Pic: (Flickr)All the world’s a stage, And all the men and women merely players; They have their exits and their entrances, And one man in his time plays many parts,…the words by William Shakespeare make particular sense in the b-school scenario today, given the number of ‘artists’ pursuing an MBA degree. Almost ever top b-school […]

(Photo: Zack Klein) Candidates scheduled to appear for the Common Management Admission Test (CMAT) this year appear perturbed with test centers allocated at far-off places and the paraphernalia-gathering required ahead of the test. They feel that the test centers could have been allotted in closer vicinities of their homes and that the requirement of getting […]

The new Goa Institute of Management campus Surrounded by mountain ranges on three sides and a valley on the fourth, Goa Institute of Management (GIM)s new 50-acre campus at Sanquelim in north Goa is located at the foothills of the Western Ghats. In this nature-friendly campus, all hot water is heated using solar heaters and […]

XLRI Jamshedpur (Photo: Muthuraja)Like Mumbai’s SP Jain, XLRI School of Business and Human Resources, Jamshedpur too is planning to increase the student intake in its Post Graduate Programme in Business Management (BM) and Post Graduate Program in Human Resource Management (HRM) by 60 seats each starting 2013. The Institute will send in an approval application […]

(Photo: Sean Sllis) While talking to PaGaLGuY last week, the Indian Institute of Management (IIM), Lucknow director had articulated why it was becoming increasingly important for Indian b-schools to open their doors to foreign students and give a more global colour to their classrooms. Fresh data shared exclusively with PaGaLGuY by the Graduate Management Admission […]

The Indian Institutes of Management (IIMs), the makers of the Common Admission Test (CAT), are planning to put out a ‘CAT survey trends report’ over the next two years, providing detailed insights into the demographic profile of CAT takers over five years, a source in the CAT committee told PaGaLGuY. Inspired by the ‘Profile of […]

SP Jain Institute of Management and Research (SPJIMR), Mumbai is planning to increase student intake in its Post Graduate Diploma in Management (PGDM) from the current 180 to 240 starting 2013. The institute is awaiting a green signal from the All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) for the expansion. “SP Jain had applied to […]

Last year, Goa Institute of Management (GIM) shifted to a new 50-acre campus located at the foothills of the Western Ghats at Sanquelim in north Goa. The entire project cost a whopping Rs 63 crore, according to director Peter FX DLima. He also said that for the incoming Post Graduate Programme (PGP) batch of 2012-14, […]

IIM Lucknow students Arun Tangri and Shobhit Kumar with their tablet product At a time when people with some spare cash and in need of a portable computer can’t decide whether they should spend on a netbook or a tablet, this second-year MBA duo from the Indian Institute of Management (IIM), Lucknow have decided to […]

In an exclusive interview with PaGaLGuY, Prof Shekhar Chaudhuri, director of Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta (IIM-C) speaks about the importance of diversity in class, development plans for IIM-C and the affect of foreign universities making an entry into India. The inclusion of X and XII marks during admissions has not received a very favourable […]