Imagine, on a lazy Wednesday afternoon in Mumbai suburb a mother staying with her toddler son recollects that she wanted to read a new novel which has recently hit the stands. She goes ahead and buys it online just like any typical customer would do these days and expects it to be delivered home in […]

New Delhi, November 7th, 2014: MIP Politecnico di Milano, in Italy, has inked a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the School of Inspired Leadership (SOIL) Gurgaon to offer a joint degree programme in Advance M asters in Innovation & Entrepreneurship. The MoU was signed by Mr. Gianluca Spina, President, MIP Politecnico de Milano and Mr. Anil Sachdev,Founder & CEO, SOIL, in the presence […]

MICA, Ahmedabad has released the details of its admission process for selection to the 22nd Batch (2015-17) of its Post Graduate Diploma in Management – Communications (PGDM-C). Admission Criteria: Students applying for admission to this programme must be graduates. Students who are appearing for final examinations for their graduation are also eligible to apply. In […]

The Common Admission Test (2014) results have been declared today. At least 16 of the lot have bagged a  100 percentile  and this number includes one girl.  The results, which were to be declared last week were delayed since some backend glitches had to be ironed out.  You can check your result here – https://www.digialm.com/EForms/configuredHtml/756/1390/login.html This […]

A very common question that bothers many CAT-takers is the scoring methodology used to assess their performance. Specifically, the mystery around normalization makes students wonder about its impact on their final scores. In this article, let us try to decipher the normalization process. First of all, CAT awards +3 marks for correct answers and -1 […]

I want to ask you a question. You don’t have to answer me, just yourself. But first, I must tell you a story before asking my question at the end. Three MBA students are studying together. We’ll call them Yudhisthira, Bhima, and Arjuna (and say upfront that any resemblance to people you may know is […]

We are all more mobile than ever and more likely to traverse into cultures different from our own – for reasons of studying, marketing, selling, buying, serving customers, and production of goods: literally, in the old-fashioned way, as business travellers or as onsite assignees; virtually as ‘desk diplomats’ via email, chat, phone, or web-based video […]

Nagpur city beat other contenders like Mumbai, Pune and Aurangabad to be the host of an Indian Institute of Management in Maharashtra. Higher and technical education minister Vinod Tawde and Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis informed that the institute will likely start operations from the 2015-16 academic session. Currently, it will operate out of two buildings rented […]

Nagpur city beat other contenders like Mumbai, Pune and Aurangabad to be the host of an Indian Institute of Management in Maharashtra. Higher and technical education minister Vinod Tawde and Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis informed that the institute will likely start operations from the 2015-16 academic session. Currently, it will operate out of two buildings rented […]

Getting the Tricky parts right You’ve slogged hard and belled-the-CAT; cracked-theXAT/MAT and what-have-we… and now its time to jump into the ‘Grey’. Unlike the written tests, GD’s and PI’s are not cut-and-dry ‘black-and-white’; they deal with the intangibles…. where your assessors are no longer looking for ‘the right answer’; but your ‘confidence’, ‘poise’, and ‘ability […]