Dressed in shorts and a crumpled white t-shirt and sitting coyly in his apartment in Dombivali, on the outskirts of Mumbai, Shashank Prabhu looks more like the teenager next door who you’d see rushing to his tuition classes. But once he begins to speak, the confidence and command of a topper are quite evident. Prabhu […]

(This article is based on the National Rankings list of the PaGaLGuY B-school Rankings, 2010.) The years 2008 and 2009 made business schools extremely vulnerable to the same market forces that they had been training managers to deal with. In many ways, the PaGaLGuY B-school Rankings 2010 mirror the performances of b-schools during the economic […]

Symbiosis Institute of Operations Management (SIOM) is Indias only B-School with a dedicated focus on Operations Management and has received the Dewang Mehta Best B-School Award for Academic Inputs (Syllabus). The potential for Operations Management Operations Management (OM) is a specialized and emerging body of knowledge that facilitates the process of value delivery by improving […]

You can get cracking on filling out your schedule for this December. The official Symbiosis National Aptitude Test (SNAP) test website still carries last year’s date while the Symbiosis Institute of Business Management (SIBM), Pune website has all the details regarding this year’s test which will be held on December 20. Let’s not split hairs […]

A Talk with the Director SIMS makes you put an MBA in perspective. Quite simply. Brig Rajiv Divekar is a retired Army brigadier who did his MBA while still at services and through it realized the ‘why’ of his own job. He still believes that this is what an MBA ought to do for a […]

Test taking trends for MBA admissions abroad seem to imply that there is an inverse relationship between the economyas strength and B-school enrollments. The number of test takers for the Graduate Management Admissions Test (GMAT) from July 2007 to June 2008 was the highest number since the test was established in the 1950as. The second […]

aThe economic slowdown will affect MBA applications for foreign business schools as only candidates with work-experience apply to such programs. If pink slips are handed out then it is natural for people with work-experience to strive to do an MBA at B-schools abroad. In India, the scenario is not the same with fresh graduates constituting […]

What would be a brief overview of operations management? Operations management as a stream nowadays has a specific focus. It has taken off very well this year, particularly so after 2005 because every company needs a manager who will understand the overall enterprise process. Operations management highlights the process, technology and people aspects. Whether the […]

Hey Harshal, tell us a little about yourself.Hmm… can I get back to you on that later? No? Ok. Well, ‘myself’ is a topic I find difficult writing about. Here goes the answer I did not give in my MBA interviews. A simple guy, eccentric at times, I don’t have any of those irritating habits […]

With the Common Entrance Test (CET) to Maharashtra’s b-schools around the corner, PaGaLGuY.com caught up with last year’s CET Rank 1 Shreyas Shah between his busy class schedules at Jamnalal Bajaj Institute of Management Studies (JBIMS), Mumbai and asked him how he cracked the exam all the way to the top. We were surprised to […]