"Businesses are being incredibly proactive about preparing themselves for business interruptions or supply shortages, and they're preparing very aggressively. They don't care about the science of why. They know it's a risk. And their attitude is that they're going to try to mitigate it or prepare to be responsive and resilient to change."

Senior Lecturer Paul McManus (MBA'86) on The Business Wisdom of Sustainability
+20 SMG jumped 20 spots in the Financial Times’ Global MBA Ranking 2014, tied for the largest rise of any institution in the listings. The School’s full-time MBA now stands 75th in the world—keep this up and it’ll be number one by 2018. SMG also ranked 39th globally for the number of alumni who recommended the School and 51st in the world for its research.
14.3 Hours spent by Americans per day on eating, sleeping, leisure, etc.—Less than the OECD global average.
Source: Organisation For Economic Co-operation and Development

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"We follow the saying here—'Right people, right seats, awesome bus.' Do you have the right people? Are they in the right seats doing the right job? And is it an awesome place to work?"

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11 Your MBA is the 11th greenest in the world (and 3rd in the US) Reports Corporate Knights magazine. Its Global Green MBA Ranking “examines the integration of sustainability into the curriculums of leading business schools around the world.”

Making It In India

Analjit Singh believes American entrepreneurs with vision can be tremendously successful in India and throughout South Asia.

“Americans and Canadians are very well accepted and respected in South Asia, and if they have the right mindset and attitude, they can do extremely well here,” he says. “First of all, they think big. Also, North Americans bring a network, they bring capital, and they’ve seen it all before. They can galvanize a force much faster than any other international community because they know how to schlep things from here to there, and they know how to make things work. And I think we in India are most aligned with the culture of the United States.”

Analjit Singh (BSBA'77, MBA'79). Read more advice from one of India’s most successful business people in The Life Saver

11.13 % of Americans work more than 50 hours a week. Source: Organisation For Economic Co-operation and Development

"You need a tremendous amount of self-confidence. At a big company, there are lots of people who do your job at a more senior level, so you can see how they've tackled a project and can ask them questions. In a start-up, there are times when you need to be willing to bet on yourself."

Upstart Cofounder Anna (Mongayt) Counselman (BSBA’03) on What it takes to thrive in a start-up

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