SP JAIN GLOBAL BLOGS

“Today, we use Siri, Alexa, or Google Assistant at home to achieve simple automation through AI-enabled conversations.

What happens when your plans for a celebration go awry due to an unprecedented crisis? Do you cancel the plans you had carefully worked on, or do you take the celebrations up a notch by making it a grand virtual fiesta with excited participants from around the world?

Nguyen Hoang (BDS Intake of 2019), popularly known among his classmates as Louis, just completed his Year 1 at SP Jain and landed an internship at AI Australia, a dynamic Sydney-based brand committed to seeing artificial intelligence change the way we live and work. Let’s find out more about his journey.

Having learnt the basics of accountancy right in his Grade 7, Manas Sarda (BBA Class of 2020) always knew that he had a calling for business. “My father started our family business from scratch when I was a kid,” Manas shares. “I have seen him spend sleepless nights trying to grow the business and I’ve seen him fail. But the best thing I liked about dad was how he never gave up. He treated each morning as a fresh start, and that is what inspired me to follow his footsteps.”

Are we all moving towards a new way of life with COVID19? The answer is a big YES. So, what?

This write up focuses on the impact of the Pandemic, and the way companies should prepare to adapt to changing needs of consumers. What If analysis, an approach that focuses on possible outcomes under varying scenarios, can be helpful to companies to critically think and evolve strategies to cope with ambiguity and prepare for an uncertain future. This practice has become an imperative learning and is applied in real-life industry projects at S P Jain School of Global management.

From a shy teenager from a small town in Central India to a global graduate managing two part-time jobs (one in Dubai and one in Singapore) and contributing to his family’s thriving business – this is the story of Shashak Bakliwal’s (Bachelor of Business Administration | Class of 2020) transformation.

Little did we know that a mail from our Global Learning and Student Life office about a simple competition would turn into a 5-month journey of our potential business idea. We were asked to submit a rough idea of our business for the HULT Prize Summit 2020 which would be evaluated among thousands of participants.

During my routine performance evaluation meeting back in 2018, my boss asked me a seemingly simple question – ‘Where do you see yourself in a year? What plans have you made for your personal growth?’ It was when I heard this question that something struck me – I had become so comfortable in my life that I had stopped thinking about the next stage. I had been in the same company for 9 years, being unaware of the stage when I stopped adding value to the role and vice versa. Many of us go through this phase, don’t we? We get a full-time job and once we get settled in the role, we get so accustomed to our daily routine that we stop thinking ‘What next?’

A career at sea is not for the meek. A majority of global trades happen across the oceans, demanding that the seafarers often brave their lives in order to achieve their targeted goals and serve the public. How could they be rewarded for these efforts? This is what serial entrepreneur Saurish Nandi (Executive MBA Class of 2012) wanted to address when he co-founded SeaMiles in late 2018. We caught up with Saurish to know more about the venture.