ISB ranks 12th in FT.com Global MBA Rankings 2010
In less than 10 years, ISB has climbed up to be among the ivy league schools in the world offering business education. FT.com published the results of their survey for their rankings for the year 2010 today.
Here is an extract from FT’s official site on the top 20 business schools for the year 2010:
It is to be noted that ISB participated first for the above rankings in the year 2008. In that very first year, it was ranked 20th! 2009 saw ISB climbing 5 places to be ranked 15th.
This steady climb should give ISB a good exposure in its endeavour to take its education really global. From here onwards, it is upto the core stakeholders of the management, students and the alumni to leverage on this remarkable achievement to refine whatever areas are still rough.
The complete ranking and other ranking related news is available at FT’s site here
Indian School of Business ranked 12th worldwide!
Ah well well… my alma mater, Indian School of Business has been rising and rising and how! ISB has been ranked 12th best business school by FT.com in their latest rankings for the year 2010!
Click here to see the rankings!
It is an amazing moment for each of us who have had the privilege of studying MBA in this great business school and motivates us to push ourselves further!!!
hip hip hurrayy!!!!!!
Snowfall in Stuttgart, Germany
Some snaps of snow filled Stuttgart that I had taken yesterday!
My European footprint..
When the mind gets really idle, it can come up with something like this…
Top 50 web design blog posts of 2009
Webdesigndev’s best web design blog posts of 2009..some interesting stuff…
FIFA world cup footballs!
A cool video on how the FIFA world cup footballs are made:
Operational hierarchy and a dimensional structure (patent awaited)
Operational hierarchy should do away with traditional pyramid structure and re-organize itself into cubes.. Each cube is a 3-dimensional working entity, something that we call as employees. Each cube can think in 3 dimensions of thought (for more information on this 3-dimensions of thought, wait for my next post on the same). Now, on top of these cubes, we can have cuboids that govern two or more underlying cubes and ensure that together they form one compact super-entity.
As we go along building these structures, we should ensure that we form a more synergetic semi-super-elliptical model. This ensures a balanced channelisation of operations……..phew….
Forcing a blog
Just to say hi to anyone who still cares to come here to see my blog..I am still alive but not kicking..
Just discovered a few new ways to connect to the world..twitter being one such nasty thing..
recession…gloomy work..and the X factor
Life is pretty hectic with work just piling up like crazy…the “Work In” box just smirks at the “Work Out” Box from a distant top ! And outside the workplace, things are as gloomy, with every possible news page screaming about the recession and portending the evil effects of the same…the only web pages that won’t seem to talk about recession might be the ones with a couple of ‘X’s in their rating 
I have somehow always believed that the concept of recession has got a high degree of virtual touch to it..something that is a result of that one big economic disaster that has cascaded all the way down through the smallest of the business ‘tributaries’ and thus spread just an air of cautiousness which in turn results in companies falling prey to this. My point is, if we keep asking “what if disaster had not hit it?”, from the last affected firm, and work our way back in history to the ones initially affected, then there could be a high probability we will end up concluding that the initial hit had just spewed its effect on the others….than actually exposing the blaring loopholes of an economy..By making this statement I am also inclined towards accepting what Mr. McCain (remember he was the republican presidential nominee for USA 2008 elections?) had said in one of his address that the economy was fundamentally strong. This comment of his did bring a lot of ire from all quarters on his understanding of economy, but when we look back, may be we should give credit to this old man as he might just be right there.
My point is this. The day the powerful economic corridors of the world smell the stench of recession in the form of a collapse of a stable establishment (we could read Lehman here, for the sake clarity!) they should take it upon themselves to ensure that this wave does not crash upon the remaining. It is easier said than done, but the fundamental to a stronger economy lies here and we should all invest in finding a solid mechanism to achieve this. Else, it will always be a fission reaction waiting to happen.
ISB ranked 15th worldwide!
My alma mater, The Indian School of Business, Hyderabad, has been ranked 15th in Financial Times’ Global MBA Rankings for 2009. Last year, ISB became the first Business school from India to be ranked in FT -100 rankings and was placed 20th then. So, it is a marked improvement in one year to climb 5 rungs higher!!! For more details on the same, you could click here
Makes me proud of being an ISBan and this really fires my cylinders to set higher standards to match that of my alma mater!!!
Yahoo Pipes! Interesting and Innovative..
During my recent visit to India, while discussing the web 2.0 applicability in today’s web based business with my cousin, he happened to mention about Yahoo pipes. The whole idea was absolutely fantastic and something that has capability of serving as one neat tool for today’s query based web portals.
Yahoo pipes is a powerful tool that mashes various content in the web by aggregating the numerous information in the web, playing around with this information and customizing it according to the user’s requirement. For someone familiar with UNIX, Yahoo pipes is similar to the pipes option available in UNIX. But Yahoo pipes gives much more flexibility and has an enormously user friendly interface. I tried creating a few pipes and must say that it is quite a fun doing so.
If you are interested in knowing more on the same, you could click here.
Chandra’s PJ!
Ques: What would Lord Brahma say when he finds his vats (as in sankskrit) rising up?
Ans: vats up dude!
Mumbai Terror attack
The ongoing, and radically different way of terrorist attacks that has been happening in Mumbai, India has taken the fear factor among the public to new levels. While the police, along with Army is doing its best to bring the situation under control, and we are certain it will do so sooner or later, what this incident leaves back as a trail is not just the blood of scores who succumbed to this ghastly act, but also a question on the very capabilities of the Intelligence.
We also cannot help but fret over the complete inability of the government in doing a whit in putting any coordinated effort in thawing such acts. Come to think of it, how many times have we heard the head of the nation coming out and addressing the nation, “condemning such acts of violence” and then going back and sitting like a lame duck. And how many times have we heard someone coming up and facing the nation, assuring that some proactive steps are being taken to ensure that they have national security on top agenda. The answer is so blaringly obvious and enough to put any level headed person of the concerned department to shame.
One attack on WTC was enough to prompt US to wage a full-on war. While the attack itself could be termed quixotic by some, it did go a long way to prove that the US government does care for its people treats it as a question of national pride and to show what is the right place for such perpetrators of violence. But, it is a sheer pity that the spate of terrorist attacks across the length and breadth of India over the last year has not touched the right nerves of the Indian goverment to get their acts together.
A few days from now, for all we care, it might just end up as just another incident in our history, just another spicy news to the media and just another political agenda for the opposition to strengthen their chance. When will we rise beyond the ordinary?
The global cascade: Lehman seals our marriage plans
Because of Richard Fuld, the nuptial desires of millions of IT folks is at risk. Well, that is the best inference I could make after reading through a web article, wherein it was mentioned that back in India, the wise fathers are quite wary of giving their daughters away to IT folks due to the current economic crisis wave that is rising to crash upon their blooming career.
While I am not going to use this post to analyse the veracity of above fear, what I am presently pondering about is what might happen if the IT folks affected with the prospect of not being married, queue up outside the Finance ministry and ask for some bail out package! And what if all fathers who already made the plunge, formed a separate queue to ask for a different bail out package!!
Imagine P. Chidambaram making an address to all fathers of the ‘Brides-to-be’ that things are under control and it is ’safe’ to invest their daughters in IT folks’ life; Followed by a bailout package if things go wrong later!
Guess that should be the last thing that Chidambaram ever imagined in his deliverables as the Finance Minister…
back to blogging…
Just when this blog was about to go down, among the many others that I had created in past, as another blogging attempt gone waste, realization struck me on time to save it from the same…..
So, here is the mindless post to just make it alive again..
