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Pursuing MBA from a premier institute is a good choice that can positively impact the knowledge, skills and employability options.
The fact that India lacks a proper system of public records is a huge handicap to understanding how the country works
Mumbai-based SPJIMR is among the few institutes that invest time and energy to make the concept of being sensitive to society a regular part of their pedagogy.
Toxic work culture is characterised by conflicts, drama, office politics, and unhappy employees, which negatively affects productivity and the wellbeing of employees
The SP Jain Institute of Management and Research (SPJIMR) is walking in step with the NEP by incorporating courses in history, ethics, spirituality, critical thinking, systems thinking, etc. into its business school curriculum. Varun Nagaraj, Dean, SPJIMR, talks about the institute’s competitiveness and the values it inculcates in students through the courses it offers
Most of India’s start-ups‚ including the unicorns‚ have been founded by engineers‚ while management grads have mostly stuck to risk-averse corporate jobs. B-schools are now making course corrections
Campus hiring this year by companies like Maruti Suzuki, Tata Steel, RPG Group and Dabur will be more than last year, according to their executives. Among other profiles, these companies are also looking at strengthening digital and tech talent pipelines, said their HR heads. In fiscal 2021-22, carmaker Maruti Suzuki hired about 600 graduates and postgraduates from campuses
Buy an extended warranty only if there is no duplication vis-a-vis manufacturer’s warranty
Srini Sriniwasan, Managing Director – Kotak Alternate Assets Management and Ananth Narayan, Associate Professor, SPJIMR speak on SEBI lens On Alternate Investment Funds (AIFs).
The future of India’s banking industry has a powerful weapon in its arsenal – social media and new technology. The success of banking will be determined by how well the banks can leverage the full potential of social media and data analysis to personalise offerings and meet growing customer expectations.
Mumbai: The crypto ecosystem in the country has once again come under the scanner after finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman stated in Parliament recently that the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has expressed concerns over cryptocurrencies and sought a ban on them from the government.
Twitter had filed a lawsuit in the Karnataka High Court against the government to contest some of the block orders on tweets and accounts. The US government sued the company alleging that it misled users about how it secures their personal data.
From donning the chef’s hat and managing kitchen operations at the coveted Taj Palace Hotel, and working as a faculty of food production at IIHM, to joining the PGPX batch of Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, Ati Alok Kumar took the leap of faith just to “stay relevant”.
The meeting held on June 24 was conducted by Consumer Affairs Department with edtech players and the self-regulatory body of the industry India Edtech Consortium (IEC).
RBI has allowed surplus rupee balance in vostro accounts to be used for payments for projects and investments.
Sajjid Chinoy, Chief India Economist at JPMorgan, Ananth Narayan, Professor at SPJIMR, Kaushik Das, Chief Economist at Deutsche Bank and Neeraj Gambhir, President and Head of Treasury and Markets at Axis Bank discussed the impact of the US CPI and resulting global flux on India.
The RBI announced five measures on July 6 to further liberalise foreign exchange. The measures are aimed at creating a more enabling environment to attract dollars through banking deposits, ECB, FPI
The Reserve Bank on Monday asked banks to put in place additional arrangements for export and import transactions in Indian rupees in view of increasing interest of the global trading community in the domestic currency.
The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has allowed trade settlements between India and other countries, including Sri Lanka and Russia, in rupees.
According to RBI data on external debt released, short-term debt on a residual maturity basis accounted for 44.1% of foreign exchange reserves at the end of March 2022
Law mandates the RBI to keep inflation at 4% which it forecasts to be 6.7% this fiscal. To get to target, it has to raise interest rates sharply which it is reluctant to as it aims for a durable economic recovery. For the currency to be stable it has to attract overseas funds with higher interest rates.
The Reserve Bank of India’s (RBI) decision to remove the interest cap on foreign currency deposits raised from non-residents while setting off a rate war among banks is unlikely to see the overwhelming inflows lenders saw nine years ago during the taper tantrum.
A day after the RBI announced measures to shore up forex reserves and arrest the local unit’s free fall, the rupee gained 0.16% to close at 79.18 Thursday. It was the fourth best performing Asian currency for the day. The one-month volatility index dropped 11 basis points.
RBI liberalises forex rules to help address dollar shortages, slow rupee fall. SPJIMR’s Ananth Narayan explains the impact of the measures.
RBI liberalises forex rules to help address dollar shortages, slow rupee fall. SPJIMR’s Ananth Narayan explains the impact of the measures.
The hype pushes advertisers to use “AI” whenever anything software-related is used to solve a problem now.
About 43.1 percent or $267 billion worth of external debt of the $620.7 billion amounting to 44 percent of country’s foreign exchange reserves comes up for maturity this fiscal, according RBI’s latest data on India’s external debt as of Mrach’22.
Shivam Ginglani is making an audacious bid to stir the alcobev market. Can the whiskey underdog take on the Black Dogs of the world and find more love for whiskey?
The rupee today hit a record low of 79 vs US dollar against previous close of 78.97. The US dollar has appreciated over 6% against the US dollar so far this year.
TO SURVIVE AND GROW, THE CV SUPPLY CHAINS HAVE TURNED RESILIENT. DEEPTI THORE LOOKS AT CONTINUED EFFORTS TO MODERNISE AND WITHSTAND DISRUPTIONS IN THE FIRST PART.
Resuming production and ramping up the capacity won’t be easy for automakers. Bothe back-end and front-end will face challenges.
The impact of the pandemic over the last two years has challenged long held assumptions that the in-person class is indispensible to the case method.
India’s inflation, which is measured by the Consumer Price Index (CPI), has stayed above the Reserve Bank of India (RBI)’s upper tolerance limit of 6% for three months running.
Economists have increased their rate hike expectations as CPI inflation leaps to nearly 7% in March. Latha Venkatesh speaks with Sonal Varma, MD & Chief Economist-India, Nomura Financial Advisory & Securities and Ananth Narayan, Professor, SPJIMR.
Dhaval Ajmera, Director at Ajmera Realty & Infra India, welcomes the RBI’s status quo on the repo rate. He believes it is an assertive move despite domestic inflationary pressure and an uncertain global geopolitical environment.
RBI Governor Shaktikanta Das on Friday hinted at ending the accommodative policy stance that began three years ago, citing the rising uncertainties arising from the Ukraine war and resultant increase in prices, and said the time has come for the central bank to put its priorities on inflation management over growth.
RBI’s Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) has decided to keep the repo rate unchanged in its February policy meeting, Governor Shaktikanta Das said today.
In an indication of it being a year of ‘revenge placements’, much like ‘revenge tourism’ last year, management schools across the country managed to place all their students within hours of the placement season taking off.
As the industry collectively cranks the recovery engine, what should they look for in the budget, and what should the budget be looking at them for?
IF YOU WANT TO UNDERSTAND THE BUDGET, THIS HAS TO YOUR BIBLE
Netflix has slashed prices on all of its plans in India but remains more expensive than its rivals in the price-sensitive nation. (Source photos by AP and Yuki Kohara)
The Central bank could also provide commentary aimed at reining in bond yields and signal that its moving to normalise monetary consitions to avoid a future spiral.
Zee would give Sony a trove of Bollywood movies and other content that would help the Japanese company grow in what is expected to be the world’s most populous nation by the end of the decade.
The Covid-19 pandemic has led not only to ‘The Great Resignation’ trend, but has also made professionals increasingly aware of the need for upskilling.
The Employees Provident Fund Organization (EPFO) will invest in private sector bonds and equities to find better returns.
Nology, engineering and mathematics) education. Counselling will play a role in ensuring that we have more women engineers and mathematicians.”
Thanks to the pandemic, mock tests are in high demand for CAT (Common Admission Test) preparations this year.
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SPJIMR Mumbai offers great education at moderate fees and delivers high RoI as compared to top IIMs and other top B-schools including IIMA, IIMB, IIMC, XLRI, MDI that makes SPJIMR a preferred MBA destination for CAT toppers who otherwise have a natural choice for top IIMs. In this article, MBAUniverse.com compares SPJIMR Fees with its peers and comes up with some interesting insights
Eyes on Monetary Policy for any change in VRRR quantum, tenor.
India would likely get a weight of the maximum allowed 10 per cent in JPM GBI-EM GD, translating into around $ 22-25 billion, according to BofA SecuritiesIndia would likely get a weight of the maximum allowed 10 per cent in JPM GBI-EM GD, translating into around $ 22-25 billion, according to BofA Securities
The Reserve Bank of India, on Tuesday, announced a pact with its Singaporean counterpart, the Monetary Authority of Singapore, to link their respective fast payment systems.
CBDCs have suddenly become the flavour of the season. And it could very well be the future of money
has minimize a trade-financing cope with Wall Street financial institution JP Morgan utilizing the Term SOFR (Secured Overnight Financing Rate)
Sustainable management studies are becoming popular among MBA students since there is more awareness around regulatory requirements. Many students have faced the impact of climate change themselves.
The Baddi-Barotiwala-Nalagarh industrial hub in Himachal Pradesh, surrounded by a panoramic view of the Shivalik hills, is home to Asia’s largest pharmaceutical manufacturing hub.
Institutes of higher education in India have been looking beyond physical classrooms and paper-pen assessments for a long time. In spite of this, adoption of education technology, or EdTech, did not become a huge trend.
Market regulator SEBI has come down heavily on Franklin Templeton Asset Management Company (FT-AMC), by transferring the fund management and advisory fee of the last two years to aggrieved investors. A move, which is certain to provide some solace to unitholders of the six shuttered schemes.
India’s foreign exchange reserves rose to a record $600 billion, although the central bank does not plan to introduce new instruments to manage these inflows.
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The Reserve Bank of India has announced that it will transfer Rs 99,122 crore as surplus to the Centre for the nine months ended March 31, 2021. The central bank, which has followed a July-June accounting year, is transitioning to an April-March accounting year from this fiscal.
To groom professionals in Marketing, Finance and Business Analytics domains, Jagdish Sheth School of Management (JAGSoM) Bangalore, an AACSB Accredited and globally ranked leading B-School, offers three Specialized PGDM programs – PGDM Marketing, Finance and Business Analytics
India’s leading online institution for online behavioral learning has partnered with B.N.M Institute of Technology (BNMIT) to integrate Thrive Skills
The country’s premier business schools are going all out in the fight against Covid, with students, faculty and
Satendrasingh Lilhare, a student of SPJIMR’s postgraduate programme for development management (PGPDM) has won the Tata Social Enterprise Challenge award. Lilhare’s social enterprise ‘Bastar se Bazaar tak’ — which provides agri-based employment opportunities to people in the rural areas of Bastar, Chattisgarh helped him win ₹2.5 lakh cash prize.
Humanity is faced with one of the worst disasters in the contemporary history after the Spanish flue in 1918. Besides causing unprecedented health havoc among the world population with more than 3 Mn deaths, it has caused serious impact on the world economy.
haratiya Vidya Bhavan’s S P Jain Institute of Management and Research (SPJIMR) has set up a Centre for Wisdom in Leadership (CWIL), which will partner with researchers, social organisations, public policy makers and industry from around the world to design innovative interventions in management education.
Even as the controversy over Amazon Prime Video’s political thriller “Tandav” rages in India, the latest web series to come under fire is Netflix’s “Bombay Begums,” a drama that recounts the lives of five women living in Mumbai.
New Delhi [India], April 8 (ANI/PRNewswire): With the grand reveal of ranking in various categories across B-Schools and E-Schools in the country, Dare2Compete Awards 2021 witnessed a glorious close today.
All private sector banks will be allowed to handle government-related banking transactions such as the collection of taxes, pension payments and small savings schemes, the finance ministry announced on Wednesday.
The prestigious European business school, ESCP, has highlighted the global potential of trilateral ties between Israel, the UAE and India during a recent seminar organised in cooperation with SPJIMR.
Bhavan’s SPJIMR on Monday (23rd March 2021) announced that all participants of its 15-month post-graduate programme in management (PGPM) have been placed, marking the successful closure of a placement season that came in the midst of a series of disruptions caused by the Sars-Cov-2 pandemic.
Bhavan’s SPJIMR on Monday (23rd March 2021) announced that all participants of its 15-month post-graduate programme in management (PGPM) have been placed, marking the successful closure of a placement season that came in the midst of a series of disruptions caused by the Sars-Cov-2 pandemic.
New Delhi: XLRI- Xavier School of Management in association with Fr Arrupe Centre for Ecology and Sustainability (FACES) and PEACE, a student group responsible for promoting sustainable and environmental conservation practices in XLRI recently conducted the first sustainability and ethics themed debate Father McGrath Memorial Debate virtually.
The modern-day MBA is practically unrecognizable for students of the 90s and 2000s. It’s more modular than ever before as institutions are joining hands to offer courses. The modern MBA is also more global in character and multi-disciplinary.
Indian Institute of Management Udaipur, IIMU announced a virtual Research Communication Masterclass Series in collaboration with SP Jain Institute of Management and Research, SPJIMR.
MoU signed between leading management institutes – IIM Udaipur and SPJIMR to collaborate with a vision to build momentum, which will enable high quality research output from PhD students and young researchers who are a part of these institutes.
BharatPe, India’s leading financial services company for merchants, today further bolstered its leadership team with the appointment of Gautam Kaushik as the 2nd Group President in the company.
New Delhi: Driving permanence to online training and making global learning content accessible SKILL MONKS, India’s FIRST integrated market place continues to add more to the existing base of quality Edtech companies to cater to the existing demand for high quality online training programs across different domains.
BharatPe, India, fundingBharatPe, India’s financial services company for merchants, today, further bolstered its leadership team with the appointment of Gautam Kaushik as the 2nd Group President in the company. Kaushik will be working closely with Ashneer Grover, Co-Founder and CEO, and leading payments (including UPI, Card Acceptance, BharatPe XtraIncome Card, Loyalty) as well as new banking partnerships for the company.
Economic Survey 2021 has been tabled in the Lok Sabha. The survey has called for more active, countercyclical fiscal policies but at the same time it is not a call for fiscal irresponsibility.
conomic Survey 2021 has been tabled in the Lok Sabha. The survey has called for more active, countercyclical fiscal policies but at the same time it is not a call for fiscal irresponsibility. DK Joshi, Chief Economist at CRISIL, Soumya Kanti Ghosh, Group Chief Economic Advisor at State Bank of India (SBI) and Ananth Narayan, Professor at SPJIMR shared their readings and outlook.
BITS Pilani has launched a new business school. The BITS School of Management (BITSoM) will offer MBA degree programmes that will “go beyond management studies”, said Kumar Mangalam Birla, Vice-Chancellor, at the virtual launch of the school. The programme will combine traditional training in running businesses with focus on “new-age” elements such as emerging technology, design thinking and data analytics.
Large Indian banks are testing the waters with dollar transactions on the secured overnight financing rate (SOFR), joining global peers in preparing for the transition from the London interbank offered rate (Libor) as the controversial rate will cease to exist by the end of this year
Associate Professor at S. P. Jain Institute of Management and Research, Ananth Narayan spoke on the bad loan situation in India and how it affects the upcoming union budget. Narayan said that “objective as far as we are concerned is not just the survival of financial services ecosystem. This ecosystem needs to be in the shape and form to finance our tremendous growth aspirations and potential. The discussion with journalist Mitali Mukherjee was part of Mint’s Road to Recovery series focused on the upcoming Budget.
SPJIMR’s Ananth Narayan on government debt and deficits ahead of #Budget2022. #BQLive
The pandemic has plunged the Indian economy into a contraction, and government revenues have taken a major hit. Supporting the country’s nascent economic recovery will require a massive spending package.
Ashish Chauhan, MD and chief executive officer, BSE Ltd who thinks that the budget should not lean much on the banking system for economic ramifications
Luv Rustagi is Senior Product Manager at Amazon. The electrical engineer from IIT Roorkee did his MBA from the Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan’s SPJIMR, Mumbai. Here he talks about the impact of Covid-19 on his job, making a career shift, and learnings from his MBA.
Declining vegetable prices brought down the retail inflation to a 15-month low of 4.59 percent in December and within the comfort zone of the Reserve Bank, government data showed on Tuesday. It is for the first time during the current fiscal that the Consumer Price Index (CPI) based inflation print is below 6 per cent or in the RBI’s target range of 2 to 6 percent.
In a major breakthrough, HiGenoMB®, the Molecular Biology section of Mumbai based HiMedia Laboratories has launched the quickest and the easiest 11 minute automated RNA extraction protocol.
The finance minister has called for a one-in-a-100-year budget. So can it bring some revolutionary changes into the banking and financial sector? Now one of the cobwebs in the banking sector is the legacy of nationalised banks.
Last February—after eight long years—Nitin Saluja managed to put all the ingredients in place. The IIT-Bombay grad was finally ready to brew a perfect masala cuppa at his tea retail chain brand Chaayos, which he co-founded with fellow IITian from Delhi, Raghav Verma, in 2012. Saluja was understandably excited.
The shortage of labour in the agriculture sector in the past few years in India has been a rising cause of worry. While the percentage of people working in the sector is declining, it remains the main sector of employment in the country.
A team from Symbiosis Institute of Business Management (SIBM) Pune came out tops in the finals today, at the end of a gruelling three-stage BusinessLine on Campus (BloC) Boardroom Challenge 2020. SPJIMR, Mumbai, was the first runner up while IIM Bangalore finished third.
Our relationship with nature is delightfully summed up in this quote from the popular tele-serial ‘Boston Legal’. As the lawyer on an exotic holiday tells his friend talking about environmental laws: “Let me tell you something, I came out here to enjoy nature, don’t talk to me about the environment.”
NEW DELHI: XLRI Jamshedpur will close XAT 2021 registration on December 10, 2020. Candidates can apply online for XAT 2021 on the official website, that is, xatonline.in. XAT 2021 application form can be filled online by using login ID and password.
On 22 March 2020, Prime Minister Modi imposed a nationwide lockdown amid the rise of coronavirus. The lockdown affected the nation in myriad ways including a sharp rise in unemployment, stress on the supply chain, the collapse of the tourism and hospitality industry and many more.
Pune: Bajaj Finserv successfully completed the third season of its coveted B-school campus competition ‘ATOM’, with over 7,746 students from top 17 B-schools participating this year, pan-India. The competition, which aimed at engaging the bright young minds in building solutions for futuristic Fintech scenarios, witnessed 1,228 teams virtually fighting it out at campus, regional and national levels to reach the finale.
The trio of Priyanka Gautam, Shikhar Mohan Srivastava and Vishal Sardana from SP Jain Institute of Management and Research (SPJIMR) won the Mumbai leg of the BLoC Boardroom Challenge semi-finals 2020.
People pursue graduation in management for two reasons – one, to learn the nuances of running a company and second to seek employment. For those seeking employment, the primary reason is for placement in a big corporation. Some others pursue an MBA to build a network of people who matter.
A good brand name has to be memorable, easily recognized, and easily recalled, it has to be meaningful, have a descriptive meaning that could be persuasive, be likable, maybe fun and interesting, richly visual and aesthetically pleasing, be transferable, should be able to travel across product categories and
SP Jain Institute of Management and Research (SPJIMR) Mumbai has recently announced the important dates for registering to the Post Graduate Diploma in Management course offered by the institute.
The debate whether the OTT platforms can take over Bollywood might have seemed very far-fetched around this time last year. Although the OTT platforms were consistently churning out interesting content, the Hindi film industry was also
Outlook’s annual rankings of India’s top private standalone institutions for 2021 can help students make an informed choice. Here’s the list of India’s top private standalone institutions.
New Delhi: SP Jain Institute of Management and Research (SPJIMR), Mumbai has begun the registration for Post Graduate Diploma in Management (PGDM) programme from September 28, 2020. SPJIMR PGDM registration form is available
MR Subramoni Iyer has taken over as the unit head of BPCL Kochi Refinery. As the new Chief General Manager (In-charge) – Kochi Refinery, he would lead the largest public sector refinery in the country.
After passing out of Mumbai’s S P Jain Institute of Management and Research (SPJIMR) in 1992, Umesh Balani chose not to tread the conventional path. He decided to forego the on-campus placement and started his own technology-based company. In those days, everyone from premier business schools dreamt of a career with a multinational, and startups were a big no, recalls
Mumbai based SPJIMR is one B-school that is ready to rub shoulders with the top three IIMs namely IIM Ahmedabad, IIM Bangalore and IIM Calcutta. SPJIMR has added another feather to its crown when Financial Times Global MIM Rankings 2020, one of the most prestigious global rankings, ranked SPJIMR at par with IIM Bangalore.
SP Jain Institute of Management Research announces admissions for its two Years PGDM program for the academic session 2021-23. Candidates can now fill the application of SPJIMR PGDM admission 2021 till November 27. Before filling the application form, candidates must ensure to fulfill the eligibility criteria before filling the application form.
Interestingly, my biggest milestones have been those that impacted my personal as well as professional life. Starting my career in the financial services, setting up the commodity futures desk to become one of the largest in the country, return to the classroom for further learning and executive education first at S. P. Jain and then at Harvard Business School, founding LXME and Ishka Films can be counted as some big milestones. Each one of these led to personal as well as professional growth and transformation.
Venu Nair is an International Retail Leader with 27 years of experience in the Retail & Apparel Industry across South Asia & Europe and presently, operating as CEO of Westside at Trent Limited.
From whatever I observed in all our participants, their incentive of reading more is not the Kindle, which is satisfying,” says Krishna Kranthi Ganagalla. Let’s find out what Wlaret is all about!
Entrepreneurship, the backbone of any economy, can be India’s biggest driver in the post-pandemic slowdown. If you have an idea and the passion to give it shape, get the right tips to make your dream come true at a virtual session on September 25.
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No other Indian institute made it to the top 100. Indian Institute of Management (IIM) Lucknow and the SP Jain Institute of Management and Research, Mumbai, were the other Indian institutions in the top 200.
The country’s top management institutions, the Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad (IIM A) and Indian Institute of Management Bangalore (IIM B) have dropped sharply in the latest Quacquarelli Symonds (QS) Global MBA Rankings 2021.
Speaking to CNBC-TV18, Ananth Narayan, Professor at SPJIMR commented, “If it is the last resort buyer under extremely stressful situations, I don’t see how we can do this without either the government or the central bank getting involved.
Ananth Narayan, Professor at SPJIMR spoke about the move and said, “If it is the last resort buyer — under extremely stressful situations — I don’t see how we can do this without either the government or central bank getting involved. My view is that for something like this to work as a last ditch back stop you will require either GOI or RBI to be there, it is not enough, if it is just market participant’s pool and you can do that for normal market liquidity, for secondary market liquidity under normal circumstances.”
Author Aura Bhattacharjee has announced the launch of her book – “Dozen Pebbles Washed Ashore by Life” – an ideal companion for you during your travel sojourns, spending that leisure weekend afternoon, on a date with yourself at a cozy café, and unwinding before going to bed after a long day at work. A collection of twelve fictional short stories, compact, smooth, colorful like pebbles; shaped by the ebb and flow of life, “Dozen Pebbles Washed Ashore by Life” throughout its length transports you to various places, introducing you to the essence of every location, be it in the form of people, food, or just how the sky looks in that place during a clear sunset.
There are, broadly speaking, two approaches to building as also to breaking – be it a policy, an institution or, for that matter, a nation. One is the top-down approach that can offer a new vision, open new vistas and push to a new era. The other is bottom-up, and this is the one that is said to deliver lasting impact -– “block by block, brick by brick, calloused hand by calloused hand,” as Barack
What I will miss most is the second phone call. No telephonic chat with Kamu Iyer was ever complete without a supplement, often an interesting historical reference or, even more often, a laterally creative leap of imagination. Like the finest of architects, Kamu Iyer was never bounded in the nutshell of his discipline. His interests encompassed multitudes.
Aiming at reducing the skill gap in the industry, the leading EdTech platform of the country, Intellipaat, proudly announces its tie-up with one of the topmost business schools of India, S.P.Jain Institute of Management and Research, to help professional’s upskill themselves in the field of Digital Marketing.
was introduced to the stock market in my 10th standard and it was love at first sight.
Raipur, Chhattisgarh, India – Business Wire India Indian Institute of Management (IIM) Raipur comes up with Executive Post Graduate Programme in Management (ePGP) in Blended mode in association with Nulearn, one of the leading ed-tech organizations in India. The programme entails online course delivery along with two mandatory campus immersion modules of five days each.