What should be your key motivating factors for taking an MBA?What are your personal motivations for taking an MBA? Are you a career switcher, or a career progresser? Is a jump in salary what matters most, or do you seek international experience? Is your primary goal to broaden your education and your horizons, or to […]

SP Jain is known to send GD-PI calls to candidates even before the CAT is held. Why and how is it done? We do respect the CAT, which is an entry-level examination for the MBA education. However, how can you have the full idea about somebody’s potential using a two hour test? So we have […]

Speaking to more than a large audience, Prof. Basu expressed his optimism on the globalization of Indian economy and the prospects and challenges facing the Indian economy as it emerges into one of the fastest growing economies of the world. While applauding India’s efforts for development of professional education, he expressed his concern for the […]

Mr. Manish Gupta, Chief Technical Officer, IBM, the keynote speaker for the event, presented IBM’s perspective on the changing face of the Indian IT industry and its shift towards the higher-end of the value chain. He underscored the point by mentioning the role played by Indian engineers in developing ‘Blue Gene/L’: The Fastest Supercomputer. In […]

Mrs. Khaire, an alumnus of the institute, did her Masters of Management at SJMSOM and then continued to receive her PhD in Management from Columbia Business School. Presently she is an Assistant Professor at Harvard Business School. She teaches the first-year MBA course, “The Entrepreneurial Manager.” She also teaches in the HBS Executive Education programs, […]

The workshop on Mortgage Based Securities was the second in a series of industry talks that Finance and Investment Club of IIM Calcutta is organizing this year. The previous workshop was conducted earlier this month by Dr L Sankar who is a Managing Director (Credit Quantitative Analysis group) at Citigroup, New York and an alumnus […]

“Years can teach what a day can never know”. In an effort to learn from the experiences of some of India’s most enlightened corporate personalities, Symbiosis Institute of Business Management is organizing a mega management conclave. ‘Summit SIBM’ will see the confluence of personalities from the fields of Human Resources, Marketing, Finance and Marketing Communications […]

Due to inclement weather, the convocation ceremony was held in National Insurance Academys Campus on June 18th,Sunday. The Convocation ceremony at NIA SOM signified the official conferral of degrees for all NIA SOM postgraduates. During the convocation NIA SOM acknowledged the individual achievements and recognized each student by name. The Chairman of Unit Trust of […]

The event was inaugurated by the head of department of DMS IIT Delhi, Dr. S. S. Yadav who set the tone and the pitch for the event by introducing the house to the topic and providing a context for what was to follow. He was followed by the very eloquent Mr. M Damodaran, who in […]

A very common flaw on the GMAT, and in life, is the confusion of absolute numbers and percentages. For example, which is larger, one-third of x or one-half of y? Without any information to compare x and y, we cannot answer this question. It is true that one-half is larger than one-third when applied to […]