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From A B.Com Grad To Becoming A Product Owner At HSBC, Ft. Santhosh Ravi, Ex JP Morgan Chase

Where does your learning stop? Is there a particular point in your career where you can say that ‘I have learned enough’? The answer probably is a no, especially in the kind of dynamic and changing world we are living in currently. Santhosh Ravi is one such individual, who decided not to stop learning after his corporate career of over 10 years in the BFSI sector. From a fresher at Northern Trust Corporation to taking up different roles in marquee companies like Genpact and JP Morgan Chase & Co.,Santhosh made his career choices with a lot of plan. He later thought of switching to the product side of things and thus opted for a Duke Certification programme in collaboration with upGrad in program management. Santhosh currently is working as a scrum product owner at HSBC, learning every day to improve his skills.

InsideIIM Career Services28 May 2021

IIT Delhi Prof. On Finance Careers Of Tomorrow Ft. Prof. Shveta Singh, DMS IIT D

Prof. Shveta Singh, has been an integral part of DMS IIT Delhi, where she has been teaching for over a decade now. As someone who teaches subjects like Entrepreneurial Finance, Managerial accounting, Corporate governance & CSR, she has been training the young minds at DMS IIT Delhi and making them ready for the future. In this conversation with InsideIIM, Prof. Shveta Singh talks about her journey, how she ended up taking academics, what are the experiences that she brings to the class, how the online mode of education has changed the way teaching happens at DMS IIT Delhi and the trends that are going to dominate the world of Finance.

InsideIIM Career Services14 May 2021

How These 25 Year Olds Managed A 5 Crore Fund?

Finance often comes as a mammoth task to handle for many, which holds true even for MBA aspirants. Some finance principles seem so complicated that students sometimes fail to act upon their own personal finances. In such a scenario, what if we tell you that there is one B-school that helps you be part of an investment fund and gives you asset management roles while you study? With an objective of teaching investment strategy to invest in startups, capital markets, derivatives and real estate, Masters’ Union has this unique student run investment fund with a Rs. 5 Cr. corpus set aside. We wanted to know more about the fund and how it is run and thus, spoke to four Masters’ Union students about it.

InsideIIM Career Services10 May 2021

How These Students Cracked BCG & Softbank JV From Their New B-School, Ft. Masters’ Union

Imagine a B-school, that in its very first year of existence brings in heavyweights in the industry like BCG, McKinsey, Softbank JV etc. on campus for the final placements. Something that only top b-schools and IIMs have managed to do in all these years! Sounds close to unreal right? Well, what if we tell you that there is a new B-school in the block that has actually made it happen? Meet Varun Khandelwal and Dipti Iyer, students of Masters’ Union, who not only received jobs from these consulting and investment firms but also received industry relevant training during their time at campus.

InsideIIM Career Services05 May 2021

Financial Analysis On The Investment Of Japan’s Kirin Holdings In BIRA 91 - By Nishant Nair

In order to do a financial analysis of the transaction, I decided to conduct a valuation of the company of Bira 91 craft beer, which is B9 Beverages Pvt. Ltd. The method I used for valuation was relative valuation approach using Enterprise Value multiples.

Team InsideIIM05 May 2021

Financial Analysis On RB Investing In Bombay Shaving Company - Shantanu Gandhi

The Covid driven lockdown pushed many businesses to the brink of a shutdown and considerable losses to many enterprises. There was, however, a silver lining to it, a boom in E-Commerce businesses from the month of June- July. According to the Co-founder Shantanu Das Gupta – notwithstanding the lockdown in March, they are having revenues of 8 Crore INR every month and are well on track to cross the 1 Billion Mark (FY 20-21) (Source – Interview in Financial Express dated 8th Jan 21). This, coupled with the brands offering in the personal health care segment – offering pre-shave and post-shave men products and a new foray into women products created a unique offering to Ricket Benckiser (RB).

Team InsideIIM05 May 2021

Audit In A Post Pandemic World - By Prachi Parundekar

The unprecedented situation caused by Covid-19 has disrupted most professions across the globe with accounting and auditing being no exception. Auditors can no longer travel to audited entity premises and their own offices making audits completely remotely. The silver lining to this significant challenge before auditors is that the audit profession was already on a journey to becoming more digital, and the investment in digital capability has allowed many firms and practitioners to adapt to the new circumstances relatively more quickly than other industries.

Team InsideIIM05 May 2021

Impact Of Privatization Of Indian Public Sector Banks - By Palash Maheshwari

The government of India has in principle agreed to the privatization of Public sector banks (PSBs). This decision was much awaited by the industry but there are a lot of questions and uncertainties relating to this. We will discuss the objectives of privatization, its impact, and whether the desired results are achievable.

Team InsideIIM05 May 2021