My tryst with destiny

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Sunday, September 30, 2007

What i look in B-school?

Based on priority.

Location:
In most cases, where you study is where you get employed. For past one year, this has been point of confusion. Due to personal reasons, i am looking east right now. Singapore would be fantastic but the good looking schools are in HK too. Canada would be an option if the other criteria fit well.
Curriculum: Give me anything for the core i would study. The specialisation - i am looking for something which would get me placed in tech companies. Something related technology. Though this is a rare commodity once, i am sure i could catch some schools concentrating on this part due to the current trend.
Diversity:
This is very important. Though i am not very conservative about the geological diversity, i am definetly looking for professional diversity in my class mates. No more IT people please.
Clubs: Sports related should be must. Basically i am expecting real clubs and not the name sakes.

Well i am pretty sure that i wouldn't get all the expected things in one single school. There has to be compromise somewhere.

MBA..and why

It is nice to be blog again after a long time.
Planning to do as frequent as possible.

Last time i made an entry, i was really clue less what to do. I had given gmat and the score was very less.
Well GMAT is not all that tough. It is just like getting centum in maths in public exam. Everybody is capable of doing it but not everybody does it. There is a fine line between success and failure in gmat. I wish i would have been at the other side of the line..the successful side.

Nevertheless, i was planning to give GMAT after break of month or two. But on retrospection, i was really questioning my intent of doing MBA. It has been a year since i wrote gmat. Still i have not come in terms of what i want in life. There is one thing i learnt from my life, never run away from problems. So, if someone asks why do you do MBA. i should n't be saying i do it because i don't like to carry on in s/w field. I should be saying..bcos i want to manage people, manage deadline, manage fate of the company and MBA is short cut for it.

Having indirectly said my intentions of doing MBA, one which really is a block to taking a plunge in career shift is....MBA ok what MBA? I want to work in product companies ..which run for their lives in the innovation race to save their butts. With definition of what i look in my MBA and after that, i have trouble in matching with any course offered in B-schools. Just like any MBA aspirant i dream of the board room meeting trying to explain why the company has to take this path.

Current status: Taking my time to see what is there for me in B-schools.