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The H-1B is a non-immigrant visa that allows foreigners to be employed by U.S. companies in specialty occupations (Top H1-B Visa Sponsors). Students who go to the US on an F1 visa have to go through the gruelling task of having to find companies/employers ready to sponsor their H-1B so that they can continue working … Read more
What does a news portal do when it sees a potential competitor starting up? Snip.it in the bud, of course! That’s exactly what Yahoo did in 2013, when it forked out $10 million to snap up content curation website, Snip.it, founded by Stanford graduate Ramy Adeeb.
A key driver of growth in many economies, entrepreneurship is definitely the flavor of business right now. This second wave is built on the lessons of the first – the dotcom boom – when tech start-ups dominated the entrepreneurial landscape at the turn of the century. Now hordes of young men and women, each one … Read more
Many who sign up for an MBA program do so with an eye specifically on one goal – international work experience. It’s a great career move for many reasons. One, considering the astronomical sum spent on acquiring an MBA degree in, say, the US or Europe, it makes good financial sense for Indians to find … Read more
When the same few examples – of how Mark Zuckerberg, Steve Jobs and Bill Gates started their ventures very early – start dominating the internet, it’s only natural for aspiring entrepreneurs to conclude that starting young is the only option. What if you are in your thirties, forties, fifties or even sixties? Does that make … Read more
Doing a master’s or another graduate degree with a specialisation has its advantages. It teaches you more about your favorite subject. It helps you build upon the knowledge and skills that you acquired during your undergraduate course. It may open up more job opportunities. It may even bring you more respect.
Your MBA degree did what it was rightfully meant to do – it gave you new perspectives about careers you’d never have thought about, your electives gave you insights into each of these new areas. But a general management degree may not be able to do justice as it may fail to delve deeper into … Read more
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
Too many career change aspirants think management consulting is a good career option after completing their MBA. And that’s what they write in their MBA application essays without trying to learn more about what it means to be a consultant. Not many ask themselves, “Is consulting really a good career option for me?” Sudershan ‘Suds’ … Read more
Stanford University’s Graduate School of Business (GSB) has long been an idea factory for new business, and when it asked students to go slow on their aspirations to launch startups, a hot debate was triggered in the business world and academia. Academics at GSB are said to be advising students to focus on their courses … 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.
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