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July 2008 - Posts

Firenze haiku

Posted Tuesday, July 29, 2008 7:40 PM by udayanp
Taking advice from some master bloggers, here goes a haiku instead of a story.. big smile up in the sky hanging on for dear life what fun parasailing Read More...
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Meet Firenze Blogger - Deepthi Kapila

Posted Sunday, July 27, 2008 1:22 PM by Pradeep U.N.
Haiku girl, Italics opening Divergent thoughts in order Read More...
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Meet Firenze Blogger - Vivek Raval

Posted Sunday, July 27, 2008 1:21 PM by Pradeep U.N.
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Meet Firenze blogger - Harpreet Duggal

Posted Sunday, July 27, 2008 1:19 PM by Pradeep U.N.
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Really achieving your childhood dreams

Posted Saturday, July 26, 2008 11:36 PM by deepthi.kapila
Dare to dream. A man whose mother jokingly introduced as "This is my son, he's a doctor, but not the kind who helps people" has touched the lives of millions of people across the globe. He legacy lives on through Alice , through his Last Lecture and through Read More...
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Randy Pausch's ideals live on...

Posted Saturday, July 26, 2008 10:46 AM by Pradeep U.N.
The day yesterday was marked distinctly with the sad news on Randy Pausch. With CMU being the cornerstone of Firenze - this post had to be written. I had another look at his last lecture yesterday. In retrospection the common messages he has - seemed Read More...
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Meet Firenze Blogger - Sheldon Menezes

Posted Thursday, July 24, 2008 6:23 PM by Pradeep U.N.
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Meet Firenze Blogger - Dusko Koncaliev

Posted Wednesday, July 23, 2008 10:28 AM by Pradeep U.N.
One of Firenze's all-out success story is Dusko. He was on the winning team from our first year and then "interned" with Microsoft Services over 2007 summer. 2008 Summer he is now a full-fledged Tepper MBA with a fulltime job on the Sharepoint Offerings Read More...
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Meet Firenze Blogger - Udayan Pandit

Posted Wednesday, July 23, 2008 9:42 AM by Pradeep U.N.
Responding to the plethora of invisible comments on this blog who have requested to help us put a face to our bloggers, the next series of posts will adhere to that :) Read More...
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Why do we blog?

Posted Wednesday, July 23, 2008 2:16 AM by udayanp
What is that drives one to put random yet structured, public yet inner, profound yet fleeting thoughts on to a public forum for the world to see? Social scientists are studying this phenomenon; Corporate world is exploring it as a means to recruit the Read More...
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Tuck -- Microsoft -- Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation

Posted Tuesday, July 22, 2008 11:54 PM by udayanp
During the first year of a Tuck MBA, all students complete a rigorously monitored project. The projects typically are either entrepreneurial or consulting focused in nature. My project was related to launching a carbon nano-tube based water purification Read More...
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Traffic on I5-N is backed up

Posted Monday, July 21, 2008 12:39 AM by deepthi.kapila
We had just gotten off the I5-N."Turn it up! Turn it up!" A shrill voice from the back of the bus yelling to the driver. The driver enthusiastically turned the volume on the radio up. "The traffic on 520 W and I5 is backed up quite a bit but it now seems Read More...
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Interns join Microsoft

Posted Sunday, July 20, 2008 11:54 PM by deepthi.kapila
Now that Pradeep has explained what the case competition was about, let me pick it up from " May/June - Interns join Microsoft " item on his list of events. Even before you start your internship, you will very likely receive at least a dozen emails welcoming Read More...
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Time for a newsletter style data-driven blog post :)

Posted Sunday, July 20, 2008 12:26 PM by Pradeep U.N.
The last 2 mths we have bombarded this blog with random thoughts from all our Firenze Interns on their journey and current thoughts. What we havent done is put it all together for an easy comprehension. Boring newsletter post to the rescue :) <Boring Read More...
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Don't feed the bears!!

Posted Thursday, July 17, 2008 4:19 PM by udayanp
Anyone who has attempted the Half Dome at Yosemite either loves pain or is clueless. Trudging back to the base camp [actually our car, parked near the camping gorunds] after almost 15 hours - I stopped keeping track after 3 - I realized that I fell squarely Read More...
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So I'll call you?

Posted Thursday, July 17, 2008 1:35 AM by VivekRaval
I just had my mid-point presentation. It was my first time in front of the team leadership, so it was a little like a first date. So I decided to play it like a first date and stick with a few familiar key messages: 1. I know what I’m doing here. I’m Read More...
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Where time does anything but stand still!

Posted Thursday, July 17, 2008 12:58 AM by deepthi.kapila
Standing on the bridge overlooking the interstate late one evening, I felt the bridge tremble each time a car buzzed past under it. Hundreds of cars on either side travelling at least 10 or 20 above the speed limit I thought. I squinted just a bit. All Read More...
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Firenze is Florence. Florence is the birth place of renaissance :)

Posted Sunday, July 13, 2008 1:28 AM by Pradeep U.N.
Funny that Udayan wrote about what Firenze could mean - in his post. Perfect segue for mine, and we live in opposite sides of this continent currently and didnt even sync up on it. Back in July 2006 when I did think about this project and was looking Read More...
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A journey

Posted Sunday, July 13, 2008 9:25 AM by koncadu
Thanksgiving Break 2006 - as I enjoyed a short respite from a hectic first semester at business school, the email came that my team had made it past the first round of the inaugural Microsoft case competition at the Tepper School of Business. As I sat Read More...
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but..what is 'Firenze'?

Posted Friday, July 11, 2008 2:33 AM by udayanp
What connection does all this have with Florence? Or is it more to do with an obsession with Harry Potter? Does this portend an Italian Renaissance in Microsoft!! Or just remind us that not all Centaurs were wild and unruly!! Well, I am referring to the Read More...
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The phenomenon called Firenze

Posted Thursday, July 10, 2008 8:10 AM by deepthi.kapila
I looked up straight. The glistening snow on the peaks blinded me momentarily. I tentatively pushed a small pebble over the edge with my foot. Each second felt like an aeon as the pebble reached the ground hundreds of feet below. I looked at the clouds Read More...
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Empower Yourself- This is Microsoft!!

Posted Wednesday, July 09, 2008 11:33 PM by hduggal
Yippee!! We are In - that is what my team@Tepper ( Colin, Deepthi, Seth, Sebastian and I ) thought upon finding out that we had won the Microsoft Services Case competition. Sure we were “In”, but little did I realize at that point what we were in for!! Read More...
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Pattern Recognition (a non-CS view)

Posted Wednesday, July 09, 2008 9:00 PM by udayanp
I seem to be developing a pattern here with Microsoft.. most of the memorable moments occur after sunset.. 1. We finalized and then redesigned and then re-finalized our strategy during a marathon all-nighter that we pulled off for the Microsoft case competition. Read More...
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Redmond Reflections

Posted Monday, July 07, 2008 8:43 AM by SheldonM
Looking back at my first year experience at Tuck, the Microsoft Case Competition was without a doubt one of the highlights of the year. Unlike a neatly packaged case, meant to be solved in a couple of days, we were presented with a “live” business problem, Read More...
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Just like I planned it.

Posted Monday, July 07, 2008 7:40 AM by VivekRaval
I just got off the phone with a Tuck MBA applicant who spotted me at our case competition page (shameless plug: http://mba.tuck.dartmouth.edu/pages/clubs/case/ ), and wanted to chat about the application process. It was an interesting conversation for Read More...
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