The following article was contributed by Prof. Debasis Mishra of the Indian Statistical Institute, New Delhi as part of a campus recruitment initiative for an Master of Science programme in Quantitative Economics. For a very well written paper on the subject by Prof. Mishra with illustrative examples from the real world, click here. What is Quantitative [...]
Friday, November 13, 2009
A Bangalore based start up, Capillary provides mobile based customer management solutions, meaning it helps businesses understand the needs of and effectively communicate with their customers through mobile services. One of the co-founders of Capillary, Krishna Mehra (06, RK, CS) shares his experience with us. TSA: Firstly, a hearty congratulations on winning the Qualcomm Business Plan [...]
Sunday, November 1, 2009
Don’t let the IIT faculty strikes fool you. For the academically inclined, IIXs are still the best. T. A. Abinandanan is a Professor in the Department of Materials Engineering at the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore. He writes extensively on a wide range of topics concerning higher education in India, particularly the IITs, IIMs, IISc and [...]
Saturday, September 19, 2009
The Scholars’ Avenue wishes to thank the faculty member who contributed this very excellent article. In deference to his wishes, the article is anonymous. I am a through and through mediocre person except for occasional bouts of intelligence exhibited typically during leap years. Matters could have been far worse but for the fact that God, in [...]
Saturday, September 12, 2009
I had never dreamt I would set foot into IIT Kharagpur’s classrooms one day. Being a student there was out of the question—I had struggled with subjects like physics, chemistry and mathematics in school. As for being a teacher there, what would I teach India’s budding scientists? IIT was another world and it did not [...]
Tuesday, November 18, 2008
If I was ever asked how bad do you see it getting, I would have said ” It will get bad , real ugly “ . But never even in a nightmare scenario did the current level of wealth destruction ever enter the null hypothesis. Wall Street has gotten smarter over the years in the way [...]
Sunday, April 13, 2008
Sramana Mitra has been an entrepreneur and a strategy consultant in Silicon Valley since 1994. Her fields of experience span from hard core technology disciplines like semiconductors to sophisticated consumer marketing industries including fashion and education. Her current focus, however, is primarily in the realms of Web 3.0 and Enterprise 3.0, and related infrastructure. She [...]
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