Twenty years on...Lessons from IIMB

You know what Galbraith said about academics Professor Vaidyanathan asked me as he welcomed me into IIMB as a colleague.  "In industry people kill each other over billions of dollars.  In academia we fight over dollars and cents." He had been my teacher twenty years earlier.  

In the years that followed at IIMB I would often recall those welcoming lines.  The causeway of sorts connecting the faculty lounge to a sit out across the corridor where he spoke those lines was the location of many memorable conversations, some pleasant and some not so pleasant, in the years that followed.

IIMB taught me many a valuable lesson.