Prof Gajendra Adil Prof Gajendra Adil recently took over as head, Shailesh J Mehta School of Management (SJMSoM), Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Bombay. An academician at heart, Prof Adil worked at Bilkent Universtity, Turkey and City University, Hong Kong before joining SJMSoM in 2000. Speaking exclusively to PaGaLGuY, he...
Read More(Photo: psyberartist) Free of the censoring knife of their PR committees, students of the Indian Institutes of Management (IIMs) are having a ball anonymously posting what appears like an unbridled bitchfest about their b-schools on a Facebook page aptly titled IIM Confessions. Imagine this: you are an IIM student who...
Read MorePhoto Credit: Steve A johnson Probability has always been a fascinating topic to teach. The pleasure that I get out of correcting silly mistakes, which are plenty in questions based on probability can be considered sadistic by some or a truly noble thing to do by others. I hope the...
Read MorePhoto Credit: Lucia Whittaker The Associate Professor of Marketing who is accused of sexual harassment at the Indian Institute of Management Indore may even stand to lose his job if he proved guilty. Accused of sexually harassing a junior lady professor at the institute, the director of IIM-I, Dr N...
Read MoreAs has been the trend over the last 3 years (See Table 1), hiring for finance function during summer internships at Indian Institute of Management (IIM), Ahmedabad, has taken a dip this year as well. This year, 25.72% of the batch was hired for roles in the finance function as...
Read MoreLeonardo Banegas, Global MBA student at ESSEC Business School, France After having grown up and worked in Citibank across multiple Central American countries, Honduras national Leonardo Banegas wanted to be anywhere but a Spanish-speaking country for his MBA. He eventually joined the one-year Global MBA programme at ESSEC Business School...
Read MoreYudhir Agarwal The Common Management Admission Test (CMAT) 2013 is being conducted over a 5 day test window from February 21-25 across 2 time slots (9:30 am to 12:30 pm; 2:30 pm to 5:30 pm). Today’s paper was comparable in terms of difficulty, with the Quantitative Aptitude & Data Interpretation...
Read MoreNUS Business School, National University of Singapore Despite a relatively rosier job market, as a Singaporean MBA you will find companies making the same demands from you at interview time as they are from European or American graduates. For example, you are more likely to land a job in finance...
Read MorePhoto Credit: Oatsy 40 (flickr) Questions on clocks (or even calendars) are not really frequent in CAT these days. They used to be really popular few years ago. Having said that, it is always better to understand some of the basic principles and the types of problems that get asked....
Read MorePhoto courtesy: kevin dooley (www.flickr.com) In the second part of this series, PaGaLGuY drills down the number of seats as well as the fees structure of the b-schools, other than Indian Institute of Management (IIMs), ranked 1-25 according to the PaGaLGuY b-school rankings 2012. Amongst the major changes, as reported...
Read MoreFile photo (Credit: makeitbloom.com) The Indian Institute of Management (IIMs) may consider an alteration in the dates for the Group Discussion/Personal Interview (GD/PI) process. Some of them are clashing with the Bharat Bandh called by the trade unions on February 20 and 21. Prof Pradyumna Dash, admission Chairperson, IIM Raipur,...
Read MoreFile photo of students waiting outside the CMAT test centre in Tughlaqabad, New Delhi In a first of sorts, an extra Common Management Admission Test (CMAT) will be held this May 2013. This will additional to the one going to be held in February 21-25 and in September 2013. Disclosing...
Read MorePhoto courtesy: Srini Addepalli (www.flickr.com) Below is the first of two articles, put together by the PaGaLGuY team on the numbers of seats and fee structure in the top 25 schools (according to the PaGaLGuY b-school rankings 2012) and all the Indian Institutes of Management. This one in on the...
Read MoreA typical bandh day in Kochi. Photo Credit: karmadue Fresh Update Those who have missed out on CMAT in February due to the bandh, can take the exam in May 2013 as well. This has been confirmed by AICTE director Mr SS Mantha. Second update AICTE Chairman Mr SS Mantha...
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Read MoreBefore the Spanish economic crisis, roughly a third of Barcelonas ESADE Business School MBA graduates fond jobs in Spain. That proportion has now reduced to one-sixth of the class. To make up for loss, the ESADE career services team has made efforts to tap into the job markets in Latin...
Read MoreSandeep Manudhane February 14 is the day of love. This article is also about love but of a slightly different kind. Love for CAT as in the Common Admission Test (CAT). How else, would you explain Indore-based Sandeep Manudhane’s fascination for taking CAT every single year since 1993! Sandeep runs...
Read MoreHappy V-Day, lovebirds! :mg: Image of roses used in the cover from here. Deepak Gopalakrishnan is a cartoonist and advertising professional from Mumbai. Catch all his cartoons and work here, and follow his tweets here.
Read MorePhoto Credit: Inha Leex Hale If you think cracking CAT (Common Admission Test) or/and GMAT (Graduate Management Admission Test) is enough of a bother, there is news. GMAC (Graduate Management Admission Council), the body that conducts GMAT is soon to launch Reflect, an exam that checks soft skills. To be...
Read MoreMany students from Asia look at the Eurozone crisis and become discouraged about studying in Europe, thinking that jobs will be hard to come by. However, these students could greatly boost their chances of working in Europe by learning the local language, says Ashok Som, associate dean of Global MBA...
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