About | Harshvardhan

About Me

I am currently a doctoral student of Business Analytics and Statistics at the Haslam College of Business, the University of Tennessee, under the supervision of Prof Sean Willems.

Previously I earned my BA and MBA from IIM Indore in April 2021. I was also an ERASMUS+ scholar at the University of Latvia between Feb-Jun 2019. I completed my schooling at Sainik School Tilaiya in 2016.

I enjoy programming, especially #rstats. In my free time, I read books, participate in adventure sports, and lift my spirits with Calvin and Hobbes. Spotify has boosted how much I listen to music; my playlist of Classical Hindi Music is popular on Spotify.

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Curriculum vitae

Old Website

Blizzard of Random Thoughts

Small Improvements

Bihar is one of the poorest states in India. Their over all literacy rate is 70% but there’s stark difference between girls (50%) and boys (70%). In 2007, the government decided to distribute bicycles to all girls for free in the hope to get higher school enrollment. The program was called Mukhyamantri Balika Cycle Yojna (Chief Minister’s Programme on Cycle for Girls). The program had astonishing improvements.

Things are bad. We know that; everyone knows that. But you can choose to look at the positives. Granted, we’ll sometimes be cherry-picking. But not always. Life is like a box of chocolates; there will be good things about every negative thing and bad about most positive things. I want to be happy, so I look at the positives.

A problem with learning in public is keeping a strong note of how to avoid heresy. Back in the seventeenth century, if you said anything against God, even if the statement were true, you would be penalised. Sometimes it meant death. It didn’t matter if the statement was true. If you don’t believe me, just ask Galileo.

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