The following is an extract from ‘Innovating Through Design’, article by Roberto Verganti published in Harvard Business Review, December 2006. Professor Verganti teaches Innovation Management and runs the Design Management concentration for MIP Politecnico di Milanos MBA. He is a member of the Advisory Boards of the Design Management Institute...
Read MoreContrary to reports, The Indian Institute of Management (IIM) Trichy has not failed to fill up its quota of seats. On the contrary, it has admitted students well beyond its scheduled intake. The institute, which is in its first year of operations had an earlier sanction for just 60 students....
Read More(Photo credit: Carly Franklin) Just a day ago, a Bhubaneshwar b-school claimed it is two hours away from the beaches of New England, America. You would think it got confused with the beaches of Puri, but when you read the page marked ‘Student Life’ on the website of Regional College...
Read MoreThe already longer-than-ever time window to register for the Common Admissions Test (CAT) 2011 has been further extended from September 28 to October 4, 2011. The CAT vouchers too would be on sale for four more days at Axis Bank branches until October 1. Everything else remains the same. The...
Read MoreDue to a sequence of not-necessarily-related events including a train robbery, a roadside inn gunfight, a distressing damsel and an alien abduction there has been a slight delay in moving the PaGaLGuY B-school Photography Contest 2011 forward. Now that the reasons behind the delay have been explained in exceptional detail...
Read MoreNot the most eventful of weeks but a few interesting stories did crop up in different publications across the globe. The Entrepreneur had an interesting story on threadUp. The article talks about the trio — James Reinhart, Chris Homer and Oliver Lubinhad who had a unique problem on hand —...
Read MoreWhile schools newly opting for the Common Admission Test (CAT) made headlines last few weeks, now it’s time for some ‘opposite’ news – schools that have decided to opt out of taking CAT 2011 scores. At least the list (of b-schools taking CAT) on the CAT website says so. This...
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First it was the business schools of the Indian Institutes of Technology that scrapped the Joint Management Entrance Test (JMET) in favour of the Common Admission Test (CAT). Then came Delhi University’s Faculty of Management Studies. Are more expected to go the CAT way and is all this a plan...
Read MoreHere’s a story offering insights into how the seemingly inefficient practices of a regulatory body can affect the quality and price of education. The lament of business schools and engineering colleges in the middle of every year is usually directed at the All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) for...
Read More? The sound of gun shots may be a faint memory but the smell of gun of gun powder refuses to leave the senses. The uniform beckons but the mind is out to hunt different pastures. When the day in done, the memories of a battle field come rushing back,...
Read MoreWith interest in fulltime MBA at an all-time low, the 2010-11 admission season might have been the easiest in recent times to make it to an MBA program internationally. According to a survey of application trends at GMAT-affiliated b-schools by the Graduate Management Admission Council (GMAC), an increasing number of...
Read MoreAdmission criteria changes have been announced in many b-schools, including a few Indian Institutes of Management (IIMs) — all to include more non-engineers and women students. While IIM Raipur will add 30 marks to a girl-non-engineer, IIM Rohtak will award 20 marks to female candidate and 20 to non-engineers, so...
Read MoreWe all know what factorials (n!) are. They look friendly and helpful but looks can be deceiving, as many quant problems have taught us. It is probably because Factorials are simple looking creatures, that most students prefer attempting questions based on them rather than on Permutation & Combination or Probability....
Read More(Photo credit: Abhishek Kamble) Arriving in Kashipur late evening last week, I asked the three-wheeler drivers outside the railway station if they would take me to the one and only good hotel in town. None of them acknowledged having even heard of the name. I then casually mentioned that it...
Read More(Photo credit: mcfarlandmo) SMS and Twitter are often accused of creating a generation with small attention spans who are growing incapable of expressing complex ideas in long and eloquent prose. Columbia Business School doesn’t think so, and in this year’s MBA application form, asks applicants to state their post-MBA goals...
Read MoreNathan and his family at dinner What can you do with Rs 45 in your pocket? Not much, you would say, given the rising costs of just about everything – but not for Nathan Adair (32), who is pursuing his MBA from UK’s Westminister University. As part of his b-school...
Read MoreLooking back at the last three years, one new ‘big idea’ has dominated Indias business school admissions every year. If 2009 was all about replacing paper-pencil assessments with computer-based entrance tests, then the flavour of 2010 was limiting the number of engineers in MBA classrooms and increasing diversity. 2011 is...
Read More(Photo credit: Michael Gallacher) I guess my first fascination with problems of Time, Speed and Distance began when I first watch a film called Henna. An important portion of the plot, if you can call it that, had Rishi Kapoor floating from India to Pakistan in a river without drowning....
Read MoreOf the total testing slots planned for the Common Admissions Test (CAT) 2011, two-thirds have already been filled as on September 7, Prometric India’s Managing Director Soumitra Roy told PaGaLGuY on Wednesday. He however declined to divulge what the total capacity number was. He did mention though that the capacity...
Read MoreIt’s finally here, the audited and mind-bogglingly detailed placement reports of the Indian Institute of Management (IIM), Ahmedabad’s PGP, PGP Agri-business and PGPX batches graduating in 2011. The report is based on the Placement Reporting Standards proposed and finalized at IIM Ahmedabad in June 2011 and has been audited by...
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