My summer internship journey began on the terrace of my hostel on a balmy and breezy Saturday evening. Pleasant and enjoyable weather is a luxury at IIM Lucknow, hence we were having a mini party of sorts, comprising of good food, banter and great company.
Looks like I waited long for this opportunity to come along; an opportunity to exactly make an online record of my “internship experience with Citi”, because I have searched the same words on Google a thousand many times, (from the day I was selected for Citi’s summer internship till today, when I found another co-intern of mine having written down his experience), and still wasn’t able to find a satisfactory blog of an intern in the Operations and Technology unit of Citi. I dearly hope to fill this small dearth of information in the online space.
If it’s easy & simple that doesn't stretch you to the core; If it’s impersonal, objective & that doesn't land you to the shore; If it isn't a thing that you can die for Stop waiting and move on For life is a beautiful voyage lasting not so long Your every single action, awaits a response!
Students would brag about their internship experience with some billion dollar company and how they saved some million dollars or developed the growth STRATEGY working so close with a CEO in a start-up and some would even go into the details on how they turned around an ailing unit of a company into a profit making department. True or false, doesn't matter. It surely raises doubts in the minds of people like me, to share their experiences who rather had a simple stint, just surveying different segments of consumers and working out mundane excel calculations. But what good future managers are we if we don't serve the old wine in a new shiny bottle. Here's my attempt at one such dull/dazzling marketing & sales story in the financial capital of India.
InsideIIM conducted a live chat with Hemang Panchmatia - Verbal Expert and Founder Director at CREDence Academy. The idea was have a discussion on CAT 2014 - given that there are roughly 100 days to go. The discussion focussed on test prep strategies and techniques for Verbal, Quant and CAT in general.
Disruption and disruptive innovation have been in the spotlight of late. The guru of disruptive innovation, Clayton Christensen, and his famous theory were put under the scanner in a highly critical if somewhat flippant recent piece by Jill Lepore in the New Yorker. Just a few weeks earlier, the New York Times carried a provocative article titled “Business School, Disrupted,” that examined the potential of MOOCs to change management education and chronicled the troubled efforts of arguably the world’s strongest business school brand, Harvard Business School, to embrace MOOCs.
The 14th edition of our weekly series on InsideIIM, where PwC Consultant Shreyas Panse curates a list that is the best from across the web that industry professionals and current students must read.
(Vinoo Kurian Thomas is a final year student of the HRM program at XLRI Jamshedpur. This article is submitted as an entry to the Summer Saga 2014 contest at InsideIIM)
