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Phir? Mile Sur Mera Tumhaara
Or in other words…a tutorial on how not to spoil a classic by getting crass non-achievers, giving them more air-time than they ever got in their lifetime, and trying too hard to show that we have progressed!
Music sucks (what is it…an electronic house remix?)…the choice of individuals suck (sportspeople?? business guys??? the common man??) and its way too long to generate anything except revenue for the broadcaster!
Really badly done! And if you dont believe me…here is what you have to see! I kid you not…I had tears in my eyes when I saw the old one today…!
And here is the new one…!
FT Global MBA Schools Ranking 2010: ISB Ranked 12
Got a call this morning from ISB that the FT Rankings for 2010 have been released and ISB has moved up the ranks to close at Global Rank 12! Fantastic
The top 15 schools according to the rankings are:
- London Business School
- Wharton
- Harvard
- Stanford
- INSEAD
- Columbia Business School
- IE Business School
- MIT Sloan
- Chicago Booth
- HongKong UST
- IESE Business School
- Indian School of Business
- NYU Stern
- Dartmouth Tuck
- IMD
You can view all the ranking here
And here is an evaluation on the top schools from a placements perspective
Rank ’10 | 3 yr. rank | School name | Weighted sal. ($) | Employed 3months (%) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Data © 2010 The Financial Times LimitedView the full ranking | ||||
| 1 | 1 | London Business School | 142,340 | 81 ( 99) |
| 2 | 1 | University of Pennsylvania: Wharton | 160,848 | 75 ( 96) |
| 3 | 4 | Harvard Business School | 161,887 | 87 ( 100) |
| 4 | 5 | Stanford University GSB | 164,863 | 85 ( 96) |
| 5 | 5 | Insead | 139,941 | 79 ( 95) |
| 6 | 4 | Columbia Business School | 160,679 | 77 ( 90) |
| 8 | 8 | MIT Sloan School of Management | 154,058 | 83 ( 93) |
| 9 | 10 | University of Chicago: Booth | 151,758 | 82 ( 99) |
| 12 | 16 | Indian School of Business | 141,291 | 97 ( 99) |
| 13 | 14 | Dartmouth College: Tuck | 152,802 | 83 ( 99) |
Comparison from a career progression point of view
Rank ’10 | 3 yr. rank | School name | Careers | Aims achieved |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Data © 2010 The Financial Times LimitedView the full ranking | ||||
| 1 | 1 | London Business School | 14 | 4 |
| 2 | 1 | University of Pennsylvania: Wharton | 41 | 19 |
| 3 | 4 | Harvard Business School | 33 | 32 |
| 4 | 5 | Stanford University GSB | 4 | 7 |
| 5 | 5 | Insead | 18 | 16 |
| 6 | 4 | Columbia Business School | 40 | 17 |
| 8 | 8 | MIT Sloan School of Management | 21 | 5 |
| 9 | 10 | University of Chicago: Booth | 48 | 14 |
| 12 | 16 | Indian School of Business | 13 | 46 |
| 13 | 14 | Dartmouth College: Tuck | 49 | 1 |
And from a value for money perspective
Rank ’10 | 3 yr. rank | School name | Value |
|---|---|---|---|
Data © 2010 The Financial Times LimitedView the full ranking | |||
| 1 | 1 | London Business School | 50 |
| 2 | 1 | University of Pennsylvania: Wharton | 98 |
| 3 | 4 | Harvard Business School | 93 |
| 4 | 5 | Stanford University GSB | 94 |
| 5 | 5 | Insead | 8 |
| 6 | 4 | Columbia Business School | 88 |
| 8 | 8 | MIT Sloan School of Management | 91 |
| 9 | 10 | University of Chicago: Booth | 90 |
| 12 | 16 | Indian School of Business | 34 |
| 13 | 14 | Dartmouth College: Tuck | 86 |
Its fantastic that in less than 10 years ISB has reached the levels it has. Ofcourse, the ranking do tend to hide a lot of qualitative aspects that ISB might suffer from, but then I am sure other schools also have their own deficiencies! Keeping all these aspects in mind, I love the fact that ISB has done so much in such a short period of time…and needless to say…I AM PROUD TO BE AN ISB’ian!
Top 10 rankings next year! :)
Top 15 Signs That You Are Living in 2010!
1. The first thing you say when you call other people is not “How are you”, but “Where are you”
2. You haven’t played solitaire with real cards in years.
3. You have a list of 15 phone numbers to reach your family of three.
4. You e-mail the person who works at the desk next to you.
5.Your reason for not staying in touch with friends or remembering their birthdays is that they are not on Facebook.
6. You park your car at home and use your cell phone to see if anyone is home to help you carry in the groceries.
7. If anyone wanted to know how you looked 12 hours ago, a year ago, 3 years ago, 10 years ago, 25 years ago, they just need to view your facebook profile
8. Leaving the house without your cell phone, which you didn’t even have the first 20 or 30 (or 60) years of your life, is now a cause for panic and you turn around to go and get it.
10. You get up in the morning and go on line before getting your coffee
11. You start tilting your head sideways to smile. : )
12 You’re reading this and nodding and laughing.
13. Even worse, you know exactly to whom you are going to forward this message.
14. You are too busy to notice there was no #9 on this list.
15. You actually scrolled back up to check that there wasn’t a #9 on this list
Credit: Thanks Kapil for sharing. The content has been ‘Indianized’ a bit!
Dont be stupid
Quite like the video…goes with the entire current Indian theme of 3 Idiots (which hopefully will be the theme for my next post, now that I have seen the movie twice!)
My World My Eyes 5
F*** Business School – yah thats pretty much what I would say to most people who want to do an MBA! :)
Cap Courtesy: Shantanu (Tuck Business School Alumnus)
Travel Blog: Ranthambore
Destination: Ranthambore
When: Dec 25th – Dec 27th, 2009
Who: 6 of us (3 couples)
Stayed: Raj Palace Hotel, Ranthambore Sawai Madhopur. Paid Rs 2,100 per night including breakfast. Average hotel. Rooms are quite small, not well-lit or airy! Service is slow. Would not recommend. Read my TripAdvisor Review here
Transport: Went by train from Delhi (500 per person, Tier III AC). Came back by car (Innova – 9,000 one way including all taxes and toll. Rs 8.5/km, took 10 hrs)
Food: For local food, do visit Dholi Maru on the main National Park Road. Else you get everything since its a place frequented by foreign nationals
Do:
1. Ranthambore National Park: Famous for around 40 odd tigers (none of which we were able to see, but that seems to be odd!). Entry is twice a day for around 3.5 hrs each. Reservations for canters and cab is done on current booking basis. Costs around 350 per person on a canter (which seats 15-20 people) and around 600 per person for taxi (which seats 6 people). The park itself is not dense…gives an arid rajasthan feel. But great for shooting animals and birds!
2. Ranthambore Fort: Consider walking from the hotel to the fort, a distance of around 14 kms! We did that and experienced lovely Rajasthan life on the way. The fort by itself is ok…has some funny history to it…as explained by the guide…and then there is this Hanuman temple as well. If in winters, do spend some nice time on top of the Badal Mahal overlooking the entire Ranthambore National Park
Pictures:
Aamir vs. Shahrukh
Dont know if this is true…but even if it is…I wont be surprised
“Shahrukh Khan charged a whopping Rs.30 lakh for releasing a book written by management guru Arindam Chaudhari, earlier this month in Delhi. But when an upcoming writer approached Aamir for his book launch, Aamir agreed on one condition to do it and that is if he liked the book.”
Yet to see 3 Idiots, but people tell me that it will reinforce what Aamir is all about!
Avatar: The Movie Review
If you are reading this review to figure out whether you should go for the movie or not, you are wasting your time. I would suggest you go!
If you have already seen the movie, you know you are wasting your time!
Avatar is a not so great movie, made fantastically. I honestly went in expecting something like the Titanic, a decent story done well with special effects. Avatar is one-third the story and 2000 times the special effects!
Jake Sully is an Ex-Marine and even though paralyzed waist down is recruited for a critical mission because his DNA matches his twin (dead) brother’s! Mission is to enter the world of Pandora (not to be confused with the box’s owner!) through a mixed breed (of the local community and humans) called Avatar, mingle with the local community and eventually persuade them to move from their current habitat. Because beneath that lies the most abundant resource of an element unobtanium (who thought of that name!!) which is the only way to save Earth.
And as expected…(and ala SRK) Jake’s Avatar merges a lot more than needed, with the local community, falls in love with the chief’s daughter (are they usually the one chicks around…why not the sweeper’s daughter…or the chef’s…why always the chief!!)…and eventually comes on their side. The climax is a battle between the humans and the locals, in which not surprising the locals win simply because animals matched with bows and arrows can anyday fight stun guns and AK47s!
However, what lies in between the story, is this entire, almost independent story of how Neytiri (the chief’s daughter) shows Jake ‘their’ ways…! Thats what James Cameroon has used to showcase the beauty of special effects. Pandora has been created in a breath-taking manner, the relationship of the locals with nature has been expressed sensitively…
Its not a bad movie at all…cmon…we are from the land of “Om Shanti Om” and “Rab Ne Bana Di something something”…
My opinion is…that dude has spent 2,000 crores in making this jazz….you can surely spend 200 bucks…!
And hey…do watch it on a big 3d screen…
Rating: 2.5/5
New Cause of Divorce: facebook
I am tempted to say this is good news for SecondShaadi, but honestly, if the divorce was caused due to FB, there was a case for it right from the start…! FB would only be an excuse…not the cause…!
The Future of Video Making
move beyond image panorama….video panorama is here..!!
Yellowbird has created a technology that captures video in a 360 degree format. Its awesome..because this is the closest one can get to being there and yet not being there…
Watch the video to experience what they have made.
The future excites me like anything…!
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