July 26, 2021: Pandemic disrupts schooling; The space beyond billionaires; Monday thoughts

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• Peter Robinson
• Stanford
• schooling
• Richard Branson
• Jeff Bezos
• Space travel
• b-schools

June 25, 2021: The cost of meetings; What they don’t teach you at Harvard Business School (as much as they should); On work

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• business education
• MBA
• Kahlil Gibran
• better meetings
• Mortimer Adler
• Charles Van Doren
• books
• b-schools

July 23: People are capable of a lot more than we think; the Indian MBA is changing; understand your customers

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• Jaime Escalante
• COVID-19
• Alain Dehaze
• human potential
• b-schools
• Carol Dweck
• work from home
• MBA

There are urgent issues emerging around the need for an MBA as a vehicle for social good. Also, Covid-19 has accelerated the pace of digitalisation by at least 5-10 years across many businesses. This too is forcing b-schools to revamp their curriculum and make it future ready

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• COVID-19
• masterclass
• b-schools
• reimagining the MBA
• MBA

June 29: Look at a business in a holistic manner; trust and be trustworthy; pay attention to design

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• Mahatma Gandhi
• remote working
• JRD Tata
• Pyarelal Nayyar
• Work From Home
• Privacy
• Jason Fried
• RM Lala
• b-schools

June 28: Believe, know your purpose, try

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• Arun Maira
• Superhuman
• Work From Home
• email app
• FF Recommends
• b-schools

June 24: Rethinking the MBA, being a generalist, taking a leap with your skills, being self-aware

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• COVID-19
• Vikram Mansharamani
• Mihnea Moldoveanu
• VUCA world
• Das Narayandas
• specialists vs generalists
• MBA
• Work From Home
• b-schools

June 23: The future of the MBA, express emotions clearly, control what you pay attention to, empathize

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• COVID-19
• Communication
• MBA
• Ajit Rangnekar
• Productivity
• Work From Home
• b-schools

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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• MBA
• continuous learning
• business schools
• learning to learn
• life-long learning
• b-schools

Ethics can be learnt, though it may be considered difficult to teach. What matters is the kind of experiences young managers are exposed to. B-schools and firms play a crucial role in shaping their thinking through such exposures

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• business education
• Systems Thinking
• Leadership Training
• business ethics
• b-schools