XLRI Jamshedpur The Graduate Management Admission Council (GMAC) has inducted the Indian Institute of Management Calcutta (IIM C) and XLRI Jamshedpur as members. Students will stand to benefit indirectly from this move as member b-schools get better exposure to global practices. Indian School of Business (ISB) Hyderabad, IIM Ahmedabad, S...
Read MoreAlongside accounting and organisational behaviour, business lessons at INSEAD begin with deep discussions on the Israel-Palestine conflict, religion in China and Enrons troubles with the Indian government at Dabhol. With over six dozen nationalities studying together in its classrooms, you can imagine how intense some of these huddles could become....
Read MorePhoto Credit: thethreesisters When you are competing against thousands or rather lakhs of people for a few seats, every minute matters. These days, probably what you did in your class 10th, 12th and graduation matters more than most things – but hey, you cannot do anything about that until someone...
Read MorePhoto courtesy: QuinnDombrowski The Common Admission Test admission rules are very clear. On the website, it clearly states that the percentages for both X and XII have to be calculated taking into account all subjects mentioned on the candidate’s marksheet. Yet, every year, many candidates do just the opposite, especially...
Read MoreWhat began as a moral journey in 1993 to inculcate ethical values into the way management education is pursued in this country, IILM Graduate School of Management (GSM), Greater Noida, has come a long way. At IILM GSM, our focus is not on being a class apart, but in being...
Read MoreClose on the heels of the Xavier Aptitude Test (XAT) 2013 evaluation fiasco, another one seems to be brewing right here, in the heart of Mumbai. Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS) applicants claim that they are at the receving end of some not-so-tight evalutation. According to a good, sizeable...
Read MoreIIM Udaipur, Pic sent by Barretto Maclean Owing to a clash in interview calls from some prominent b-schools in the country, the Indian Institute of Management (IIM) Raipur, the nodal point for admissions to the younger IIMs this year, has said that it will consider a date change request provided...
Read MoreAnna University has announced dates for the Tamil Nadu Common Entrance Test (TANCET) 2013. The exam for the MBA program will be held on April 6, 2013 from 10 am to 12 noon. The two-hour exam sees no change in pattern with 100 questions carrying one mark each. There is...
Read MoreSymbiosis Centre for Management and Human Resource Development (SCMHRD) If you are attending the Group Exercise-Personal Interview (GE-PI) process at Symbiosis Centre for Management and Human Resource Development (SCMHRD) this year, it would pay to know your cartoons as much as it would to know about the Syrian conflict! The...
Read MorePhoto Credit: Sean McEntee Data Sufficiency questions often involve very simple calculations. This does not mean that the questions are simple. It just means that the chances to make conceptual mistakes and / or silly mistakes are a little higher than usual. You will need to pay attention to detail...
Read MoreBy Dr. J. Dennis Rajakumar The writing is on the wall. The Indian GDP growth has decelerated to 5.3 percent in the second quarter of 2012, as per the data released by the Central Statistical Organization (CSO), Government of India. This is worrisome as the economy had grown by 6.7...
Read MoreWell, it is that time of the year again! CAT results are out, the frantic search for the right b-school is on and the confusion seems never ending. Having gone through the mill myself two years back and being a little wiser after that, I would like to share with...
Read MoreEMPI Group of Institutions, founded in 1995 with Mr Gurnam Saran, former Director BHEL, Sr. Management Consultant Commonwealth (UK) & President IEEMA as its founder President, is a unique conglomeration of institutions / centres of excellence. EMPI has been continuously involved in job-market scan and developing befitting Post Graduate Industrial...
Read MoreBusiness schools and industry have an important role to play in the growth of an economy. A productive interface between the industry and business schools is an important requirement for the long term sustainable growth of an economy. This in all probability has become the biggest differentiator for business schools...
Read MoreThe placement season at IMI, this year will start in good spirits thanks to students who have performed well during their summer internships and achieved the highly coveted pre-placement offers. With the number of the offers this year reaching higher, the morale of the student body is very high and...
Read MoreIn India, management education has expanded a great deal in the last two decades. Even today, the industry is crying aloud that most MBAs are misfits in the corporate set up. Much of what is covered in the class room is simply not relevant in the corporate world. Industry needs...
Read More“You see things and say ‘why’? But I dream things that never were and say ‘why not’?” – George Bernard Shaw Entrepreneurship is about transforming dreams of extraordinary men and women to value for the society at large. India has produced great entrepreneurs, from Dhriubhai Ambani (Reliance), Narayan Murthy (Infosys),...
Read MoreA less common but very effective way of gauging a region and its business schools suitability for your MBA plans is to understand how the Career Services departments there work, what is each schools department better at, whether the support they provide is what you will need and what type...
Read MoreThe Institute of Management Technology (IMT), Ghaziabad campus The Institute of Management Technology (IMT), Ghaziabad intends to convert its PGDM in Human Relations (HR) and Information Technology (IT) seats (60+60 seats) to PGDM full-time seats from 2013 onwards. The b-school has applied to the All India Council of Technical Education...
Read MoreBefore you read the comic, here are some things you should know. This comic is about advertising. So, to make sense of what follows, please understand the following terms: Advertising agency: Company that makes ads – TV, print, radio, digital, outdoor, etc. Like Ogilvy, Lowe, JWT, Mudra, etc. Account planner:...
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