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Innovating Through Design: An extract

The following is an extract from ‘Innovating Through Design’, article by Roberto Verganti published in

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Why IIM Trichy overshot its sanctioned intake of 60 students

Contrary to reports, The Indian Institute of Management (IIM) Trichy has not failed to fill

Copyright gone wrong: How a Bhubaneshwar b-school came this close to being near Boston

(Photo credit: Carly Franklin) Just a day ago, a Bhubaneshwar b-school claimed it is two

By Pooja Das Sarkar

CAT 2011 registration date extended to Oct 4, Convenor urges aspirants to proofread applications

The already longer-than-ever time window to register for the Common Admissions Test (CAT) 2011 has

PaGaLGuY B-school Shutterbug Photo Contest 2011 – All the Entries!

Due to a sequence of not-necessarily-related events including a train robbery, a roadside inn gunfight,

Weekend Reading (September 17-24): What to do with too many clothes, Angry Birds to get into movies and music relief for Rolling Stones and the Beatles.

Not the most eventful of weeks but a few interesting stories did crop up in

CAT shown the door by some b-schools. The exam to undergo a few changes to suit individual b-school needs, says CAT convenor

While schools newly opting for the Common Admission Test (CAT) made headlines last few weeks,

With a surge of b-schools going for CAT 2011, how are the other extrance exams managing to thrive?

First it was the business schools of the Indian Institutes of Technology that scrapped the

By Pooja Das Sarkar

B-schools struggling with AICTE to increase intake, Take Solace: Reducing intake is equally frustrating

Here’s a story offering insights into how the seemingly inefficient practices of a regulatory body

The war may be over for former army personnel studying in b-schools but the battle to etch a name in the corporate world rages on

? The sound of gun shots may be a faint memory but the smell of

Interest in MBA continues to drop worldwide, even as applications to specialized management programs rise

With interest in fulltime MBA at an all-time low, the 2010-11 admission season might have

Diversity in India’s MBA classrooms may be at the cost of introducing quotas, say students

Admission criteria changes have been announced in many b-schools, including a few Indian Institutes of

I’ve got the Power: Working with Factorials for CAT 2011 quant

We all know what factorials (n!) are. They look friendly and helpful but looks can

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First look at IIM Kashipur

(Photo credit: Abhishek Kamble) Arriving in Kashipur late evening last week, I asked the three-wheeler

Weekend Reading (September 4-10): Tweets as MBA applications, Dumbing down of b-schools, Everonn Education MD’s arrest

(Photo credit: mcfarlandmo) SMS and Twitter are often accused of creating a generation with small

UK-based MBA student’s novel b-school project – live on less than a dollar a day and bring power to an Indian orphanage

Nathan and his family at dinner What can you do with Rs 45 in your

Are any of India’s MBA entrance exams really fit enough to be the Single Entrance Test?

Looking back at the last three years, one new ‘big idea’ has dominated Indias business

Solving Time-Speed-Distance problems without using equations

(Photo credit: Michael Gallacher) I guess my first fascination with problems of Time, Speed and

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Prometric claims having filled two-thirds of CAT 2011 slots, adds extra seats in 8 cities

Of the total testing slots planned for the Common Admissions Test (CAT) 2011, two-thirds have