Himanshu Purushottam
Deshpande
Jamnalal Bajaj Institute of Management Studies, Mumbai.
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General
Questions
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Questions related to Pre-MBA Preparation
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Questions related to Group Discussion / Group Exercise
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Interview-related Questions
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After
Joining MBA
5. After
Joining MBA
Q. After joining the
school, did you ever wish that you should have known certain more things about
the school before you became part of it? What are those?
A. The best part about management education is the unpredictability it
brings along with it. Knowing what would happen beforehand is like knowing the
question paper before the exam. "Play the game, according to the rules of the
game," is what I believe in.
Q. Is there stress
level during studies?
A. A certain amount of stress is essential to perform well I think, and I
make sure to develop it. Apart from that, neither do the subjects nor the
faculty have put me under any stress.
Q. Which one is your
best subject?
A. Communication Skills is my best subject as it is one of the most
important tools in the hand of a manager and our professor is a master teacher
of that subject.
Q. What are the
toughest area to handle in your studies?
A. Personally, I have found financial subjects tougher to handle than the
rest due to lack of any prior background, but I have enjoyed exploring the
nuances in it.
Q. Who is the best
faculty?
A. One of our professors is a operations consultant and he has a very
lucid and straightforward approach towards this very clich�d subject, and I find
him the best amongst equals.
Q. Scope of development
in your existing curriculum.
A. The curriculum is up-to-date with the industry requirements, thanks to
the important insights by our invaluable alumni spread across sectors in the
corporate world. Of course, as the time passes, keeping the syllabus such that
it produces the best managers in the country is always a challenge.
Q. Tips for those who
wish to do MBA from your school.
A. Keep only one aim in mind - JBIMS, JBIMS and JBIMS.
Unless you strive and aspire for something very hard, it almost always never
comes across your way except by sheer luck, and luck is not in our hands,
remember that. Finally, it is tough, but not impossible to get through JBIMS.
I am reminded of a story about Socrates when his disciple asked him what the
secret of success was. He took the disciple into the deep waters of a river and
tried to drown him by holding his head below the water. The disciple struggled
frantically, before Socrates pulled him out, and asked him, "What was the thing
you wanted the most when you were under water?" When the disciple replied,
"Air!", Socrates told him, that if you want success with similar intensity,
there is no way on which you cannot get it. This is one story I genuinely
believe in.
Concluded.
