Columbia Business School offers the opportunity to gain an Ivy League MBA degree in the heart of the American commercial hub. We look at everything that makes the bschool special – including the advantages provided by its location, its academic uniqueness, its career transforming capabilities, its elite and powerful alumni network that can help you … Read more
London Business School is regarded as the best two-year MBA program in Europe. By understanding what they look for in MBA applicants, you can figure out whether the program is a good fit for you, and how to maximize your chances of admission.
The London Business School (LBS) is among the crème de la crème of the world’s top b-schools. Founded in 1964, it has striven, in its own words, “to have a profound impact on the way the world does business.” A constituent college of the federal University of London, the LBS welcomes over 2,200 degree students … Read more
Berkeley Haas is the second oldest business school in the United States. It is also the only b-school to be founded by a woman. A gift by Cora Jane Flood in 1898—her residence and a 550-acre plot—to the University of California, Berkeley, led to the establishment of what is now the Haas Business School. Today, … Read more
Money matters need experts who understand how money matters. And an MBA that trains in financial wizardry is one of the most competitive, lucrative and in-demand MBA specializations on both sides of the interview table – MBA in Finance applicants and the employers waiting to snatch them at graduation.
So many schools. So little time… A giant step in the onerous process of MBA application is, in its most basic description, awareness. Picking a list of business schools is like selecting your most desired dishes in a rather humongous buffet. You need the appetite to taste what you want. And, it is you who … Read more
MBA programs strive to be diverse, choosing candidates from a variety of backgrounds to enrich their experiential learning environment. Classes thrive on case studies, and students bring in their past experiences, mixing them with new lessons. Most MBA programs, across the globe, hence, desire an applicant pool with some years of work experience. Average MBA … Read more
In 2016, when NYU Stern launched a comprehensive fintech elective program that included a blockchain and cryptocurrencies course, the whole class could have been accommodated on a couple of benches: there were only a dozen students.
Watch this video first: Best MBA in Entrepreneurship What comes first – the MBA bird or the Entrepreneurial golden egg? In other words, we should first start with a brief parley on whether an MBA really helps to push a start-up business forward (Read Are entrepreneurs born or made?). After all, if history has taught … Read more
The Samuel Curtis Johnson Graduate School of Management is part of Cornell University’s SC Johnson College of Business. It was in 1946 that Cornell University, an Ivy League university, established the “School for Business and Public Administration,” offering MBA and MPA degrees. The first-year course fee was a princely sum of $200. In 1984, Samuel … Read more
We’ve changed the age old question (‘Will an MBA make me successful?’) in a subtle manner. Rather than looking at the end product itself (i.e. the degree), we’re looking at what skills and traits you are learning from the degree and taking back with you in your quest for success in the business world.
The US has not always been a “land of opportunity” it is touted to be today. Hardly 50 years ago, it wasn’t a land of opportunity for even its own people. Minorities and women were prohibited from applying to universities or for higher-level jobs in their own country. Discrimination was legal and masqueraded as state … Read more