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

• Read Time : 2 mins

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

• Play Time : 126 mins

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

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

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

June 28: Believe, know your purpose, try

• Read Time : 6 mins

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

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

• Read Time : 3 mins

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

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

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

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?

• Play Time : 11 mins

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

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

• Read Time : 5 mins

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

Merely copying an idea will not solve a problem. Like product innovators, policy innovators too have to keep the users and their environment in mind

• Read Time : 3 mins

• Tags
• policy making
• Bill Gates
• b-schools
• Systems Thinking
• user centric
• business ethics
• China
• Rene Girard
• Robert Cialdini
• Alex Tabarrok

Two factors are causing a rethink on value systems: environmental degradation and shifts in political power that reflect the voice of the disenfranchised. This new thinking will have to come from new coalitions of social thinkers, practitioners, academics, politicians and corporates

• Read Time : 3 mins

• Tags
• ethics
• business ethics
• Deep listening
• b-schools
• Systems Thinking