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PhD after MBA

Education is a five-course meal with PhD as the ultimate dessert at the end of it all. Having said that, not all fields of study have had a long history of crowning a doctorate degree. It has traditionally been the highest degree in the sciences, and social sciences. Somewhere in the middle of the previous … Read more

Top bulge bracket investment banks

Bulge-bracket investment banks are global investment banks with customers such as governments, large corporations, and institutions. They provide services such as equity research, sales and trading, asset management, advisory assistance and underwriting. Bulge-bracket banks offer innovative financial products, ranging from equities and commodities derivatives to credit, mortgage, and insurance packages, crafted from their sustained research … Read more

How hard is the GMAT?

In the interest of being accurate, yet vague, the best that GMAT experts can divulge is umm, well…it depends… Why? Because the GMAT exam is a standardized test, making it available to anyone, from any background, who chooses to appear for it. However, it is also the standardized test which is widely used to select … Read more

MMS: Duke Kunshan University – Admissions, tuition, careers, class profile, student life

Duke Kunshan University – a partnership between Duke University (USA) and Wuhan University (China) – offers a Master of Management Studies (MMS) program aimed at new college graduates and young professionals. The unique 10-month program offers an opportunity for international students to live and study on two campuses in two countries and experience American and … Read more

Entrepreneurship through acquisition – Use the ‘search fund’ route to become a CEO

In the early 1990s, Kevin Taweel, a Stanford Graduate School of Business (GSB) student, was considering his job options just before graduation. Offers from many large corporations had come his way, but the prospect of being chained to a desk at an office, however posh, did not appeal to him very much. He wanted to … Read more

16 things every Cornell Johnson MBA student should know

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

Supreme Court bans affirmative action in U.S. college admissions: Definition, examples, pros and cons

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