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When the second edition of the PGP-Business will start? The PGPB will commence on July 8th with the opening week while on July 15th students will begin their pre-courses in Accounting, Economics and Quantitative Methods. Applications will be accepted and evaluated until June 28th 2013. Which is the essence of the PBP-Business at MISB Bocconi? […]
A poker game in progress at this year’s tournament Don’t be surprised, if tomorrow, an automobile company visiting your campus tests your driving skills before offering you a job. Because that’s how US-based gaming company Caesars Entertainment hires. It invites MBA students interested in working with them to play poker before deciding on the hire. […]
Dezsö Horváth, dean, Schulich School of Business, York University, Canada In an ideal world, Dezsö Horváth would have liked his 25-year-long deanship of Canada’s Schulich School of Business, York University to see through a full-fledged MBA program run by the school on Indian soil. But with the foreign universities entry and regulation bill still languishing […]
The classrooms at the School of Management and Labour Studies at the Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS) Mumbai will have a different look to them this year. According to information provided by Bino Paul, professor and chairperson, Centre for Human Resources Management and Labour Relations, the proportion of both non-engineers and women in the […]
Sandip Soparrkar and his wife (dancer and model) Jesse Randhawa Sandip Soparrkar, one of India’s most popular western dancers is not willing to disclose ‘when’ he graduated from Symbiosis Institute of Business Management (SIBM), Pune. He simply says it was years ago. But what he is willing to share, is that he did not take […]
(Photo: Boegh) Quant problems on Time, Speed and Distance make frequent appearances in management entrance exams. To my collection of posts on PaGaLGuY (detailed list), I would like to add a few thoughts about solving escalator-related problems. At the basic level, escalator related problems aren’t too different from boats and streams problem. Think of the […]
(Photo: Peter Gibbons) India’s biggest lender State Bank of India (SBI) has slashed the education loan interest rate for premium b-schools to as low as 10.7%. Further, for students who have two years of work experience and add a parent or the spouse as co-borrower, the interest rate would be even lower at 9.95%. These […]
Dr Srikant Datar Dr Srikant M. Datar is the Arthur Lowes Dickinson Professor of Accounting at the Harvard University. A ‘Bombay’ boy, Dr Datar graduated from the Mumbai University (University of Bombay then), went on to study at the Institute of Cost and Works Accountants of India and the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad. For […]
Alagu Perumal Ramasamy At a time when we the union government is trying to push through the Food Security Bill, Alagu Perumal Ramasamy, an assistant professor who teaches international business at Chennai’s Loyola Institute of Business Administration (LIBA), has been working away for more than two years to contribute to what he defines as food […]
Yes, entrepreneurship can be taught in a classroom with four walls and a black board. But it is best learnt on the ground and at The Indian Institute of Management, Lucknow, (IIM-L) students get to become entrepreneurs for a year. Two of IIM-L’s most famous eating joints are run by students on a commercial basis […]