This session was attended by Ashish Iyer (Partner and Director BCG),  Navneet Vasishth (Principal) along with three ISB alums, Akshit Shah (batch of 2007), Ankush Wadhera (batch of 2008) and Kanu Julka (batch of 2009). After a brief introduction of BCG and its values by Navneet, Ashish took charge of the session.

Ashish went on to discuss the causes and effect of the current economic crisis. He delved into the details of sub-prime lending and Credit Default Swaps (CDS). This led to a very interesting discussion with the audience on the underlying reasons for the crisis and how long the recovery will take. Ashish concluded the session with a discussion of the expected effects of this crisis on Indian economy.

This was followed by a separate session between the alums and the ICON (Internal Consulting Project) teams.  The ICON teams utilized this opportunity to clarify their doubts and to get some good ideas on how to approach their respective projects.

- Ravi Krishna (class of 2010)

It is hard to imagine the hours of effort that goes into organising an event of this size. It will go for three days and will have close to 1000 people participating.. throughout the three days there are many things planned …

This year we are having to put our sweat and tears into raising funds (yes, raising funds is part of the deal), my team has really felt the liquidity crisis.
However , organising an event like this is a real life class room and I’m sure one of the greatest experiences me and my team will take with us, so many opportunities to learn and to make friends.

We have to invite a celebrity speaker, try to see if we can get a organise a concert and plan many many more activities on a shoe string budget this year..
The theme we have decided on is ‘Heroes – The homecoming’ in times like this we all have to find the hero within ourself (okay okay I now that it is getting a bit mushy)..

There are still a million and one things to do and my day usually starts off with making 10 calls to sponsors and touching base with my team to see just how much work lies ahead for the day.. i quickly run to class try to switch to student mode..see what assignments i need to complete before night fall .. in all of this we continue to see how to push the organising along… just this morning i found out that one of the main venues that we needed was booked for something else.. so there was a lot of running around before that fire was faught… one other sponsorship prospect went from green to red.. not a good feeling but will keep on keeping on .. my friends tell me that the only word they hear from my mouth these days is Solstice and that when I have my first kid maybe i should name it Solstice (now thats not funny .

The best part is that I have a great team of people and we all lift each others spirits when any of us hit a roadblock.. We are all learning and living it together..

Hope to see all the alumni fly down this year with their capes on to be part of the event and celebrate with us….

Will keep you posted as the event takes shape…. http://www.isb.edu/Solstice

P.S I think I will head to the books now as I have a final exam in a day