In recent times, there has been an obvious shift towards finance as a career from engineering – perhaps due to the industry’s compensation structures as well as opportunities for quick thinking and interacting with the senior management. So for finance enthusiasts, CFA is the new buzz word.
What is CFA?
The Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) Program is [...]
Upcoming metal band ”What Escapes Me” left quite a mark by winning a well-fought “Wildfire” in Springfest 2011. Shourav (vocals), Sayan (Guitar), Arindam (Guitar), Joy (Bass) and Sandy (Drums) discuss their life, music and plans for the future:
TSA: Hearty congratulations for winning “Best Band” along with “Best Vocalist” and “Best Guitarist”. What fuels your music?
WEM: We are a core metal band and [...]
The following article was contributed by Prof. Debasis Mishra of the Indian Statistical Institute, New Delhi as part of a campus recruitment initiative for an Master of Science programme in Quantitative Economics. For a very well written paper on the subject by Prof. Mishra with illustrative examples from the real world, click here.
What is Quantitative [...]
Professor Ikhlaq Sidhu, founding director of UC Berkeley’s Center for
Entrepreneurship & Technology and an authority on the process of innovation and technology management, visited our campus recently. In this exclusive interview, he shares his insights on entrepreneurship in India and abroad, why enterpreneurship should be taught in companies and a lot more. ,
TSA: [...]
Harish Hande, an *IIT Kharagpur alumnus* holds a PhD from the University of Massachusetts, Lowell and has a reputation for being a pioneer of change in rural India. What is truly incredible is the business model around which he
has built his profitable social venture. Harish’s company Selco, India (Solar Electric Light Company) has made a [...]
Sarabjeet Singh a.k.a Surd (of the ‘Where the hell in Kgp’ fame) left a lucrative job option at ZS Associates and is now working full time for Ethos, a start-up in the social sector. In an interview with TSA, Surd discusses the reasons for his choice.
TSA-What made you leave a lucrative job option at ZS [...]
The following is the experience of Shrey Goyal (3rd year, RK Hall),wh o through the E4SI programme got a taste of the
world of social entrepreneurship in the summer following his first year.
I chose to work at iDiscoveri,a social enterprise foundedwith a mission to renew education in India. It was backed by a team of exceptional [...]
Saturday, November 12, 2011
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