SP JAIN GLOBAL BLOGS

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.

Topics: Alumni, Executive MBA, SP Jain School of Global Management, Leadership & Entrepreneurship, Community, Alumni Stories

This article is a short summary of a capstone research project, “Analysis of the factors affecting engagement rate in the fashion industry”, prepared by Maniza Jalal, a Master of Global Business student at the SP Jain School of Global Management. For detailed insights, statistics and development of the project findings, she can be contacted at maniza.ms18eb006@spjain.org.

Topics: Research & Case Studies

After completing his engineering degree in IT, Siddharth Vishwanath (GMBA’09) started his career by working in the IT services industry for 2 years before he decided to join SP Jain to pursue the Global MBA program. “When I started my GMBA, I was very new in the industry, and quite naïve. So, it was no surprise that the first few days in the program were overwhelming, to say the least. The power-packed curriculum, meeting new people, travelling to new places, trying new cuisines – it was a completely new territory for me,” says Siddharth.

Topics: Global MBA, Alumni Stories

A commerce graduate from Bangalore’s Christ University, Rishab Bhansali had done a couple of internships and spent a few years working with his family’s business before enrolling for SP Jain’s Master of Global Business (MGB) program in 2018. He recently started working as the Head of Marketing at Mana Projects Pvt Ltd, a real estate firm in Bangalore. We caught up with him to find out more.

Topics: Alumni, Careers, Master of Global Business, SP Jain MBA, Community, Alumni Stories

Global MBA 2014 graduate Sourabh Joshi was always drawn to the world of start-ups. But it wasn’t until he got an opportunity to build a digital logistics platform at FarEye that he discovered his true potential. Not only was he a part of the business and strategy team working with the founders, but he also got an opportunity to manage different functions like business development, sales, account management, and pre-sales.

Topics: Alumni, Careers, SP Jain School of Global Management, Alumni Stories, Supply Chain & Logistics

Who says that business and pleasure shouldn’t be mixed? Master of Global Business (MGB) graduates Anshul Khandelwal and Natasha Mehta Khandelwal found their soulmates in each other before realising that there’s nobody else they’d rather start their venture with. Today, they are the co-founders of Namaste India, a cloud kitchen set out to spread more smiles every day. We caught up with Anshul to learn more.

Topics: Alumni, Careers, Leadership & Entrepreneurship, Community, Alumni Stories

Get the salary bump you want and deserve! Everybody loves a good paycheck and knows how critical it is to negotiate well when they receive a job offer. When that offer comes, however, we worry about appearing too greedy and whether the offer will stand on asking for a higher salary, making us shy away from a good salary negotiation. According to Jobvite, a recruitment firm, 71% of people do not negotiate their salaries, leaving money on the table. Here are some tips that I have learnt to implement from experience while negotiating a job offer.

Topics: Alumni, Careers, Articles

As part of our Global Learning and Global Immersion Project, we interacted with Mr Suvo Sarkar – SEVP and Ground Head, Retail Banking and Wealth Management, Emirates NBD. Mr Sarkar took us through the amazing journey of how under his guidance, Emirates NBD became the first bank in the UAE to turn digital and paperless.

Topics: Master of Global Business, Student Life & Experiences

Our Masters in Global Luxury Management students – Rhea Kumar, Ragith Nair, Saloni Verma and Sejal Doshi – visited the Mercedes-Benz Museum in Stuttgart, Germany as part of their international study tour. Read as they share their experience of taking in the history of an iconic luxury automobile brand.  

Topics: Global Learning at SP Jain, Student Life & Experiences