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Sridhar Pabbisetty (left) during his election campaign at RT Nagar, Bengaluru After years of work on policy thinking, Sridhar Pabbisetty wanted to go beyond just ideas. The quest for putting political action to his ideas led him to quit his job as the chief operating officer (COO) of the Centre for Public Policy (CPP), Indian […]
(Photo: Lydia) In my previous post on probability, we talked about the basics of the topic and I honestly believe that that much should be enough for most CAT applicants. But there is a finite probability that a slightly more advanced question on probability might be asked in CAT. The probability that a more advanced […]
Sangeet Chowfla, tipped-to-be CEO of GMAC Starting 2014, a technology executive of Indian origin will head the organisation that owns and runs the Graduate Management Admission Test (GMAT). The Graduate Management Admission Council (GMAC), the global non-profit body of business schools today announced the appointment of Sangeet Chowfla as President to succeed David A Wilson, […]
Suhail Abidi, Stanford GSB MBA 2013 What would you do if you had to pay absolutely nothing to do your MBA at the Stanford Graduate School of Business (GSB)? Suhail Abidi, a Stanford MBA 2013 from Lucknow, who joined with a full waiver of tuition and expenses due to the Stanford Reliance Dhirubhai MBA Fellowship […]
Katja Boytler, associate director of Career Services at INSEAD, Europe campus The European job market being harder to crack, a few international students at INSEAD Europe (France) and Asia (Singapore) have used rather creative ways to win over recruiters from their target sectors, says the school’s associate director of career services, Katja Boytler in a […]
Photo Credit: robnguyen01 The Common Admission Test (CAT) exam has also seen its share of impostors. PaGaLGuY confirmed the news with two former CAT Convenors, Prof Himanshu Rai and Prof SSS Kumar, who admitted that there were impersonators when they were at the helm but they were caught and dealt with immediately. Prof SSS Kumar […]
(Graphic by Sanjit Oberai) In the first part of this two-part series, we highlighted how executive MBA courses haven’t quite delivered to the expectations of the students pursuing them. In this second part, we take a look at what the b-schools have to say on the subject On placements… While the students we spoke to […]
(Graphic by Sanjit Oberai) Some months ago we noticed an ugly spat between an Executive (one-year) MBA student and a b-school on our forums. https://www.pagalguy.com/discussions/iim-calcutta-pgpex-vii-admission-process-and-beyond-25078658/7816564. We decided to follow the trail and finally ended up with a two-part series on the Executive MBA. While, this, the first part deals with students’ experiences only, the second […]
The search operation at IIM Bangalore has come to an end and the call has been identified as a hoax call. This was confirmed by a police official from MICO Layout Police Station, Bangalore. “We have traced the call to a phone booth in JP Nagar but we have not identified the caller yet,” said […]