Academic and intellectual affairs @ ISB

On the intellectual side, I passed my X(with a Centum) , XII, B.Com and my CA, shifted 3 jobs in 2 years before I landed at ..........

The ISB at Hyderabad......Hereafter this space shall cover all the events at the Indian School of Business, Hyderabad.

Its been a month since i ve landed here and man..it has been crazy ever since.......Lot of people have been updating on the weekly/daily/some even hourly progress but ....................



Here I go...........I hope to update the space on a regular basis



The first week was induction wherein we had the alums talking to us abt life here....they were alums not seniors. For those who dont know, the PGPM @ ISB is a one year program. No ragging, no gyan. Help is plenty though. Every 'senior' drills us the same message "When in doubt, consult." Very helpful ppl, provided you go that extra mile

The next week was pre term . For the benefit of people from different background, the school "tries" to make a smooth transition. The modules are on Financial accounting, statistics and mathematics.

Main terms started on April 30. The school functions on a 4 day week schedule with four hours of class day. All people are grouped in teams of 4 or 5. Division into groups is done keeping in mind the need for diversity in the group. Rarely do 2 CAs or 2 entrepreneurs come together in the group. Each term is of 6 week duration and there are 8 terms in all.

Assignments are given which may have to be completed in groups or individually. All these are graded and count for your final marks.

This year we had four subjects for term 1 viz, Financial accounting and decision making, Managerial (micro) economics, Marketing and Statistics.

The best part of the course is the visiting faculty model at ISB. Teachers, mostly from Wharton and kellogg come here to teach. And man, most of them are fabulous. A few things stare at your face when you listen to them. First, their sense of humour. The humour they bring to teaching is marvelous. In stark contrast are the home bred faculty. No doubt, they are technically as brilliant as their counterparts but the zest and zeal is evident in its absence.

The next is their exam orientation. The economics prof of the first half of 1st term(an indian) did not dare to venture out of the confines of his room for nearly 3 hrs after the eco mid term fearing repercussions. In contrast again, the faculty for accounts from Wharton was elaborating on the exam pattern, method of study etc in class and stuck to the schedule in the exam. Not only this, the orientation in class of this faculty from Wharton was on the practical side. Teaching, analysis etal.

Thats all folks for now...........

Coming up ...........Acads is a very small part of ISB life.........life beyond the classrooms with photos... Until then byeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee