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“I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand.” Ancient Chinese Proverb Plavon Bora, 1st Year MBA Student at Fortune Institute of International business (FIIB) hates cooking. With a Pre-MBA work experience as a Technical Support Officer at Microsoft, he joined the 2-year full-time MBA program at FIIB to […]
After witnessing a phenomenal jump of 80% in the number of applications this year, IMI has kick started with its interview process for all its three campuses- New Delhi, Bhubaneswar and Kolkata. IMI has increased the overall CAT cut off to 92 percentile as compared to 90 percentile last year for PGDM Delhi. The sectional […]
(Interactive chart by Sanjit Oberai) For the education sector, Union Budget 2013 gives reason only for a muted cheer. Finance Minster P Chidambaram has allocated Rs 65,867 crore to Ministry of Human Resource Development (MHRD), which is an increase of 17 per cent over the Revised Estimate of the previous year. However, it is only […]
(Photo credit: beneneuman) The Union Budget 2013 is out and is on populist lines as expected. With making the rich poorer high on the Finance Ministrys agenda, prices of some goods are going to shoot up and some will dive. Here is PaGaLGuY.coms drill down on what this budget means for you! Some relief in […]
Prof Gajendra Adil Prof Gajendra Adil recently took over as head, Shailesh J Mehta School of Management (SJMSoM), Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Bombay. An academician at heart, Prof Adil worked at Bilkent Universtity, Turkey and City University, Hong Kong before joining SJMSoM in 2000. Speaking exclusively to PaGaLGuY, he talks about his vision for […]
(Photo: psyberartist) Free of the censoring knife of their PR committees, students of the Indian Institutes of Management (IIMs) are having a ball anonymously posting what appears like an unbridled bitchfest about their b-schools on a Facebook page aptly titled IIM Confessions. Imagine this: you are an IIM student who by choice or otherwise, is […]
Photo Credit: Steve A johnson Probability has always been a fascinating topic to teach. The pleasure that I get out of correcting silly mistakes, which are plenty in questions based on probability can be considered sadistic by some or a truly noble thing to do by others. I hope the percentage of the latter would […]
Photo Credit: Lucia Whittaker The Associate Professor of Marketing who is accused of sexual harassment at the Indian Institute of Management Indore may even stand to lose his job if he proved guilty. Accused of sexually harassing a junior lady professor at the institute, the director of IIM-I, Dr N Ravichandran will take a final […]
As has been the trend over the last 3 years (See Table 1), hiring for finance function during summer internships at Indian Institute of Management (IIM), Ahmedabad, has taken a dip this year as well. This year, 25.72% of the batch was hired for roles in the finance function as opposed to 28.38% hires last […]
Leonardo Banegas, Global MBA student at ESSEC Business School, France After having grown up and worked in Citibank across multiple Central American countries, Honduras national Leonardo Banegas wanted to be anywhere but a Spanish-speaking country for his MBA. He eventually joined the one-year Global MBA programme at ESSEC Business School near Paris, France, where he […]