There is an ol’ world charm to Bharathidasan Institute of Management (BIM), Trichy’s campus. A huge playground on one side and little hostel buildings with quaint balconies on the other. At one corner is the mess, which is nestled among trees and partly open air so it gives the feeling of dining in the outdoors. […]

(Photo credit: IIM Calcutta by Velavan S) The Indian Institutes of Management are considering forming an umbrella structure on the lines of an ‘IIM University’ that would offer a full-fledged Master of Business Administration (MBA) degree instead of the Post Graduate Diploma in Management (PGDM) that they offer now. The idea of an IIM University […]

The most cherished profession an MBA can look forward to in a contemporary business environment is a career in Logistics and supply Chain Management (LSCM). It is said that ‘today, organizations no more compete, their supply chain does.’ This new vista of career opportunity in this emerging field throws open a basket of excellent charter […]

Admissions waitlists at the Indian Institutes of Management (IIMs) may be better managed during the upcoming season with the IIM directors agreeing towards closer cooperation in admissions at a meeting with the Human Resources Development Minister Kapil Sibal in New Delhi today. Earlier, the idea of the IIMs conducting a common interview process on the […]

Even though there are no reported fatal technical failures in the Common Admissions Test (CAT) 2011, the test is not completely bereft of glitches. Monday, October 31, computers crashed and screen colours played truant in a data interpretation question at the Nirmala Devi College centre in Mumbai, where this correspondent was taking the CAT. Although […]

Management education evolved in the 1960s in India in the premier management institutions. Many institutions which followed the success of these premier management institutions ‘cyclostyled’ and standardised MBA curriculum so senselessly that neither did it add any value in career building nor did it help as a certificate for petty job seekers. Given the scenario […]

In a bid to accommodate an increasing class size after implementing the 27% Other Backward Caste (OBC) quota, the Indian Institute of Foreign Trade (IIFT), New Delhi has begun construction of a new hostel building. The hostel is expected to be operational for the incoming batch in 2012. The hostel will be a four-storey building […]

(Photo credit: Kai Schreiber) This is my second post on PaGaLGuY focusing on Geometry fundas. We discussed lines, triangles, parallelograms, trapeziums and polygons in my previous post. Now for some fundas and formulae in Geometry that happen to be frequently neglected by people but can fetch some crucial marks in the exam. Funda 1: Angle […]

The Institute of Management Technology (IMT), Ghaziabad is increasingly being recognized by recruiters, as one of Indias top-10 business schools. A recent Economic Times survey covering 500 of Indias largest companies saw IMT-G ranked number seven, with areas covered being marketing, IT, HR, finance and production. A key factor behind this prime ranking is the […]

(Photo credit: Rahul Desai) The Union Human Resources Development (HRD) Ministry’s diktat a few months ago, that the Indian Institutes of Management (IIMs) launch a management journal on the lines of the celebrated Harvard Business Review (HBR) has set the ball rolling within the IIM camp. Though no firm plan has been drawn up yet, […]