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Why Marketing Is Too Important to Leave to the Marketers
In many businesses, marketing is a room down the hall. It is the team that creates the perfect logo, runs the advertising, manages the social accounts, and is called in near the end of a project to "package" whatever product the team has already decided to build. Everyone else, from finance to operations, engineering, and the corner office, regards marketing as someone else's responsibility, a specialized function to admire from afar but leave alone. And in many of those same

Raffles Jakarta
Aug 47 min read


Why a One-Year MBA Changes the Maths
Overall, the two-year option is a third cheaper than the one-year option, but both options qualify the same. Most people who begin to consider a master’s degree do so with the wrong number. They look at the tuition, compare it with their savings and decide if the number feels affordable. That’s a natural place to start, and it’s analytically backwards because for almost every working professional, tuition is not the largest cost of graduate school; time is. The economics of e

Raffles Jakarta
Jul 249 min read


The Numbers Every Manager Should Be Able to Read
There is a moment most people who have sat in a budget meeting without a finance background will recognize. Someone puts a number on the screen, there's a debate about whether it's the right number and the meeting moves on based on a conversation that half the room didn't totally follow. No one admits to feeling this way. The proposal is accepted or rejected, and the manager who couldn’t follow the argument walks away having learned nothing except that he lost. The usual expl

Raffles Jakarta
Jul 249 min read


What Management Actually Asks of You
After you get promoted, there is a particular silence. The announcement is made, the congratulations are received and then the new manager sits down at the same desk with a new title and realizes that no one has told them what the job is. They know more or less what their forerunner did. They sort of know what their manager’s after. What they don’t know, what almost nobody tells them, is that the work they were promoted for is different from the work they are now being paid t

Raffles Jakarta
Jul 2410 min read


MBA Education Evolution: Bridging Theory & Practice at Raffles Jakarta
Understanding the Shift in Business Education and MBA One of the most significant misconceptions about business education is that it primarily revolves around management theory, corporate structures, and financial decision-making. In reality, human behavior increasingly shapes modern business environments, which are far less predictable. Today, companies across industries invest enormous resources in understanding why consumers make decisions. They analyze how digital environ

Raffles Jakarta
May 223 min read
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