Experts Speak : Quick guide to Interviews
When the time comes for you to interview with your target MBA program(s), you may inevitably find yourself fretting and wondering, “What if I don’t know the answers to my interviewer’s questions?” The admissions officer, alumnus/alumna or student who interviews you will not ask you about esoteric topics and will...
Read MoreBe Yourself Everyone Else Is Already Taken
I Fall In Love today with someone. Yes ‘I’ have fallen in love, with a person who is so into me, with the one who has stood by my side throughout my life journey & I Know will always be there for me, no matter what happens. That ‘ONE’ is...
Read MoreBeen ‘One’ My Whole Life…
I always had friends from when I was young up to when I was 16, 17. I had close relationships with some friends, they were like my brothers, but I fell out with all of them. But, at the time although I still acted happy I think it hurt me...
Read MoreThe Forbidden Place
Today is the last day of my so called 24 year’s life,tomorrow I will be turned into Twenty five .In this eve my father and me went to Tamluk ,the place I adore most because of its beauty,its passion,its tenderness and also its history.I think this place has a heart...
Read MoreAre MBA Summer Internships still relevant?
The conventional model of summer internships that business schools follow is to provide an internship during the summer break, for six to eight weeks between the first and second year. This model was introduced in India by the ivy-league business schools, led by Indian Institutes of Management (IIM’s) and emulated...
Read MoreDebate: An MBA doesn’t necessarily change your attitude
VIEW: Dr. Madhumita, Dean academics & student affairs, Prof. HRM,CSR & sustainability: In India any B school is considered to be a placement agency. Even institutes started publicizing themselves as a window to high salary job. Placement has become a hygiene factor in MBA education. Institutes who are looking at...
Read MoreHow big is the Big Data is and why?
Everybody must be hearing the buzz about Big Data and Hadoop and how many billions dollars will be invested in Big Data Projects from Fortune 500 companies in the coming time. It is critical to know about every next big thing because all the players start from Start and India...
Read MoreSustaining Energy Finance – A stitch in time
With the world population reaching up to 7.121 billion,energy crunch is bound to trouble experts around the world. Especially,considering the role of energy in economic growth and the environment degrading over centuries, ‘sustainable energy’ seems to be demanding a lot more attention. The string that leads us to this fret...
Read MoreWhy do you post abusive posts?
India’s literacy rate has increased to 74.04% as per 2011 census. Government predicted literacy rate 80% by 2015. That means today approx three fourths of India can read and write. If you read this article, you are among 74%. But how many literates are aware about ‘Our Fundamental Duties’ (Part...
Read MoreWhere the Mind Lives !!
Its not often that one sits in office to write the first few words on PG, but then I am doing it. Among the hustle bustle of a fresh Monday,with my colleagues arguing over bits and pieces of code written in robotic languages the C’s the Java’s the .NET’s, what...
Read MoreThings to do Before IIFT 2013
As we all know IIFT is on 24th nov 2013 , Here are some points which can help you in performing better in IIFT. 1) We all get confused when it comes to last minute preparation. We try to do many things which in turn leaves us doing nothing.So, First...
Read MoreGK Checklist for IIFT 2013
With CAT out of the way, the good old days of paper-pen testing is back. Yes, I’m talking about IIFT 2013 which will be held on 24th Nov 2013. A well prepared student for CAT can find that the only road block in his/her way would be the GK section....
Read MoreSigh of Respite for Young Guns of Cricket
After a tyrannical rule of Ravi Shastri over post-match ceremonies, which are accused of ruining many young talents and budding players, a sigh of respite comes from the hands of none other than the god of cricket, Sachin Ramesh Tendulkar. A recent survey conducted by “Youngsters-bachao” campaign concluded that it...
Read MoreWhat is Life?
What is life ? The one who understands this question or is able to answer it is according to me a champion. There was quite a consequential number of people who were “champions” in the departed time but the upper limit of that group has really shrunk in this generation....
Read MoreLove life or hate it..Choice is yours
‘Lets have a watch night party’… That was abhinav ..my friend…from kindergarten we were together in same class same bench..So that was him expressing himself on 27th December 2003 that we should party before we all go somewhere else after the exam. We were in 10th std…which was projected to...
Read MoreIs it a CAT fight or Just a hype
(Part 6 ) Also with the CAT on the rounds, it’s commonly observed among the aspirants that after writing their paper, they post their attempt rates n “probable accuracy rates” on every possible and available networking site, and then beg others to “predict” their %iles; however misleading the projected %ile...
Read MoreIs it a CAT fight or Just a hype
(Part 5) The same applies even to those kids who have been assigned the task of fulfilling their parent’s wishes. It is indeed a matter of pride that the kids happily agree to live up to the expectations of his parents. But the kid must realize that it is very...
Read MoreIs it a CAT fight or Just a hype
(Part 4) Moving on to another most obvious reason for an aimless child to appear for CAT could be “joblessness” coupled with aimlessness. In simple words, MBA is the drowning (and aimless) man’s straw, in this situation. The very reason I described the “aimless CAT aspirants” to be dangerous was...
Read MoreIs it a CAT fight or Just a hype
(Part 3) But then what about remaining Indian Junta? Not all are so hopelessly and desperately driven only by the “hike in package” motive, I presume. So this remaining chunk of CAT-junta can be divided into 2 categories: Aim and Aimless. And sadly, the latter dominates the former. Only a...
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