Management education evolved in the 1960s in India in the premier management institutions. Many institutions which followed the success of these premier management institutions ‘cyclostyled’ and standardised MBA curriculum so senselessly that neither did it add any value in career building nor did it help as a certificate for petty job seekers. Given the scenario […]

In a bid to accommodate an increasing class size after implementing the 27% Other Backward Caste (OBC) quota, the Indian Institute of Foreign Trade (IIFT), New Delhi has begun construction of a new hostel building. The hostel is expected to be operational for the incoming batch in 2012. The hostel will be a four-storey building […]

(Photo credit: Kai Schreiber) This is my second post on PaGaLGuY focusing on Geometry fundas. We discussed lines, triangles, parallelograms, trapeziums and polygons in my previous post. Now for some fundas and formulae in Geometry that happen to be frequently neglected by people but can fetch some crucial marks in the exam. Funda 1: Angle […]

The Institute of Management Technology (IMT), Ghaziabad is increasingly being recognized by recruiters, as one of Indias top-10 business schools. A recent Economic Times survey covering 500 of Indias largest companies saw IMT-G ranked number seven, with areas covered being marketing, IT, HR, finance and production. A key factor behind this prime ranking is the […]

(Photo credit: Rahul Desai) The Union Human Resources Development (HRD) Ministry’s diktat a few months ago, that the Indian Institutes of Management (IIMs) launch a management journal on the lines of the celebrated Harvard Business Review (HBR) has set the ball rolling within the IIM camp. Though no firm plan has been drawn up yet, […]

Pic from World Economic Forum photostream Two big happenings were of concern to the b-school community last week. One of course The Common Admission Test (CAT) 2011 which was kick-started on October 22 (so technically last week) and the other, the arrest of former Indian School of Business’ Founder Chairman Rajat Gupta’s on charges of […]

(Photo credit: Alan Levine) There has been a lot of feedback in the comments on my previous posts here demanding an article on Geometry. I have been avoiding writing it for some time because, 1. It is not one of my strong areas. 2. It takes a lot of time to draw the diagrams required […]

PS: Columbia Business School asked for a 140-character essay as part of its admissions application for the MBA admissions of 2012. Concept, illustrations and graphics by Deepak Gopalakrishnan aka chuck_gopal, a Mallu-turned Mumbaiker who blogs here and tweets here.

The Common Admission Test (CAT) 2011 is underway (October 22 – November 1 and two testing days are over. According to Prometric, 6,703 candidates had appeared to register for the test today (October 24) across the country. CAT 2011 marks a change in test pattern, in that it contains two separately times sections of 70 […]

Editor’s note: Guest author Parasharan Chari, Chief Operating Officer of Ahmedabad-based test-preparation institute Endeavor Careers, analyses the first-day-first-slot of CAT 2011 and identifies pointers that test-takers in the later slots could use. — — — First day, first slot an expression that sounds quite filmi, but then the Common Admissions Test (CAT) has never had […]