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"Roll up your sleeves. Don't be afraid of hard work" - Interview with Pankaj Thapar - Managing Director FCM at Everstone Capital PE

"Roll up your sleeves. Don't be afraid of hard work" - Interview with Pankaj Thapar - Managing Director FCM at Everstone Capital PE

As a part of our Industry series, we meet the current CFO of IndoStar Capital and the Managing director FCM at Everstone Capital Private Equity (Everstone has invested in IndoStar Capital). He is an alumnus of FMS Delhi (Class of 1984) and has had a stellar career spanning almost 3 decades in some of the top organisations in India and the World. The list of those companies includes Coca-Cola, ANZ Grindlays bank, Dentsu, ICICI Bank, Citibank and Future Capital. 

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The Special Breed of Chartered Accountant MBAs in India - Story I - Hemanshu Chokhani

The Special Breed of Chartered Accountant MBAs in India - Story I - Hemanshu Chokhani

In our special series covering Chartered Accountants who also took the MBA plunge, we speak to 3 CA MBAs and hear their story. For those pursuing a PGDM or an equivalent in India, it was entering a world dominated by engineers. And that is probably what makes them more desirable for recruiters. IIM Bangalore calls CA Merit rankers and IIM Indore gives special points for being a Chartered Accountant as a part of the diversity drive. CAs have been and will always remain in demand at most top management institutions.

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Featured MBA Grad - Ravishankar Iyer. Building vocational skills for India tomorrow.

Featured MBA Grad - Ravishankar Iyer. Building vocational skills for India tomorrow.

Nearly everyone with an MBA wants to get into strategy consulting. The few who make it get used to the high-flying life  and are unwilling to give it up for anything in the world. It takes great guts, conviction and sensitivity to give up the fast life and put one's efforts into solving one of India's most slow-moving, intractable problems. That is exactly what Ravishankar Iyer is doing. An alumnus of IIM Ahmedabad, class of 2005, he was Associate Principal at Feedback Ventures (now Feedback Infra) before he joined B-ABLE (Basix Academy for Building Lifelong Employability). The organization works with the National Skills Development Corporation to help build vocational skills among the under-educated and under-skilled.  Following are the excerpts of our interview with him.

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Interview with Rishiraj Singh Pruthi – Head, Customer Marketing at Abbott Nutrition.

Interview with Rishiraj Singh Pruthi – Head, Customer Marketing at Abbott Nutrition.

A career in FMCG marketing remains one of the dream destinations for MBA grads and aspirants alike. However, a successful career requires much more than a good campus placement from a top B school. In our bid to give readers a complete perspective on how to build a career in FMCG marketing, we are proud to do an interview with Rishiraj Singh Pruthi – Head of Customer Marketing at Abbott Nutrition.

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Featured MBA Grad of the month - VIKAS SHARMA

Featured MBA Grad of the month - VIKAS SHARMA

This month, InsideIIM brings you the story of Vikas Sharma (XLRI - Business Management 2009), one of the founders of Parichay, an organization which aims at providing sustainable employment to the artisans in India. What started as an initiative mainly for the states of Jharkhand, West Bengal and Orissa, has now spread its arms to Assam as well.

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