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Deepakk Goyal and Passion Greens: The Future of Indian Farming?

This was a few years ago at IIM Bangalore. I was looking for some articulate IIMB alumni who could speak to our students to give them an alternate perspective on careers. One name that quickly came to mind was that of Deepakk Goyal. I knew he had done a few different things – undergraduate studies in the United States, a longish stint in his family’s trading business in Kolkata, a late MBA at IIMB where he was one of our mature students (and unlike almost all the others, already married with kids), and then a stint with private equity.

Rishikesha Krishnan28 Jan 2015

Marketers Dislike the Likes on Facebook

Time to explore new faces of social media marketing David Muller, a successful businessman and creator of Veritasium expressed his disappointment over using Facebook as a marketing tool. According to Social Media Examiner’s report, less than 50% of the marketers believe that Facebook is not an effective platform to market their products or services. Still, a whopping 97% B2C firms use Facebook as a social media platform. This paradox is quite inexplicable or so it seems.

Sayali Patil28 Jan 2015

What's worth reading| Shreyas Recommends – (Week 34: Jan 28 – Feb 3 )

In the 33rd edition of Shreyas Recommends, India's Guinness Records, India's Stock Market Rally - Then and Now, something on international spies and some outer space stuff

Shreyas Panse28 Jan 2015

The ABCs of MBA Interview Prep

IIM Raipur Media & PR Cell28 Jan 2015

'In Group Exercise, we normally check for leadership qualities, confidence, content and delivery.' - SIBM Pune

Team InsideIIM27 Jan 2015

Managing through ‘Game of Thrones’

Are you not able to influence people? Do you find difficulty in executing operations in hostile environments? Or do you get confused between your friends and foes? These are all common business dilemmas that have answers in one of the most religiously followed TV Series: A Game of Thrones. An adaptation of the famous novel A Song of Ice and Fire, written by George R.R. Martin, this wonderfully crafted TV series has become synonymous with strategy, lust and bloodshed. Here are some of the lessons that one can learn from GoT:

SIBM Pune26 Jan 2015

'The only thing that motivated me was my desire to attend school' - Ramaswamy Venkatarajan, XLRI, IIT, Flipkart PPO holder

Most people who have made to B-school following a stint at an IIT would reckon that getting through such reputed institutions was a task unto itself. Most of us though, happen to be able bodied people. What about people who suffer from debilitating medical circumstances? I had the opportunity of talking to one such person in my batch who is one of the handful of people in this world who suffer from autoimmune disorders - he also happens to have laurels like an IIT degree, work experience at TATA Motor Finance, a seat in XLRI-BM and a PPO from Flipkart under his belt. He is Ramaswamy Venkatarajan. Below is an excerpt from our conversation; hope this provides as much of inspiration to you as it does to me, and reinforces the fact that nothing is impossible!

Akriti Gupta23 Jan 2015

'Knowledge of your basics should suffice. Plus be thorough be with your college projects and internships.' - NITIE MRC

In the series of LIVE Chats going on InsideIIM, this is the transcript for the chat with NITIE Mumbai on the admission process scheduled to happen over the next 1-2 months

Team InsideIIM22 Jan 2015