It’s that time of the year when students around the country are getting admission letters from Business Schools. Amidst all the celebrations there is also, for some, a feeling of uncertainty. Like venturing out into the dark. Lots of unknowns and questions, but whom to ask? As I teach at a Business School, many prospective …
Every MBA dreams of landing that terrific first job and launching a career about which books will be written and legends narrated at post work sessions. But what if that first job feels terrible not terrific? It has been about three months or so since new MBAs across the country have embarked on their careers. …
One question I love asking my new MBA students is what they want from the program. The first answers are usually about gaining knowledge, understanding the principles of management and adding to their professional qualifications. Then a few bold souls will candidly talk about getting the right job, starting their career with a dream company …
A lot of MBA students show an interest in General Management and make that their career goal. Fact is though, not everyone has the correct notion of what General Management is all about, so they don’t know how to prepare for it. Sometimes, it is mixed up with Strategy Development. At other times it is …
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“What women want” is a subject that has been debated at length since the beginning of time and I understand that the jury is still out. A relatively simpler but equally important question, one I feel better qualified to speak about, is what companies look for in the MBA students who apply for entry level …
In the early years of my career, I was in a bad job and struggled to get out of bed every morning, much less get through the day. A corrosive and toxic office environment coupled with an insensitive boss drove me to despair. I was interviewing furiously, but nothing materialized and each day was sheer …
There is something unusual about the relationship between improvements in communication technology and the quality of the actual communication taking place, whether in our professional or personal lives. Strangely, the relationship is one of inverse proportionality. How totally counter-intuitive is that? We have the means to reach anyone, anytime, anywhere. Despite this, or perhaps because …
In the MBA world, this is the most critical and challenging time of the two-year programme. This is placement time. For many students, it will be the culmination of twenty-four months of intense hard work, accelerated learning and the start of a dream career with a company they have aspired to work for. Equally, some …
A lot is being said and written about Rahul Gandhi’s Bharat Jodo Yatra. To be completely clear, the politics of it is less interesting to me than the concept itself. My mind did begin drawing parallels between the idea of the padayatra and its application in the business world. Since I teach at a Business …
Having spent more than two and a half decades in the corporate sector and the last seven in academia, I’m conscious of a dilemma which executives and professors face. The dilemma being “Where should I focus my limited resources for the best possible outcome? Do I fix the losers or fuel the winners?” Now some …