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The Institute of Management Technology (IMT), Ghaziabad is increasingly being recognized by recruiters, as one of Indias top-10 business schools. A recent Economic Times survey covering 500 of Indias largest companies saw IMT-G ranked number seven, with areas covered being marketing, IT, HR, finance and production. A key factor behind this prime ranking is the […]
(Photo credit: Rahul Desai) The Union Human Resources Development (HRD) Ministry’s diktat a few months ago, that the Indian Institutes of Management (IIMs) launch a management journal on the lines of the celebrated Harvard Business Review (HBR) has set the ball rolling within the IIM camp. Though no firm plan has been drawn up yet, […]
Pic from World Economic Forum photostream Two big happenings were of concern to the b-school community last week. One of course The Common Admission Test (CAT) 2011 which was kick-started on October 22 (so technically last week) and the other, the arrest of former Indian School of Business’ Founder Chairman Rajat Gupta’s on charges of […]
(Photo credit: Alan Levine) There has been a lot of feedback in the comments on my previous posts here demanding an article on Geometry. I have been avoiding writing it for some time because, 1. It is not one of my strong areas. 2. It takes a lot of time to draw the diagrams required […]
PS: Columbia Business School asked for a 140-character essay as part of its admissions application for the MBA admissions of 2012. Concept, illustrations and graphics by Deepak Gopalakrishnan aka chuck_gopal, a Mallu-turned Mumbaiker who blogs here and tweets here.
The Common Admission Test (CAT) 2011 is underway (October 22 – November 1 and two testing days are over. According to Prometric, 6,703 candidates had appeared to register for the test today (October 24) across the country. CAT 2011 marks a change in test pattern, in that it contains two separately times sections of 70 […]
(Photo credit: David Shankbone) Ever wondered how much rebellion costs? Apart from possibly losing your job and your house to be a part of it, it takes money to keep the revolution alive. This Bloomberg feature shows the other side of the revolution that is gaining momentum at Wall Street, America. Called “Occupy Wall Street: […]
Editor’s note: Guest author Parasharan Chari, Chief Operating Officer of Ahmedabad-based test-preparation institute Endeavor Careers, analyses the first-day-first-slot of CAT 2011 and identifies pointers that test-takers in the later slots could use. — — — First day, first slot an expression that sounds quite filmi, but then the Common Admissions Test (CAT) has never had […]
The effectiveness of a digitised testing infrastructure struck me like an a-ha moment today morning when I placed my index finger on the biometric fingerprinting device at the Common Admission Test (CAT) 2011 center and within seconds the executive checking me in smiled and remarked, “You’ve taken the test twice before.” By matching biometric data […]
Pesky calls and SMS are the flavor of the season, what with the government penalising the telecom industry by setting daily limits on SMS and unleashing heavy fines on telemarketers. That however does not cover email and snail-mail spam. All these years, MBA applicants have been complaining that the information provided while purchasing the Common […]