The highest-paying jobs, for MBAs as for any other degree holders, go to those who chose their major subjects wisely. MBA majors and, by extension, the professional fields they opt for after graduation, have a greater impact on salary and company than even the reputation or brand of the business management school where they earned … Read more
On a Tuesday every April (on April 4 in 2017), fair-pay activists gather all over the US for “Equal Pay Day” to raise awareness about gender pay gap. A day in April was selected to symbolize how many additional months women have to work into the new year to earn the same pay that men … Read more
What’s the number one motivator to apply to an international business school – or any b-school for that matter? Here’s a hint: it’s not because studying for the GMAT is fun, nor is it because you want to take out loans in foreign currency. Most MBA candidates share the same end goal – amazing career … Read more
The corporate and business landscape is undergoing a subtle revolution, where ‘social impact’ is becoming a watchword for good business practices. And leading the charge is a highly motivated band of young MBA graduates hungry to find ‘solutions to global problems’.
If you had asked recruiters — say, two or three years ago — to provide a list of must-have attributes and skills in MBA candidates, you would have been handed a long grocery list: leadership, interpersonal, negotiating, supervisory, decision-making, analytical, communication, time management, and technical skills.
Here are a few interesting reactions you may get from MBA students to the idea of working part-time during their programs: “There’s a lot of school-related work to be done. Where’s the time for a part-time job?” “Listen, we have all our lives to work and earn, but we may never get another opportunity to … Read more
Watch the video. And please ‘Like’ it, if you find it useful. Here’s a more recent version of this article. Types of jobs after MBA In this article, we take a quick look at the career options after an MBA with specializations in Marketing, Finance, Operations, and Technology. What are the industries that offer … Read more
Time was when English was the lingua franca of international business but technology and the Internet changed all that. Now, if you speak Putonghua, Waray-Waray or Sendai Ben, you could become the darling of recruiters after your MBA program.
Business-school students in reputed programs make heavy investments to earn their degrees. Many or all of them work out the returns on these investments well beforehand. A few students may be able to estimate what their earnings might be 5, 10, 15, or even 20 years after graduation. In-depth surveys by management-education experts often come … Read more
Jobs for international master’s degree holders, particularly in the US, is a lottery. International students who want to stay on and work in the US for more than a year after graduation are at the mercy of a H1B lottery visa system.
Why can’t I get multiple job offers in international business schools abroad when I can get them easily in IIMs? If I come back to India after my MBA, will the degree be recognized? These are the top MBA placement related questions that Sudershan ‘Suds’ Tirumala (Regional Director, Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth) addresses … Read more
Vibhav Agarwal, who wrote this article on Career Change from Software IT to Product Management after MBA, is back with another article. This time he goes back to the basic question that many aspiring product managers have, about the relevance and necessity of an MBA degree in a product management and marketing career.