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
Watch the video. And please ‘like’ it, if you find it helpful. Data from the National Center for Education Statistics claims that the number of business Masters graduates have increased from 26,490, from the rotating disco ball era, to 189,000, in the flying Trump hair era. It has been increasing in popularity, in the … Read more
If education is a ticket to a better life, it sometimes makes very little sense to jump into a pool of education loans, and lifelong debts, to gain your right to knowledge. Though it may be justified in the instance of a professional course, like an MBA degree, where the gains of a well-founded business … Read more
The pursuit of higher education can never be deemed futile. In its most essential form, higher education enables an individual to deepen his depth of knowledge in the field. A Master’s degree opens up doors to specializations under the umbrella of a broad career. However, there are certain practical aspects, to be taken into consideration, … Read more
1957 saw the origin of one of the most influential Business Schools in the world, Institut Européen d’Administration des Affaires (French for European Institute of Business Administration), or INSEAD. The flagship institute, in France, and its newer campus in Singapore, has since been a reigning champion in global business education. In the past years, INSEAD … Read more
With the ever growing popularity of overseas education, international admissions experts have sprung up like tea stalls at every street corner. Some promise a red carpet walk to the admissions office, in exchange for your first born, while others let you easy on the price but offer very little in credible services.