The week(s) from hell…..

Yes, I am back from Earth’s darkest corners aka the IMD dungeons and Lorange……I must apologize to my 1.5 readers and any applicants who (like some of us did last year) were eagerly reading the blogs with no fresh information….it’s been the week(s) from hell…..between last week and this week we have had 2 applied finance exams (the first one definitely killed me), 7 job applications (and this is just the ones I applied to…I know some of my classmates who have had many more), 2 deadlines for papers, a full day of an innovation exercise, a strategy group case assignment, a Brazilian party, my lovely sister in law and her husband visiting us for a week, company presentations, our ICP 2(International Consulting Project) client and scoping meetings….and wait did I mention that we have a few more deadlines this week and our final integrative exercise coming up at the end of the week (yes, the one where we are forced to pretend that we can function on caffeine and absolutely no sleep for 2 days while trying to solve assignments that encompass everything we have learnt so far)….and oh wait, we have OCR (on campus recruitment) starting for 2 weeks from Monday! The word overwhelmed would be a mild statement to describe the way I feel…

Amidst all this intensity, we had our last Strategy class with Prof. Margaret today…fortunately for my ICP group, she is our faculty director so we will be seeing more of her in October…we had our last leadership class, our last innovation class and I guess tomorrow will be our last applied finance class……

My new ICP 2 project focuses on helping an emerging IT solutions company develop a global partnership strategy and I think we have an absolutely great team…..I will most definitely miss my previous team where we laughed every minute even if it meant working into the early hours of the morning or working on the plane en-route the client site….we have become close friends and have many ICP 1 memories from all the way in Helsinki to London through Lasuanne....having said that my ICP 2 team comprises of my Russian-Canadian, Tunisian-French, Canadian, Romanian, Russian classmates and my Indo-Dubai self…….between us we have backgrounds in M&A, Strategy, Business Development, IT, Telecom, Project Management, Consulting, Sales, General Management, etc……we start our project in October and until then we keep busy with first round of interviews….

While we say goodbye to a number of classes, we are also approaching those first interviews, case preparations, applications and all those things which looked like an eternity away earlier this year…

We bloggers will definitely try to update ya’ll with more info but if you don’t see us around, be sure to know that we are running on the espresso train to destination no sleep!

Ciao Ciao!

Vikas Menon