Just wait till you read this..! While we all know Shakespeare’s famous line from Romeo and Juliet “What’s in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet”, what we miss out on, is the deep rooted tradition in India while christening at birth or even when aContinue reading “What’s in a name?”
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You too can Blog!
Until the end of last year, the only time I had written was either to give a test or for some business communication. However, my wife always has had tremendous confidence in my capabilities – be it cricket or writing skills. Having heard stories of people like Amish Tripathi (Sr Executive in Insurance)-one of myContinue reading “You too can Blog!”
My MBA Tales # 3/3 – From Overhead Projector to WFH days!
Over the years, after passing out, our JBIM 1992 batch kept in touch with at least the Mumbaites trying to catch up once a year at the annual alumni dinner – Nostalgia. A few years back in 2017, our batch decided to celebrate our pass out silver jubilee at Goa. The idea was to timeContinue reading “My MBA Tales # 3/3 – From Overhead Projector to WFH days!”
My MBA Tales # 2/3 – Dhandey Mein Dosti Nahin, Bhidoo !
After our college got going, as the initial euphoria and excitement of being at an hallowed institution like JBIMS (Bajaj) mellowed, we realised that we had to deal with some limitations due to Bajaj being categorised as a Department of the Mumbai University. Unlike the IIMs and some of the other institutes which have theContinue reading “My MBA Tales # 2/3 – Dhandey Mein Dosti Nahin, Bhidoo !”
My MBA Tales # 1/3- Bajaj the CEO Factory!
An MBA curriculum focuses on exposure to an entire gamut of management subjects starting from Finance, Marketing , Sales, Economics, Commercial Law , Production, Operations Research (OR) , Cost accounting, Statistics, Personnel/ HR, Bookkeeping along with sub streams like banking and insurance, digital marketing etc being further added as the commercial world keeps on evolving.Continue reading “My MBA Tales # 1/3- Bajaj the CEO Factory!”
My Corporate Tales from Here and There # 2 – “Barefoot in the Park” Days at Grindlays !
Grindlays having introduced Merchant Banking in India way back in 1967, was always in the forefront in making pioneering moves on the Indian banking scene. So when in the late 1980 and early 1990s, technology revolution in banking had just started to roll in with ATMs (HSBC introduced first ATMs in 1987) and computerisation wasContinue reading “My Corporate Tales from Here and There # 2 – “Barefoot in the Park” Days at Grindlays !”
My Corporate Tales from Here and There # 1 – Grindlays a nationalised Bank?
After my graduation from Podar College in 1987, I was offered a job with IDBI Ltd when Late Shri S S Nadkarni was the CMD. Then IDBI was one of the top 3 Development Financial Institutions (DFI) , the other 2 being IFCI and ICICI. IDBI used to promote cricket and it was happy toContinue reading “My Corporate Tales from Here and There # 1 – Grindlays a nationalised Bank?”
Welcome 2020 – out with the old and in with the new- Millennial ways !
Times are changing and changing really fast. It is said the generation gap sets in every 15-20 years. By that logic, the current Millennial generation is at least 3-4 generations ahead. I believe my generation has been in a sweet spot having seen it all- from the double decker trailer buses in Mumbai to trafficContinue reading “Welcome 2020 – out with the old and in with the new- Millennial ways !”
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