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In a survey carried out by Harvard Business Review & INSEAD, 40% of the CEOs in India have an MBA, 60% don’t. That’s a big number in favour of one degree that dominates the business world. Statistics such as these might be among the compelling reasons for ambitious Indian students and professionals to ask on … Read more
When someone says Harvard MBA is not the best business school, the other competing names that come to mind are the likes of Stanford, Wharton, MIT and other regular suspects that dominate the MBA rankings. Instead when you hear names like BYU Marriott, Wisconsin School of Business, Foster (Washington), Fisher (Ohio), Simon (Rochester), Mendonza (Notre … Read more
From all the MBA success stories that you get to read on admission consultants websites, the breed may come across as an invincible lot. That’s far from the truth. As with any other field that involves fighting against the odds, even the best candidates and MBA consultants fail. While failure can teach us more than … Read more
Watch the video and please ‘like’ if you find it useful Though the question of MBA vs MS (Masters in Science) can come up in the minds of freshers from any graduate discipline who are keen on studying abroad, it’s more common among B.E. / B.Tech students who’ve just completed their engineering degree or … Read more
For international MBA students, the dilemma of whether to attend a top MBA college in their home country or consider popular overseas MBA destinations is quite common (Global MBA Rankings List). In the year 2000, European MBA applicant Luca Zerbini chose an elite American MBA program over European business schools. Now over a decade after … Read more
The Indian economy is at a fascinating stage, for MBA students looking at its academic side and business professionals looking at its practical implications. In this post, you’ll get a whirlwind tour of the history of the Indian economy, important statistics, the overall structure, its sectors, how it compares with China and USA, and much … Read more
After writing about the best online MBA programs and Online MBA vs Regular MBA, we’ve been on the lookout for folks who’ve actually signed up for such a course. We bumped into Rohit Shrivastava who was willing to share his story. Rohit worked with another admissions consultant in USA (not MBA Crystal Ball) before deciding … Read more
Most of the good one year MBA programs for executives in India (offered by ISB and the IIMs) are based outside Mumbai, Interestingly, apart from the traditional 2-year MBA programs like Jamnalal Bajaj (JBMIS), Narsee Monjee (NMIMS) there’s not much for executives with experience to choose from in the commercial capital. Here’s one –> Executive … Read more
Laura Trott is considered to be among the most successful cyclists in the world, for the number of titles she’s won in a short span of time. Among her accomplishments is a double Olympic gold in two disciplines – the ‘Team pursuit’ and ‘Omnium’. ‘What’s the big deal?‘ you might say, ‘Beyond the fancy names … Read more
Despite being top tier Ivy league brands, we’ve never featured Brown University and Princeton University in our MBA articles. Reason being – they don’t offer MBA programs. We’ve been curious to find out why. So we reached out to Shriram Krishnamurthi whose journey from Bangalore (India) to Brown University (USA) has been quite eventful. As … Read more
Among the many MBA concepts related posts we’ve written, in the introductory Economics sections, we’ve also touched upon the basics of GDP (full-form, definition etc). We thought it would be interesting to dig deeper to look at GDP in India and contrast India GDP numbers with the GDP of countries that we generally get compared … Read more
Among the various one year MBA programs across the world, one program stands head and shoulders above the rest – the Post-Graduate Programme in Management for Executives (IIMA PGPX) at IIM Ahmedabad. Consider these facts. The class size is small (85 students in the current PGPX classroom), but the class profile is among the most … Read more