Dear All,
Pls. find below the summary of Mr.Raman Nuranis guest lecture that happened on November 3, 2008.
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Mr.Raman Nurani, Senior Director, KLA Tencor India, gave a lecture on the semiconductor industry, on the global scale and the industry in India.
He began with the basics of what exactly a semiconductor is. He went deep into how they are made, the materials used, the production processes involved etc. The numbers he mentioned and the scales discussed were mind boggling. The fact that a few microns could hold millions of transistors was already known to most of the audience. But when he showed actual pictures showing these amazing structures, the effect was one of amazement and awe.
He discussed where semiconductors were used and the applications in today's major electronics industries. At the same time, he also discussed the major manufacturers of semiconductors around the world and some projections of future demand.
He ended the day with some projections of where the semiconductor industry was going and a brief insight into the applications of the future that would drive demand.
All in all, it was an extremely informative session and was appreciated by all present.
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Mr. R. Venkat Subramani, CFO Variman Capital Markets Services Pvt Ltd, visited Great Lakes on 6th Nov 2008. He spoke about the current Global Financial Crisis. During the session, he compared the current financial crisis with other historical financial crisis and how is the current one different from the others. He described the sub-prime crisis and the stakeholders of the crisis. He gave an analysis view of the crisis based upon the CDS instruments and how long it might continue. The question and answer session following the discussion was just as informative and interesting as the session with a high degree of student participation.
hi guys,
could you please shed light on the learning experience in great lakes....
i have some questions lined up which go as follows....
what is the common thread/vision/passion that binds all Glakers...
which attributes are most prominent among Glakers...
what differentiates Glake "MBA experience" from others in india and abroad?
how well can a Glaker be acknowledged for oversees (outside campus) placements ?
I have a 3.5 yr experience in research and development, as a chem engineer, not very managerial work, just a tech executive.. do you have similar profiles in your class? how can i get in touch with them? what career path have they taken... you see, i have many a questions lined up... is there any visit that Glake has planned for mumbai aspirants? or kindly suggest me where can i get my questions answered.
the questions asked for essays, are quite unusual wrt other mba essays that i've seen, with a lot of emphasis on character/values/heart... could you please explain the reasoning behind such topics?
thanks for your valuable inputs and time,
regards,
Neha
hi guys,
could you please shed light on the learning experience in great lakes....
i have some questions lined up which go as follows....
what is the common thread/vision/passion that binds all Glakers...
which attributes are most prominent among Glakers...
what differentiates Glake "MBA experience" from others in india and abroad?
how well can a Glaker be acknowledged for oversees (outside campus) placements ?
I have a 3.5 yr experience in research and development, as a chem engineer, not very managerial work, just a tech executive.. do you have similar profiles in your class? how can i get in touch with them? what career path have they taken... you see, i have many a questions lined up... is there any visit that Glake has planned for mumbai aspirants? or kindly suggest me where can i get my questions answered.
the questions asked for essays, are quite unusual wrt other mba essays that i've seen, with a lot of emphasis on character/values/heart... could you please explain the reasoning behind such topics?
thanks for your valuable inputs and time,
regards,
Neha
Hi Neha,
The common vision that binds all Great Lakes is that this is an institute that has the potential to scale heights and we shall do our part to be the instruments of change....the common thread that binds us together is our love and respect we have for the institute....
The most prominent attributes about Great Lakers is each one is an expert in his/her area of domain expertise that he/she brings as part of the previous job which makes the learning experience different and refreshing....and of course, everybody out here is very helpful to each other and we share good camaraderie..
ours is a 1 year MBA which is the biggest differentiator from other MBA programs.....managing time in terms of assignments, exams, projects, extra curricular is a challenge and it gives a high every time we succeed in balancing all these things.....people here come from diverse backgrounds and the knowledge and the thinking they bring to the classroom is something to watch out for.....
Great Lakes has tieups with various other universities like Nanyang, Yale and Stuart School of Business, Illinois......also, next year, we will become a deemed university and we will be autonomous.....we will also be going for international accreditation....which will come into effect retrospectively...this will mean a wider acceptance of the degree we are offering...
yes, we do have similar profiles.....and i can speak about the last batch that passed out and they have landed with good profiles and salaries.....give me sometime and i will get back to you about ppl you can talk to......earlier this year, we had the Meet the Dean session at Mumbai.....if we have any plans of revisiting these places, we will let you know....
In the meantime, if you have doubts regarding your chances of getting the call or application form particulars, you can post them on this thread....
http://www.pagalguy.com/discussions/great-lakes-admissions-2009-25034065
If you have queries about the institute, you can post them on the thread below:
http://www.pagalguy.com/discussions/2008-ask-great-lakes-chennai-official-query-thread-feat-admission-director-25035157
As far as the essays are concerned, these are not your conventional SOP type essays......we all very well know that all the aspirants have a practiced answer to such questions and it becomes difficult to differentiate candidates.....questions about character/values/heart are very subjective and that calls for some interpretation from the candidates.....which is a more accurate way of looking at the competencies such as clarity of thought, ethics, logical thinking, interpretation skills....etc...
Hello GL team,
Do we have any news about the New campus on ECR road?
Regards,
Hello GL team,
Do we have any news about the New campus on ECR road?
Regards,
Hi Armstrong,
The new campus will be completed on time....you guys will have the privilege of being the first occupants.....
Hi There,
Firstly, I want to congratulate you for the great job you're doing!
I had a few questions about GLakes and I hope that you can address them.
1. I see that GLakes has a MoU with Yale, NTU etc. Could you please elaborate on the nature of the MoU and how students such as yourself benefit from the same?
2. Is GLakes looking forward to setting up International Exchanges with the above universities or any other schools?
Looking forward to your reply.
Thanks in advance,
Sameer
Hi There,
Firstly, I want to congratulate you for the great job you're doing!
I had a few questions about GLakes and I hope that you can address them.
1. I see that GLakes has a MoU with Yale, NTU etc. Could you please elaborate on the nature of the MoU and how students such as yourself benefit from the same?
2. Is GLakes looking forward to setting up International Exchanges with the above universities or any other schools?
Looking forward to your reply.
Thanks in advance,
Sameer
Hi Sameer,
As of now, the MoU is strictly of the nature of research and faculty collaboration. The students are taught by the visiting faculty from these schools. Yes, once the new campus comes up, we plan to have student exchange programs too...
Mr.Ravindran, Managing Director of Society for Human Resource Management visited Great Lakes on 13th February 2009. Ravi has experience of more than 30 years in industry and has occupied several positions like the EVP & Head Global HR with Covansys and has worked with Pepsi India, ANZ Grindlays Bank, Ersnt & Young leading their HR departments. Ravi enthralled the audience by talking on the current trends in the field of HR with respect to the current slowdown in the world economy. He also touched upon what is in store for the economy in the short and medium term and talked about how various industry verticals are expected to fare. The lecture was well received and interactive and many students came up with brilliant queries that added lustre to the lecture.
Hi Great Lakers on PUYS,
Are you guys at GLakes of a new MBA college in Mumbai , which goes by the name : Mumbai Business School ?
Here is an article published in the Financial Chronicle, Mumbai :
Mumbai to get its own ISB | mydigitalfc.com
Mr. Bala Balachandran is one of the directors of this new setup.
Mumbai Business School - MBS
Mumbai Business School set for launch
Can any one of you Great Lakers please help in fetching some first hand info regarding Mumbai Business School from Uncle Bala himself...
Your efforts may help many students in deciding their next step forward...
Thanks in advance !
Cheers...
HI all,
Just thought would take the honour of posting some pics of the new campus courtesy Jags of the Patriots batch. IT had been our dream to call something as our campus and here is the dream which has been given some shape. It gives us immense joy and relief to see this building come to fruition. way 2 go Freat lakes and Thanks Uncle Bala for building and nurting this gurukula.
Why is this thread dead? ::|:
Interpols International Drug Expert Mr. Ramachandra Sundaralingam on Drug trade & Drug addiction
Mr. Ramachandra Sundaralingams lecture had an air of investigation, and was filled with rich anecdotal references interspersed with the ominous nature of future awaiting the progeny. He shared with us, the global drug trafficking scenario; modes of mischief and notoriety that Italian, Columbian and Russian mafia are known for.
He pointed out that the fall of Berlin wall was a moment of significance, a milestone for the future generations to look back upon us and ruminate. But, he remarked today, the mafia, by their contrived use of global platforms has made the episode of globalization, a terrible curse. From his 17 years of service with the Interpol as a police officer, he observed that the fall of communism and the globalization thereof have been the most catalytic moments that throttled the drug trafficking and propelled it into new heights hitherto impossible.
Mr. Sundaralingam commented on the plight and pitiful state of some of the undeveloped nations and their exposure to drug trafficking. Quoting from his experience, he noted that 80% of cocaine is produced in Columbia, 80% of heroin from Afghanistan. He added that the UN mandate aimed at reducing both the supply and demand for drugs. The incorrigible nature of drug traffickers and addicts is such that they have, in the compulsive mood, committed horrendous crimes and misdemeanors. Speaking of Afghanistan, he remarked that of two sons in a family in Afghanistan, one embraces al-Qaeda and the other opium. He added that smitten with poverty, drained of hunger, eclipsed by grief, the people of the nation have took to producing opium.
With reference to the death of a plastic surgeon in Mexico, Mr. Sundaralingam remarked that the cap to humanity is smeared; the drug addicts and traffickers are individuals of lacerated self esteem, they have become prey to the powerful trade, they are rid of curiosity, they have become impervious to the lives of people that they have victimized. The speaker then spent some time on the methods of concealment and the training schools of drug traffickers.
In culminating the momentous lecture, he pointed to the screen with two legends-one of Sachin Tendulkar, and the other Osama Bin Laden. A 12 year old in Afghanistan, thrown into the corner of a decrepit, misogynistic, malevolent, pestilential and metamorphosed society, finds refuge in AK-47, burns a house here, and kills a man there, aspiring to become Osama Bin Laden one day. While the class awaited in silence that put a serene lake in shame, he turned around, cleared his throat and observed that a 12 year old in India, with MRF bat in his hand, whirls the timber in cramped streets of every city in the country, breaking a glass window here, a cars window there, and dreams of becoming Sachin Tendulkar one day.
He implored us all to respect the tradition that India is host to, the culture and family values by their inherent apparatus have saved us from the capricious minds outside. But, the fashionable western trends are burning holes into the ozone protection of family values that we stake our lives against. Mr. Sundaralingam prodded us, to embrace the culture that we are, and not dilute the atmosphere that piques the curiosity of the young ones, that lets the young ones dream of becoming Sachin Tendulkar one day.
Mr. Ramachandra Sundaralingams lecture had an air of investigation, and was filled with rich anecdotal references interspersed with the ominous nature of future awaiting the progeny. He shared with us, the global drug trafficking scenario; modes of mischief and notoriety that Italian, Columbian and Russian mafia are known for.
He pointed out that the fall of Berlin wall was a moment of significance, a milestone for the future generations to look back upon us and ruminate. But, he remarked today, the mafia, by their contrived use of global platforms has made the episode of globalization, a terrible curse. From his 17 years of service with the Interpol as a police officer, he observed that the fall of communism and the globalization thereof have been the most catalytic moments that throttled the drug trafficking and propelled it into new heights hitherto impossible.
Mr. Sundaralingam commented on the plight and pitiful state of some of the undeveloped nations and their exposure to drug trafficking. Quoting from his experience, he noted that 80% of cocaine is produced in Columbia, 80% of heroin from Afghanistan. He added that the UN mandate aimed at reducing both the supply and demand for drugs. The incorrigible nature of drug traffickers and addicts is such that they have, in the compulsive mood, committed horrendous crimes and misdemeanors. Speaking of Afghanistan, he remarked that of two sons in a family in Afghanistan, one embraces al-Qaeda and the other opium. He added that smitten with poverty, drained of hunger, eclipsed by grief, the people of the nation have took to producing opium.
With reference to the death of a plastic surgeon in Mexico, Mr. Sundaralingam remarked that the cap to humanity is smeared; the drug addicts and traffickers are individuals of lacerated self esteem, they have become prey to the powerful trade, they are rid of curiosity, they have become impervious to the lives of people that they have victimized. The speaker then spent some time on the methods of concealment and the training schools of drug traffickers.
In culminating the momentous lecture, he pointed to the screen with two legends-one of Sachin Tendulkar, and the other Osama Bin Laden. A 12 year old in Afghanistan, thrown into the corner of a decrepit, misogynistic, malevolent, pestilential and metamorphosed society, finds refuge in AK-47, burns a house here, and kills a man there, aspiring to become Osama Bin Laden one day. While the class awaited in silence that put a serene lake in shame, he turned around, cleared his throat and observed that a 12 year old in India, with MRF bat in his hand, whirls the timber in cramped streets of every city in the country, breaking a glass window here, a cars window there, and dreams of becoming Sachin Tendulkar one day.
He implored us all to respect the tradition that India is host to, the culture and family values by their inherent apparatus have saved us from the capricious minds outside. But, the fashionable western trends are burning holes into the ozone protection of family values that we stake our lives against. Mr. Sundaralingam prodded us, to embrace the culture that we are, and not dilute the atmosphere that piques the curiosity of the young ones, that lets the young ones dream of becoming Sachin Tendulkar one day.
The admission process for Great Lakes Institute of Management starts.
You can log on to below url to do the same
Great Lakes
Direct yourr queries to
[email protected]
hi puys,
is Great Lakes a profile based B school? i cant read the whole 180 pages puys.
hi puys,
is Great Lakes a profile based B school? i cant read the whole 180 pages puys.
Hi,
Yes.
A complete assessment of the application is done on the basis of CAT/GMAT score, acads, work-ex, essays and extra-curricular activities. For further details or specific queries please contact the admissions committee at [email protected]
The admission process for Great Lakes Institute of Management starts.
You can log on to below url to do the same
Great Lakes
Direct yourr queries to
[email protected]
Corrections to my previous post, the admissions id is
[email protected]
Hi,
Yes.
A complete assessment of the application is done on the basis of CAT/GMAT score, acads, work-ex, essays and extra-curricular activities. For further details or specific queries please contact the admissions committee at [email protected]
correction to the post,
please post your queries to [email protected]
September: The fun filled jam packed month
September! A month that had everything that could possibly have happened in thirty days. Ganesh chaturthi had just gone by and people were under its euphoria when Sanghamitra took place, our bi-annual college festival. The hostel came alive during this period, there were practices for dance, singing, fashion show, skits etc in every nook and corner, much before the event was supposed to take place. So when the actual event arrived, everyone was very well prepared and executed their part to perfection. This day saw the whole set of 260 come to the newly inaugurated India Cements amphitheatre and enjoy every part of the show which ranged from singing, dancing, skits, fashion show, miming and the in house rock show. Moreover everyone hit the dance floor at the end of the whole event, and that was the time when everyone let their hair down and had a blast. A day which captured everyones imagination and brought in some fun, in the otherwise hectic work schedule of a Great Laker.
Two days after Sanghamitra was the much awaited event, the HR Conclave which saw almost 300 HR executives visiting our campus from various parts of the country. The preparation for HR Conclave was on from the time the new session began, and this day saw people getting ready from 4am in the morning to receive guests to until about 11pm in the night when the guests left the campus after a successful event.
Just a couple of days more and the event called Mr and Miss Dillogical was organized by the BIG FM group, needless to say all the participants were heavily geared up for the event! Big FM had organized a host of competitions for all the participants from blowing balloons, to selling items and performing a stage show, which was not only an exhilarating experience for them but for the audience as well. Mr and Miss Dillogical were selected from the all the set of participants.
Two days more and the college witnessed a sports event which was to go on for about a month with events like badminton, basketball, volleyball and football; what made it more exciting was that all the four sections were vying for the top spot which made it tremendously competitive. The finals of the volleyball matches was the night to look out for. Despite having three assignments to complete the following day, almost half of the college was on the ground to cheer for their respective teams.
Meanwhile there was a Chinese skit which was supposed to be performed by everyone, and boy oh boy what professional skits, it was mind-blowing to say the least. The CII conference followed next, it was a two day event and our college was invited for its participation. A few students got a chance to share the space with the industry big wigs including the Minister of State for Communications and IT, Sachin Pilot.
It was the month of Ramzan, and an iftaar party was organized for the whole college with a few goodies meant for the occasion. Not to mention it drew a lot of participation from the college folks. This was followed by Eid where the students were presented with the traditional sweet meant for the festival, Sewaiayan. All these festivals reinforce the ethos and values that Great Lakes stands for where-in all the national festivals are celebrated by one and all with equal fervour and enthusiasm.
The fun session was still in progress when we had the daunting task of completing seven exams in about 50 hrs. There was hardly anyone who slept for the two nights during the exams. The hour that followed the last exam cannot be mentioned in words; it was the time when students were to get back home after a gap of more than 5 months, and everyones faces were cheerful and bright despite the sleepless nights and hard work which went while preparing for the exams.
Meanwhile a set of students were preparing to leave for the International study tour to Malaysia and Singapore. This tour would facilitate the students to view the world with a broader perspective and would include university visits as also the local sight-seeing, a trip not many would want to miss.
A barrage of events and activities makes this month by far the most eventful month till date!
Mr. Srivatsa Krishna presented to the class, facts about Indias dominance in the world. He shared with us, figures on the infrastructure spending of India. And, he commented on the stark contrast between the two. Referring to some of the major and successful infrastructure programs of the recent times, such as the Golden Quadrilateral road network, he observed that the progress is palpable. Speaking about Gujarats GIFT project, he expressed his optimism on Indias predominance in the years to come.
The speaker observed that Indias spending on infrastructure is dismally low. He ascribed this state of inept approach towards the most defining parameter of progress of a nation, partly to the underpinning of democratic framework in our nation. He contended that, although corrupt politics are to blame, the private sectors cannot be left out of the sphere of culpability. Furthermore, he cautioned that the reliance on private sectors is neither the panacea nor is the efficacy of private sector involvement over the public sectors empirically proved.
He later turned his attention towards the systematic adulation of India in comparison to China. He argued that the two nations operate on radically different philosophies and the comparison is not only facetious at the face of it but also fallacious. He pointed out that the Shatabdi express, Indias fastest train travels at 130km/hr against the 430 km/hr train of China. He also commented on the phenomenal growth of infrastructure sector in the city of Shenzhen, which grew from a mere nothingness to a mammoth city of 3984 sky scrappers.
Mr. Srivasta Krishna explained that the democratic framework that runs through the fabric of our society is omnipresent, omniscient and has protected us from the viral foreign invasions. But, democracy comes with a price, and the price is the gradual and selective progress (as in India) as opposed to the rapid development (as in China). To substantiate the point, quoting from his experience, he noted that the Chinese government in their land acquisition operations paints the local houses in red, yellow, white and the authorities with unquestionable power of the rule proceed to dismantle the houses without paying heed to the plight of the people living in the houses. But, here in India, land acquisitions are painfully slow. From his anecdotal experience, he quoted the hilarious episode of three individuals in Hyderabad claiming the hussain sagar lake, in response to the governments land acquisition orders in the city.
With a wild tiger exuding grandeur in the background in his presentation, the speaker concluded the session by asking us The tiger is roaring, India is ready, are you?