On your mark..get set...term 3

Started off this term celebrating my group mate's birthday. Four subjects (again) this term.

- Corporate Finance by Prof Bhagawan Chowdhry

- Operations Management by Prof Sudhakar Deshmukh and Prof Sridhar Seshadhri

- Entrepreneurship by Prof Venkataraman and Prof Rama Velmuri

- Management Accounting and Decision Making by Prof Khalid Nainar and Prof Sri Sridharan

The first class of Corporate Finance required us to read 6 chapters from a book! Next class requires 3 more chapters of pre read from the book!! That is nine good chapters in three days. We need more? Apart from case preparation for the other three subjects, assignment deadline started as early as today (third day of the term).

Entrepreneurship has very high weightage for CP - 40% marks for CP! Talk in class and thou shall pass. Well not quite - the class was very well under control of the Professor who would not let anyone talk arbit. CP rules were simple: Two points are deducted for disrupting class. Minus one for detracting comments. Points are even deducted for yawning! Thankfully this class is not at 8am. The subject is case based - concepts come out from documented real life company experiences. Incidentally I have a classmate who is a successful pro in this field and surprisingly he was silent today. Later after class he talked about 'MBA grad errors' which I think no one mentioned.

I will write about other subjects as the term goes by.