In today’s complex global business environment and fast changing business needs, there is often only a narrow window of time to profit from today’s opportunities as they become tomorrow’s commodities. These high velocity business environment changes have also created high velocity obsolescence of today’s business skills. This creates an immense challenge for organizations to maintain […]

MBA applicants from India are four to five times more likely to be turned down for admission to US B-Schools than applicants from other countries. The current state of the US economy makes placing international students especially difficult and most Indian applicants have similar profiles (IT or Engineering) making it tough to differentiate! In this […]

Registration for the Common Management Test (CMAT) is now extended to September 7, 2012. Originally, registrations were to close on September 2, 2012. One would naturally think that AICTE has done it to net in more applicants but apparently the extension has come about because states are gradually announcing their individual decisions to switch over […]

Deepak Gopalakrishnan is a cartoonist from Mumbai. Catch all his cartoons and work here , and follow his tweets here .

If you are an aspirant studying hard to gain entry to a top-ranking b-school through the Common Management Admission Test (CMAT) forget it, at least for this year. Most of the good schools are not considering CMAT this year again. While most schools said an outright NO to us when we asked, some said they […]

The advertisement for the IIMB director in The Economist The search for a new director for both, The Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad (IIMA) and The Indian Institute of Bangalore (IIMB) has gone international. Both the schools have placed recruitment advertisements in The Economist issue dated August 4-10, 2012. This clearly indicates that the schools […]

Deepak Gopalakrishnan is a cartoonist from Mumbai. Catch all his cartoons and work here , and follow his tweets here .

Swami Dayananda Saraswati addressing students at IIM Kozhikode If there is one place psychometrics is not a dirty word, it is at The Indian Institute of Management Raipur, (IIM Raipur) where the new batch of students underwent psychometric testing to know themselves better. More curious than that was ‘aura scanning’ carried out on the freshers […]

Registrations for Symbiosis National Aptitude (SNAP) Test mandatory for admissions to post-graduate programs in Symbiosis International University opened from today. SNAP will be held on December 16, 2012 from 2 to 4 pm. Aspirants can register online at www.snaptest.org . The test pattern sees no change from the pattern followed last year. The duration of […]

The Master of Business Administration (MBA) degree program at the University of Massachusetts at Lowell is designed to prepare managers to effectively lead organizations in rapidly changing and diverse regional, national, and global competitive environments. The MBA program at UML integrates theory and practice, using case studies, experiential learning techniques, and field programs applicable to […]