In 2014/15, China and India together accounted for 67 percent of the total increase in international students in the USA. In the same year, more than 3 lakh Indian students entered the USA for study. Also, interestingly, approximately 80 percent of all Indian students in the US are in the fields of engineering, math/computer science and business.*
View Part 1 here & Part 2 here.
Whether you are giving SNAP, XAT, TISSNET, or IIFT Entrance Exams, you must keep abreast of current affairs and happenings all over the world. GK or general knowledge is an indispensable part of all these exams. And for some careers, GK is a deciding factor.
Whether you are giving SNAP, XAT, TISSNET, or IIFT Entrance Exams, you must keep abreast of current affairs and happenings all over the world. GK or general knowledge is an indispensable part of all these exams. And for some careers, GK is the deciding factor.
Did you know that the E in IKEA stands for the name of a farm, Elmtaryd, the name of the farm where Ingvar Kamprad (IK) grew up in Agunnaryd (A) his home-town? These facts may be insignificant but what is noteworthy is how IKEA has managed to stay ahead in the furniture business since 1943. For starters, IKEA doesn’t start with a competitive white Space or consumer trends. IKEA starts with the Price-Point. IKEA thus operates on a cost leadership strategy for sustained competitive advantage
The importance of values and ethics in business has been undermined in the past. With businesses being driven by the desire to capture market share, profit maximization, aggressive marketing and the race for acquisitions, we’ve somewhere forgotten the importance of our values and ethics while taking decisions. The age-old ideology that business is separate from personal life and thus the two must not be mixed has played a major role in the lack of ethics in business decisions. The root of all this lies in our education system. The importance of value based education, especially in the area of business management is immense. Over the past few years, institutions like SPJIMR have been focusing extensively on promoting value-based learning in order to produce socially sensitive leaders of tomorrow who would be driven by strong ethics and values.
Getting the right products at the right time for its customers is probably the dream for any retail organisation. A supply chain scenario involving a dedicated retailer, a distributor and a manufacturer where the stock gets replenished as and when demanded by the downstream would certainly be desirable.
This is a semi-hypothetical case study created in order to teach the concept of making a brief.
In 2014/15, China and India together accounted for 67 percent of the total increase in international students in the USA. In the same year, more than 3 lakh Indian students entered the USA for study. Also, interestingly, approximately 80 percent of all Indian students in the US are in the fields of engineering, math/computer science and business.*
View Part 1 here & Part 2 here.
Whether you are giving SNAP, XAT, TISSNET, or IIFT Entrance Exams, you must keep abreast of current affairs and happenings all over the world. GK or general knowledge is an indispensable part of all these exams. And for some careers, GK is a deciding factor.
Whether you are giving SNAP, XAT, TISSNET, or IIFT Entrance Exams, you must keep abreast of current affairs and happenings all over the world. GK or general knowledge is an indispensable part of all these exams. And for some careers, GK is the deciding factor.
Did you know that the E in IKEA stands for the name of a farm, Elmtaryd, the name of the farm where Ingvar Kamprad (IK) grew up in Agunnaryd (A) his home-town? These facts may be insignificant but what is noteworthy is how IKEA has managed to stay ahead in the furniture business since 1943. For starters, IKEA doesn’t start with a competitive white Space or consumer trends. IKEA starts with the Price-Point. IKEA thus operates on a cost leadership strategy for sustained competitive advantage
The importance of values and ethics in business has been undermined in the past. With businesses being driven by the desire to capture market share, profit maximization, aggressive marketing and the race for acquisitions, we’ve somewhere forgotten the importance of our values and ethics while taking decisions. The age-old ideology that business is separate from personal life and thus the two must not be mixed has played a major role in the lack of ethics in business decisions. The root of all this lies in our education system. The importance of value based education, especially in the area of business management is immense. Over the past few years, institutions like SPJIMR have been focusing extensively on promoting value-based learning in order to produce socially sensitive leaders of tomorrow who would be driven by strong ethics and values.
Getting the right products at the right time for its customers is probably the dream for any retail organisation. A supply chain scenario involving a dedicated retailer, a distributor and a manufacturer where the stock gets replenished as and when demanded by the downstream would certainly be desirable.
This is a semi-hypothetical case study created in order to teach the concept of making a brief.
