Author: MBA Pundit
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How to Get into the Top MBA Programs
As everyone will tell you, if you don’t know already, How to Get into the Top MBA Programs is more or less the bible of getting into business school. Richard Montauk, the author, runs an admissions consulting firm and has written books on college and law school admissions as well. The most common criticism leveled…
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GMAT 101
The GMAT is the Graduate Management Admission Test, a standardized test used by business schools as a measure of an applicant’s academic ability. Schools require applicants to take the GMAT and submit their scores in order to be considered for admission to M.B.A. and other business-oriented degree programs. The GMA T is a computerized test;…
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Indian Institute of Management Calcutta
Since its inception in November 1961 as the first national institute for Post-Graduate studies and Research in Management, Indian Institute of Management Calcutta (IIMC) has created a niche among the Ivy League B-schools, world over. Established in collaboration with Alfred P. Sloan School of Management (MIT), the Government of West Bengal, The Ford Foundation and…
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The LEADERSHIP Issue: Adapting Modern Business Strategies
Economic competition is remarkably powerful. To the point that much economic research simply assumes that profits will be driven to zero by competition and goes on to derive “more controversial” results. Firms experience this power in two ways. First, because they use inputs that can be traded in competitive markets – not just raw materials,…
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Business in India by Diana Lozano
March 2004. Some 14 MBA students and an associate professor from the Olin School of Business in St. Louis descended upon India to study how multinational consumer products companies market their brands in such a challenging and diverse market. It was a two-week visit during our Spring Break that took us to New Delhi and…