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So you’re about to get a stack of business cards printed but you’re on the horns of a dilemma – should you add ‘MBA’ as a suffix to your name on your visiting card? Surely, two gruelling years at B School and the many thousands of dollars you spent to get that degree have earned … Read more
If you’re ambitious, your career is on the upswing, and you’re looking to turbo-charge your resume, an Executive MBA (EMBA) is something you might want to consider. Unlike a full-time MBA, where the students are younger and relatively inexperienced, an EMBA program is designed for professionals who have at least six to seven years’ work … Read more
For international students in USA, education financing is often a massive challenge. For starters, having a good credit history is very important in an economy such as America where credit financing plays such a crucial role. If the only reason you are relocating to the U.S. is your Masters degree (MBA, MS etc), you won’t … Read more
This post was triggered by a recent meeting I had with a school friend. I met him after almost 30 years and he was narrating his story. Like many, he was forced to take up an engineering line (civil engineering) based on his entrance exam marks. He took up a tough field job in a … Read more
As we wrote in an earlier article (How business schools are luring female applicants), MBA admission officers are very interested in getting applications from competitive female applicants. But that’s only in relative terms. In absolute terms, it is still darn tough to crack into the top ranked business schools even with a high GMAT and … Read more
Click here to learn how to get into. Harvard Business School Many applicants ask us – ‘How hard is it to get into Harvard Business School MBA from India?‘, ‘What does Harvard look for?‘, ‘What are my chances of getting admission into HBS?‘ and several such questions. Many have written about it from a general … Read more
Many MBA applicants get so enamoured with the MBA prestige, ranking and brand power that the ultimate objective (i.e. what they want from the MBA) gets pushed down the priority list. Too heavy for an opening statement? Let’s break it down.
We are treading on thin ice with this article, as it involves the most pious and revered relationship in India – between children and parents (ranking second only to the bond between children and their mobiles). In a land where the only acceptable flow of wisdom is from parents to children, it may be difficult … Read more
Till fairly recently, the business analysis team of a corporate firm included a statistician who specialised in the analysis of all things numerical; computer scientists who were experts in employing software programs to power the company’s operations; and managers, who knew how to leverage the work of the other two professionals and combine it with … Read more
How do you take a top-notch program such as the Wharton MBA and make it better? The University of Pennsylvania seems to have given it a lot of thought and found an option – the dual degree program offered jointly by the Wharton School and the Lauder Institute. In this interview with Sameer Kamat (founder … Read more
Archana Amaragandhi’s review of Chetan Bhagat’s Half Girlfriend went viral. She is perfectly capable of writing funny and creative posts. This isn’t one of them. The provocative tone may make you wonder if you are reading an MBA success story or something else. There’s anger, frustration and rebellion in it. It’s directed at the patriarchal … Read more
A Master’s degree is a graduate program of study in the US, the most popular destination sought by international students for higher and professional education. Students opt for a Master’s degree for one of many reasons.