(Photo credit: Nils Geylen) Starting this weekend, we will post a weekly digest of links to analysis or opinion articles from other websites and blogs that we feel might enrich both your knowledge and perspective about business education. We will try to cover the best of all prolific writing out there in the online beyond […]

Until 2008 — before the Common Admission Test (CAT) became a computer-based test — a single year’s print order of the paper-pencil test’s information bulletins and question papers weighed more than 50 tonnes, recounts Prof Satish Deodhar, the Convener of the first computer-based CAT in 2009 and a professor at the Indian Institute of Management […]

We usually react in either of the two ways to a physically or mentally challenged person sympathize or ignore. Prem Kumar Ravi, presently a second year student at the Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta (IIM C) reacted differently. He helped. Even while struggling to get into an IIM himself, Prem decided that helping ‘others’ would […]

(Photo: Christina Rutz) You have probably wondered how a no-name private b-school caught hold of your mobile number each time you received a telemarketing call or an SMS from such a school asking whether you would like to consider appearing for its admission process. More often than not, the telecaller knows the roll number of […]

Among the only two few Padmashri recipients in the management education space, management guru Dr Pritam Singh, Director General of International Management Institute (IMI), Delhi is well-known for having hauled up the fortunes of the Indian Institute of Management (IIM), Lucknow and the Management Development Institute (MDI), Gurgaon during his tenures as their Director. This […]

Pic by Max Wolfe Photostream In a bid to fill up 2,100 PGDM seats, about 52 b-schools in Maharashtra are, for the first time, conducting a centralized admission process for b-school aspirants. The service will hope to net students who have taken any of the entrance tests namely: CAT / MAT / XAT / ATMA […]

The vitriolic public reaction to Union Environment Minister Jairam Ramesh’s seemingly innocuous comment that “The faculty in Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs) is not world-class. It is the students in IITs who are world-class. The IITs and Indian Institutes of Management (IIMs) are excellent because of the quality of students and not because of quality […]

In the volumes of b-school placement reports, one piece of statistics gets overshadowed by the numerical platitudes and eulogies. Mentioned mostly as an afterthought, it is about students who opt-out of the placements, to follow their calling and start their own businesses. PaGaLGuY speaks to some of these souls and learn their stories. M Vivekanandan, […]

You’ve seen the posts, the thanks and the groans. Now meet the faces behind the usernames at the 8th edition of the All India PaGaLGuY Meet (AIPGM) on May 28 and 29, 2011 at Bangalore. A one of its kind event, the meet will allow you to network with other regular puys alongside a rock […]

???With an office that is almost about 1,000 sq feet in size, has glass walls and is perched on top of a hill with acres of coconut trees below, one would expect Prof Debashis Chatterjee, Director of Indian Institute of Management, Kozhikode (IIMK) to speak Wordsworth and Shelly. But Prof Chatterjee is far from being […]