Photo Credit: Benson Kua IIM Bangalore’s recent decision to make student attendance in classrooms optional is raising a lot of questions. Are Indian students at the post graduate level mature enough to come to class without the whip of compulsory attendance? Will they use or misuse the freedom that they are being entrusted with? And […]

Note by Apurv Pandit: Last month, I met Dr Ariff Kachra, a Strategy professor of Indian origin at Canada’s Richard Ivey School of Business who also runs the school’s executive training center in Mumbai. As we chatted about various things MBA, I asked him how he found the quality of applicants from India to Richard […]

(Photo credits: Eric Lim and Ashutosh Garg) Last year’s B-school Photography Contest proved beyond doubt that many b-schoolers were wasting their time studying the Ansoff Matrix* and Concentric diversification strategies… they had alternative employment as professional shutterbugs assured, just in case! But we’ve been told that there is hidden writing talent at b-schools too, stashed […]

Despite several delays in application deadlines, only 663 applications have been received by COME (Consortium of Management Education) so far. COME, which is a consortium of 52 business schools in Maharashtra has got together and initiated a Centralised Admission Process (CAP) for all MBA aspirants who had not admission into any b-school so far. The […]

Indian Institute of Management (IIM) Bangalore has decided to make attendance voluntary across all courses, starting with the first year students of this academic year. This may sound like an odd thing to do for a premier b-school like IIM Bangalore, but Bringi Dev, the head of Communications and an adjunct professor there, is convinced […]

The Indian Institute of Management (IIM), Ranchi is going to start a weekend executive management program starting September 2011 for professionals with five or more years of work experience in the government, private or public sector. According to MJ Xavier, director of IIM Ranchi, classes for the 18-month program titled ‘PGPEX’ will be held on […]

(Original photo credit: Rafael Kage) An often asked question is, “What is the difference between the average CAT student in Verbal Ability and a 99 percentiler in Verbal Ability?” (You will notice that I do not yet say ‘an IIM convert’ because for every six ’99 percentilers’ who are interviewed, only one makes it. But […]

(Photo credit: Aashish Mylapally) After growing a franchise on the back of the two-year MBA format degree for 50 years, an Indian Institute of Management (IIM) has for the first time announced a foray into undergraduate education. With the five-year Integrated Post Graduate Program (IPGP), IIM Indore seeks to deliver a BBA+MBA type cocktail to […]

Prof Prathap Oburai There is still no trace of Prathap Oburai, professor of marketing, at the Indian Institute Management, Ahmedabad (IIMA), who went missing from Uttarakhand two days ago. According to Tehri Superintendent of Police, Rajeev Swaroop, the professor, who is also an IIMA alumnus, was mentally stressed and had attempted ending his life earlier, […]

(Photo credit: Alan Cleaver) In perhaps the most significant leap by any Indian Institute of Management (IIM) ever, IIM Indore this week announced a five-year integrated management degree which will admit students directly after class XII in school. A Times of India story reports that the total tuition fees for this fully residential ‘integrated PGP’ […]