Haven’t we all seen those Wall Street or Dalal Street movies and awed at the characters and their smart, calculative moves? Or read about Warren Buffet’s simple rules of investment and thought that “Well, I could do this”. Or heard yelling and commotion in their heads while picturing a stock market trading floor?
What makes a B-school experience a full-fledged one! Is it just the academics and the placements you receive at the end of it? Probably not! At SDA Bocconi Asia Center, students go through a multitude of other things through which the institute prepares them for a fruitful corporate career. One of them is the incorporation of Career Development Services, a body that works actively with the placement committee to train, advise, and connect students to corporates for overall capability building and corporate relations. In this episode, we spoke to some of the students who got placed in marquee companies through the help of CDS and tried to understand how it operates from the management team.
Illumina, the market research club of MDI, has been providing companies with the unique opportunity to study consumer behaviour through creative market research, designed by the students of MDI. With a successful track record of 23 years, Illumina is a medium of research conducted in the heart of Gurgaon attracting a footfall in excess of 8000. Illumina has conducted market research for HUL, Swiggy, Airtel, HP, OYO, Mankind, 1mg, and many more in the past.
Today's News Bulletin is a mix of positive and negative, just like life! We discuss the new vaccines that everyone is waiting for as well as the latest banking tragedy that's the story of Tamil Nadu based (almost 90 years old), Laxmi Vilas Bank. But the story we focus on today is AirBnB coming out of an existential crisis and bouncing back despite the pandemic! What was AirBnB's successful pivot strategy? Read on to find out!
For the 19th episode of #YOBOLive we talk about the mindset you need to succeed, whether it be during summer placement interviews or final placements. What aspects of the internship process make it so crucial? Is it really the most important part of your b-school experience? What happens if you don't get a PPO, or don't like the company you've interned for? How do you look for a job outside of the placement system? If these are your questions, this session will have all your answers.
Team Members: Surya Jain, Dhaval Jain & Arjun Mehera || PGDM 2019-21 Management Student at GLIM, Gurgaon
It was the month of May, the year 2019. Life was mundane, and going at its regular pace. I had been working for more than 2.5 years for the digital arm of one of the largest media conglomerates in the country. Work was not bad, but there was something missing in life. The dreaded question, “Where do you see yourself five years down the lane?” had started haunting me now. And that is when I had realized that an analyst job was probably not fulfilling for me, and this was not something I would want to see myself doing for the rest of my life. Management always excited me, be it events in office/college or anything that required critical business problem solving with efficient utilization of available resources. Having gained enough corporate experience, it was now the optimal time to take the big step and start preparing for CAT 2020. It was a six months long toil, managing the regular office routine, and stealing time out of it to study. It wasn’t an easy task because I had already lost touch; it had been three years since I had graduated. But the zeal to do something and see me in a better position in the future is what kept me going and stay motivated. After about two weeks of struggle, I had started to manage both office and studies efficiently. This again was a management problem that I was solving. Months passed by, and finally, it was November 24th, 2019, the D-Day had arrived, and it was showtime.
After close to 3 years of working in IT Consulting, I was all pumped up about my MBA journey. On making the final cut at MDI Gurgaon, with high hopes and uncertainties with the pandemic and online MBA, I started preparing myself for the journey ahead.
Haven’t we all seen those Wall Street or Dalal Street movies and awed at the characters and their smart, calculative moves? Or read about Warren Buffet’s simple rules of investment and thought that “Well, I could do this”. Or heard yelling and commotion in their heads while picturing a stock market trading floor?
What makes a B-school experience a full-fledged one! Is it just the academics and the placements you receive at the end of it? Probably not! At SDA Bocconi Asia Center, students go through a multitude of other things through which the institute prepares them for a fruitful corporate career. One of them is the incorporation of Career Development Services, a body that works actively with the placement committee to train, advise, and connect students to corporates for overall capability building and corporate relations. In this episode, we spoke to some of the students who got placed in marquee companies through the help of CDS and tried to understand how it operates from the management team.
Illumina, the market research club of MDI, has been providing companies with the unique opportunity to study consumer behaviour through creative market research, designed by the students of MDI. With a successful track record of 23 years, Illumina is a medium of research conducted in the heart of Gurgaon attracting a footfall in excess of 8000. Illumina has conducted market research for HUL, Swiggy, Airtel, HP, OYO, Mankind, 1mg, and many more in the past.
Today's News Bulletin is a mix of positive and negative, just like life! We discuss the new vaccines that everyone is waiting for as well as the latest banking tragedy that's the story of Tamil Nadu based (almost 90 years old), Laxmi Vilas Bank. But the story we focus on today is AirBnB coming out of an existential crisis and bouncing back despite the pandemic! What was AirBnB's successful pivot strategy? Read on to find out!
For the 19th episode of #YOBOLive we talk about the mindset you need to succeed, whether it be during summer placement interviews or final placements. What aspects of the internship process make it so crucial? Is it really the most important part of your b-school experience? What happens if you don't get a PPO, or don't like the company you've interned for? How do you look for a job outside of the placement system? If these are your questions, this session will have all your answers.
Team Members: Surya Jain, Dhaval Jain & Arjun Mehera || PGDM 2019-21 Management Student at GLIM, Gurgaon
It was the month of May, the year 2019. Life was mundane, and going at its regular pace. I had been working for more than 2.5 years for the digital arm of one of the largest media conglomerates in the country. Work was not bad, but there was something missing in life. The dreaded question, “Where do you see yourself five years down the lane?” had started haunting me now. And that is when I had realized that an analyst job was probably not fulfilling for me, and this was not something I would want to see myself doing for the rest of my life. Management always excited me, be it events in office/college or anything that required critical business problem solving with efficient utilization of available resources. Having gained enough corporate experience, it was now the optimal time to take the big step and start preparing for CAT 2020. It was a six months long toil, managing the regular office routine, and stealing time out of it to study. It wasn’t an easy task because I had already lost touch; it had been three years since I had graduated. But the zeal to do something and see me in a better position in the future is what kept me going and stay motivated. After about two weeks of struggle, I had started to manage both office and studies efficiently. This again was a management problem that I was solving. Months passed by, and finally, it was November 24th, 2019, the D-Day had arrived, and it was showtime.
After close to 3 years of working in IT Consulting, I was all pumped up about my MBA journey. On making the final cut at MDI Gurgaon, with high hopes and uncertainties with the pandemic and online MBA, I started preparing myself for the journey ahead.
