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What are the chances that your ISB application will be shortlisted for an interview? What happens inside the ISB admissions office after you submit your ISB essays, recommendations? Will the ISB admissions officer reject your application purely because of a low GMAT score? V.K. Menon, senior director of admissions, financial aid and careers offers some … Read more
Family business management in India has it’s own unique set of challenges, succession planning being one of top ones. The other being in the area of human resources. Employees working in family business will constantly have the temptation to leave and join a mainstream corporate environment where the work culture and incentives are a little … Read more
Curious to know about MBA campus life, after ISB Hyderabad admissions are over and a few fortunate folks head over to the Gachibowli or Mohali campus? From day one to the day, that the exciting news of placements hits the newspapers, there’s a lot of action going on. MG, one of the best MBA consultants … Read more
The topic of average GMAT score for ISB Hyderabad (Indian School of Business) gets discussed a lot. We published an article about an MBA applicant who got into ISB with a low GMAT score of 610. This time we consider another aspect of GMAT scores i.e. the limited utility of a high GMAT score. Ritesh … Read more
If you look at the class profile statistics for ISB Hyderabad, you’ll find an average GMAT score that’s among the highest across all international B-schools. No wonder then that folks get enamoured with that one parameter and put all their energies into getting the highest GMAT score possible. Sudhir Nemani tried twice to crack the … Read more
ISB Hyderabad and Mohali admissions generate a lot of excitement, stress…and as a result a lot of queries too among the applicant pool. The big question being – ‘I have made up my mind to apply to ISB this year. But I’m not sure when I should apply. Round 1 or Round 2?’ If you … Read more
ISB YLP (Young Leaders Program) has an unsual format. While the regular PGP program at ISB Hyderabad & Mohali requires a minimum of 2 years work experience, the ISB YLP programs opens its doors to freshers (i.e. those with no work experience). But it is not a short cut for the selected applicants. All it … Read more
How many MBA applicants take the help of MBA admission consultants while applying to the top schools. If estimates from the survey conducted by Poets & Quants (P&Q), a leading & highly-respectable MBA portal, are to be believed, the numbers are astounding. Up to one third of the applicants to the top 10 MBA programs … Read more
The NUS Singapore 1 year MBA program gets a lot of applications from Indian IT Male Engineers, just like all the other top bschools. Being closer to India and being more affordable than the US programs means that it gets more than its fair share of such profiles. Rohit Jaggi was one of the hopeful … Read more
While selecting bschools, variations of this question pop up in the minds of MBA applicants. Other queries falling in a similar category are as follows. – Which is the best 2 year (or 1 year) MBA program? – Are US universities better than those in the UK or Europe? – Should I choose international business … Read more
ISB Hyderabad (Indian School of Business) didn’t have good news for Riaz Mohammed and he wrote about it earlier on our blog with some advice for others who were in a similar situation. We had hinted that his story was going to change for the better. Riaz is back with some good news to share. … Read more
Should you choose an Indian MBA program over a top international MBA college or Ivy League university? What does a foreign MBA mean from an RoI and post MBA career perspective? Last unrelated question: What do you see in the photo on the left? Option 1: An anaconda slowly tightening its grip around an unsuspecting … Read more