Mridul Gupta: Best 50 | India's Most Promising Incoming MBA Students 2024 | Xavier Labour Relations Institute, Delhi-NCR

Selected as one of the Best 50 of India's Most Promising Incoming MBA Students 2024, Mridul Gupta joins XLRI Delhi-NCR from Bain Capability Network, where he was promoted to Senior Analyst. He blends client empathy with systems-level execution across energy work and mentors others while holding the line on integrity and quality. He blends client empathy with systems-level execution—leading utility benchmarking, market-entry, and TSR work across energy —and quietly carries dual workstreams when his manager is on leave, while holding the line on integrity and quality. As an entrepreneur-operator, he co-founded a book-renting venture, developed a credit-card recommendation tool using Apps Script, and scaled FareWealth to 12,000 followers with a Power BI transparency layer. He also grows communities (180DC Partnerships Director; VP, Society of Manufacturing Engineers; IEEE Delhi Section events for 4,000+) and teaches with Saajha.

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Milan Madaan: Best 50 | India's Most Promising Incoming MBA Students 2024 | SP Jain Institute of Management & Research, Mumbai

Selected to the Best 50 of India's Most Promising Incoming MBA Students 2024, Milan Madaan is a purpose-led marketer at SPJIMR who turns ambiguity into process and ideas into shipped work. He moved a campus fest fully online in 2021 by drafting SOPs, designing end-to-end flow, and securing approvals; at Digit Insurance, he mastered MoEngage within weeks, ran zero-error CRM campaigns, and owned insurance-awareness content by teaching himself scripting and editing. Grounded in impact (Enactus KMV, SportsApp) and mentorship (SPJIMR’s Abhudaya), he prefers on-ground results over slideware—and builds systems so teams move faster next time. At SP Jain Institute of Management & Research, Mumbai, he is building systems so teams move faster next time.

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Kasak Maheshwari: Best 50 | India's Most Promising Incoming MBA Students 2024 | Management Development Institute, Gurgaon

Selected as one of the Best 50 of India's Most Promising Incoming MBA Students 2024, Kasak Maheshwari blends finance and analytics with people-first leadership. She is comfortable modelling complex financial scenarios, forecasting performance, and aligning teams around decisions, while staying anchored to integrity, collaboration, and impact within and beyond the firm at Management Development Institute, Gurgaon.

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Kalpit Jain: Best 50 | India's Most Promising Incoming MBA Students 2024 | Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad

Selected to the Best 50 of India's Most Promising Incoming MBA Students 2024, Kalpit Jain is a finance-first operator with a clear arc: IB or PE in the short term, senior leadership in the medium term, and ultimately CFO or financial advisory founder. He has done the reps with EY and Deloitte USI internships in Corporate Finance and PE across deals, valuations, and structuring, built a valuation model from scratch for IIMA's finance club application, and as General Secretary of Hindu College's Internship Cell, co-led 45 members and partnerships with 70+ companies. He held the line on ethics by rejecting a paid positive-reviews ask and securing an alumni-backed sponsor instead. At the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, he continues to invest in technical and leadership growth.

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Ifham Ali: Best 50 | India's Most Promising Incoming MBA Students 2024 | SP Jain Institute of Management & Research, Mumbai

Selected as one of the Best 50 of India's Most Promising Incoming MBA Students 2024, Ifham Ali is a PGDM Information Management candidate who pairs enterprise-grade delivery with a people-first style. Previously a Business Technology Analyst at Deloitte USI, he is known for shipping early and thoroughly and for collaborative leadership. A consensus-builder by instinct, he led the VIT Dramatics Club as Club Head, steering a 210+ member community: 10+ intra-college events, 100+ recruits from 500+ prospects, and 9+ staged productions, while running 4 review cycles to keep participation high. He’s a national finalist at The4P Case Series (S2) for ideating “MECE Club,” an MBA super-app concept; earlier, he wrote and hosted for City Montessori School’s 90.4 MHz radio (5 youth-centric episodes; 2 RJ shows) and performed at the Manthan International Street Play Festival (reach 2,000+). Through the Everyone Grows initiative, he mentors under-resourced students—intentionally designing play and friendship to lift attendance and confidence. Grounded by discipline, sociability, and empathy, he’s also deliberately introspective, tracking a personal metric—positive-impact / interactions—and aiming to keep it near 1. At SP Jain Institute of Management & Research, Mumbai, he is sharpening product and general management skills.

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Hemin Khona: Best 50 | India's Most Promising Incoming MBA Students 2024 | Jamnalal Bajaj Institute of Management Studies

Selected to the Best 50 of India's Most Promising Incoming MBA Students 2024, Hemin Khona blends a “practice-when-no-one’s-watching” discipline with a logical, data-first approach. From topping the MMS/MBA CET in Mumbai (Rank 3 in Maharashtra) and earning A- or higher in 31 of 49 B.Tech Mechatronics subjects, to five years of Rotaract leadership driving large-scale service initiatives, he shows quiet consistency, ownership, and impact. At Jamnalal Bajaj Institute of Management Studies, he is compounding this foundation with rigorous management training and contributions.

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Dhariya Handa: Best 50 | India's Most Promising Incoming MBA Students 2024 | Indian Institute of Management, Shillong

Selected as one of the Best 50 of India's Most Promising Incoming MBA Students 2024, Dhariya Handa brings 33 months across TresVista and D.S and Company. She has run large-scale campus hiring, owning calendars, triaging bottlenecks, coaching juniors, and keeping stakeholders aligned.Known as “most approachable” on her teams, she pairs empathy with structure—spinning up tool trainings, clear SOPs, and calm crisis execution (e.g., rescuing a scheduling miss by manually dispatching 100+ interview invites over a weekend to protect timelines). Beyond work, she’s logged 500+ hours with Make A Difference (MAD)—rising from classroom volunteer to Shelter Operations Fellow, leading 20+ volunteers for 50+ children and city-level events. At the Indian Institute of Management, Shillong, she continues to apply people-first leadership with process excellence at scale.

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Deepak Singwal: Best 50 | India's Most Promising Incoming MBA Students 2024 | Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai

Selected as one of the Best 50 of India's Most Promising Incoming MBA Students 2024, Deepak Singwal blends an Army-bred discipline with a people-first leadership ethic and restless curiosity. From organising CSR initiatives at HARA JEEVAN (plogging drives, upcycling workshops, birdhouses) and mentoring interns, to co-running QUANTA ’23 under pressure and leading on the football field, he shows a calm, team-centred way of getting important things done without losing sight of purpose and community. At Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai, he is compounding this foundation in HRM & LR with structured learning and contribution.

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Mridul Gupta: Best 50 | India's Most Promising Incoming MBA Students 2024 | Xavier Labour Relations Institute, Delhi-NCR

Selected as one of the Best 50 of India's Most Promising Incoming MBA Students 2024, Mridul Gupta joins XLRI Delhi-NCR from Bain Capability Network, where he was promoted to Senior Analyst. He blends client empathy with systems-level execution across energy work and mentors others while holding the line on integrity and quality. He blends client empathy with systems-level execution—leading utility benchmarking, market-entry, and TSR work across energy —and quietly carries dual workstreams when his manager is on leave, while holding the line on integrity and quality. As an entrepreneur-operator, he co-founded a book-renting venture, developed a credit-card recommendation tool using Apps Script, and scaled FareWealth to 12,000 followers with a Power BI transparency layer. He also grows communities (180DC Partnerships Director; VP, Society of Manufacturing Engineers; IEEE Delhi Section events for 4,000+) and teaches with Saajha.

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Milan Madaan: Best 50 | India's Most Promising Incoming MBA Students 2024 | SP Jain Institute of Management & Research, Mumbai

Selected to the Best 50 of India's Most Promising Incoming MBA Students 2024, Milan Madaan is a purpose-led marketer at SPJIMR who turns ambiguity into process and ideas into shipped work. He moved a campus fest fully online in 2021 by drafting SOPs, designing end-to-end flow, and securing approvals; at Digit Insurance, he mastered MoEngage within weeks, ran zero-error CRM campaigns, and owned insurance-awareness content by teaching himself scripting and editing. Grounded in impact (Enactus KMV, SportsApp) and mentorship (SPJIMR’s Abhudaya), he prefers on-ground results over slideware—and builds systems so teams move faster next time. At SP Jain Institute of Management & Research, Mumbai, he is building systems so teams move faster next time.

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Kasak Maheshwari: Best 50 | India's Most Promising Incoming MBA Students 2024 | Management Development Institute, Gurgaon

Selected as one of the Best 50 of India's Most Promising Incoming MBA Students 2024, Kasak Maheshwari blends finance and analytics with people-first leadership. She is comfortable modelling complex financial scenarios, forecasting performance, and aligning teams around decisions, while staying anchored to integrity, collaboration, and impact within and beyond the firm at Management Development Institute, Gurgaon.

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Kalpit Jain: Best 50 | India's Most Promising Incoming MBA Students 2024 | Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad

Selected to the Best 50 of India's Most Promising Incoming MBA Students 2024, Kalpit Jain is a finance-first operator with a clear arc: IB or PE in the short term, senior leadership in the medium term, and ultimately CFO or financial advisory founder. He has done the reps with EY and Deloitte USI internships in Corporate Finance and PE across deals, valuations, and structuring, built a valuation model from scratch for IIMA's finance club application, and as General Secretary of Hindu College's Internship Cell, co-led 45 members and partnerships with 70+ companies. He held the line on ethics by rejecting a paid positive-reviews ask and securing an alumni-backed sponsor instead. At the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, he continues to invest in technical and leadership growth.

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Ifham Ali: Best 50 | India's Most Promising Incoming MBA Students 2024 | SP Jain Institute of Management & Research, Mumbai

Selected as one of the Best 50 of India's Most Promising Incoming MBA Students 2024, Ifham Ali is a PGDM Information Management candidate who pairs enterprise-grade delivery with a people-first style. Previously a Business Technology Analyst at Deloitte USI, he is known for shipping early and thoroughly and for collaborative leadership. A consensus-builder by instinct, he led the VIT Dramatics Club as Club Head, steering a 210+ member community: 10+ intra-college events, 100+ recruits from 500+ prospects, and 9+ staged productions, while running 4 review cycles to keep participation high. He’s a national finalist at The4P Case Series (S2) for ideating “MECE Club,” an MBA super-app concept; earlier, he wrote and hosted for City Montessori School’s 90.4 MHz radio (5 youth-centric episodes; 2 RJ shows) and performed at the Manthan International Street Play Festival (reach 2,000+). Through the Everyone Grows initiative, he mentors under-resourced students—intentionally designing play and friendship to lift attendance and confidence. Grounded by discipline, sociability, and empathy, he’s also deliberately introspective, tracking a personal metric—positive-impact / interactions—and aiming to keep it near 1. At SP Jain Institute of Management & Research, Mumbai, he is sharpening product and general management skills.

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Hemin Khona: Best 50 | India's Most Promising Incoming MBA Students 2024 | Jamnalal Bajaj Institute of Management Studies

Selected to the Best 50 of India's Most Promising Incoming MBA Students 2024, Hemin Khona blends a “practice-when-no-one’s-watching” discipline with a logical, data-first approach. From topping the MMS/MBA CET in Mumbai (Rank 3 in Maharashtra) and earning A- or higher in 31 of 49 B.Tech Mechatronics subjects, to five years of Rotaract leadership driving large-scale service initiatives, he shows quiet consistency, ownership, and impact. At Jamnalal Bajaj Institute of Management Studies, he is compounding this foundation with rigorous management training and contributions.

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Dhariya Handa: Best 50 | India's Most Promising Incoming MBA Students 2024 | Indian Institute of Management, Shillong

Selected as one of the Best 50 of India's Most Promising Incoming MBA Students 2024, Dhariya Handa brings 33 months across TresVista and D.S and Company. She has run large-scale campus hiring, owning calendars, triaging bottlenecks, coaching juniors, and keeping stakeholders aligned.Known as “most approachable” on her teams, she pairs empathy with structure—spinning up tool trainings, clear SOPs, and calm crisis execution (e.g., rescuing a scheduling miss by manually dispatching 100+ interview invites over a weekend to protect timelines). Beyond work, she’s logged 500+ hours with Make A Difference (MAD)—rising from classroom volunteer to Shelter Operations Fellow, leading 20+ volunteers for 50+ children and city-level events. At the Indian Institute of Management, Shillong, she continues to apply people-first leadership with process excellence at scale.

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Deepak Singwal: Best 50 | India's Most Promising Incoming MBA Students 2024 | Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai

Selected as one of the Best 50 of India's Most Promising Incoming MBA Students 2024, Deepak Singwal blends an Army-bred discipline with a people-first leadership ethic and restless curiosity. From organising CSR initiatives at HARA JEEVAN (plogging drives, upcycling workshops, birdhouses) and mentoring interns, to co-running QUANTA ’23 under pressure and leading on the football field, he shows a calm, team-centred way of getting important things done without losing sight of purpose and community. At Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai, he is compounding this foundation in HRM & LR with structured learning and contribution.

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