Mesmerising Dr. Paul !!

Last ten days passed away like 10 minutes. We were all mesmerized by the magician Dr. Paul Prabhaker, excepting for the fact that he was not a magician but a Marketing Guru. I have never seen a Prof so focused & clear. BTW Dr. Paul teaches at Illinois Inst of Tech – Stuart School of Business- Chicago. He infact is the Asst Dean there. He is basically a IIT M - IIM C grad. He has inspired a lot of us study Marketing.



http://www.stuart.iit.edu/alumni/StuartBusiness/fac_news.htm

Dr. Paul does’nt teach only from Kotler’s book. He beautifully blends Kotler ( Summarises the book’s content) , shares a lot of his consulting experiences with Motorola & Ford & also tells about the challenges facing the world of marketing, for ex Better ways to measure CSI & the relation between CSI & Profits , How to keep the customers away from the zero economic profits point ? How to prolong the occurrence of the Zero economic point ?

Dr. Surysekhar has started taking Financial Accounting these days. He is also a IIM C grad. He is very simplistic & very gentle.Quality of all the overseas faculty is just outstanding to say the least.

Last week also was the inauguration for our new classroom. The classroom has been named Lake Veeranam. At first instance when I heard the name it was real funny. Now we are used to hearing the name.

Most important I forgot to mention , we are sleeping less than 6 hrs everyday !! Leaving college by 12:00 hrs in the night!! Life has become very hectic. Lots of assignments , projects & committee meetings.

That is the reason why I am not blogging often. However I wish to blog every week. I got be more organized & find time every week for blogging.

Finding my feet........

Today I am relatively free & hence decided to make the best use of the same. Schedule here at Great Lakes is real hectic. It is the 80:20 rule that works here & our Profs tell that for every 20 hrs of lecture we need to prepare for 80 hrs. Before every class we get to know the list of chapters we need to read & we have to read them & go for the class.

This pedagogy keeps the student up to date at any point of time & the students are real focused. Credit should go to our professors who are giving us a lot of material to read. As laptops are expected only after a week, we had a tough time even to browse / make the report in our lab. Once the laptop arrives the pressure will ease a bit.

As a part of the philosophy subject, we need to do a karmayoga project. We had visited an NGO in R A Puram. It is an NGO for special children. It basically runs a non residential school for special children ; helps them acquire social skills. They also have vocational div where these children are taught to make candles, plastic garlands , vadams etc., The products are marketed by a retailer. This way the special children also make a decent living & most important are not a burden to their family members.

This was the main objective of the Director , she said that the current public opinion of the all NGOs helping special children is of charity; she wants to change the same to a self sufficient model which will be a long term sustaining one. We have decided in our little ways to help them. First 2 weeks we will visit them & spent some time with the kids, helping them to socialize.

Lot of committees have been formed, Admissions com, Placement com, Events & PR, Entrepreneurship etc………..& lot many study groups. I am in the placement com & we have had 3-4 meetings. Though it takes time to come to a consensus, it is fun working as a team.

Tomorrow we have our first class on Financial Accounting. Life will get more hectic , what else ?? By the by, tomorrow is Sunday guys !!. This is the way how it works in a 1 year program!!