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From afar, mergers and acquisitions (M&A) divisions of investment banks look extremely glamorous for job-seeking graduates. M&A is also one of the most difficult area to break into at the graduate level. What are the qualifications required? What about specific skills that banks seek?
Private equity (PE) is often described as an exclusive club that accepts only former investment bankers, strategy consultants, and top b-school graduates as members. That’s not the case always. PE also offers grads and undergrads, engineers and accountants serious consideration and engaging and gainful careers. Here we map the routes to PE careers and career … Read more
An MBA from a good business-management school can set up a career like no other postgraduate degree can. Not just for management jobs, this postgraduate degree is an ideal qualification for many other positions, too. Here’s a condensed selection of jobs that require an MBA.
If you’re joining an Ivy League university, you would naturally expect to see smart, talented, and ambitious class fellows all around you. And you would certainly see them, no doubt. But, before long, as the freshman year progresses, you would also see them increasingly anxious and stressed, and as someone says, “looking lost.”
Five years after we published the story of Sudhir Nemani, who got into ISB with low GMAT score of 610, things just got a little more interesting in this family. Lalita Peddi had joined Sudhir on campus in 2013, and got more than a glimpse of what life as an ISB student entails. Now she’s … Read more
The last big economic crisis has forced people to reevaluate their career choices and ask themselves whether their current jobs would assure them of a stable income until retirement. Many who see trouble round the corner for their jobs or industries find that learning technology skills is the solution. Meanwhile, more and more young people … Read more
The GMAT exam is one of the first items in your to-do list for your prolonged MBA application process (Read How to plan your MBA Timeline). It sets the tone for the rest of your application. It is the only objective component that you can truly control. A chance to right all the wrongs in … Read more
“Private equity” comprises investors and funds that put in millions or billions of dollars for the acquisition of stake in companies that are in need of capital and restructuring, that are already bringing in revenue, and that can be made more profitable. These investments are not noted in a public exchange. Private Equity (PE) firms … Read more
Shrivardhan Rao highlights the differences based on his experiences as a student in India and USA.
It’s the sweetest time you’ll experience during your MBA life cycle – that time between being accepted by the program of your choice and actually starting classes. It’s a time when you’re walking on air, the world seems like a much nicer place and you believe you’re luckier than everyone else!
Simply put, an asset manager’s job is to make sure that the savings/assets/investments of clients grow, whether the clients are super-rich or are working-class people hoping to lead a dignified life after retirement. Asset managers choose the investments that their clients could make—stocks, bonds, pension funds, retirement funds, hedge funds, institutional investments, retail investments, insurance, … Read more
We’ve changed the age old question (‘Will an MBA make me successful?’) in a subtle manner. Rather than looking at the end product itself (i.e. the degree), we’re looking at what skills and traits you are learning from the degree and taking back with you in your quest for success in the business world.