2015 is about to end, and we have had a great year. Your support has been fabulous in helping us grow further. While reviewing the year back, we decided to look back at the most popular articles on InsideIIM. It is a good collection of articles, which will surely help you in being well-informed and knowledgeable while building your management career.
All it takes to get a good job or admission in a good B-school is… a Burger!
Every morning when I open my newspaper, a 2 – page unmissable advertisement, put out by Facebook, educating me about why Free Basics is good for India, assaults me.
B-Cube connects with over 50,000 students across all streams of Engineering, with participation from NITs, IITs and other premier institutes. In its tenth edition this year, the event is organized at the pristine campus of NITIE located in Powai.
Logistics sector in India is highly fragmented and yet to progress as a major contributor of an efficient supply chain. This sector has been primary bottleneck in driving the economic growth due to multiple taxes charged by authorities at interstate checkpoints and various toll booths throughout the country. The truck drivers in India clock an average of 250-280 km per day. Much below the world average of 400 km per day and far below the 700 km which is the average distance covered by a truck driver in the USA every day. This is mainly due to archaic laws and multi-layered tax systems rather than bad roads or inefficiency of the driver. As road transportation accounts for 60% of the freight traffic in the country, the slow movement of goods across states leads to productivity loss. Multiple tax system also results in high logistics cost putting the extra cost burden on the consumers. World Bank estimation states that Indian corporations can save up to 30-40% logistics cost incurring due to stoppages at various tolls and check posts.
Did you know that Abercrombie & Fitch (A&F) does not encourage people above 40 years to shop in their store? At least, that is what I felt when I recently visited an A&F store in San Francisco.
All it takes to get a good job or admission in a good B-school is… a Burger!
Business School is typically the last educational institution for most students though there could be a couple of exceptions. All the same here is a list of 10 must do’s in any Business School, in no particular order, other than the always existing academic rigour. It is a personal opinion and there are many other points that could be added to the list!
