Introduction – Emami Limited is a major player in the healthcare and personal consumer goods industry in India which is involved in manufacturing and marketing of beauty, personal & healthcare products that are based completely on ayurvedic ingredients. It is one of the renowned companies of FMCG sector in India.
These days I have been struggling to find topics to write on, but this great itch in my hand urges me to write, still. So, to scratch the itch, i.e. look for a topic to write on, I asked my friends about what is this one thing that they believe I should be writing on. Pat came the reply that I should be writing on books; since I sit with my nose buried in one or the other for most of my free time, why not regale my readers with my quirky and therefore personal observations about a few books that I have read. I liked the idea and therefore decided that I will give you a point-wise description of a few of my favorite books and what do I like about them and why you MUST read them (Well, B-school teaches you to write in a point-wise manner very well J ). I have also tried to bring out their relevance in a management context.
Are you making full use of our admissions page - entitled Final Admit? We introduced it in this post here. The quiz section has a vast question bank that can help you in your test prep, as we described here. What's more, you can not only attempt tests, you can also collaborate (discuss solution approaches) and contribute (ask a question under any topic), and analyze your performance. Now, we move on to another very interesting feature of the InsideIIM Final Admit page - the MBA Calendar.
Education plays a pivotal role in the development of the country and it has become integral part of one’s life just like the basic necessities. Every individual irrespective of their income group wants his son or daughter to get a high quality education that would accrue his knowledge and helps him to succeed in his life. Even the government of India has introduced several packages in its five year plans right from the independence to improve the literacy rates and the educational standards in the country. Several missionary schools were started all over the country for this noble cause.
This past weekend I was in Poona to enjoy a quiet couple of days, catch up with old friends and just spend some time lazing around. But the responsible people of the city had other ideas. Saturday night a rumour spread of some guy posting some objectionable content on some social media platform and s*** hit the fan. Members of the offended political party correctly exercised their right to free speech and all its addendums of destruction of property, vandalism, potential threat to human life etc. The event didn’t get a lot of media coverage and so I only came to know of it later on Sunday afternoon. By that time buses plying out of the city and many private vehicles had been pelted with stones, many were abandoned on the road, trucks were stopped on the Mumbai-Pune Expressway and a near-curfew like situation had descended over many parts of Poona and New Bombay. View images here. The impact could be gauged by the fact that on the Sunday night - the night of an IPL final mind you- Phoenix Market City mall in Poona was closed. There was an air of tension and fear in the city with many other shops closed or operating cautiously with half their shutters down. I don’t know exactly what the objectionable content was and its seriousness because the page had been taken down by the police with instructions that anybody ‘Liking’ that page would be arrested. Read the news report here.
We are on to the third and final part of the non-IIM top MBA Alumni report for 2014. Read the first part (locations, companies and functions) and the second part (FMCG, Tech, Telecom, E-Commerce) . For coverage of the six older IIMs, read Part One here, Part Two here and Part Three here. View the Tableau Visualizations here and here. Please give us feedback on the display formats - let us know (use the comments section) whether you like the Tableau Visualizations better or whether you like the plain table format better.
With 31 % of FMCG value sales and high growth potential, Rural market is where everyone wants to go to, but perhaps, not as a summer intern. Not all summer internships are well planned and not all of the rest go as per the plan. My summer internship at Emami was one such experience, which was a balance of invaluable learning about the rural marketing and stark practicalities of field work.
