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What can one expect as a Harvard Business School MBA student? There’s obviously no one better than the students themselves to provide answers to this question. We found interesting accounts by students in blogs and other online forums about life at HBS during the first and second years of the MBA program. We also came … Read more
“The Hunting Ground,” a documentary film about sexual assaults on US university campuses, opens with anxious women college applicants peering into websites to know whether they have been accepted. After tense moments, they break into OMGs, squeals of delight, and teary laughter along with their parents and other well-wishers as they learn they have clinched … Read more
Dipti Verma (name changed), had shared her admissions experience earlier – EDHEC MBA with 40% scholarship despite low 650 GMAT score. She is back with another article to explain what it is to be a student in the EDHEC MBA program in France.
Preparing to do a two-year full-time MBA in an elite school is an exciting time. Students think of what the future will bring them, but they also wonder about what kind of new life is in store for them on the school campus. Those with partners and children also ponder how their MBA plans are … Read more
Look at these three statements and ask yourself which might be correct: Students on US campuses today are more sexually active than those of previous generations. They have more sexual partners than their counterparts before them. “Hook-up culture” pervades campuses, with adventurous students doing their own thing.
There’s just one word of advice for guys and gals having trouble dating while in business school – ‘DMS’. If you don’t know what we’re talking about, chances are you had no trouble in the dating department. If you did, well, DMS or DateMySchool was probably a godsend. Launched by two students of Columbia Business … Read more
Clinical depression isn’t something that many would be comfortable talking about. The stigma and public ignorance associated with the condition makes it all the more difficult to be open about it. Aman (name changed), an IIT graduate who also holds a masters degree from USA, opens up and shares all the highs and lows of … Read more
How is life as an Indian student in USA different from student experiences back in Indian engineering colleges? What problems can you face when you arrive on campus, and in the first few months? Is work experience important to get a job after MS in USA? Amala Rangnekar sheds some light on these commonly asked … Read more
Many international MBA applicants are so engrossed in cracking the MBA admissions process, they fail to do enough research into what awaits them after they get the good news from the admissions team. We reached out to our old friend, Vijay Allen Raj, who completed his MBA from one of the best MBA in Marketing … 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
Apart from the MBA leadership and management lessons taught in a business school classroom, there’s another opportunity that most students overlook. It involves interacting with real thought leaders (as opposed to using our leadership quotes generator). Sudershan ‘Suds’ Tirumala, Regional Director at Tuck School of Business (Dartmouth), writes about how it can transform your learning … Read more
As a young man, he found it tough to get people to believe in his ideas and took coaching classes to get over his fear of communicating, especially in groups. But he was a gifted entrepreneur and turned a profit on everything he touched.