Rigour and Quality

Posted on 21 Jul 2010 under Journal/Life Updates, XLRI

I’m going to have to keep this one really short because I have no time to write a proper post. Too many B-schools advocate “academic rigour”. A 30-hour contact course in XLRI supposedly requires 70 hours of work outside the classroom. We have 7.5 courses this term (one of them is a 4.5-credit course as [...]

Magic Moments

Posted on 11 Jul 2010 under Random

The difference between a “fancy” restaurant and a “not-so-fancy” one is frequently not so much the quality of the food, but the quality of the ambience, atmosphere if you will. I remember in some marketing class some time back, the professor had told us that when we pay exorbitantly at 5-star hotels, we are paying [...]