By Tarun Anand, Co-Founder, Universal Business School, Ex-MD, Thomson Reuters, South Asia. Ex-Innovation Board Member, Reuters; He ran a $2 billion business across 100 countries and worked in London, New York, Hong Kong and Mumbai.Selection of Business Schools – Best Practices? Students who want a successful career in management and aspire to become CEOs must […]

In Rajasthan, Chhavi Rajawat is known as the MBA sarpanch. In Soda, a village three hours away from Jaipur, where she is sarpanch, she is called sarpanch beti. The corporate world knows her as someone who bid good-bye to a high-paying job and promising career in 2010 to become a sarpanch. Those who see her […]

The Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore (IIM-B) had brought in two progressive changes to its academic process last year. It had made summer internships optional and permitted students to miss lectures. However, both the ‘privileges’ have met with a lackadaisical response. A close look at the concessions reveal that they both came with huge riders […]

Neeraj Kakkar, CEO, Hector Beverages (Photo credit: Astha A)Most entrepreneurs that we interview here tend to have started their businesses during b-school or right after graduating from one. But how are their startup stories different from those who work in a corporate job for a few years before deciding to go it on their own?Neeraj […]

Concept, illustrations and graphics by Deepak Gopalakrishnan aka chuck_gopal, a Mallu-turned Mumbaikar who blogs here and tweets here.

IIM Indore campus (Photo: Naveen Gupta) As many as 126 companies visited the Indian Institute of Management (IIM), Indore for final placements for the PGP batch of 2010-12. According to the placement team of IIM Indore, out of a total batch of 443 students, the institute is still ‘supporting’ nine PGP candidates in finding jobs. […]

Sumit Sharma, Amit Kumar and Mahtab Masood with their notebook. The grand purpose of ‘SAM Initiatives’, a marketing project by three class of 2012 students of Shailesh J Mehta School of Management (SJMSoM), Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Bombay was to provide a niche marketing platform for companies, whose target customers were college students. But […]

Concept, illustrations and graphics by Deepak Gopalakrishnan aka chuck_gopal, a Mallu-turned Mumbaikar who blogs here and tweets here.

At a time when middle rung b-schools are struggling to find jobs for their MBA graduates due to a tighter job market, leading consumer durables company LG Electronics India Limited (LGEIL) has revoked almost 25 job offers that it had made to management graduates across b-schools in Mumbai, Pune and Bangalore in September 2011. Some […]

The Executive Education building of HEC Paris We saved MBA essays for the end of our mini-theme (covering MBA application components) for several reasons. When you are competing in the Indian applicant pool that looks like one big homogeneous monolith, MBA essays are the single most effective way to achieve differentiation and stand out from […]