Introduction:
Born and raised in Calcutta, West Bengal in India, Arjun completed Electrical Engineering from the West Bengal University of Technology. He worked with Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) in Chennai for four years before moving to the USA, where he worked in Dover and Indianapolis and later in Boston. Arjun enjoyed his stint with TCS in different roles, from Quality Assurance to a Developer to a product owner. Lastly, as a Project Manager, he managed almost $4 million for an insurance client.
Stagnation in his career after ten years of work experience propelled him to think about MBA. Being a go-getter, Arjun took the GMAT four times, and finally, he got his desired score and secured a seat in two business schools he applied to- ISB and Oxford, SAID.
The future of online learning: the long-term trends accelerated by COVID-19
With the technology now available, it’s clear that simply broadcasting pre-recorded lectures is no longer an option for forward-thinking universities
By Richard Doughty / The Guardian
For John Domingue, director of the Open University’s pioneering research and development lab, the Knowledge Media Institute (KMI), the “online genie” is out of the bottle and won’t go back in.
“It’s slightly galling to see some universities trying to replicate online almost exactly what they delivered face-to-face before COVID. Standing before a camera and broadcasting is not online teaching. You need to do things differently,” he says.
The question is not whether things will magically return to the 2019 status quo. The question is: Where is there still pent-up demand among consumers and merchants?
Secretary-General Appoints Hiro Mizuno of Japan Special Envoy on Innovative Finance and Sustainable Investments
United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres announced today the appointment of Hiro Mizuno of Japan as Special Envoy on Innovative Finance and Sustainable Investments. He is a financial executive and former Executive Management Director and CIO of the Government Pension Investment Fund of Japan.
With the COVID-19 pandemic affecting societies and economies at their core, the Special Envoy will support the Secretary-General s advocacy and engagement in global public-private dialogue to encourage action in new and unprecedented ways to shift public and private investments towards the 2030 Agenda and the Sustainable Development Goals. As highlighted through the Financing for Development in the Era of COVID-19 Initiative, it is vital to increase the pool of sustainable finance, with particular attention to removing bottlenecks to blended finance and other innovative fin
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