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XLRI Jamshedpur on September 22 announced the opening up of a Behavioral Lab on campus, which will allow researchers to explore the minds of prospective consumers across industries. “The lab will provide students and teachers with cutting-edge research tools designed to peer into the unconscious mind said to influence consumer choices and study behavioral trends. […]
The following is an extract from ‘Innovating Through Design’, article by Roberto Verganti published in Harvard Business Review, December 2006. Professor Verganti teaches Innovation Management and runs the Design Management concentration for MIP Politecnico di Milanos MBA. He is a member of the Advisory Boards of the Design Management Institute of Boston and Innocrowding.com and […]
Contrary to reports, The Indian Institute of Management (IIM) Trichy has not failed to fill up its quota of seats. On the contrary, it has admitted students well beyond its scheduled intake. The institute, which is in its first year of operations had an earlier sanction for just 60 students. However, during admission, the institute […]
(Photo credit: Carly Franklin) Just a day ago, a Bhubaneshwar b-school claimed it is two hours away from the beaches of New England, America. You would think it got confused with the beaches of Puri, but when you read the page marked ‘Student Life’ on the website of Regional College of Management (RCM), you might […]
The already longer-than-ever time window to register for the Common Admissions Test (CAT) 2011 has been further extended from September 28 to October 4, 2011. The CAT vouchers too would be on sale for four more days at Axis Bank branches until October 1. Everything else remains the same. The extension has been made to […]
Due to a sequence of not-necessarily-related events including a train robbery, a roadside inn gunfight, a distressing damsel and an alien abduction there has been a slight delay in moving the PaGaLGuY B-school Photography Contest 2011 forward. Now that the reasons behind the delay have been explained in exceptional detail and the blame suitably put […]
Not the most eventful of weeks but a few interesting stories did crop up in different publications across the globe. The Entrepreneur had an interesting story on threadUp. The article talks about the trio — James Reinhart, Chris Homer and Oliver Lubinhad who had a unique problem on hand — they all had too many […]
While schools newly opting for the Common Admission Test (CAT) made headlines last few weeks, now it’s time for some ‘opposite’ news – schools that have decided to opt out of taking CAT 2011 scores. At least the list (of b-schools taking CAT) on the CAT website says so. This year about (excluding the Indian […]
First it was the business schools of the Indian Institutes of Technology that scrapped the Joint Management Entrance Test (JMET) in favour of the Common Admission Test (CAT). Then came Delhi University’s Faculty of Management Studies. Are more expected to go the CAT way and is all this a plan to get into a single-test […]