Articles in IIM Bangalore
Sridhar Pabbisetty (left) during his election campaign at RT Nagar, Bengaluru After years of work on policy thinking, Sridhar Pabbisetty wanted to go beyond just ideas. The quest for putting political action to his ideas led him to quit his job as the chief operating officer (COO) of the Centre for Public Policy (CPP), Indian […]
(Graphic by Sanjit Oberai) In the first part of this two-part series, we highlighted how executive MBA courses haven’t quite delivered to the expectations of the students pursuing them. In this second part, we take a look at what the b-schools have to say on the subject On placements… While the students we spoke to […]
The search operation at IIM Bangalore has come to an end and the call has been identified as a hoax call. This was confirmed by a police official from MICO Layout Police Station, Bangalore. “We have traced the call to a phone booth in JP Nagar but we have not identified the caller yet,” said […]
(Photo: Cali4beach) Does one need a classroom coaching programme to prepare for the Common Admissions Test (CAT)? MBA applicants often ask this question on online forums, and even otherwise to their mentors and peers – whether classroom coaching improves CAT preparation better. Or should they instead self-study and maybe join an online test series at […]
This was the second year that the Indian Institute of Management Bangalore, (IIM-B) persisted with its radical attendance and summer placements guidelines. Better known as ‘attend class whenever you want’ and ‘opt out of summer placements if you feel like’ to the world outside IIM-B, these have been at the receiving end of a fair […]
(Photo: Sigfrid Lundberg) Thousands appear for their CAT exam in the final year of their undergraduate studies. Those who are not able to get through in their first attempt reappear the following year and add to the ever increasing pool of candidates with work experience. With the Indian Institutes of Management (IIMs) and other Indian […]
If you are wondering which Indian Institutes of Management (IIMs) the Common Admission Test (CAT) 2012 toppers are heading to, here’s the news: Toppers (100 percentilers) Converted Areesh Mittal IIM-C Anshul Garg IIM-C Ravi Teja Palla IIM-C, L (Waitlisted for B) Sumit Patil IIM-C, A, B, L Siddharth Sharma IIM-C, B Jaskaran Singh Sachdeva IIM-L […]
The Reading Comprehension (RC) section has been the bête noire of CAT candidates for long now. Simply because the length of the passage has varied every year, the type of questions asked has also varied and there is no tutorial/technique that one can use to prepare for the various types of passages. All one can […]
Photo Courtesy: Mikecogh (Flickr) The Indian Institute of Management Lucknow (IIM-L) announced yesterday that it had reduced fees. Great news, the media lapped it up and so also the MBA fraternity. But it also added, to this feat, that it was the first IIM to do so. Kind of right but not quite. IIM Kozhikode […]
(Photo courtesy: Official U.S. Navy Imagery) The Indian Institute of Management (IIM) Ahmedabad has declared its results for the Post Graduate Program (PGP). Click here to view the results. Follow the discussion here For the results of IIM Calcutta, click here. The discussions are on here Results of IIM Lucknow can be viewed here. For […]