Note by Apurv Pandit: Last month, I met Dr Ariff Kachra, a Strategy professor of Indian origin at Canada’s Richard Ivey School of Business who also runs the school’s executive training center in Mumbai. As we chatted about various things MBA, I asked him how he found the quality of...
Read More(Photo credits: Eric Lim and Ashutosh Garg) Last year’s B-school Photography Contest proved beyond doubt that many b-schoolers were wasting their time studying the Ansoff Matrix* and Concentric diversification strategies… they had alternative employment as professional shutterbugs assured, just in case! But we’ve been told that there is hidden writing...
Read MoreDespite several delays in application deadlines, only 663 applications have been received by COME (Consortium of Management Education) so far. COME, which is a consortium of 52 business schools in Maharashtra has got together and initiated a Centralised Admission Process (CAP) for all MBA aspirants who had not admission into...
Read MoreIndian Institute of Management (IIM) Bangalore has decided to make attendance voluntary across all courses, starting with the first year students of this academic year. This may sound like an odd thing to do for a premier b-school like IIM Bangalore, but Bringi Dev, the head of Communications and an...
Read MoreThe Indian Institute of Management (IIM), Ranchi is going to start a weekend executive management program starting September 2011 for professionals with five or more years of work experience in the government, private or public sector. According to MJ Xavier, director of IIM Ranchi, classes for the 18-month program titled...
Read More(Original photo credit: Rafael Kage) An often asked question is, “What is the difference between the average CAT student in Verbal Ability and a 99 percentiler in Verbal Ability?” (You will notice that I do not yet say ‘an IIM convert’ because for every six ’99 percentilers’ who are interviewed,...
Read More(Photo credit: Aashish Mylapally) After growing a franchise on the back of the two-year MBA format degree for 50 years, an Indian Institute of Management (IIM) has for the first time announced a foray into undergraduate education. With the five-year Integrated Post Graduate Program (IPGP), IIM Indore seeks to deliver...
Read MoreDear readers, “Feedback is a business term which refers to the joy of criticizing other people’s work. This is one of the few genuine pleasures of the job, and you should milk it for all it’s worth.” That’s not my line, but it sure does describe well how I would...
Read MoreProf Prathap Oburai There is still no trace of Prathap Oburai, professor of marketing, at the Indian Institute Management, Ahmedabad (IIMA), who went missing from Uttarakhand two days ago. According to Tehri Superintendent of Police, Rajeev Swaroop, the professor, who is also an IIMA alumnus, was mentally stressed and had...
Read More(Photo credit: Alan Cleaver) In perhaps the most significant leap by any Indian Institute of Management (IIM) ever, IIM Indore this week announced a five-year integrated management degree which will admit students directly after class XII in school. A Times of India story reports that the total tuition fees for...
Read MoreCredit: Jonny Goldstein Peter Hiddema, a visiting professor at INSEAD (France and Singapore) teaches negotiation skills to MBA students. Globally known as an expert in strategic negotiation, conflict resolution and leadership development, Peter has taught students and corporate leaders at several universities in addition to INSEAD, including Queens University (in...
Read More(Photo credit: Liza) For this you need to find the links between the sentences. The goal in these types of sentences is to rearrange the sentences in the original sequence. It consists of a group of sentences that have been jumbled up. All the Best for CAT 2011! Let us...
Read MoreGlossary OMPA = Old Men’s (and Women’s) PaGaLGuY Association (link). AIPGM = All India PaGaLGuY Meet. Although Chick Corea is a pianist, his composed jazz standard ‘Spain‘ is a popular (and challenging) piece for learning on the guitar. Concept, illustrations and graphics by Deepak Gopalakrishnan aka chuck_gopal, a Mallu-turned Mumbaiker...
Read More(Photo credit: meddygarnet) Engineers continue to be the largest group in the 2-year MBA-equivalent PGP programs at the Indian Institutes of Management (IIMs). While IIM Bangalore’s class of 2013 will have 91.32% engineers, at IIM Calcutta’s batch comprises 95% engineers. The Times of India reports about IIM Bangalore that the...
Read MoreThe day was rife with news about the Common Admission Test (CAT) becoming a two-tier exam this year onwards. According to a report published in the Hyderabad edition of a leading daily, the IIMs are thinking of launching an initial screening process before the actual examination. However, Prof Himanshu Rai,...
Read MoreCandidates preparing for the Common Admissions Test (CAT) and other b-school entrance exams often struggle with vocabulary. While the CAT does not test candidates on their knowledge of difficult words directly, other exams, especially the entrance test for FMS certainly do. In addition, even for the CAT, a good vocabulary...
Read MoreRashmi Bansal, a graduate from the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad (IIM A), batch of 1993, is out with her new book ‘I Have A Dream’ which brings forth stories of 20 idealists who think and act like entrepreneurs. Being a product of the Indian b-school system, PaGaLGuY interviewed Rashmi...
Read MoreDAVV Takshila campus, Indore If you are planning to pursue an MBA from any university in Madhya Pradesh, make sure you have three years to spare. The MBA semesters of about 200 colleges affiliated to Madhya Pradesh universities are running a good 3-6 months behind schedule for the last two...
Read More(Original photo credit: Egan Snow) The Indian Institute of Management (IIM), Ahmedabad plans to release its placement report for the batch of 2009-11 adhering to its proposed Placement Reporting Standards by June-end. The report will be externally audited, for which the institute is in talks with credit rating agency Crisil....
Read MoreThe Maharashtra Common Entrance Test (CET) 2011 results have been declared. PaGalGuY met up with some of the toppers to know their plans for the future. The boys, who obviously studied hard to reach the top, have a series of ‘want-to-do-things’ now — some of these include buying new mobile...
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