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Lokesh Jain, MSc
OTA ID#: 106148

Education Experience: BEng (Hons) , Mechanical Engineering, Birla Institute of Technology and Science, India, 1994
MSc (Hons) , Economics, Birla Institute of Technology and Science, India, 1994
Focus of Study: My focus is Statistics, Economics, Mathematics, Business and Engineering
Awards: Various meritorious awards in school and college.
Received C.B.S.E. Merit Scholarship (from 1987 to 1994) for being amongst top 0.5% of successful candidates in X standard
Publications: Presented paper in various academic and professional conferences.
Work Experience: Reliance Industries
1994-1998
Worked as Business Analyst. Was instrumental in identifying new business opportunities, conducting techno-commercial appraisals and implementation.

Shreshta Enterprises
1998 Onwards
As CEO and Founder Member I started this venture to take advantage of the potential offered by the Indian Apparel market. I am involved in providing strategic direction to the firm, business development and planning.
Skills & Achievements: Entrepreneur by nature I have been involved in training and skill development for the last 8 years.
Career Interests: Developing entrepreneurship through sharing knowledge, educating young minds and contributing to social engineering while growing alongwith Shreshta Enterprises.
Outside Interests: Spending time with kids and traveling to new places.
Message to Students
and/or Parents:
Entrepreneur learns practical lessons about business by taking risk and experimenting. I would like to blend academic knowledge with practical experience to provide an application-oriented learning.
Postings Answered: 915
Cumulative OTA Rating: 4.9/5  What is OTA Rating?
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  1. Financial concepts - Time Value of Money - Problem: Use the future value interest factors in Appendix Table A-1 in each fo the cases shown below to estimate, to the nearest year, how long it would take an initial deposit, assuming no withdr ...
  2. Coefficient, standard deviation, and expected value - A firm is considering two business projects. Project A will return a loss of $45 if conditions are poor, a profit of $35 if conditions are good, and a profit of $155 if conditions are excellent. Proje ...
  3. Bond Valuation - A $1,000 face value bond has a remaining maturity of 10 years and a required return of 9%. The bond's coupon rate is 7.4%. What is the fair value of this bond?
  4. Fixed and Variable costs - A firm has fixed costs of $60 and varable costs as indicated in the table below. Complete the table. (a) Graph total fixed cost, total varable cost, and total cost. Explain how the law of diminishi ...
  5. Bride of Chucky - Variance - A sample of 25 concession stand purchases, at the October 22 matinée "Bride of Chucky," showed a mean purchase of $5.29 with a standard deviation of $3.02. For the October 26 evening showing of the sa ...
  6. Managerial Decisions - Suppose you own a home remodeling company. You are currently earning short-run profits. The home remodeling industry is an increasing-cost industry. In the long run, what do you expect will happen ...
  7. Present Value Concept - 1. In two to three paragraphs, explain why the concept of present value is so important for corporate finance and is often the very first topic taught in any finance class. 2. Calculate the future ...
  8. Central Tendency - If you have determined that the distribution of annual salaries of NBA players is bell-shaped and symmetrical about the mean salary, do you think that introducing Michael Jordan's last annual salary o ...
  9. Time Value of money - Congratulations! You have just won the lottery! However, the lottery bureau has just informed you that you can take your winnings in one of two ways. Choice X pays $1,000,000. Choice Y pays $1,750 ...
  10. Swift Manufacturing: Assessing return and risk betweeb two asset purchases - Swift Manufacturing must choose between 2 asset purchases. The annual rate of return and the related probabilities are given in the attached table summarize the firm's analysis to this point. Proje ...
  11. Analyzing One Way ANOVA: Supermarket chain and their brand of potato chips - Consider a large chain of supermarkets that sell their own brand of potato chips in addition to many other name brands. Management would like to know whether the type of display used for the store has ...
  12. Quantitative Reasoning for Business - a. Manchester Foundry produced 45,000 tons of steel in March at a cost of £1,150,000. In April, the foundry produced 35,000 tons at a cost of £950,000. Using only these two data points, determine the ...
  13. Constant growth model - Medtrans is a profitable firm that is not paying a dividend on its common stock. James Weber, an analyst for A. G. Edwards, believes that Medtrans will begin paying a $1.00 per share dividend in two y ...
  14. Hypothesis testing for proportions - A test was conducted to determine whether gender of a spokesperson affected the likelihood that consumers would prefer a new product. A survey of consumers at a trade show employing a female spokespe ...
  15. Market Structures - 1). Suppose the demand curve for a monopolist is Qd = 500 - P, and the marginal revenue function is MR = 500 - 2Q. The monopolist has a constant marginal and average total cost of $50 per unit. a). ...
  16. Breakeven point, Operating profit, Exchange rate - 1. Howard Beal Co. manufactures molds for casting aluminum alloy test samples. Fixed costs amount to $20,000 per year. Variable costs for each unit manufactured are $16. Sales price per unit is $28. ...
  17. Duopolists - Given the reaction function of duopolist A, QA= (12-QB)/2 (1) and the reaction function of duopolist B, QB= (12-QA)/2 (2), Find the Cournot solution, that is to fin ...
  18. Oppotunity costs - Total Hours Hours Studying GPA Hours Working Income 60 60 4.0 0 $0.00 60 40 3.0 20 $100.00 60 ...
  19. Advance bond concepts - Problem: 5.Calculate the effective duration of a bond to a 100 basis point change in interest rates with a 6-1/4 coupon, 10-years remaining to maturity, and an asking quote of 110.7811 (decimal, no ...
  20. Market equilibrium - Problem #1 If the market demand and supply functions for pizza in Newtown were QD = 12,000 - 1,000P QS = -4,000 + 1,000P Find the equilibrium quantity and price. Starting with the demand a ...
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