As soon as we got breather from Term II exams on 16th August, the focus shifted to the 2 weeks international immersion program in Singapore, one of the top ten financial centers of the world. A trip to East Asian was a first to me like to many of us and probably first trip outside the country for few…
I hope my first blog on our Korea trip provided relevant information to you readers. This is of course assuming that some of you took time to open the link and browse through the post (Lol!). Never mind, as a writer my job is to disseminate as much information as possible to you readers. This post…
After my Korea trip, an eye-opener of sorts, the ‘Argumentative Indian’ in me has subsided and has given way to finding coherence in chaos. In this blog, I reflect on the trip and some of the key take aways. So far I have visited Canada and Thailand – Canada for three years and Thailand for about 7 days. Canada is…
Our tour guide to the Demilitarized Zone told us a very interesting story of the contest between South and North Korea on who would have the bigger flagpole. Apparently in response to the 50m high flagpole setup by South Korea on its border, North Korea responded by setting up a 80m tall flagpole. South Korea…
As part of the international immersion programme, the students of EPGP at IIM Bangalore toured to South Korea to study and witness in person the marvellous devices of growth that the country has made. The international immersion programme was designed by Korean Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), Seoul, and the university’s Business school…
I am a regular Listener of Econtalk, where an Economics scholar (Russell Roberts) talks with luminaries of the field about various aspects of political economy. This week I listened with interest to Prof Amar Bhide of Columbia business school talk about outsourcing and venturesome economy. I was hooked early on when he talked about the…
