MBA Pundit: MBA News, Views and Notes
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11 Steps to Successfully choose your MBA School
Firstly decide on your objective and real motivation for having an MBA. Do you want an MBA: for filling in a period for unemployment? because it’s there, as Mt Everest was for Sir Edmund Hilary? to do your present job more effectively? to get an internal or external promotion? to get employment in a specific…
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When to take the GMAT
Taking the GMAT during the senior year of your undergraduate work or shortly thereafter is recommended, rather than waiting until after work experience is gained. This is because students score higher while they are still in the academic or test-taking “mode.” It is suggested that the GMAT be taken several months before the application deadline…
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Last Minute CAT Preparation Guide
M.B.A – Master of Business Administration, a degree many of you have been hearing ever since you learnt about taking jobs, especially during your high school days. Apart from becoming a doctor, or an engineer, this is one degree that will never get out of fashion, and is one of the most coveted one’s. Nowadays,…
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Return on Investment (ROI): A flawed Concept to measure effectiveness of B-Schools
Ever since I have stepped into the MBA world, right from admission to today as a 2nd year student at IMI, I have always heard that ROI is one of the most used measures that help students to select b-schools. However, is the ROI concept any good or is it even valid? Is ROI a…
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Dollar as the world‘s reserve currency – Is it helping ?
It was after the second world war that the UK sterling lost its power as the world‘s reserve currency and the world leaders convened at Brenton Woods, to decide on a new financial and monetary policy for international exchanges. It was here, in the Brenton Woods Summit, that the dollar was chosen as the reserve…