And now the big one. Salary. Why big? Money makes the world go round. I ain't saying it. Its general consensus. In this article we plan to look at post-MBA salaries across various industries and sectors. Naturally, these depend on the number of years of work experience, the pre-MBA profile, how well defined are the aims of the candidate and the list goes on and on and on. In fact a company called Wetfeet publishes...

I often watch videos off the TED site, but some videos related to India, off late, set me thinking. Shashi Tharoor and the Power of Soft Power (referred to as ST from now on) Devdutt Pattanaik on East v/s West (referred to as DP from now on) Mallika Sarabhai - Dance to Save the World (referred to as MS from now on) I couldn't help but notice and laugh (yes, laugh) at the commonalities that these speakers......

I came up with a formula for my reading speed long time back in school, and thought I would share it here. Conventionally reading speed is defined in words per minute but I don't see how that is of any consequence. How can you know before hand the number of words in a tome and come up with how much time you're going to finish it in? This formula does just that. Its like this: Time taken to read in minutes = [(No....

Introduction: I recently did a survey  to emulate this speech by Rebecca Saxe. For actual survey and results please refer to end of article. The survey was given out to approx. 250 people (MBS Class of 2011, MBS Class of 2010 & my Facebook friends. Total people count = 580; Total approx. UNIQUE people = 250). The respondents represented a lot of variety -  nationalities, age groups, professions and a healthy ...

After getting TONS of experience now for one year of researching GMAT and MBA stuff, I present prospective with MBAs some results of my research. In this post I shall be discussing only MBA degrees offered by colleges accepting GMAT and/or TOEFL scores for the same. Ok. Let's assume that you have already taken a decision to get an MBA. The reasons might be varied. You hate your job - want to switch an industry....

I did this as an assignment on the MBA. Since it is my own work - I chose to declassify it. A critical assessment of “Marketing Myopia” – Theodore Levitt, Harvard Business Review, 1975 in context of the contemporary Green Energy Industry. If you have pests in your house, what do you do? Build better and better mousetraps, or actually address the cause of infestation? For decades many companies have learnt the trut...

I came across this article on http://dilbert.com/blog/entry/the_happiness_genie/ Suppose a genie appears and gives you two choices. The first option is that he will give you $10 million dollars, but everyone else you know will get $20 million apiece. Choice two: You get $5 million, but no one else gets anything. As a bonus, the genie offers to erase your memory of having made the choice, so guilt will never...

This experiment started about a month ago, when I noticed that no matter at whichever setting you pop the microwave popcorn, there are always some kernels left unpopped. So either there must be an optimal setting of the microwave OR these kernels should not be there in the packet. I tried to pop various packets at different power levels at different times in the Microwave. The recommended settings are usually...

I know you think you understand what you thought I said, but I'm not sure you realised that what you heard is not what I meant. Rebecca Saxe tries to address the problem of how we develop the neural infrastructure to think about others' thoughts. The region of the brain called the RPTJ can actually, on external stimulation change people's perceptions of what is fair and what is not.

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