Kiran Mazumdar Shaw, Executive Chairperson and Managing Director of Biocon, was recently named the EY World Entrepreneur Of The Year for 2020. Surprisingly she was only the third woman to have won the title. This makes one wonder why there are only a handful of women leaders today and even less in India.
I started my preparation quite early but as the date came closer, I feel more and more scared. I felt like I had forgotten everything and I am sure it happened to most of us. However, one thing that I noticed while preparing was that I was able to backtrack my learnings. I feel that it was an essential part of the journey. To look back, search, identify where I had faced this similar issue, remember the process and the mistakes and then not make them when solving the set again.
Creating an android app sounds easy, but trust me it takes much more than lines of code to develop one. In the following lines I would like to share my experience of developing my first proper Android app
Leadership gets tested in times of crisis more than anything. Till last month, I was trying to keep a tab on the pandemic numbers with the fudgy internet connection. I use a 4G network of a firm that recently raised billions from various investors, yet the max my 4G could afford was a poor quality video streaming with buffers. As a matter of checking things and being a student, I kept checking tabs of various universities. Most top American universities had a COVID response page (check HBS, Wharton, MIT, Stanford, Kellogg, etc.). I could find only one-two Indian universities having such a page (ISB and there could be more, but I couldn't find them). Most such pages issue updates and guidelines at a reasonable frequency. Regular communication by leadership becomes essential in times of crisis, and these pages are demonstrative of that.
In Nov 2014, like many other students in reputed B-schools across India, I was also applying for job openings in the coming “Final Placements” season to get a worthy ROI on my academic spend (opportunity cost included!). Consulting firms and fast-growing E-Commerce players were obvious choices, offering eye-catching “packages”.
It wasn’t until 2018 when I got a call letter for the MBA program at the Vinod Gupta School of Management, IIT Kharagpur, that I developed a curiosity about Stock Markets. Partially because never had I thought in my wildest of dreams that I would one day turn into an active trader. Even my friend Sai Ram Teja or SRT as we call him, would resonate with this. Here is an anecdote of the transformation journey of our duo from being rookies to emerging as an equity analyst and a trader.
Disclaimer: If you haven’t watched 2 states or 3 idiots you might miss some references ( but seriously if you haven’t watched there is something very wrong with you). Also, the post doesn’t deal with any kind of preparation strategy for CAT and just narrates the journey of a CAT aspirant.
An unprecedented crisis in COVID-19 has dawned upon the world. More than 8 million confirmed cases globally, fatalities touching almost half a million, it is a crisis that evokes no recent memory of a parallel event. The only closer ones are the Spanish flu or the Great Depression. The crisis, along with ravaging the economy, has also induced some permanent changes within the systems. As people say, 'the World is in for a big reset.' One of the active discussion of this reset is about the online education paradigm.
