Reflections Of Life

Elective term begins

Monday, October 17, 2005

Started with the Logistics and Supply Chain Management – am doing this out of general interest(!). Today’s class was very generic but we have a case to submit in the next class… guess it would be more interesting as the course develops.

Next came Financial Reporting & Analysis – the prof. Suren Mansinghka is supposed to be very good for this course – again the class was just an introduction class and so not much to say.

Then came the Options & Futures taken by our dean MR Rao… he is the invisible man in ISB who became visible today to the students. He assumed that we had done a lot of this stuff in our Investments class (!!!...did we…!!!) and went on to a lecture that left more than half the class dozing off (2.30 pm timing also had a major role to play) and the other half trying the catch the transmissions that were trying to go over the head! I kept myself awake till the last 15 mins when the 6 hours fatigue took over and I left the transmissions to fly above my head!

Tomorrow I have the fixed income and advanced corporate finance class… The fixed income professors – Avner Kalay and Ahron Rosenfeld, both from Israel – are supposed to be very good. This was one topic which left me blank when I did my investments paper… so hopefully I understand something better here. The teaching skills of the advanced corporate finance prof Sankar De is well known, so I know what to expect in class tomorrow :-)

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