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Anindya Ghose

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“That's right. I have a homepage that's also on the NYUSTEN website. So please go there. And again, my email is there as well. If somebody has to reach out to me, I'm on email. My Twitter hashtag is AGHOSE. I'm on LinkedIn. So either way”
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“That's a great one actually. You know, sometimes I do wish I had known earlier how accurate the measurements will get to be. Because basically, what I mean is, you know, I've always been a fan of metrics and measurement. 10 years back, the accuracy of the data and the quality of the data was nowhere near as good as where it is today, right? And so along the way, I had to build models or design projects. And these are all long-term things. So if I knew five years from now how accurate the data would be or how great the metric would be, I would design it differently. So, you know, hindsight is 2020.”
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“So, what I would ask them is are you thinking it from an engineering perspective or from a business perspective? That's the first thing, because you're about to enter into an undergraduate program. Do you want to get into more of the technical engineering aspects or more of the business aspects? That's the first thing. Once you decide that, then it's a question of if you get into business, you know, do you want to be the strategist, the big thinker, or do you want to be the tactical tactician, the one who's going to be analyzing the data, building the models and that sort of thing. So, you know, every stage, there's a decision tree to be asked. And these are the kind of questions I'll ask them.”
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“Don't give up. I mean, you know, life is a marathon. It's not just a sprint. Okay, you didn't make it to the IIT, but look, if you make it to the IMs and then eventually do the things you want to do, you can still make it happen.”
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“Hell or high water, right? And I just religiously studied like a zombie for four years. Just make that happen. And it happened.”
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“Most people will say it's great, but for me it was a disappointment. But I'm still proud of where I went. And I told myself in the first year that Since I always had a plan to do an MBA, and in India, the big MBA brand are these IIMs. And I promised myself on day one, I'm going to get to the IAMs, you know, come hell or heaven or whatever it is.”
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“Technology, correct. So a lot of the folks in Silicon Valley or on Wall Street have IIT backgrounds. I always thought, you know, I'd be able to get in because I had great grades in high school. I was like crushing it, but for various reasons, I didn't make it. That was devastating because I didn't make it at the same time. All my friends who I knew would make it made it. Was a big failure, but basically, you know, I learned that life can push you back, throw you out a few times, but you got to just come back. And momentarily, there's some disappointment. So I promised myself in my first year of engineering, I still went to a decent engineering school.”
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“So just after high school, this was in India. And in India, if you want to do engineering, sort of the one brand everybody recognizes IIT. Everybody wants to go on an IIT.”
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“I think it's gonna be this intersection of mobile with the consumer Internet of Things. And so more of us wearing variable devices and we were talking about this earlier about getting used to your smart refrigerator, making a phone call, reminding you that you just run out of groceries and stuff like that. I think that's going to be more of a norm than an exception. So the likes of Alexa or in Cortana or Siri and so on, artificial intelligence is going to start taking an important role in our lives. You know, some may say they'll take over our lives. I don't think it's like that, but I think they'll have a very important influence. And so, you know, this intersection of AI, consumer IoT, and the mobile phone is right in the middle. It's all going to be propelled and powered and sort of influenced by the mobile phone.”
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“Earlier there was more of a recognition that it's important, but there was nowhere to measure how important it was, how effective it was. And that's changed now.”
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“I think the biggest change has been that the change from focusing on strategy to tactics. And the reason that change has happened is because of the increasing accessibility of data that lets companies actually measure the effectiveness of their tactics. And now they can go back and justify the ROI. Why am I spending on mobile? And so up until recently, the focus was, do we have a mobile strategy, meaning like, do we have a mobile app, a mobile website? Today it's more like, well, obviously we have to have one of those, but is the investment worth it?”
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“Yeah, yeah, absolutely not. But it was such, you know, and he was one of a few other ex-army, ex-special forces, ex-Marines. It's just awesome to have them in the class.”
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“Yeah, yeah, so all the most of the top business schools have special programs for vets. So in fact, last fall, I actually had a next ex-Navy SEAL person in my class”
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“Because they're dealing with It's relatively easy. You know, my favorite MBA students or EMBA students, and I might get beaten for this, are the Wets. Because these guys are the most disciplined in the class. They're the most ready. They have prepared. And they're the least in terms of flashy flamboyant or showing off. Are my favorites”
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“But again, you know, you get to understand the psychology and the mental fortitude and the prowess of these special people. And that really motivates me because it's not just about what I have to deal with in the mountains, but even in daily life, like you mentioned, you know, we have academic publication is a tough process. I mean, you publish or perish, right? It just teaches me to be more resilient, just be stronger mentally. So it makes it easier for me to deal with these things.”
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“I agree. Yeah Well, I really loved, I think it's called 13 Hours in Benghazi, you know, this came out last year, a book, and the movie was made awesome. Recommend that highly. But again, I'm biased.”
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“So, I actually follow a Twitter feed. So, again, I think I read a lot of these books written on special forces. In the world of technology, I try to read not necessarily so many books, but a lot of the internet websites, like mashable and tech crunch and fast company. Because one of my occupational hazards is I have to be always updated with the latest and the best, right? And so in some ways, if I have to do that, don't have a whole lot of time to actually spend reading an entire book”
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“So, I mean, this is not necessarily technology, but again, one of the other breed of folks I greatly respect and admire are special forces. So I'm fascinated by the U.S. Navy series, the Delta Force, the Army Rangers. And again, just like movies, I've read a ton of these books. One of my favorites is Lone Survivor. Which became a movie? Then became a movie, yeah, with Mark Wahlberg as the guy, but the real guy was Marcus Lottrell.”
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“As you were in saying, and that's not the worst, the worst actually statistical is Anna Purna, which is also one of the Italan Mida Mountains and is one in two.”
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“Historically, and that number is going down over the years because technology has improved so much, so we have fewer debts. But up until two or three years back, that was a number.”
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“There's also, you know, it's more treacherous because the steepness and the terrain, the weather comes in very quickly and very unpredictable.”
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“So K2 is basically built like almost a perfect pyramid. It's extremely steep And it is so even though Everest is a tad bit higher, it's considered less technical from a climbing perspective than K2 is.”
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“By Edvist yours. It taught me a lot about life lessons. Then, I know there are books written on K2, The Savage Mountain is one of them.”
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“So, you know, like I said, I love all books in mountaineering. I've basically read a ton of them, and not just by Edgar St.”
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“Some of the real professional climbers, they use a tent, a tent that is able to actually suck out the oxygen. I forget the name of the tent, but it's a new product just launched by some of the big sporting companies who encourage climbers to spend 24 hours before they fly out of the big amount of time.”
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“So, you know, one can be the most well trained athlete on sea level and yet suffer the worst altitude mounted sickness, AMS, right? Just one of those things where it's very difficult to plan and predict how it's going to be. For me, myself, you know, for the same level of training for similar altitude I've experienced different symptoms. Sometimes it's been fantastic, sometimes not so good. Can I do not a whole lot? You know, there's something called a training mask. You may have seen those pictures of, you know, sometimes it has three different nozzles. Each nozzle represents a certain percentage of air that can come in. You try to simulate that high altitude thing. It's not nearly as great as a real thing.”
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“Yeah, yeah, as fast as possible, go up and down, up and down. It's about 1500 feet or so to the top, do two or three rounds, and that's pretty exhausting.”
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“Yeah, you know, it's not nearly as great as climbing a real mountain or even the same, but it's about the closest thing you can do in a city like ours where we don't have any mountains, right? That said, every now and then, you know, when I'm getting in the middle of my training, I do drive out to New Jersey or upstate New York, Bear Mountain, and so on, and do multiple rounds with heavy backpacks.”
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“I'm carrying big backpacks and I'm climbing hundreds of floors every single day. And some of the security guards in the tall skyscrapers of New York City know this weird Indian American guy who comes with a backpack and says, can I use the stairwell? So I've had to get permission from the condo or the co-op boards to do that.”
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“And I also believe that you can create your luck to some extent. If you are a disciplined, hardworking, planning, you know. Driven person, you can influence to some extent that luck.”
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“and that the fact that it's all about diligence and planning actually came from reading and sort of experiencing vicariously what Ed Vestrios has been doing all his life.”
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“Preparation, planning, discipline, you know, in my profession, people often say, wow, that person is so, super intelligent. I've always believed that in academics, intelligence is highly overrated. Success to me is 99% diligence and 1% intelligence.”
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“Ed Vistiors. He's one amazing legendary American climber. He's climbed all 14 8,000 meter mountains without bottled oxygen. And here's why I read all his books, written many books. but his mantra has been there are no shortcuts to the top It's all about diligence, you know, kind of.”
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“Very, very tough. You know, like 40 people got in, only seven came out alive, kind of camp. But that really kind of, you know, Taught me that outdoors is where I belong. You know, if I had my way, my job would have been that of like a professional mountaineering guide. But then I realized while it's not the best paying job, so maybe I should do something else while continuing to climb.”
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“So almost by luck, I guess. So I started doing my undergrad in the northern part of India in a state called Punjab. Which is actually very close to the foothills of the Himalayas. Now, you know, every other weekend or every other month, my friends and I would just pack our bags and go hiking. And I realized that was when I was 18 and I'd go on these hikes a few times a year and I loved it. And then I also realized some physically and mentally it was easy for me to do these things compared to some of the others, other friends. And then they started egging me that hey, you know, if you're this good at this hiking, maybe you should take it up a notch and think about something more challenging. And I said, yeah, I could do that. So I joined this.”
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“So I've climbed a fair bit in South America, in Bolivia, Ecuador. I've climbed Kilimanjaro in Africa. I've climbed parts of the Himalayas. I've climbed a lot in the Cascades Rainier in a few 40 nurses.”
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“Yeah, yeah. So, yeah, I know most people think I'm crazy, right? Why would you want to go and climb these mountains with big 50-60-bone backpacks?”
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“So this might sound very, very strange, but My biggest influences in this space haven't necessarily come from technology. One of my biggest hobbies, which I try to pursue religiously, is mountaineering. I'm basically a high-altitude climber.”
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“Yeah, so we try to do this because you know the world of academia is very cutthroat, especially in these very competitive top tier schools, getting tenure is a non-trivial process. Lots of people come in as junior professors, only a handful of them get tenured. Can get lost along the way, you know. You can get devastated. So having a mentor is really useful. And I think stone really does it well by also pairing, you know. Sort of different people with different backgrounds. So I had a quan background. They could have given me somebody from the quant area. They didn't. They decided to give me somebody who was more qualitative in terms of or more behavioral. But somehow that is magical. That's a great idea.”
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“Because she has an IT tanker very explicitly, both her and Udaya Rajan, in my acknowledgements, that there's a couple of lines just for them that I'm ungrateful to them.”
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“She's a professor of management. She was appointed as my mentor. And initially, I was a little surprised because she's from management. I am more of a quant person. But it just turned out I was the best decision and why you probably took for me.”
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“So, I think my early PhD days at Carning Mellon is when I had a few amazing individuals who played a role. One of them was a professor in economics. His name is Oday He's a professor now in the University of Michigan and Ann Harbor. And he became my closest mentor. I would basically spend a lot chunk of the time with him. In fact, he even bought me a laptop. So PhD students, you know, poor people, every dollar counts. And the fact that he would go out of his way, he didn't have to, right? Just buy me a laptop was amazing. It just so happened that we connected very well, and he gave me some awesome advice over the years. So he had a huge role at the beginning. And then when I came to NYU as a very young junior assistant professor, there's a professor NYU called Bhattia Wiesenfeld.”
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“So I've considered a lot for telecom providers, for tech companies, Facebook and Apple and Samsung. And then I've also worked with Eska Telecom in South Korea and with China mobile. I've worked with other smaller startups and so on. So I try to mix it up.”
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“So after my MBA, you know, I wanted to do something in IT consulting. So I got a job with HCL Hewlett-Packard. And then I spent an year there. And then I moved to IBM, again, similar. Portfolio, e commerce consulting. That's really when I started getting interested about the internet. It was 90 and 98, 99 and so on. Just the internet was kind of Blowing up, blowing up. I guess I didn't find those two years very satisfactory. I guess I wasn't, you call it intellectual challenge or not enough curiosity. And that's what made me think about academia.”
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“No, so from there, I join NYU after my PhD, and I've basically spent 12 years at NYU and one year at Wharton. But before my masters and PhD in the US at Carnegie Mellon, I did an MBA in India and an undergraduate in engineering.”
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“I was at Warton for a year between 2011 and 2012, but before I decided to join academia, Well, I did my PhD. Everybody has to do it. But before that, I worked in the industry for a couple of years with IBM and with a company called HCL Hewlett Packard. Both of them were in India.”
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“Because they have to do this, otherwise these guys are going to go out of business. Then there's only going to be the Amazons and the Jet.coms.”
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“Yeah, so more than that. So, even within Macy's, are you walking to the Tumi luggage store or to the Armani men's section? It is getting very granular. And I find this awesome.”
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“Right, right. In fact, in the US, the Mall of America in Minneapolis, I have a colleague here who's a professor in the University of Minnesota at Carlson, and he was telling me that he was beginning to do these talks with the Mall of America. And most likely I'll also get involved because both of them are aware of the work that we have done in the Far East. But look, here in Minneapolis, in the US, Mall of America wants to use Wi-Fi data to send these trajectory-based offers to consumers and use it for design layouts and all of that.”
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“Yeah, so between the department store and the mall, there are these differences. You know, some are more centralized, some are more decentralized. Anchors.”
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