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(Photo: Lajwanti D’souza) Indiaink Empowering IIM Authors, an event at a five-star hotel in Mumbai was supposed to begin registrations at about 6.30 pm on Saturday, March 31, 2012. But even by 7.15 pm, there was barely a soul inside the auditorium. The crowd was there alright, but it was outside the auditorium sipping tea […]
In a bid to reduce pressure on students in b-schools, the Human Resources Development ministry’s Curriculum Review Council has drawn up a rather extraordinary list of ‘things to do’ as compulsory activities from this academic year onwards. The list has twenty activities, but students will have to choose any three to successfully complete the course. […]
Shailesh J Mehta School of Management (SJMSoM), Indian Institute of Technology; Bombay has revamped its course structure after a gap of seven years. Prime reasons for the revamp include responding to the changing business environment and increasing importance of sustainable business practices. Increase in permanent faculty strength (to over 20) is another factor which motivated […]
Ever since 2008 when we at PaGaLGuY started publishing our own rankings of b-schools, the possibility of overenthusiastic b-school students rigging the rankings survey to favour their institute has been giving us the heebie-jeebies. It’s a good worry to harbour, because if we didn’t make sure that our rankings were free of taint, why would […]
Here we are, nearing the end of an MBA admission season hanging right in the middle of the second economic recession in five years. The crisis of 2009 assailed at the viability of the mass-produced MBAs of the country to secure the jobs they had hoped their degrees to yield, but it did not shake […]
IMD’s campus at Lausanne, Switzerland The kick-off post in the International MBA FAQ series (the relevance of GMAT scores in MBA applications) received a pretty encouraging response. The enthusiasm to learn more about international MBA programmes was apparent from the comments. So this time we are taking up another topic around which there were quite […]
Dr Dipak Jain, dean, INSEAD at the ReachIvy event in Mumbai Dr Dipak Jain, dean of INSEAD, France and Singapore writes his name as Dipak and not Deepak because the first time he wrote his name in English he was not sure how to spell it. Having studied in a Hindi-medium school in Tezpur, Assam, […]
Indian Institute of Foreign Trade (IIFT), Delhi and Kolkata completed the final placement process for the 2010-12 batch of MBA in International Business. A total of 86 companies came on campus out of which 80 companies made 202 offers (including 103 lateral offers and 21 pre-placement offers) for a batch of 203 students (the Delhi […]
The Faculty of Management Studies (FMS), University of Delhi declared its interview and group discussion shortlist for admissions to the two-year fulltime MBA class of 2012-14 this evening. While the cut-off for the General category has been pegged at 98.73 percentile in the Common Admission Test (CAT), for the OBC category it is 85.80. The […]