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MBA (Finance / Marketing / HR / Operations / Business Analytics) notes
Free study notes for MBA (Finance / Marketing / HR / Operations / Business Analytics) (MBA / PGDM) students in India: 37 topics across 7 subjects - Core management, Finance, Business analytics, Operations and supply chain, Admissions, placements and careers, Human resources and Marketing. Each note explains the concept, works the examples with the numbers done, gives the Indian standards, codes and laws in force today, and ends with interview questions and the mistakes examiners look for - for semester exams, competitive exams, campus placements and job interviews.
Core management
- AI and digital transformation in business
- Case method: analysing and presenting a business case
- Management consulting: problem solving and the consultant's role
- Negotiation and conflict management
- Strategy execution: balanced scorecard, OKRs and KPIs
Finance
- Bank management: Basel norms, NPAs and asset-liability management
- Behavioural finance
- Equity research and valuation: DCF and multiples
- Financial modelling in Excel: the three-statement model
- Financial risk management: market, credit and operational risk
- Fixed income: bond pricing, yields and duration
- International finance and foreign exchange risk management
- Investment banking: IPOs, private equity and the deal process
- Options pricing, Greeks and hedging strategies
- Security analysis and portfolio management
- Startup funding: angel, venture capital and term sheets
Business analytics
- Business analytics: framing problems and data-driven decisions
- Prescriptive analytics: optimisation with Excel Solver
Operations and supply chain
- Business process improvement: process mapping and BPM
- Sales and operations planning (S&OP) and demand planning
- Strategic sourcing and supplier relationship management
- Supply chain strategy and network design
Admissions, placements and careers
- CAT, XAT, GMAT and MBA admissions in India
- Certifications after an MBA: CFA, FRM, PMP, SHRM and Six Sigma
- MBA careers: consulting, banking, product, marketing, HR and operations
- Summer internship project and final placements in B-schools
Human resources
- Competency mapping and assessment centres
- Diversity, equity and inclusion at work
- HR technology: HRMS and HR platforms
- Industrial relations and collective bargaining
- Job evaluation and pay structure design
- Organisation development: diagnosis and interventions
- Strategic HRM and HR business partnering