Connections

My school research is in top gear right now (at least that’s what I think). One of the things that that I am doing as a part of researching schools is to reach out to as many current students or alumni as possible. I have already interacted with 3 contacts –an alumnus, a current student and a recently admitted student. The next few days promise a lot more, I have four calls scheduled and hopefully one face-to-face meeting. Add...

Financial Services: Gearing up for a new era

I just came across a survey by Deloitte about the future landscape of financial services. The survey is based on inputs from over 200 financial services executives from all over the world. It covers how the financial crisis and economic downturn has impacted the thought process, practices and strategies of banks and other financial institutions....

Antennagate & Apple’s claim

The antenna-gate episode took a very bad turn last week when Apple tried to turn the media attention away from itself in such an un-Apple like manner. Apple claimed that other phones, specifically RIM’s Blackberry, have similar reception problems. RIM has come back strongly with an email that declares  ‘Apple’s claim as unacceptable’. ...

GMAT - How my attempt to go one-up brought me down.

I took the GMAT recently after preparing for a good part of four weeks. My score was a tad below my expectation (I had a modest target of 720) but for now this score will have to do. I will try to focus more on my essays to cover up the lost ground. I have posted a detailed account of my GMAT on the BTG forum. It’s a pretty long post and I don’t want to duplicate the content here.  You can read my post by following this...

Sundae Bar at office

For the last few weeks this part of the country has been going through a very arid and hot summer, the sun has been at its sweltering best. Though we don’t feel the heat from within the confines of our office (all thanks to the air conditioning system which is always on the cooler side) the brightness outside was always a grim reminder of...

Bone-dry: Does it really have anything to do with bones?

A few of us have made it a routine to get together and spend a few minutes over a cup of coffee. Though this routine itself has become monotonous the discussions that we have are sometimes very intriguing. A few days ago during one of these discussions a colleague of mine used the phrase ‘bone-dry’, obviously to refer to something that was ‘very’ dry. The usage of this phrase (bone-dry) is very common and most of us do know what...

Rendition revisited!

A few days ago I watched the movie ‘Rendition’ and subsequently a few events took place in my life which I could relate to the movie. It’s amazing how life sometimes throws so many coincidences at you. For those who have not watched the movie, here is a brief summary to put things into perspective. The movie is about the impact of US Foreign...

The changing dynamics of worlds Banking Industry

Recently I came across an interesting little piece of stati.stic and I figured it is worth pondering over. The statistic that I came across is the “The World's Top 20 Banks 1994-2010” list. Here is a good snapshot of how the banking industry has metamorphosed over the course of the last 2 decades. A lot has changed in these two decades....