FOUNDATION FOR LIBERAL AND MANAGEMENT EDUCATION (FLAME) – FLAME SCHOOL OF BUSINESS POST GRADUATE PROGRAM Management Education in India evokes images of professionalism, competencies, capabilities, and excellence. There is a vision of breaking new frontiers of knowledge, identifying appropriate state of the art skills and generating relevant attitudes. Management Education is associated with efficiency, effectiveness, […]

In the volumes of b-school placement reports, one piece of statistics gets overshadowed by the numerical platitudes and eulogies. Mentioned mostly as an afterthought, it is about students who opt-out of the placements, to follow their calling and start their own businesses. PaGaLGuY speaks to some of these souls and learn their stories. M Vivekanandan, […]

Calcutta Business School is an autonomous, AICTE-approved institution set up by prominent industrialists like SK Birla, BM Khaitan, BK Jhawar and BD Sureka. This b-school joins a host of other educational institutions in a foundation which has been in existence from 1920. The b-school enjoys a sprawling, lush 15-acre campus just outside Kolkata. The campus […]

Qualifications are important for gainful employment. Years ago, a graduation degree used to be good enough, that changed to engineering and today it is the MBA. However, the connection between the educational degree and the job has always been little. An IIT degree is followed by an IIM post graduate diploma merely to increase the […]

All through this week, Al-Qaeda has hogged front page space across media, world over. With Osama Bin Laden’s death ‘what now’ is the question on most people’s minds. A recent research by a business student at Duke University’s Fuqua School of Business, US, along with an expert on terrorism on the internal workings of the […]

Roughly between March and June, business schools carry a vacant look. The first-year-going-on-second-year MBA batch leaves for its summer internships to the corporate world whereas the faculty gets temporary relief from teaching and can concentrate on the other vital role incumbent on them — management research. This essential mandate of a b-school to pursue knowledge […]

You’ve seen the posts, the thanks and the groans. Now meet the faces behind the usernames at the 8th edition of the All India PaGaLGuY Meet (AIPGM) on May 28 and 29, 2011 at Bangalore. A one of its kind event, the meet will allow you to network with other regular puys alongside a rock […]

Final Placements at Shailesh J Mehta School of Management, IIT Bombay culminated with 119 offers from 62 companies for an effective placement batch of 94 students. Procter & Gamble and Deloitte made 7 offers each, ending up to be the highest recruiters. ICICI, Accenture and Yes Bank were the other three among the top 5 […]

(Photo credit: Abhimanyu Sharma) Chennai-based Great Lakes Institute of Management, which offers a one-year PGPM for experienced candidates completed its placements for the batch of 2010-11. The PGPM Class of 2011 comprised 296 students with work experience ranging from 20 months to 81 months. A total of 121 companies participated in the placements and offered […]

Introducing new courses, updating the existing ones and employing new ‘out-of-classroom’ methods in learning are some of the maneuvers that Indian b-schools are adopting to stay relevant and competitive. As a result, students now have a cornucopia of elective courses and learning methodologies to choose from across the spectrum of b-schools. We review curriculum changes […]