Prof Prathap Oburai There is still no trace of Prathap Oburai, professor of marketing, at the Indian Institute Management, Ahmedabad (IIMA), who went missing from Uttarakhand two days ago. According to Tehri Superintendent of Police, Rajeev Swaroop, the professor, who is also an IIMA alumnus, was mentally stressed and had attempted ending his life earlier, […]

(Photo credit: Alan Cleaver) In perhaps the most significant leap by any Indian Institute of Management (IIM) ever, IIM Indore this week announced a five-year integrated management degree which will admit students directly after class XII in school. A Times of India story reports that the total tuition fees for this fully residential ‘integrated PGP’ […]

Credit: Jonny Goldstein Peter Hiddema, a visiting professor at INSEAD (France and Singapore) teaches negotiation skills to MBA students. Globally known as an expert in strategic negotiation, conflict resolution and leadership development, Peter has taught students and corporate leaders at several universities in addition to INSEAD, including Queens University (in Canada and the UK), HEC […]

(Photo credit: Liza) For this you need to find the links between the sentences. The goal in these types of sentences is to rearrange the sentences in the original sequence. It consists of a group of sentences that have been jumbled up. All the Best for CAT 2011! Let us look at Para Jumble (PJ) […]

Glossary OMPA = Old Men’s (and Women’s) PaGaLGuY Association (link). AIPGM = All India PaGaLGuY Meet. Although Chick Corea is a pianist, his composed jazz standard ‘Spain‘ is a popular (and challenging) piece for learning on the guitar. Concept, illustrations and graphics by Deepak Gopalakrishnan aka chuck_gopal, a Mallu-turned Mumbaiker who blogs here and tweets […]

(Photo credit: meddygarnet) Engineers continue to be the largest group in the 2-year MBA-equivalent PGP programs at the Indian Institutes of Management (IIMs). While IIM Bangalore’s class of 2013 will have 91.32% engineers, at IIM Calcutta’s batch comprises 95% engineers. The Times of India reports about IIM Bangalore that the new batch has 85 women […]

The day was rife with news about the Common Admission Test (CAT) becoming a two-tier exam this year onwards. According to a report published in the Hyderabad edition of a leading daily, the IIMs are thinking of launching an initial screening process before the actual examination. However, Prof Himanshu Rai, CAT 2010 Convenor went on […]

Candidates preparing for the Common Admissions Test (CAT) and other b-school entrance exams often struggle with vocabulary. While the CAT does not test candidates on their knowledge of difficult words directly, other exams, especially the entrance test for FMS certainly do. In addition, even for the CAT, a good vocabulary is important. This is because […]

Rashmi Bansal, a graduate from the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad (IIM A), batch of 1993, is out with her new book ‘I Have A Dream’ which brings forth stories of 20 idealists who think and act like entrepreneurs. Being a product of the Indian b-school system, PaGaLGuY interviewed Rashmi Bansal about her new book, […]

DAVV Takshila campus, Indore If you are planning to pursue an MBA from any university in Madhya Pradesh, make sure you have three years to spare. The MBA semesters of about 200 colleges affiliated to Madhya Pradesh universities are running a good 3-6 months behind schedule for the last two years. And this means that […]