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

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

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

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

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• Carol Dweck
• Jaime Escalante
• work from home
• Alain Dehaze
• b-schools
• COVID-19
• human potential
• 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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• b-schools
• masterclass
• COVID-19
• 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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• JRD Tata
• Jason Fried
• Work From Home
• remote working
• Pyarelal Nayyar
• RM Lala
• b-schools
• Mahatma Gandhi
• Privacy

June 28: Believe, know your purpose, try

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

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

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

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

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

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

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