You step out of your cab, grab your morning tea, and get to the office. It’s your typical Monday morning—until, bam! You step in the elevator and find yourself face-to-face with the CEO of your dream company. How do you deal with the opportunity?
Shakespeare has rightly said, “All’s well that ends well”. Our three-week-long induction programme at SIMSR, probably the longest among all B-Schools in India, came to an end with a bang. The induction reached the climax with All Is Well, a three-day cultural extravaganza organized by the Students’ Activity Forum (SAF), such that I bet you would have never seen before.
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Back in the days when I was preparing for CAT, I used to read through a lot of articles to improve my reading comprehension. Articles of Former RBI Governor Dr. Raghuram Rajan are/were regular features in a number of publications. Fast forward a year and it was hard to believe Dr. Rajan standing 20 feet away from me answering a question of mine, on the role of credit rating agencies in growing NPAs in India. Four months into the course at IFMR GSB, one thing which I learned is this MBA never fails to excite me!
‘Beti baadi ho gayi hai, shaadi kab karwa rahe hai’, could be the most heard line by any Indian parent, when their daughters reach their 20s. The age is even less if you are from rural India. Women in particular, other than all the other societal expectations, need to bear this burden of getting married ‘on time’, thanks to the constant nagging of immediate family and relatives. What suffers in the process is their aspiration for higher studies and making a mark in the world for themselves!
The monotony of life is something every individual tackles on a daily basis. Either doing assignments everyday or being stuck in a cubicle for 8 hours, You often lose interest in carrying forward assigned work and also deviate from your passion due to a variety of reasons. In this video, Harshita and Ruchin, both currently pursuing Marketing at IMT, Ghaziabad; Take us through their journey of balancing work and play. They have been pushing the envelope and accomplish great feats in their respective fields.
After a year of grueling preparations, cracking the entrance examinations, and another three months of nervous anticipation, we, the batch 2019-21, entered the Lavale hilltop campus with a heavy heart and a bucketful of questions. For many of us, it was the first time staying away from our hometown, while for others, it was another adventure. “Seeing is believing” – they said: Well said. Before joining, we had only heard of what to expect, but experiencing it first hand is a different ball game altogether.
The largest-ever batch at IIFT (Delhi & Kolkata) was placed across 96 companies with average stipend seeing an upward trend. While the highest stipend remained at Rs. 3,20,000, the average stipend stood at Rs. 1,68,000 - a staggering 13.5% increase despite a 5% increase in batch size. The average stipend offered in IIFT placements for the top 50% of the batch was Rs. 2,42,000 for 2 months.
