Young Entrepreneur's Society (YES!), the business club of North South University, successfully held NSUers Meet Corporate Icons (NMCI) for the sixth consecutive year. This year it was a two-day long seminar touting the tagline 'Know your myths, know your majors'. The goal was to deliver useful information regarding the six major business degrees and to clear any sort of confusion in the minds of the students.

On the first day, Prawma Taposhi Khan, education manager of ACCA conducted the session on accounting. Students usually do not want to choose accounting as their major because they fear that they need to have very good mathematical skills, but Prawma Taposhi explained that basic mathematical skills are more than enough. She also insisted students to study accounting because the Bangladeshi marketplace needs good professional accountants.

Dr. Ashikur Rahman, senior economist of Policy Research Institute conducted the second session, which was on economics. He shared with the students what he thinks economics really is; that demand and supply aren't just two slant lines.

The second day started off with a lecture from a most sought-after visionary, Ejazur Rahman, Managing Director of Mind Mapper. He held an interactive session on supply chain management and explained that most top leaders reached their positions only out of their interest in the area. Supply chain managers are not responsible for just a specific department; rather they have to make sure that no process, starting from planning to delivery, has any culpability.

Faija Sajia Ansari, HR director of Reckitt Benkiser, conducted the second session of the day. She explained that the employees in the HR department work more like business partners. They decide who is going to work for the organisation, and the department that employee is suited for. Students wanting to major in HR should firstly, choose it only if he enjoys studying it, and secondly, look at the current context of the major in the country. 

The third session of the second day was on finance. Nurul Afsar, AVP of Group Finance at Mutual Trust Bank, talked about how finance is the major that students dread the most because they think that it is only about crunching numbers.  Students wanting to major in finance should know that finance and accounting are not the same. Accounting is a basic necessity of the business whereas finance is a forecast management tool. Since more businesses in Bangladesh are starting to become aware of this, the opportunities for finance majors will increase in the near future.

The last session of NMCI was conducted by the marketing virtuoso Soumendra Das, Marketing Head of GlaxoSmithKline. He held a very interactive session with questions and answers from both sides. Marketing is something you should enjoy doing and it cannot be forced upon you. The ultimate goal of a person should be happiness and one should never stop growing up.