This document provides an overview of an MBA program and the choices students must make regarding specializations. It discusses what skills an MBA develops, why students pursue an MBA, and how to plan one's career. It describes the major specialization options of finance, marketing, operations, systems, and human resources. Methods for choosing a specialization include passion, dislike, research, and assessing one's strengths. The document offers suggestions for success and concludes that desire, focus, and commitment are key.

1. A Choice You Have To Make
Presented By :
Jaudry. J. Manjali

3. Objectives
 Foray you across the “MBA Horizon”
 Help you plan your career
 Steps needed to make your choice
 Dive into each area of specialization
 Some suggestions
Why am I here ?

4. What Is MBA
 Masters of Business Administration
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 Married but Awaiting
 Masters of Barbers Association
MBA - The BASICS

5. What Should Be Mastered
 Sound communication and interpersonal
skills
 Ability to analyze and strategize
 Leadership skills
 Emphasis on professionalism
 Stress on deliverables and deadlines
 Better understanding of a company’s
integrated functionality
 Internationally mobile and sensitive to
cultural diversity
What Should I Have In Mind.

6. Why Did We Take Up MBA?

7.  The Anointed Heir who wants to hold the keys to his/her
kingdom.
 The Shop Floor Enthusiast who wants to sit in the gilded
corporate office
 The Intrepid Entrepreneur who wants to create an empire.
 The Power Seeker who wants to crack the management
ceiling he/she has hit because of a lack of an MBA degree.
 The Money Player who would like to increase his/her pay
packet.
 The Reluctant Graduate who believes that he/she has learnt
nothing at all that can get him/her a job.
The underlying advantage in all the six caricatures is that anThe underlying advantage in all the six caricatures is that an
MBA degree immediately flags you off as someone who canMBA degree immediately flags you off as someone who can
be trained to take upbe trained to take up positions of authority.positions of authority.

8. What has MBA to offer you?
 A hothouse where you are pushed to
deliver.
 Exposure to a very wide area of
experience - subjects and people.
 Integrating, Negotiating skills
 Macro and Micro Issues of Business
 People Management
 Street Smartness
 Confidence
An Unstructured Set Of Blocks Which Needs Restructuring

9. Planning your career
 Ambition
 Talent
 Dreams or Desire
 Role Model
 An Inspiration from an
experience
 Focus
Plan – The Fundamentals of any activity.

10. Set Long Term Goals
 Aim – where would you want to
see yourself in next 5 – 6 years
 Plan the Route
 Derive your alternatives
 Schedule yourself each second
of your time to do something
which adds to your goals.
 Think twice before you make or
take a decision
Know Your Potentials and make the best use !

11. Specializations
MBA
Marketing
HROperations
Systems Others
Choose Your Path, That Gives You The Best Bath.
Finance

12. How To Select Your
Specialization
important to make the right decision because your specialization typically
earmarks the area in which you are likely to take up a full-fledged
career. It means if you specialize in marketing, in all probability, the
next 30 years of your career would be in this field. It is fruitful, therefore,
to select a specialization which genuinely interests you as you are going
to invest 30 years of 5 days a week x 8 hours a day of your scarce
time.
 Methods – 4 methods
○ The Great Passion Method:
○ The Deep Hatred Method
○ The Statistical Method:
○ The Value Method:
The Methods That Make Your Choice Easy.

13. The Great Passion Method
 Identifying the subject(s) that you simply
love
 HOW ?
Is this a subject for which I have done more
reading ?
Am I consistently amongst the top ten
percentile ?
Am I consistently aware of what is
happening in the corporate environment with
respect to my area.
Choose The Option About Which You Are Passionate About.

14. The Deep Hatred Method
 “ Not This” Method
 Which are the subjects which I will never
be a part off.
 Which are the subjects I am getting the
lowest grades
 Which are the subjects which I have no
clue off even after attending classes.
I Drop The Option That Gives Me Nightmares.

15. The statistical Method
 Method requires the student to
undertake some serious research
Campus oriented
Corporate oriented
I Research My Area In Respect To The Markets And Their Demand.

16. The Value Method
 In this method, you select the
specialization, for which everyone
around you feels that you are a wiz at!
Choose The Option Where No-one Can Beat Me.

17. Finance
Objective : inculcate in the student an
understanding of how economics works
towards wealth generation.
Will equip you with tools that harness the
potential of an idea and add to it money
spinning energy
Example : Accounting, Economics, Banking,
Market structures etc.
Eligibility :
•Comfort with numbers
•Ability to grasp abstractions
•Attention to detail
•Meticulousness or zero error
documentation
•Comfort with routine

18. Finance
Areas :
•Banking
•Consultancy
•Commercial banking
•Operations
•General management
Company : KPMG, Earnest Young,
Federal bank, ICICI, Geojit.
Positions : Dealer, Manager –
Finance,Consultant,CFO .

19. Objective : “know and understand the
customer so well that the product or service fits
him and sells itself".
Example : Sales and Distribution, Branding,
Advertising etc.
Eligibility :
•Creative Thinking
•A strong tongue to blabber
•Entrepreneur
•Confidence to convince
Marketing

20. Marketing
Areas :
•Sales & Distribution
•Advertising
•Market Research
•Product & Brand management
•Retail Sector
Company : Any Sector
Positions : Brand manager (consumer
products), product manager (industrial
products), advertising account executive,
account supervisor, services marketing,
retailing, sales manager .

21. Operations
Objective : efficient and effective production of
goods and services, and the coordination of
activities for such production.
It covers planning, organizing, leading, and
controlling the operations.
Generates the maximum value for the
customers
Eligibility :
•Comfort with numbers.
•Strong analytical problem solving skills
•Best For Engineers.
•Deal with ambiguity.
•Work in cross-functional teams.
•Clear understanding of the key business
processes.

22. Areas :
•Productivity Improvement,
•Material Management,
•Quality Control,
•Supply Chain
Management/Logistics,
•Inventory Control,
•Production Planning.
•Consultancies working with
manufacturing organizations
Company : Hero Honda, Mahindra &
Mahindra, Castrol, Larsen & Toubro HLL,
Britannia, ITC.
Positions :Manager - logistics, Coo,
Production Manager, Distribution in
charge, consultant.
Operations

23. Systems
Objective : overall idea about the business fundamentals, processes,
technologies (IT and Computer) and applications to solve business
problems.
May be vested with different functions in different organizations,
although the responsibilities invariably cover the effective integration of
management of the organization with the application of information
technology.
Eligibility :
•Interest in Information Technologies
•Interest in understanding all the functions of a business process
•Mathematical Ability in the context of numerical analysis and
solutions
•Logical analysis
•Ability to connect technologies to business

24. Systems
Focus Areas :
• Knowledge of business functions
• Mathematical modeling of business problems in any functional
domain
• Business mathematics and statistics
• Communication skills
• Ability to understand and map business processes
• Software engineering and processes
• Quality systems like ISO 9000 and CMM
Company : The best systems Consultancy and IT firms like
PWC, TCS, PCS, Mindtree, Infosys, Wipro, i2, inautix, Techspan
etc. recruit systems professionals
Positions :System Analyst,CIO

25. Objective : keep the right people at the right
places in an organization is the function.
It entails planning, recruitment, placement,
training and development, performance
appraisal, fixing compensation and benefits,
compliance of regulations including labor laws,
promotions, transfers, punishment, etc.
Eligibility :
•Foresight
•Basic Human Psychology
•Strong Assessment skills
•Adhoc Problem Solver
•Good Empathizer
•Mentor
•Team Player
HR

26. HR
Areas :
•Management
•General
•Recruitment
•Training
•Compensation Management
•IR
•Information Systems
Company :Mafois, Green Pepper, AMS,
Any other sector.
Positions :Manager – HR, Trainer,
Generalist, Recruiter, IR – Manager,
Executive, Consultant.

27. Suggestions
•Come Out of Your Inhibitions and Fears.
•Be Adaptable To Changes In The Environment.
•Do Not Crib and Become Cry Babies.
•Do Not Give Up, Stand Up and Fight.
•Keep An Open View.
•Try To Become a Good Learner.
•Explore your inner talents and try to build upon it.
•Try always to be a Winner.
•Be United always and be there for each other.

28. My Works

30. Conclusions
 3 Things :
Desire
Focus
Commitment

31. For Further Assistance and doubts anytime contact me :
Mobile : 9895949222
Email : jaudry@gmail.com , jaudry@bythog.com