Imagine that you bought a company out and walked into its office on the first day as the new owner, only to find that half the workers have gone on strike. To make it worse, you find that your customers are awaiting order shipments beyond the due date and just...
Read MoreHRD Minister M M Pallam Raju Mr M M Pallam Raju, the current Union Minister for Human Resources Development is an Engineer in Electronics and Communications from Andhra University as well as an MBA graduate from Temple University, USA. Post his degrees, Mr Raju worked abroad and on his return...
Read MoreAn MBA Story from IMT Dubai Have you ever wondered how many MBA graduates are around? How many students graduate each year globally with an MBA degree under their belt? What makes an MBA degree so vital? Why do so many people around the world enroll for an MBA? But...
Read MoreCould Ringo Starr possibly prepare for the CAT while being in such an overpopulated band? (Photo: Jao Haupt) When I read a comment in PaGaLGuY seeking advice on preparing for the Common Admissions Test (CAT) while living in the chaos of a joint family household, it brought a smile to...
Read MoreNeil Agarwal, UCLA Anderson MBA class of 2012 Instead of starting a new company and brand from scratch, American-Indian Neil Agarwal, MBA 2012 from Anderson School of Management, University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA) instead decided to work with his brother-in-law to establish the North America franchise operations of...
Read MoreWhich will it be this time? (Photo courtesy: pheaber) The All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) has declared the results of the May 2013 CMAT. Candidates can download their scorecards from here Previous updates: May 2013 CMAT results to be declared by midnight, all ten toppers males (May 31,...
Read MorePhoto Credit: flippinyank Come September 2013 and the Common Management Admissions Test (CMAT) will be conducted abroad as well as in India. Additionally, candidates will be tested on a new component in the paper termed Emotional Intelligence. Speaking exclusively to PaGaLGuY.com, the All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) chairman...
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Read MoreSridhar Pabbisetty (left) during his election campaign at RT Nagar, Bengaluru After years of work on policy thinking, Sridhar Pabbisetty wanted to go beyond just ideas. The quest for putting political action to his ideas led him to quit his job as the chief operating officer (COO) of the Centre...
Read More(Photo: Lydia) In my previous post on probability, we talked about the basics of the topic and I honestly believe that that much should be enough for most CAT applicants. But there is a finite probability that a slightly more advanced question on probability might be asked in CAT. The...
Read MoreSangeet Chowfla, tipped-to-be CEO of GMAC Starting 2014, a technology executive of Indian origin will head the organisation that owns and runs the Graduate Management Admission Test (GMAT). The Graduate Management Admission Council (GMAC), the global non-profit body of business schools today announced the appointment of Sangeet Chowfla as President...
Read MoreSuhail Abidi, Stanford GSB MBA 2013 What would you do if you had to pay absolutely nothing to do your MBA at the Stanford Graduate School of Business (GSB)? Suhail Abidi, a Stanford MBA 2013 from Lucknow, who joined with a full waiver of tuition and expenses due to the...
Read MoreKatja Boytler, associate director of Career Services at INSEAD, Europe campus The European job market being harder to crack, a few international students at INSEAD Europe (France) and Asia (Singapore) have used rather creative ways to win over recruiters from their target sectors, says the school’s associate director of career...
Read MorePhoto Credit: robnguyen01 The Common Admission Test (CAT) exam has also seen its share of impostors. PaGaLGuY confirmed the news with two former CAT Convenors, Prof Himanshu Rai and Prof SSS Kumar, who admitted that there were impersonators when they were at the helm but they were caught and dealt...
Read More(Graphic by Sanjit Oberai) In the first part of this two-part series, we highlighted how executive MBA courses haven’t quite delivered to the expectations of the students pursuing them. In this second part, we take a look at what the b-schools have to say on the subject On placements… While...
Read More(Graphic by Sanjit Oberai) Some months ago we noticed an ugly spat between an Executive (one-year) MBA student and a b-school on our forums. https://testing.pagalguy.com/discussions/iim-calcutta-pgpex-vii-admission-process-and-beyond-25078658/7816564. We decided to follow the trail and finally ended up with a two-part series on the Executive MBA. While, this, the first part deals with...
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Read MoreThe search operation at IIM Bangalore has come to an end and the call has been identified as a hoax call. This was confirmed by a police official from MICO Layout Police Station, Bangalore. “We have traced the call to a phone booth in JP Nagar but we have not...
Read MoreStudents attending an MBA class at Islamia College, Srinagar The two T’s that make most news in the state of Jammu and Kashmir (J&K;), are terrorism and tourism. Almost everything else takes a backseat, unless of course an all-girl band is booed or there is bad weather at Amarnath. No...
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