The ISBF Blog
How Data Science is Changing the Media & Entertainment Industry
With digitisation and data-driven decision-making revolutionising the majority of functional domains, industries with traditional workflows are completely transforming themselves to match their stride with the advancement in data and analytics.
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The Economics of Shopping Malls
I spent my childhood in a small town, one that almost always lagged behind when it came to catching up with the latest developments. To give you some idea of what I mean, while the first Pizza Hut opened in India in Bangalore in 1996, my city witnessed the arrival of the restaurant chain in the year 2012.
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The Indian Economic Scenario in Numbers
For any student aspiring to pursue a career in economics, it is imperative to be aware of current happenings and key statistics in the domain. Staying abreast of current affairs will help sharpen your knowledge, which will ultimately enhance your ability to interpret and analyse real-world happenings - a much-desired skill in a quantitative field like economics.
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The London School of Economics and Political Science
The London School of Economics and Political Science, or LSE, is a globally leading public-funded academic institution affiliated to the University of London. Until 2008, LSE used to award University of London degrees. LSE has been a pioneer in terms of academic excellence and research in the areas of economics, management, finance, and the social sciences, the fields in which it is ranked in the top ten internationally.
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Diploma in Banking and Finance: Career Options and Course Overview
Careers in Banking and Finance are on the boom with new technologies driving a brisk pace of financial innovation. To keep up, the banking and financial sectors are looking for candidates with more specialised skill-sets.
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Why ‘Data Science’ is the ‘Sexiest Job of the 21st Century’?
Data Science is a blend of various tools, algorithms, and machine learning principles with an aim to discover hidden patterns from raw data. According to Hugo Bowne Andersen in Harvard Business Review, “Data scientists clean, prepare and validate structured and unstructured data to build machine learning pipelines and personalized data products to better understand their business and customers and to make better decisions.”
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What can you do with an Economics degree?
These days, a career in economics is a very rewarding option for students. An economics degree can help develop specific analytical skills, enabling you to successfully enter multiple industries as a professional economist or as a professional such as a market research analyst, policy analyst etc. with an eye on economics. With economics as a subject, you can prepare forecasts for companies, study the latest industry trends and labour market fluctuations, all of which are very useful for them.
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Bachelor in Business & Management: A Course Overview
When you think about entering into the business world, it can be through any among a plethora of roles like a corporate job, joining a family business, starting up your own venture, taking a franchise of a well-established brand, and so on and so forth. To be successful in any of these domains, you need to have a sound knowledge of business as well as management subjects.
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Financial Analysis of an Organisation
Last week, I took my mother to the hospital for taking an appointment for her back operation. She made her mind to get her right hip operated from a known surgeon in Sant Parmanand Hospital, New Delhi. Before making the decision to get her body operated, she has visited a lot of hospitals, clinics and doctors, but even after her untiring attempts of expecting a recovery, doctors recommended her to undergo an operation. She had already in her mind, that she will get it done through this known name in the orthopaedic surgery department.
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Career in Business Management - BBA Career Guidance
Ever thought how Starbucks manages to sell 4 million coffee drinks per day? Or how Apple maintained its position at the top of the smartwatch sales chart, selling 4.7 million Apple Watches and capturing 17 percent of the global market? The answer lies in the creation of remarkable business strategies – something you can learn by studying business and management.
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IC3 Regional Forum: An Interactive Platform for Educators and Students
The IC3 Regional Forums are known for bringing inclusiveness, diversity, and equality in the school ecosystem. The robust network of educators, students, and institutions they have created stands well in alignment with IC3’s mission of empowering schools and nurturing them.
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Top 7 Career Options after BA Economics (Honours)
What do Warren Buffet - the third wealthiest person in the world, Elon Musk - CEO of Tesla Inc., and Urjit Patel - former Governor of the Reserve Bank of India have in common?
Yes, you guessed it right!
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Industry Visit to Shahi Exports
A group of 24 ISBF students visited the Shahi Exports factory premises situated in the industrial city of Faridabad on March 06, 2019. The visit, that lasted for about three hours, included multiple presentations from the company officials highlighting diverse facts and figures about the firm.
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How to Choose PG Courses after Graduation
If you’re looking for PG courses after graduation, deciding on one can be a challenging task. You need to take into consideration many factors like the university you want to pursue postgraduation from, the location of the institution, course fees and other costs such as accommodation and living expenses, and career prospects associated with the degree.
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Build Careers in Data Science
Many would argue that data science is a relatively new field but the need to identify trends and find insights in data has been existing since ancient times. Wondering when? Well, history states that the Egyptians used census data to boost tax collection and forecast the flooding of the Nile river. So, now you know that although data (structured and unstructured both) mining to identify patterns existed in the past but it was practiced only by a few.
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Economic Degree Course Guide
In the modern age of consumerism, people’s needs are increasing day by day, while the availability of resources is not keeping pace. While it isn’t really an easy task to understand how the allocation of resources should take place, studying economics can definitely give one a significant headstart.
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Exploring PG options during Graduation? Do remember these points
It's that time of the year when the current undergraduate students usually start thinking about the next big question of their career – "WHAT NEXT?"
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Should taxes be progressive or regressive ?
A good dictionary defines the word progressive as ‘happening or developing gradually or in
stages’, and the word regressive as ‘taking a proportionally greater amount from those on
lower incomes’.
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The Advent of Data Science
When Big Data came on the horizon, big opportunities for working with tools like Hadoop
and MapReduce amongst others were introduced.
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Dr. Abdey On Academic Direction by LSE For the International Programmes Offered At ISBF
Dr. James Abdey is an Assistant Professorial Lecturer in Statistics having gained his PhD in 2010 from LSE, he teaches undergraduate courses in mathematical statistics and quantitative methods, as well as elective courses in market research.
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