lbs on S Anand

A tiring day

Wed, 11 Oct 2000 12:00:00 +0000

A rather tiring day.

09:00 am: Wake up, and still feel sleepy.
10:00 am: Leave for LBS
11:00 am: Reach LBS. Check mails. These days, it takes a couple of hours.
12:30 pm: Attend India Club meeting for Diwali celebrations. Very well organized.
01:15 pm: Presentation by Booz-Allen & Hamilton. Pretty good. Manage to stay awake.
02:15 pm: Eat lunch. Stupidly eat prawns without seeing the labels. Almost vomit.
03:00 pm: Group meeting. Discuss Dell.
04:15 pm: Fall asleep in AT Kearney’s presentation.
05:15 pm: Stay away from anything that looks non-veg during tea.
06:00 pm: World economy class. Excellent professor. Terribly funny. Everything makes sense.
07:00 pm: Guest lecturer. Fall asleep.
08:00 pm: Back to Prof. Scott. Wake up and listen.
09:00 pm: Answer more mails.
10:00 pm: Chucked out of computer center. Go home.
11:15 pm: Have dinner.
midnight: Crash.

Scanned Target magazine

Mon, 09 Oct 2000 12:00:00 +0000

I’ve scanned a couple of more pages of Target that have the job profile of the LBS graduating class of 2000 and the summer of MBA 2001. Incidentally, this magazine also publishes a complete list of who’s joined which company. Really neat idea, great for contacts.

Business India B-school rankings

Sun, 08 Oct 2000 12:00:00 +0000

Business India’s business school rankings seem surprising. I’ll check with LBS and ask them what they think.

A day at LBS

Wed, 04 Oct 2000 12:00:00 +0000

Well, apparantly LBS has just had its lecture theatres (LTs) newly made! Which is why they look so good, I hear. At least, the Professors keep commenting about how new the LTs are, and how they’re unused to it and all that.

This afternoon, Pallavi, another exchange student, an MBA 2001 student and myself, got together and ran a series of mock interviews. LBS’ consulting club has some very good material on case interviews.

Today we had a lecture on ‘World Economy: Problems and Prospects’. Professor Andrew Scott was awfully funny. We discussed the reason for the growth of the US Economy today. Well, we’re still not too sure why it grew, but IT may be part of the reason. Following the lecture, Nick Craft, a guest lecturer from the London School of Economics, came and gave an interesting talk on the same. Bit of a problem with his slides, though. Self-admittedly, he failed arts in school, and his combination of a bright green gradient against a purple background can leave no stomach unturned. Looks like this course is going to have guest lecturers in each class, and they all look like big shots.

Infrastructure at LBS

Mon, 02 Oct 2000 12:00:00 +0000

The session on Mergers, MBOs and other corporate reorganizations by Paulo Volpin started 5 minutes late. Reason: They had a problem with the computer projector. Fixing it turned out to be a hi-tech exercise, though. A guy came in with some kind of a hand-held device, pointed it around like a remote control, and the projector was on. 6:05PM – 5 minutes lost.

5 minutes later, “IP address conflict”. The Professor gives up and moves on to trusty slides. He came prepared.

Their IT isn’t all bad, though. In fact, it’s rather good. They have mail terminals scattered around the place for people to check e-mail, without having to go to the Computer Center.

The computer center isn’t far away, though – just across the road – about twice the distance from the IIM-B hostels to the Computer Center.

What’s lovely, though, is their audio-video system. They have one in each room, and the control panel looks lovely.

Their chairs are awful, though. The seats are cramped. There are no arm-rests. They don’t move. They’re too close to the table. (OK, I’m fat.) They aren’t shaped to my back. Anyway, to sit there for 3 hours on those chairs for a fidgety guy like me is tough.

Couldn’t tell much about the Professors. So far, they look just like IIM-B professors. The students on the other hand, are something exceptional. Each has tremendous work experience (a prerequisite for getting into IIM-B in the first place). There’s

a Russian consultant who used to work for BCG for 5 years (before you ask: he wants to become an I-Banker – that’s why he’s here)
an English lady who started a company called WorldCom (no, not that one: she sold the name to THE WorldCom :-)
an American IBMer who worked at Lehman Brothers for summers (his name is Stephen, and he’s not me, and I’ve never heard of him)
an English VP from Lehman Brothers
a French film production expert about to join UBS Warburg

and lots more.

LBS experiences

Mon, 02 Oct 2000 12:00:00 +0000

Today was my first class at the London Business School, and I’ve written up my experiences on day 1. I plan to keep updating it.

Placement magazine

Fri, 29 Sep 2000 12:00:00 +0000

LBS’ placement cell publishes a magazine called Target, some of whose pages I’ve scanned. It gives an idea about what consulting and finance is, what companies look for, how to prepare for interviews, alumni feedback, etc. Sorry about the small size of scanning, but I had to conserve disk space. I’ll bring the book to IIM-B when I come back.