• The MBA Dilemma II - Ranking Analysis

    The Financial Times does a BORDA COUNT on all the factors responsible for ranking a B-School. However, some of these factors are not really "factors of competition". So from a voting perspective this article looks at the modified rankings of B-Schools, using the PLURALITY method of voting, considering the effect of removing the insignificant factors. The current article will look at the intimidating number of...
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    The Popcorn Theorem

    This experiment started about a month ago, when I noticed that no matter at whichever setting you pop the microwave popcorn, there are always some kernels left unpopped. So either there must be an optimal setting of the microwave OR these kernels should not be there in the packet. I tried to pop various packets at different power levels at different times in the Microwave. The recommended settings are usually...
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  • The data as reported by 78 people

    Social technologies and time interruptions

    This is an analysis of how to strategically think about adopting a new social technology – if you value your freedom that is. The DATA: I asked a lot of my friends about what isthe time they think that occurs between interruptions, if one has access to any of the social technologies listed below – and here are the results: (for all practical purposes “Boss” is considered as a technology) I assumed (as is us...
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  • Key Financial Information

    Free Lunch for Yahoo!

    The online landscape: Yahoo! wants to spread some cheer to Internet users around the world. A leading online portal, Yahoo! draws people to its network of Web sites with a mix of news, entertainment, and shopping, as well the revitalized Bing search engine (powered by Microsoft). The company also offers registered users personalized Web pages, e-mail, and message boards. Yahoo! publishes content in some 30...
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  • The MBA Dilemma III - Salary Trends

    And now the big one. Salary. Why big? Money makes the world go round. I ain't saying it. Its general consensus. In this article we plan to look at post-MBA salaries across various industries and sectors. Naturally, these depend on the number of years of work experience, the pre-MBA profile, how well defined are the aims of the candidate and the list goes on and on and on. In fact a company called Wetfeet publishes...
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  • Looks simple to me...

    Blockbuster Suicide - talk about a Kamikaze business model

    http://www.geek.com/articles/news/blockbuster-express-digital-rent-movies-on-sd-cards-20091110/# Last week Kingston announced it was going to start bundling movies with sales of Flash memory products, this week Blockbuster has announced you can start renting movies on SD cards. Now correct me if I'm wrong but out of the following two scenarios what looks good? This is what a sane human (Blockbuster management...
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  • A Critical Assessment of "Marketing Myopia"

    I did this as an assignment on the MBA. Since it is my own work - I chose to declassify it. A critical assessment of “Marketing Myopia” – Theodore Levitt, Harvard Business Review, 1975 in context of the contemporary Green Energy Industry. If you have pests in your house, what do you do? Build better and better mousetraps, or actually address the cause of infestation? For decades many companies have learnt the trut...
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  • The MBA Dilemma

    After getting TONS of experience now for one year of researching GMAT and MBA stuff, I present prospective with MBAs some results of my research. In this post I shall be discussing only MBA degrees offered by colleges accepting GMAT and/or TOEFL scores for the same. Ok. Let's assume that you have already taken a decision to get an MBA. The reasons might be varied. You hate your job - want to switch an industry....
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  • The war

    GOOG? MSFT? AAPL?

    A good intellectual discussion on Google's Strategy, between two great thinkers on Planet Earth. Me After relentlessly aping Yahoo (email, maps, search, messenger, local), Apple (G1, App Store, et al), Microsoft (OS, Live mail, Docs, Browser), Google sets its eyes on Facebook. I think they should get an award for being the least creative company in the world - the only innovation they came up with was Google...
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  • Why is it so hard to read others' minds?

    I know you think you understand what you thought I said, but I'm not sure you realised that what you heard is not what I meant. Rebecca Saxe tries to address the problem of how we develop the neural infrastructure to think about others' thoughts. The region of the brain called the RPTJ can actually, on external stimulation change people's perceptions of what is fair and what is not.
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FIFA and clairvoyance

Jul 7th

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Now its just between me and the “psychic octopus” Let’s see. I don’t know the octopus’s prediction as of now.But even if I’m wrong I wont blame it on “poor quality” of data analyzed. After all the game is meant to be Enjoyed. Go Netherlands!

Girls

…of words left unsaid.

May 28th

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…culled somewhere random from the internet.

Bollywood.NET ++

May 10th

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I was never a good programmer – partly because programming was a hobby, so after a couple of TSRs and smoke-bellowing programs, these having no relevant link to my profession – I diverted my energy to other things – like jumping out of planes. Oh, well… So here’s to CODING! Except that it envisions snippets

Where to...?

“META”morphosis

May 2nd

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To Do list

Apr 17th

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Base Fortune, now I see, that in thy wheel
There is a point, to which when men aspire,
They tumble headlong down. That point I touched,
And, seeing there was no place to mount up higher,
Why should I grieve at my declining fall?
Farewell, fair Queen, weep not for Mortimer,
That scorns the world and, as a traveller,
Goes to discover countries yet unknown.

-Christopher Marlowe, in his last play, Edward II

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The Oscars Nightout 9:00pm-8:00am Bahrain

Apr 8th

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I am becoming a nerd...

The onset of Nerdity

Feb 14th

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Just my luck?

Feb 4th

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This entry is part 7 of 7 in the series The "Why me" Syndrome

No. I am NOT Mrs. Nahar. Really, I’m not.

Jan 24th

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This entry is part 1 of 7 in the series The "Why me" Syndrome

So here I am flying Qatar Airways from Manchester to Doha. Headed to Bahrain from Doha on Qatar as well. The pit-stop between two connecting flights is 20 minutes. The flight is supposed to take off from Manchester at 1400, it takes off at 1515. I was really impressed by the onboard flight entertainment system,

The horror movie food chain

The Texas food-chain massacre…

Jan 13th

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This entry is part 2 of 2 in the series The Eclair Glitch Project

In stark contrast to the usually accepted pecking order, I found out that Hollywood horror movies have a very different food chain:

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