Life is not only about Academic records
This post is a formal entry for the InsideIIM ‘Great Indian B-School debate’ competition.
This post is a formal entry for the InsideIIM ‘Great Indian B-School debate’ competition.
This post is an entry for the Great Indian B-School debate 2014
Formal Entry for Inside IIM B-School Debate
I just finished reading a fascinating book, Can China Lead?: Reaching the Limits of Power and Growth (Harvard Business Review Press, 2014) by three very experienced scholars from Harvard Business School and Wharton. For a book whose central text (excluding appendices, tables and notes) is just 180 pages, this book is majestic in its sweep as it seeks to cover history, politics, economics and business in China.
While there are a plethora of things that you will learn and do in your MBA, a lot of stuff that you thought you’ll learn here might never really happen. Given that so many of us in India don’t quite know why we got into an MBA program in the first place, the confusion restricts the learning even more. So I’ll try to list what you won’t learn in your MBA to set your expectations right.
Over the last few years, the Global Innovation Index (GII) compiled annually by INSEAD, WIPO and Cornell University has become the most commonly accepted global indicator of nations’ innovation performance. So, there has been much angst in India over the last couple of weeks once it emerged that India has fallen 10 places in the last year from 66 to 76. [Link]
InsideIIM and PwC Consultant Shreyas Panse are back with the 17th edition of our weekly series on InsideIIM, where Shreyas curates a list that is the best from across the web that industry professionals and current students must read.