To put the new Ford EcoSport’s Rs 5.59 lakh price in perspective, talk to someone who’s joining a two-year MBA program in the US this fall. In the two weeks that the Indian rupee slid from 57 to 60 against a US dollar, that is about how much more their impending educational expenditure increased by, […]

(Photo courtesy: jonfeinstein) The Common Admission Test (CAT) 2012 authorities have sent letters with the ‘correct’ scores to the institutes that have admitted the 80 candidates allegedly involved in the infamous CAT scam. It is now up to the institutes whether the retain the students/candidates (waiting list) or not. This is what the institutes have […]

Photo Credit: Bergerking (Flickr) When you can’t fight the system, you simply go with it. Professor of Marketing, Nicolas Minvielle, at Audencia Nantes School of Management, France did just that. Sensing that his students spent considerable time on Facebook and Twitter during class hours, he simply decided to join them. He got social media inside […]

The Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad (IIM-A) current director, Ajay Pandey has got another extension for three months. Prof Pandey’s stint as acting director was scheduled to end on June 30 and the new director expected to take over from today, July 1. The delay appears to be from the Ministry of Human Resource Development […]

(Photo: Sixtybolts ) Problems based on weighing machines and pan balances are little more common in exams like CMAT and SNAP compared to the CAT because the nature of these questions is such that once you understand the basic concepts and formulae, there isn’t much thinking required to solve the problems. Having said that, many […]

Rewarding opportunities in real estate and construction • Be engaged in a sector that contributes 17.5% to India’s GDP • With an average of 4 million professionals needed in the sector every year over the next 10 years, employment opportunities in built environment are numerous • Work on amazing projects and help create structures that […]

When the second edition of the PGP-Business will start? The PGPB will commence on July 8th with the opening week while on July 15th students will begin their pre-courses in Accounting, Economics and Quantitative Methods. Applications will be accepted and evaluated until June 28th 2013. Which is the essence of the PBP-Business at MISB Bocconi? […]

A poker game in progress at this year’s tournament Don’t be surprised, if tomorrow, an automobile company visiting your campus tests your driving skills before offering you a job. Because that’s how US-based gaming company Caesars Entertainment hires. It invites MBA students interested in working with them to play poker before deciding on the hire. […]

Dezsö Horváth, dean, Schulich School of Business, York University, Canada In an ideal world, Dezsö Horváth would have liked his 25-year-long deanship of Canada’s Schulich School of Business, York University to see through a full-fledged MBA program run by the school on Indian soil. But with the foreign universities entry and regulation bill still languishing […]

The classrooms at the School of Management and Labour Studies at the Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS) Mumbai will have a different look to them this year. According to information provided by Bino Paul, professor and chairperson, Centre for Human Resources Management and Labour Relations, the proportion of both non-engineers and women in the […]