(Credit: timetrax23) Imagine this: there are over 2,400 b-schools in India of which 1,999 are approved by the All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) and 400 function as unapproved private b-schools. Together, they have nearly 190,000 seats for a total pool of 3.5-4 lakh MBA aspirants who sit for...
Read MoreYes, you heard that right. We have excess stock of hot coffee but not enough people to spend sleepless nights consuming it. Are you passionate about the world of MBA education? Do you get excitedly lap up news and analysis on business schools in newspapers? Are you brimming with questions...
Read MoreWelcome to the era of Super Specialization. The world has become a Global village. As more and more opportunities are opening up, competition is getting tougher. A regular Post Graduation is certainly not the need of the hour. In todays scenario, even a specialization is not good enough. The world...
Read More(Courtesy: Knowledge@Wharton) Beginning on June 11, 32 football (also known as soccer) teams will duke it out in one of the most widely viewed sports events on the planet the International Federation of Football (FIFA) World Cup. While the teams competing in South Africa will try to earn their respective...
Read MoreIn about a week’s time, most business schools in India would have welcomed the new batch of starry-eyed students, the first-year ‘freshers’. Carrying with them a lot of anxiety and much hope, they would be busy checking out the campus and the classrooms, wondering about roommates, making their first friends...
Read More(Image credit: W Marsh) MBA graduates of 2010 across the world feel more optimistic about the health of the economy than those in 2009 did, even though the number of MBAs having a job before graduation has dropped to a seven-year low, reports a GMAC survey. Only 33% of the...
Read More(*PIMP = Prominent Institute of Management, Patiala) And we are sure there are times you’ve felt you could just break out of the whole narrating-answers-which-have-been-learnt-by-rote rut. Coaching classes and instruction books cannot coach you more with spieling out mechanized answers. To do a better job than what you’ve been coached...
Read More(Photo credit: David Reece) Jamshedpur’s Xavier’s Labour Relations Institute, now known as XLRI Jamshedpur School of Business and Human Resources will implement a revised curriculum for students joining the two-year Business Management (BM) and Personnel Management and Industrial Relations (PMIR) programs in June 2010. The new curriculum would reduce the...
Read More(Image: Thomas Hawk) The MBA Oath has regained spotlight after the appointment of one of its strongest advocates Nitin Nohria as Dean of Harvard Business School. The question remains however is whether such an oath is meaningful in a context where the MBA graduate is expected to work purely to...
Read MoreConvocations at b-schools are that time of the year when the entire top brass of a business school, including the Director, the Deans and the heads of the Governing Board come together to face the public. While a lot of inspiration flies in the air as they deliver their speeches...
Read MoreDear readers, we are glad to announce a syndication agreement with Knowledge@Wharton, the premium online journal of The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania and one of the world’s best sources of insight on business. The agreement allows PaGaLGuY to bring you two of the best and most relevant articles from...
Read More(Courtesy: Knowledge@Wharton) It was a tweet like many others from Starbucks, promising free refills to customers who brought in reusable tumblers on Earth Day. But the message came to users in a different way — it appeared at the top of Twitter search results pages, even for those who weren’t...
Read MoreOk, so not all b-schools are this way. And I’m sure puys are smart enough to understand who’s being genuine and who’s shooting through the top of their mouths. But b-schools are notorious inflators, and anything small is projected like it’s the next big thing, and it’s not just salaries...
Read MoreIf you are joining a b-school this year, chances are that it would have its own set of student-run and faculty-guided subject clubs such as the Marketing Club, Finance Club, Consulting Club and more. Guest Writer and Founder of consulting services and training firm ZENeSYS Saibal Sen provides tips to...
Read MoreRun by a 29-year-old Oxford MBA and staffed almost entirely by deaf people, Mumbai-based ‘Mirakle Couriers’ is a unique company whose internal operations we were long interested in. So we got PaGaLGuY’s Lajwanti D’souza to spend a day at Mirakle Couriers and accompany a hearing-impaired delivery boy through the concrete...
Read More* RAT = Random Admission Test, conducted by the 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 More30 Industry Sponsored Scholarships amounting to more than 30 lacs of rupees. Up to 100% of the tuition fee is being given to the meritorious applicants of Core Business School. The Indian industry at present has reached the most crucial turning point where it has had to face dynamic demands...
Read MoreIndian Institute of Financial Management (IIFM) ((Winner of IEDRA award for Excellence in Education, 2009) is Indias first integrated higher education institute in the domain of management and financial education. Started by senior bankers and industry leaders, IIFM has the distinction of marrying education to employment that no institute has...
Read MoreThe Vinod Gupta School of Management (VGSOM), Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur released its placement report for the MBA batch of 2008-10 this week, claiming a total of 110 offers for an eligible-for-placements count of 80 students. With 15 job offers, IBM was the largest recruiter at the placements. According...
Read MoreThe country’s one of its kind meet for top b-schoolers, MBA aspirants and MBA alumni is back! Two days of fun, music, networking, theater, sports and more with the best posters of PaGaLGuY, next to a pretty beach on the outskirts of Mumbai. On May 22 and 23, 2010 at...
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