Retailing ensures that customers derive maximum value from the buying process, relative to the cost of acquiring the merchandise. This involves crucial activities and stepsbreaking bulk, assortments, merchandising and category managementbefore the merchandise is placed in the hands of consumers for retail consumption. Retail solutions aim at providing the last mile of connectivity that link […]

Not that I have spent a lot of years on the planet, but the best people I have ever worked with were broadly of two types — they were either driven by a higher sense of purpose that they had attached to their professions early in their careers or they were just very hard working […]

Diversity of class has been the driving force behind declaring the list of shortlisted candidates from the Xavier’s Admission Test (XAT) 2012 results for the interview stage of the XLRI School of Business and Human Resources, Jamshedpur admissions. XLRI’s admissions chairperson Soumendra Bagchi told PaGaLGuY that the school was looking at increasing the number of […]

For all those who keep wondering whether time travel is possible and whether a time machine can actually be built, We have an answer. Yes, time travel is possible; and students of Bharathidasan Institute of Management, Trichy do it every year. The Institute over the years has found a unique way of making the past […]

Prof Stefano Caselli of the SDA Bocconi School of Management, Italy (Photo: Astha A) Italy’s SDA Bocconi School of Management, University of Bocconi at Milan is the latest foreign business school featuring in the Financial Times Top 100 to work around the absence of a foreign direct investment policy in higher education in India and […]

The list of b-schools that would accept the Common Management Aptitute Test (CMAT) in 2012 has been released by the All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) on the CMAT website. Notable schools from the PaGaLGuY B-school Rankings 2011 accepting CMAT scores according to the list are Asia Pacific Institute of Management (New Delhi), Goa […]

The Indian Institute of Management (IIM), Trichy which became operational last year completed its very first summer placements season for the batch 2011-2013. A total of 85 offers were made by 42 companies, of which offers made by 40 organisations were accepted by the students. The rolling process came to an end on January 2, […]

Based on 2,342 responses of Stage 1 of the PaGaLGuY B-school Rankings 2012 survey, we now have the 100 shortlisted Indian b-schools that go into Stage 2 of the rankings survey. How will these b-schools be ranked now? YOU have the power to decide. Stage 2 of the survey is now live and ready for […]

Naveen Jindal with other top industrialists (Photo: World Economic Forum) If you studied an MBA, there is a 40% chance that you will reach the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) position in a top Indian company — is the implication of a study carried out by INSEAD, the Harvard Business Review (HBR) and Business Today magazine. […]