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Everyone knows that b-school is about classes, projects, studies, grades, networking, internships, and job search. It’s common knowledge that students also party hard and that happy hours followed by hangovers and hookups are routine. It’s no secret that all this business and pleasure often choke serious relationships out of existence.
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
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
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
Wharton India Economic Forum (WIEF) Conference in Mumbai Diversify. Disrupt. Deliver Join India’s top leaders under one roof to discuss today’s most exciting opportunities and pressing issues. Meet current Wharton students and alumni. Where & When: Four Seasons Hotel, Worli (Mumbai) on Friday, January 5, 2018. Click here to register Imagine an international … Read more
The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania was established in 1881 with a donation from Joseph Wharton, an American industrialist who was involved in manufacturing and mining. Wharton is the US’ first collegiate school of business and part of the M7 group of elite MBA programs that also includes Booth, Chicago, Columbia, Harvard, MIT … Read more
Is doing an MBA tough? Of course it is, or everyone would be scrambling for that coveted degree. But how hard is it to complete a program at a top school? Obviously, the level of difficulty would depend on your intellectual caliber, your academic background, and your interests and career goals.
Most Chinese students work hard to clear tests for admission to US universities. Some others just cheat, and more than a few are caught. In 2014, about 8,000 Chinese students were expelled from US universities, most of them for fraud or for their poor academic performance.
The New York University Stern School of Business was founded in 1900 by Charles Waldo Haskins, co-founder of Deloitte’s predecessor Haskins and Sells and a nephew of Ralph Waldo Emerson. It was then known as the School for Commerce, Finance, and Accounting, and prepared students for careers in the financial markets of New York City. … Read more