(Photo credit: Hriddhi Doley) The Indian Institute of Management (IIM), Calcutta finished its placements for the PGDM and PGDCM classes of 2011 with 464 offers for a total strength of 381 students. According to the school’s placement cell, a total of 129 companies made offers during the placements process that lasted 5 days. ICICI and […]

FOUNDATION FOR LIBERAL AND MANAGEMENT EDUCATION (FLAME) – FLAME SCHOOL OF BUSINESS POST GRADUATE PROGRAM Management Education in India evokes images of professionalism, competencies, capabilities, and excellence. There is a vision of breaking new frontiers of knowledge, identifying appropriate state of the art skills and generating relevant attitudes. Management Education is associated with efficiency, effectiveness, […]

In the volumes of b-school placement reports, one piece of statistics gets overshadowed by the numerical platitudes and eulogies. Mentioned mostly as an afterthought, it is about students who opt-out of the placements, to follow their calling and start their own businesses. PaGaLGuY speaks to some of these souls and learn their stories. M Vivekanandan, […]

Calcutta Business School is an autonomous, AICTE-approved institution set up by prominent industrialists like SK Birla, BM Khaitan, BK Jhawar and BD Sureka. This b-school joins a host of other educational institutions in a foundation which has been in existence from 1920. The b-school enjoys a sprawling, lush 15-acre campus just outside Kolkata. The campus […]

Qualifications are important for gainful employment. Years ago, a graduation degree used to be good enough, that changed to engineering and today it is the MBA. However, the connection between the educational degree and the job has always been little. An IIT degree is followed by an IIM post graduate diploma merely to increase the […]

All through this week, Al-Qaeda has hogged front page space across media, world over. With Osama Bin Laden’s death ‘what now’ is the question on most people’s minds. A recent research by a business student at Duke University’s Fuqua School of Business, US, along with an expert on terrorism on the internal workings of the […]

Roughly between March and June, business schools carry a vacant look. The first-year-going-on-second-year MBA batch leaves for its summer internships to the corporate world whereas the faculty gets temporary relief from teaching and can concentrate on the other vital role incumbent on them — management research. This essential mandate of a b-school to pursue knowledge […]

The final admission lists of almost all the top b-schools are out, bringing joy to the ones who have made it and anxiety to those on the waitlists. Everybody — waitlisted or otherwise — must now plan how to finance their management education. They must start by hunting for banks offering the most attractive education […]

(Photo Credit: Varun Saxena) National Institute of Industrial Engineering (NITIE), Mumbai completed its combined placement process for 328 students across four post-graduate programs. Three-quarters of the batch secured operations management, consulting and IT roles. Amazon India was the highest paying domestic recruiter offering a package of Rs 19.5 lakhs for an operations management profile while […]

You’ve seen the posts, the thanks and the groans. Now meet the faces behind the usernames at the 8th edition of the All India PaGaLGuY Meet (AIPGM) on May 28 and 29, 2011 at Bangalore. A one of its kind event, the meet will allow you to network with other regular puys alongside a rock […]