The annual worldwide sales of the retail e-commerce industry for the year of 2017 stood at $2.38 trillion. Yes, you read it right! Trillion! And now, imagine this, in 2021 this figure is set to be more than doubled, taking it past the GDPs of countries like Japan, India, Germany, UK, France!
With CAT results declared, preparation for WAT and PI rounds is the next big step towards gaining admission in the B-School of your choice. Through this article, I'll outline what you can expect from the WAT round and a few steps that have helped me while preparing for it.
Did you uninstall WhatsApp yet? What a scary update right? These were some of the most asked questions in the last few days. And why not? Millennials and Baby Boomers alike found their privacy invaded while bringing the uncomfortable truth of their data not really being secure. So that's what we discuss in today's bulletin. We also look at Donald Trump being impeached for the 2nd time. And an interesting change in how Reliance Retail operates. Read today's highlights and learn more!
“Women in all fields come across multiple challenges that they overcome to march forward. I am no different” – This is a thought-provoking excerpt in the words & experiences of Dr. Mohua Banerjee, Director of IMI Kolkata , who herself is an inspiration to young women looking to make a mark for themselves in the world of business. Her personal achievements and her vision for the future of her students is truly remarkable.
One of the most pressing matters for any MBA student is being able to receive a good return on investment, both in terms of money and time. Having spent a good number of months (if not years) working towards getting admission to a top institute, students expect a certain remuneration to start-off their management careers with. Since placement reports usually provide limited salary data, we made use of the extensive InsideIIM Recruitment Survey to dive deeper into the kind of salaries that students realistically expect in their first post-MBA jobs.
Business Schools this year faced an extremely tough challenge like any other industry. Whether it was successfully onboarding the batch of 2022, or to help the existing 2021 batch with their summer internship offers. The challenge was to keep up the standards of quality in education, facilitate campus placements, and shape the overall personality of the candidates remotely. New processes and structures had to be placed overnight and one such evolved process this year would be centered around the selection of candidates for the upcoming batch of 2023.
Very few agree or even acknowledge the fact that money is the driving force behind today’s world. From the days of individual barters to multi-billion dollar deals, money has metamorphosed into something gigantic. Yet, it is no bigger than the reason for its existence, the need for money itself. The aspiration of earning more money has time and again been seen as a taboo and a sign of greed. And yet, every product you buy, every need is connected by that one word; money and hence, it is irreplaceable. That being said, you can have the talent to earn money, but it takes special talent to know how to spend it. That is how the value of money grows and this is the crux of what we are going to talk about today!
January has been a very eventful month. The CAT results have finally been released, and multiple exams like XAT, SNAP and NMAT have been conducted, with IIFT to be conducted later in the month. B-school calls have now begun to come out as well, and some of the newer IIMs have released their selection criteria for admission to the batch of 2023. We discuss these updates and other top headlines from the past week in this latest episode of News From The World of MBA.
The annual worldwide sales of the retail e-commerce industry for the year of 2017 stood at $2.38 trillion. Yes, you read it right! Trillion! And now, imagine this, in 2021 this figure is set to be more than doubled, taking it past the GDPs of countries like Japan, India, Germany, UK, France!
With CAT results declared, preparation for WAT and PI rounds is the next big step towards gaining admission in the B-School of your choice. Through this article, I'll outline what you can expect from the WAT round and a few steps that have helped me while preparing for it.
Did you uninstall WhatsApp yet? What a scary update right? These were some of the most asked questions in the last few days. And why not? Millennials and Baby Boomers alike found their privacy invaded while bringing the uncomfortable truth of their data not really being secure. So that's what we discuss in today's bulletin. We also look at Donald Trump being impeached for the 2nd time. And an interesting change in how Reliance Retail operates. Read today's highlights and learn more!
“Women in all fields come across multiple challenges that they overcome to march forward. I am no different” – This is a thought-provoking excerpt in the words & experiences of Dr. Mohua Banerjee, Director of IMI Kolkata , who herself is an inspiration to young women looking to make a mark for themselves in the world of business. Her personal achievements and her vision for the future of her students is truly remarkable.
One of the most pressing matters for any MBA student is being able to receive a good return on investment, both in terms of money and time. Having spent a good number of months (if not years) working towards getting admission to a top institute, students expect a certain remuneration to start-off their management careers with. Since placement reports usually provide limited salary data, we made use of the extensive InsideIIM Recruitment Survey to dive deeper into the kind of salaries that students realistically expect in their first post-MBA jobs.
Business Schools this year faced an extremely tough challenge like any other industry. Whether it was successfully onboarding the batch of 2022, or to help the existing 2021 batch with their summer internship offers. The challenge was to keep up the standards of quality in education, facilitate campus placements, and shape the overall personality of the candidates remotely. New processes and structures had to be placed overnight and one such evolved process this year would be centered around the selection of candidates for the upcoming batch of 2023.
Very few agree or even acknowledge the fact that money is the driving force behind today’s world. From the days of individual barters to multi-billion dollar deals, money has metamorphosed into something gigantic. Yet, it is no bigger than the reason for its existence, the need for money itself. The aspiration of earning more money has time and again been seen as a taboo and a sign of greed. And yet, every product you buy, every need is connected by that one word; money and hence, it is irreplaceable. That being said, you can have the talent to earn money, but it takes special talent to know how to spend it. That is how the value of money grows and this is the crux of what we are going to talk about today!
January has been a very eventful month. The CAT results have finally been released, and multiple exams like XAT, SNAP and NMAT have been conducted, with IIFT to be conducted later in the month. B-school calls have now begun to come out as well, and some of the newer IIMs have released their selection criteria for admission to the batch of 2023. We discuss these updates and other top headlines from the past week in this latest episode of News From The World of MBA.
