After witnessing a phenomenal jump of 80% in the number of applications this year, IMI has kick started with its interview process for all its three campuses- New Delhi, Bhubaneswar and Kolkata. IMI has increased the overall CAT cut off to 92 percentile as compared to 90 percentile last year for PGDM Delhi. The sectional […]

Prof Gajendra Adil Prof Gajendra Adil recently took over as head, Shailesh J Mehta School of Management (SJMSoM), Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Bombay. An academician at heart, Prof Adil worked at Bilkent Universtity, Turkey and City University, Hong Kong before joining SJMSoM in 2000. Speaking exclusively to PaGaLGuY, he talks about his vision for […]

(Photo: psyberartist) Free of the censoring knife of their PR committees, students of the Indian Institutes of Management (IIMs) are having a ball anonymously posting what appears like an unbridled bitchfest about their b-schools on a Facebook page aptly titled IIM Confessions. Imagine this: you are an IIM student who by choice or otherwise, is […]

Photo Credit: Steve A johnson Probability has always been a fascinating topic to teach. The pleasure that I get out of correcting silly mistakes, which are plenty in questions based on probability can be considered sadistic by some or a truly noble thing to do by others. I hope the percentage of the latter would […]

Photo Credit: Lucia Whittaker The Associate Professor of Marketing who is accused of sexual harassment at the Indian Institute of Management Indore may even stand to lose his job if he proved guilty. Accused of sexually harassing a junior lady professor at the institute, the director of IIM-I, Dr N Ravichandran will take a final […]

As has been the trend over the last 3 years (See Table 1), hiring for finance function during summer internships at Indian Institute of Management (IIM), Ahmedabad, has taken a dip this year as well. This year, 25.72% of the batch was hired for roles in the finance function as opposed to 28.38% hires last […]

Leonardo Banegas, Global MBA student at ESSEC Business School, France After having grown up and worked in Citibank across multiple Central American countries, Honduras national Leonardo Banegas wanted to be anywhere but a Spanish-speaking country for his MBA. He eventually joined the one-year Global MBA programme at ESSEC Business School near Paris, France, where he […]

Yudhir Agarwal The Common Management Admission Test (CMAT) 2013 is being conducted over a 5 day test window from February 21-25 across 2 time slots (9:30 am to 12:30 pm; 2:30 pm to 5:30 pm). Today’s paper was comparable in terms of difficulty, with the Quantitative Aptitude & Data Interpretation Section getting tougher compared to […]

NUS Business School, National University of Singapore Despite a relatively rosier job market, as a Singaporean MBA you will find companies making the same demands from you at interview time as they are from European or American graduates. For example, you are more likely to land a job in finance if you have pre-MBA finance […]

Photo Credit: Oatsy 40 (flickr) Questions on clocks (or even calendars) are not really frequent in CAT these days. They used to be really popular few years ago. Having said that, it is always better to understand some of the basic principles and the types of problems that get asked. They might come in handy […]