(Photo credit: IMI Delhi by Ayan Banerjee) Starting the 2012 batch, winning in b-school competitions and doing social work will matter for Post Graduate Dilpoma in Management (PGDM) students of International Management Institute (IMI) — Delhi, because the institute will grade them for it. Called the Balanced Scorecard, the new system of internal evaluation of […]

(Photo credit: Great Lakes by Shiva Jeevanantham) After championing the cause of the one-year MBA for seven years, the Great Lakes Institute of Management, Chennai has introduced a traditional two-year MBA programme with its first batch slated to begin in 2012. It is a difficult to digest idea, considering that Great Lakes had even gone […]

(IRMA by Satwick Thumu) Editors note: Guest author Parasharan Chari, Chief Operating Officer of Ahmedabad-based test-preparation institute Endeavor Careers, analyses the IRMA Admission Test paper held on November 13, 2011 and predicts cutoffs for prominent rural management b-schools that accept this score. — — — The Institute of Rural Management, Anand (IRMA) admission test on […]

(Photo credit: Ludovic Toinel) All of last week, our inbox at PaGaLGuY was packed with summer placement reports from b-schools. The annual drill of going through the reports is quite a bit of fun actually – since one has to mesh through all the marketing jargon to get to the relevant numbers. There were lofty […]

The Indian Institute of Foreign Trade (IIFT), Delhi has applied to the Central Public Works Department (CPWD) for a 2-acre plot of land in the Ghitorni area on the outskirts of New Delhi. The purpose is threefold a residential structure for executives enrolling under the Management Development Program (MDP), residential quarters for faculty and a […]

Harvard Business School’s case-method pedagogy has been one of inspiration and learning to many b-schools across the world. In Indian b-schools however, this mode of teaching is yet to gain ground as the ‘only one.’ Yes, there are combination teaching methods in some of the older Indian Institutes of Management and others – with a […]

(Photo credit: Aniruddh Phukan) The Indian Institute of Management (IIM), Kozhikode secured internship projects for its 343 students of the 2011-13 batch with 108 firms including 35 new companies. Batch Strength 343 IIM Kozhikode claims that there were no opt-outs Total number of companies confirming presence 110 Number of companies that made offer 108 The […]

Shaishav Amrut Solanki, is the Indian Institute of Management (IIM) Indore’s first author – could very well be the first on-campus author among all IIMs. Having just released a book few days ago, the young author is all smiles seeing it do brisk business. The book, the author claims is as much fiction as non-fiction […]

With less than a week to go for the Institute of Rural Management Anand (IRMA) Admission Test 2011, here are a few last minute tips given by the current Rural Management Program students. This is just to give an overview about the paper and the various approaches one can follow in the exam. It also […]

(XLRI Jamshedpur by Anusheel Shrivastava) Jamshedpur-based XLRI School of Business & Human Resources concluded its Summer Internship placements for the batch of 2011-13 with 77 recruiters making a total of 365 offers to a batch of 240 students. Microsoft, ITC, Standard Chartered, Aditya Birla Group and Tata Motors were the largest recruiters of summer interns […]