There were no neat rows of data ready to crunch when Varuni Fernando and her London Business School classmates arrived in the Johannesburg township of Alexandra for a consulting project with a local micro-enterprise. The client, a tile retailer, had no access to a computer. “People …
US business schools, led for the first time by Columbia in New York, dominate the top of the FT Global MBA Ranking in its 25th year. Of the leading tier of 18 of the 100 business schools ranked in 2023, 13 are in the US, including …
Gregory Rockson braced himself for a tough boardroom discussion in Accra, the Ghanaian capital, in January 2021, as he pitched an unusual plan to diversify his fast-growing business in a complex new direction. The large majority of patients in Africa seek medicines and healthcare in private …
Devyani Madan Indian. Indian School of Business, graduated June 2022. Associate consultant, Bain & Company, Gurgaon, India What advice would you give to prospective MBA students?I have three main tips for those wanting to pursue an MBA. First, know what you want. Take some time to …
As the Financial Times updates the Global MBA Ranking methodology to put greater emphasis on environmental concerns, data specialists look at business schools’ net zero targets and teaching on environmental, social and governance (ESG) issues. Plus favoured sectors for graduates and career progress. You are seeing …
Opening doors: A scholarship enabled Krystelle Bolivar to take up a place on the Insead MBA © Magali Delporte, for the FT Without a €45,000 scholarship, Krystelle Bolivar would have given up her MBA place at Insead in France and Singapore. “I don’t think I would …
There was no long-term career plan, says Vivek Murthy, the 21st surgeon general of the United States. “I had never put a point on a timeline 20 years down the road and said, ‘That’s where I want to be. I’m going to work toward that.’” Dr …
For Chunhao Quan, from China, studying for an MBA in the UK is “a gate to the international business world”. Promotion to a team leader position in his work as an analyst for IT consulting firm iSoftStone in Shanghai convinced Quan that he must hone his …
Every year, tens of thousands of aspiring young moguls enrol at business school for an MBA, hoping to climb the corporate hierarchy. They are following predecessors who now run many leading companies, from Alphabet, Amazon and Apple to Microsoft and Walmart. And the aim of faculty …
  Author: George Ioannou, Managing Partner, Foolproof February 6, 2023 Despite the transition to serving customers digitally during the pandemic not being without its challenges, the banking industry has changed and some of what are being considered ‘new normal’ consumer behaviours and expectations are likely here …
