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Dhairya Gupta is a Lead Consultant - Strategy & Change at IBM. Prior to IBM, he was a Finance Analyst at Irving Oil in Canada. He has an MBA from Babson College and a B.E. from Delhi College of Engineeing. Now that Daulatguru is up and running lets partner and discuss about issues related to careers in finance. With my focus remaining on energy and finance, here is a little guidance for a successful interview for Finance positions in Energy companies. This is an excerpt from Vault Career Guide: In a utility, pipeline operator, or oil company, the corporate finance...

 

Prof. Bodie is very popular among finance students especially because of his textbook, Investments, which is coauthored by Alex Kane and Alan Marcus. He speaks to DaulatGuru.com on how students can plan a career in finance and where he expects creation of future finance jobs.

Narayanan Raman has considerable experience in technology consulting for the BFSI space. He is currently working on systems analysis and business strategy areas in Financial Recovery Technologies, a leading securities class action claims processing services provider. Prior to joining the Boston University's MS-MBA program, he was a Senior Software Engineer at Wipro. Love Finance? Love Technology too? Read on ...   A very simple equation: Financial Services industry the way it is today, minus the technological advancements that support it equals a number very close to zero. Try imagining Financial Services in isolation, without all the sophisticated pricing systems, conventional...

Smarak Swain is an IRS Officer and currently working as an Assistant Commissioner (IT), NADT, Nagpur. He qualified in the UPSC Civil Services Exam in 2008 and has a B.Tech from IIT, Kharagpur. He has also written a book titled "Applied Psychology: India-specific and cross-cultural Approaches". In the course of my research on "Hawala", my first observation was that Hawala is mired by stereotypes -both by laymen and scholars. During my interaction with laymen (which includes many students of finance and taxmen) I came to know that almost everyone considers Hawala a route to flush out dirty money out of...

Shrikant Dave is a Senior Financial Analyst at Staples, which is the world's largest office products company. He has also worked at SAP in a finance role. He has an MBA in Finance from US and is a CFA Level 2 Candidate. Our Doubts are Traitors, and make us lose the good we oft might win, by fearing to attempt - William ShakespeareIntroductionIn my opinion, the most critical decision for a b-school student is probably the decision he/she makes even before they enter a b-school. It is choosing the career path you want to take after your MBA. For most...

Dhairya Gupta is a Lead Consultant - Strategy & Change at IBM. Prior to IBM, he was a Finance Analyst at Irving Oil in Canada. He has an MBA from Babson College and a B.E. from Delhi College of Engineeing. I would like to welcome you all to this forum! We will use this forum to find information about Finance careers and connect like-minded people. You'll get an opportunity to share your own experiences and help others grow. My focus will be towards the energy industry. How does Finance tie into energy? Why think of a career in energy industry...