“my cat score is 97.7. i am a fresher, 4th year engineering. my acads were ok but i dont know any more. 88.2 in 10th cbse, 87.4 in 12th cbse. 75 % in grad till 6th sem. in 10th my index is 12.71/20, in 12th my hsc index is 13.59/20. total is 85.16.. there are […]

A Goldman Sachs 10,000 Women Initiative classroom in progress at ISB Hyderabad For 42-year-old Hiresha Verma, starting a business was not just about passion but also necessity. A post-graduate in human resources, Hiresha had been a housewife before a personal tragedy forced her to rethink her future. With no lucrative jobs coming her way, Hiresha […]

It wont be wrong to say that this has been one of the most controversial years for securing an admission into a top Indian b-school. It is unbelievable how the Common Admission Test (CAT) has transformed from an unassailable test to one whose credibility is not fully convincing anymore. There was a time when the […]

A total of 70,000 applicants have registered for the Common Management Aptitude Test (CMAT) 2012 after the deadline of January 22, 2012, SS Mantha, chairman of the All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) confirmed to PaGaLGuY on Monday. In addition, out of the 3,500 AICTE-approved management institutes in the country, only 2,000 have officially […]

Xavier Labour Relations Institute (XLRI), Jamshedpur and Weatherhead School of Management at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, USA on Thursday announced joining hands to launch a Masters Programme in Positive Organisational Development and Change (MPOD) to be offered in India. The programme which is designed for mid-level working executives from across the globe will […]

The IIT Delhi main building (Photo: Bryn Pinzgauer) For the 2013 season, the management departments of all the Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs) are considering launching a common admissions web portal that will serve as the single funnel for all the candidate applications to the IITs’ MBA programmes. “We are thinking on the lines of […]

Shashank Shukla Only earlier this week, the Sonia Gandhi-led National Advisory Council recommended with much a Rs 4,250 crore programme to provide shelters and other amenities to the homeless in India’s cities. A target of 6,800 permanent shelters has been set with much fanfare by the government for some three lakh homeless, covering 15% of […]

The IIM Kozhikode campus (Photo: P Venkata Rajesh) This is one time where the Indian Institute of Management (IIM), Kozhikode has beaten both IIM Ahmedabad and IIM Bangalore. It has received the amended Memoranda of Association (MoA) from the Union Human Resource Development (HRD) ministry, which makes it the first IIM to be operationally autonomous. […]

Although not very logical, the popular method of calculating the return on investment (RoI) of an MBA programme is to count the number of years it takes for your post-MBA earnings to equal the fees. That works out really well for top b-schools in India because even if you are paying Rs 12 lakh for […]

Last year was dominated with Team Anna’s slogans and Dhanush’s Kolaveri Di on Youtube. Catching in on the waves, many Indian b-schools introduced the study of both these newsmakers in their MBA classrooms as formal case studies or informal sessions with the stated intent of making students understand why these sensations had gripped the country’s […]