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

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

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

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

June 28: Believe, know your purpose, try

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

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

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

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

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

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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• continuous learning
• life-long 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
• business ethics
• Systems Thinking
• business education

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

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

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

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