The MBA job market has been going through one of its most challenging phases in recent years with hiring slowdowns across key sectors. Even the top business school graduates are feeling the pressure, with top schools like Yale reporting only 80% employment at 3 months while for Harvard, it was 84%. These shifts in MBA … Read more
There’s a lot of buzz, hype and glamour associated with the management consulting profession. This industry is synonymous with high-profile boardroom discussions with clients and jet-setting lifestyles. In simple terms, consulting involves identifying and solving complex problems faced by businesses. According to Management Consulted, the consulting industry market size is an estimated $374B. These firms … Read more
You’ve heard the bad news. It’s difficult to miss it when newspapers and business websites across the world have been screaming about it for weeks. One in 5 MBA grads from Harvard Business School did not get a job after graduation. The situation isn’t too different at the other elite schools. There was a time … Read more
MBA is a practical degree, not particularly designed for purely academic minds but rather for those seeking a practical approach to advance their career. MBA, if done “right” it can take you from being just one of the workforce to a skilled asset to your corporation, channelling your intellect and inspiring others as a leader … Read more
You may not be able to take the inherent desi-ness out of an Indian but you can certainly take the Indian out of India, placed in a plum job abroad. Current records from the Ministry of External Affairs in India puts that particular expat number in the vicinity of 32 million. USA claims the highest … Read more
The MBA is one of the most coveted and popular graduate management degrees in the world. And among the top reasons is that it pays the highest salaries in every part of the world. Since its inception more than a century ago, it has evolved to help business leaders develop their management acumen and leadership … Read more
Why do men and women, ranging from young adulthood to the years veering into mid-life, choose to get an MBA degree?
The brainchild of two eminent leaders of the business world, ISB is a one of a kind business school. In that, it is not only one of the few Indian b-schools offering a GMAT based MBA program for non-freshers with 3-5 years of work experience. It is also, happily, the only Indian b-school to have … Read more
The first response when you ask a product manager (PM) in a tech company to describe a typical day at work is, most likely, “There is no typical day; every day is different.” You may think, “How helpful!” But that’s what it is. There is really no typical day.
In the early 1990s, Kevin Taweel, a Stanford Graduate School of Business (GSB) student, was considering his job options just before graduation. Offers from many large corporations had come his way, but the prospect of being chained to a desk at an office, however posh, did not appeal to him very much. He wanted to … Read more
Before we address this burning question, let’s begin with exploring why MBA…Why do people get into MBA programs? You have applicants coming in from all walks of professions, feeding into MBA programs and coming out, on the other end, many years ahead in securing a cushy executive position. Of course, the requirement for it to … 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