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I. BooksQuantQuantitative Aptitude for Competitive Examination - Abhijit GuhaHow to Prepare for Quantitative Aptitude for CAT - Arun SharmaVerbalVerbal ability for CAT: Arun SharmaHigh School English Grammar & Composition - by Wren and Martin (for grammar)A Communicative Grammar Of English (for grammar)The first book to read is Word Power Made Easy (The Complete Handbook for Building a Superior Vocabulary). It is a wonderfully written book that makes learning new words fun.After (and only after) you are done with it, read All About Words (An Adult Approach to Vocabulary Building). As the name suggests, it is more advanced than WPME.MarketingPrinciples of Macroeconomics, 6th EditionCommon Sense Economics: What Everyone Should Know About Wealth and Prosperity: James D. Gwartney, Richard L. Stroup, Dwight R. LeeNaked Economics: Undressing the Dismal Science (Fully Revised and Updated): Charles Wheelan, Burton G. MalkielFinancePrinciples of Corporate Finance : Richard A. BrealeyOptions, Futures and Other Derivatives (6th Edition) : John C. HullThe Theory of Investment Value: John Burr WilliamsInvestment Valuation: Tools and Techniques for Determining the Value of Any Asset : Aswath DamodaranThe Intelligent Investor: Benjamin GrahamFoundations of Financial Markets and Institutions (4th Edition): Frank J. Fabozzi,Franco P. Modigliani, Frank J. JonesIntermediate Accounting : Donald E. Kieso, Jerry J. Weygandt, Terry D. WarfieldVenture Capital and the Finance of Innovation : Andrew Metrick, Ayako YasudaII. WebsitesVocabIFTTT - Send yourself a weekly vocabulary list of Wikipedia words of the day: Sit down every Sunday (or any other day you like) and learn 7 new words. All you need is a IFTTT and a Pocket account (both free).ESL Exercises: Test your vocabulary by taking a series of structured quizzes.Visual thesaurus: Understand what words mean, and why. Visualize the origin of words and their interconnections.Dictionary.com Flashcards: When you are on the go, use this flashcard app to learn new words.A Year's Worth of WordsVocabulary.com.Word of the DayFreerice.comMarketingThe 30 Best Resources to Learn Marketing for FreeThe Essential List of Startup Marketing ResourcesMust read SEO articles to rank higher on googleSEO Tools: The Complete List (153 Tools Reviewed and Rated)/r/advertisingIII. BlogsA. FinanceProf. Jayanth R. Varma's Financial Markets Blog: Prof Jayant Verma is a Professor of Finance (mainly Financial markets) at IIMA. He is one of the most impressive teachers I have ever met. He was one of the first members of SEBI and is on the board of multiple big companies including Infosys and Axis Bank. His blog, which has been up since 2005, is a brilliant resource on understanding the nuances of the financial markets.Dealbook (NYT): Dealbook is the news aggregator section of NYTimes to keep you updated on the current state of affairs of the Fin industry.Mergers & Inquisitions: Everything you need to know about every aspect of the Financial world - from big investment banks to boutique firms, from Private Equity to Hedge Funds and AM/WM firms.Investment Banking Blog: The holy mecca for preparation of i-Banking interviews, the IB Blog offers everything from bootcamps and interview prep courses (paid) to free resources like basic interview questions, overview of the industry etc.Wall Street Oasis: Similar to #2 above, but with more functionality to read the best articles of the month/week/day etc.FT Alphaville: Another news aggregator that will make sure you do not have any time left in your day (courtesy it's exhaustive coverage of current affairs).B. EntrepreneurshipEntrepreneur: Your companion on the entrepreneurial journey. The site will keep you updated with the start-up world, help you work on various aspects of your professional self, and also provide the much needed pep-talk when you are feeling down/exhausted/defeated.AVC: The chronicles of Fred Wilson ( a Venture Capitalist for the past 30 years) with some incredible credentials to his name (including investments in Twitter, Tumble, Zynga, Foursuare etc). AVC is probably the most widely-read VC blog in the world.C. MarketingMad Over Marketing: MoM is a fun blog. They capture everything from brand wars on twitter, to collection of some of the best and most important marketing campaigns. The blog is a very easy read and will help you broaden your horizon when it comes to thinking of how you can ante up your marketing/advertising game.Duct Tape Marketing: Duct Tape Marketing focuses on small businesses and startups. They take into account that small businesses do not have the funds that large corporations do. So their marketing tactics need to be tailored to their financial capacity.aimClear: aimClear wants to be the single resource when it comes to your personal as well as company brand by using every possible tool in the marketer's kitty - from social media to SEO, from conclaves to data management using basic tools like Excel.Bufferapp social: Bufferapp is an exhaustive resource to help you manage, grow, and track your social media persona.HubSpot Blog: A collection of 3 secondary blogs - focusing on sales, marketing, and your agency. This trio will help you streamline your sales activity, boost your pre-sales capabilities, help you traverse the maze of sales-killer questions like, "This is too costly", and also help you manage your time and productivity in a better manner.Marketing Land: The Dealbook of marketing, ML is the one-stop solution for your marketing trends news requirement.Startup Marketing | Ryan Gum: Ryan Gum is a growth hacker who helps create marketing plans for startups and small businesses starting from creating your initial pitch, attracting your first customer, and an exhaustive list of Startup Marketing Resources.The SumAll Blog: The SumAll blog is like the child of Buzzfeed and Medium (and not in a negative sense). They post content which is useful and is also written in a fun manner. The articles are often crisp and under a 5-min read.D. EconomicsFreakonomics: The uthors of the best-selling economics-infused-with-pop-culture book have more to say and share than the 2 books. The blog is usually a collection of podcasts that aim to explore the "hidden side of economics" and highlight outliers, which although rare, are extremely critical.Why Nations Fail: On the same line as Freakonomics, the blog by Daren Acemoglu is a follow-up on his book of the same name and explores similar obscure events that shaped the rise and fall of nations and civilizations.Economixcomix: The companion blog for the graphic novel of the same name by Michael Goodwin, Economixcomix explains the basic tenets of Economics in a simple way, along with illustrations to make understanding easier.The Grumpy Economist: The perennial pessimist, the one who finds faults in everything, the dad who bores his kid during dinner with his constant rants and criticisms, John Cochrane provides an unabashed, and hard-hitting critique that exposes the not-so-sunny side of the world economy.Investing and Economics Blog: The Curios Cat blogs is for us. The laymen. The dabblers. It focuses heaving on personal finance, economics, financial literacy, tax planning, credit management et al; stuff that affects the majority of the populace on a regular basis.The Upshot: The NYT economics companion to its financial section, Dealbook, The Upshot is all you need to read to be perfectly updated of what is happening, why it is happening, what would be the consequences, and what could have been done better.Economist's View: A collection of self-posts and the hottest posts from other economics blogs.The Money Illusion: TMI focuses on the money and capital markets and provides wonderful commentary on financial crises, international economics, foreign reserve dynamics, monetary and fiscal policies, labor markets etc.E. LeadershipGuy Kawasaki: Guy is one of the most well known figures in Silicon Valley, and among the first "tech evangelist".All Things Workplace: As the name suggests, this is a blog for managers, bosses, and professionals and aims to cover all aspects of workplace management including effective communication, employee engagement, conflict management, incorporating cultural diversity and differences, various facets of leadership, boosting creativity, and so on.Seth's Blog: Seth is a funny guy. The funniest of all in this list. Although he calls his blog a marketing blog, it's more generic in nature and oft has funny quips and clever observations interspersed with longform articles.Lean In: Everyone knows the book by Sheryl Sandberg, COO of Facebook. The blog aims to continue the story and encourage and empower women to face challenges, voice their opinions, and grow themselves in the workplace.Switch & Shift: S&S aims at helping business transition from the traditional workplace model to the current, more information driven, globally-diverse-yet-connected workplace.Hot Momma's Project: Don't go by the sexist-sounding name, HMP is sort of a companion to LeanIn and strives to help women claim their rightful place in the corporate world.Culture University: In a globally inter-connected world, understanding, accepting, and imbibing cultural diversity is an important trait for organizations to sustain themselves and grow.Big Think: Having Bill Nye, TheScienceGuy, on board is a big achievement for Big Think which aims to be an idea hub, an "Youtube for ideas" as its founders put it.F. OthersBob Sutton: Bob, a Professor of Management Science at Stanford, writes on everything including, but not limited to, workplace culture, book reviews, team management, employee management etc.Harvard Business Review: HBR is the most popular published management magazine that covers almost everything relevant to an MBA degree. If there has to be a starting point for an MBA student/aspirant, this is it.IV. Movies12 Angry Men (1957): A wonderful movie that was part of my MBA curriculum, 12 Angry Men is probably the best thing you can watch on the art of negotiation and persuasion.To Kill a Mockingbird (1962): I love the book and I make no effort to hide it. The 1962 adaptation by Robert Mulligan does complete justice to the book. It's a life lesson everyone should learn. It teaches you kindness, courage, and unflinching devotion to the pursuit of justice even in the face of overwhelming odds.More about the book and what makes it great: Deepak Mehta (दीपक मेहता)'s answer to Why do you like the book 'To Kill a Mockingbird,' and why should I read it?Up in the Air (2009): As a manager (post your MBA), one of the hardest aspects of your job would be to fire people. In this movie, George Clooney will teach you how to do it.The Pursuit of Happyness (2006): On why persistence is important.Wall Street (1987): A lesson, and a warning, on the lengths to which brokers and financial analysts went to in order to achieve success and fame.The Social Network (2010): For the rabble-rousers. The ones who don't respond well to authority. The dreamers. The entrepreneurs.Too Big To Fail (2011): A documentary on the Financial Crisis of 2008.Margin Call (2011): Chronicles the initial stages of the 2008 crisis. And how corporate greed condemned the world to a period of financial upheaval and meltdown.Inside Job (2010): The final movie on the 2008 crisis. And the best.The Wolf Of Wall Street (2013): Based on the life of Jordan Belfort, a broker/trader, and another victim of the Wall Street Lust.V. Youtube ChannelsTakshzila shikshak: A very well structure and exhaustive resource that replicates the offline classroom model. They cover the entire range of topics for CAT and other MBA entrance exams in India - quantitative ability, vocabulary, logic, reasoning, reading comprehension, grammar, data sufficiency and data interpretation.Other similar resources include:handakafundaCareer Launcher2IIM CAT PreparationByju'sEndeavor Careers Pvt. Ltd.Harvard Business Review: Touching on the nuances of business - strategy formulation and execution, role of a CEO, disruption, stress management, and overall professional development as a manager or an entrepreneur.MBAbullshitDotCom: Topic-wise video lectures on the various basics of Finance - stock and bond markets, valuations, Corporate Finance, Accounting et al.Minute MBA by OnlineMBA.com: Illustrated lessons primarily on entrepreneurship, people management, and innovation.ehowfinance: Another great resource, but focuses more on personal finance, budgeting, accounting, insurance, taxation etc.VI. Videos and playlists#1. You should watch the Economics playlists on CrashCourse. It is one of the best channels on Youtube for learning any subject starting from a blank slate.#2. Marketing Management#3. Corporate Finance#4. Understanding Financial Markets (Yale classes by the Nobel Laureate in Economics, Professor Robert Schiller)#5. Augment your vocabulary (primarily meant for GRE aspirants, however is applicable for most MBA entrance exams)#6. Data InterpretationA few other videos you might find useful.#1. Understanding how the Stock Exchange works#2: Money and creditVII. CoursesA. Business and management (mostly beginner courses)Basics of supply chain management (SCM)Basics of MarketingBasics of OperationsBasics of digital marketingB. Economics and financeFinancial markets: A must take. The course is being taught by the renownedNobel-laureate and Yale Prof Robert Shiller and will cover a lot of concepts of Financial markets and their machinations. Apart from the basics, it will also cover certain aspects of behavioral finance and financial crises and the role of regulations.Microeconomics: Will cover the basics of Microeconomics from supply-demand, market efficiency, types of competitions, market power and public goods and externalities.Introduction to finance: Basics - time value of money and valuationsC. Statistics and data analysisRegression models: The course looks at the various regression models and special cases like ANOVA. All of which is taught in the 1st year.In this course students will learn how to fit regression models, how to interpret coefficients, how to investigate residuals and variability. Students will further learn special cases of regression models including use of dummy variables and multivariable adjustment. Extensions to generalized linear models, especially considering Poisson and logistic regression will be reviewed.Data analysis and statistical inference: Estimation, confidence intervals, decision making based on data analysis etc.Data visualization: Will be helpful both during and after the MBA. How to present the data in the most impactful manner, use software to make complex designs etc.D. Others:Social EntrepreneurshipIntroduction to ProbabilityIntroduction to Time ManagementGetting started with essay writingReasoningIntroduction to Financial AccountingedX - Pricing Options with Mathematical ModelsedX - Yield Curve AnalysisUdemy - The Beginner's Guide to the Stock MarketUdemy - Fundamentals of Forex TradingGrammar and PunctuationIntroduction to Public SpeakingMIT Open Courseware - EconomicsCoursera - Economics and FinanceUdemy - EconomicsedX - Economics

From my article for the Wall Street Journal's Accelerators column: http://m.us.wsj.com/articles/BL-232B-762It’s fashionable in this fast-paced era of exponentially accelerating technology to deride the value of a traditional M.B.A. Indeed, some people believe that even an undergraduate degree is not particularly useful for a would-be entrepreneur, and the most vocal adherents of this school of thought are encouraging ambitious young people to drop out of college and immediately start their own businesses.I could not disagree more.When I received my M.B.A. from Columbia University Graduate School of Business in 1983, there wasn’t a single course or activity with the word “entrepreneurship” in its title. Many — if not most — of my classmates were fast-tracked managers from utility companies, large retailers, consumer goods conglomerates and financial firms. But over the past few decades, as companies began to shrink and brand new upstarts like Apple and Microsoft became the most valuable companies in the world, Newsweek identified the country’s most endangered species as the “Bached White Male” corporate middle-manager.The M.B.A. degree was created in the early 20th century as “scientific” approaches to business management were first being developed, and gained its foothold in the booming post-war years when rapidly expanding American industries needed a steady supply of new managers to administer their ever-increasing workforces. It saw its apotheosis with a pivot as the financial markets of the late 20th century glorified the arcane financial analysis and marketing skills required of the so-called Masters of the Universe in investment banking and consulting.There is no question that the game has changed, fundamentally and irrevocably. As I noted in my closing talk on The Evolution of Success at TEDxWallStreet we are moving at an ever-accelerating pace to a time in which entrepreneurship will be the cornerstone of the business world, large companies will continue to shrink, agile methodologies will replace traditional top-down management, and “career management” will be a personal rather than institutional responsibility.In response to this core shift in the commercial world, M.B.A. programs have not remained stagnant, as some would seem to imply. Rather, they are themselves pivoting with the changing market, and squarely addressing the new realities.I serve on the advisory boards of the entrepreneurship programs at both Columbia and Yale, and was mentor of the year at NYU’s Stern School of Business, so I have had a first-hand view of these fundamental transformations.Originally pioneered by schools like Babson, where entrepreneurship is embedded into every class and activity, and picked up and expanded by top-tier schools such as Stanford, where their online Technology Entrepreneurship course has been taken by more than 25,000 students, academic business programs have adapted to the times.At NYU Stern, the annual business-plan competition organized by the Berkeley Center for Entrepreneurship & Innovation is the heart of the program, with more than 500 teams participating in recent years. This is where companies like Pinterest and Comixology found their initial teams and their seed investors.As The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania notes in its online introduction to its M.B.A., a modern business school degree provides a host of benefits that have great value in the new world of fast-moving, entrepreneurial innovation. In addition to the network and brand-validation that comes along with a high end M.B.A. program, these courses of study provide a true grounding in the “hard skills” of economics, finance, marketing, operations, management and accounting, as well as the “soft skills ” of leadership, teamwork, ethics and communication that are so critical for effectively creating and managing both innovation and growth.Whether it is internalizing crucial concepts such as the time value of money, or really understanding the core values of agile project management, a 2013 version M.B.A. from a strong program represents to me an indication (along with many other factors) of someone who can potentially make a major, positive contribution to our team.