Your interpretation of power dressing for an important interview may backfire if you depend solely on your basic instincts. Overdoing it or taking it back to the stone age may end up exposing more than you bargained for – your lack of dressing etiquette for starters. For international students, knowing what to wear for MBA … Read more
After you’ve been accepted by a study program or a university overseas, there’s one rather boring but mandatory detail you need to take care of before you set off for foreign shores – health insurance. It’s quite a downer after the euphoria of waiting to be accepted by a university of your choice but it’s … Read more
Canada is one of the most popular destinations for international students seeking top quality education. For MBA students, there are several coveted names like the Rotman Business School at the University of Toronto, Sauder School of Business at the University of British Columbia, Smith School of Business at the Queens’s University, Richard Ivey School of … Read more
‘I am planning to study abroad’. This is the phrase you’d commonly hear these days when talking to graduates who have just completed or are in the last year of their three-year graduation in India. Studying abroad for a Master’s degree is one of the plans they have for their careers going forward. And what … Read more
The job market may have been a depressing place in recent years, but it has handed out a new option to fresh graduates: stay on in college for an additional degree. Many fresh graduates who are unable to find full-time employment with only a bachelor’s degree are going in for the Master in Management (MiM) … Read more
Everyone knows by now that pursuing a degree in a foreign land is hard work, which should begin even before you start sending out applications. One of the hurdles to cross is in the process is clearing an exam that tests your English language skills. There was a time when it was only TOEFL in … Read more
Governments around the world spend a huge amount of money on education every year. This includes setting up institutes of higher education or expanding the reach of the ones that already exist. Yet, given a chance, every single student wishing to pursue their MBA from the likes of Stanfords and Harvards of the world will … Read more
In the mid-1970s, when Muhammad Yunus went around poor villages in his country, Bangladesh, it struck him that many people required only very small sums of about $27 to start small businesses and break free from the shackles of greedy moneylenders. He launched “Grameen Bank” for providing microcredit to them. The result was the growth … Read more
The implementation of the Brexit vote — in which Britain favored an exit from the European Union (EU) — is hardly going to be as quick as a hotel checkout. It will take at least two years of negotiations for Britain’s decision to take effect. Meanwhile, the UK’s position in the EU and its relationship … Read more
We have a new version of this article. Read: Top one-year MBA programs in the world in 2026 Accelerated MBA programs offered by even the best business schools are sometimes belittled as “quickie” degrees. However, all the bad press about these programs probably disappeared when The Financial Times released its 2016 list of global full-time … Read more
Stanford Graduate School of Business (GSB) offers a lush environment that nurtures unique ideas. Its admissions exercise seeks to identify those who have what it takes to make the most of this environment. As a student of the Stanford MBA program, will you be able to take full advantage of the facilities offered by the … Read more
Salary disparity among equally well-qualified professionals may not be a study topic in MBA courses in America’s top b-schools. But some MBA graduates get to learn the subject closely, a few years after leaving school and entering the US corporate space. Research by Bloomberg has shown that in that country, skin colour is a major … Read more