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What does a career in the consulting industry look like? And how do you get your foot in the door if you’re aspiring to enter that industry?

Firearms generally have a bad rap — they are often perceived as forces of destruction or the protagonists of polarised debate. However, for SMU MBA graduate Marko Lim, an early exposure to weapons triggered a much more benign interest in the analytical and imaginative world of engineering.

In the realm of folklore, the origins of the mythological unicorn can be traced back thousands of years. In the no less awe-inspiring world of entrepreneurship, a unicorn refers to a start-up valued at over a billion dollars, and this term was coined by a venture capitalist in 2013 to allude to the statistical rarity of such companies.

Fu Yalang Grace Bielemeier knows what it’s like to be a woman in male-dominated environments. In university, she studied computer science and e-business, and was part of a cohort that was 90 per cent male.

Here’s the hard truth about soft skills: they matter, perhaps much more than business world go-getters might think.

For prospective students, selecting a business school can be one of the most important decisions in their personal and professional lives. A variety of publications now provide rankings that aim to assess the quality and value of graduate business education. But what do rankings tell us and how should we use them in making such critical decisions?