We are today at the cusp of the third wave of transformation to the conduct, operations and the management of businesses. The first two waves have been brought about by Information & Interconnections. In the last two and a half decades, businesses have heavily invested into and gained from Information processes and systems so that […]

eng Very Often CAT aspirants wonder how they will manage, what seems like an Herculean task of mastering English vocabulary in the limited amount of time available for CAT preparation. They say that VA should be spelled as a “Walk – a – Bull – Awry” rather than Vocabulary!! One of the simplest methods of […]

At any given point in time, there are at least 500 faculty members of MBA coaching institutes,who are also simultaneously preparing for CAT. These ‘aspirants’ who have already taken CAT once and decided to take a shot at it once again get hired as faculty members for the section (CAT) which they have scored well […]

Symbiosis Institute of Media and Communications, Pune (SIMC) – the media and communications institute has actually applied brakes on communications in the campus. No Internet access between 2.00-5.00 am and 8.00am-5.00 pm in the hostel and no checking social networking sites before 8.00pm. Shocked with this move, students are livid but claim that all their […]

(Photo credit: KC Toh) The Telengana row has hit the Hyderabad campus plans of the Indian Institute of Management (IIM), Ahmedabad and Xavier’s Labour Relations Institute (XLRI), Jamshedpur yet again. In a Business Standard story, both institutes divulged that they had not been allotted the land promised by the state government for their campuses yet. […]

Photo Credit: Benson Kua IIM Bangalore’s recent decision to make student attendance in classrooms optional is raising a lot of questions. Are Indian students at the post graduate level mature enough to come to class without the whip of compulsory attendance? Will they use or misuse the freedom that they are being entrusted with? And […]

Note by Apurv Pandit: Last month, I met Dr Ariff Kachra, a Strategy professor of Indian origin at Canada’s Richard Ivey School of Business who also runs the school’s executive training center in Mumbai. As we chatted about various things MBA, I asked him how he found the quality of applicants from India to Richard […]

(Photo credits: Eric Lim and Ashutosh Garg) Last year’s B-school Photography Contest proved beyond doubt that many b-schoolers were wasting their time studying the Ansoff Matrix* and Concentric diversification strategies… they had alternative employment as professional shutterbugs assured, just in case! But we’ve been told that there is hidden writing talent at b-schools too, stashed […]

Despite several delays in application deadlines, only 663 applications have been received by COME (Consortium of Management Education) so far. COME, which is a consortium of 52 business schools in Maharashtra has got together and initiated a Centralised Admission Process (CAP) for all MBA aspirants who had not admission into any b-school so far. The […]

Indian Institute of Management (IIM) Bangalore has decided to make attendance voluntary across all courses, starting with the first year students of this academic year. This may sound like an odd thing to do for a premier b-school like IIM Bangalore, but Bringi Dev, the head of Communications and an adjunct professor there, is convinced […]