"MASTISHK"

Last week Prof. Mandi organized an Alumni session for the IM sec-A & B students. Today I will be sharing my experience about the session & the inspiration and lessons I learnt from the alumni talk.

          Nikhil & Hemanth shared the story that how they managed “MASTISHK”, first of its kind business strategy game in B-School arena. We were shown the original business model of MASTISHK. They shared the plan to launch online business gaming challenge in their batch but they were backed up by no one. Then they somehow convinced “PRERANA” that “MASTISHK” will be its online venture with some small games. Meanwhile they prepared full strategic games. PRERANA agreed and then there was no looking behind for MASTISHK.

        Now I am going to share the experience that I liked most. In MASTISHK the participants had to take some strategic decisions regularly within a specific deadline. The task was that participants had to invest in different products, build infrastructure and depending upon the market demand they will gain or loss. Now one day somehow all the data got erased. They couldn’t restore the data so they played their master stroke. They declared next day that there has been flood in the country in the game. So all the structures have been washed away and game will began from start. And guess what people liked the twist. Now that’s disaster management at its best.

        Also they let us understand that most of the time we become interested in Entrepreneurship because we like the fame, the feeling  of being a boss or just being frustrated of previous job. But that shouldn’t be the reason. We should consider being entrepreneur if only we are passionate enough about it. Also many of us plan that we will start business after saving money from our existing job. In actual the lump-sum money required to start a new venture cannot be saved from a job. So the best time to start business is in B-School .So “LEARN WHILE YOU EARN AND EARN WHILE YOU LEARN.”

         They shared their invaluable experience about corporate world. Most of the times in corporate world one has to stay in office after prescribed time. But we should draw a line about our extra working hours. It happens that some tend to remain in office after office hours regularly to impress their boss. Eventually it becomes expected that they will be in office after office. That hampers person’s work-life balance.

        At last Nikhil suggested valuable books to read & movies to watch and that reminded me that I have brought 3 books from Kolkata to NITIE which I am yet to complete. Also it always feels good to be back to a place from where you belong. I can surely say that after watching their glowing smile.

Hope you liked the post.

Thanks for Reading.

Regards

Arnab Mukherjee

PGDIM-20

NITIE

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