Career Launcher (CL) recently sent across a press release declaring that all its centers across India will be offering a free online mock test from August 8 to August 21 and top performers in each city can get the test series package for free. CL decided to provide this offer...
Read MoreXLRI Jamshedpur: A solution for villagers to harness solar power Dr Harish Hande, Founder and Managing Director, SELCO India addressed students at XLRI, Jamshedpur and explained how solar power can be made available to rural people in a systematic manner. He argued that along with technology such as solar panels,...
Read MoreAn MBA program aims to provide exposure to a wide range of issues and students from varied backgrounds enroll at business schools. However, Indian b-schools in most cases have a gender ratio heavily skewed towards male students. Interestingly enough, Apeejay Educational Society has chosen to set up women dedicated MBA...
Read MoreFewer people will definitely be crossing oceans and going to business schools as the number of GMAT registrations has reduced for the first time in five years. The Asian MBA may just prove to be a good option in these times and Nick Soriano, Admissions Director at Nanyang Business School,...
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 MoreYou can get cracking on filling out your schedule for this December. The official Symbiosis National Aptitude Test (SNAP) test website still carries last year’s date while the Symbiosis Institute of Business Management (SIBM), Pune website has all the details regarding this year’s test which will be held on December...
Read MoreLast week, we covered a fresh dot-diagram approach to tackling Reading Comprehension passes in the verbal section of the CAT exam. Many of you who studied the tutorial asked for more examples of the method for better clarity of the concept, so here it is! Download tutorial with more examples...
Read MoreMBAUniverse.com reports that the Xavier’s Admission Test for 2010 admissions to bschools such as XLRI Jamshedpur, XIM Bhubaneswar and Goa Institute of Management will take place on January 3, 2010. According to the report, “XAT will be held on January 3, 2009,” said XLRI, in an official communication to MBAUniverse.com.Unlike...
Read MoreIndia is experiencing a well below par monsoon but it sure is raining forms in the MBA world! Information is out regarding MBA applications through JMET ( for the IIT schools of management), IBSAT (for the various ICFAI business schools across the country) and for the Institute of Rural Management,...
Read MoreA just-released FAQ by IIM Ahmedabad declares that the CAT 2009 vouchers will be sold in a small time window of 20 days between September 9 and end October 1. It however says little about the format of the computer-based test. CAT 2009: Frequently Asked Questions (6 August 2009) Q1:...
Read MoreMuch before the CAT does, the Management Aptitude Test (MAT) of September 2009 will be the first exam to go computer-based. Here is a FAQ on the computer-based MAT as answered by AIMA’s Wg Cdr V S Bejoy (Retd), who is in charge of MAT. The MAT exam is taken...
Read MoreEver wondered why doing business in India is diametrically different from studying business in India. Many people must have realized the difference in scenarios when they passed out from their business schools and started working. The text book just did not teach you enough! According to Devdutt Pattanaik, Chief Belief...
Read More‘4Thought 2009’, the recently concluded annual business seminar at Symbiosis Institute of Management Studies talked about the Power Shift from the West to the East in Currency, Culture and Politics. Eminent speakers like Gulu Mirchandani, Chairman and MD, MIRC Electronics, Shikha Sharma, CEO and MD, Axis Bank and Dilip Chhabria,...
Read MoreIt may sound unusual but like charity, management too begins at home. But in this case “home” refers to our mind. CAT preparation is like an iceberg floating along; the visible part of the iceberg is all the problem solving, late nights or early mornings spent in preparation and the...
Read MoreLast Saturday, I attended a management event organized by Forum for Learning and Youth Leadership (FLY) at Bhaidas Auditorium in Ville Parle. The event schedule listed speakers from top Indian b-schools and heads of two prominent companies speaking about admissions, b-school life, CAT preparation and management. The issues covered by...
Read MoreThe twitter bus has taken the world by storm and most of the IIMs have recently woken up to how important 140 characters are. The Indian Institutes of Management (IIMs) are hardly following anyone on Twitter except for IIM Kozhikode and that account is currently being run by an alumnus....
Read MoreIt is difficult to quantify the importance of banks in our life. Living in an era of ATMs and credit available through credible financial institutions, we do not know what it is to live in the contrary. A lot of people in the farms still live without such facilities. Is...
Read MoreChennai’s Great Lakes Institute of Management sent in their placement report for the 2008-09 batch, reporting a 10% decrease in average salary and large-scale participation by small first-time companies, pretty much the same story as at other b-schools. Here is how the numbers stacked up: Number of students placed: 162Average...
Read MoreDoctors, economists, social scientists may soon be strutting out from the Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs) but unfortunately business will continue as usual at the India’s b-schools. Theres been a lot of talk about the problems that higher education faces in India and what changes need to be made. The...
Read MoreThe Daily Pennsylvanian reports that The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania has declared acceptance of GRE scores for admissions to their MBA program, effective the upcoming admission season. Now that each of the big three (Harvard Business School, Stanford GSB and Wharton) use GRE for admissions, it could proliferate the...
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