It is not news that the entire world is grappling with one of the deadlier pandemics of the last few decades. Nations across the globe are imposing near-complete lockdowns, and growth in R&D into possible cures and vaccines is on an ever-increasing pace.
Founded in 2010, FirstCry is India's largest omnichannel (web, mobile and offline) retailer focused on the needs of babies, kids, and mothers. It also runs India's largest maternity clinic gift hamper program, offline stores chain, and online parenting communities targeted towards parents. Moreover, it also started a logistics business - Xpressbees that has emerged as one of India's fastest-growing logistics companies.
As placement season looms in most B-school campuses, outgoing graduates are often in a dilemma as they make decisions from a myriad of choices offered to them. Candidates weigh various factors like their personal interest, organizational culture, growth opportunities, compensation, work-life balance and location to create a target set of companies they would want to apply to and prepare for their interview process accordingly.
The Xavier Institute of Management Bhubaneswar has released the Final Placements report for the Business Management Class of 2018-20! A total of 365 students participated and were placed in the final placements process. Top brands on campus included Goldman Sachs, Mahindra GMC, Accenture, Nestle, AB InBev, Amazon, and Tata Steel amongst others. The median salary for the batch stood at INR 15 lakhs per annum. These are important highlights from the XIMB final placements report for the Class of 2020.
In the 3rd part of his talk on Konversations in Quarantine, Amit Agarwal, self minted Salespreneur, Author of the book “The Ultimate Sales Accelerator,” IIM A & IIT Bhu Alum, and currently, Senior VP, Sales, and Business Development at Manthan, talks about his life at IIT and IIM. From discussing how his time at IIT BHU changed him and how he then went on to work at Cognizant and other IT Service companies. He takes us through his journey at IIM Ahmedabad and shares just why he chose sales as a career! If you too are interested in sales and marketing and wondering how to go about it, this one's for you!
Prof. Ramachandran K. is IMI New Delhi’s Professor of The Year in 2020! With more than 30 years of industry experience, Professor Ramachandran has become the favourite of his students at IMI. Here's why MBA students adore him and consider him "the most knowledgeable professor ever"!
Professor D. Sriram is this year’s InsideIIM Professor Of The Year. He has 28 years of work experience (industry and teaching combined) and brings seniority, seriousness and reach industry knowledge in the GLIM Chennai classrooms. Here's why Prof. Sriram has been voted by students at the Great Lakes Institute of Management, Chennai as their favourite professor!
Do you wonder how the world will change after the COVID 19 threat has been neutralised? How kinds of changes will work, processes, and systems undergo? One of the major functions to change drastically will be sales. Because now, with work happening mostly online, sales jobs too will have to go virtual. One of the biggest shifts we see in sales work trends is the use of big data. How does sales online work? Why is it a better option than the purely offload mode of selling? And what are pertinent questions to ask if you want to achieve success in sales? In the 2nd part of his talk, Amit Agarwal, self minted Salespreneur, Author of the book “The Ultimate Sales Accelerator,” IIM A & IIT Bhu Alum, and currently Senior VP, Sales and Business Development at Manthan, answers all this and more.
