If there is one word that gets most communities the world over all stirred up, it is ‘plagiarism’. Be it artistes, musicians, writers, politicians or even academicians, they all rue the p-word. And in the space of higher education, including MBA, plagiarism is nothing short of blasphemy. B-schools that use the essay+recommendations route for admissions […]

Folks, nominations for the CAT Dream Teams and the Underdog Teams are now open. All those who missed it last year, this is your chance! You may now nominate yourself into the city dream teams of Pune, Bangalore, Kolkata, Delhi-NCR, Hyderabad, Lucknow, Ahmedabad, Mumbai or Chennai. Else, run for the Underdogs Team. And of course, […]

‘General Management Programme’ (GMP), the one-year executive MBA course of XLRI School of Business and Human Resources, Jamshedpur completed its placements for the batch graduating in 2010. More than half the class joined the IT/ITES sector while 35% of the batch received salaries between Rs 12 lakhs and Rs 15 lakhs, according to the institute’s […]

Apart from the ten photographs that won prizes in the PaGaLGuY B-school Shutterbug Photo Contest 2010, a few more caught the judges’ fancies and then some stood out to us folks at the PaGaLGuY HQ. Here is a runners-up gallery of the contest, with some photographs having comments by Soumitra Ghosh (Photo Editor – Special […]

More PG comics Concept, illustrations and graphics by Deepak Gopalakrishnan aka chuck_gopal, a Mallu-turned Mumbaikar who blogs here and tweets here.

I have two pieces of good news for you all. First, that we have finalized the winners of our first B-school Shutterbug Photo Contest. Second, that the judges liked the quality of photographs so much, that we decided to extended the prizes to a total of 10 photographs instead of the initial five. We received […]

IIM Ahmedabad today released the placements statistics for its one-year PGP Executive batch that graduated in 2010. “Of the 66 students seeking placements 64 have been successfully placed. The average salary for the batch was Rs. 26.1 lakhs an increase of 29.5% over the previous years average. Students who participated in the placement process received […]

Registration is open for the IIFT Entrance Test 2010 which will be held on November 28, 2010. And while we are at it, the Symbiosis SNAP will be held on December 19, 2010. Both test days are Sundays. IIFT Entrance Test 2010 Now that the IIMs have frozen the October 27 to November 23 period […]

(Credit: Patricia Drury) As is the case each year, Harvard Business School (HBS) has not overhauled its essays for the fall 2011 admission season either, but has tweaked them slightly. We would guess that this is likely about variety and change, rather than some shift in attributes sought by the admissions committee. The first two […]

This year, the Common Admissions Test (CAT) will begin in October, a month earlier than the usual November-end. How does an early CAT 2010 affect your preparation? Here are the top 5 repercussions and predictions. 1. Lesser prep time – Preparation time has been reduced by a whole month. Which means that you will have […]