The ISBF Blog
Keep an Eye on your Financial Management
Enhancing command of your funds turns out to be increasingly more significant as you age. The opportunity will come when you're completely free and expected to pay for lease, food, and service charges generally all alone.
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Strategic Shift in Post Pandemic Marketing.
In the midst of an emergency, showcasing stellar communication and correspondence is a higher priority than at any other time. It must, in any case, turn to mirror our general surroundings - and that implies knowing what to say and how to say it, yet in addition when to say it and through which channels.
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Cracking the Modern-Day Leadership Code in Management
Many management theories have surfaced since the inception of management as a discipline. In today’s time and age being relevant to the present is an unsaid rule. Pertaining to this, the contemporary Management Theory was made in direct rejoinder to the Classical Management Theory that states workers are just encouraged by monetary gains.
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The Early Bird Gets the Worm- Startup Culture
The world today is seeing a magnificent shift in terms of technology, ideas and innovation. This shift has led to a surge in startups across the world over the years and more recently in India, with more than 15,000* of them being established in 2020 alone. Today, India has become the third largest ecosystem for startups.
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Dr Kaushik Basu: From LSE to World Bank
Dr. Kaushik Basu is the Professor of Economics and the Carl Marks Professor of International Studies at Cornell University. Kaushik Basu is the former Chief Economist and Senior Vice President of the World Bank, prior to joining the World Bank, he served as Chief Economic Adviser to the Government of India.
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Journey of an Entrepreneur
Without a doubt, the idea of starting a business can be one of life's most satisfying decisions. It's the beginning of a new adventure to seek after your dreams, gain cross-field exposure, and make your goals appear one step closer.
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NFTs: Digital Value or Blockchain Bubble?
As I go through the newspaper on a lazy Sunday morning, something catches my eye. “Indian couple has a blockchain wedding with NFT vows”. Whaaat?? Is this the teaser of a new Christopher Nolan movie? I pinch myself and read the headline again. What in the wide world is that supposed to mean?
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2nd Year Transfers to Universities Abroad
At the point when schooling is completed, students start their search for quality high-level undergraduate education. While on this search, one of the essential concerns that students have, apart from gaining an education that will lay the foundation for a successful career, is to get opportunities for a top master’s either in India or abroad or a job that provides growth opportunities.
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Non-Fungible Tokens (NFT) – A bane or a boon?
Over the last 4 years or so Non-Fungible Tokens, better known as NFTs, have gained a lot of momentum. It is estimated that over $174 million has been spent on NFTs in this period and that does not include the recent sale of digital artist Beeple's “EVERYDAYS: The First 5000 Days,” that sold at Christie's for a staggering $70 million.
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Modern Day Careers in Marketing
New Age Marketing is a perfect blend of online and offline marketing tools. Prints media, ads and TV were the old mediums that used to define brand marketing in the past few years. The intent of the organisation was to push the brand name and create awareness within the consumer markets.
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Marketing Initiatives after COVID-19
The COVID-19 pandemic not only caused the loss of human life, but also created a sustained period of economic flux and downturn, leaving businesses around the world to fend for themselves. This unique scenario has changed our outlook of the economy, our priorities & our lives and has brought about a huge shift in consumers’ behaviour. This has forced brands to rehaul their long-term branding & marketing plans for a highly dynamic environment and also to be more resilient, thereby allowing brands to sustain themselves.
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Is Marketing a Science or an Art?
According to one theory, not all marketers are psychologists, but all psychologists can be marketers as a deep understanding of psychology makes one a master of marketing. Interesting isn’t it? But how is that possible?
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Applying Early to Colleges and its Benefits
Posted on January 13, 2022 by ISBF | Blog
The college admission process starts way before you start completing your application forms and hit the submit button. Writing essays, selecting colleges, choosing programmes are all part of the journey, but one of the main components of the admission process is also the most neglected. It’s the “timing” of it.
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Rediscovering Options for Optimising the Supply Chain Dynamics in the COVID-19 Vaccination Drive
Posted on January 7, 2022 by ISBF | Blog
With the advent of the novel coronavirus in December 2019/January 2020, the world has been witnessing one of the biggest and unexpected health crises since the Spanish flu in the early 20th century and has since become a global pandemic. The solution to this pandemic does not lie in containing the spread of the disease in any one nation, but to check the widespread nature of the same on a global perspective.
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A Peek Into Your Life, Now Available On Netflix
From its humble beginnings in 1997 as a small mail order DVD rental company to 200 million paying subscribers (approximately) spread across almost every country, Netflix has undoubtedly become the largest streaming service on planet earth. It is an ideal example of a company adapting to change and maintaining its foothold in the market. With tonnes of original content being made everyday, today Netflix is accessible on almost all known platforms, thereby allowing you to watch on whichever device you prefer.
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How to Prepare for a Personal Interview?
A Personal interview is an essential part of the application cycle at many prestigious universities. It is imperative to prepare well in advance as it accounts for a certain weightage of your potential outcome of your college application, especially your dream college. Interviewers, who in most cases are faculty of that university or college, tend to pose questions which may sound easy but in reality have no one correct answers.
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ISBF Recommends: Top 5 Books on Cryptocurrency
The definition of Cryptocurrency, according to Forbes, is decentralized digital money that’s based on blockchain technology. You may be familiar with the most popular versions, Bitcoin and Ethereum, but there are more than 5,000 different cryptocurrencies in circulation. Unlike the U.S. Dollar or the Euro, there is no central authority that manages and maintains the value of a cryptocurrency. Instead, these tasks are broadly distributed among a cryptocurrency’s users via the internet.
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How to Write an Attractive SOP?
Did you know that your Statement of Purpose could be the defining factor to your dream institution? An essential aspect of the international education admission process, an SOP gives colleges a brief insight into your character and assists them with measuring your inclinations towards a programme and qualities that help you strengthen your profile. Fundamentally, it's your opportunity to persuade the institution you are applying to, to acknowledge your application.
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ISBF Recommends: Top 5 Books on Finance
While academic textbooks help students understand the theories of a particular subject in a classroom setting, they do not necessarily provide a detailed insight into experiences of real-world scenarios or examples which may not be a part of the curriculum. It is here that non-fictional memoirs by experts, researchers and business leaders help students glean knowledge and experience.
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Nobel Laureate Dr Amartya Sen & his Teaching Tenure at LSE
In a world full of flamboyant business tycoons and sports superstars, researchers and academicians are often overlooked, even though their work has a larger impact than most others. While researchers and academicians submit their work periodically to gain perspective and recognition, the ultimate gratification for them is the tangible impact of their work on the betterment of humankind.
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Tackling Class 12th Boards Post the Pandemic & Preparing for the Future
The Class 12th Board Examinations are an extremely demanding and, sometimes, daunting academic experience for every school student in India, every year. Preparation for Board Examinations begins from the start of an educational year where teachers graph an action plan for the students that will help them in executing the study plan to assess the student’s grasp over the curriculum through periodic exams.
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When Mahatma Gandhi was a student at the University of London
Truth and Non-Violence - Two words synonymous with the man who led India to its freedom. While the world knows about him and the freedom struggle that he led, but the early life of the Mahatma is not as widely known. This blog provides you with a glimpse of his academic life, long before Mohandas became the Mahatma.
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Co-curricular Activities at ISBF
In a dynamic world, conventional education programmes need to constantly innovate and come up with newer ways to approach teaching methodology. The basic purpose of education, apart from providing sound & applicable knowledge, is to be able to hone the skills & competencies of students in a holistic manner.
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7 Careers You Can Choose from After an Undergraduate Degree in Economics
Posted on October 5, 2021 by ISBF | Blog
While choosing the course for their undergraduate study or when they’re at the end of their college life, students invariably go through the stress of “what next?”. And even though thinking about career opportunities and return on investment is something that students consider duly before opting for a programme, questions like “What opportunities will I get?” or “Will the package be adequate to my expectations?”, definitely plague the minds of the students in their last semesters.
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How to Chart a Strong Career in the Business Domain?
Almost everyone who dreams of venturing into the realm of business envisions themselves as business leaders, armed with a global perspective and prowess to strategise and to take their respective businesses to new heights. But this isn’t as easy as it sounds. Years of persistent hard work and a formidable education enables you to utilise your potential to the optimum and engage in innovative learning processes.
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Why is Global Education the Future?
Education is the one thing that, as history is witness to, has sparked revolutionary transformations and innovations across the world at different stages of time. The common factor among all visionary, social and business leaders is quality education. From emancipating the world from the shackles of social evils, such as apartheid and Sati, to giving the world the power to fly, education has acted as a vehicle and a catalyst to all such changes and inventions.
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Best Undergraduate Courses in Commerce
Posted on August 25, 2021 by ISBF | Blog
Students are often caught in a dilemma after they finish their board exams as to which undergraduate course they should pursue. Commerce, being a field that has become a preferred choice for students wishing to make a career in fields such as business, economics, entrepreneurship and finance, offers a myriad of options to pursue a degree in.
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Is Global Education in India Worth it?
Posted on August 13, 2021 by ISBF | Blog
Getting a quality education is something that we all want but the primary metric that we use to determine the efficiency of a degree is through the number and nature of placements after its completion.
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