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If management is religion, then the Harvard Business Review is a holy book that is read and revered by thousands, many of them corporate head honchos and academics. First published as a magazine for Harvard Business School in 1922, HBR has graduated into a must-read journal for business leaders and decision-makers by capturing and delivering … Read more
Georges Frederic Doriot (1899-1987), who earned the sobriquet of “Father of venture capitalism” for establishing the American Research and Development Corporation, founded INSEAD, an acronym for the French name for the “European Institute of Business Administration,” in 1957. The “Business School for the World,” as INSEAD likes to call itself, strives to cross national boundaries … Read more
The PGPMAX (Post Graduate Programme in Management for Senior Executives) is an executive MBA program from ISB meant for experienced working professionals. This intense program aims at career advancement, greater strategic vision as well as honing your leadership abilities and soft skills. What are the admission requirements – GMAT, essays, etc? How much does it … Read more
It’s become so common for MBA applicants to bunch Harvard, Stanford and Wharton together, that there’s now an acronym (HSW) to refer to the 3 without wasting too many syllables. But there are several differences across the 3 most prestigious business schools in the world. How do the Harvard Business School (HBS), Stanford Graduate School … Read more
Marco Di Maggio is the Assistant Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School. He was listed among the ‘2016 Best 40 Under 40 Professors’ by Poets & Quants. In this interview with Swati from the MBA Crystal Ball team, Professor Di Maggio shares his views on a wide range of topics related to learning … Read more
The Indian School of Business, Hyderabad, and the Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore, Ahmedabad and Calcutta, are the only Indian b-schools in the Financial Times Global MBA Ranking 2018, which includes 100 institutions. Strange for a country with 5,500 MBA colleges? Not at all, it turns out. For quite a few reasons.
We shared our review on the HBX CORe program and then followed it up with an interview with the Executive Director of HBX (read it here: Harvard online certificate courses are not just for MBA degree aspirants). We thought it would be fitting to complete the series by finding out what past participants of HBX … Read more
Shriman and Shrimati Gupta-ji (Sandeep and Divya) were at a stage in their life and career that would be best described by the popular desi label – ‘settled’. They both had Indian MBA degrees, good jobs and 500+ channels on cable TV (the last one is our assumption). When you are over 30, that’s a … 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
Isaac Smith is an assistant professor of management and organizations at the Samuel Curtis Johnson Graduate School of Management at the Cornell College of Business, Cornell University. He has been the recipient of numerous academic honors and awards, and his research has been recognized and received media coverage through leading publications. In this interview with … Read more
Long after you’re done posing and flexing your muscles before your family and friends for cracking into a top MBA college, the truth may dawn upon you – albeit a bit too late. You realise that you’ve unwittingly got gatecrashed into a party that was never meant for you. Nothing is going right. You are … 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