A Guide To Being Financially Stable
Alexander the Great once famously said, "I am indebted to my father for living, but to my teacher for living as well."
Alexander the Great once famously said, "I am indebted to my father for living, but to my teacher for living as well."
The fourth edition of Melange, the annual alumni meet of IIM Shillong, was conducted by the Alumni Committee on February 6th. Since the previous edition of the event was held in Delhi, a trip down south to Bangalore was the unanimous choice for the organizers. With a majority of the alumni being based out of Bangalore, the decision was easier to make.
You long for it – to become an entrepreneur. Flexible working hours, being your own boss, hiring people to work for you and no office politics. Wherever you go, people ask how your business is doing. You say it’s slow but picking up, and their eyes fill up with respect. Does that life sound amazing?
According to a media report, Union revenue secretary Hasmukh Adiha argued in favour of the new proposal to tax employee provident fund (EPF) withdrawals, even as another news report said over one lakh people had signed to support a campaign that demanded the proposal to be rolled back.
Till recently L’Oreal made money by putting ‘chemistry’ in a bottle.
In the case being heard by the Supreme Court from the 17 public sector bank consortium, the only worry should not be that Vijay Mallya has fled the country. It is also that a consortium of banks gave away loans to a beleaguered Kingfisher by breaking the norms of sound banking practices. So we should be more worried about the banks fleeing away as well from their responsibility as bankers to the nation. Because then the government and the public will be left holding the can! And the perpetrators of this gigantic financial indiscretion will all slink away quietly into the sunset.
E-Commerce has left a deep impact on the way people once shopped. With the increasing penetration of smartphones and emergence of online marketplaces, online portals are drawing large pools of loyal customers away from their favorite physical retailers, the latter finding it tough to keep up with the variety and prices that these portals offer.
The PGP is ISB’s full-time one-year residential Post Graduate Programme in Management. It is comparable in rigor and content to a regular two-year full-time MBA programme offered by global business schools.