A right to information (RTI) query by an activist in Andhra Pradesh has revealed that both, the Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad (IIMA) and Prometric were supposed to ‘ensure inclusive transition to take care of low-skilled computer applicants.’ This was one of the crucial points discussed at a meeting between IIMA and Prometric before the […]

Editor’s note: This is the first among the winning entries from the Summer Internships Writing Contest. We received dozens of entries of which we are selecting those which narrated very real and eye-opening accounts previously unheard in the ballyhoo surrounding the glamour of the MBA degree. The author’s prize is on its way! — After […]

Getting an Indian Institute of Management (IIM) call is the ultimate ‘Holy Grail’ for a CAT aspirant. But the quest itself is an arduous journey. And a good road map helps in making the journey easier. The hallmark of a good road map is to provide markers with the ups and downs of the journey. […]

(Photo credit: Preetam Rai) Ambitions of venturing into undergraduate education ran into rough weather at the Indian Institute of Management (IIM), Indore this week which was reprimanded by the Union Human Resource Development Ministry about the three-year exit option in its five-year Integrated PGP. Reports The Hindustan Times, A fortnight ago, the institute had proposed […]

A club for inclusion of 30% of women in company boards has recently made an entry at Cass Business School, London. The club’s big move is to open doors to get women higher, up the corporate ladder. The club, as such was initially started in November last year by Helena Morrissey, CEO of Newton and […]

The cries of some 200 students for a separate Telangana statehood, outside the gates of Osmania University, Hyderabad, can be heard faintly at the College of Commerce and Business Management, located at the heart of the university. Oblivious to the shouts, students sitting on bikes at the parking lot of the college, have their heads […]

We are today at the cusp of the third wave of transformation to the conduct, operations and the management of businesses. The first two waves have been brought about by Information & Interconnections. In the last two and a half decades, businesses have heavily invested into and gained from Information processes and systems so that […]

eng Very Often CAT aspirants wonder how they will manage, what seems like an Herculean task of mastering English vocabulary in the limited amount of time available for CAT preparation. They say that VA should be spelled as a “Walk – a – Bull – Awry” rather than Vocabulary!! One of the simplest methods of […]

At any given point in time, there are at least 500 faculty members of MBA coaching institutes,who are also simultaneously preparing for CAT. These ‘aspirants’ who have already taken CAT once and decided to take a shot at it once again get hired as faculty members for the section (CAT) which they have scored well […]

Symbiosis Institute of Media and Communications, Pune (SIMC) – the media and communications institute has actually applied brakes on communications in the campus. No Internet access between 2.00-5.00 am and 8.00am-5.00 pm in the hostel and no checking social networking sites before 8.00pm. Shocked with this move, students are livid but claim that all their […]