Aristotle once said, “For the things we have to learn before we can do them, we learn by doing them.” This belief is at the very core of the teaching philosophy at the Universal Business School at Karjat, which lays a great emphasis on experiential learning to equip their students with first hand knowledge of […]

Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU) in collaboration with Chartered Institute of Management Accountants (CIMA) has launched MBA in Management Accounting and Finance to cater to the growing demand of globally relevant qualifications in finance and accounts. The aim of this programme is to enhance employability of learners, bridge the gap between programmes currently available […]

Visual by Deanmeyersnet It is no secret that if entrance scores permit, many MBA hopefuls would seek admission only to those b-schools that offer the most lucrative placements. That an MBA degree in India, comes packaged with a job is understood. But not so in b-schools abroad, where students have to hunt for their jobs […]

Institute For Financial Management and Research (IFMR), Chennai, completed its placement process for 111 students across three post graduate programs- PGDM, PGDM-Financial Engineering & PGDM-Development & Sustainable Finance. The year ended on a good note with recruiters from different sectors like IT , Consultancy, BFSI (including PSUs like Bank of India), FMCG, Hospitality & Manufacturing […]

(Photo credit: Hriddhi Doley) The Indian Institute of Management (IIM), Calcutta finished its placements for the PGDM and PGDCM classes of 2011 with 464 offers for a total strength of 381 students. According to the school’s placement cell, a total of 129 companies made offers during the placements process that lasted 5 days. ICICI and […]

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 […]