Dr Gautam Sinha, due to take over as director of IIM KashipurThe Indian Institute of Management (IIM) at Kashipur, which had started out in 2011, finally has its first director in Dr Gautam Sinha. In the first interview with a media after being named for the position, the director-appointee explains his plans for one of […]

The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania (Photo: teofilo) Among all the components that constitute your MBA application profile GMAT score, pre-MBA academic grades, admission essays, recommendations and the MBA resume most applicants tend to ignore the poor little resume. Why? Almost everyone who has got a job in the corporate world (or for that matter, […]

This was the last year for Maharashtra management Common Entrance Test (Mah-CET) and also one of the toughest in years as candidates who wrote the exam complained of a lengthy paper and tough logical reasoning and visual reasoning sections. PaGaLGuY spoke to two of the toppers this year, one being from a coaching institute who […]

Dr Harivansh Chaturvedi, Director, BIMTECH NoidaInstead of stifling b-schools with autocratic punitive powers, an AICTE-like regulator should instead be aiding them with faculty development, upgradation and internationalisation, argues BIMTECH Noida Director Dr Harivansh Chaturvedi. ——— Two decades of economic liberalisation have proved that the dismantling the license-quota-permit raj and infusing healthy competition into the Indian […]

(Photo: Soubhik Chatterjee) The Indian Institute of Management (IIM), Calcutta finished its final placements for the 2010-2012 batches of its PGDM and PGDCM courses with 423 offers for a total effective batch of 345. Before the final placement process started, the students had already received 130 lateral and 95 pre-placement offers (PPOs), out of which […]

LAST TWO DAYS to send in your entries for the PaGaLGuY Comic Contest # 2 – with Flipkart vouchers worth Rs 8,000 as prizes. Send your entry now!Concept, illustrations and graphics by Deepak Gopalakrishnan aka chuck_gopal, a Mallu-turned Mumbaikar who blogs here and tweets here.PS: The inspiration for this comic came from the rather brilliant […]

Infopark, Kochi on Google Earth The Indian Institute of Management (IIM), Kozhikode is going to be starting a new campus in Kochi later this year for delivering its Executive Post Graduate Programme (EPGP). The campus, for now, will be situated at Infopark, a technology park, which already boasts of companies such as TCS, Cognizant, Wipro, […]

Dr Bibek Banerjee, director, IMT GhaziabadShould business schools treat students as products or customers? Or should the b-schools (with education at the core of their mission), envision their primary role in transforming a set of students aspiring to participate in the global knowledge economy into a set of fine professionals? Dr Bibek Banerjee, Director, Institute […]

Major infrastructural expansion at the Indian Institute of Management (IIM), Bangalore campus has led to a straight 15% increase in fees from the coming academic year. From Rs 13 lakh, the fees are now Rs 15 lakh, which makes it a little lesser than what IIM Ahmedabad charges at Rs 15.50 lakh. According to an […]

Ranked 16th among US business schools by BusinessWeek, University of North Carolina’s Kenan-Flagler Business School is popular among Indian applicants and accepts a median GMAT score of 690 for its MBA class of 298 seats. PaGaLGuY interviews Sherry Wallace, director of MBA admissions to learn about the post-MBA job market in the US and the […]