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

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• Jeff Bezos
• Richard Branson
• Stanford
• Space travel
• Peter Robinson
• schooling
• 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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• Charles Van Doren
• Mortimer Adler
• b-schools
• MBA
• Kahlil Gibran
• business education
• better meetings
• books

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

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

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

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

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

June 28: Believe, know your purpose, try

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

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

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

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

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• Productivity
• Work From Home
• Communication
• MBA
• Ajit Rangnekar
• COVID-19
• 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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• continuous learning
• business schools
• MBA
• life-long learning
• learning to learn
• 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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• Systems Thinking
• business ethics
• business education
• b-schools
• Leadership Training