11. Nature A green campus on the outskirts of the city comes with its own share of fauna. Peacocks crow you asleep and wake you up in morning with their raucous cries. Seeing a child sized Langur ambling by is a common occasion. The students have even adopted a cat into the MICAn community, and […]

1. Chhota The go-to place for all your post midnight cravings, Chhota Canteen is an integral part of any MICAn’s daily schedule. There’s nothing like a “Cold Coffee, Strong Wali” or a “Tadka Maggi” to chase away all your blues. With lanterns, charpais and smiling faces all around, Chhota is a haven to chill amidst […]

To break away from the humdrum of assignments and presentations, the Diversity club at IMI, New Delhi, in association with Sapphire Creations Dance Company and Arts forward Ideas Prof. organized a workshop, ‘Building Communication Through Movements’. The impetus for conducting the same was to vivify management lessons for the students.  The workshop kicked off with […]

Prof. Arya Kumar is  Director, Lal Bahadur Shastri Institute of Management (LBSIM), New Delhi. He has a diversified experience of more than 36 years of serving in educational institutions, research organizations, banks and financial institutions. He is certified entrepreneurship educator having successfully completed “Entrepreneurship Educators Course (EEC)” jointly organised by STVP, Stanford University, IIM Bangalore and […]

1. What, according to you, are the components of a Tier-1 MBA program today?  Most leading business schools lay a great emphasis on diversity and students from different backgrounds (both professionally and personally) in order to create collaborative cultures and drive the concept of teamwork. Diversity mapping goes beyond the traditional lenses of gender and […]

My decision to join SOIL was quick and the stakes were high. A year of investment which changed my life forever and ever would be the best way to describe my experience at SOIL. From the Induction to Convocation day, every single event at SOIL is very different. If I have to just talk about […]

What’s your view about the state of research and innovation in Indian business schools as against international institutions? Research output in academic institutions is traditionally measured by the numbers of refereed papers in internationally recognized journals and the citations they receive. By such metrics, business schools in India have some catching up to do and […]

1. What according to you would be the critical success factors for a next generation business school in India? How do you want to change the “placements” mentality of Indian students? The most critical success factor is resolving the supply side constraint that prevents the vast majority of students from being exposed to highly qualified […]

Specific instructions for the MICAT 2015 will be out in due course of time. For reference, the MICAT 2014 had the following sections (Note: This may or may not be the same for MICAT 2015): Verbal Reasoning – Word association, visual reasoning, implicit statements, assumptions and more. Quantitative ability and Data Interpretation Logical Reasoning  Psychometric […]

Browsing in the bookstore of a business school is always interesting. You get a sense of what students want to read and what faculty feel they should read. There are the usual showpiece classic texts beyond student means, and low-price ‘quickie’ books much disdained by their professors. During one such foray into a bookstore recently, […]