Everytime I talk to a bschooler.. I get a feeling I am talking to an automated voice mailbox. There are a few words and sentences that they can never stop using. But I think this happens the most if the conversation turns to ‘business’. I value opinions, however unacceptable they may be to me, I still value em. Since I am not from a business school, my mind does tend to wander and think .. ‘hey, wait, what would a bschool’d dude/dudette say’ about a certain business problem, strategy..blah blah.
Almost all gems of responses will have the following words in it.
1) Global
2) Comparitive advantage
3) Historically
4) Niche
5) Competitive
6) and ofcourse the word, strategic.
Invariably these words will start repeating in evey sentence….after I probe a little, entire sentences will have sentences containing only the above 6 words or so. I guess, all our bschool junta are extremely well set for a career in consulting 
. Talk talk talk.. who cares if ya make sense or not. Any more contributions to the above words, folks?
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And i made a long post on my blog about doing business with the least technical terms ever :mg: , sometimes i think is it really worth going for MBA
Posted 20 Aug 2005 at 12:40 am ¶See, you aint an MBA yet
. As for IT being worth it.. at times I have my own doubts.
Posted 20 Aug 2005 at 12:54 am ¶model, my dear Allwin, or the more technocool alternative ‘paradigm’
your post categories could do with a little creativity :p
Posted 20 Aug 2005 at 11:36 am ¶Hehe, Now, I need to watch out!!
:mg:
Posted 21 Aug 2005 at 8:12 pm ¶Global
2) Comparitive advantage
3) Historically
4) Niche
5) Competitive
6) and ofcourse the word, strategic.
yeah but historically, us MBA’s have a comparitive advantage by comeptitively focussing globally on strategic niches. sheesh !! this is actually tough to do !!
Posted 21 Aug 2005 at 10:23 pm ¶Darn..nikhil..somebody would’ve actually thought you made sense
Posted 22 Aug 2005 at 10:46 am ¶I did :p
Posted 22 Aug 2005 at 6:01 pm ¶Bah..nikhil..tera MBA ka paisa vasoool!
Posted 22 Aug 2005 at 8:29 pm ¶Yeah but he’s an MBA too
!!! Maybe we should customize that MIT CS paper generator thingy to spew MBA jargon. I could actually make a fortune writing consultancy reports with it
Posted 22 Aug 2005 at 10:47 pm ¶You forgot the favt jargon of every consultant :-
‘Core Competency’
Add ‘Brainstorming sessions’ too.
Posted 23 Aug 2005 at 12:18 am ¶How could you forget most fav of all….Blaming every second colleague of how
*and* using lingo to express the same….like I am, right now 
Posted 23 Aug 2005 at 12:32 am ¶he/she uses lingo ??
Darn..yeh.. ‘Core Competency’ .. completely forgot about that
Posted 23 Aug 2005 at 12:36 am ¶ooh ooh !! me next !!! “value add” how ’bout that
Posted 24 Aug 2005 at 12:47 am ¶what about “going forward” and i got this from a freond of mine who is studying in XLRI..”Given all this I presume the feasible date of a treat from my side can be scheduled between 10th June to 12th June. I have some other college-related commitments in Bombay, the accomplishment of which might not be possible now thereby forcing me to postpone my return by 3-4 days. So we can have the treat then. Till then, njoi urselves!!!
Posted 24 Aug 2005 at 3:18 pm ¶”
duh!!!
i’v heard “holistic approach” and consolidate
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