Tag management

The Letter from Sainsbury’s

Sainsbury's supermarket, Greenwich

After I retired, my wife insisted that I accompany her on her trips to Sainsbury’s. Unfortunately, like most men, I found shopping boring and preferred to get in and get out. Equally unfortunate, my wife is like most women –…

Back to Mumbai after Exams

My last post was in Mumbai. And here I am back again posting from my home city. Returned to Pune after Diwali vacation on 30th itself to make sure that we study for the Corporate Finance and Software Project Management…

Pain in the SAS

Have spent the last two days working on a SAS presentation that is scheduled for this evening. Our topic is Business Decision Making in FMCG industry using SAS Enterprise Miner. Everything would have been fine and hunky dory, except that…

Ten Busy Days

The last week has be very crazy. Having worked on our Financial Statement Analysis, we finally submitted the same on October 2. Our presentation was rescheduled for 8th due to the upcoming summer placements. Spent Saturday, Sunday and Monday cooped…

More Interviews and Tests

Spent most of Sunday working on the Project Management presentation for Monday evening and so had to spend the little time available on Monday morning preparing for the Corporate Finance quiz. The quiz turned out to be dedicated to the…

SCMHRD Life Continues

Returned from Mumbai early Monday morning. Awoke nice and early and caught the 6.15am Volvo from Teli Gali. Reached here around 10.30 and immediately got down to studying my Corporate Finance assignment. Had classes on all days of the week…

Ek Saal Baad

This day last year, more than 180 students found their way to a Business School in Hinjewadi. The school was Symbiosis Centre for Management and HRD and yours truly was one of those 180+ students. The first fortnight at SCMHRD…

Electives Selected

After intense internal and external debates, hours spent on pondering and an equal number on (re)searching, I finally selected my electives for third semester. So, here goes (number in brackets are number of credits): Finance Electives Corporate Finance – Theory…

We’re being reFCQed

The past week I have followed a rather standard routine. A sample process flow for a day is given below… note for sake of readability it has been shown as a single flow, however it is a vicious cycle. Today…