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An MBA at Altis Universita Cattolica offers students the unique opportunity to study in close contact with companies interested in doing business in their country of origin. India is definitely one of the countries that Italian and European companies most frequently consider as a target for their internationalization processes, both...

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Download the GDPI Anthology: A free collection of 150+ IIM GDPI transcripts across 6 years

A bit delayed but not entirely late, we present to you our second free ebook — the PaGaLGuY Group Discussion Anthology 2005-2010. The GDPI Anthology is a collection of the most interesting GD-PI experiences as transcribed in detail by actual shortlisted candidates between 2005 and 2010 and posted on the...

IIM Kozhikode Final Placements 2011: Finance dominates, Consults and S&M; follow

The Indian Institute of Management (IIM), Kozhikode completed its Final Placements for the batch of 2009-11 comprising 290 students. Students were placed in various profiles across Finance, Consulting, Sales & Marketing, Operations, Human Resources, and IT. A total of 305 offers were made across all verticals and 110 firms participated...

AICTE bans part-time MBA, admissions on hold

The All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) has done it again. A fresh salvo by the government body banning all part-time MBA courses has got concerned MBA colleges in ruffles. The ban which comes into effect from the next academic year has put a second spoke in admission to...

By Lajwanti D'Souza

Creating a differential management education ethos

The first decade of the new millennium has ushered in unprecedented changes in society and the way business is conducted. The rapid deployment of communication technology and the ensuing inorganic growth of Internet connectivity even to remote locations, combined with development of lightning-fast information storage and retrieval systems, convergence of...

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IMT Ghaziabad’s computer-based video interviewing runs into rough weather, forces institute to revert to CAT for shortlisting

Here is another case of technological innovation in educational admissions succumbing to problems of execution. Nearly 16.000 applicants to the Institute of Management Technology (IMT), Ghaziabad’s PGDM program this year were required to appear for a computer-based video interview as the first step in the admission process. Termed ‘Virtual Interview’...

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FMS Delhi placements 2011: P&G;, Deloitte, Accenture biggest recruiters

Delhi University’s Faculty of Management Studies (FMS) completed placements for its MBA batch of 2009-11. The process secured 242 offers for a total batch of 200 students (including both MBA and MBA – Management of Services batches) from a total of 91 companies. A total of 124 companies confirmed presence,...

Visualization: The more the number of seats in a b-school, the more expensive it is

For those who found the last visualization esoteric, here is another one. The following interactive chart depicts the fees charged by 37 of India’s top 45 b-schools (as per the PaGaLGuY B-school Rankings 2011) versus the seat intake for their flagship programs, segregated by whether the schools are government-owned or...

Visualization: The richest MBA flagship programs among India’s top b-schools

This one is for all the intellectuals on PaGaLGuY. Starting today, we’re going to be introducing a new format of journalism, one which has been gaining steady ground worldwide, yet is in the process of evolving into a mainstream method of telling stories: Data Journalism. We are going to be...

IIM Indore final placements 2011: Finance and Consulting dominate

Almost 100 companies visited Indian Institute of Management, Indore (IIMI) for final placements for the PGP 2009-11 batch. While the average salary was Rs 14.06 lakhs, at least eight from the batch received salaries of Rs 32 lakhs each. Profiles were offered in investment banking, consulting, BFSI and FMCG while...

By Lajwanti D'Souza

Infinity Business School: 10 years of excellence

Infinity Business School (fondly known as Inbuss) was setup in 2001 as a Citicorp Investee Institution. In a short period of just ten years Infinity has captured an important place in the top Business Schools of India given its top faculty, contemporary curriculum, excellent infrastructure and Placement Record. At Infinity...

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How faculty mentoring among Indian b-schools can improve their standing on the world stage

The quality of education among India’s business schools has not been able to keep up with their growth in recent years. But if each ‘good’ b-school mentors the faculty of five lower-rung b-schools in its local region with IIMs taking the lead, vast improvements can be made in the general...

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SP Jain Mumbai final placements 2011: IT, Marketing and operations dominate

(Photo credit: Vishal Gosike) SP Jain Institute of Management and Research (SPJIMR), Mumbai completed placements for the 2-year PGDM Class of 2011 with 242 offers from 76 companies for the placement process. Of the 242 offers, 107 were lateral offers and 77 were pre-placement offers from autumn internships. According to...

CET 2011: Overall difficult with lots of surprises

The Maharashtra MBA CET 2011 held today surprised quite a few test takers. After an easy paper in 2010 which saw records being shattered and soaring cut-offs, CET 2011 struck back with one of the more difficult papers in recent years. The questions werent straightforward, there were plenty of Analytical...

Court permits use of 5 entrance exams, allows b-schools to conduct GDPIs in Mumbai/Mahrashtra

Big Brother All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE)s controversial circular pressing for vast changes in the sphere of business education received a further setback yesterday with the Bombay High court squashing most parts of the circular. This comes after Orissa High Court stayed the same circular last week, when...

By Lajwanti D'Souza

Cracking Maharashtra CET 2011: The FAQs

(Image courtesy: Jilligan86) In this article, which is the last on CET prep, I have answered some of the questions posted to me in the last few weeks. I have found DI very difficult to crack during mocks. Sometimes, I need more than three operations to crack a set. How...

Is Entrepreneurship in B-schools and among MBAs an Oxymoronic expectation?

India’s latent entrepreneurship potential lies untapped because of life skills that aren’t taught and social expectations that aren’t set right. By addressing these problems in India’s bright youngsters through their curriculums, b-schools could lay the seed for innovative businesses that scale to become billion dollar companies, says Vijay Anand, Head...

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Cracking Maharashtra CET 2011: Strategy

(Image Courtesy: alicejack2002) The Maharashtra MBA CET, is an out and out speed test. The one who persists with nailing the questions one after another, as opposed to spending time just reading them all, will survive the test. The attitude to solving the test should be that of a charging...

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