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Unlocking the GRE: Your Gateway to Graduate Success

Tom Spencer

For programs like a Master’s in Business Analytics, Master’s of Finance, and Master’s of Hospitality Management, a strong GRE score can significantly enhance one’s application. Develop a realistic study plan based on the time available before your test date. Moreover, for those aiming for a Ph.D.

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GMAT: A Strategic Guide to Effective Preparation

Tom Spencer

The GMAT is a necessary hurdle that individuals who aspire to pursue an MBA or a graduate degree in finance need to overcome in order to gain admission to a top school. Success on the GMAT requires a well-thought-out study plan and strategic preparation. Effective time management is crucial during the GMAT.

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How Being a Workaholic Differs from Working Long Hours — and Why That Matters for Your Health

Harvard Business

Hanna, a finance director at an international home care retailer, works long hours. We conducted a study in 2010 at the Dutch subsidiary of an international financial consulting firm with over 3,500 employees. Hayon Thapaliya for HBR. She sometimes also works on weekends. What our research shows. 763 employees completed both.

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Help Your Team Achieve Work-Life Balance — Even When You Can’t

Harvard Business

It wasn’t until I moved to Paris in 1997 to become Finance Manager for Disney Consumer Products Europe, Middle East, and Africa that I experienced someone setting a non-negotiable boundary for herself. But so did my peers, whether or not they had children, partners, or aging parents. It was just the industry and firm norm.

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What the Data Says About Women in Management Between 1980 and 2010

Harvard Business

Sociologist Paula England has called this phenomenon an “uneven and stalled” gender revolution , and there have been dozens of studies showing how the progress in gender equality experienced during and immediately after the feminist movement of the 1970s has not been sustained through the 1990s and 2000s. And if so, how?

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How to Focus on What’s Important, Not Just What’s Urgent

Harvard Business

In a series of studies recently published in the Journal of Consumer Research , people typically chose to complete tasks that had very short deadlines attached to them, even in situations in which tasks with less pressing deadlines were just as easy and promised a bigger reward. You’re hardly alone.

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How to Reduce Primary Care Doctors’ Workloads While Improving Care

Harvard Business

Rather than do the conceptually hard and convention-challenging reorganizations of systems and finances required to truly transform care, it is easier to suggest tweaking the system and encouraging patients to use more primary care — and let primary care take it from there. Less Time, Better Care.

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