Imagine the opportunity 500 million urban population by 2020 8.7 billion sq ft to be built every year! In other words, India needs to build a city like Chicago every year $253 billion built environment sector – growing at cumulative growth rate of 19% $1 trillion investment in infrastructure planned...
Read MoreThe new Common Admission Test (CAT) Convenor Prof Rohit Kapoor of the Indian Institute of Management, Indore (IIM-I) says that CAT 2013 will have no substantive changes and that no one should expect any major surprise either. Prof Kapoor who was earlier Assistant Vice-President, Operations, Angel Capital and Debt Markets...
Read MoreIf you are feeling stumped about the origin and purpose of an email from the sender ‘CMAT’, which directs you to a webpage form with the AICTE logo on its header, vaguely asking you “To fill up online Application for AICTE Approved College details in India. Form should be filled...
Read MoreSP Jain’s Australian campus The SP Jain School of Global Management has been on a spree of launching new international programmes in the last few years. Namely the Bachelor of Business Administration (BBA), Global Master of Business Administration (GMBA), Master of Global Business (MGB) and Executive Master of Business Administration...
Read MoreSo like I said, follow Kaushik here. Me, you can always follow here, and see the rest of my comics here.
Read MoreRakesh Vishwakarma, who teaches math at Genesis Mentors writes a primer on solving geometry problems in the CAT that involve calculating cleverly-etched triangles inside intricate figures. ——— A lot of questions in management entrance exams including CAT are from Geometry and that too from the topic involving the areas of...
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Read MoreThere appears to be some unrest among the student community at TA Pai Management Institute, (TAPMI) Manipal, Karnataka. A couple of policies framed by the institute’s management seem to have irked its students lately. While some related posts were put up by TAPMI students on the PaGalGuY forums, we also...
Read MoreHungry anyone? (Photo Courtesy: http://bit.ly/13ARZpD) Update on September 19, 2013: The ownership of this plan is currently under dispute with Jakub Dzamba, a PhD candidate in architecture at McGill, claiming ownership of the idea. For more details, view here Five students from the Desautels Faculty of Management at McGill University,...
Read MoreIf you are wondering which Indian Institutes of Management (IIMs) the Common Admission Test (CAT) 2012 toppers are heading to, here’s the news: Toppers (100 percentilers) Converted Areesh Mittal IIM-C Anshul Garg IIM-C Ravi Teja Palla IIM-C, L (Waitlisted for B) Sumit Patil IIM-C, A, B, L Siddharth Sharma IIM-C,...
Read MoreThe Reading Comprehension (RC) section has been the bête noire of CAT candidates for long now. Simply because the length of the passage has varied every year, the type of questions asked has also varied and there is no tutorial/technique that one can use to prepare for the various types...
Read MoreISB Hyderabad (Photo: Anish Jain) Aiming right for the core of the repeat CAT takers’ market, the Indian School of Business (ISB), Hyderabad will now allow those with less than two years of work experience to apply for deferred admissions to their one-year Post Graduate Program (PGP). Called the ‘Early...
Read MoreVista Mind, the coaching institute which had threatened a Kolkata student with legal consequences for posting a what they termed a defamatory review of the company on the PaGaLGuY forums, today issued a clarification in which they insisted that it wasn’t the overall post they objected to, but only the...
Read MoreFor all you Investment Banking (IB) aspirants, we met with Ridham Desai, MD, Research, Morgan Stanley to gain insights into what is really happening in the industry? But first, here is a brief profile about him. How would you describe investment banking to b-school students? Students join the industry with...
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Photo credit: Jilligan86 The admission process to the Master in Management Studies (MMS) programs at business schools across Maharashtra is likely to be delayed this year due to the Common Management Admission Test (CMAT) scheduled for May 2013, the Directorate of Technical Education (DTE), Government of Maharashtra confirmed today. Last...
Read MoreIIM Shillong Candidates in the final stages of the Indian Institute of Management (IIM), Shillong admissions were a confused lot on Tuesday after receiving two consecutive emails from the school, one declaring the release of the final results and the other refuting the first. “I got the first mail, which...
Read MoreFollowing up on our previous article on the LinkedIn.com data about the alumni bodies of the top 10 Indian b-schools, here is a similar analysis for the next 10 colleges according to the PaGaLGuY B-school Rankings 2013. Once again we reiterate that we are working with the assumption that statistics...
Read MoreIn a stark reminder of recent cases in which Indians have been legally intimidated for what they wrote online on social networks, an MBA applicant from Kolkata has been threatened with legal proceedings by a CAT test preparation company after he expressed dissatisfaction with the institute’s pricing and product information...
Read MoreThe first batch of 8 women to enroll for the MBA program at HBS Fifty years ago, the Harvard Business School (HBS) faculty voted to admit women into the two-year MBA Program. Since then, about 12,000 women have graduated from its MBA, Doctoral, and Executive Education programmes. And today, women...
Read MoreProblems based on grids/chessboards have been asked in the CAT and other MBA entrance exams over the years. They seem really difficult when you encounter them for the first time but once you get the hang of things they become really simple. The key lies in understanding the basic concepts...
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