Sportscampus.com

A startup company www.sportscampus.com had come to our college yesterday for summers. I also sat for the interview. The person had said in the ppt itself that he had already shortlisted 3 people for his projects and he was here only to find any backup for them. It was a short interview in which he asked me to sell his website to pepsi or any company of my choice. I chose Adidas and tried but he was not very impressed. Overall it was just a learning experience basically how to advertise for your organization without spending a lot of money.  

Republic Day

Wish every one a very happy 60th Republic Day Jai Hind

Obama's Policy

Barack Hussein Obama was sworn in as the 44th president of U.S.A. yesterday. he had given an inaugral address in which he had detailed what his policies were going to be. As he is the most powerfull man in the world being the president of U.S. his policies are going to effect every economy of the world. Our economics sir has asked us to study his speech and analyse it for the effect on the indian economy.

RFCL Interview

Today I attended the summer palcement interview at Ranbaxy Fine Chemicals Ltd. office in Okhla. The interview was very good and I hope to be selected. It was a very short interview. The lady called 3 of us togeher and asked basic questions like why are you interested in Marketing, what do you know about RFCL, what are your expecaions from the work. They asked us our location preference. I gave the location as Baroda/Ahemdabad as I knew very few people will opt for them. Overall my interview was very good. Lets hope for the best

NDTV Talk Show

Yesterday I was invited to represent my college as the audience in a Talk Show by NDTV in which Nidhi Raaazdan from NDTV interviewed David Milliband the Foreign Secretary of U.K. it was held in Taj Palace hotel. among the topics that were discussed were terrorism, Climate Change and Young leaders in the Parliament.

Satyam Update

The govt. has gone ahead and instituted a new board with six members; Deepak Parekh, Kiran Karnik, C. Achutan, Tarun Das, T.N Manoharan & S. Balakrishnan The former chairman Raju has been arreted and a new set of Auditors has been appointed to look into the books. meanwhile SEBI and Police are investigating the whole issue

Satyam: A Rs. 7000 Crore Fraud

the indian corporate world is in shock. On 7th Ramalingaraju the chairman of satyam resigned. in his resignation letter to SEBI and the board members he has confessed to cooking the books of satyam and showing excess cash of the tune of Rs. 7000 Cr. this news has been a shocker not only because of the magnitude of the scam but also because it happened in not a fly-by-night operatorbut in a highly respected company which was the fourth largest IT firm in India. what is also shocking is how such a fraud can escape the auditors (Price Waterhouse Coopers in this case) after the leak of this news the talk in all the classes in the college is about the fallout of this and how to handle such a situation. The latest news is that Ramalinga Raju is untraceble though he is believed to be still in Hyderabad. Satyam had made a new team headed by the interim CEO Ram Maypatni whose name had been suggested by Rajuin his letter but now the Govt has dissolved the board and will appoint a new board which is expected to meet in next few days. the fate of the 53000 employees is uncertain and the investors have lost their money as the stock has nosedived. the govt is trying to make the situation a little better but it remains to be seen how it finally plays out

Eco Book review

We have to review a book in Eco. I have chosen "The origin of development economics" which is a collection of essays and is edited by Jomo K.S and Eric S Reinert. lets see how i like the book and then we wil review

HRM project

We have to study a movie and tell howe the concept of HRM was shown in the movie. the list was impressive RDB, TZP, Guru, Chak De, Lagaan etc initially when we had our own group we had taken guru. but with the roll no wise groups there was the random sampling and we got jodha akbar. I dont see any HRM in that flop film. it was just a 4 hr love story but wil have to see it again to find some HRM.

new year, new trimester, new group dynamics

With the start of the new year there is a new trimester. I have now come in the tird trimester of my six trimester PGDM course. one of the imporant part of the course is the group activities. in each subject we have to form groups of 3-6 members. in first trimester we did not know each other very well but i was lucky to be able to form a group with prafful prashant and pallavi. it was the core group n many subjects and we gelled well with each other. 

In the second trimester there eas a falling out between praful prashant and pallvi. as a result pallavi was in only one of our groups. we took on murli and krishabh and the 5 of us were constant. we even had a group of 5 for those subjects which required a group of 6. we had excellent division of labour. for example for the 10 om cases they were divided into 2 case each this helped us in also concentrating on our studies as all the time was not spent in doing all the group tasks. we were the best group in marketing so mush so that the other groups were jeolous of our success and tried to copy our methods. one of them even challenged us in OM saying that the marketing teacher is soft on us but the OM sir who was known to be very strict will not give us marks. we prooved them wrong and got good marks in OM also.

in this trimester there was a shift in the policies of the teacher and they insisted on roll no wise groups. in HRM we had made our own groups but some people wnt to maam saying that there were some people who do not work and they do not want them in there groups. others did not want them too so the groups became roll no wise. in eco maam said that the groups had to be of 5 members with 1 or 2 girls in them compulsarily so again we had to split our core group and now prashant is in a different group and rashi has come in his place. in ecom there are groups of 3 roll no. wise. he upside is that there are different groups for diferent subjects