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Written on 7th June 2006

First time, first term... Yesterday, we finished our Term-I exams. So by now, I am a 12.5% MBA... LOL... At this stage, I would like to share a few insights about our Term-I Faculty... with you all...

My MBA journey started with the 'Financial Accounting' class of Prof. Mark Finn, Kellogg. Prof. Mark Finn is one of the best professors that ISB can offer... Yes... He is "The Best". He is such a wonderful professor, very humble and always grounded to earth, with ever-lasting smile on his face... and wonderful command on the subject... I just could not believe at times... that I was fortunate to talk a couple of times in his class...

Then came "Managerial Economics". This subject was taught by two professors, each shared half the term.

Prof. Amit Bubna, ISB, who taught the first part, has two distinguished qualities, which I liked the most. His passion on the subject and his dynamism are awesome. He pours such an amount of energy in the class with his lectures and makes all of us active throughout. His surprise quizzes, games and "The Economist" Contest and a lot more... show his devotion towards the subject.

Prof. Rakesh V. Vohra, Kellogg, the 'God of Economics' I can say. He took all the classes without a single PPT. Using just a small piece of paper with some toy stories, he explained the intricacies and enormities of Game Theory. Thanks ISB, for bringing such a great professor for such a tough subject.

Statistics. Both Prof. Robert A. Stine and Prof. Richard Waterman - from Wharton. Both of them showered the entire class with their subject. Especially Prof. Stine with the Null Hypothesis and Prof. Waterman with Multiple Regressions.

God! How energetic they are and what command they have? They are simply phenomenal.

Marketing. Another synonym for the word 'Marketing' is Prof. Jagmohan S. Raju, Wharton. His timely wit and deep knowledge in the subject blended together and gave a wonderful experience. The best thing to watch out is his "Photo Cold Calling". The class starts with questions about what we learnt in the previous class and the student whose photo gets flashed on the screen has to answer the question asked. Of course... if the student cannot answer it, he can nominate someone else to answer the question... But Poor Girl M - was nominated most of the times as she was the acting CR of our section.

As days pass by, some students stop recognizing their own faces. The first half of Marketing was taught by Prof. Asim M. Ansari, Columbia. He is very cool and composed. The best part is that he handled even the toughest post-lunch, sleepy sessions with his timely jokes and one-line punches and made the entire class active.

Overall... The professors are gods in their respective fields and they did a phenomenal job... Term-I ends...

Concluded.

* Contributed by -
Krishna Kishore Kotturu (Campus Associate),
Post Graduate Programme in Management, Class of 2007,
Indian School of Business, Hyderabad.