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‘Leaders are Readers’, the saying goes (and rightly so). But what should future business readers be reading online? The Internet is teeming with blogs about entrepreneurship, marketing, financial markets, economics – and influencers’ blogs. You’ll make up your mind once you start exploring this never-ending world, but we decided to devote this blogpost to share with you our picks. Enjoy!

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HBR

Harvard Business Review has been around for almost a century, and its mission has always been to produce and circulate information for businessmen-in-the-making and those already in the business realm. Initially focusing on macroeconomics, it started paying attention to the new management, sales and leadership techniques that helped post-World War II the US become a global industrial powerhouse. Adi Ignatius, editor-in-chief since 2009, was brought in to revitalize the magazine and its online counterpart at the time of the last recession. He maintained HBR’s tradition of betting on academic research alongside award-winning journalism, simultaneously expanding the range of topics and geographies covered and redesigning its image to make it more appealing. If you can’t find anything for you in HBR, then you probably shouldn’t be taking an MBA!

Bloomberg

Also a trademark of business publications, Bloomberg takes pride in ‘Connecting decision-makers to a dynamic network of information, people, and ideas’. Compared to HBR, it contains more articles and interviews on finance, while maintaining a generalist character. Online, Bloomberg posts journalistic pieces from Bloomberg News (the Group’s news agency) and Bloomberg Businessweek (born out of the acquisition of Businessweek). According to a supposedly leaked 2015 memo, if you are the “the clever customer who is short of time”, this blog is for you!

Mad Over Marketing

M.O.M. is in its own category of cool. Anything – literally – that you ever wanted to know about marketing past, present and future is featured in this impeccably designed miscellaneous blog. In its young Indian founder’s words, M.O.M. brings to you ‘the good, bad and ugly of advertising’, cautioning that they ‘applaud the best and make fun of the rest’. A word to the wise: you will spend hours and hours here…

Entrepreneur

Thinking of becoming your own boss after your MBA? Entrepreneur.com, the online sister of the monthly magazine with the same name (around since the late 1970s), promises to inform you on all you need to know to ‘start, grow and run’ your own business. The California-based publishing group focuses on SMEs all around the world, and its blog also includes contests, videos, and spin-offs of the stories published in the magazine.

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Seth Godin

Ok, we needed to include Seth here, simply because Seth is everywhere. His is one of the most popular blogs in the world and is a great example that, in order to excel at something, you must pay attention to everything else. One of the dot.com pioneers, Seth Godin, is now a bestselling author, an education expert, the founder of The Marketing Seminar and the altMBA and still manages to post daily on his blog (the archive boasts over 2500 articles). On Medium, another section of Godin’s webpage, you’ll find longer reads on a range of topics.

As we mentioned in the beginning, choosing the best business blogs for MBA students is an ambitious task, and we’re sure some of your favorites didn’t make an appearance here. As always, we aim not only to please but also to provide great starting points to help our readers engage with new ideas and discover for themselves the type of career they aspire to and the kind of leader they hope to become.

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