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'In a banking career, decide on your long term goals before it's too late' - Dhiraj Bajaj, Director - Bank of America

'In a banking career, decide on your long term goals before it's too late' - Dhiraj Bajaj, Director - Bank of America

InsideIIM conducted a live chat with Dhiraj Bajaj, Director and India Head – Financial Institutions – Transaction Banking, Bank of America. The idea was to get a perspective on the banking industry and careers in finance. In an extremely informative and fruitful session, Dhiraj Bajaj patiently answered all kinds of queries on banking and careers from the MBA students and B school aspirants.

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Why the ICC T20 World Cup 2014 is special to me?

Why the ICC T20 World Cup 2014 is special to me?

India has not won the cup, yet, but there are other reasons why I consider it special. Firstly, this is probably the first tournament where India has won all the matches and that too comprehensively, at the group stage to qualify into the semis. Secondly, the official theme song is in Bengali, which makes me bloom with pride and joy. The world, finally and officially gets to taste the “Sholoana Bangaliyana” (the true blue Bengali) flavour.

Kaushik Bandopadhyay
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Through the looking glass: Move over FMCG- B2B (Manufacturing) Marketing

Through the looking glass: Move over FMCG- B2B (Manufacturing) Marketing

FMCG is the holy-grail for marketing students with most of them clamoring for a sales stint followed by a cushy branding job in the FMCG sector. After all the FMCG space is exciting, stable and growing. Needless to say a sales stint in the FMCG sector really fosters entrepreneurial skills as you are literally managing a territory and are accountable for the numbers it contributes to the top-line. While there have always been takers for the FMCG space and of late there is a buzz in the B2B (IT) and E –commerce sector, business development verticals in B2B manufacturing companies have never really garnered that kind of interest, much less sustained it.

Sonal Sapale
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The Illusion of Happiness

The Illusion of Happiness

What motivates one for a corporate job? I asked myself introspecting over my years passed in engineering college. Lucrative job, attractive salary, luxurious life and the respect in the society and among the peers are some to count. Perhaps these are the parameters deemed to lead a happy life. But the question is if happiness is mere a function of these factors. Let’s analyze the degree of veracity it holds.

ankit8 purwar
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