Only the likes of Anjali Mullati can make a statement like the one above. A graduate from the Indian Institute of Management Lucknow (IIM L, batch of 1993), Anjali has done more than just graduating from a prestigious college; she has tried to change the society and has succeeded too....
Read MoreYou have probably heard of freshers being being hired by top investment banks at whopping packages and wondered why. The paradox lies in the law of demand & supply equilibrium. A little analysis is what takes it to see that demand for adequately trained & learned finance professionals has outnumbered...
Read MoreFor those with ‘good news’ at the end of the MBA admissions season starts an entirely new and bigger phase of money-bleeding — for paying tuition fees, living expenses and buying that inseparable appendage of business education — the Laptop. Believe it or not, the laptop will be both the...
Read MoreThe rest of you will find yourself in the MIIs, XLRUS, SJ Pains or FMLs by the end of the season. Good luck to all! Concept, illustrations and graphics by Deepak Gopalakrishnan aka chuck_gopal, a Mallu-turned Mumbaiker who blogs here and tweets here.
Read MoreTwo significant investments related to Indian business education were announced in the last ten days. Here is a brief roundup. 1. Great Lakes expands beyond Chennai in partnership with Educomp Not wanting to be left behind the ISB, IMT or IMI franchises in creating a national footprint, Great Lakes Institute...
Read MoreAristotle once said, “For the things we have to learn before we can do them, we learn by doing them.” This belief is at the very core of the teaching philosophy at the Universal Business School at Karjat, which lays a great emphasis on experiential learning to equip their students...
Read MoreIndira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU) in collaboration with Chartered Institute of Management Accountants (CIMA) has launched MBA in Management Accounting and Finance to cater to the growing demand of globally relevant qualifications in finance and accounts. The aim of this programme is to enhance employability of learners, bridge the...
Read MoreVisual by Deanmeyersnet It is no secret that if entrance scores permit, many MBA hopefuls would seek admission only to those b-schools that offer the most lucrative placements. That an MBA degree in India, comes packaged with a job is understood. But not so in b-schools abroad, where students have...
Read MoreInstitute For Financial Management and Research (IFMR), Chennai, completed its placement process for 111 students across three post graduate programs- PGDM, PGDM-Financial Engineering & PGDM-Development & Sustainable Finance. The year ended on a good note with recruiters from different sectors like IT , Consultancy, BFSI (including PSUs like Bank of...
Read More(Photo credit: Hriddhi Doley) The Indian Institute of Management (IIM), Calcutta finished its placements for the PGDM and PGDCM classes of 2011 with 464 offers for a total strength of 381 students. According to the school’s placement cell, a total of 129 companies made offers during the placements process that...
Read MoreFOUNDATION FOR LIBERAL AND MANAGEMENT EDUCATION (FLAME) – FLAME SCHOOL OF BUSINESS POST GRADUATE PROGRAM Management Education in India evokes images of professionalism, competencies, capabilities, and excellence. There is a vision of breaking new frontiers of knowledge, identifying appropriate state of the art skills and generating relevant attitudes. Management Education...
Read MoreIn the volumes of b-school placement reports, one piece of statistics gets overshadowed by the numerical platitudes and eulogies. Mentioned mostly as an afterthought, it is about students who opt-out of the placements, to follow their calling and start their own businesses. PaGaLGuY speaks to some of these souls and...
Read MoreCalcutta Business School is an autonomous, AICTE-approved institution set up by prominent industrialists like SK Birla, BM Khaitan, BK Jhawar and BD Sureka. This b-school joins a host of other educational institutions in a foundation which has been in existence from 1920. The b-school enjoys a sprawling, lush 15-acre campus...
Read MoreQualifications are important for gainful employment. Years ago, a graduation degree used to be good enough, that changed to engineering and today it is the MBA. However, the connection between the educational degree and the job has always been little. An IIT degree is followed by an IIM post graduate...
Read MoreAll through this week, Al-Qaeda has hogged front page space across media, world over. With Osama Bin Laden’s death ‘what now’ is the question on most people’s minds. A recent research by a business student at Duke University’s Fuqua School of Business, US, along with an expert on terrorism on...
Read MoreRoughly between March and June, business schools carry a vacant look. The first-year-going-on-second-year MBA batch leaves for its summer internships to the corporate world whereas the faculty gets temporary relief from teaching and can concentrate on the other vital role incumbent on them — management research. This essential mandate of...
Read MoreThe final admission lists of almost all the top b-schools are out, bringing joy to the ones who have made it and anxiety to those on the waitlists. Everybody — waitlisted or otherwise — must now plan how to finance their management education. They must start by hunting for banks...
Read More(Photo Credit: Varun Saxena) National Institute of Industrial Engineering (NITIE), Mumbai completed its combined placement process for 328 students across four post-graduate programs. Three-quarters of the batch secured operations management, consulting and IT roles. Amazon India was the highest paying domestic recruiter offering a package of Rs 19.5 lakhs for...
Read MoreYou’ve seen the posts, the thanks and the groans. Now meet the faces behind the usernames at the 8th edition of the All India PaGaLGuY Meet (AIPGM) on May 28 and 29, 2011 at Bangalore. A one of its kind event, the meet will allow you to network with other...
Read MoreThe relatively smaller MBA batch of 50-odd students at the Department of Management Studies (DMS), Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Delhi completed their placements by securing 90 offers from 39 companies. Procter & Gamble, GE, KPMG, Bharat Heavy Electricals Limited and Infosys were the top five recruiters in a process...
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