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The Executive MBA has risen as a popular and a visibly lucrative cousin of MBA. It has become a sure-shot, albeit expensive, tool towards career advancement. With a few years of managerial experience under your belt, an EMBA provides a perfect opportunity to grow functionally, without the expense of leaving your current job and position … Read more
The domain of business schooling is overflowing with MBA programs requiring some form of work experience. Students, with a prior three to four, or even more, years of office exposure offer a rich environment for peer learning in the current experientially designed curriculum. In the recent years, however, American B-Schools are flirting with the idea … Read more
American business schools dominate most MBA rankings. However, in the ranking of countries according to the GMAT mean total score of their candidates, one has to go deep down the list to find the position achieved by the United States. The US has only secured rank 43 in the 2016 testing year (July 2015-June 2016). … Read more
An investment in knowledge pays the best interest. ~As Benjamin Franklin has been known to say. Quite true but how do you see the returns on that investment? You may argue that knowledge is the reward in itself but one can, quite justifiably, question said knowledge if you have obtained an MS degree from, say, … Read more
Master in Management (MiM) and its variations, namely Master of Science in Management or Master of Arts in Management, have gone up in popularity in the recent past. With its conception in the late 80s, it has been gradually climbing up to meet its a-list cousin, the MBA. According to the GMAC application trends survey … Read more
Chances are, if you drive on the left-hand side in your country, you probably also graduated from your Bachelor’s in three years. This is not a leap from a discussion about apples, to oranges.
“More is never enough.” This life philosophy of real-life billionaire stockbroker, Jordan Belfort, the protagonist of Martin Scorsese’s film “The Wolf of Wall Street,” played by Leonardo DiCaprio, seems to inspire at least some young people who aspire for a career in investment banking. Some go far enough to realize their professional goals and lifestyle … Read more
What is a MOOC? The full-form of MOOC is Massive open online course. It started as an idea in 2006 and has developed into full-blown learning sources, for many, since 2012. A phenomenon that has become more widespread than Starbucks and its worldwide reach, MOOC has captured the focused attention of 81 million students, more … Read more
We often get readers who ask us for help in choosing their PhD program – Which school to apply for my PhD? Who should I work with to get the best output? And the often puzzled odd one, Should I do a PhD or What should I do my PhD in? As much as we … Read more
Prof. Veronica Vecchi, Director of Executive Education, speaks to us about SDA Bocconi Asia Center, and the pioneering IEMB program offered there. Read on for more information.
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.
“It’s a living lab.” That’s what the Massachusetts Institute of Technology is to its very own proud students. When Barack Obama visited MIT in October 2009, he used a few more words to describe the institute’s awe-inspiring culture of innovation, and entrepreneurship: “It is the legacy of daring young men and women…willing to take risks … Read more