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How does SP Jain Global’s Hospitality Business Leadership program prepare students for a global career with real-world experiences? Today’s hospitality industry is becoming increasingly globalised, with companies operating across borders and catering to diverse customer segments. This requires the need to have managers with international experience, cultural sensitivity, and the ability to navigate complex global markets. 

Topics: Thought Leadership, Faculty Insights, Hospitality Business Leadership (HBL)

Think of your favourite food, imagine being in a place with endless variations of that same dish. Overwhelming, right? Similarly, in today’s digital age, we have free access to abundant online information; choosing the right path—whether it’s your favourite meal or your career—can feel daunting. 

Topics: Thought Leadership, Faculty Insights, Global Luxury Goods & Services Management Program

A young man, not very interested in the ‘boring, traditional’ family business, decided to strike out on his own and take up a job in a trendy tech company. Now his reasoning was that he would earn only around 25 thousand here, but at least he would be part of a trendy corporate culture, and hang out with the ‘cool’ crowd. So he started work, and with the first salary he got, decided to take his entire family out to dinner. His father had painstakingly built up the family business, and had been dreaming of passing it on to his son, dreams which were now dashed. Nevertheless, he put on a smile and went along, seeing how proud his son was to be taking out his family for a treat, with money that he and he alone had earned.

Topics: Global Family Managed Business, Thought Leadership, Faculty Insights

In a business to consumer (B2C), negotiation is very different from marketing and selling. The primary difference is that Marketing is about making people aware of the product, services, or business, whereas Selling is to convince the other person to buy your product or service. Negotiation normally succeeds selling, because once a customer has agreed to buy the product or service, then issues about price, payment terms, delivery, quantity, and others will surface, which are negotiable.

Topics: Global Family Managed Business, Thought Leadership, Faculty Insights

 

I just watched the YouTube video “Humans Need Not Apply.” After the initial let-down (boy do I feel useless – and apparently I soon will be), I had to stop & think. If 45% of human jobs will be replaced by bots (physical and virtual), and if that will happen in our lifetime — much more quickly than farm work was mechanized and craftsmen were replaced by factories — what should each of us do?

Topics: Thought Leadership, Faculty Insights