Raghu

Emil

Ashim

Rajesh R

Chintan

Das

Ajai

Amit

Narendra

Kapil

heard that Prof as well as course is

very interesting

It will change the way we read news and

perceive events happening around us...
one of the courses where you will feel that
1 hour 15 min is very short time

Business Policy

Business, Government and Law (1.00) Anurag

Agarwal
Entrepreneurship and New Venture Planning (1.25)
Dinesh Awasthi and Sunil Shukla

Must take course,

excellent prof, chill I also heard that the classes are
Must take,
exams, mst likely awesome. You also get it for around
I have heard that the prof is awesome excellent prof, chill wl go fr high pnts 20 points. So a must take .

Economics of Strategy (1.00) Rakesh Basant, D

Karthik

Course is overall chill..no work and

sleep ...No exams, only one
assignment...Total useless in terms of
input...(Ibru)

Foundations of Strategy Consulting (0.75) Sunil

Sharma, D Karthik

No pain; chill assg & exam; shud take

International Business (1.25) Ajeet Mathur

Innovations and Intellectual Property (0.75) Anu

Vaidyanathan

Leadership, Vision, Meaning and Reality (1.25) S

Manikutty

I have heard the prof gives pain

Lot of story books, No work, 1

assignment and exam (chillest one)
(Ibru)
I have heard that this course is painful
and I know for a fact that the prof is
painful (Aswin)

Strategy in Emerging Markets (0.75) Chitra Singla

Technology and Intellectual Property Rights (0.75)
Anu Vaidyanathan
I have heard the prof gives pain
Technology Strategy for Hi Tech Industries (0.50)
Shailendra Mehta
Centre for Innovation, Incubation and
Entrepreneurship
New Technology Application, Design and Business
Models (1.00) Rakesh Basant

Project Course on Fund Management (1.00)

Rakesh Basant
Computer and Information Systems Group
Consulting in e-Governance: From Vision to
Implementation (0.75) S.C.Bhatnagar
Digital Inclusion for Development (1.00) Kavitha
Ranganathan, S.C.Bhatnagar
Data Visualization for Decision Making (1.00)
Kavitha Ranganathan
Enterprise Digital Infrastructure (1.25) B.H.Jajoo

ERP Systems: Technology, Planning and

Implementation (0.75) V Venkata Rao

Management of Software Projects and Enterprises

(1.25) Rekha Jain

Strategic Management of Information Systems

(0.75) Rekha Jain
Center for Management in Agriculture

Bridging the Urban- Rural divide (1.00) Vaibhav

Bhamoria

Best course in
IIMA

Best course at IIMA indeed,

awesome prof., Chill load

D Karthick is huge
pain in the ass,
avoid

Chill, not much

take away
Never even go
near this course...
total pain and total
pshyco prof
You have 25
classes, and you
have to read one
book which is
allocated to you
and make PPT.
So chill course .
Learnings: Not
much but you
could hear profs
views which are
nice
Evaulation : End
term open laptop
exam & almost
everyone gets A
\m/
(Aswin)

Gives some understanding of

consulting as a career. Limited
learning, chill assignments and
exams, Prof is also chill

D Karthick is huge
pain in the ass,
avoid
Hv heard prof is
painful, nd course
is pntless

hv 2 read a whole
lot of books and
submissions
require globing
skills, tk if u r gud
at it

Never Never
Never (Ibru)

I have heard course is good; but

painful

consider if interested in
financial modelling, exposes u Take it if you want to be an
to aspects in fund raising for a entrepreneur or wish to explore VC
new venture, is not chill
as a career opportunity

Avoid, useless
pain in the ass

Have one field visit. No exams and nothing

much in assignment. But not much
learning
Must take; chillmax course; 15 min
extra assg if attnd below 80%
Awesome prof...total chill 1 mid term
and assignment
Chill, fraud max
Learnings : Not much , might give you
some idea about what ERP is about
but not really worth 15 classes
Work Load : One exam, CP, One
Project , not much work
Bid points : 60 aprox
Suggestion : Dont take , too
expensive and 0 value add
(Aswin )
Learnings : Awesome learnings and
prof gives some good inputs and
makes classes interactive. You will be
engaged in some group activity or the
other in every class. The prof is very
chill in class , but strict on attendence.
Work Load : Decent , one project ,
one PPT and workshops on class
timings , but managable
Bid points : 0 :)
Suggestion : Must take for technology
enthusiasts
PS: Prof took us out for dinner in St
Laurns in the end :)
(Aswin )
Learnings : Not much . This is almost
a repetition of the above one. The
cases almost have the same learnings
. The prof is strict on attendence.
Work Load : Higher , one individual
project , one PPT and workshops on
class timings
Bid points : 0
Suggestion : Dont take this one if you
took MSPE , else you could consider
taking it. but better avoid this one
(Aswin )
Prof is chill but
very enthu...He will
be more like friend
than prof and you
can talk about
anything to him
(Ibru)

Must take course.

very chill.
Very techie
course. chill prof.

Must take if you are interested in

Systems and Technology; Strict
about Attendance (atleast 90%);
Reasonable grades, ranging between
B and A-

chill, don't miss the guest

lectures

Must take course

for tech enthu
guys. good
learning. chill prof.
only issue is
attendence. muste
be more than 90%

Lot of assignments are given in this course

Aravind

Anil Gupta's
courses require
globing ability, tk if
u r interested in
No attendance. Go innovations r are
sleep and come
willing to endure
back (Ibru)
globe
Anil Gupta's
courses require
globing ability, tk if
u r interested in
innovations r are
willing to endure
globe
Anil Gupta's
courses require
globing ability, tk if
u r interested in
innovations r are
willing to endure
globe
Anil Gupta's
courses require
globing ability, tk if
u r interested in
innovations r are
willing to endure
globe

Understanding Creativity, Innovation, Knowledge

Networks and Entrepreneurship (1.25) Anil Gupta

GRIT: Seminar Course of Globalizing & Resurgent

India through Innovative transformation (1.25) Anil
Gupta

Management of Technology for Sustainable

Agriculture (1.25) Anil Gupta

Strategic Management of Intellectual Property

Rights (1.25) Anil Gupta
Shodh Yatra (1.25) Anil Gupta

Communications
Communicating Corporate Reputation (0.75) Asha
Kaul
Cultural Identities and Intercultural Communication
(1.00) Diane Petkova

I have heard any course with the

name "xyz Communications" is
chillmax

Must take course...One of my

regrets is not taking this course.

Prof is good,
finishes in 2
weeks, interesting
classes, mstly
videos and no
xams, only 2
essays, i wud say
mst tk course,
bidding goes high
Heard tht it ws
painful

Chill, but from learning

perspective - useless

One of the rare opportunities to learn

about media from a professional

only course on iima based on

daily feedback, must take for
Very good course. communication improvement,
chill prof.
chill prof

Must take course..High bid (ibru)

Wellstructured course....lot of insight & new

perspective to communication...enough focus on
individuals....so you will have learnings

Avoid at any cost,

painful course
painful prof !!,
biggest mistake of
mine in 2nd year
MMM is according
2 me bst comm.
prof. and evn tho
he cud b painful,
learnings are wrth
it
Fraud course,
nuthng 2 do, take if
u wnt 2 jst chill

Persuasive Communication (1.25) M.M.Monipally

Strategic Negotiation Skills for Leaders (0.75)
Satish Duryodhan
Economics
Econometric Methods for Decision Making (1.00)
Vineet Virmani, Vishwanath Pingali
Must take; any course offered by Prof
D'Souza is super chillmax

Prof is super chill

Must take, simple

but useful
knowledge

Game Theory and applications (1.25) Vishwanath

Pingali

I liked the course; chill exams; chill

prof

Labour Markets in Developing Countries (1.00)

Errol D'Souza
Monetary Theory and Policy (1.00) Errol D'Souza,
Vineet Virmani

Must take; any course offered by Prof MUST take. Chill

D'Souza is super chillmax
Max Prof
Must take; any course offered by Prof
D'Souza is super chillmax

Finance and Accounting

Alternative Investments and Hedge Funds (0.75) J.
R.Varma
JRV is considered by many as FinGod

Fixed Income Securities: Rates (0.75) J.R.Varma

One of the must take courses

Excellent course,
prof

Organizational Communication (1.25) Mukul

Vasavada

Behavioural Finance (0.50) Joshy Jacob

Fixed Income Securities: Credit ( 0.75) J.R.Varma

Fraud max. One

ppt and one
project.

except of
persuasive
communication
which requires
some effort (but
highly useful)

Media and Society - The Economics, Politics, Ethics Not superchill; prof does not give pain;
and Technologies of Mass Communication (0.50)
but attndc is compulsory; will give F if
Paranjoy Guha Thakurtha
more than 2 absent
Intercultural Communication Competence (1.00)
Meenakshi Sharma

Economics of Organization (1.25) Errol D'Souza

No attendance taken in the course. Have

to make 1 ppt and 1 assignment. Anil
Gupta Sir is pleasure to hear in this course

Try to find out where it is this year;

must take if you have bid points

Difficult Communication (1.00) Sunil Unniguptan

Managerial Communication (1.25) Brij Kothari

Take it up if you really wish to take

up entrepreneurship. It was a lot of
pain for some while it was fun for
many. No attendanc but prof gets
senti when no one comes.

MUST AVOID
COURSE. Useless
pain.

I heard he announced in the exam hall

- Do not worry guys; I won't give F
JRV is considered by many as FinGod

JRV is considered by many as FinGod

MUST take. Chill

Max Prof

Learnings : Interesting material , will

interest you if like applying quant in
everyday life . The prof is strict on
attendence and proxy is not possible
( Ask Sarun :) )
Work Load : Not much , 2 group
Learnings : Not
assugnments , 2 exams
much . This is
Bid points : 10
almost a repetition Suggestion : COuld take if you are
of the above one. interested in quant , could even be
The prof is strict on taken as a filler course
attendence.
(Aswin )
Work Load : Ok ,
one individual
project , one PPT
and workshops on
class timings

Very god course content, you may

learn a lot if you wish and if you
don't wish then also it is a very chill
course

Bid points : 0
Suggestion : Dont
take this one if you
took MSPE , else
you could consider
taking it.
(Aswin )
chill prof, learning wise - it is
basically teaching human
psychology, the finance part
is limited- had lot of research
papers but profs ppts r gud
enuf
Must take if you wish to go in
Finance. Stud Prof, very important
course content from learning
perspective, chill assignments and
one very difficult exam

Very chill course. Very chill prof

Futures, Options and Risk Management (1.25)

Sidharth Sinha
Mergers, Acquisitions and Corporate Restructuring
(1.25) Premchander, N.Venkateswaran
Managing Financial Institutions (1.25) T.T.
Rammohan
Management of Insurance Business (1.25) Samar
Dutta, Arnab Laha, Rajas Parchure
Modern Investment and Portfolio Management
(1.25) Ajay Pandey
Pricing Derivative Securities (0.75) Vineet Virmani
Principles of Transfer Pricing (0.50) Sanjay Tolia
Seminar Course on Corporate Finance (1.25)
Sidharth Sinha

Chill; No attndc problem; class notes

circulated beforehand

Basic course for Fin enthu junta...

Please take if you are fin aspirant

Should take this course if you targetting

banks in cluster 2 or 3
Chillmax; only issue - spread over 2
slots; as far as i know Prof Laha does
not care much about attndc
Very difficult to comprehend in the class.
Prof is awesome and chill

A good course, may take if

want to add something to your
finance portfolio, profs are
chill n good

Strategic Financial Management (1.00)

Premchander, Joshy Jacob
Securities Regulation (0.75) Sandeep Parekh
Trading Strategies (0.50) Gopi Suvanam
Venture Capital and Private Equity (0.75)
Premchander, Arun Duggal, N.Kannan
Marketing
Abhishek never
teaches...visiting
profs for each
class so you can
take it if you want
to learn something

Advertising and Sales Promotion Management

(1.25) Abhishek

DS is useless as
usual, bt SS is
good and the
course turned out
2 b better thn
xpected ths year

Business to Business Marketing (1.00) Dheeraj

Sharma, Sharad Sarin

Consumer Behavior and Technology (0.50) Ruby

Roy Dolakia

eMarketing (1.00) Ratan K.K.

Painful I heard

International Business and Foreign Market Entry in

BRIC Countries (1.00) Dheeraj Sharma, Subhash
Sharma

DS is useless as
usual

Best course in
second year. Take
this course, if u
really wanna
God Prof., Godly
LEARN anything in
course, painful but second year. Prof.
great learnings
Jain is GOD.

Must Must Must

take course. Best
prof i ve had in IIM
A.

worthless course.
pls dnt take it.

Fraud Course;
Attendance No problem
Very light course; Just one
presentation and one Project (Fraud)

No exam and 1 ppt and 1 assignment

was painful, also becoz just
10 students had taken so
classes were boring for us,
learning wise - ok, prof brings
in lot of actual industry things

Learnings : A lot . The prof was Intel

South Asia CMO. His knowledge is
awsome. The bestpart is that he is
knowledgeable in tech in Mktg .
Attendence is not an issue. Proxy is
possible. I suggest you take in term 4
as in term 5 PGPx will also be there in
this course and wont allow prof to
speak and put a lot of (random) CP
Work Load : Low , one group project ,
one case prep PPT and 4 case
writeups
Bid points : 0 in term 4( as itwas
offered 1st time ) but close to 90 in
term 5( only 10 seats in term 5)
Suggestion : Definite take even if you
are remotely interested on tech or
Mktg
(Aswin )

Market Research and Information Systems (1.50) A. I have heard that this is bread and
K.Jaiswal
butter course for mkting ppl
Neuroscience and Consumer Behavior (0.75)
Arvind Sahay, Sanjeev Tripathi, Hasit Joshipura

MUst take course..

chill prof and
Awesome course,
awesome
prof is good, must
knowledge (ibru)
take

Good one; 80% Attendance

Must take for

marketing ppl,
good learning,
good grades

Learnings - Good;
Attendance - Not very strict (70-80%)
Good Grades - B+ min
No pain at all

Strategic Marketing (1.25) Arindam Bannerjee

Good course !

Prof is Godlike; but is painful

Better than e-mktg, some learnings,
Proxy is possible , Guest sessions are
pretty good.
Work Load : Ok. One case
presentation 2 Group Projects
Bid Points: 0
Could take

Godly prof. must

take course even if
u r slightly
interested in Tech
mktg.
Must, must take
course. It is
required for any
field- Marketing,
finance or
consulting. Don't
miss this course

Must take for marketing enthusiast....3 to 4

assignments, 3 quizzes & a big project....try to do
a project for a branded product....it looks good on
CV....really a stats heavy course....u will get hands
on experience in SPSS...which is a big plus....

Awesome course.
Very good
learnings and good
prof.

Arvind sahay!! go
for it

New Product Strategy (1.50) Abraham Koshy

Strategies for Digital Marketing and e-Business

(1.00) Srividhya Ramakrishnan

useless course

Must take course

for marketing
enthusiast. Looks
good in CV.

Media Investment Management (0.50) Juhi

Ramakrishnan

Pricing (1.25) Arvind Sahay

Very good course...some frameworks taught by

Sharad sarin are very useful & insightful.....Cases
are chill...couple of presentations & a group
project...So not too much load....

Useless course.
Fraud.

Painful bt
considered really
useful, u wl get 2
learn!!
Kind of pointless
course, no pain
and grades were
good

Customer based Business Strategies (1.25) A.K.

Jain, Rama Bijapurkar

Marketing Management in the world of High

Technologies and Innovation (1.00) Prakash Bagri

Very good and interesting course. Not

much pain

Most memorable
course is second
year. Got many
insights from it
(Ibru)

Koshy gives his

110% in this
course. Should
take course for any
marketing
enthusiast.

Arvind sahay!! go
for it

Very good course.

must take.

Must take course

decent course.
good amount of
learning abt ecommerce n emktg

Good course !,
Markstat
simulation is fun as
well

Good course,
great learning
oppurtunity. Not
any pain as such,
only compulsory
attendance.

its a great course, prof has

strict policies to be adhered
to, learnings will stay back
with you n its simulation
based so not much load

Very good course....couple of methods&

frameworks in the course are very useful....The
prof. is damn good in giving examples & strong in
fundamentals....so u get your marketing fundas
brushed up....one project that runs through out the
course with lot of submissions for that project.....
but overall chill & good for CV
Best marketing course for me in Term 4.....
awesome prof....insightful course....cases are
interesting except for couple of them,.....have to
do heavy reading for classes....expect some cold
call from prof....but overall very useful course....
one project...no quiz...one end term exam
Course is good...prof. is decent....The no. of
classes and assignments are more...so it is not
chill in my opinion......The projects are also
heavy....but the best part is the guest lectures....
fantastic experience sharing from entrepreneurs,
info sharing abt ange investors, etc. etc......overall
painful & useful if u attend & listen...

ws not taken by
sanjeev tripathi
last year, the 1st
prof who taught us
ws good, the 2nd
one ws painful,
overall chill course
with good grades,
mst tk fr ppl intrstd
in sports

Sports Marketing (1.00) Sanjeev Tripathi

Seminar in Retail Management (1.25) P.K. Sinha,

Srikant Gokhale
Organizational Behavior
Co-constructing Organizational Changes (1.00)
George Kandathil
Developing Creative Self (1.25) Premilla D'Cruz
Developing and Entrepreneural Personality (1.00)
Kirti Sharda
Intellectual Capital Management with HRD Score
Card 2500 (0.75) T.V. Rao

I have heard that it is painful

Avoid

Avoid, painful
course with really
bad grades

Great course, Must

take. No work, no
case studies and
above all
discussion will be
based on sports.
So guys, any bit of
enthusiasm for
sports, take this
course

Most painful course..avoid at any

cost (Ibru)

More painful than

Term 1 Mktg. No
learnings
whatsoever. Gave
D to half the class.
Never even think
of taking this one. MUST AVOID
(Aswin)
COURSE

ONe of the 2 Profs make this course

highly painful and irritating....There
are many better courses in mktg
I dont know what to say. P K Sinha Sir is
from learning perspective too
very passionate while teaching

chill, fraud, learnings - Ghanta

for a change can take, will get
to dance, sing, & learnings r
good

High bidder, get free crayons, sketch

pen and all...total fun class
Total chill, no attendance, no exam, 1
assignment...Chill prof...No use
though for Non HR ppl.(ibru)

chillest course ever....3 faces of power in 20

sessions....with most of the sessions where
attendance is not taken....

Power and Politics in Organizations (1.00) Navdeep

Mathur, George Kandathil
DS is useless as
usual !

Talent Management (1.25) Dheeraj Sharma

Personnel and Industrial Relations

classes can be painful, prof is

ok , brings in his perspectives
from cases - sometimes grt

Business Transformation and Organizational

Turnaround (1.25) Sunil Maheshwari

Managing Negotiations (1.25) Jerome Joseph

Strategic Human Resources Management (1.25)

Sunil Maheshwari
Production and Quantitative Methods
Advanced Methods of Data Analysis (Project
Course) (1.25) Arnab Laha
Revenue Management and Dynamic Pricing (1.00)
Goutam Dutta
Stochastic Calculus in Finance (1.25) Arnab Laha
Statistical Methods in Data Analysis (Project
Course) (1.25) Arnab Laha
Public Systems Group

Carbon Finance (0.75) Amit Garg, P.R. Shukla

Lol. A must take

course. This one
redefines fraud :)
Bid Points: 70-100
Must take; self evaluation; for a
varies from
change >60-70% of the class gets an Section A-D
A
(Aswin)
Must take !
Awesome prof. bit
painful bt good
The takeaways are good. moderate
takeaways i wud
pain in assignment
recommend it !!

Fraud MAx
Attendace - No worry
Assignments and Projects - No worry
Grades - No worry

Must Take course. Fraud maaaxxxx

Fraud ka baap hai ye course

take one among BTOT or

SHRM, else very repetitive

Must take; prof announces in first

class that they don't give a damn
about attndc

Very Very chill prof

and course ! cn b Bid points : 0 . Must take
considered fraud! (Aswin)
Random , some learnings , chill
course . Could take
Chill max, no strict
Bid Points : 100
attendance, but
Very Very chill prof Work load : Low. One project and on
not much
and course ! cn b Case PPT
takeaway
considered fraud! (Aswin)
Must Take

good HR course. Prof is quite serious

during the course

Good course content, Prof P R

Shukla makes it a bit irritating but
Very good course and very good Prof and
Prof Amit Garg is a stud...chill Profs TA team. No pain

Must Take course,

chill max Profs

a must take course if u r even

slightly interested in humans,
the profs wisdom is
overwhelming

Good Governance and People Living in Poverty

(0.50) Harsh Mander

100% attendance required. 2 ppt and 2

reports of the cases to be made. 3 ppt to
be made for project apart from a report.
And a 3 hour exam

Hospital Management (1.00) K.V.Ramani

Pain!!
Investigating Corporate Social Irresponsibility (1.25)
Ankur Sarin, Navdeep Mathur, George Kandathil,
Rama Mohan Thuraga

Managing Energy Business (0.75) Amit Garg, P.R.

Shukla

Good learning; very useful course

Must take; prof announces in first
class that they don't give a damn
about attndc

Must Take

I didn't find any

useful learnings,
profs are good bt
only if u listen in
class or read
cases and reading,
tht said grades
were good, can
take if u want 2
Very Very chill prof
and course ! cn b
considered fraud!

Good course content, a lot of

learning about energy sector, Chill
Profs

Must Take course,

chill max Profs
profs chill n very passionate,
learnings are good

Public Finance (1.00) Prem Pangotra, R.H.Dholakia

Participatory Theatre for Development (1.25)
Navdeep Mathur
Social Entrepreneurship - Innovating Social Change
(1.25) Ankur Sarin, M.S.Sriram
Transport Infrastructure (1.00) G.Raghuram
Urban Economy and Business Environment (0.75)
Prem Pangotra
Waste Business Management (0.50) Gaurav
Singhal
Ravi J. Mathai Center for Education Innovation

Enterprise and Innovations in Education (1.25)

Rajeev Sharma
Others

Very good grading. Should get at least 4.3 Effort: Nil

out of 4.33
framework

Must take if you like maths; no fin only

maths; chill grading; attndc no issue

Must take; prof announces in first

Environment Management (1.25) P.R.Shukla, Prem class that they don't give a damn
Pangotra
about attndc
Growth, Equity and Equality - 5Ws and 1H (0.75)
Usha Jumani

Infrastructure Development and Financing (1.25)

Biju Varkkey, Rekha Jain, G.Raghuram, Ajay
Pandey

Big pain....even for high enthu marketing ppl.....it

didnt add much value to me in terms of
knowledge....it lowered my 4th term GPA
heavily....lots of work...little learning...

prof is bit pain, learnings good Awesome course, great learning

prof is chill n very passionate,
learnings are good

Can avoid; take only if u have interest

did not become as

chill as expected,
take if u dnt hv
mch options, kno
tht der r quite a
good no. of
submisions and
globing

take if you are interested in

education and pedagogy. It is not
chill. Some people find Prof very
interesting though.

Must take course. Very interesting and

chill

Cases: few Learning: one

Marks: plenty Fun: average

Bionics (0.50) Samir Shukla

Contemporary Film Industry - A business

perspective (1.25) Bharatan Kandaswamy

Philosophical Foundation of Management (1.25)

Ajay Pandey, Sebastian Morris

Super globe course; easy A if u can

put globe

Avoid
became boring
and painful, tht
said submissions
are chill and nt
mch 2 learn r do,
cn take

I have heard negative reviews about

this

Profs are legendary; have no idea

about content

take it if you wish to exercise your

brain. Prof loves discussion..should
take this course for its uniqueness
and fun quotient

Awesome course.
You wont get half
the content though
:) .
Learnings : High
but random ,
discussions range
from Schrodinger
equation to journey
of Man
The best part to
hear Seb and Ajay
Panday argue :)
Work load : Close
to zero, 2 group
assignments and
everyone gets an
A
Bid Points : 75
(Aswin)

random course..No use and also

boring..lot of assignments which
everyone will try to free ride (Ibru)

Chill Max and Fraud Max

Very good grades
Attendace - Dont Care

NEVER EVER
TAKE THIS
COURSE..!!!

Very boring, limited learning, painful

attendance criteria, even boring
Only 3 classes allowed to be absent. Goes
exam...Must Avoid
on for three months