Time is the most limited resource and it is rightly said that if you cannot manage time, you cannot manage anything! With just 24 hours a day and merely 4 more days to go for the actual test –CAT, it becomes important that you balance your time between revisions, last minute mock tests and self-motivation.
B-schools today are yearning for diversity, but we all know for a fact that the 8 out of 10 would still be from the engineering background and an IT work experience. So, when you come across individuals who hail from diverse backgrounds, it is always interesting to know their perspective of the whole MBA journey. Hardik Patel, part of the merchant navy for four years and now at IIM Trichy was kind enough to narrate his experience.
Under the social initiative—iHelp, around 200 students from the government schools in Indore visited the IIM Indore campus on November 17, 2016. These students belong to the four government schools adopted by IIM Indore and are invited to visit the campus annually. The objective of this visit is to inspire the children through recreational means. The visit was also a part of Children’s Day celebration by iHelp.
Gunajit Brahma, a recent pass-out from IIM –Indore hails from the north-eastern part of the country. He explored the entrepreneurial streak in him and set out to find his own venture: Jeevanksh.com , initially an organic produce marketing site. It has now expanded its ambit for procuring high-quality organic dailies like grains, vegetables and fruits from farmers guaranteeing them more than MSP. This brings into perspective social entrepreneurship in a profitable way.
The pressure to turn stories into likes, to know which time of the day will fetch maximum page views raises one very important question- Do likes, comments and views even signify that people care about a story or issue? I believe in most cases the answer is No.
The Indian IT industry has long counted The USA as one of its biggest markets for IT related services. Several models have evolved in the IT industry to cater to the US market and among it is the Onsite-Offshore model of service delivery. This is a highly effective model for delivering IT services at a lower cost that leverages low cost resources at locations outside USA to execute a major part of the work combined with a few client-facing resources in the US.
We try to understand the business environment in villages and we get a brief idea due to topics such as Marketing to Bottom of Pyramid. Many marketers are identifying villages as the next place for FMCGs to be. In class, it made me cringe when city folks made blanket statements such as “women in villages do not go and shop, so no need to target them”. Or “Villagers are only concerned about food and electronic devices are a luxury to them” So, I decided to interview a mobile shop owner in my village Munavalli – a dusty, desolate place –in the state of Karnataka. It offered mobile phones and accessories for sale as well as repair, which was outsourced to third party in big cities. It also sold SIM cards. It had a photocopy machine which is used for in-house work as well as compliment the sale of SIM cards, since buyers would need photocopies to buy them. Services include top-ups, downloading songs, videos etc. Furthermore, they have license as Patanjali distributors and have stocked few FMCG products of theirs.
Here we bring you CAT Topper, IIM Udaipur, Prateek Samantaray. Prateek is a B.Tech Graduate from Veer Surendra Sai University of Technology, Odisha, Burla. His CAT percentile was 99.42 ( VA-99.98, QA-96.91, LR-93.78).
