Prep2Pivot
Business & Economics Podcasts
Are you also one of the 87% of people who want to pivot to a new industry post MBA? Are you looking to understand more about functions, roles, and domains before making such a major switch? If yes, then join me in my P2P learning journey of networking where I hold insightful interviews with expert guests who share their wisdom through a Knowledge Nuggets section, a rapid-fire Network & Chill session, and more. So tune in to this indie podcast and prep to pivot your career! Follow me on LinkedIn for more updates: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ruchira-singh-738642125/
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Are you also one of the 87% of people who want to pivot to a new industry post MBA? Are you looking to understand more about functions, roles, and domains before making such a major switch? If yes, then join me in my P2P learning journey of networking where I hold insightful interviews with expert guests who share their wisdom through a Knowledge Nuggets section, a rapid-fire Network & Chill session, and more. So tune in to this indie podcast and prep to pivot your career! Follow me on LinkedIn for more updates: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ruchira-singh-738642125/
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English
Episodes
Road to Research - Social-psychological perspectives to understand Organizational Behaviour
3/30/2023
"Just saying 'follow your passion' may be impractical - instead pick jobs where at least some parts of the job are inherently interesting for you - that can be a source of long-lasting success."
Madan Pillutla is Dean & Professor of Organizational Behaviour at the Indian School of Business. His research uses social-psychological perspectives to understand organizational behaviours. Recent papers have examined gender differences in competitiveness and morality and the role that physical...
Duration:00:42:42
Road to Research - Healthcare and Operations Management
3/29/2023
"Keep looking out for evidence of practices that you follow in the corporate"
Professor Sarang Deo, is Professor of Operations Management and Executive Director of the Max Institute of Healthcare Management at the Indian School of Business. His primary area of research is health care delivery systems and he is interested in investigating the impact of operations decisions on population level health outcomes. Some of the healthcare contexts that he has studied include the influenza vaccine...
Duration:00:23:12
Road to Research - Marketing, FinTech, Mobile Commerce
3/28/2023
“The more open you are to experiences from what happens in your company, it take you in many different directions over the long term..because today a person doesn’t do just one career”
Today with us we have expert guest Prof Lil M. who is an entrepreneur and academician with a passion for bringing great technology platforms and products to life. He brings to his classes a variety of experiences from his work at Amazon, Intel Corporation, Motorola Solutions, Sun Microsystems, and two...
Duration:00:21:09
Road to Research - NASA, Organizational Behaviour, Game Theory & Managing Complexities
3/27/2023
"Keep your interests alive and cultivate them and you never know how they'll blossom some day."
Today we have with us expert guest Prof Ed Rogers, who served as the Chief Knowledge Officer at the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt Maryland from 2003 until his retirement from government service in 2020. At NASA, he built a set of knowledge management practices that strategically support the Agency’s missions.
Dr. Rogers received a B.S. in Agronomy from the Ohio State University,...
Duration:00:23:22
Road to Research - Innovation management and Corporate strategy
3/22/2023
"Strategy is as much inward looking as it is outward looking"
In episode 11 , we have expert guest Prof Deepak Jena, Assistant Professor in the Strategy area. His research focus is in the area of innovation management and corporate strategy. Broadly, he studies the link between firms’ innovation efforts and competitive advantage and also investigates why and in what manner firms use a mix of corporate development activities to alter their product- and geographical-market scope. At ISB, he...
Duration:00:22:32
Road to Research - B2B Marketing, Innovation and Entrepreneurship & Intrapreneurship
3/19/2023
“Self-leadership is the most important one - if I cannot manage myself, how will I manage others?”
Link: https://open.spotify.com/episode/3yH7xNbJ82aMmRrmozKO54?si=oLJ6G6OuQqGNByFNoRostA
In today’s episode we have with us expert guest Prof DVR Seshadri. Since 2000 until joining the Indian School of Business in 2016, D.V.R. Seshadri, taught in various Indian Institute of Management Bangalore, Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad and recently Indian Institute of Management Udaipur...
Duration:00:47:30
Road to Research - Operational Excellence, Project Management, SCM Sustainability, and Digital Transformation.
3/14/2023
"If you can first identify and then turn your passion into a profession, you can get happiness in a sustained way"
Vijaya Sunder M is currently an Assistant Professor (Practice) and Experiential Learning Program (ELP) Chair at the Indian School of Business (ISB). Additionally, he is an affiliate faculty at the Max Institute of Healthcare Management and an advisory board member at the Center for Executive Education at ISB. Previously, he was Head of Business Process Excellence at the World...
Duration:00:36:13
Road to Research - Online Platforms & Incentive Design in Emerging Technologies
3/11/2023
In episode 8 of Season 2 of Prep2Pivot, we have expert guest ,Vandith Pamuru, Assistant Professor, Information Systems at the Indian School of Business.
His primary research interests are in the areas of user engagement on online platforms and incentives design, in the context of emerging technologies including Reinforcement Learning, Causal Inference, Randomized Control Trails, Natural Language Processing, Topic Modelling, Hidden Markov Models, and Econometrics.. His work has been...
Duration:00:31:17
Road to Research - Operations Research. Marketplaces & Industrial Organization
3/8/2023
"Research is academic entrepreneurship"
In episode 7 of Season 2 we have expert guest Kashish Arora, Assistant Professor, Operations Management at the Indian School of Business. His research builds on tools from economics, computer science, and statistics to develop data-driven solutions for problems in Operations Management, and Marketplaces and Industrial Organization. Prior to his career in academia, he worked as an Investment Analyst at Credit Suisse.
Tune into this episode where he...
Duration:00:28:39
Road to Research - Logistics & SCM, Agricultural & Public Sector Operations
3/4/2023
"The ability to identify a good research question...figure out what is both interesting and lends itself to analysis" is a research problem in itself!
In episode 6 of Season 2 we have expert guest Sripad Devalkar, Associate Professor, Operations Management at the Indian School of Business. His research lies at the intersection of understanding issues related to supply chain management and how the interaction of operational, financial and risk management decisions affect outcomes especially...
Duration:00:34:40
Road to Research - Derivatives, Security Markets, Finance
2/27/2023
“Be patient for success, it is better to climb up the ladder/industry rather than jumping to the top”
Today we have with us expert Professor Ramabhadran S Thirumalai, Deputy Dean Programme, Associate Professor of Finance (Practice) at the Indian School of Business. He is currently working on the impact of various regulatory changes on security market pricing, efficiency and liquidity. His research interests also include the trading behaviour of various types of market participants. He...
Duration:00:24:33
Road to Research - Operations Risk, Business Analytics, Supply Chain Sustainability
2/18/2023
"Any occupation you pick up will be like a marathon but be prepared for sprints along the way which will take over your life for that moment and that's okay"
Prof Manpreet Singh Hora teaches courses including Supply Chain Performance and Managing Service Operations for the MBA and the Executive Education programs at the Scheller College of Business at Georgia Tech.
Dr. Hora’s research focuses on enhancing operational performance and managing risk through capturing knowledge, codifying...
Duration:00:33:43
Road to Research - Statistics, Operations, and Data Science
2/14/2023
“Research should not have boundaries…just like business problems, it cannot be bucketed into areas”
Tune in to episode 3 - a candid conversation with Prof Dr. Subodha Kumar , Distinguished Chair Professor & Director, Center for Business Analytics and Disruptive Technologies at Fox School of Business at Temple University and is a visiting faculty at the Indian School of Business.
Prof. Kumar has received numerous other research and teaching awards and has published more than 225 papers in...
Duration:00:30:48
Road to Research - Finance, Law and Economic Growth
2/7/2023
“Research was a constructive way of channeling my curiosity and allows me to explore deep thinking with colleagues who also enjoy the same”
Tune in to episode 2 - a candid conversation with Prof K.Subramanian, Executive Director,International Monetary Fund, where we discuss what made him pivot into research, his work as CEA and general principles of his life. Prof Subramanian is an Indian economist who served as the 17th chief economic adviser to the Government of India. He is a leading...
Duration:00:57:28
Road To Research - Technology, Innovation, Education
2/5/2023
"Attachment to the process without attachment to the outcome is one of the things I learned over time"
Tune in to episode 1 - a candid conversation with Prof Deepa Mani , Deputy Dean, Executive Education & Digital Learning,Indian School of Business where we discuss her story of how she transitioned from one successful career to the next, what it takes to do research in a business school and personal lessons learned along the way.
This is one episode - you don't want to miss!
Duration:00:26:42
Season 2 Trailer
2/1/2023
Should I pursue MBA or pursue Masters and do Research?
A common fork in the road for most graduates or those with some years of experience under their belt, looking to make the next career move.
What if I told you - you don’t have to choose?
Intrigued - well listen to the trailer for Season 2 to know how!
Duration:00:01:22
Urban Dictionary of Entrepreneurship (Post MBA)
12/7/2022
Have you been dreaming of starting your own company someday?
Do you wonder if you even need an MBA to make your dream come true?
How can you pivot to Entrepreneurship post an MBA?
If you want to get answers to these questions and more then tune in for this week’s episode on Entrepreneurship (Post MBA) with expert guest Sarthak Verma.
Sarthak is the co-founder of Career Edge , a career guidance platform democratizing access to timely, credible and affordable mentorship for all. He...
Duration:00:43:10
Urban Dictionary of Interview Prep
11/9/2022
Eshita is a Management Consultant at Accenture with ~3 years work experience in Technology and Management Consulting with a penchant for travelling.
With multiple offers across Management Trainee roles, Product, Tech and Management Consultant roles, in this episode she shares the nuances of how to plan a daily schedule, resources to push you across the finish line and practical tips to reduce anxiety before placement!
Duration:00:31:49
Urban Dictionary of Impact Consulting
10/12/2022
What differentiates Impact Consulting from Strategy Consulting?
What are the kind of projects you work on in the Impact Space?
What are the pros and cons of consulting and where is it headed in this increasingly digital world?
If you have ever wondered about any of these questions, then tune in to this episode with expert guest Anurag Yadav. Anurag works as a Senior Consultant with Dalberg where he has worked across different industries and was the co-founder of Career Edge. Prior to...
Duration:00:46:35
Urban Dictionary of Case Interviews
9/3/2022
Case Interviews.
When do I start? How do I start? What do I start with?
If these are some questions that have crossed your mind recently, then worry not - this episode with expert guest and author of "Crack Consulting", Pyusha Dalmia holds the answers to all these questions and more!
Pyusha is a Senior Associate Consultant at Bain & Company working in the Private Equtiy space. Prior to that, she worked at Deloitte and then at a SaaS Industry startup for a while. Outside of work, she loves...
Duration:00:33:17