Contd.. from here… Okay! Now, let me put on my Product Manager’s hat! As a Product manager, I would certainly pay heed to the above feature requests. But I also need to think of the features that end-user will not normally think of, and also the ones that will make Facebook some money. I have one [...]
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Some time back, I had applied to a startup for a Strategy intern position, and as a part of application, I had to answer some interesting questions. One of them included what would I like to see in Facebook. I didn’t want to delay the application, and submitted whatever I could think of in 30-40 [...]
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Originally posted on the course-blog for “Strategic Decision Analysis” As I had mentioned in an earlier post too, I interned with Manheim auctions during the summer. Prior to that, I also worked on a GMSC project with them in Spring 2010 semester. Although almost whole of the time during these 7-8 months, my work was [...]
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Originally posted on the course-blog for “Strategic Decision Analysis” This summer, I interned with Manheim Auctions, world’s largest B2B auto-auction company. In addition to my internship projects, I also got a chance to read a lot about auctions in general. One of the articles that I read introduced me to the concept of sniping, where [...]
“Segment! Segment!! Segment!!! Never work on market level averages. Average distort reality!” A very common advice in the B-school especially for those who have taken Market Intelligence or are preparing for consulting case interviews. But it is surprising to see how often the real world businesses completely ignore it. Not sure whether they are not [...]
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Originally posted on the course-blog for “Strategic Decision Analysis” On the occasion of Halloween, Yahoo! launched a new game “Shambling Hordes”: a game that makes you a commander of a troop of zombies out to capture enemy’s tomb. Well, I don’t know much about Zombies, and am not crazy about internet games. But what attracted [...]
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