The Indian Institute of Management, Shillong being a strong promoter of sustainable-energy has come up with a novel idea to save its daily consumption of energy. It has placed solar panels in its campus. The solar panels which have a capacity of 50 KW are installed by IIM Shillong authorities...
Read MoreAlthough not for a full-fledged MBA programme, here is a business school which has decided to withdraw the safety net of placements for its graduates so that they are pushed to start their own ventures. The Masters of Arts in Social Entrepreneurship (MA in SE) course at the Tata Institute...
Read MoreThe Symbiosis National Aptitude (SNAP) Test is up next this Sunday, December 18. 2011. According to www.snaptest.org, the structure of this years paper is, Section Total Marks 1. General English: Reading Comprehension, Verbal Reasoning, Verbal Ability 40 2. Quantitative, Data Interpretation & Data Sufficiency 40 3. General Awareness: General Knowledge,...
Read MoreINSEAD, France and Singapore, has been named as the business school which Asia-Pacific employers most prefer to recruit from, in the latest QS Global 200 Business Schools Report 2012. The survey ranked 200 full-time MBA business schools by region and specialization, based on votes from 12,100 employers worldwide that recruit...
Read MoreNarsee Monjee Institute of Management Studies (NMIMS) has tied up with Amba Research, a global investment research firm, to offer a corporate valuation and equity research programme to both students and working professionals. The programme will provide participants an opportunity to work on real life contemporary case studies and will...
Read MorePic by Ecram1’s photostream Another Indian is all set to get immortalised in the hallowed corridors of the Harvard Business School. Ratan Tata, chairman of Tata Group who gave a grant of USD 50 million to his alma mater Harvard Business School, will adorn the newest executive complex building at...
Read MoreThere is more clarity about the new Integrated Reasoning (IR) section that is slated to debut in the Graduate Management Admission Test (GMAT) in its new format scheduled to launch in June 2012. Unlike the Quant and Verbal sections which are adaptive, IR will be a fixed-form test. Which means...
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Background pic of Rajasthan by Emmanuel Dyan. Foreground pics of Shastri Institute which has applied for closure of its management wing The website of Pearl Institute of Management in Bhilwara (PIMB), Rajasthan reads: The program is challenging, the curriculum is rigorous and the selection procedure is highly competitive. As a...
Read MorePhoto: Alex E Proimos The notification issued by the All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) about the Common Management Admission Test (CMAT), a few days ago has caught MBA aspirants, b-schools and coaching institutes off-guard. While schools say that they have received no intimation about the new exam, likely...
Read MorePhoto credit: Abhishek Kathuroju The Indian Institute of Management (IIM), Calcutta closed the summer placement process for the batch of 2011-13 with students getting training projects across 142 companies. Although the placements began as a 5-day process, it switched over to a rolling process owing to it being the biggest...
Read MoreJRE School Of Management was awarded the prestigious Dewang Mehta Business School Award for Best Pedagogy in Management Studies on occasion of the 19th year of Business School Affaire. The award was selected by eminent jury members with a slew of big names vying for the award. JRE Group of...
Read MoreThe XLRI School of Business and Human Resources, Jamshedpur (XLRI) has decided to reduce cut-offs from the 90s to the 80s to attract a good mix of students. XLRI’s Admissions Chairperson Soumendra Bagchi told PaGaLGuY that to ensure an efficient admission process, the XAT (XLRI Admission Test) scores are not...
Read MoreBreaking the traditional route of completing engineering, pursuing a management degree and bagging a comfortable banking job, some follow their passion and want to use the MBA as a stepping stone to achieve dreams related to their personal interests. For the 26-year-old first year Post Graduate Programme student and composer/music...
Read MoreFollowing the previous Director’s retirement, Prof Chandra P Shrimali has been appointed as the Officiating Director of Management Development Institute (MDI), Gurgaon starting December 1, 2011, informed an institute press release. Prof Shrimali became the Director after the previous officiating director Prof VK Gupta retired, added the statement. Prof Shrimali...
Read MoreMBA students across geographies may be apprehensive about landing a sufficiently well-paying job after graduation, or even a job at all, but they are not the only ones worrying. Business schools across the world too are finding it challenging to pull international students in to their campuses this season. Stricter...
Read MoreThe notification and dates of the Common Management Admissions Test (CMAT), the new MBA entrance exam launched by the All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE’s) are finally public. There are nearly two months to go for the exam, which will be conducted from February 20 to 28, 2012 in...
Read More(Photo credit: Timothy Crause) As the economy enters an uncertain climate, there are indications of a lowered interest in doing an MBA among Indians. The actual Common Admissions Test (CAT) turnout was lower in 2011 compared to 2010, as we had reported earlier. The Economic Times now reports that the...
Read MoreThe Indian School of Business, Hyderabad on Friday became the first South Asian management institute to get accredited by the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB), widely regarded as the gold standard of all quality benchmarks among business schools internationally. The accreditation, which took more than four years...
Read MorePhoto credit: ISB Hyderabad by Chaitanya Gujjar The Indian School of Business (ISB), Hyderabad on Friday announced its accreditation by the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB), making it the first business school in South Asia to be recognised by the US-based prestigious accreditation agency. The school joins...
Read MorePic from David Feltkamp’s photostream The Association of Indian Management Schools, which is the largest body of b-schools in India, has no plans of discontinuing ATMA its own management entrance exam. Unlike the Management Aptitude Test (MAT) which is contemplating closing down not too far in the future knowing that...
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