(XLRI Jamshedpur by Anusheel Shrivastava) Jamshedpur-based XLRI School of Business & Human Resources concluded its Summer Internship placements for the batch of 2011-13 with 77 recruiters making a total of 365 offers to a batch of 240 students. Microsoft, ITC, Standard Chartered, Aditya Birla Group and Tata Motors were the...
Read MoreFaculty of Management Studies (FMS), University of Delhi completed its summer placements for the MBA batch of 2013 by securing a wide range of roles from national and international firms, including offers from 15 growing sectors of the economy. Batch Strength 226 Did not participate in summers/Opted out 3 Total...
Read MorePic by Soubhik Chatterjee The Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta (IIM-C) is thinking of drawing in corporates and its alumni base to seek funds for completing some of its infrastructure projects. According to sources, it was at a meeting held at the Chennai Chapter of IIM-C Alumni Association, a few...
Read MoreB-schools teach youngsters how businesses ought to be run. Who questions the way business schools are run? Nina Jacob, a professor who has been with private b-schools such as Xavier Institute of Management, Goa Institute of Management and Institute of Management Technology writes a scathing critique of unregulated governance at...
Read MoreA Pearson VUE team from the USA was in Mumbai today. They are the guys that NMIMS University has contracted out the computer-based NMAT to. Their agenda was to create awareness about computer-based testing (CBT) and resolve perceived myths surrounding it. PaGaLGuY caught up with the team comprising Kathleen Gialluca...
Read More(Photo credit: IIM Ranchi temporary campus by Vijayakrishna Kandula) Breaking away from the tradition of Indian Institutes of Management (IIMs) campuses being distributed building clusters spread over hundreds of acres, the new IIM Ranchi campus due to be constructed by 2014 will be a high-rise campus with ten-storey buildings. In...
Read MoreThere is an ol’ world charm to Bharathidasan Institute of Management (BIM), Trichy’s campus. A huge playground on one side and little hostel buildings with quaint balconies on the other. At one corner is the mess, which is nestled among trees and partly open air so it gives the feeling...
Read More(Photo credit: IIM Calcutta by Velavan S) The Indian Institutes of Management are considering forming an umbrella structure on the lines of an ‘IIM University’ that would offer a full-fledged Master of Business Administration (MBA) degree instead of the Post Graduate Diploma in Management (PGDM) that they offer now. The...
Read MoreThe most cherished profession an MBA can look forward to in a contemporary business environment is a career in Logistics and supply Chain Management (LSCM). It is said that ‘today, organizations no more compete, their supply chain does.’ This new vista of career opportunity in this emerging field throws open...
Read MoreAdmissions waitlists at the Indian Institutes of Management (IIMs) may be better managed during the upcoming season with the IIM directors agreeing towards closer cooperation in admissions at a meeting with the Human Resources Development Minister Kapil Sibal in New Delhi today. Earlier, the idea of the IIMs conducting a...
Read MoreEven though there are no reported fatal technical failures in the Common Admissions Test (CAT) 2011, the test is not completely bereft of glitches. Monday, October 31, computers crashed and screen colours played truant in a data interpretation question at the Nirmala Devi College centre in Mumbai, where this correspondent...
Read MoreManagement education evolved in the 1960s in India in the premier management institutions. Many institutions which followed the success of these premier management institutions ‘cyclostyled’ and standardised MBA curriculum so senselessly that neither did it add any value in career building nor did it help as a certificate for petty...
Read MoreIn a bid to accommodate an increasing class size after implementing the 27% Other Backward Caste (OBC) quota, the Indian Institute of Foreign Trade (IIFT), New Delhi has begun construction of a new hostel building. The hostel is expected to be operational for the incoming batch in 2012. The hostel...
Read More(Photo credit: Kai Schreiber) This is my second post on PaGaLGuY focusing on Geometry fundas. We discussed lines, triangles, parallelograms, trapeziums and polygons in my previous post. Now for some fundas and formulae in Geometry that happen to be frequently neglected by people but can fetch some crucial marks in...
Read MoreThe Institute of Management Technology (IMT), Ghaziabad is increasingly being recognized by recruiters, as one of Indias top-10 business schools. A recent Economic Times survey covering 500 of Indias largest companies saw IMT-G ranked number seven, with areas covered being marketing, IT, HR, finance and production. A key factor behind...
Read More(Photo credit: Rahul Desai) The Union Human Resources Development (HRD) Ministry’s diktat a few months ago, that the Indian Institutes of Management (IIMs) launch a management journal on the lines of the celebrated Harvard Business Review (HBR) has set the ball rolling within the IIM camp. Though no firm plan...
Read MorePic from World Economic Forum photostream Two big happenings were of concern to the b-school community last week. One of course The Common Admission Test (CAT) 2011 which was kick-started on October 22 (so technically last week) and the other, the arrest of former Indian School of Business’ Founder Chairman...
Read More(Photo credit: Alan Levine) There has been a lot of feedback in the comments on my previous posts here demanding an article on Geometry. I have been avoiding writing it for some time because, 1. It is not one of my strong areas. 2. It takes a lot of time...
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PS: Columbia Business School asked for a 140-character essay as part of its admissions application for the MBA admissions of 2012. Concept, illustrations and graphics by Deepak Gopalakrishnan aka chuck_gopal, a Mallu-turned Mumbaiker who blogs here and tweets here.
Read MoreThe Common Admission Test (CAT) 2011 is underway (October 22 – November 1 and two testing days are over. According to Prometric, 6,703 candidates had appeared to register for the test today (October 24) across the country. CAT 2011 marks a change in test pattern, in that it contains two...
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