Tag: management
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Indian School of Business: Leading the India Story of World-Class Management Education
Indian School of Business or ISB as it is more popularly known is India’s story of coming out of age in world class education. Though the baton is still held by the Indian Institutes of Management, which also rank among the top business schools and churn out global managers with astounding pay packages, ISB has…
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English language proficiency: Can it make or break your MBA planned career?
With most top management schools located in the west, i.e. US and Western Europe, there is a strong question, which comes from brilliant students in countries where languages apart from English are very dominant. Can my weak English put a brake to my progress towards admissions in top business schools? In one word, the answer…
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Interacting With The Alumni: An Important Step Before You Plan Your Admisision
If there’s one legacy which any school carries forward, it is its students. That’s one connect which keeps the old students bonded to each other; connect of being an alumni and walking the same legendary corridors. Alumni of management schools assume crucial importance in the brand building and development of the schools. Many students excel…
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MBA to Entrepreneurship: The Saddle
What does entrepreneurship really teach you? Apart from all the experience and the financial management, there’s an inert sense of corporate management that runs beneath every organization, a start up or an enterprise. When you’re a part of a greater organization, that sense can be instilled with the common experience that can be shared and…
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My first day at the Red McCombs School of Business
July 30th, 8AM: Here I was, standing in front of the big statue – the Family Group – at the Red McCombs School of Business, impatiently searching through the emails on my phone to find the venue of my first class of Bootcamp – Quant. As I entered the building, it did not feel at…
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IIM-Ahmedabad makes it in 10 B-schools globally for the third consecutive year.
Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad (IIMA) has made it to the list of top ten B-schools in Financial Times rankings–Master of Management–2012. The institute is the only Indian B-school in the list. The institute had secured 7th rank in 2011 and 8th in 2010 slipping three positions to the 10th rank in 2012. The IIMA is ranked at…
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MBA in Finance: Things You Should Know About
What comes into your mind when the word “finance” strays into an informal conversation? I bet you know what it means but can’t precisely define it in the most accurate and understandable way. Very much like a “flower.” We know what it is but are generally stumped for words when asked to precisely describe it.…
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MBA in IT (Information Technology): What is in it for You
Man is information freak. Even as our early ancestors swung from tree branch to tree branch, they already exchanged information through grunts and gestures. Then, wanting more information from the world they lived in, they ventured to go down and started walking upright. Along the way, they learned how to form words, making their exchange…
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MBA Courses: Five Most Popular among U.S. Students
When I took my post graduate studies, because almost all my peers did, I had the MMM (Masters in Manufacturing Management), a close cousin of the MBA (Masters in Business Administration). Any of the two is good enough for a graduate to make it to an organization’s succession planning program In our own little world,…