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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
When reputed publications like Bloomberg start proclaiming that software engineering careers are dying and Indian IT companies continue to deal with the swaying moods (and H1B / L1 visa policies) of their client countries, it’s bound to generate some level of stress among the huge pool of IT professionals in India.
The perks that the best strategy consulting firms offer grow as you spend more time in the industry.
For Software / IT engineers, a Product Management career after an MBA would be a good track to consider. If you’ve read our earlier posts on Product Manager Job Description (A day in the life of a product manager) and Product Management Syllabus in MBA, you may have seen the overlaps already. In order to … Read more