IIFT stresses for Cost Effective Innovative Models to attain Five percent share of World Trade by 2020 Five percent share in world trade by 2020- that’s the ambitious vision outlined for India by the erstwhile commerce minister Kamal Nath. India has taken giant strides in this respect in the past...
Read MorePrometric and the IIMs have released a video on Youtube about the procedure to be followed during registration. They have laid down the process very clearly and have provided information on scheduling the exam. While it does answer some questions, it does however create new doubts as well. For example:...
Read MoreThe CAT notification is out. The Advertisement is out in all major news papers and the count-down begins in earnest. If you have been finding excuses to not study, they better stop now. Here are the details. CAT 2009 Vouchers will be on sale from September 9, 2009 till October...
Read MoreThis is something you’ve been waiting for! IIMB’s site now display the CAT demo. It is a very brief demo and it gives you the first look at the format and style of the Prometric IIM CAT exam to be conducted this year. The demo gives you some idea into...
Read MoreManagement Development Institute or MDI Gurgaon, seems to be the b-school that authors prefer; probably that will explain the continuous presence of authors in here every year since 2007: Uma Natrajan who authored two academics books on economics and was a student of the post graduate program (PGP) 2007, Sachinn...
Read More4000 out of a total of 30000 students who have registered for the Management Aptitude Test or MAT have chosen the online option; a number that amounts to a little more than 13 percent. MAT has been scheduled to be held in around 30 cities starting September 6th, 2009. The...
Read MoreEntrepreneurship initiatives are on an all time high in B-schools (CSR initiatives too, though more on that later). Its amazing to see the high amount of management students interested in starting their own businesses; although some of them do admit that their zest is influenced by the lack of suitable...
Read MoreSeven new Indian Institutes of Managements proposed by Union HRD Minister Kapil Sibal have finally been approved by the Cabinet today on August 27, 2009. These new IIMs will come up at Tamil Nadu, Jammu and Kashmir, Jharkhand, Uttarakhand, Haryana, Chhattisgarh and Rajasthan. Locations of four of these IIMs has...
Read MoreFor PG users, this requires no introduction or explanation. For the lesser mortals, I shall explain.The Dream Team comprises of CAT aspirants who can crack the CAT even in their sleep if it may so be required. They are consistent 99 percentile scorers in the mock CATs and thus are...
Read MoreNIS L.I.V.E and XIM-B join hands to launch Advanced Post Graduate Certificate courses NIS L.I.V.E, an initiative of NIS Sparta Ltd., (L.I.V.E. stands for Learning in Interactive Virtual Environment) has in association with Xavier Institute of Management, Bhubaneswar (XIM-B) announced the launch of advanced Post Graduate Certificate courses earlier this...
Read MoreManagement institutes are wholesome entities in themselves. Generally. Management institutes (or I should rather call them departments) in the North Campus of The Delhi University are pretty much the best bargain you will find between a conventional management institute and a University set-up with Management studies as just another department....
Read MoreThe Graduate Record Examination’s (GRE) big shot at trying to wrest the business school admissions space from the currently prevalent Graduate Management Admissions Test (GMAT) comes in an interesting period of time, when applications to b-schools in the US and Europe are dwindling. Last month, Wharton joined Harvard, Stanford, MIT-Sloan...
Read MoreSRIJAN 09 – IMI’s Annual Marketing Summit SRIJAN09, the marketing summit of International Management Institute, New Delhi to be held on August 28 and 29, 2009 will provide an opportunity for the young managers to assimilate, learn and implement the concepts and to understand the cycle of idea evolutions in...
Read MoreConsidering that everyone today believes that MBA education lacks the wherewithal to train managers, Fastcompany.com, a business magazine that reports on technology, design and digital media too has come up with a feature called 30second MBA where stalwarts of the industry answer basic questions on management for whoever might be...
Read MoreLater this week, I’m traveling to an interesting conference at ISB Hyderabad on the role of business schools in the current economic crisis, and how they need to change in order to be more relevant in the new economy that will emerge out of the crisis. The conference, among other...
Read MoreIf you have an Italian streak in you, I say head for IMT-Ghaziabad; no you will not find yourself turn into Michelangelo, but every three months you will be able to feast on unlimited pizzas and cold drinks in the mess. Now this is a treat for even the most...
Read MoreThe Indian School of Business (ISB), Hyderabad like most schools has experienced a drop of 20 percent in salary levels and had a long drawn out placements season. The most interesting bit this year’s placements at ISB is that only 55 percent of students have changed careers post-MBA and this...
Read MoreXLRI, Jamshedpur launches Agri-Business Management program Xavier Labour Relations Institute, Jamshedpur has launched a six month certificate program in Agri-Business Management in Hyderabad at the Loyola Academy in association with Ikisan (an agri portal promoted by Nagarjuna group). The online self learning program aims to help students understand marketing and...
Read MoreAbout 100 odd old users on the PaGaLGuY.com forums are going to be lining up for this year’s CAT as part of OMPA (Old Men’s PaGaL Association) but they aren’t simply cooling their heels and waiting for the CAT notification to come out. Far from it! You can invite your...
Read MoreHow does the test-taking strategy for Quantitative Ability and Data Interpretation change for the computer-based CAT? Here’s a tutorial. Download the Quanti-DI tutorial for CAT 2009 Thank you to our friends at TCYonline for the tutorial. As always, the tutorial is Shareware, which means that if you like it, you...
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