Admissions @ IWSB

I m thrilled by a series of new experiences at IWSB. Last sunday I was involved in the admission process for the second batch of PGP for IWSB and the whole experience was amazig and nostalgiac. It reminded me of all the admission processess that I went through at different colleges but IWSB stood out in all because of its unique process which does not involve the same noisey and chaotic group discussions and boring interviews which does not try to test the potential manager in you. Instead of GD we have the concept of group task where in the group is given a unique task which they have to complete working in a team and interviews try to find the kind of person you are and the hidden potential manager in you.
This time we had a very good response for the admissions and those appeared had a very good diverse profiles, some with work experience too. The camdidates were really good and they too had a very good over all experience. They had the opportunity of meeting the current students of IWSB and freely exchanged their views on IWSB. We too had the opportunity of sitting in the panel for interviews and it was a refreshing experience. Our interaction with the candidates prior to interviews made them feel relaxed when they saw us on the panel. Though we had to survive on just two pieces of sandwiches and a couple of cup of coffee for the whole day.
It was a good learning experience as whole as i got to know how and what kind of students should be selected by a B school.

meeting the global entrepreneurs

We at IWSB got our first global exposure when we had entrepreneurs coming from big international companies like oxfam and bayer etc. Thanks to our management for arranging such an enriching session with such industry experts who were like management school in themselves. They were some people who had stood the test of time and had fought back most difficult of situations and came on top. Our group of 9 students got to meet Dr. Azita Owlia- vice president, regional marketing of bayer material science of asia pacific region. She insisted on respecting the diversity of employees in a multinational and we should attach the emotions of people in leadership which would throw open the huge unfolded potential infront of u specially in a diverse country like India. Prof. Subi Rangan of INSEAD of strategy an American Indian guided the guests to show how the human capital is developed in India with the most basic of infrastructure available to them.
I hope they were amazed and it was a great learning for them as well. Those guests were also impressed by the warm welcome they got by the student community. We also made them plant tree saplings at our campus which many of them were doing for the first time in their lives.