The past week has had some interesting headlines from the world of MBA and business. In today's episode of News From The World of MBA, we will talk about placements at IIM Ahmedabad and MDI Gurgaon, an interesting new program that has begun in Australia, and a survey that has revealed what women really think of gender bias at the workplace. So let's dive in!
IIM Shillong has successfully completed its summer placements for the 2020-22 batch, the largest batch in the institute's history with 250 students. The highest stipend was INR 3.00 lakhs, and the average stipend stood at INR 1.38 lakhs for two months, which witnessed an upward movement of 5% from last year. The top 20% and top 50% of the batch secured an average stipend of INR 2.38 lakhs and INR 2.11 lakhs, respectively. A whopping 56% of the batch secured a 6-digit stipend, and the average stipend of the top 50% of the batch witnessed an increase of 27%. The summer placement season at IIM Shillong witnessed participation from 70 recruiters, spanning across several domains such as Consulting & Strategy, Finance, General Management, Human Resources, IT & Analytics, Operations, and Sales & Marketing. Sales & Marketing continued to be the most sought-after domain this year, with 40% of the total offers made to the participants, closely followed by Consulting & Strategy. The number of offers in the General Management and HR & Operations domains saw an enormous increase of 71% and 90%, respectively. Further details will be shared in the institute's official placement report, which will be released shortly.
We are thrilled to bring to you the first episode of India's Most Inspiring Women Managers with Shailaja Gupta. Shailaja is currently working at Stride Pharma in the CEO's office as the Analytics Manager to spearhead digital transformation in the company. She is an alum of IIM Indore where she was in the top 5 percentile of the batch academically. Her wide array of experiences span across Project Management, Team handling, Project Execution, Strategy, Consulting and Alliances & Partnerships for analytics projects.
Personal Interviews carry a lot of weightage in the admission criteria of Top B-schools. To ace those interviews, you need to give your best. There are five basic concepts related to management strategies/frameworks that every MBA aspirant and student should know about as they are mostly asked in interviews and are part of the MBA student's daily life. These 5 concepts are:
Preparing for your B-school entrance exams is exhausting but when you finally receive a call for the interview process, it all starts to fit in place. But, before the feeling can truly set in, you are faced with the daunting task of preparing for the interviews. There is so much to do, so little time and you are competing with the best of the minds in the country for a spot in a coveted B-school.
We have often heard stories of entrepreneurs who decided to not go the MBA route and made it big in their life. Elon Musk, CEO of Tesla and SpaceX thinks that MBA graduates actually do not have the experience to run a successful business or create a good product. We got someone today who walked on the same path. Prafull Billore gave up his MBA dreams quite early in life after a series of failures and decided that he is going to own a tea stall and make a brand for himself. Years later, Prafull today still has no MBA degree, but a business that is worth crores in valuation. Watch this candid conversation that Prafull had with Purnangshu Paul at InsideIIM headquarters to understand his journey a bit better, how it all started and how MBA Chaiwala became the second most famous Chaiwala in the country.
Before jumping into the WAT Topic and PI questions, let me share my profile with you: 10 CGPA in 10th (CBSE), 95% in 12th (CBSE) and 9.09 GPA in B.Tech, Engineer Fresher. I secured a 99.64%ile in CAT 2019 with 97.94%ile in VARC, 99.81%ile in DILR and 97.94%ile in Quant.
At the onset, when I decided to write up something for the MBA aspirants, I was confused as to what to write about given the plethora of topics that can be written about such as the MBA interview preparation or the books one should read before joining the MBA or the internship experience or the experience of the first year. But then one thing, which I found that was difficult for me in my first year was the approach to the MBA itself. Here, in this write-up, I talk about three things that I believe are the most important in the first year of an MBA.
The past week has had some interesting headlines from the world of MBA and business. In today's episode of News From The World of MBA, we will talk about placements at IIM Ahmedabad and MDI Gurgaon, an interesting new program that has begun in Australia, and a survey that has revealed what women really think of gender bias at the workplace. So let's dive in!
IIM Shillong has successfully completed its summer placements for the 2020-22 batch, the largest batch in the institute's history with 250 students. The highest stipend was INR 3.00 lakhs, and the average stipend stood at INR 1.38 lakhs for two months, which witnessed an upward movement of 5% from last year. The top 20% and top 50% of the batch secured an average stipend of INR 2.38 lakhs and INR 2.11 lakhs, respectively. A whopping 56% of the batch secured a 6-digit stipend, and the average stipend of the top 50% of the batch witnessed an increase of 27%. The summer placement season at IIM Shillong witnessed participation from 70 recruiters, spanning across several domains such as Consulting & Strategy, Finance, General Management, Human Resources, IT & Analytics, Operations, and Sales & Marketing. Sales & Marketing continued to be the most sought-after domain this year, with 40% of the total offers made to the participants, closely followed by Consulting & Strategy. The number of offers in the General Management and HR & Operations domains saw an enormous increase of 71% and 90%, respectively. Further details will be shared in the institute's official placement report, which will be released shortly.
We are thrilled to bring to you the first episode of India's Most Inspiring Women Managers with Shailaja Gupta. Shailaja is currently working at Stride Pharma in the CEO's office as the Analytics Manager to spearhead digital transformation in the company. She is an alum of IIM Indore where she was in the top 5 percentile of the batch academically. Her wide array of experiences span across Project Management, Team handling, Project Execution, Strategy, Consulting and Alliances & Partnerships for analytics projects.
Personal Interviews carry a lot of weightage in the admission criteria of Top B-schools. To ace those interviews, you need to give your best. There are five basic concepts related to management strategies/frameworks that every MBA aspirant and student should know about as they are mostly asked in interviews and are part of the MBA student's daily life. These 5 concepts are:
Preparing for your B-school entrance exams is exhausting but when you finally receive a call for the interview process, it all starts to fit in place. But, before the feeling can truly set in, you are faced with the daunting task of preparing for the interviews. There is so much to do, so little time and you are competing with the best of the minds in the country for a spot in a coveted B-school.
We have often heard stories of entrepreneurs who decided to not go the MBA route and made it big in their life. Elon Musk, CEO of Tesla and SpaceX thinks that MBA graduates actually do not have the experience to run a successful business or create a good product. We got someone today who walked on the same path. Prafull Billore gave up his MBA dreams quite early in life after a series of failures and decided that he is going to own a tea stall and make a brand for himself. Years later, Prafull today still has no MBA degree, but a business that is worth crores in valuation. Watch this candid conversation that Prafull had with Purnangshu Paul at InsideIIM headquarters to understand his journey a bit better, how it all started and how MBA Chaiwala became the second most famous Chaiwala in the country.
Before jumping into the WAT Topic and PI questions, let me share my profile with you: 10 CGPA in 10th (CBSE), 95% in 12th (CBSE) and 9.09 GPA in B.Tech, Engineer Fresher. I secured a 99.64%ile in CAT 2019 with 97.94%ile in VARC, 99.81%ile in DILR and 97.94%ile in Quant.
At the onset, when I decided to write up something for the MBA aspirants, I was confused as to what to write about given the plethora of topics that can be written about such as the MBA interview preparation or the books one should read before joining the MBA or the internship experience or the experience of the first year. But then one thing, which I found that was difficult for me in my first year was the approach to the MBA itself. Here, in this write-up, I talk about three things that I believe are the most important in the first year of an MBA.
