Close on the heels of the Xavier Aptitude Test (XAT) 2013 evaluation fiasco, another one seems to be brewing right here, in the heart of Mumbai. Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS) applicants claim that they are at the receving end of some not-so-tight evalutation. According to a good, sizeable number of applicants, marks are […]

IIM Udaipur, Pic sent by Barretto Maclean Owing to a clash in interview calls from some prominent b-schools in the country, the Indian Institute of Management (IIM) Raipur, the nodal point for admissions to the younger IIMs this year, has said that it will consider a date change request provided the interview call coincides with […]

Anna University has announced dates for the Tamil Nadu Common Entrance Test (TANCET) 2013. The exam for the MBA program will be held on April 6, 2013 from 10 am to 12 noon. The two-hour exam sees no change in pattern with 100 questions carrying one mark each. There is one-fifth negative marking incase of […]

Symbiosis Centre for Management and Human Resource Development (SCMHRD) If you are attending the Group Exercise-Personal Interview (GE-PI) process at Symbiosis Centre for Management and Human Resource Development (SCMHRD) this year, it would pay to know your cartoons as much as it would to know about the Syrian conflict! The institute, which has abolished essays […]

Photo Credit: Sean McEntee Data Sufficiency questions often involve very simple calculations. This does not mean that the questions are simple. It just means that the chances to make conceptual mistakes and / or silly mistakes are a little higher than usual. You will need to pay attention to detail in such questions. In Data […]

Well, it is that time of the year again! CAT results are out, the frantic search for the right b-school is on and the confusion seems never ending. Having gone through the mill myself two years back and being a little wiser after that, I would like to share with you all what are the […]

Business schools and industry have an important role to play in the growth of an economy. A productive interface between the industry and business schools is an important requirement for the long term sustainable growth of an economy. This in all probability has become the biggest differentiator for business schools worldwide. And therefore, management students […]

The placement season at IMI, this year will start in good spirits thanks to students who have performed well during their summer internships and achieved the highly coveted pre-placement offers. With the number of the offers this year reaching higher, the morale of the student body is very high and there is a wave of […]

In India, management education has expanded a great deal in the last two decades. Even today, the industry is crying aloud that most MBAs are misfits in the corporate set up. Much of what is covered in the class room is simply not relevant in the corporate world. Industry needs executives who have the right […]

“You see things and say ‘why’? But I dream things that never were and say ‘why not’?” – George Bernard Shaw Entrepreneurship is about transforming dreams of extraordinary men and women to value for the society at large. India has produced great entrepreneurs, from Dhriubhai Ambani (Reliance), Narayan Murthy (Infosys), Sunil Mittal (Bharti) and Tulsi […]