10 Weeks of classes, followed by another 10 weeks of project work (no classes). So effectively, this phase of in-class education is to end by November
Courses I have taken this quarter:
Spreadsheet Modelling for Business Decisions (SMBD) - A good analytical course which focuses on solving problems using spreadsheets. The problems range from Finance, [...]
Some of the marketing courses I did required a lot of searching for advertisements of various products in the print media. I typically used to search on google images, and try to find these ads. However, this was very inefficient and ineffective - lot of missing ads, multiple searches required, and difficulty in getting the [...]
.. And the penultimate one where I needed to attend classes, at that. Had a couple of good finance subjects, which had topics related to bank management and the overall banking industry (Commercial Bank Management) and Financial Statement Analysis (FSA). Both were intense courses, which require a lot of practice and hard work to master. [...]
Students of PGSEM at IIMB hosted Convergenz ‘08, an annual business event, on Sunday, 13th January 2008. The theme for the event was “Innovation and Product Management”
The events organized were :
Symposium, with a competition for IIMB students, who presented their take on strategic initiatives for various companies
Corporate Quiz, with registrations from around 100 teams across [...]
Here’s a nice poem to which I was introduced last week during a lecture for the course “Managing People and Performance” by Prof. N M Agarwal :
IIM, Bangalore is conducting an open house session for people interested in pursuing the PGSEM Business Management course for working professionals, offered in Bangalore and Chennai.
The sessions will be held on
Sunday, 17th December 2006 (Bangalore)
Sunday, 7th January 2007 (Chennai)
Registration for the session can be done via this link.
The PGSEM 2007 Application Form is also available. [...]
… are a bit less to write a comprehensive case analysis.
Especially when the subject of the case does everything wrong.
Today’s edition of The Hindu Business Line has an article about the PGSEM course, and it’s unique value-add to software/IT professionals.
From the article :
“PGSEM endeavours to provide the most current executive general management education to middle and senior professionals of the software and information technology industry to pursue a career in management. The programme aims [...]
So it’s been more than a month since I have joined PGSEM, and so far, so good. Since I was also interested in the Personal MBA concept and actually read quite a few books from the reading list, it would be nice to compare the two programs. Even though this is, in GMAT parlance, going [...]
… does not apply to me anymore .. I do not have a week end.. it’s just a rotating set of days with work and studies ..
Hectic..but fun .. as long as there are not too many quizzes like the two next saurday..