Watch: How Sumedha got into M7 & T20 with scholarship + other applicant stories
As a young man, he found it tough to get people to believe in his ideas and took coaching classes to get over his fear of communicating, especially in groups. But he was a gifted entrepreneur and turned a profit on everything he touched.
So you thought sailing into a top business school meant you were a hot shot. Wait till you take your first class. That’s when the bullets really begin to fly.
In the cold and competitive world of work, they are referred to as ‘modern slaves’, hapless interns who offer their services for free to companies gleefully saving money they should be spending on hiring full-time staff. But if you’re a foreign student interning for free, read this carefully – you could risk being deported. That’s … Read more
Imagine the scene at a top 10 business school a day after the application submission deadline has passed. All the admission officers from the admission committee gather around a crystal ball that has magical powers to improve their productivity. In a matter of a few seconds, it processes thousands of submitted applications, calculates the … Read more
Is doing a master’s degree course abroad really worth it? Or the more common variation to that query – is an MS from US worth it? If you’re an Indian student, you will be likely mulling over this question while awaiting your bachelor’s degree exam results.
What does a news portal do when it sees a potential competitor starting up? Snip.it in the bud, of course! That’s exactly what Yahoo did in 2013, when it forked out $10 million to snap up content curation website, Snip.it, founded by Stanford graduate Ramy Adeeb.
Often spoken of in the same breath, GRE and GMAT scores play an integral role in influencing an applicant’s admission chances in the school of his choice. A highly-ranked Masters program will insist on a high score in these exams.
A key driver of growth in many economies, entrepreneurship is definitely the flavor of business right now. This second wave is built on the lessons of the first – the dotcom boom – when tech start-ups dominated the entrepreneurial landscape at the turn of the century. Now hordes of young men and women, each one … Read more
One of your first lessons in financial management in business school will come from personal experience, and it’s always painful – learning to manage your discretionary cash. If you haven’t yet done your homework yet, ‘discretionary cash’ is just a snobbish term for ‘non-essential’ expenses, a large portion of which is usually spent on a … Read more
Many who sign up for an MBA program do so with an eye specifically on one goal – international work experience. It’s a great career move for many reasons. One, considering the astronomical sum spent on acquiring an MBA degree in, say, the US or Europe, it makes good financial sense for Indians to find … Read more
It made academia sit up and take notice when it launched as a beta version in June 2014. Some believed the ‘classroom of the future’ had arrived; others, at a loss for words, called it ‘reality TV’ in education. Most of all, this technological phenomenon had Harvard Business School (HBS) revelling in its own achievement.
It’s not very often that you hear of an MBA application and profile crafted by the applicant so effectively, that the interview ends up being a formality. Even if the Admissions committee is convinced about an applicant, they normally follow the protocol and communicate the decision after a few days. Harsimrandeep Singh, an oil and … Read more