The Rise Beyond Expectations – Strategy at Mahindra Rise

As a child, I loved to make airplanes out of paper not because they were something to play with but because it helped my creativity to soar into the sky. It enabled me to rise beyond possibilities; it helped my aspirations to fly. I had been waiting for a chance to spread my wings and soar into a corporate sky after gliding through my engineering at IIT Guwahati and a first year at IIM Calcutta as a ‘Fresher’. Soon after a conference call that detailed us about the General Management Cadre (GMC) Program, we started a ‘Whatsapp’ group to connect to all the fellow-interns. Subsequently, the e-mail that flew into my inbox from Mahindra was a passport to ‘Mahindra Towers’. The first thing that elated me was that I would find a place in the Group Headquarters. I was one of the 3 lucky people out of 60 GMC Interns to be given a project in the Group Strategy Office. The project title that came in the email with an assortment of key deliverables read: “IDENTIFYING OPPORTUNITIES FOR ENGINE APPLICATIONS IN SHIPPING INDUSTRY”