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For the past 20 years, Western universities have made hay from their shining popularity among students the world over, particularly China and India. Western economies have also reaped benefits from these students staying on after graduation and joining their workforce. But now, more and more international graduates are rediscovering a taste for homemade pie, as … Read more
You don’t have to be a prodigy to begin an early foray into your area of interest. At least that’s what we can say about getting an early start on your business aspirations. Heavily overshowed by its celebrity older sibling, the MBA or the other Master’s degrees in the field, the undergraduate business degree still … Read more
Everyone knows that b-school is about classes, projects, studies, grades, networking, internships, and job search. It’s common knowledge that students also party hard and that happy hours followed by hangovers and hookups are routine. It’s no secret that all this business and pleasure often choke serious relationships out of existence.
Most two year MBA programs are designed to create a well rounded manager, with the first year dedicated to general management and the second year offering an opportunity to pursue certain specializations of your choice. With that end in mind, B-schools often give their students a chance to polish their management skills in areas dealing … Read more
Knowledge comes with a price tag, or so it may seem. After all, it takes a lot of money to run an institution, recruit talented faculty, provide educational resources, and then have some set aside for providing scholarships to the exceptional students. There are many such reasons why degrees have become so costly. In the … Read more
The world of business continues to evolve rapidly and companies unaware of the emerging business trends are often caught off-guard. Rather than focusing on their business, managers end up spending precious time and resources on fire-fighting and reacting to these changes.
One rather crucial feature, that is not lacking for all prospective business apprentices, is options. If anything, these would-be students are bombarded with so many choices of business degrees that it’s almost too easy to get lost and confused, as witnessed by the scores of questions, crying out what should I do next, is this … Read more
Semester after semester, as many as 1,300 students are expertly guided toward the path of innovation in business by 200 academic staff at MIT Sloan School of Management. The teachers and their students have obviously met with success: Sloan alumni have founded more than 650 companies. But there’s a lot more to Sloan. Here are … Read more
Facebook’s Sheryl Sandberg and PepsiCo’s Indra Nooyi may shine a ray of hope for many young girls aspiring to reach for the business stars. However, the reality, at the ground level is still shaky. According to Catalyst, a non-profit organization with a mission to help women achieve workplace inclusion, the share of women, in senior … Read more
The GMAT score is a significant component of an MBA application. While the essays, the letters of recommendations, statement of purpose, interviews, and work experience, create a notion of the quality of the application, the GMAT score offers a far more objective peek at an applicant’s capabilities. It is a score based on a uniform … Read more
MBA rankings, according to John A. Byrne, P&Q founder, are a fact of life. He says, “They [rankings] have changed the way schools are managed, the way applicants choose programs, the way companies recruit MBA students, the way schools hire and retain faculty, how alumni feel about their alma mater, and how much donors give … Read more
The phrase “practical MBA” seems somewhat redundant. For, if it is not practical, what good is an MBA? However, the fact is that MBA curricula at many business schools are so rooted in classroom academics—with a surfeit of lectures on theories and concepts—that they seem to have forgotten to teach their students what to do … Read more