Link to CMAT Feb 2013 results emerge hours before its due, AICTE claims they are fake

February 2013 CMAT scorecard as visible to aspirants A link leading aspirants to the scorecard of the Common Management Admission Test February 2013 emerged one day before the actual results were due tomorrow i.e. on March 13, 2013. However, SS Mantha, Chairman, All Indian Council for Technical Education (AICTE), rubbished...

[Comic] A Pagal look at Wealth Management

To be LearnING Centered-Dr. Verdini

To be LearnING Centered-Dr. Verdini The front page of a recent issue of The Hindu Business Line reported that D. Subbarao, Reserve Bank of India Governor, called for skill improvement, job creation, increased agricultural productivity, and attention to social sector outcomes in order to achieve the economic growth rate necessary...

Search for new IIM-A director enters last lap. Interim plans should be announced this week. Search at IIM-B continues

Photo Credit: JoeLodge This week the Ministry of Human Resources Development (MHRD) should announce the name of the person who will hold fort at the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, between the time the present director Dr Samir Barua ends his term March end and the appointment of the new...

Finding out the number of integral, whole number and natural number solutions

Photo Credit: Flickr A very common type of problem that we get in CAT is when we are asked to find out the number of integral solutions to a given equation. I have always found it hard to categorize such sort of problems in a particular category. A case can...

Watch recording: Crossing 700 in GMAT, Live Google Hangout with Psychodementia

The first Hangout was nice! Watch a recording of the hangout on this video above. If you are taking GMAT and wish to score 700+, this might be useful for you. Join Arun Jagannathan (@Psychodementia) the most consistently helpful puy in the GMAT section over the years and owner of...

Executive to Nomad: Read about MBA grad Adam Pervez’s journey across the world in pursuit of happiness

Below is the story of 30-year old Adam Pervez, an IE Business School graduate (MBA), who quit his six-figure paying job to “find a deeper meaning in life.” He realised he wanted to see and do much more than what his much-sought-after job was giving him. He hence started what...

IMT Dubai Experienceu2013Sugandha Prashar

IMT Dubai Experience – Sugandha Prashar Why IMT Dubai? I chose IMT Dubai due to the IMT brand image and its equity in the corporate world; and the two years I’ve spent here have completely validated my decision. IMT Dubai gave the opportunity to be in the midst of a...

Entrepreneurship gives flexibility to women: Rashmi Bansal

Rashmi Bansal Ahead of the launch of her new book Follow Every Rainbow, Rashmi Bansal, writer and entrepreneur, speaks to PaGaLGuY about her new book and the insights that she attained during the course of writing this book: What is your new book based on? Like my earlier books, the...

NMIMS Mumbai declares final admission list for 2013-15 batch

NMIMS Narsee Monjee Institute of Management Studies (NMIMS), Mumbai released its final results for the batch of 2013-15 around 4 PM today post the group discussion and interview rounds. The candidates are required to feed their Narsee Monjee Management Aptitude Test (NMAT) ID and the date of birth in order...

Modi-Wharton war: losses on both sides

Photo Credit: Flickr “We are happy to announce that Shri Narendra Modi, Chief Minister of Gujarat will be addressing the conference and talking about the Gujarat growth model and its significance to the country!” Till the time, this article draft hit the publishing button; the above lines stole the light...

Innovation in higher studies – a case study

Over the past few decades business education has become a necessity for individuals to occupy positions of significance within organisations. While thousands of students enroll each year into top bracket b- schools, year after year corporations claim the unavailability of the right talent to hire for the right positions. To...

Registration for May 2013 MAT begins

(Photo credit: davidking) The All India Management Association (AIMA) has released the notification for the May 2013 window of the Management Aptitude Test (MAT). Candidates can take the paper-based test on May 5, 2013 or go for the computer-based exam May 11, 2013 onwards. The test timing for the paper...

ISME students in top cos. Alumni speak

International School of Management Excellence, Bangalore has been in the forefront of management education with a strong emphasis on Quality in Education and strong industry academic interface. The industry-relevant curriculum, accomplished faculty with strong industry experience and educational background from the best schools like Carnegie Mellon University, Purdue University, Wharton,...

FMS-MITS u2013 thinking beyond the obvious

Faculty of Management Studies (FMS) – Mody Institute of Technology & Science (MITS), (Deemed university u/s 3 of UGC Act, 1956) Lakshmangarh, is number one MBA Institute for women in the country as per The Week MaRS Survey. Also, the MBA programme is accredited by National Board of Accreditation (NBA),...

Panel studying sexual harassment complaint at IIM Indore disbanded, no verdict as yet

Photo Credit: The Raggedy-man (flickr) The Gender Sensitivity Committee which was looking into the sexual harassment case at the Indian Institute of Management Indore (IIM-I) has been dispersed. According to sources, the complainant, a professor in the Marketing department, was not happy with the members that constituted the committee. She...

The FIIB MBA – a ‘doing’ MBA

“I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand.” Ancient Chinese Proverb Plavon Bora, 1st Year MBA Student at Fortune Institute of International business (FIIB) hates cooking. With a Pre-MBA work experience as a Technical Support Officer at Microsoft, he joined the 2-year full-time...

IMI: Application rise by 80%

After witnessing a phenomenal jump of 80% in the number of applications this year, IMI has kick started with its interview process for all its three campuses- New Delhi, Bhubaneswar and Kolkata. IMI has increased the overall CAT cut off to 92 percentile as compared to 90 percentile last year...

Are Union Budget’s sops for education any good?

(Interactive chart by Sanjit Oberai) For the education sector, Union Budget 2013 gives reason only for a muted cheer. Finance Minster P Chidambaram has allocated Rs 65,867 crore to Ministry of Human Resource Development (MHRD), which is an increase of 17 per cent over the Revised Estimate of the previous...

How the Union Budget 2013 will impact you

(Photo credit: beneneuman) The Union Budget 2013 is out and is on populist lines as expected. With making the rich poorer high on the Finance Ministrys agenda, prices of some goods are going to shoot up and some will dive. Here is PaGaLGuY.coms drill down on what this budget means...