News Burger – Your Weekly Prep Diet - Week #2 (February)
For MBA aspirants, Current Affairs are one of the most key components for MBA preparation.
For MBA aspirants, Current Affairs are one of the most key components for MBA preparation.
Every 20th student in India goes through several stages emotionally, physically and professionally. As our generation grapples with unprecedented levels of confusion, thanks to an increasingly open and connected world and avenues that were never available to our parents in their time, an MBA is perhaps an option that falls under the category of “safe”, “steady” and “stable”. An MBA does not seem to hold the promise of a thrill, nor the heady feeling of any of the arts. After all, what would former (more often than not, in India) engineers, accountants etc. know or understand anything about art?
Onwards drew November, and with it, the start of the second E.L.I.T.E. rotation. There was an opportunity to work on the World FinTech Report 2018 with the Market Intelligence team; this was only the second edition to be published and the sky was the limit when it came to ideas to make the report and all the events surrounding it stunningly spectacular and downright disruptive.
Hero Campus Challenge is a National Level Case Study Competition, which concluded its third season at Delhi. We have Aman Kapur (First Year, MBA-BM) with us from Team Invincibles (Aman Kapur, Kunal Mahendru and Pooja Nanda) of Xavier Institute of Management, Bhubaneswar, the 2nd runners-up of National Finals, to discuss his enriching experience.
Sports is often considered to be a field where physical ability is the sole factor to achieve success, but wrongly so. In this video, Prasanna Venkatesh explains how famous NBA player Lebron James was defeated when the opposite team used data analytics.
When I was selected to undertake the student exchange program with EDHEC University in France, I said to myself “Mischief thou art afoot, take what course thou wilt.” Student exchange programs in general, and the ones that IIM students undertake in particular, are notorious for being labelled as Euro Trips! Upon selection, I harboured similar ambitions. However, the experiences I had spoke a different story altogether.
Four years back, I was watching a TED Talk with my friend as part of my classwork. That was the day when we wanted to know how one day we, too, can attend the TED conference. Well, we were surprised to know that TED grants licenses to individuals to organise similar events called as TEDx, where x = an independently organized TED Event. I was from Kerala, a state that didn’t have a TEDx event at that time. Hence, I decided to organise a TEDx of my own with a friend.
As a CAT aspirant coming from a tier 2 city, with limited access to educational resources. I had to travel 80 kms daily to seek education at the only coaching centre available. As is the hype around this entrance exam, all the students preparing for CAT tend to join one institute or the other to ace the exam which gives you access to most sought after b-schools of the country. But for me, the coaching institute was burning a hole in my pocket and was not worth the time I would invest in travelling every day. So, with that in mind, one day I decided to sit at home and prepare all by myself and I am glad I took the decision.