(Courtesy: Knowledge@Wharton) Six months ago, Chunnilal Menaria’s wife grumbled about her husband spending US$45 on a mobile phone. They lived in a one-room stone house, with no toilets or running water, only eight hours of electricity a day and earned US$60 a month with which they fed their family of...
Read MoreThis year, the Common Admissions Test (CAT) will begin in October, a month earlier than the usual November-end. How does an early CAT 2010 affect your preparation? Here are the top 5 repercussions and predictions. 1. Lesser prep time – Preparation time has been reduced by a whole month. Which...
Read MoreIt is official: CAT 2010 will be held on 20 days between October 27 and November 23, 2010. The IIMs will release the CAT advertisement in newspapers on the last Sunday of August and the registration and form sales process will begin three days after that. “There will be logical...
Read MoreFor the fourth year in a row, ISB Hyderabad’s Admissions Director Mr VK Menon is hosting a question and answer thread on PaGaLGuY to answer applicant questions on ISB admissions, curriculum, faculty, placements, scholarships, etc. However unlike conventional online chats, this will continue 24×7 until the end of ISB’s admission...
Read MoreA kingsize thank you to everyone who sent in their entries to the PaGaLGuY B-school Shutterbug Contest 2010 from dozens of b-schools. You were all great! We received over 110 entries, totaling to more than 350 photographs of the country’s best-known b-school campuses. We started looking at the submitted photographs...
Read More(Credit: m.gifford) Virtually all top business schools with some notable exceptions ask applicants for a personal statement in which candidates discuss their goals and ambitions as they pertain to the MBA degree and often, to the target schools particular program. As you approach this essay, be sure that you place...
Read MoreThere will be little change in the base process used behind the creation and evaluation of the Common Admissions Test (CAT) 2010 compared to CAT 2009. Prometric, the testing vendor commissioned by the Indian Institutes of Management (IIMs) for conducting the test will continue to use the psychometric process to...
Read MoreThe Indian Institute of Management (IIM), Ahmedabad is looking at setting up a campus at Hyderabad to offer executive education. In a press notification dated June 29, the institute spokesperson said, “At the instance of the Government of Andhra Pradesh, the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad is engaged in discussions...
Read MoreOn a lighter note, if the Directorate of Technical Education (DTE), Maharashtra Government and the ‘mai-baap’ of the Maharashtra MBA-CET continues its chat room on its official website, it is sure to give dating and matrimonial sites a run for their money. One can not only ‘make frens’ on the...
Read MoreThe Graduate Management Admission Test (GMAT), used for MBA admissions by a vast majority of business schools across the world will add a new section that will test advanced reasoning skills, starting June 2012. The new section, known as ‘Integrated Reasoning’, will feature questions that will test skills of data...
Read MoreCredits: Big Bang Theory images from pincel3d and iNewscatcher. 12 Angry Men is a kickass movie later remade in India. The rest of the images snitched from the various email forwards that grace our Inboxes. The last image is from the All India PaGaLGuY Meet 2008 at Bangalore. More PG...
Read MoreAmong the major modifications planned in the administration of the Common Admission Test (CAT) 2010, the exam will be held earlier than usual, over a longer period of time and over fewer testing centers. While the Indian Institutes of Management (IIMs) have retained Prometric for delivering the test, NIIT —...
Read MoreConsidering that Rashmi Bansal is a product of Indian Institute of Management (IIM), Ahmedabad, she ought to be the last person to pen a book on people who have made it big without an MBA degree. She in fact upholds the view that an MBA is in fact just an...
Read MoreAs per data provided by the Indian Institute of Management (IIM), Bangalore in an answer to a Right to Information (RTI) application, Cognizant Technology Services recruited 11 students from the PGP class of 2010, making it the company recruiting the largest number of students this year at IIM Bangalore. In...
Read More* MII = Management Institute of India More PG comics Concept, illustrations and graphics by Deepak Gopalakrishnan aka chuck_gopal, a Mallu-turned Mumbaikar who blogs here and tweets here.
Read MoreThe Indian Institute of Management (IIM), Bangalore has become the second business school in India to obtained the European Quality Improvement System (EQUIS) accreditation, a quality assessment system of business schools. Granted by the European Foundation for Management Education (EFMD), the accreditation is currently granted to 128 business schools in...
Read MoreContest Closed! Contest Closed! How to participate? Click original and creative pictures showing the beauty of your b-school campus and mail the three best pictures (minimum resolution: 1,500 pixels for the larger dimension) to [email protected]. Max three entries per person! Do include the name and model of the camera you...
Read MoreWhy? One of the most unique perspectives that gave rise to Aegis Global Academy, Coimbatores Institute of Customer Experience (ICEM) is the fact that the Services sector is differentiated from other economic sectors on the basis of one key factor: the human interactive experience. While the service industry in the...
Read MoreThe Indian School of Business (ISB), Hyderabad announced the completion of placements for class of 2010 of its one-year Post Graduate Program (PGP) in management with a 35% increase in the number of offers, most being in the area of consulting, sales and marketing and technology. According to the ISB...
Read MoreThe Karnataka High Court on June 11 disposed the public interest litigation seeking cancellation of the controversial computer-based Common Admissions Test (CAT) 2009 exam held in November and December 2009, while directing the Indian Institutes of Management (IIMs) at Bangalore and Ahmedabad to ensure that the errors were not repeated...
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