Pic: Flickr Mumbai boy Rishi Ayyers blog http://atearintherain.wordpress.com has created quite a stir in the MBA-aspirant community. Written a few hours after attempting to take his Common Admission Test (CAT) exam at a centre near Mumbai (Sanpada) today, the blog has raised some vital issues regarding photo identification and exam procedures. If you read Rishi’s […]

Have you ever wondered what would Gandhijis CAT/GMAT score have been? It is known that effective leadership requires emotional and creative intelligence more than reasoning and verbal abilities. Every individual has unique capabilities and strengths and possesses multiple intelligences. A leader should not only have good analytical capabilities but also have high Influencing Skills backed […]

Despite a tight job market, in search of a dream placement offer (Photo courtesy: thegoldguys.blogspot.com/) To help students combat placement stress, the Indian Institute of Management (IIM), Calcutta will allow the 2012-14 batch PGP students to have multiple summer placement offers from companies. The institute is also introducing a day break between the summer process, […]

Queens Mary Technical Institute at Pune An injury in a road accident during Operation Rakshak in Kupwada district of Jammu and Kashmir in 2001 stole away Veeresh Ms chance of living a normal life. Veeresh from Koppal in Karnataka was 22 then. Veereshs, spleen had to be removed after the accident and leading a normal […]

Prof Abraham Koshy with Dr Philip Kotler (Source: www.akoshy.in) Philip Kotlers book Marketing Management, considered to be the bible of marketing for anyone studying an MBA, was launched in its 14th South Asian edition on Wednesday with updated content and case studies themed around customer value and covering rural marketing and digital marketing. PaGaLGuY did […]

Registrations for Common Management Admission Test (CMAT) February 2013 opened from today. The exam will be conducted from February 21-25. Aspirants can register online by visiting the CMAT website. The last date of registration for the exam is January 2, 2013. Candidates who have appeared for the exam in September 2012 can appear for the […]

Photo: Flickr In a week, the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad (IIM-A) is expected to announce the name of its new director. In all likelihood, the top job will go to someone from within the institute, considering that quite a few applications have come from in-house. PaGaLGuY also learnt that the present director Dr Samir […]

Xavier Institute of Management (XIMB), Bhubhaneswar A tussle is going on between Xavier Institute of Management (XIM), Bhubhaneswar, and the law department of the Orissa state government over building a Xavier University in the city. In a conversation with PaGaLGuY, Father PT Joseph, the XIMB director said that he would resign from his post if […]

The Indian School of Business, Hyderabad is on the list of unapproved colleges again, put out by the All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) two days ago. It shares the list with 42 other colleges, some having notorious reputations. That ISB is on the list is not surprising but that fact that the bi-annual […]

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 scientist; […]