MBA Aspirant

GD/PI Tips by Prabhat Pankaj - Director of Jaipuria Institute of Management

All management aspirants who want to a bag a seat at a top B School have to navigate the crucial Group Discussion and Personal Interview. These are important opportunities for candidates to make a lasting impression. Dr. Prabhat Pankaj, Director, Jaipuria Institute of Management, Jaipur, reveals the secrets that can help students ace the selection process. Shedding light on the importance of the GD he says, “It’s not only meant for assessing the candidate’s knowledge of current affairs, but also to measure his or her ability to respond to their teammates.”

The Rise Beyond Expectations – Strategy at Mahindra Rise

As a child, I loved to make airplanes out of paper not because they were something to play with but because it helped my creativity to soar into the sky. It enabled me to rise beyond possibilities; it helped my aspirations to fly. I had been waiting for a chance to spread my wings and soar into a corporate sky after gliding through my engineering at IIT Guwahati and a first year at IIM Calcutta as a ‘Fresher’. Soon after a conference call that detailed us about the General Management Cadre (GMC) Program, we started a ‘Whatsapp’ group to connect to all the fellow-interns. Subsequently, the e-mail that flew into my inbox from Mahindra was a passport to ‘Mahindra Towers’. The first thing that elated me was that I would find a place in the Group Headquarters. I was one of the 3 lucky people out of 60 GMC Interns to be given a project in the Group Strategy Office. The project title that came in the email with an assortment of key deliverables read: “IDENTIFYING OPPORTUNITIES FOR ENGINE APPLICATIONS IN SHIPPING INDUSTRY”

Gurukul Diaries @ Godrej Properties

Fifteen days into my internship and I was still clueless of what was happening around. It was not that I had not put any efforts in the past 15 days, but it was that I was still directionless. The problem is not when your ship is sinking (assuming you know swimming!), but the real problem is that when you cannot find a shore for miles while your ship is sinking.

A Summer Like No Other - Internship at Backspace Consulting LLP

The Girl in the Local Train - Summer Internship at Mahindra

Mumbai – the first thing that comes to mind is Crowd! Believe me, that is what defines Mumbai and after spending 56 days in the city which never sleeps, I am no more afraid of getting crushed in the sea of rushing Mumbaikars, I am not afraid of crossing across a road with super speeding cars, I am not afraid of pickpockets and I am definitely not afraid of thriving in a big city all by myself. Two months of internship at Mahindra & Mahindra Ltd. has taught me some of the finest lessons of life and that too with panache!

Bitter Shanghai Internship With a Sweet Aftertaste - Internship with CII in China

This is probably the last minute entry to the saga.

Summer Saga at RPG

My internship sailed me through an immensely enriching and fruitful experience at Raychem RPG. It gave me the opportunity to apply all the theoretical concept learnt during the first year of my PGDM course at IIM Ranchi into practical usage and provide the desired output to my organization. It was never a very easy path for me, what I had to face during my internship was challenges related to my project and competition by the fellow interns belonging to prominent institutes such as IIM A, C etc. I was motivated by the very fact that was told to me by my manager i.e. “You are expected to do things that is otherwise impossible.” It gave me the drive to work hard and achieve excellence in all the task assigned to me.

Lessons from Dell's Mistakes In Going Asset Light

Most companies look at costs as fixed and variable costs. And if reliable partners can be found to undertake the activities related with variable costs, all of it is quickly outsourced to them. This strategy leads to the following benefits: