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Baazigar - The guy who bet on himself

(Editor's note : We love people with a spine here at KiRa Education and InsideIIM. Kunj Sanghvi is one such person. It is easy to go on about how one should do what they love and leave their corporate job etc. How many actually end up doing it? It has to be DONE. It becomes even more difficult after one wins the best management trainee award after a year and gets a double promotion after just 2 years. At a time when most 26 year olds with such a fat pay check are trying to make the most of their corporate careers, Kunj Sanghvi has decided to give it all up and embark on an unique journey. InsideIIM.com is privileged to be the platform through which he interacts with the world while on this trip and is committed to help him in his ultimate goal - A Book of Short Stories from across the length and breadth of our country.)

kunj sanghvi21 Sept 2012

"Roll up your sleeves. Don't be afraid of hard work" - Interview with Pankaj Thapar - Managing Director FCM at Everstone Capital PE

As a part of our Industry series, we meet the current CFO of IndoStar Capital and the Managing director FCM at Everstone Capital Private Equity (Everstone has invested in IndoStar Capital). He is an alumnus of FMS Delhi (Class of 1984) and has had a stellar career spanning almost 3 decades in some of the top organisations in India and the World. The list of those companies includes Coca-Cola, ANZ Grindlays bank, Dentsu, ICICI Bank, Citibank and Future Capital.

Team InsideIIM06 Jul 2012

"It is useful to have around 2 years of industry experience prior to the MBA program" – Interview with IIM Indore's Professor Ranjeet Nambudiri

Our new section - From the Prof’s desk is intended to bring forth the views of the academia on MBA and business in general. We start with an interview with Prof. Ranjeet Nambudiri – faculty in the area of Organizational Behaviour and Human Resource Management at IIM Indore.

Team InsideIIM04 Jul 2012

Football club finances - Part 2 - On InsideIIM's Knowledge Cafe

Revenues In the last post, a comparison of Real Madrid’s revenues with corporate giants made club football look like a cottage industry. However, we hadn't looked at Revenue per employee and now that we have the data, we find that the big clubs do redeem themselves. In revenues per employee, the comparison with Apple is misleading and should be omitted. This is because Apple, in its operations, behaves like a design company– they design ipads whose components are actually manufactured by ARM, Samsung etc. and assembled by Foxconn in China. The people in the Chinese sweatshops aren’t being counted as employees of Apple, but their contribution is being reflected in Apple’s revenues. The revenue per employee, is therefore, artificially inflated.

Shyam Sunder RamaKrishnan07 Jun 2012

The Peculiar Problem of Business School Rankings in India

Since March our helpline - 'Eklavya' has been flooded with queries on choosing business schools. A lot of them quote rankings published in various popular media and on other management education portals. We just thought about having some fun and went about looking at rankings published by media houses with maximum reach and their methodology.

Team InsideIIM04 Jun 2012

Mera State Mahaan - Regionalism at IIMs

One of the amazing aspects about business schools in India is regional diversity. In the clamour around less number of women and lack of non-engineer perspective in the classroom, one good thing that goes completely unnoticed is the excellent regional diversity in an Indian classroom. I doubt if many countries in the world can boast of such diversity within a nation’s borders. One of the highlights of my 2-year PGP programme at IIM Indore was observing in my batch of 240 how people from different parts of India would react when faced with the same situation. It’s a great study and one learns to appreciate different kinds of behaviour.

Ankit Doshi26 May 2012

Football Club Finances - on InsideIIM's Knowledge Cafe

This article is under our special section - 'Knowledge Cafe'.

Shyam Sunder RamaKrishnan19 May 2012

The many varieties of B-school students (Females)

Having known the different male ‘types’ who exist in the hallowed portals of the IIMs, it is but natural that we explore their female counterparts too. The paucity of the feminine species in these big campuses, more so in WIMWI, makes their presence all the more important. In an effort to ensure that gender sensitivity prevails, this section features quite a few of the female prototypes you would come across in IIM campuses.

Vishwanath Hariharan08 Feb 2012