
Jan 6
The Complete Guide to Columbia Business School Applications
Every year multiple Network Capital subscribers make it to Columbia for their MBA. Today we have a thriving Network Capital subgroup in New York.
As a Network Capital subscriber, this will be your five-pronged application strategy for Columbia Business School.
As a Network Capital subscriber, this will be your five-pronged application strategy for Columbia Business School.
Step I: Watch Masterclasses
Start by going through the following masterclasses and podcasts
Career Principles with Nobel Laureate Dr. Robert Shiller
"I don't know what I want to do with my life" Fellowship
Augmenting Emotional Intelligence with AI: Career Principles of Dr. Rana el Kaliouby
Leadership Lessons with Jean-Philippe Courtois
In this candid and insightful masterclass, Jean-Philippe Courtois shares his personal advice and insights on -
1. Art of following your curiosity by building a habit of asking thoughtful questions.
2. Nuances of clarity, positivity, and success to augment personal leadership style.
3. Mental models for contextual awareness for leading cross-cultural and global teams.
As executive vice president and president, Global Sales, Marketing & Operations, Jean-Philippe Courtois leads Microsoft’s commercial business across 124 subsidiaries worldwide. From Cloud services to AI and mixed reality, Courtois is responsible for driving strategic planning, growth initiatives, national digital transformation partnerships and running Microsoft global commercial business. Courtois is passionate about enabling businesses to digitally transform with the right strategy, skills and technology to ignite new innovation, new ways of working, new business models and new revenue streams. He helps build vibrant ecosystems with small businesses, start-ups, public sector entities, partners all the way to global industry leaders.
Previously, Courtois served as president of Microsoft International where he led sales, marketing and services across all Microsoft subsidiaries outside of the United States and Canada. Before that he held the same role for the EMEA region (Europe, Middle East and Africa) as CEO and president of Microsoft EMEA, and was corporate vice president of Worldwide Customer Marketing, based out of Microsoft’s worldwide headquarters in Redmond, Washington.
Courtois joined Microsoft in 1984. His first role was as a partner sales representative and, after holding several leadership positions, he was promoted to general manager for Microsoft France in 1994.
Courtois holds a Diplôme des Etudes Commerciales Supérieures (DECS) from the Ecole Supérieure de Commerce de Nice (SKEMA). Outside of Microsoft, Courtois is chairman of the board of directors for SKEMA Business School, as well as a board member of Positive Planet, a worldwide leading NGO with a mission to help men and women across the world create the conditions for a better life for future generations.
Courtois is also on the board of directors of ManpowerGroup, the global workforce solutions organization. He has served as co-chairman of the World Economic Forum’s Global Digital Divide Initiative Task Force, on the European Commission Information and Communication Technology task force and previously sat on the board of directors for AstraZeneca.
In 2015, he co-founded the Live for Good foundation, which aims to unlock the potential of young people from all walks of life through social entrepreneurship, driving societal innovation through a purpose led community
A New Idea of India with Harsh Madhusudan & Rajeev Mantri
A New Idea of India constructs and expounds on a new framework beyond the rough and tumble of partisan politics. Lucid in its laying out of ideas and policies while taking a novel position, this book is illuminated by years of research and the authors’ first-hand experiences, as citizens, entrepreneurs and investors, of the vagaries and challenges of India
101 of Digital Marketing with Mishaal and Aishwarya
Building Dual Careers with Author Policy Expert and Historian Manu Pillai
Applying to Harvard Business School and Building Innovative Digital Companies with Mishaal Nathani
Why are we good at bad policy making? with Usha Mishra Hayes
Usha Mishra Hayes is the Chief of Social Policy, Evidence and Evaluation at UNICEF Nepal. She has 18 years of experience in the field of international development, specially in areas like senior management, policy analysis, research and advocacy. The views expressed in this session are entirely of the speaker; UNICEF has no responsibility for them.
The Public Speaking Fellowship
Art of Topping IIT JEE and Building an Interesting VC Career with Anagh Prasad
Anagh Prasad was All India Rank – 1 in the first ever edition of JEE Main (2013). He joined IIT Delhi with AIR-66 in JEE Advanced and graduated from the Department of Computer Science and Engineering with the Gold Medal for All-Round Achievement.
Boot Up to Scale Up with Yatin Thakur
Yatin is a serial entrepreneur with a history in bootstrapping and scaling grassroot ventures in the most sustainable manner.
Breaking into Dalberg and Development Consulting Firms with Unnati Bose
Unnati works as an associate consultant at Dalberg Advisors. In the past year, she has worked on sanitation, food fortification, and family planning. She studied economics at Shri Ram College of Commerce. In college, she interned at the Clinton Health Access Initiative (CHAI) with their WASH and nutrition teams. She also worked on tuberculosis with Amaltas, a development consulting firm. She also dabbled in political strategy while working on the 2017 Uttar Pradesh State Assembly Elections. Unnati is passionate about applying a social justice lens to her work and can be found debating about politics over coffee and banana chips.
Building India’s First Marketplace for Sustainable Consumer Products with Narayani Poy Raiturcar
Building Meaningful Careers in Development with Shrayana Bhattacharya
Shrayana Bhattacharya is a Senior Economist in the World Bank’s Social Protection and Jobs Practice based in New Delhi.
Building Meaningful Careers in Public Policy with TED Speaker and CEEW CEO Arunabha Ghosh
Building Powerful Global Communities with Lola Omolola
Leadership Principles with Head of Center for the 4th Industrial Revolution with Murat Sönmez
Building meaningful careers in politics and public policy
Building meaningful careers in politics and public policy with Minister Dharmendra Pradhan & Shri Ramesh Abhishek. Mr. Pradhan is the Cabinet Minister for Petroleum & Natural Gas and Steel in the Government of India. As a Member of Parliament, he represents Madhya Pradesh in the Rajya Sabha and was earlier a member of the 14th Lok Sabha. IAS (Retd.) Former Secretary to GoI, Dept of Industry & Internal Trade (makeinindia, startupindia, easeofdoingbiz). Mr. Ramesh has worked in Bihar for over 15 years.
Building meaningful careers in politics and public policy
Building your category of one with Utkarsh Amitabh
CEO Fellowship
Career Intelligence with Facebook Analytics Lead Venketesh Iyer
Career Principles with GEM CEO with Talleen Kumar
Mr. Kumar is a member of the Indian Administrative Service of 1987 batch and presently the CEO of the Government E-Marketplace. Mr. Kumar brings with him 32 years of experience in public administration.
Career Principles with Vice President of Altamont Capital Partners with Sahil Bloom
I am currently a Vice President at Altamont Capital Partners, a generalist investment fund with over $2.5 billion in capital under management, focused on control investments in middle market companies. At Altamont, I help to lead our efforts in the consumer products and services sector, including through active board roles at Altamont portfolio companies Fox Racing and Brixton.
Career Principles with Waterfield Advisors Founder Soumya Rajan
As the founder of Waterfield Advisors, Soumya brings over 25 years of financial services experience. She has advised several of India’s leading business families on issues related to the success and continuity of their family enterprise.
Career Principles with Yale World Fellow with Raheel Khursheed
Raheel Khursheed is a globally recognized technology impact leader and for his groundbreaking work of democratizing information at scale was named a 2017 Knight Visiting Nieman Fellow at Harvard, a Yale world fellow 2017, a member of the 2017 class of Asia 21, and a 2018 Draper-Hills Summer Fellow at Stanford University.
Careers Principles with Cambridge alum and HBS admit with Chia
Chia graduated from Cambridge and got admitted to Harvard Business School. In this masterclass, he will share his leadership journey, vision for future and concrete ideas about the future of work, specifically how and when should one think of advanced degrees and how skills in one industry can be applied to another
Careers in Investing with INSEAD and IFC Alum with Kartikeya Shekhar
Kartikeya covers consumer tech investments at Blume, supporting on sourcing, investing and portfolio management. His areas of focus include fintech, proptech, retail tech, and marketplaces. He joins Blume from an operations role at Bridge International Academies, a leading ed-tech startup in Africa.
Careers in Public Policy with Arnab Kumar
Led Government of India's strategy and implementation of Artificial Intelligence, Digital Economy, FinTech andBlockchain initiatives; co-authored India's National Strategy for Artificial Intelligence; ex-Investment Banker withexperience of US$20bn+ in M&A, Equity and Debt transactions across Asia and Americas.
Careers in Technology with Ramesh Chander
Ramesh is a program manager at Google; working on Google's Search Ads platform. Previously Ramesh has worked on smart home automation, wireless/fiber internet and technology consulting in Australia, UK and the US. Ramesh did his computer science engineering in India, a Master in IT & Telecom in Australia before completing his MBA at Oxford. Ramesh is also an angel investor with investments across India, US and Europe.
Complete guide to masters applications to Sciences Po with Chetna Hareesh Kumar
Chetna is a current student of the Master’s in International Economic Policy at Sciences Po Paris, studying China and Energy as her focus areas, where she is a recipient of the Émile Boutmy, Tiara, Charpak Travel and K.C. Mahindra scholarships.
Cracking 750+ in GMAT and Making it to Columbia Business School with Aayush Gandhi
Cracking Harvard Kennedy School and Building Meaningful Careers in Public Policy with Rwitwika Bhattacharya
Cracking MPA/MPP in US with Sanyukta Sharma
Cracking Top B-Schools with Kellogg Alum with Nakul Khanna
Cracking UPSC and Leading Policy Changes with IAS Second Topper Athar Aamir Khan
Cracking the WEF Global Leadership Fellows Programme with Sriram and Shiv
Cultivating an Innovation Mindset with Shayan Roy Chowdhury
Shayan works as Head of Education Ventures at the Fair Education Alliance, the UK's pre-eminent education coalition. He is an Innovation Ecosystem Builder Fellow at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, D-Lab and a World Economic Forum Global Shaper. Shayan has worked at Bain & Company, Teach For India, and started his career at a data science unicorn.
Deep-dive into Venture Capital and Impact Investing with Founder of Aavishkaar Group Vineet Rai
Step II: Join weekly MBA Bootcamp
We host a weekly 1:1 and small group sessions to go over different components of the applications. Through these session we help applicants identify their Category of One (as written by Utkarsh Amitabh, the founder of Network Capital in his Harvard Business Review article) and craft their application.
As a part of the bootcamp you get access to -
As a part of the bootcamp you get access to -
- Weekly sessions that help you perfect and craft every minute component of your application.
- Live support for review and feedback on your application.
- A time-bound assignment-based application structure that helps you finish your application in time.
Step III: Receive 1:1 mentoring to perfect your application
We host 1:1 mentoring or office hours everyday from 6pm to 10 pm (IST). As a subscriber you can book as frequently as you like.
In these office hours you will personalised feed on your CV and essays. The 100+ Network Capital CBS alums will testify to the power of our office hours.
In these office hours you will personalised feed on your CV and essays. The 100+ Network Capital CBS alums will testify to the power of our office hours.
Step IV: Connect with alums and prepare for your interview
To add final touches to your application and get guidance for the interview, you have complete support from the entire NC-New York subgroup.
Step V: Join the NC New York Subgroup
Connect with the city-leader for New York and find the Network Capital subgroup waiting for you as you embark upon your MBA adventure at Columbia.
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