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An MBA: The founder’s recipe for failure
So you think an MBA arms you with the skills needed to launch a successful company? Think again. The degree might actually make you risk averse and cripple your ability to innovate. In a recent article...
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Who needs an MBA? These five books will teach you how to be an entrepreneur
We’ve identified the problem with the MBA: its teaching is completely antithetical to the skills needed for entrepreneurship. But how can we fix it? Well, surprisingly enough, I found part of that...
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How Vikram Pandit’s failures at Citibank made his investment in student loans...
One criticism of startups is that they only solve the problems that startup founders have: Getting vacation rentals (AirBnB), finding a cheap car service (Uber), building a colony on Mars (SpaceX)....
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The best business schools based on GMAT scores
Since 1954, the GMAT exam has been used to aid admissions decisions for MBA programs. Research by academics as well as GMAC, the organization responsible for the test, has shown the GMAT has high...
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MBAs will turn brownfields into green—if investors help them out
Last month, a column in the Guardian argued that business schools’s academic traditions present a “fatal barrier to the sustainability agenda” as “social issues count for little in mainstream business...
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The downside of being Goldman Sachs
Being an elite brand with household name recognition has clear advantages for attracting talent. Goldman Sachs, for example, recently said it accepted only 4% of the people that applied for its analyst...
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Aam Aadmi Party wants to thank the BJP’s social media team for their...
In November 2014, as elections in Delhi seemed imminent, the social media wing of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) decided to launch an assault. It took to Twitter and began to taunt Arvind...
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You don’t have to go to Wharton to get access to tech giants
The goal of online learning website Coursera is to connect leading names in academia with online students. But as technical skills become more important to employers, the company, one of the biggest...
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Flipkart is flush with cash, and is poaching hires from Google and beyond
In 2012, a Forbes magazine story about India’s leading online retailer Flipkart had ruffled quite a few feathers. The cover story said the company hired top executives only from Jwalamukhi hostel at...
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How the Ivies plan to keep the next Zuckerberg from dropping out
Jodi Goldstein, the managing director of Harvard’s Innovation Lab, brags that “when Zuckerberg came back to visit, he said ‘Maybe I wouldn’t have dropped out if the i-lab had existed.’” Opened in...
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The two crucial qualities leaders need to build trust (and how to learn them...
It seems obvious that leaders should be nice and know what they are doing. But people still study these things, and their research confirms (pdf) that warmth and competence are the two most important...
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In 2016, India’s most prolific venture capital firm is keen on food, pharma,...
In 2015, Sequoia Capital was the most prolific investor in India’s startup ecosystem, backing 33 startups in a year that saw unprecedented amounts of money chasing entrepreneurial ventures. In the last...
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‘Dear freshmen, shut up and breathe’—Students at one college are tackling...
“Dear little one,” the letter begins. “If there’s one thing I’ve realized from my four years at Penn, it’s this: You will probably never feel like you have your shit together.” Similarly sparse, frank,...
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Donald Trump and Joe Biden will awkwardly attend the same graduation ceremony...
Presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump and US vice president Joe Biden will both attend the 2016 graduation ceremony for the University of Pennsylvania on May 15. Trump’s daughter,...
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The number of times Snapdeal has been bought out by Alibaba—and the damage it...
The rumours of Snapdeal’s sale to China’s Alibaba have been greatly exaggerated. Over the last year or so, several source-based media reports have said that Alibaba, led by one of China’s richest men,...
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The American dream is losing its charm among graduates of India’s elite IIT...
More and more graduates of the Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs) are bidding the American dream goodbye. In the 1980s and ’90s, the trajectory of an IIT graduate was fairly predictable: Get a...
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Graduates of this Indian B-school make more money than Harvard or Wharton MBAs
The Financial Times Global MBA Ranking is out, and the usual suspects remain at the top. Insead leads the pack of the world’s 100 top B-schools, followed by the Stanford Graduate School of Business,...
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India’s most male-dominated businesses are finally adding more women in the...
A 120-year-old Indian conglomerate is turning the tide. The Mumbai-based $4.6 billion Godrej Group recently appointed a woman to lead its consumer products division, hitherto steered by men. Nisaba...
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Three great questions to ask when you’re being interviewed, from a rock-star...
The job interview is nearly over. You’ve nailed the questions about your weaknesses, strengths, and where you want to be in five years. Then comes one final, loaded query: “So, do you have any...
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India hopes to become an AI powerhouse by copying China’s model
Artificial intelligence (AI) has finally caught the Indian government’s attention. On Feb. 01, delivering his budget speech, finance minister Arun Jaitley told parliament that the government...
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Your best opportunity to get better at your job is one of the easiest to miss
At Bridgewater, the world’s largest hedge fund, employees constantly tell their colleagues exactly what they think of them—the good, the bad, and the ugly. It’s like your annual performance review,...
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GM’s dress code is only two words
When asked what men can do to improve women’s lives at work, Mary Barra gets straight to the point: “Stop making assumptions,” she tells Quartz. As chief executive at General Motors, Barra practices...
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Women: Watch out for the “Trump effect” in negotiations
“My style of deal-making is quite simple,” wrote Donald Trump—or rather, his ghostwriter—in the 1987 book Trump: The Art of the Deal. “I aim very high, and then I just keep pushing and pushing and...
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Has your workaholism reached dangerous levels? Take this quiz to find out
As much as we like to brag about being too busy to breathe at work, we tend to think of actual workaholics as troubled souls. In our minds, they’re irrationally driven, pale, and pitiful. Solid heart...
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The Walmart-Flipkart deal is unlikely to make Amazon back down in India
As if India’s e-commerce space had not seen enough drama already, a new entrant has arrived with the promise to take it to the next level. In a $16 billion (over Rs1 lakh crore) deal, US retail giant...
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There’s a dark side to friendships at work
If you follow the popular online advice column “Ask a Manager,” you’re familiar with a few of the ways friendships at work can get hairy. “I’ve been covering for a friend’s work mistakes,” one reader...
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The best employees are not the agreeable ones, according to Adam Grant
Cheerful and helpful workers are beloved by their bosses, and just about everyone else, really. Enthusiastic optimists make for great colleagues, rarely cause problems, and can always be counted on....
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Why do men want flashy cars and designer clothes? It’s hormonal
Blame it on hormones. Men’s desire for sports cars, expensive watches, and other luxury items may have deep roots in chemistry. A study of 243 men between the ages of 18 and 55 found that those who got...
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This startup is letting Indians rate and question their politicians, US style
A six-month-old New Delhi startup is looking to add a new element to the electoral process in the world’s largest democracy: rating politicians. Inspired by the US’s approval rating system, 27-year-old...
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Three essential skills for setting work-life boundaries
Ample research suggests that giving yourself time to recharge—separate from email, Slack, social media, etc.—improves happiness, health, and productivity. But even if you know that, communicating such...
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Are you an integrator or a segmentor? Knowing the answer can help with...
As technology consumes our lives, nudging us to respond to Slack messages at midnight and email pings on weekends, the concept of “work-life balance” increasingly feels like a myth, created to tease...
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Psychologists have surprising advice for people who feel unmotivated
Per traditional self-help narratives, if you can’t accomplish your goal, you should ask for advice. Find someone who has successfully landed the job, gotten the promotion, made the grades, achieved the...
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Can Uber’s air taxi plans make a smooth landing in India?
Uber wants to bring flying taxis to India but its dreams may be far from a possible take-off. On Aug. 30, the San Francisco-based ride-hailing company said it has shortlisted five countries, besides...
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Who should you trust? Psychologists have a surprising answer
Can you ever really know who to trust at the office? While there’s tons of research on the actions and behaviors that create trust, few studies have successfully identified what makes some people more...
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MBA applications in the US have fallen for the fourth year in a row
When the job market is strong, it’s harder to leave—especially when you’re paying for the privilege. MBA applications to US business schools are down this year, according to a new survey from the...
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How a viral Indian web series went from YouTube to Netflix
For Anirudh Pandita, Ashwin Suresh, and Aditi Shrivastava, steering their careers away from run-of-the-mill finance jobs in New York to pursue their dreams in the movie business has proved to be a...
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A Penn professor explains why America’s “ideal manhood” is insulting to...
As a child living in Ethiopia, Dagmawi Woubshet wanted to be like the diplomats he saw traveling on TV. At 13, he moved to the United States and attending boarding school in Pennsylvania. And today he...
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India’s latest state election results are bad news for Modi’s BJP
This post has been updated. Around six months before the tenure of its current parliament ends, India got a glimpse of the electoral mood today (Dec. 11) as the results of legislative polls in five key...
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2018 was the year India’s startups decided to go global
Having thrived at home for nearly a decade, India’s startup scene went global in 2018. Ola, the country’s largest homegrown ride-hailing firm, set the ball rolling in January when it drove into Perth,...
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A top Asia dealmaker retraces a life shaped by 40 years of US-China relations
It was January 1979, shortly after China and the US established diplomatic relations, and just before vice premier Deng Xiaoping visited the US at the invitation of president Jimmy Carter. Shan...
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Rod Rosenstein begs students to protect American democracy
Rod Rosenstein, the deputy US attorney general, delivered a poignant speech on the fragility of American democracy today (Feb. 21), while stressing the insidious nature of white-collar crime, and the...
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Who wins and who loses if India’s draft e-commerce rules are implemented
In proposing to tighten the rules around e-commerce, India is both offering respite and ruffling feathers in equal measure. The draft e-commerce policy released by the Modi government on Feb. 23 is...
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India can achieve 10% GDP growth, but only with Olympic-type regimen
While India’s GDP has fallen to a six-year low, the country’s economy has some areas of strength. Gaurav Dalmia, chairman of Dalmia Group Holdings, a holding company for business and financial assets...
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Three MBA admissions heads explain why record numbers of women are going to...
What’s business school like when you’re a woman? Historically, some have found it to be a less than welcoming experience. Before Harvard Business School undertook a massive effort to reform its...
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Can Paytm make every cent of its $1 billion funding round really count?
India’s largest homegrown fintech company, Paytm, yesterday (Nov. 25) added a whopping $1 billion to its corpus. This round marked the reaffirmed commitment of the firm’s largest investor, Softbank,...
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Employers are offshoring jobs to get around US visa restrictions
President Donald Trump has been trying to encourage firms to hire more American workers by increasing restrictions on visas for skilled foreign workers, including by suspending the H-1B visa program in...
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Can MBA programs build a new generation of antiracist leaders?
Over the past few months, the Black Lives Matter movement has sparked a renewed public conversation about what companies can do to combat racism and discrimination within their ranks. Yet many business...
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More than 500 business professors are urging CEOs to denounce Trump
American CEOs have become very vocal about several contentious political and social issues. Just in the past few years, many have advocated for LGBTQ rights and voiced concern for America’s Dreamers....
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Philadelphia is offering extreme vaccine incentives with help from Wharton...
One would think not dying of an infectious disease that has killed well over half a million people in the US should be incentive enough to get a vaccine.Yet some local governments are adding further...
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India versus Twitter: The man at the center of the controversy
Twitter has been in the eye of a storm in India, and it is unlikely to escape any time soon.In the last seven days, several police complaints have been filed against the micro-blogging portal for...
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