The second in the series in Kirloskar Institute, Harihar, known also as KIAMS.
Great ambience, learning from working executives- we only did training programs initially. The 2 year MBA came later, in 1998.
Wonderful students, from batch 1 onwards. Still in touch with Savitha, Nidhi (found out they were roommates, recently!), Achint, and met a few more too along the way- Sunil Kataria, Shweta Agarwal, Dheeraj, Smita Mohan, Vidya TC, Swapna (both in Singapore last), Sharmishtha, and Sudeshna and Nishka (with Vikram, her hubby too), Jogeswari, Padmapriya, and long ago, Aditi Sood in Kolkata before she went abroad.
An 18-hole Golf course where Gaur, Dhanapal, Vijayakumar and I played, learning from Sadanand, and the Caddies who were experts on that course. Thankful for that experience which is worth millions!
A great library, with practitioner-oriented books. Cases from Harvard, some of which became my favourites for teaching B to B marketing. Videos on Benchmarking Business Process Re-engineering, Sales (Who Killed the Sale? was a good one), Globalization with Kenichi Ohmae were the highlights.
Wrote my first book- Marketing Research-while I was there.
Many friends from the staff- we partied regularly. Pavan, Rajesh, Yuvaraj, Karibasappa, Paramehwarappa, Umesh, ...
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