There's a great scene in that Phantom Menace movie, where Liam Neeson and Ewan MacGregor are whizzing through the sea in their Jedi submarine craft and an enormous antediluvian fish with fangs is chasing after them.
MacGregor agitatedly refers to the impending disaster while Neeson blithely seems to ignore it, and maintains a posture of perfect serenity.
Then, just as the maw of the mighty beast is about to snap , a gigantic undersea Tyrannosaurus Rex (what else?) moves in from the side, and ambushes the Star Wars equivalent of Jaws on Dark Side steroids, putting paid to its hunt and snacking on it instead.
"There's always a bigger fish", preens Neeson, and on our heroes go to continue their task.
Posted by: Tirtha S Chattaraj in MBA on
Jan 20, 2009
Hi there,
This is my very first blog and comes in extremely late ( lets not get into the details of the cause )
I passed out marine engineering from DMET (Kolkata / India ) and have had hands on experience in the Merchant Navy for more than a decade.Started working as a superintendent engineer in 2006 & was based in Singapore….. what next ?
We're kicking off this series of posts on choosing an MBA by addressing what is, from our perspective, one of the least well understood aspects of choosing an MBA, namely going for "ranking" or general school "brand".
Our view is that both these characteristics are NOT the top considerations for a person choosing their next steps in executive education, however we realise that they can be used as a metric for how the whole experience works out for you, depending on what your ultimate goals are.
We are, it must be said, genuinely concerned when a GMAT Zone student or Admit Zone client tells us that they want to go to "an Ivy League school" or a "top 10 school". We fully support people's ambition (and of course, we here at the Zone studied at schools of this type) to aim for excellent schools, our concern is that "excellence" per se really only matters when it is relevant and suitable to your career plan. Read on, and see what else we think about with respect to the school's brand and ranking.
Posted by: Admin in MBA Strategy, MBA, Career on
Dec 15, 2008
When people ask us for our opinions on which course to follow, we don't tell them straight away, of course we can't! Advising people on their career is a very serious business and requires a great deal of calmness and foresight.
We think it's important for you to ask yourself "what do I really want from my education?". One dimension to analyse along (there are several, and I'm sure we'll cover them all someday!) is the title to this blog entry : lifelong learning versus lifechanging learning.What's the difference?Well, let's have a peek :)
Lifelong learning
Posted by: Piyush Singhal in MBA on
Dec 10, 2008
5 th April, 2008
Finally arrived at my college, IIM-Ahmedabad. It wasn’t easy. Was working at Deutsche Bank in Singapore till Friday, 4th April, 3:00 P.M. 7:00 P.M. was the flight. Have to pick up the luggage, some things have to be dropped to the cargo guy and then go to the airport. Aah… And then there is a bit of sadness. Came in Singapore in June 2005. It has been more or less 3 years I have been in Singapore. But I really really owe so much to this country. This place had always helped me to come out of so many problems. It has been really nice. And I am going to miss Nagi, Micheal so much. They listened to me all the time. They helped me prepare for my GMAT, in writing essays as well as the interview preparation for IIM. So there is a nostalgic feeling. I am not sure when I will meet them…
Finally I have reached Ahmedabad. So, this is the place that has much of hype around. You tell anyone in India that you have got an admission into IIM-A and you can hear “vow, great man…”. It is 7:00 in the morning. I get my keys to the room. Can I take a quick snap from my new Canon camera? The only purchase I had from Singapore (I have to thank my fiancé’, Mallika, who literally forced me to get this from Singapore and every time I click a photo in a new location, my heart thanks her). So this is the view from my room. Pretty good, I am really lucky to be here.
Posted by: Vivek Agarwal in MBA on
Dec 3, 2008
This is a picture of the GEMBA 2009 Class.
I am going to get the official copy of this some other time, this was taken from a friends camera.
Posted by: Vivek Agarwal in MBA on
Dec 3, 2008
Classes started at 8:30am,
we were 65 students - GEMBA 2009, between 2 sections,
classes ended at 6:30pm and in between we had an hour for lunch as well as every 90 minutes we were given a tea/coffee break.
