[embedded image] You might make out the difference between your chalk and cheese but ever heard a chalk and condom being spoken about in the same vein? Better still, what if someone gave you Bekaar Di music cds to listen to? These innovative and seemingly bizarre products and ideas are not the brainchild of a mad scien...

[embedded image] Just when we were close to concluding that Prometric had perfected the on-ground delivery of the Common Admissions Test (CAT) after the lessons it had learned in 2009, entire testing labs at at least two test centers in New Delhi failed this Saturday, on day 8 of CAT 2012. But instead of providing the ...

Responding to our Right to Information (RTI) query in the context of the misrepresentation of salaries and job offers in their 2012 placement report as described in our August story, the Department of Management Studies (DMS), Indian Instititute of Technology (IIT), Delhi denied having released any official placement repo...

[embedded image] Last year, about three dozen b-schools had met at the Indian Institute of Management (IIM), Ahmedabad campus to etch out the Indian Placement Reporting Standards (IPRS), intended to be an honest and auditable way for b-schools to report their placements to future applicants and the media. A year later, i...

[embedded image] All information disseminated by government-owned educational institutes such as the Indian Institutes of Management (IIMs) or the Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs) must be automatically trustworthy because public institutions don't need to market themselves, so goes the popular belief. It is on...

[embedded image] Photo Credit Flickr For the first time, the Indian Institute of Management Bangalore has registered a count of 100 women in its 2012-2014 batch. While it works to just around 26 % (batch size being 377), lower than what other IIMs like (IIM Shillong and IIM Kozhikode have known to admit), it is an achievem...

[embedded image] ISB, Hyderabad, Main campus Starting the coming admission season, applicants to the Indian School of Business (ISB), Hyderabad and Mohali will have to submit video resumes to the admission committee apart from the GMAT scores, essays and recommendation letters. Currently, the first step for candidates ...

[embedded image] IIM Ranchi (Photo: Sudip Bhar) The Indian Institute of Management (IIM), Ranchi completed its final placements for the batch graduating 2012 with the 43 students getting a total of 65 offers across 30 companies. Five students were made pre-placement offers by the companies where they had interned and si...

[embedded image] First batch of XITE's MBA coaching program Neha Gagrai (22), currently pursuing a Bachelors of Business Administration (BBA) from Xavier Institute of Tribal Education (XITE), had never considered doing an MBA. Originally from West Singhbhum in Jharkhand, this Scheduled Caste (SC) student decided to give it...

[embedded image] IIM Indore director Dr N Ravichandran and chairman, board of governors LN Jhunjhunwala On April 12, veteran industrialist of the LNJ Bhilwara Group Mr LN Jhunjhunwala, who is also the chairman of the Indian Institute of Management (IIM), Indore's board of governors put in his papers with the b-school ci...