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Karthikeyan Balakumar

Gritty Graphs - Visualizing Complexity

In this week’s Gritty Graphs episode, we will discuss something exciting - Flow Diagrams. These are not diagrams that move but show us how different categories flow from one another in a visual format. Trust me, these flow diagrams are powerful visual tools that do a fantastic job of depicting

The Wrong Number That Landed an Internship

The Wrong Number That Landed an Internship

Placement committee members have some of the best stories about how they managed a ‘crisis situation’ and ensured that they left no stone unturned to get an offer from a company. What follows is one such story. In case you want to know about some of the lighter moments that

Gritty Graphs - Taxidynametrics

In this week’s episode of Gritty Graphs, we won't be diving into R code. Instead, we'll explore some ideas. As the placement chairperson at IIM Sirmaur, I thought it best to discuss placement statistics. Human beings have a penchant for simplifying complex realities into singular

The Essence of Good Assessment

The Essence of Good Assessment

For a long time, I have been writing about topics related to MBA and life. I think that has been the case for almost the whole of the last two years since I started writing. This week, I want to do something different. I want to engage my PhD students

Gritty Graphs - The Social Media Revolution

In this week’s episode of Gritty Graphs, we will discuss the rise of social media. There’s a reason we're addressing this topic now: this week marks the 20th anniversary of Facebook. The Economist published an article this week that provides an exposé on how social media

A Marketer’s Guide to Turning Defeat into Victory

Introduction About two thousand years ago, there lived a man named Jesus Christ. If we try to understand him objectively, we’d probably think of him as someone who was rejected by his peers, failed politically, did not achieve immediate success, was crucified as a criminal, and betrayed by his

Gritty Graphs - Pies everywhere

In this week's edition of Gritty Graphs, we're tackling a longstanding issue that surfaced with the inception of the first MBA program: the excessive and improper use of pie charts. It's important to acknowledge that pie charts are visually appealing. They resemble pizzas and