last week at IIFT

And finally it came to last 6 days here at IIFT. Coming Saturday shall be my last paper exams at IIFT. Subject is advance forecasting techniques (AFT) which include time series analysis, ARIMA, co-integration etc. It is one step away from my pet subject on list – Econometric. After Sunday’s exam (Subject Strategic Market Planning

Trisem V course subjects

I have one term-end and project work before start another interesting tri-sem (V). Following is course contents. I shall share summary of tri-sem IV next week.   ECO 11              International Trade Logistics                   Prof. Ram Singh ECO 22      

4th trimester progress

It’s been 1 month since start of 4th trimester at School. Few subjects turned out far more interesting than others – International Economics (IE) that includes Trade and New Trade theory is quite interesting. Extended Financial mgmt. (FM2) includes working capital, inventory & cash mgmt. valuations in Merger & Acquisitions. As usual there are not

NPTEL

Exec MBA (weekend batches or part-time) is usually fast paced program. Sometimes, you don’t follow complete concepts and/or you want to learn at your own pace or relearn few things. Recently when I faced same situation for operational research subject, one of my course mate suggested URL  https://onlinecourses.nptel.ac.in/explorer/search?category=MGMT_STUDIES portal for courses conducted by IITs + IISc.

Motivation

During last class of Organization behavior, we studies motivation factor. There are 3-4 good studies – namely Maslow’s Hierarchy of needs Alderfer’s ERG Thoery Motivation-Hygiene Theory McClelland’s Theory of needs There was one theory I could easily co-relate was “syndrome of setup to fail”. There is HBR article on what are exact situations in which

End of Trisem#2

Yesterday was end of 2nd trimester. I still have 7 more such trisemester before end of MBA. Following are subjects for this trisem. Entrepreneurship (2Credit) Finance Mgmt (3 Credit) International Marketing (3 Credit) International Trade operation and documentation (boot strap course for any international Trade – 3 Credit) Organization Behavior (HR course – 2 Credit)

Summary of Trimester#2

Today was class-education courses for trimester. Here is my rating of various subjects and their books offered and take away from this course. Macroeconomics – Well taught by Professor Dr. Jaydeep Mukherjee and course contents were planned such that into provide intro of ME and setup much needed base to explore further in International Finance

Aggregate Demand!

Recently I studies Slides of “Eco” class from Paul Krugman (URL posted in earlier blog post). Paul is consistent in saying “How should we bring Aggregate Demand to pre-2008 Level”. It is major challenge to entire world to bring back growth – either via Fiscal Policy, Monetary Policy or Influencing Consumer confidence. This could be

Currency & Forex Risk

Several years ago, during one of those school’s Diwali vacation at home on Diwali night, I experienced how light travels faster than sound – by watching Diwali rockets light flashed in the sky much earlier than actual sound I heard. I felt so joyed by experiencing this small miracle of Science that insisted on experiencing

New Trimester & Diwali

It’s about 3 weeks when I posted my entry to this blog. In mean time, I toured Banglore, Pune for one more time – this time from Domestic terminal at Delhi. I had some good co-passenger on my way. I also forgot my phone in Uber cab on way to Airport.  I must thanks to