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Just before the break of dawn on a crisp autumn morning, while the rest of the world was still adding another blanket to their cosy beds, Poland had experienced something that would change the future of humankind forever. The German army under Adolf Hitler had invaded the country, plunging the world into a six-year-long war that would claim the lives of tens of millions of people. The World War 2 had officially begun.

Topics: Articles, Big Data & Visual Analytics, Disruptive Technologies

As a budding retail strategy planner, the Retail Summit was exactly the place I wanted to be at! Meeting and greeting CEOs of renowned companies, gaining knowledge about the current global market scenarios and innovative business ideas gave me an insight about what the biggest companies in the world are thriving to achieve and what our focus, as young entrepreneurs, should be!

Topics: Dubai Campus, Marketing, Thought Leadership, Student Life & Experiences, Disruptive Technologies

Uma Mounika Karukonda (BDVA Class of 2018) recently aced her interviews with Fractal Analytics, landing a job coveted by many. What is her success story? We caught up with Uma to find out.

Topics: Careers, Mumbai Campus, Student Life & Experiences, Big Data & Visual Analytics, Disruptive Technologies

 

With the advent of Data Science, retail brands are exponentially resorting to the volume, variety, velocity, and value of the big data every year. Major players in the retail sector are aware that each one of these factors contributes to generating profits. They are now increasingly relying on information like consumer behaviour and preferences to notify, examine, and devise their strategies.

Topics: Thought Leadership, Big Data & Visual Analytics, Disruptive Technologies

 

The increasing pace of financial services is now responded by the industry’s necessity to upgrade. This has driven the experts to deduce that the finance, in today’s scenario, acts more as a facilitator than the purveyor of financial products and services. In such scenario, the amalgamation of Finance and Technology (FinTech) is the hottest sector to be in, thanks to enabling technologies like Blockchain, API, Big data analytics, AI/ML and Internet of Things. Of these, Blockchain holds the biggest promise.

Topics: MBA, Thought Leadership, Disruptive Technologies

There will be other anxieties about machine learning in 2018. The BPO industry will feel the impact of chatbot deployment, and the initial impact from autonomous vehicles on the trucking industry may also begin to be felt in 2018.

Topics: Admissions, Thought Leadership, Disruptive Technologies

The last few days witnessed an unprecedented increase of around 45 per cent in Bitcoin’s value resulting in a 20x price hike in less than a year. While the rally, at least in part, can be attributed to the launch of bitcoin futures on Chicago Board Option Exchange, the cryptocurrency has created frictions in the global financial system from the very beginning.

Topics: Thought Leadership, Finance & Economics, Disruptive Technologies

Written by Hitesh Motwani, Visiting Faculty of Digital Marketing & Metrics at SP Jain School of Global Management.

Topics: Digital Marketing, SP Jain School of Global Management, Leadership & Entrepreneurship, Thought Leadership, Disruptive Technologies

Written by Aman Poddar; MGB (Master of Global Business – Contemporary Marketing Management) student. SP Jain School of Global Management – Intake of 2017.

Topics: Student Life & Experiences, Disruptive Technologies