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Jan 15, 2025 | 
the-ken.com | Rohin Dharmakumar |Seema Singh |Debanjali Biswas |Suprita Anupam
Business schools are among the most coveted higher educational institutions. Students go through some of the most competitive exams and pay significant fees because they hope that at the end of their degree, they will get a great job. Yet, the onerous process of finding, soliciting and bringing dozens of companies to campuses each year falls mostly on final-year students, who are part of elected/selected placement committees.
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Jan 13, 2025 | 
the-ken.com | Debanjali Biswas
For tech professionals, banks used to be career Siberia—where innovation dreams went to die.
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Dec 10, 2024 | 
the-ken.com | Debanjali Biswas
The all-India Chief Digital Officer (CDO) club doesn’t exist anymore. It was a short-lived initiative by the Internet and Mobile Association of India in 2016 to bring together a then-small cohort of digital leaders, about five or seven of them. By 2019, it had grown to 50 members, which doubled the following year as digital transformation became the buzzword for corporate India. Soon after, the club dissolved. Its job of giving legitimacy to this emerging role was now complete.
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Nov 4, 2024 | 
the-ken.com | Debanjali Biswas
When Nykaa—one of India’s leading beauty and retail companies—reshuffled its marketing structure in 2023, the move was subtle but telling. Its last chief marketing officer (CMO) had exited, but the company didn’t rush to fill the spot. Instead, it broke the role apart. The implicit message: a singular CMO is no longer needed. What’s happened here is more than just a staffing decision at one listed company; it’s a symptom of the broader change in what it even means to be a CMO.
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Oct 11, 2024 | 
the-ken.com | Praveen Gopal Krishnan |Aakriti Bhalla |Debanjali Biswas |Arundhati Ramanathan
Good Morning [%first_name |Dear Reader%],You are reading the Two by Two newsletter—a weekly commentary on the most important business stories around you If you are a Product Manager, especially in India, you’re probably going through a crisis of faith and existence. As a career, Product Management in India has gone through multiple eras—in the early days, Product Managers (PMs) struggled to explain to people what they actually did.
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Oct 10, 2024 | 
the-ken.com | Debanjali Biswas
It’s been only a week since the Indian government opened its internship portal for companies to put up posts to attract youth, and corporations are already feeling uneasy. For one, a part of corporate India is overwhelmed with the government aiming to provide 10 million internships over the next five years. They just don’t know how these many interns can be incorporated into their functioning.
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Sep 12, 2024 | 
the-ken.com | Praveen Gopal Krishnan |Debanjali Biswas |Aakriti Bhalla |Gaurav Bagur
Good Morning [%first_name |Dear Reader%],“There are some fundamental differences between India and the US. I think everybody knows it. It’s obvious, but just to state it explicitly, on most metrics, we are one-tenth the size of the US. Online commerce. Digital payments. All one-tenth the size of the US market. And if you look at monetisation, it gets even worse.”That’s Vikram Bhat, formerly Chief Product Officer at Setu. It’s partly his theory of why Stripe couldn’t make a dent in India.
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Sep 11, 2024 | 
the-ken.com | Debanjali Biswas |Sandeep Khurana |Sumit Chakraborty
On an Indigo (Interglobe Aviation) flight, as passengers enjoy their snacks, few think about the plastic waste piling up around them. Indigo, for its part, is also indifferent, arguing that it is “not a manufacturing company”, so the trash isn’t its responsibility. Then there is Maruti Suzuki, the country’s top automaker, rolling out cars loaded with plastic components. Yet, “plastic” was conspicuously absent when the company reported about its recycled and reused input material.
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May 30, 2024 | 
ndtv.com | Debanjali Biswas
Smoke billows from the skyline of Gaza, as charred and injured bodies lie strewn around a destroyed 'safety zone' camp. Israel's military operations in Rafah this week killed 45 civilians and injured hundreds, mostly women and children. In response, outraged international communities are condemning Israeli attacks in Rafah and calling for ceasefire.
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May 16, 2024 | 
flipboard.com | Debanjali Biswas
Tim Cook4 hours ago22-year-old Indian student runs into Tim Cook at Stanford, claims Apple CEO called iPad campaign a ‘major fumble’hindustantimes.com - Trisha Sengupta • 4hThe 22-year-old student shared on X that he met Tim Cook while hiking at Stanford and added that the Apple CEO was “super sweet”.
