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Duke Fuqua, pronounced “Duke Few-Kwa,” as opposed to “Duke Foo-Kwa, is the business school of Duke University in Durham, North Carolina. It was established in 1969. In 1980, the school was named after J. B. Fuqua (1918-2006), who gifted it $10 million.
While a lot has been written about the Hyderabad campus, ISB Mohali is still shrouded in mystery for many. Newly admitted ISB students as well as aspirants and applicants have a lot of questions buzzing in their minds. What happens after getting into ISB? How is the ISB Mohali campus different from Hyderabad? What happens … Read more
Among the numerous emails we got after we reviewed Harvard’s HBX CORe, one was from the official HBX team saying they loved the blog post. The email also pointed out a few aspects – about the format & structure of the program – that we hadn’t captured accurately.
Accidental MBA and reluctant entrepreneur, Achamba, has announced the launch of what he thinks is the best MBA entrance exam in the world. It has been tentatively christened as the Kick-a$$ Management Aptitude Test (KaMAT®).
Apart from the MBA leadership and management lessons taught in a business school classroom, there’s another opportunity that most students overlook. It involves interacting with real thought leaders (as opposed to using our leadership quotes generator). Sudershan ‘Suds’ Tirumala, Regional Director at Tuck School of Business (Dartmouth), writes about how it can transform your learning … Read more
Salary disparity among equally well-qualified professionals may not be a study topic in MBA courses in America’s top b-schools. But some MBA graduates get to learn the subject closely, a few years after leaving school and entering the US corporate space. Research by Bloomberg has shown that in that country, skin colour is a major … Read more
In the application stage, most Indian students focus a lot on MBA entrance exams (GMAT, GRE, TOEFL). Once that is done, there’s a whole list of complicated admissions requirements for studying abroad – like getting recommendations, academic transcripts, writing application essays, managing student financing, tackling student visa interviews. One important area of research generally gets … Read more
In today’s competitive world, a post-graduate degree or a professional qualification has become the need of the hour to widen the career scope and improve the job and salary prospects. We get numerous queries from students pursuing the commerce stream who’re keen to find out whether an MBA or CA would be a better study … Read more
As a young man, he found it tough to get people to believe in his ideas and took coaching classes to get over his fear of communicating, especially in groups. But he was a gifted entrepreneur and turned a profit on everything he touched.
So you thought sailing into a top business school meant you were a hot shot. Wait till you take your first class. That’s when the bullets really begin to fly.
When a ticket to big bucks is at stake, expect things to get a little twisted. Yep, even the top business schools are not immune to the seamier side of human nature, which is always looking to cheat, claw and con its way to the top. The sad reality is that business schools and students … Read more
In a cruel irony, market forces are threatening the survival of business schools, the very crucibles of learning that have been feeding the industry and the corporate world with the best business minds for decades. This downslide is reflected in announcements, every now and then, of business schools shutting down their flagship, full-time MBA programs. … Read more