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ALCOM: Alumni Committee (IIM Lucknow Alumni Committee)
ACP: Arbit Class Participation (When a student suddenly wakes up in class and finds a moral obligation to speak up)
BM: Business Management
BBBEP: BroadBand Based Executive Education Programmes
BB: Black Board
Bloody Fresher: Someone straight from his/her bachelor college. With zero work experience
CP: Class Participation (Taking part in class discussion; this is the serious stuff as opposed to the ACP)
CoCo: Class Coordinator (For each subject, one student is elected CoCo who interacts with faculty of that subject. These are people higher up in the hierarchy and it helps to keep in their good books)
CCBMDO: Certificate Course in Business Management for Defence Officers
Circle back: Come back to an issue later
CLM: Career Limiting Move. (As in calling your professor stupid in his hearing)
COB: Close of business
CGPA: Cumulative grade point average (what the recruiters look at while making you an offer)
Chamkaa: Did you get it? Did you understand it?
Cold call: In B-school, it's a method of teaching, where a professor randomly selects a student to discuss a business case.
Chill out or chill: To relax or calm down. (A technique particularly necessary for surviving tests, discussions and other such hurdles)
Cost-benefit analysis: Technique used to quantify the tangible and intangible upsides and downsides of a project.
Deliverable: Final product. This is what distinguishes the men from the boys
DCP: Desperate Class Participation (When faculty sets marks for class participation and student knows nothing, still needs to tell as much as he can. This is fairly close to ACP and is often indistinguishable in practice)
Da: Friend, Buddies
Do it for K: This is the most clichéd statement at IIMK. Whenever someone requests something from the batch, he uses this phrase "Do it for K" to appeal to your sentiments
Exe-PGP: Executive Post-Graduate Programme in Management
EOD: End of the day
FPM: Fellow Programme in Management
Free Riders: Those who don't work at all in group projects, just get free marks without giving any inputs
Fudging: A skill that needs to be learnt to appear brighter than you are
Funda, Fandu: Slang for fundamentals used with numerous connotations.
FRAX: Free Riders @ XLRI
FYI: For your information
FYR: For your reference
FMAAA: FMS Alumni Association
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FYIA: For your information and necessary action / for your immediate action
Fin God, Marketing Guru: People who are very good at finance or marketing
GRAX: Gossip and Rumours @ XLRI
Gyan Session: General Knowledge Lectures
GD: Group Discussion
GMP: General Management Programme
Ghissu: Extremely Studious Guy/Girl
GASS: Talking global gyaan (Speaking in front of a bewildered crowd and like an enlightened soul when in fact you are as ignorant about the topic as any other soul!!!!)
Heavy lifting: Doing hard work
Hot button: An important issue
Harvard Steps: Steps to the entrance building of IIMK
Incentivise: To motivate
ISEP: International Student Exchange Programme
IPMX: International Programme in Management for Executive
JLT: Just like that
JIT: Just in Time
Kampus, Kollege, Kricket, Kar: At IIMK, every word which starts with the pronunciation 'K' is spelled with K in the beginning, even if the actual spelling has C as the first alphabet.
K-dio: Internal Radio Channel of IIM-K
KPI: Key Performance Indicators
Lateral Placements: Placement session for executives with prior work experience
Maxi: Marketing association at XLRI and so on.
MBA: Master of Business Administration
MBA (MS): Master of Business Administration: Management Of Services
MBA HCA Part Time: Master of Business Administration: Health Care Administration
MDP: Management Development Programme
MMS: Masters in Management Studies
MMTIA: Many Many Thanks in Advance
Magic bullet: The perfect solution to a problem
MRC: The Media relations Committee is the press corps of the Institute and interfaces with the national media for communicating and highlighting the institute's initiatives and achievements in diverse fields.
NC: Night Canteen
On board: Agree with something or commit to be a part of something
OIG: The Operations Interest Group (OIG) is a special interest group which aims at developing an interest, imparting knowledge and testing skills in the field of operations management. It functions by way of organizing games, case competitions, paper presentations, live projects and other such activities.
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OOPS: Out Of Placement Season
PGP: Post-Graduate Programme
PGCPM: Post Graduate Certificate Program in Management
PGP-PMP: One-Year Post Graduate Programme in Public Management and Policy
PGDM: Post-Graduate Diploma in Management
PGP-ABM: Postgraduate Programme in Agri-Business Management
PGPX: One Year Postgraduate Programme in Management for Executives
PGCPM: Postgraduate Certificate Program in Management
PPO: Pre-Placement Offer
PPI: Pre-Placement Interview
PI: Personal Interview
PPT: Pre-placement Talk
PFA: Please Find Attached (PFA is used while sending an attachment through a mail)
PL: Please
PM & IR: Personnel Management & Industrial Relations
PPT: Post placement treat
Pravachan: Campus lingo for hackneyed lecture
R&D: Research and Development
RGed: There is a concept in IIMs -- borrowed from IITs -- known as Relative Grading. The grade you get depends on how well other students fare. For example, you could get 85 out of 100 and still get a C because other students scored more. In short, a few high performers can skew the grading curve and mess up with rest of the class. This, in campus lingo, is known as getting 'RGed'.
SWAC: Students' Welfare and Activities Council
STW: Spread the word
SIGFI: The Special Interest Group in Finance is a platform for the student community to keep abreast with the latest developments in finance. Initiatives include Mudra, the inter B-School paper writing contest, DISHA, an Inter B-School Live project competition, Chakravuyh , an intra IIM finance fest and Finsense, an online stock trading game.
STEX: The Student Exchange Committee (STEX) is the backbone for the student exchange programme at IIML. It acts as the one point interface between the faculty, students at IIM Lucknow and the international students. It aims at facilitating passage of IIML students to foreign universities and provides complete assistance to the exchange students from international B-schools during their sojourn on campus.
SAC: Student Affairs Council
SAG: Student Activity Group
TQM: Total Quality Management
TIA: Thanks in Advance
Veernam Night: Good Time, Had lots of fun on that particular night, watching night shows etc.
Whiteboard: To write ideas on a dry erase board
Win, win deal: A deal that is good for both people involved
Work-Ex: Work Experience
Wormhole: Internal server, where all the movies, TV serials, softwares and songs are stored
YSC: Your Sutta Corner. Where you can have your smoke in peace
So, now if you are planning to do your PGPX or PGDBM, then PL do some R&D before you get a fix on your college. Once you get through, you could also be a part of ISEP if you are lucky. Go on, STW.
bwonline(at)bworldmail(dot)com
Last Updated (Monday, 15 September 2008)
ALCOM: Alumni Committee (IIM Lucknow Alumni Committee)
ACP: Arbit Class Participation (When a student suddenly wakes up in class and finds a moral obligation to speak up)
BM: Business Management
BBBEP: BroadBand Based Executive Education Programmes
BB: Black Board
Bloody Fresher: Someone straight from his/her bachelor college. With zero work experience
CP: Class Participation (Taking part in class discussion; this is the serious stuff as opposed to the ACP)
CoCo: Class Coordinator (For each subject, one student is elected CoCo who interacts with faculty of that subject. These are people higher up in the hierarchy and it helps to keep in their good books)
CCBMDO: Certificate Course in Business Management for Defence Officers
Circle back: Come back to an issue later
CLM: Career Limiting Move. (As in calling your professor stupid in his hearing)
COB: Close of business
CGPA: Cumulative grade point average (what the recruiters look at while making you an offer)
Chamkaa: Did you get it? Did you understand it?
Cold call: In B-school, it's a method of teaching, where a professor randomly selects a student to discuss a business case.
Chill out or chill: To relax or calm down. (A technique particularly necessary for surviving tests, discussions and other such hurdles)
Cost-benefit analysis: Technique used to quantify the tangible and intangible upsides and downsides of a project.
Deliverable: Final product. This is what distinguishes the men from the boys
DCP: Desperate Class Participation (When faculty sets marks for class participation and student knows nothing, still needs to tell as much as he can. This is fairly close to ACP and is often indistinguishable in practice)
Da: Friend, Buddies
Do it for K: This is the most clichéd statement at IIMK. Whenever someone requests something from the batch, he uses this phrase "Do it for K" to appeal to your sentiments
Exe-PGP: Executive Post-Graduate Programme in Management
EOD: End of the day
FPM: Fellow Programme in Management
Free Riders: Those who don't work at all in group projects, just get free marks without giving any inputs
Fudging: A skill that needs to be learnt to appear brighter than you are
Funda, Fandu: Slang for fundamentals used with numerous connotations.
FRAX: Free Riders @ XLRI
FYI: For your information
FYR: For your reference
FMAAA: FMS Alumni Association
FYIA: For your information and necessary action / for your immediate action
Fin God, Marketing Guru: People who are very good at finance or marketing
GRAX: Gossip and Rumours @ XLRI
Gyan Session: General Knowledge Lectures
GD: Group Discussion
GMP: General Management Programme
Ghissu: Extremely Studious Guy/Girl
GASS: Talking global gyaan (Speaking in front of a bewildered crowd and like an enlightened soul when in fact you are as ignorant about the topic as any other soul!!!!)
Heavy lifting: Doing hard work
Hot button: An important issue
Harvard Steps: Steps to the entrance building of IIMK
Incentivise: To motivate
ISEP: International Student Exchange Programme
IPMX: International Programme in Management for Executive
JLT: Just like that
JIT: Just in Time
Kampus, Kollege, Kricket, Kar: At IIMK, every word which starts with the pronunciation 'K' is spelled with K in the beginning, even if the actual spelling has C as the first alphabet.
K-dio: Internal Radio Channel of IIM-K
KPI: Key Performance Indicators
Lateral Placements: Placement session for executives with prior work experience
Maxi: Marketing association at XLRI and so on.
MBA: Master of Business Administration
MBA (MS): Master of Business Administration: Management Of Services
MBA HCA Part Time: Master of Business Administration: Health Care Administration
MDP: Management Development Programme
MMS: Masters in Management Studies
MMTIA: Many Many Thanks in Advance
Magic bullet: The perfect solution to a problem
MRC: The Media relations Committee is the press corps of the Institute and interfaces with the national media for communicating and highlighting the institute's initiatives and achievements in diverse fields.
NC: Night Canteen
On board: Agree with something or commit to be a part of something
OIG: The Operations Interest Group (OIG) is a special interest group which aims at developing an interest, imparting knowledge and testing skills in the field of operations management. It functions by way of organizing games, case competitions, paper presentations, live projects and other such activities.
OOPS: Out Of Placement Season
PGP: Post-Graduate Programme
PGCPM: Post Graduate Certificate Program in Management
PGP-PMP: One-Year Post Graduate Programme in Public Management and Policy
PGDM: Post-Graduate Diploma in Management
PGP-ABM: Postgraduate Programme in Agri-Business Management
PGPX: One Year Postgraduate Programme in Management for Executives
PGCPM: Postgraduate Certificate Program in Management
PPO: Pre-Placement Offer
PPI: Pre-Placement Interview
PI: Personal Interview
PPT: Pre-placement Talk
PFA: Please Find Attached (PFA is used while sending an attachment through a mail)
PL: Please
PM & IR: Personnel Management & Industrial Relations
PPT: Post placement treat
Pravachan: Campus lingo for hackneyed lecture
R&D: Research and Development
RGed: There is a concept in IIMs -- borrowed from IITs -- known as Relative Grading. The grade you get depends on how well other students fare. For example, you could get 85 out of 100 and still get a C because other students scored more. In short, a few high performers can skew the grading curve and mess up with rest of the class. This, in campus lingo, is known as getting 'RGed'.
SWAC: Students' Welfare and Activities Council
STW: Spread the word
SIGFI: The Special Interest Group in Finance is a platform for the student community to keep abreast with the latest developments in finance. Initiatives include Mudra, the inter B-School paper writing contest, DISHA, an Inter B-School Live project competition, Chakravuyh , an intra IIM finance fest and Finsense, an online stock trading game.
STEX: The Student Exchange Committee (STEX) is the backbone for the student exchange programme at IIML. It acts as the one point interface between the faculty, students at IIM Lucknow and the international students. It aims at facilitating passage of IIML students to foreign universities and provides complete assistance to the exchange students from international B-schools during their sojourn on campus.
SAC: Student Affairs Council
SAG: Student Activity Group
TQM: Total Quality Management
TIA: Thanks in Advance
Veernam Night: Good Time, Had lots of fun on that particular night, watching night shows etc.
Whiteboard: To write ideas on a dry erase board
Win, win deal: A deal that is good for both people involved
Work-Ex: Work Experience
Wormhole: Internal server, where all the movies, TV serials, softwares and songs are stored
YSC: Your Sutta Corner. Where you can have your smoke in peace
So, now if you are planning to do your PGPX or PGDBM, then PL do some R&D before you get a fix on your college. Once you get through, you could also be a part of ISEP if you are lucky. Go on, STW.
bwonline 'at' bworldmail 'dot' com
Last Updated ( Monday, 15 September 2008 )