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IIM Alums Interviews on my YouTube channel

I am from PGPX 2015 and have a YouTube channel to mentor youngsters I had this opportunity to interview a few alums from the IIM Ahmedabad. Please do have a look Siddhi Karnani | Parvata Foods | Forbes Asia 30 under 30 A CA Inter who went to FABM at IIMA, went to Sikkim as part of Prof Anil Gupta’s Sodh Yatra, saw the plight of farmers who weren’t getting their rightful dues, decided to form Parvata Foods along with her batchmate Anurag Agarwal, and then the rest they rest is history. From featuring in PM Modi’s Mann Ki Baat to Forbes Asia 30 Under 30 Piyush Surana | IIM Ahmedabad| VC at Tomorrow Capital | ex-Uber, Ola,Zomato Piyush Surana calls himself as an average student at DBPC who was more interested in basketball as a career. Joined Bhawanipur College. Realised basketball didn’t have a future in India. Decided to try for MBA, convincing family members who wanted him to join business. Got only 90 percentile in Quant section in his first attempt at CAT. Worked imme...

Career Conversations with IIM Profs

Had an opportunity to have 3 shows with IIM Professors Professor Arvind Sahay . Professor Arvind Sahay of Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad speaks about his student days at Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur and IIM Ahmedabad, his limited corporate life, Ph D days, teaching Marketing over the years at London Business School and IIM Ahmedabad, evolving nature of the #MBA Education, changes he anticipates in the same, his views on Gold Prices as Chair, India Gold Policy Centre IIMA and advice to youngsters a) Dr Himanshu Rai — Director IIM Indore Part 1 In this super interesting conversation, first of a two part series, Prof Himanshu Rai , Director IIM Indore, vividly recollects his formative years in Kanpur, then his love for Physics which took him to NIT Suratkal, spending nearly 9 years in Tata Steel Jamshedpur , engaging in steel making and a host of literary pursuits , a mountaineering trek which made him realise his love for academics, how he took the bra...

Mubina Kapasi's exciting journey - From CA to ET Now

Watch this exciting story of Mubina Kabasi, a SoBo girl (South Bombay, for the unitiated) who narrates her formative years in Villa Theresa High School, Mumbai, stumbling upon her hitherto unknown public speaking skills, campaigned with her Rubic Cube to be elected as ‘Minister of Punctuality’. Inspired by her father, Prof. Kapasi of Kapasi Coaching Classes, she leveraged her love for accountancy to become a CA and spent 1.5 years in Stat Audit at Deloitte before realizing that media was her true calling. A diploma course in journalism was her bridge to an internship in CNBC , working on NSEL payment crisis, the Vodafone tax tussle. One fine day, her Eureka moment was going live on air from the Mumbai High Court. Later being spotted by Nikunj Dalmia of ET Now and now handling India’s only 1-hour long personal finance show, called The Money Show. You can’t miss this one Questions So Mubina, you are a SoBo girl ; how does it feel One childhood story that left an indelible impri...

Sonal Bhutra's exciting journey through CA to CNBC

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You cannot afford to miss out on this one Watch Sonal Bhutra narrate her exciting career journey - from topping Surat city in her school board exams to landing in the city of dreams - Mumbai, opting for the conventional CA route instead of journalism, spending 4 years in Risk Advisory and Indirect Taxes at Haribhakti & Co and EY, wanting to pursue journalism course at St Xavier's and finally deciding to move to Equities at Motilal Oswal Equities, serendipity in being discovered by Anuj Singhal of CNBC at a panel discussion , when a question she asked Piyush Goyal Sir caught everyone's attention and thus landing in her dream job at #CNBC and become  the face of the PowerBreakfast show at CNBC - this story is surreal but true  #careerconversations #ca #sundaythoughts https://youtu.be/pxfS0fC7Bks

Career Conversation with Nathan SV — Partner and Chief Talent Officer at Deloitte India

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Career Conversation with  Nathan SV  — Partner and Chief Talent Officer at  Deloitte  India. In this 40 minutes long conversation, he speaks about a) His formative years across Kolkata, Chennai and Nagpur; and the impact his grandmother had on his value system, b) His inclination towards HR, doing his MBA from  XLRI Jamshedpur , c) How HR profession has evolved over the 37 years he has spent across manufacturing and service sector , across factory workers and professionals at ICI, Sterling Holidays, Microland, Planetasia, Reliance Infocomm and now Deloitte, d) His view towards recruitment, engagement and managing growth expectations of the millennials e) Experience with the finance professionals such as CAs and MBA( Finance) ‘ f) what if someone are not from XLRI / TISS but still in HR, he cites the example of someone who was in secretarial function (steno/shorthand etc) and now is VP (HR) in a large company g) How to stay positive in a post...

#AudioPodcasts #CareerConversations #AnuragSingal

#AudioPodcasts In this series, we talk to achievers in their field — Chartered Accountants, MBAs from IIMs, XLRI, ISB, Insead, IE Business School, IMD Switzerland who chose to work in the professional world or in academics or entrepreneurship eventually We also interview those who too the path less trodden — people who started the conventional CA/MBA path and eventually became business journalists, photographers and film makers One special episode is where the guest is 90% paralyzed since 40 years, himself studied till Class 2, yet teaches students of Class 11 and 12 Spotify  https://spoti.fi/2zwNMKy Anchor  https://bit.ly/2Z1aVzP Google Podcasts  https://bit.ly/2YT7JpB Breaker  https://bit.ly/2SWxqC1 RadioPublic  https://bit.ly/2yEPCt5 #AnuragSingal

[Part 2/2] Ankur Warikoo | Entrepreneur |Connecting with millenials |Fai...

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[Part 2/2] Ankur Warikoo | Entrepreneur |Connecting with millenials |Failure CV | Fitness |Life Tips

[ Part 1/2] Ankur Warikoo | Formative years |Astrophysics | ISB | Accent...

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[Part 1/2] Ankur Warikoo​ on his formative years in Delhi, 13 years at Don Bosco Delhi, the dream to land on Mars and become an Astrophysicist and returning to India to pursue his MBA from Indian School of Business, post ISB life at A T Kearney and then turning entrepreneurial to work on #Accentium and #Nearbuy https://youtu.be/bYH-ffJxfxc [Part 2/2] Ankur Warikoo | Entreprenuer |Connecting with millenials |Failure CV | Fitness |Life Tips https://youtu.be/gWG79RXpIag