Vignana Jyothi Institute of Management (VJIM) was set up by the “Vignana Jyothi” educational society in 1992. Vignana Jyothi is registered as a non-profit educational society under the Societies Act. Vignana Jyothi manages five educational institutions including VJIM. The society has eminent personalities like Padmasree Dr. Karkarla Subba Rao, Dr....
Read MoreSo its time we made the new version of PaGaLGuY a little more exciting by addressing the biggest obstacle of getting through a top Indian b-school: cracking MBA entrance tests. Preparing for a test like the Common Admissions Test (CAT) can be boring. Theres a lot of theory to read,...
Read MoreIn today’s complex global business environment and fast changing business needs, there is often only a narrow window of time to profit from today’s opportunities as they become tomorrow’s commodities. These high velocity business environment changes have also created high velocity obsolescence of today’s business skills. This creates an immense...
Read MoreMBA applicants from India are four to five times more likely to be turned down for admission to US B-Schools than applicants from other countries. The current state of the US economy makes placing international students especially difficult and most Indian applicants have similar profiles (IT or Engineering) making it...
Read MoreRegistration for the Common Management Test (CMAT) is now extended to September 7, 2012. Originally, registrations were to close on September 2, 2012. One would naturally think that AICTE has done it to net in more applicants but apparently the extension has come about because states are gradually announcing their...
Read MoreDeepak Gopalakrishnan is a cartoonist from Mumbai. Catch all his cartoons and work here , and follow his tweets here .
Read MoreIf you are an aspirant studying hard to gain entry to a top-ranking b-school through the Common Management Admission Test (CMAT) forget it, at least for this year. Most of the good schools are not considering CMAT this year again. While most schools said an outright NO to us when...
Read MoreThe advertisement for the IIMB director in The Economist The search for a new director for both, The Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad (IIMA) and The Indian Institute of Bangalore (IIMB) has gone international. Both the schools have placed recruitment advertisements in The Economist issue dated August 4-10, 2012. This...
Read MoreDeepak Gopalakrishnan is a cartoonist from Mumbai. Catch all his cartoons and work here , and follow his tweets here .
Read MoreSwami Dayananda Saraswati addressing students at IIM Kozhikode If there is one place psychometrics is not a dirty word, it is at The Indian Institute of Management Raipur, (IIM Raipur) where the new batch of students underwent psychometric testing to know themselves better. More curious than that was ‘aura scanning’...
Read MoreRegistrations for Symbiosis National Aptitude (SNAP) Test mandatory for admissions to post-graduate programs in Symbiosis International University opened from today. SNAP will be held on December 16, 2012 from 2 to 4 pm. Aspirants can register online at www.snaptest.org . The test pattern sees no change from the pattern followed...
Read MoreThe Master of Business Administration (MBA) degree program at the University of Massachusetts at Lowell is designed to prepare managers to effectively lead organizations in rapidly changing and diverse regional, national, and global competitive environments. The MBA program at UML integrates theory and practice, using case studies, experiential learning techniques,...
Read MoreProf Clayton Christensen How does one best introduce Prof Clayton Christensen? Actually, does one have to! For one, he is the Kim B. Clark Professor of Business Administration at the Harvard Business School, where he teaches Building and Sustaining a Successful Enterprise to second year students, Two, he is one...
Read MoreProf Raj S Dhankar, Dean, Faculty of Management Studies, New Delhi (Photo Credit: Astha A) PaGaLGuY.com spoke to the dean of the Faculty of Management Studies (FMS), Delhi University (DU), Prof Raj S Dhankar, to know his thoughts on critical issues such as the need for infrastructural additions, admissions through...
Read MoreAll information disseminated by government-owned educational institutes such as the Indian Institutes of Management (IIMs) or the Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs) must be automatically trustworthy because public institutions don’t need to market themselves, so goes the popular belief. It is only the private institutions that have an incentive to...
Read MoreDr Kavita Laghate The Jamnalal Bajaj Institute of Management Studies (JBIMS), Mumbai has a new captain on board. Dr. Kavita Laghate, the newly appointed director, has taken over the reins of the institute from Dr. Stephen D’Silva who served from 2009-2012. Dr. Laghate assumed charge of her office from August...
Read MoreClockwise: Mr Deep Kalra of Make My Trip, Simrandeeep Paramar, Gunajit Brahma, Deepak Nanwani and Mohit Maheshwari That e-commerce is the most rocking business idea to hit Indian markets and pockets is an established fact. That fresh MBA grads are using the e-commerce route to fulfil their entrepreneurial dreams is...
Read MoreDr Eileen Peacock, Senior VP & Chief Officer, Asia, AACSB International (Photo: Astha A) PaGaLGuY interviewed Dr Eileen Peacock, Senior Vice President and Chief Officer, Asia of b-school accrediitator AACSB International on the sidelines of the MBAUniverse.com Indian Management Conclave . In a quick and exclusive interview, Dr Peacock speaks...
Read MorePic: Flickr The Common Admission Test (CAT) which usually spans twenty days will be extended by a day this year. The exam which will begin on October 11 will end on November 6, 2012 and there will be 21 exam days in that period. This obviously gives aspirants an extra...
Read MoreThe Xavier Aptitude Test (XAT) 2013 notification is out today. Like we mentioned in the earlier article the exam will be conducted on January 6, 2013 and while last year there were 38 centres, this year there are in all 44 centres with additionas like Kanpur, Trichy etc. This is...
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