique strategy to enable me to attend classes, which I shall explain by a description of a typical day @ my life in Term 3 @ ISB.<br /><br />0815: Wake up - note class starts at this time.<br />0830: reach class - apologetically run in.<br />0915: ten minute coffee break - Breakfast time for me though.<br />1015: class over - time for a few laughs with sectionmates<br /><br />1045: we start again :-(<br />1245: over for the day :-)<br />1330: lunch<br />1400: I finally get to sleep<br />....<br />....<br />....<br />1900: rudely woken up - some high profile CEO is lecturing on entrepreneurship<br />2100: dinner with the speaker after an awesome session<br />2300: hang around the Atrium, under the pretext of networking<br />0000: Business Plan development meeting<br />0200: ok we finally get sown to the meeting<br />0500: wooah look at the time - meeting adjourned as we are hungry<br />0600: raid fridges/apartments of hapless souls<br />0700: should I sleep or .....<br />0815: It starts again .....yashovardhan guptahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15231377784537057360noreply@blogger.com0