Mr. Manish Gupta, Chief Technical Officer, IBM, the keynote speaker for the event, presented IBM’s perspective on the changing face of the Indian IT industry and its shift towards the higher-end of the value chain. He underscored the point by mentioning the role played by Indian engineers in developing ‘Blue...
Read MoreMrs. Khaire, an alumnus of the institute, did her Masters of Management at SJMSOM and then continued to receive her PhD in Management from Columbia Business School. Presently she is an Assistant Professor at Harvard Business School. She teaches the first-year MBA course, “The Entrepreneurial Manager.” She also teaches in...
Read MoreThe workshop on Mortgage Based Securities was the second in a series of industry talks that Finance and Investment Club of IIM Calcutta is organizing this year. The previous workshop was conducted earlier this month by Dr L Sankar who is a Managing Director (Credit Quantitative Analysis group) at Citigroup,...
Read More“Years can teach what a day can never know”. In an effort to learn from the experiences of some of India’s most enlightened corporate personalities, Symbiosis Institute of Business Management is organizing a mega management conclave. ‘Summit SIBM’ will see the confluence of personalities from the fields of Human Resources,...
Read MoreDue to inclement weather, the convocation ceremony was held in National Insurance Academys Campus on June 18th,Sunday. The Convocation ceremony at NIA SOM signified the official conferral of degrees for all NIA SOM postgraduates. During the convocation NIA SOM acknowledged the individual achievements and recognized each student by name. The...
Read MoreThe event was inaugurated by the head of department of DMS IIT Delhi, Dr. S. S. Yadav who set the tone and the pitch for the event by introducing the house to the topic and providing a context for what was to follow. He was followed by the very eloquent...
Read MoreA very common flaw on the GMAT, and in life, is the confusion of absolute numbers and percentages. For example, which is larger, one-third of x or one-half of y? Without any information to compare x and y, we cannot answer this question. It is true that one-half is larger...
Read MoreEvery year, as part of its ongoing research project, TopMBA surveys nearly 4,000 aspiring MBAs to establish whether the issue of finance was likely to prove a barrier to study. The latest poll found that practically all had already looked seriously into how they would fund their time at business...
Read MoreAccording to figures from the World MBA Tour, the largest international programme of business school information events, women around the world are increasingly turning to an MBA as a route to top jobs in industry, commerce and banking. Of over 58,000 prospective students who attended World MBA Tour events in...
Read MoreAccording to a recent poll by the careers and education group, QS, the company behind the World MBA Tour, there are almost no MBAs who regret having taken the qualification, but a significant proportion do wish that they had approached their studies in a different way. One of the most...
Read MoreHello Everyone, It feels good to finally write an article on Math for PG. As the title correctly suggests, this is all about geometry. I do like Geometry but I am not one of those people who can balance vague 3-D structures all in the mind and come out with...
Read MoreRohan Khanna of Accenture and Shubhendu Saha of DTZ cruised their way in the Business Today Acumen 2006 Alumni Quiz North Zone regionals to reach the national finals. Shubhendu Saha is an alumnus of School of Management Studies, Motilal Nehru National Institute of Technology, Allahabad, belonging to the class of...
Read MoreIndian Institute of Foreign Trade (IIFT), Delhi beat MDI-Gurgaon in a battle of reason to win the Business Today Acumen 2006 North Zone Debate finals. IIFT’s Arka Bhattacharya and Swarnim Bharadwaj (in the picture) will now compete with the teams from East, West and South Zones at the finals on...
Read MoreThe topic of discussion was ‘Aligning HR Strategies with Changing Business Strategies’. The role of human resources has been evolving for quite some time now. The HR business objectives have been re-established to support the attainment of the overall strategic business plan and objectives. The discussion emphasized the importance of...
Read MoreThe delegation enlightened the packed gathering at the seminar hall of SIMSR about the organizational structure, networking approach and the flawless delivery mechanism of their organization. The speech, made in colloquial style, was laced with light humour and doses of popular aphorisms. The event was a momentous one for the...
Read MoreArjun Siva and Dr Vikram of Institute of Management Technology (IMT) Ghaziabad (in picture) won the North Zone regional Quiz of the Business Today and Aditya Birla Group Acumen 2006 National B-school Challenge on Saturday. Hosted by Harsha Bhogle, the business trivia inclined quiz was contested besides IMT by MBA...
Read MoreMDI’s Priyanka Todi and Saumya Mittal (in picture) and IIFT’s Swarnim Bharadwaj and Arka Bhattacharya won the finals of the Acumen 2006 North Zone debate to enter the finals. The finals shall be held Saturday evening. They shall debate on the topic ‘Amitabh Bahchan everywhere: Celebrity endorsements don’t work’ As...
Read MoreAfter a closely fought Acumen 2006 Quiz preliminary round, IMT-Ghaziabad, IMI-Delhi, Delhi School of Economics and The Business School, University of Jammu entered the finals of the North Zone regionals. Meanwhile, FMS, MDI, IIFT and Amity Business School entered the semi finals of the Acumen Debate. On Saturday, Ankush Trakru...
Read MoreThe Business Today – Aditya Birla Group Acumen 2006 National B-school challenge today kicked off its North Zone rounds at the Indian Institute of Foreign Trade, New Delhi. B-schools from around Delhi and Lucknow participated in the event, and several familiar names won the debate on the relevance of foreign...
Read MoreThe World Wide Web in its present form provides millions of ways to reach out, relate, connect, communicate, share, learn and help people grow. Interestingly, a very small fraction of these ways has seen the light of day on the Internet.Each day at PaGaLGuY.com, our mission is to find new...
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