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My nephew, who has five years’ work experience, had planned for an MBA in the US. Should he apply to B-schools now with the pandemic raging?
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With the COVID-19 pandemic, things are changing rapidly on several fronts. Here’s how individuals and businesses are responding and handling the uncertainty.
This Week in Disruptive Tech
SpaceX launch; internet and free speech; one nation, one card
Disruptive Tech Weekly | June 03, 2020: A roundup of news and perspectives on how technology is shaping the future, here in India and across the world
Aarogya Setu: Why tech is not the most important problem—or the solution
Technology is often just one piece in a jigsaw puzzle. To solve a problem at a systemic level, other pieces—often harder to crack, boring to implement, thankless at the end—have to fall in place
Six learnings on innovation from anti-Covid efforts
Organisations across the spectrum have been able to get their act together, focus, and solve tough problems quickly. This makes you wonder—why are they unable to muster even a fraction of this ability in normal times?
A long haiku about my locked-down mind
The government is easing the lockdown at last. I would be able to go out again. But, for what, my mind asked? Poems can articulate feelings that the rational mind cannot explain in prose
During lockdown, at midnight. A movie party connects dispersed friends
The Sholay generation knew how to party over movies with friends. Netflix Party wants to recreate the experience for millennials. Apparently, the crazier the movie, the better it is
The Reset
The apparel industry’s new pattern for a post-Covid comeback
In the lockdown, business is literally closed. And much ground is already lost to Bangladesh and Vietnam. It will take a mindset shift at many levels for the sector to reclaim lost ground
When uncertainty and anxiety come calling
People respond to negative stimuli in their own way. What does it take to ignore the negativity and find a workaround for the stress?
The used and discarded workers of India
Many continue to congratulate state governments for being bold in withdrawing constitutional protections of Indian workers, apparently to attract foreign investors. They’re missing the facts on the ground. What will convince them to open their hearts to the plight of millions of citizens?
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