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(Photo courtesy: jonfeinstein) The Common Admission Test (CAT) 2012 authorities have sent letters with the ‘correct’ scores to the institutes that have admitted the 80 candidates allegedly involved in the infamous CAT scam. It is now up to the institutes whether the retain the students/candidates (waiting list) or not. This...

By Astha A

A definite ‘Like’ for this French b-school for getting social media into the classroom

Photo Credit: Bergerking (Flickr) When you can’t fight the system, you simply go with it. Professor of Marketing, Nicolas Minvielle, at Audencia Nantes School of Management, France did just that. Sensing that his students spent considerable time on Facebook and Twitter during class hours, he simply decided to join them....

IIM-A director Ajay Pandey gets an extension

The Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad (IIM-A) current director, Ajay Pandey has got another extension for three months. Prof Pandey’s stint as acting director was scheduled to end on June 30 and the new director expected to take over from today, July 1. The delay appears to be from the...

By PaGaLGuY.com News Service

CMAT & SNAP Quant: Weighing Scales and Measures-Based Problems

(Photo: Sixtybolts ) Problems based on weighing machines and pan balances are little more common in exams like CMAT and SNAP compared to the CAT because the nature of these questions is such that once you understand the basic concepts and formulae, there isn’t much thinking required to solve the...

By Ravi Handa

Rewarding opportunities in real estate and construction

Rewarding opportunities in real estate and construction • Be engaged in a sector that contributes 17.5% to India’s GDP • With an average of 4 million professionals needed in the sector every year over the next 10 years, employment opportunities in built environment are numerous • Work on amazing projects...

Study Abroad, Stay in Mumbai at MISB Bocconi!

When the second edition of the PGP-Business will start? The PGPB will commence on July 8th with the opening week while on July 15th students will begin their pre-courses in Accounting, Economics and Quantitative Methods. Applications will be accepted and evaluated until June 28th 2013. Which is the essence of...

MBA students who want a job with this Las Vegas company, need to be good at poker

A poker game in progress at this year’s tournament Don’t be surprised, if tomorrow, an automobile company visiting your campus tests your driving skills before offering you a job. Because that’s how US-based gaming company Caesars Entertainment hires. It invites MBA students interested in working with them to play poker...

Schulich to start Twinning MBA at Hyderabad from September 2013

Dezsö Horváth, dean, Schulich School of Business, York University, Canada In an ideal world, Dezsö Horváth would have liked his 25-year-long deanship of Canada’s Schulich School of Business, York University to see through a full-fledged MBA program run by the school on Indian soil. But with the foreign universities entry...

By PaGaLGuY.com News Service

TISS officials say single exam, re-introduction of essay reasons for a diverse batch this year

The classrooms at the School of Management and Labour Studies at the Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS) Mumbai will have a different look to them this year. According to information provided by Bino Paul, professor and chairperson, Centre for Human Resources Management and Labour Relations, the proportion of both...

By Shashank Venkat

Sandip Soparrkar chucked campus placements at SIBM and danced his way to entpreneurship

Sandip Soparrkar and his wife (dancer and model) Jesse Randhawa Sandip Soparrkar, one of India’s most popular western dancers is not willing to disclose ‘when’ he graduated from Symbiosis Institute of Business Management (SIBM), Pune. He simply says it was years ago. But what he is willing to share, is...

CAT Quant: Problems on Escalators from Time, Speed and Distance

(Photo: Boegh) Quant problems on Time, Speed and Distance make frequent appearances in management entrance exams. To my collection of posts on PaGaLGuY (detailed list), I would like to add a few thoughts about solving escalator-related problems. At the basic level, escalator related problems aren’t too different from boats and...

By Ravi Handa

SBI slashes education loan rates, Scholar Loan now available at 10.7%

(Photo: Peter Gibbons) India’s biggest lender State Bank of India (SBI) has slashed the education loan interest rate for premium b-schools to as low as 10.7%. Further, for students who have two years of work experience and add a parent or the spouse as co-borrower, the interest rate would be...

By Sanjit Oberai

‘Being a good leader/manager is not so much about authority as much as handling a conflict situation well,’ says Srikant Datar

Dr Srikant Datar Dr Srikant M. Datar is the Arthur Lowes Dickinson Professor of Accounting at the Harvard University. A ‘Bombay’ boy, Dr Datar graduated from the Mumbai University (University of Bombay then), went on to study at the Institute of Cost and Works Accountants of India and the Indian...

Meet the LIBA professor who wants to help solve food security by planting mass fruit saplings

Alagu Perumal Ramasamy At a time when we the union government is trying to push through the Food Security Bill, Alagu Perumal Ramasamy, an assistant professor who teaches international business at Chennai’s Loyola Institute of Business Administration (LIBA), has been working away for more than two years to contribute to...

By Shashank Venkat

At IIM-L, students get to run restaurants and become entrepreneurs for a year

Yes, entrepreneurship can be taught in a classroom with four walls and a black board. But it is best learnt on the ground and at The Indian Institute of Management, Lucknow, (IIM-L) students get to become entrepreneurs for a year. Two of IIM-L’s most famous eating joints are run by...

What is Wrong with Your Quant Prep for CAT?

(Photo: CarbonNYC) Nearly everything. Don’t believe me – the data says so. What I can gather from most quant threads on PaGaLGuY and similar online Facebook groups is that a lot of students, coaching institutes and mentors (including myself) end up focusing their energy on the wrong aspects of CAT...

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New IIM-C dir Saibal Chattopadhyay to change curriculum, also wants people to look at IIMs without the halo

Mr Saibal Chattopadhyay The Indian Institute of Management Calcutta’s new director Saibal Chattopadhyay says he has two primary tasks up his sleeve. One, to get rid of the halo that has been built around the IIMs over the years and the other to change the curriculum of his b-school. “There...

Stanford GSB 2014 MBA Essay Tips & Deadlines

Stanford GSB 2014 MBA Application Questions We read your essays to get to know you as a person and to learn about the ideas and interests that motivate you. Tell us in your own words who you are. In other parts of the application, we learn about your academic and...

Interview with Varun Verma, S P Jain alumnus

Varun Verma, Assistant Vice-President – O&S;, Genpact, sheds light on the important role global exposure and real-world skills play in preparing graduates for the real world of international business. Varun is an S P Jain GMBA graduate and was recently selected to take part in Genpact’s coveted Leadership Excellence Acceleration...