The Class of 2010 was welcomed onto campus in April and after a hectic O-Week they got right down to the grind. In fact Shamika Ravi said, “These kids sit in their quads and LRC and study so much, you barely see them in the Atrium hanging out. Who would believe there are 580 students on campus!” But it was not all studying for the Decade Batch. The first company that came onto campus was an ISB favourite, Novartis, to explain what a career in that company would be like.

Because of the large class size, there are eight sections in the core terms. Four of them attend morning lectures while the others have them in the evening. This led to a lot of the morning ISB not knowing the evening ISB and vice-versa. To overcome this, a Speed Networking session was organised by the students to get to know their classmates. Similar to Speed Dating, here you were guaranteed to meet at least 10 people you didn’t know in 30 minutes.

In August, the class got the opportunity to have an interactive session with Dean Dipak Jain of Kellogg and Dean Donald Jacobs of Wharton. The two DJs told the students the story of how the ISB was conceptualised by Rajat Gupta and how he went about enlisting help from academics and business to set it up. It was a session that many students appreciated because they felt it brought them closer to the ISB story. Bandhan on August 15 had over 300 under privileged children who spent the day at the ISB playing games, singing and dancing. Ayush Berlia, organiser of Bandhan ’09 said, “I have never seen ISB students so moved and willing to share as they did with the children. Most of us had tears of joy.”

In September, as Swine-Flu was reaching epidemic proportions and Hyderabad became affected, students were given an information session on the disease to enable them to take the proper precautions. AIKYA for the year was finally launched. For the first time, it was made voluntary where students could choose to opt out of AIKYA and only those that wanted to would be assigned a host family. Over 60 percent of the batch registered for the unique experience. As the weather began to cool down, the heat was turned up in the job-hunt process with the first of many resume writing workshops.

On October 15, ISB, for the first time hosted a Talent Management Conclave, where HR heads from across industry verticals came onto campus to share their experiences. That was not the only first. There was also a cool Supper Theatre that was organised in the Mirror Pool of Exec Housing. It was a whodunit murder mystery where the audience was given clues and they needed to try and guess who the murderer was.

There was an interesting concept tried this year by the Retail Club – Fashion Haat. Teams could register to set up stalls in the Atrium and sell merchandise, with the winner being awarded at the Retail Conclave. Students had to handle every aspect of the business from Sourcing to Merchandising and Marketing their produce. Kishore Biyani gave the winners their prizes.

Finally, last week, RBI Governer, D Subbarao visited the ISB and had an interactive session with the students. An overflowing Khemka and extremely excited students, staff and management were indicative of just how much anticipation there was for the event. The Governor was succinct, clear and to the point when he said it was too early to say that India is back on solid economic ground. He patiently answered the many questions posed to him by the students and the media-frenzy that greeted him.