Sandip Soparrkar and his wife (dancer and model) Jesse Randhawa Sandip Soparrkar, one of India’s most popular western dancers is not willing to disclose ‘when’ he graduated from Symbiosis Institute of Business Management (SIBM), Pune. He simply says it was years ago. But what he is willing to share, is that he did not take […]

(Photo: Boegh) Quant problems on Time, Speed and Distance make frequent appearances in management entrance exams. To my collection of posts on PaGaLGuY (detailed list), I would like to add a few thoughts about solving escalator-related problems. At the basic level, escalator related problems aren’t too different from boats and streams problem. Think of the […]

(Photo: Peter Gibbons) India’s biggest lender State Bank of India (SBI) has slashed the education loan interest rate for premium b-schools to as low as 10.7%. Further, for students who have two years of work experience and add a parent or the spouse as co-borrower, the interest rate would be even lower at 9.95%. These […]

Alagu Perumal Ramasamy At a time when we the union government is trying to push through the Food Security Bill, Alagu Perumal Ramasamy, an assistant professor who teaches international business at Chennai’s Loyola Institute of Business Administration (LIBA), has been working away for more than two years to contribute to what he defines as food […]

Yes, entrepreneurship can be taught in a classroom with four walls and a black board. But it is best learnt on the ground and at The Indian Institute of Management, Lucknow, (IIM-L) students get to become entrepreneurs for a year. Two of IIM-L’s most famous eating joints are run by students on a commercial basis […]

(Photo: CarbonNYC) Nearly everything. Don’t believe me – the data says so. What I can gather from most quant threads on PaGaLGuY and similar online Facebook groups is that a lot of students, coaching institutes and mentors (including myself) end up focusing their energy on the wrong aspects of CAT prep. I have always felt […]

Mr Saibal Chattopadhyay The Indian Institute of Management Calcutta’s new director Saibal Chattopadhyay says he has two primary tasks up his sleeve. One, to get rid of the halo that has been built around the IIMs over the years and the other to change the curriculum of his b-school. “There is huge halo around the […]

Stanford GSB 2014 MBA Application Questions We read your essays to get to know you as a person and to learn about the ideas and interests that motivate you. Tell us in your own words who you are. In other parts of the application, we learn about your academic and professional accomplishments (i.e., what you […]

An MBA Story from IMT Dubai Have you ever wondered how many MBA graduates are around? How many students graduate each year globally with an MBA degree under their belt? What makes an MBA degree so vital? Why do so many people around the world enroll for an MBA? But the most important question of […]

Could Ringo Starr possibly prepare for the CAT while being in such an overpopulated band? (Photo: Jao Haupt) When I read a comment in PaGaLGuY seeking advice on preparing for the Common Admissions Test (CAT) while living in the chaos of a joint family household, it brought a smile to my face immediately. With all […]