IIT Kanpur MBA Blog

We were graced with the presence of Mr Vikram Singh on 20th January’19 Account Director - L&T Financial Services, for a corporate seminar at the IME Department. He has over ten years of experience in Banking, capital markets, treasury management and private equity funds in esteemed organisations like HDFC Bank and Reliance Capital. He kicks started with the seminar with the introduction to every student of MBA-IIT Kanpur. His interest developed into AI with investments in technological start-ups. Mr Vikram Singh first focused on how AI is soon going to a General-purpose-Technology and touched upon the recent developments in the field of AI. His examples about firms like Fincorp showed how AI is exploding in the field of finance. AI has increased risk management, helped in agile growth with the development of Deep Learning and Machine Learning. Chatbots being used by various banks are incredibly useful, e.g., Eva for HDFC.  Paypal is using deep learning techno...

The Department of Industrial and Management engineering played host to Mr. Sahil Nayar, the Associate Director - HR, KPMG. On 21 st January 2018, we spent an engaging and insightful Sunday morning with Sahil. It is amazing when a seminar leaves trails of thoughts which you keep churning in your mind even after it is over and this was one of those.   The seminar started off with Sahil talking about his obsession when it comes to gathering degrees and how while giving a speech in one of the B- schools in Mumbai, he realized that degrees are of no use unless the lessons from those cannot be brought to life when the hours demanded. With a blast from the past, he took us through an interweaving tale of how the primary function of a telephone, i.e. communication has seen a paradigm shift. Now, it is nearly impossible for us to stay away from our mobile phones for even a couple of hours. We feel restless and are so engrossed in it that it has become synonymous with our lives...