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Why MBA?? Why not Something else?

Ansh — Sun, 21 Nov 2010 10:27:47 +0000

Why MBA?? Yes the most cliched question of our generation, but the MOST apt also. You must be thinking why am I asking this question, of course…. most of the people landing on this page have figured out this for themselves. Wait!!! It is not that easy. Lets dig a bit deeper into this question.

This question is the most scared question across all MBA interview panels. In 1908, the Graduate School of Business Administration (GSBA) at Harvard University was established; it offered the world’s first MBA program, with a faculty of 15 plus 33 regular students and 47 special students. The mission of the program was to produce leaders and ideas that will shape the practice of management in vital organizations of every kind around the globe. What makes an idea or a leader successful is the clarity. That is why each applicant was asked to write in their SOP [statement of purpose] the answer to the question “Why you want to do MBA?”. Since many B-schools do not have the concept of SOP, they ask this during the interview.

But as smart we think we are, the people in the interview room sitting across the table are Smarter. Don’t forget these are the people [the Profs] who are taking interviews over the years. Some of them have career span more than the age of the certain candidates. So no prize for guessing that how easy it is for interviewer to catch fake or made up [as spoon fed by the coaching institutes] answers. And if you are successful in doing that [first of all give yourself a pat], the story does not end there. Read ahead.

90% of the students who join MBA have no clear idea why they joined this program

The point I am trying to highlight here is that it is really important for any B-school aspirant [for his future career] to figure out the answer to the Holy question “Why MBA??” I have been interacting with students here at IIM L for two years now and it is purely from personal interaction with students here [now across 3 batches my senior, my batch and my junior] I conclude that 90% of the students who join MBA have no clear idea why they joined this program. Many of them realize that they could have been better somewhere else [in my job or may be pursuing my core field]. Many of them feel two years are wasted here, and they spend 2 yrs [the most crucial phase of their life] just cribbing about system and about their decision [which they realize was due to herd mentality]. Many of them flunk, not being able to cope up with the system, they don’t relate with the studies here [what the hell is Debit and Credit, why i have to read all the maths again ]. This is what my experience at IIM L and I am sure [talking to my friends in other IIMs] the scene is pretty much same everywhere. Believe my words “Its harder to Pass out from an IIM than getting in“. The student is not he only one who is at loss here, it is the whole system. The institute does not get good bunch of students, the companies come for placement complain about quality of talent, the performance of the batch across various competitions through out the year goes down. And it is all because we [the aspirants] do not get TRUE answer to the question WHY MBA?? What is my take away from MBA program?

I hope I have been able to draw your attention towards the issue in the right way. I am sure most of you still have not got YOUR answer to THE question. This is fairly okay… it is good if you are searching for your own rather waiting for someone to spoon feed you.The answer has to come from within and believe me it is going to come some day.

To help the readers about being clear about their thoughts and organize them, here are few books I would suggest that will give you fair idea how can live your dream and please appreciate that its not going to be MBA for all of you.

Virgin King -Richard Branson
Business at Speed of ligth- Bill Gates
Snap shots from Hell The making of an MBA- Peter Robinson
Alchemist- Paulo Cohelo
Jonathan Livingstone Seagull- Richard Bach
Rules of revolutionaries – Guy Kawasaki
Odyssey – Pepsi to Apple – John Sculley

Some of these books will give you good idea to introspect and how managers handle things at work place. In the next article I am going to suggest some more books, which will help you figure out YOUR own answer to WHY MBA??

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IIFT Final Shortlist Out (Delhi & Kolkata)

Gaurav — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 05:09:45 +0000

Embed please find the final shortlist of students for IIFT (IB) program. Congratulations to all of you who has made it. You can click the title of the file to download it directly from our SCRIBD account.

Iift Final Delhi

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Iift Final Kolkata

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Download FREE CAT, XAT, JMET, NMAT, IIFT etc Mock Papers

Gaurav — Fri, 26 Dec 2008 08:22:00 +0000

I am sharing my collection with you guys. This is my collection of mock papers which I get from different sources, all online though. I never found such collection at one place, that’s why I am making a portfolio in which everyone can contribute and make it useful for future aspirants too. If you want to contribute in this effort, please email me your material and I will put it here with full acknowledgement. My email id is: gaurav[at]mbatutes.com.

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List of Shortlisted Candidates for MBA(IB) 2009-11 (IIFT)

Gaurav — Fri, 12 Dec 2008 13:18:44 +0000

IIFT has released the list of shortlisted candidates on its website. I didn’t make it.

MBA(IB)2009-11Result_01

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BTW, I am also attaching the link of the file from IIFT site which contains the list. Here it is:

LIST OF CANDIDATES SHORTLISTED FOR ESSAY WRITING, GROUP
DISCUSSION AND INTERVIEW FOR MBA (INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS)
2009-11

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IIFT 2008 Solutions

Gaurav — Sun, 23 Nov 2008 17:46:24 +0000

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Some answers are in dispute, so don’t worry if you are getting some questions wrong which you thought will be right.

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IIFT 2008 Solutions, Analysis & Answer Key from various Instis

Gaurav — Sun, 23 Nov 2008 17:36:59 +0000

The Indian Institute of Foreign Trade (IIFT) 2008 answer key and analysis.
IIFT 2008 Solutions Analysis Answer Key From PT TYC Time
http://www.tcyonline.com will be out with its analysis But it needs members login to access;
The key from CL is out. Download the iift 2008 answer key from here.

http://indihot.com/iiftkey.pdf
PT analysis is online.
PT education, IIFT 2008 analysis and keys

There are no sectional cutoffs except that they won’t consider negative in any sections..

The paper being divided in sections in order to separate the same type of questions in goup whether they are di or quant or verbal. It was to test your various decision abilities in such high pressures where you have no time to think .

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Indian Institute of Foreign Trade 2008 Entrance Examination is over and the next step for all the students who tool this examination is to know the Analysis of IIFT Question Paper, what ate the answer keys and based on the difficulty of the question paper what could be the cut off marks this year.
You can also check http://www.iift.edu/iift/index.asp for latest updates and notifications related to IIFT 2009 Admissions

Official site IIFT

The Indian Institute of Foreign Trade (IIFT) was set up in 1963 by the Government of India as … EPGDIB (thru VSAT) 2008-10 : List of Selected Candidates.

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