When he joins McKinsey & Co, US as strategic consulting associate later this year, Moid Mohammed will be armed with an MBA from Columbia Business School. Nothing unusual about that, except that this is his second MBA, which he opted for five years after completing his first one from IIM Lucknow. One MBA is good. [...]

Harvard University again topped a list of universities in terms of global prestige, while the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the University of Cambridge held on to the second and third place. Stanford University leapfrogged the University of California, Berkeley to take fourth place while the latter dropped to fifth on the list of 2012 World [...]

The economic news is looking better lately. But after previous false starts – remember “green shoots”? – it would be foolish to assume that all is well. And in any case, it’s still a very slow economic recovery by historical standards. There are several reasons for this slowness, with the most important being the overhang [...]

On the academic floor, the MBA programme was once supreme. Arrogantly and unambiguously, it became the final sign-off to schooling, attracting not only those interested in business but also all those who wanted to master the tools of management. That hubris, thanks to its own profligacy, is now being shaken. The Indian management education sector [...]

More freshly-minted MBAs from top B-schools are likely to make their way into consulting this placement season. Record hiring by The Boston Consulting Group and McKinsey & Co at B-school campuses this year and fewer offers from the traditional top recruiters, investment banks, have shifted the focus from the high-paying finance sector to the all-weather [...]

“We were very bullish about this category and thought it would be an addition to a business phone or laptop. But it’s not taken off,” says a disappointed Nilesh Gupta, managing partner, Vijay Sales. Gupta is not the only one who expected tablet PCs aka tablets to take the Indian market by storm. It seemed [...]

American schools offer a positive and safe environment for kids. The curriculum and level of learning in schools are constantly monitored by government bodies too. We could learn a few lessons from their system Most American kids, even the rich, attend government schools in the United States. Education up to the 12th grade is free [...]

All of us would agree that an organisation’s greatest asset is its skilled human capital, irrespective of the prevailing economic conditions. Effective management and  employment of this asset is even more critical in today’s business climate and highly competitive environment. In a tough economic climate with unrelenting pressure on training budgets, companies, today, are increasingly [...]

The many Englishes of the world have always provided much entertainment. But, how right are we to expect the foreign language to be spoken in the ‘right’ accent? And, who decides what the ‘right’ accent is? Tejaswi Uthappa lends a thought.   Considering the oft-considered consideration that “English is a bhery phunny language”… (Namakhalaal). Bachchan’s [...]

It isn’t likely, despite the attention on tech founders such as Mark Zuckerberg. The data show that those who graduate have a much higher likelihood of making it “Want to be an entrepreneur? Drop out of college,” Caterina Fake identified a number of successful tech founders who had quit school. The co-founder of Flickr (YHOO) [...]