That time of the year is here when after a victorious battle with CAT, you are going through the websites of various B-schools to come to a conclusion of selecting one. The email notification in your phone starts pouring with GD-PI calls and you have to make a call about which one to look after the most.
Vinod Gupta School of Management (VGSoM) had the privilege of hosting Mr. Shekhar Bhandari, Senior Executive Vice President & Business Head - Global Transaction Services and Precious Metals, Kotak Mahindra Bank on November 7, 2019. A Chartered Accountant with all-India 25th rank, he has over two decades of experience leading a vast multitude of functions in the finance industry. Mr. Bhandari joined Kotak Mahindra Bank in 1996, a few years after its IPO. He has been part of Kotak’s incredible journey where it today stands tall as India’s second-largest bank by market capitalization.
Remember the stories of Ramayana and Mahabharata? There was always a mention of the sacred guru-shishya (teacher-student) bond. Unfortunately, in those times, the transaction of knowledge was only reserved for people of a certain class and caste. Thankfully, we don’t live in that kind of world anymore. Or do we? While, the number of ST, SC and OBC students is slowly rising in institutes of higher education, the case is not the same for faculty and scholars. In a working paper co-written by Siddharth Joshi (Doctoral Student, IIM B) and Deepak Malghan (Associate Professor, IIM B) titled - Missing Scholars: Social Exclusion at the Indian Institutes of Management, it was found out that, “As of January 2018, of the 642 faculty members across the 13 IIMs, 4 were from the Scheduled Caste (SC) and 1 from the Schedule Tribe (ST) categories.” This report comes as a shock since SCs/STs represent more than a quarter of the country’s population!
Healthy workplace endeavours to produce the best output for any organization. And to make the workplace lively and thriving the backbone is erected through HR policies. A people’s organization always put its employees first and Tata Steel has been doing this for years.
MICA has an International Immersion Program for its second-year students. The program focuses on Digital, Marketing, Analytics and Communication subject learning in the US university classrooms and industry which includes live case studies as well. The students have returned with valuable academic learning and life-transforming experiences, one of which is shared below by a PGP 2 student - Swati Sharma.
We got this wonderful opportunity to interview managers at Aditya Birla Group who were a part of the Aditya Birla Group Leadership Program (ABGLP). They shared their experience of working with the Aditya Birla Group and their journey so far.
Do you want to be prepared for any type of case study during internship or placement interviews? Do you want test your understanding of basic marketing concepts, frameworks and elements? Solve this case study, brought to you by InsideIIM in association with ABGLP and show off how well you know your marketing management curriculum!
The one name resonating with the association of the smallest things in our life. And at the core of it proudly stands Aditya Birla Group making lives simpler, easier and approachable. A conglomerate that has been there for even the smallest part of our lives.ABG taught us to speak with an Idea to change our lives bringing us closer than ever before.
That time of the year is here when after a victorious battle with CAT, you are going through the websites of various B-schools to come to a conclusion of selecting one. The email notification in your phone starts pouring with GD-PI calls and you have to make a call about which one to look after the most.
Vinod Gupta School of Management (VGSoM) had the privilege of hosting Mr. Shekhar Bhandari, Senior Executive Vice President & Business Head - Global Transaction Services and Precious Metals, Kotak Mahindra Bank on November 7, 2019. A Chartered Accountant with all-India 25th rank, he has over two decades of experience leading a vast multitude of functions in the finance industry. Mr. Bhandari joined Kotak Mahindra Bank in 1996, a few years after its IPO. He has been part of Kotak’s incredible journey where it today stands tall as India’s second-largest bank by market capitalization.
Remember the stories of Ramayana and Mahabharata? There was always a mention of the sacred guru-shishya (teacher-student) bond. Unfortunately, in those times, the transaction of knowledge was only reserved for people of a certain class and caste. Thankfully, we don’t live in that kind of world anymore. Or do we? While, the number of ST, SC and OBC students is slowly rising in institutes of higher education, the case is not the same for faculty and scholars. In a working paper co-written by Siddharth Joshi (Doctoral Student, IIM B) and Deepak Malghan (Associate Professor, IIM B) titled - Missing Scholars: Social Exclusion at the Indian Institutes of Management, it was found out that, “As of January 2018, of the 642 faculty members across the 13 IIMs, 4 were from the Scheduled Caste (SC) and 1 from the Schedule Tribe (ST) categories.” This report comes as a shock since SCs/STs represent more than a quarter of the country’s population!
Healthy workplace endeavours to produce the best output for any organization. And to make the workplace lively and thriving the backbone is erected through HR policies. A people’s organization always put its employees first and Tata Steel has been doing this for years.
MICA has an International Immersion Program for its second-year students. The program focuses on Digital, Marketing, Analytics and Communication subject learning in the US university classrooms and industry which includes live case studies as well. The students have returned with valuable academic learning and life-transforming experiences, one of which is shared below by a PGP 2 student - Swati Sharma.
We got this wonderful opportunity to interview managers at Aditya Birla Group who were a part of the Aditya Birla Group Leadership Program (ABGLP). They shared their experience of working with the Aditya Birla Group and their journey so far.
Do you want to be prepared for any type of case study during internship or placement interviews? Do you want test your understanding of basic marketing concepts, frameworks and elements? Solve this case study, brought to you by InsideIIM in association with ABGLP and show off how well you know your marketing management curriculum!
The one name resonating with the association of the smallest things in our life. And at the core of it proudly stands Aditya Birla Group making lives simpler, easier and approachable. A conglomerate that has been there for even the smallest part of our lives.ABG taught us to speak with an Idea to change our lives bringing us closer than ever before.
