Business and Economy - 'Cover Story'

• And it all began with a wish, minus the genie!

B&E’s Pawan Chabria meets up with some individuals who opted to go barefoot in search of success, rather than lazily stepping into the comfort of guaranteed, cushioned golden shoes offered by well set organisations...

• My MBA education complements my marketing responsibilities...

Jitin Prasada, CMD, PI Indisutries Ltd. & Union Minister of State for Petroleum & Natural Gas

• The road not taken… well taken

B&E’s Pallavi Srivastava catches up with management graduates who looked beyond the traditional corporate career and took up non-conventional jobs... and that’s what made all the difference!

• How special is your speciality?

Specialised MBAs are now coming up in various sectors. B&E meets up with specialists within these sectors to find out whether such niche mbas are useful in the long term...

• Wechsler’s theory!

DO EVENTS LIKE AMAZE (IIPM’S ANNUAL FESTIVAL) OR CARPE-DIEM (IIM CALCUTTA’S CULTURAL FESTIVAL) REALLY HELP IN CHURNING OUT A “BETTER” MANAGER? B&E’S ANGSHUMAN PAUL MEETS INDUSTRY LEADERS FOR ANSWERS...

• ARINDAM CHAUDHURI ON WHY ISB IS BETTER THAN THE IIMS AND HOW TO JUDGE B-SCHOOLS

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• India’s Most Authoritative B-School Survey

Managing editor Sutanu Guru writes on why this is the most intellectual B-School survey ever

• Methodology

A quick run through the two phases of the 2009 B&e-Icmr B-School survey

• An MBA for PM?

Politicians would have been the least expected to have mba qualifications. B&e’s priyanka rai found out quite a handful...

• The Jury!

The jury panel comprised some of india’s most respected and most intellectual stalwarts with experience in various sectors across the globe

• Do CEOs really believe their B-schools added value?

They are ruling India Inc. but how many believe their B-School learning & faculty contributed to their current work? and how many wish to contribute back to those very b-schools? angshuman paul writes

• On one hand they had education and glory; on another, sympathy!

do strategies adopted by MBA-qualified CEOs prove more effective at producing positive stock price reactions as compared to what their mba-unqualified counterparts implement? steven philip warner does a graphical analysis across sectors, and puts all doubts to rest...