About Joseph Dabon

I am a retired engineer with half of my life spent in corporate corridors of multinational companies. My last job as that of Process Engineering Manager for the Far East of a large watch-manufacturing company based in the U.S. Currently I am an article and freelance writer and a blogger. I blog about Online Business, http://homebizresources.net/ and happiness and fitness, http://www.joespulpbits.com I guest post in some online business blogs and hold the level of Expert Author, Diamond with Ezine.
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Top B Schools Funds and Funding Sources

Along the road to the hospital my daughter is doing OB-Gyne junior consultancy for, is a building that stands forlorn. Other than its pillars and cross-beams, long covered with black moss from disuse, nothing much can be said about it except pity for not becoming what it was conceived to be. Its surroundings have long [...]

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Best B Schools in America and How They are Ranked

For people with a keener sense of geography, “America,” is North America composed of Canada,United States of America and Mexico; Central America, made up of Belize, Honduras, Guatemala,  Nicaragua,  Costa Rica,El Salvador and Panama (I hope I have not left off a country). Then South America where you find Brazil,Venezuela, Peru, etc. Most people, however, [...]

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Top B Schools under GMAT and Their Specializations

For anyone aspiring to get into a business school, the first hurdle is the GMAT (Graduate Management Admission Test). Forget about the other hurdles downstream if the GMAT is not successfully scaled. But how high must you jump to clear it? How high can a GMAT get? There is no specific number but a “ballpark [...]

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Is Your B-School Accredited?

Choosing the right business school is no less important than say, having a good GMAT score to be admitted into one. When I say “right,” I mean “accredited” right. So what is this b-school accreditation and how important is it? Accreditation is the process that a business school voluntary undergoes in order to get public [...]

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What to Expect in an MBA Class

  When I enrolled into my executive MBA class, I wasn’t expecting anything dramatic. I was already, what you may call a “wizened old owl,” having “done this and seen that,” that nothing seemed to surprise me anymore. And it didn’t Aside from Accounting, which really baffles me, all the other subjects seemed a rehash [...]

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How to Cope with Your MBA Class

Taking an MBA class is not to be taken lightly. Not only is it expensive, you are also putting your career, your future, on the line. Nor should you take it with utter seriousness that it will stress you out. Learning, to be effective and lasting, must be taken in a spirit of fun, enjoyment [...]

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Make Your Case Study Analysis Stand Out

Case study analysis forms the core of any MBA class. This is where students are exposed to real business problems, analyze them and provide solutions – either hypothetically or otherwise. In my Strategic Planning subject, I had the case of ebay.com as it struggles to compete with Amazon.com and other conventional publishing houses which were [...]

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India’s Top 5 Favorite Specializations

One time, while describing the different countries I’ve been to on official business, a friend asked me what India is like. Without batting an eyelash, I said, “There’s nothing quite like India.” Yes,India is difficult to describe. How can one describe the Taj Mahal without making it mundane and ordinary, which it is not? How [...]

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How to Get the Most from Your Business School

What do Warren Buffett, of the leading U.S. investment company, Berkshire Hathaway,  Bernard Arnault of LVMH (Louis Vuitton Moet Hennessy), the Koch Brothers (David and Charles) of Koch Industries and Google’s Larry Page and Sergey Brin have in common? They all belong to the 50 highest paid CEOS and they all have a degree in [...]

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Executive MBA and the Real World

“We celebrated the completion of an intense and incredible year, but we also started to feel sad, preparing to part ways with such remarkable people.” The statement rings similar to Shakespeare’s famous “Parting is such a sweet sorrow,” line in his Romeo and Juliet novel. But it was not written by a poet but by an MBA [...]

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