i2I 2008 is being held in partnership with the Indus Entrepreneurs (TiE), National Entrepreneurship network (NEN), and Seedfund, taking the original competition to a different league of its own in terms of scale, scope and seriousness. In its new avatar, i2I has divested off its potentially ‘academic character’ by moving away from traditional ‘business-plan competitions’ […]

The showcase event was the ‘Idea Summit’ wherein renowned speakers from different walks of life distilled and shared their experiences, insights and thoughts with a diverse audience. The summit revolved around the vital discussion on inclusiveness in India’s growth story. The competitions were a treat not just for the participants but also for the audience […]

The number of PPOs is a crucial indicator of the trust that industry places in the quality of managerial talent from the institute.Additionally, the interesting point to note is that interns from IIMK boast of a 100% PPO-conversion rate at top-tier organizations like KPMG, Dubai, HSBC, Hindustan Unilever Ltd, Marico, Asian Paints, Futures First, CHAINalytics […]

The names of these MBA institutes have remained a well-guarded secret, because most of the time, the whistleblower in these stories is a fresh MBA graduate who, invoked by his conscience but under the condition of anonymity, decides to ride against the tide and divulges to the media the inaccuracies in the average salary, highest […]

With the Common Entrance Test (CET) to Maharashtra’s b-schools around the corner, PaGaLGuY.com caught up with last year’s CET Rank 1 Shreyas Shah between his busy class schedules at Jamnalal Bajaj Institute of Management Studies (JBIMS), Mumbai and asked him how he cracked the exam all the way to the top. We were surprised to […]

The placement process drew 48 companies, including first-timers AD Little, Wal-Mart and Levis, for the 39 graduating students who had gone into the one-year full-time programme with 9 years of work experience on an average. Six students accepted international offers that averaged $121,000, while domestic assignments, fetching as high as INR 43 Lakh, averaged INR […]

The festival is a thriving mélange of case studies, business plan contests, paper presentations and strategy games. Last year, Ensemble 2007, with the theme India Unbounded: Unleashing the Tiger, saw 200 participants from the best b-schools in India battle for top honours and a prize money of around 7.5 lakh rupees. The theme for Ensemble […]

The 10th Chief Election Commissioner of India, T.N. Seshan served in office between December 1990 and December 1996. Born in Tirunelveli in Tamil Nadu, he is known for his introduction of many electoral reforms and his uprightness. Prior to his stint as the CEC, he served as the Director, Ministry of Atomic Energy; Joint Secretary, […]

For Mr R Sriram and Mrs KS Anita of ‘Crosswords’, the passion and knowledge of books were the basis of confidence and impetus towards forever revolutionizing the face of book-stores. The ambience ‘Crosswords’ offered encompasses a healthy mix of modern and conventional aspects about books. Its true success came from offering the best experience to […]

The NMIMS University, which was accorded the Deemed University status by the Ministry of HRD, Central Government in the year 2003 and is running seven schools of higher education in various fields The University will invest Rs. 130 crores in five phases for the establishment of the Off-Campus center with state of the art infrastructure […]