Despite a lean economic period, there is a mushrooming growth of b-schools across the country (Photo: Pete) Even though 65 management institutes have applied to the All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) expressing their desire to shut down, the party does not look like it is over yet. Because...
Read More(Photo: Lajwanti D’souza) Indiaink Empowering IIM Authors, an event at a five-star hotel in Mumbai was supposed to begin registrations at about 6.30 pm on Saturday, March 31, 2012. But even by 7.15 pm, there was barely a soul inside the auditorium. The crowd was there alright, but it was...
Read MoreIn a bid to reduce pressure on students in b-schools, the Human Resources Development ministry’s Curriculum Review Council has drawn up a rather extraordinary list of ‘things to do’ as compulsory activities from this academic year onwards. The list has twenty activities, but students will have to choose any three...
Read MoreShailesh J Mehta School of Management (SJMSoM), Indian Institute of Technology; Bombay has revamped its course structure after a gap of seven years. Prime reasons for the revamp include responding to the changing business environment and increasing importance of sustainable business practices. Increase in permanent faculty strength (to over 20)...
Read MoreEver since 2008 when we at PaGaLGuY started publishing our own rankings of b-schools, the possibility of overenthusiastic b-school students rigging the rankings survey to favour their institute has been giving us the heebie-jeebies. It’s a good worry to harbour, because if we didn’t make sure that our rankings were...
Read MoreHere we are, nearing the end of an MBA admission season hanging right in the middle of the second economic recession in five years. The crisis of 2009 assailed at the viability of the mass-produced MBAs of the country to secure the jobs they had hoped their degrees to yield,...
Read MoreIMD’s campus at Lausanne, Switzerland The kick-off post in the International MBA FAQ series (the relevance of GMAT scores in MBA applications) received a pretty encouraging response. The enthusiasm to learn more about international MBA programmes was apparent from the comments. So this time we are taking up another topic...
Read MoreDr Dipak Jain, dean, INSEAD at the ReachIvy event in Mumbai Dr Dipak Jain, dean of INSEAD, France and Singapore writes his name as Dipak and not Deepak because the first time he wrote his name in English he was not sure how to spell it. Having studied in a...
Read MoreIndian Institute of Foreign Trade (IIFT), Delhi and Kolkata completed the final placement process for the 2010-12 batch of MBA in International Business. A total of 86 companies came on campus out of which 80 companies made 202 offers (including 103 lateral offers and 21 pre-placement offers) for a batch...
Read MoreConcept, illustrations and graphics by Deepak Gopalakrishnan aka chuck_gopal , a Mallu-turned Mumbaiker who blogs here and tweets here .
Read MoreThe Faculty of Management Studies (FMS), University of Delhi declared its interview and group discussion shortlist for admissions to the two-year fulltime MBA class of 2012-14 this evening. While the cut-off for the General category has been pegged at 98.73 percentile in the Common Admission Test (CAT), for the OBC...
Read MoreDelhi University’s (DU) Sri Ram College of Commerce (SRCC) is working on giving its two-year-long post-graduate diploma in Global Business Operations (GBO) a facelift, which includes turning it into a full-fledged master’s degree. The college is drafting a proposal proposing this and other major changes in the course, which will...
Read MoreDr Sydney FinkelsteinThe failure of something is not the coolest subject to base research on but Sydney Finkelstein, who teaches leadership and strategy at Dartmouth’s Tuck School of Business has done just that. The faculty director of the Tuck Executive Education programme has been for years, delving into “why some...
Read MoreIndian Institute of Management, Calcutta (Photo: Ashok Kumar) The Indian Institute of Management (IIM), Calcutta is in the process of forming a ‘General Alumni Association’ which would help tap the 6,000+ rich alumni base of the b-school in collecting funds to support its major infrastructure expansion plans. The school also...
Read MoreThree-year part-time MBA courses at the Faculty of Management Studies (FMS), Delhi University may soon be converted to Executive MBA programmes of two-years’ duration. A proposal to redesign the part-time MBA courses at FMS was approved by the Academic Council of the University in a closed-door meeting late evening on...
Read MoreEditor’s note: Starting today, PG oldie Sameer Kamat will write a weekly column answering frequently asked questions related to the international MBA application process. Feel free to comment with questions of your own, which he will try to answer in the next weekly post. ——— MIT Sloan School of Management...
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XIM, Bhubhaneshwar (Photo: Nilesh) Xavier Institute of Management (XIM), Bhubaneshwar is planning to begin operations of its new campus in Jatni (a town 20 kms away from the present XIMB campus in Bhubaneswar) from next year onwards. The institute intends to shift the Post Graduate Diploma in Rural Management (PGDM-RM)...
Read MoreRanked 15th in the Financial Times Global MBA rankings, Duke University’s The Fuqua School of Business boasts of alumni such as the current Apple CEO Tim Cook, Melinda Gates and closer home, Shivinder Mohan Singh, CEO of Fortis Healthcare. In recent times, the school has slowly been growing its presence...
Read MoreThe JBIMS Mumbai buildingDr Stephen D’silva, director, Jamnalal Bajaj Institute of Management Studies (JBIMS), Mumbai tells PaGaLGuY that the institute is contemplating constructing a new building on the campus. He also expresses concerns about how the admissions process will equate CMAT and Mah-CET scores. JBIMS has often been termed as...
Read MoreConcept, illustrations and graphics by Deepak Gopalakrishnan aka chuck_gopal, a Mallu-turned Mumbaiker who blogs here and tweets here.
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