Am back after an amazing trip - more on that soon. Meanwhile, here's a piece I wrote for the latest issue of Businessworld magazine.
Murphy's laws of placements
- by Rashmi Bansal
Stuff expands to gobble up available space. It’s the same with money. The more of it you have, the more you gotta spend. That’s Murphy’s first law of placements — to put yet another fab B-school placement season in perspective.
Read the rest of the article here. You'll be glad to know that BW no longer has password protected access, so you can read it without any hassles.
Do keep in mind it's a tongue in cheek kind of piece, before you jump at my throat.
I suppose the high cost of earning so much will apply to a lot more besides cloths:) It takes a lot of guts to hang to your 6 year old suit, or 10 year old car, when everyone earning as well is discarding things faster than ever.
ReplyDeleteFunnily enough, the biggest moneymakers (Warren Buffett and Sam Walton)turn out to be exactly such people. Is that an exception or the rule?
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Nice article.
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Relative grading ka analogy bahut sahi laga!!
ReplyDeleteThis article is excellent in absolute means
Interesting one .
ReplyDeleteGlad to know that Business world is not asking for userid & passwrod.
Regards,
Paras Shah.
The pay-scale is inversely proportional to your exposure to office airconditioning.
ReplyDeleteIsn't it actually directly proportional??
The higher paying jobs require lesser moving around and hence more exposure :)
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ReplyDeletei like ur blog
m a little disappointed by ur explanation of what is PE ... but does not matter ... it continues the tradition of ur under-researched articles on b-schools
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ReplyDeleteawesme article....it had my entire col in splits..am in NITIE, the b-school trying to get over its ops school image..
ReplyDeletebt yes as pointed above payscales are directly propotional to air conditioning exposure..typo?
expecting more dark humor soon
Nice article in BW, you should also write about placements in IITs, sometimes B.tech from IITs get better packages than MBAs from IIMs
ReplyDeleteTop B schools can try to a little more thoughtful when branding their schools. Their fight is for better quality fo students and not just students. So they can publish diffrent data from the normal high, avg. salaries, intl. jobs, PPO etc.
ReplyDeleteThey can metion in Bold number of entrepreneurs, salary growth after 5 year of passing out. Ratio of people reaching higher management with in 10 years of passing out. etc. These could be better factors for bigger Bschools to differentiate from the herd. The absolute salaries are also dependent on buyoant economy and is a shrot term site. Growth is a long term thing.
may be when u do your next ranking, then u could spend more time on these factors and publish someting different from what most of the Business magazines cover.
this article may prove eye opener for guys running behind big bucks.I myself a budding technocrat feels its the quality of job that ultimately matters not the quantity.
ReplyDeleteyour blog is an eye opener to my guys who ran behind big bucks.Myself as a budding technocrat believes that its the quality of job that matter not the quantity.
ReplyDeleteyour blog is an eye opener to my guys who ran behind big bucks.Myself as a budding technocrat believes that its the quality of job that matter not the quantity.
ReplyDeleteyour blog is an eye opener to my guys who ran behind big bucks.Myself as a budding technocrat believes that its the quality of job that matter not the quantity.
ReplyDeleteyour blog is an eye opener to my guys who ran behind big bucks.Myself as a budding technocrat believes that its the quality of job that matter not the quantity.
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