Tech adoption has increased 5 folds due to the pandemic. That coupled with the internet revolution is increasingly fueling the demand for Product Managers for digital products in India. It has morphed into a CEO-like position & requires one to be more reliant on data, fluent with analytics & data science.
A small town girl from a village near Varanasi, Anuradha Srivastava has battled challenges difficult for most to imagine. A week before her JEE, her mother fell severely ill. While supporting her mother's well-being not just a week before the exam but even months before it, Anuradha could not go for coaching. Through self-preparation, she cleared BIT Sindri in her first attempt. Unfortunately, during the second year of her engineering, Anuradha lost her mother.
I recently told a friend that I learned more from case competitions than I did in most of my classes put together. Of course, that sentence is laced with a little bit of smug hyperbole, but the premise is largely sound – case competitions have taught me many of the things an MBA programme is supposed to teach you – applying theoretical concepts to a real-world problem, evaluating a given situation along every possible dimension, even in the absence of complete information, making sharp, concise presentations, and of course, doing all of this against a short deadline with a thousand other things to do. Reaching the finale of IIM Bangalore’s Numero Uno from among 1800 participants gave me a serious case of the imposter syndrome – the other presentations were simply so much better. Their analysis was so much deeper, the tools they used so much more sophisticated. I was stunned when my name was announced as the winner, but less so when the judges gave the reasoning. “The problem,” they said, “is that you have gotten so deep into the analysis that you forgot to apply 360 degree common sense solutions to a business problem.” That, I realized, I could do. Winning NITIE’s Enpower 3.0 competition (with my dearest friends Suyash Kumar and Utkarsh Nagar), coming third in IIM Indore’s Management Studio, and winning IIM Calcutta’s OpsWorld competition told me that there was something I was doing right. Hence the desire to pen down this article, with some of my learnings.
InsideIIM had launched the Professor Of The Year Competition this year, where we recognize the efforts that various B-School professors throughout the country have put in to ensure that their students are not left behind and continue to meet their potential and achieve great things. We asked MBA students of the current batches in 2021 to nominate their favorite professors on campus for the title of 'Professor of The Year' as a small token of gratitude for professors.
It’s that time of the year again when you fervently check emails and InsideIIM, ask friends and mentors and look out for news. All for one thing; B-School Admission Results. We obviously hope that each of you get into a desirable or dream b-school but have you given thought to what after that? Or have you been too stuck up focusing on just the admissions part that you forgot about placements?
In this week’s Business News At A Glance edition, we discuss the rising covid-19 cases in the country and what are some of the steps that the government is taking to curb this increase in infections. We also take a look at how this second wave impacts the growth outlook of the country with Fitch Ratings giving a BBB- rating to the country. Finally, we discuss the ongoing drama in the Football world around European Super League and what caused its collapse. Read here to find out more about these topics in detail.
Prof. Pradeep Mazumdar passed out from IIM Bangalore with a specialization in marketing over two decades ago. From then, the world of marketing has seen a sea change and so did Prof. Mazumdar’s career graph. After working for over 22 years with renowned companies like Britannia, Shaw Wallace, ACC etc. he decided to opt for teaching at IMT Nagpur and have spent another decade there. With such a vast pool of knowledge and experience, Prof. Mazumdar, shares the secret of success in the world of marketing today. In this episode, he talks about the changing dynamics of marketing, what should be some qualities for a successful marketer and whether a B-school education is needed in order to be a better marketer.
Professor Rajeev Kumra has been voted by IIM Lucknow students as their 'Professor of The Year' in 2021! Professor Kumra, a professor of Marketing at IIM Lucknow, is no stranger to being recognized as the best faculty on campus, having won the award of 'Best Faculty At IIM Lucknow' for not once, not twice but eight times in a row! So what makes Professor Kumra so adored on the IIM Lucknow campus? Find out here.
Tech adoption has increased 5 folds due to the pandemic. That coupled with the internet revolution is increasingly fueling the demand for Product Managers for digital products in India. It has morphed into a CEO-like position & requires one to be more reliant on data, fluent with analytics & data science.
A small town girl from a village near Varanasi, Anuradha Srivastava has battled challenges difficult for most to imagine. A week before her JEE, her mother fell severely ill. While supporting her mother's well-being not just a week before the exam but even months before it, Anuradha could not go for coaching. Through self-preparation, she cleared BIT Sindri in her first attempt. Unfortunately, during the second year of her engineering, Anuradha lost her mother.
I recently told a friend that I learned more from case competitions than I did in most of my classes put together. Of course, that sentence is laced with a little bit of smug hyperbole, but the premise is largely sound – case competitions have taught me many of the things an MBA programme is supposed to teach you – applying theoretical concepts to a real-world problem, evaluating a given situation along every possible dimension, even in the absence of complete information, making sharp, concise presentations, and of course, doing all of this against a short deadline with a thousand other things to do. Reaching the finale of IIM Bangalore’s Numero Uno from among 1800 participants gave me a serious case of the imposter syndrome – the other presentations were simply so much better. Their analysis was so much deeper, the tools they used so much more sophisticated. I was stunned when my name was announced as the winner, but less so when the judges gave the reasoning. “The problem,” they said, “is that you have gotten so deep into the analysis that you forgot to apply 360 degree common sense solutions to a business problem.” That, I realized, I could do. Winning NITIE’s Enpower 3.0 competition (with my dearest friends Suyash Kumar and Utkarsh Nagar), coming third in IIM Indore’s Management Studio, and winning IIM Calcutta’s OpsWorld competition told me that there was something I was doing right. Hence the desire to pen down this article, with some of my learnings.
InsideIIM had launched the Professor Of The Year Competition this year, where we recognize the efforts that various B-School professors throughout the country have put in to ensure that their students are not left behind and continue to meet their potential and achieve great things. We asked MBA students of the current batches in 2021 to nominate their favorite professors on campus for the title of 'Professor of The Year' as a small token of gratitude for professors.
It’s that time of the year again when you fervently check emails and InsideIIM, ask friends and mentors and look out for news. All for one thing; B-School Admission Results. We obviously hope that each of you get into a desirable or dream b-school but have you given thought to what after that? Or have you been too stuck up focusing on just the admissions part that you forgot about placements?
In this week’s Business News At A Glance edition, we discuss the rising covid-19 cases in the country and what are some of the steps that the government is taking to curb this increase in infections. We also take a look at how this second wave impacts the growth outlook of the country with Fitch Ratings giving a BBB- rating to the country. Finally, we discuss the ongoing drama in the Football world around European Super League and what caused its collapse. Read here to find out more about these topics in detail.
Prof. Pradeep Mazumdar passed out from IIM Bangalore with a specialization in marketing over two decades ago. From then, the world of marketing has seen a sea change and so did Prof. Mazumdar’s career graph. After working for over 22 years with renowned companies like Britannia, Shaw Wallace, ACC etc. he decided to opt for teaching at IMT Nagpur and have spent another decade there. With such a vast pool of knowledge and experience, Prof. Mazumdar, shares the secret of success in the world of marketing today. In this episode, he talks about the changing dynamics of marketing, what should be some qualities for a successful marketer and whether a B-school education is needed in order to be a better marketer.
Professor Rajeev Kumra has been voted by IIM Lucknow students as their 'Professor of The Year' in 2021! Professor Kumra, a professor of Marketing at IIM Lucknow, is no stranger to being recognized as the best faculty on campus, having won the award of 'Best Faculty At IIM Lucknow' for not once, not twice but eight times in a row! So what makes Professor Kumra so adored on the IIM Lucknow campus? Find out here.
