(Photo: Skylar Murphy) The sheer number of aspirants who appear for the Common Admission Test (CAT) pushes up the competition up. This combined with the societal stigma attached with failure, the hype around an MBA degree and the misinformation attached to the need for doing an MBA means that ‘fear of failure’ drives every CAT […]

(Photo: hans thijs) For an MBA applicant, nothing is more pleasing than asking admission-related queries to their dream b-schools and getting quickly responded to. As we found out during an experiment, American schools edge out the British ones on this one. As part of a continuing experiment, we posed as MBA applicants and contacted the […]

(Photo: Derek Key) Fewer people on the planet are applying to an MBA in the United Kingdom, Indians being the fastest reducing group. According to the Higher Education Statistics Agency of the UK government, MBA applications to the country’s schools have dropped by 10-12%. Of this, the steepest fall has been from Indian applicants at […]

(Photo courtesy: Satwick Thumu) The Institute of Rural Management (IRMA), Anand will use scores of the Common Admission Test (CAT) this year for admission to its Post Graduate Diploma in Rural Management (PRM) and 2014 Fellow Programme in Rural Management (FPRM). The decision was taken because the judgement on the status of the IRMA admission […]

(Photo courtesy: Matt Reinbold) It’s not easy for applicants to talk to Indian b-schools to ask for admissions-related information, something we discovered during a little experiment we did this month. Between July 4 and July 15, 2013, we posed as applicants and asked simple admissions-related queries to top 20 Indian b-schools (as per the PaGaLGuY […]

A couple of months ago, at the age of sixty-three, my mother retired from her job as an accounts receivable clerk at a large utilities company in Alabama. When she told me about it, I told her I thought it was a bad idea. She certainly deserved a break from years of working, but what […]

A couple of months ago, at the age of sixty-three, my mother retired from her job as an accounts receivable clerk at a large utilities company in Alabama. When she told me about it, I told her I thought it was a bad idea. She certainly deserved a break from years of working, but what […]

State insurance regulators say they have approved rates for 2014 that are at least 50 percent lower on average than those currently available in New York. Beginning in October, individuals in New York City who now pay $1,000 a month or more for coverage will be able to shop for health insurance for as little […]

Over a span of just three academic years, Institute of Apparel Management has established itself as a trail-blazer amongst the genre of Fashion & Apparel education institutes. As an institute focused on the “Management and business of fashion & design Industry” and innovation led teaching-learning systems, IAM has carved a niche for itself. The students […]

Analyzing national and international job advertisements, one can identify that majority of the middle and senior level positions require, “MBA or other Post Grad degrees” An annual survey of leading employers indicates that corporate demand for MBA graduates is going high. In this highly competitive global market, banks, business establishments, financial organizations, consultancy firms, medias, […]