PGDM Vs MBA/MMS
The debate over PGDM Vs MBA/MMS has been raging for quite some time now in the educational landscape. Going strictly by nomenclaturea Masters in Business Administration (MBA) is a degree course...
View ArticleDoes MBA really prepare students for surviving in the corporate world?
I have often been asked the question; does an MBA education really prepare a student for corporate life? The answer to this question can be both a “yes” & a “No”. In my opinion, it depends...
View ArticleClassification of B schools in India
With close to 6000 Business schools in India, the toughest aspect of the study of B schools is the classification of these Schools offering management education. The Working Group of the Knowledge...
View ArticleManagement Education versus Hands-on Experience
C irca 1946: It was when Dennis Weatherstone turned 16 and straight after school that he was hired as a book keeper at Guaranty Trust. By the age of 18 he had acquired elementary banking...
View ArticleOnce I am M.B.A----------
Many youngsters after finishing their graduation program think of ‘Once I am M.B.A--------‘. I met a few students who were entering into their first semester of MBA and I asked them a basic question...
View ArticleHABITS OR “AHAH” BITS?
The field of Neuromarketing or brain sciences which study consumers’ sensory, cognitive and emotional responses to marketing stimuli is simply becoming phenomenal. The term Neuromarketing was coined...
View ArticleThe Invisible Element of Success
As an undergraduate student, most of your time was probably spent on earning the easily measurable cues to knowledge acquisition – marks. More often than not, this focus on marks was to the exclusion...
View ArticleB-school Ranking Rantings!
Rankings matter. After all this is possibly the only systematically aggregated data point that students have, to match their requirements and the college offerings. It is Rankings which help students...
View ArticleAcademic Rigor
Introduction With the increasing number of institutions, it is becoming difficult for the students to choose good institutes that will give a boost to their career. There are number of propositions...
View ArticleWhen faced with critical decisions, are you equipped to think critically?
What is critical thinking and how is it helping leaders make better decisions? Leaders make decisions every day based on explicit assumptions and non-emotive, rational processes. Or do they? The...
View ArticleWhy is diversity at a business school so important?
In a tightly integrated and increasingly flat world it is evident that countries or organizations cannot afford to operate in silos anymore and need to engage the world at large. This is particularly...
View ArticlePathways to Democratization of Innovation: Removing Barriers and Promoting...
Dr Uday Salunkhe, Group Director, Welingkar Institute of Management Development and Research offered some priceless insights into the prevalent innovation scenario as he outlined the bottlenecks and...
View ArticleChallenges faced by the service industry due to lack of skilled professionals
India has seen enormous growth in emigration of its citizens to other countries. Economic growth coupled with low mobility of the remaining labor force has exacerbated a growing shortage of qualified...
View ArticleClassroom to Boardroom (preconditioning of attitudes)
The behavior of men and women at the workplace has been the focus of many seminal studies over the past 15 decades. Social scientists, psychologists, philosophers and acknowledged thinkers have...
View ArticleVocational Education A vital aspect for the countrys business future
It is disappointing that quality business studies is becoming less available because the country needs entrepreneurs and inspired employees Educational graphs for the last couple of years have...
View ArticleA Drug Called Sales
As Dr Bones Mc Coy famously remarked in the Star Trek prelude...SPACE...THE FINAL FRONTIER and from then on started a roller coaster journey of a group of space adventurers who explore the unknown...
View Article7 commonly told lies by sales personnel to their boss!
The river Ganga originates at the Gangotri glacier in Himalayas, the word ‘lie’, originates from salesmen! Is it so? General perception prevailing among the people is that, salesman pushes his...
View ArticleThe Experience
With chains , retail stores, offers, shopping experience, standards, customers are at their receiving best. Choices galore, anything we need is available when we walk in to the well designed, well...
View ArticleTARGETS - U should LOVE IT, no choice to LEAVE IT!
William Tell had been given the onerous responsibility of shooting the apple on his sons head with a cross-bow. If he had missed he would have been beheaded for manslaughter in addition to losing...
View Article7 Rules to Excel in CAT Quantitative Ability section
In this season of Mock CATs , most of the students struggle with the problem of low attempts (and low scores) in QA despite having good knowledge. Many students are unable to choose the right...
View ArticleDr Sanjay Chordiya, Chairman of Suryadatta Group of Institutes shares his...
Now-a-days it is very frequently observed that students sign up for higher studies with less interest or take is casually. Moreover, there are very few institutions in India who are giving quality...
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