Why? One of the most unique perspectives that gave rise to Aegis Global Academy, Coimbatores Institute of Customer Experience (ICEM) is the fact that the Services sector is differentiated from other economic sectors on the basis of one key factor: the human interactive experience. While the service industry in the country is booming with its […]

The Indian School of Business (ISB), Hyderabad announced the completion of placements for class of 2010 of its one-year Post Graduate Program (PGP) in management with a 35% increase in the number of offers, most being in the area of consulting, sales and marketing and technology. According to the ISB placement report, a total of […]

The Karnataka High Court on June 11 disposed the public interest litigation seeking cancellation of the controversial computer-based Common Admissions Test (CAT) 2009 exam held in November and December 2009, while directing the Indian Institutes of Management (IIMs) at Bangalore and Ahmedabad to ensure that the errors were not repeated again. A Bangalore division bench […]

(Credit: timetrax23) Imagine this: there are over 2,400 b-schools in India of which 1,999 are approved by the All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) and 400 function as unapproved private b-schools. Together, they have nearly 190,000 seats for a total pool of 3.5-4 lakh MBA aspirants who sit for the national and state-level MBA […]

Yes, you heard that right. We have excess stock of hot coffee but not enough people to spend sleepless nights consuming it. Are you passionate about the world of MBA education? Do you get excitedly lap up news and analysis on business schools in newspapers? Are you brimming with questions on why the gears in […]

Welcome to the era of Super Specialization. The world has become a Global village. As more and more opportunities are opening up, competition is getting tougher. A regular Post Graduation is certainly not the need of the hour. In todays scenario, even a specialization is not good enough. The world requires Super Specialists: people who […]

In about a week’s time, most business schools in India would have welcomed the new batch of starry-eyed students, the first-year ‘freshers’. Carrying with them a lot of anxiety and much hope, they would be busy checking out the campus and the classrooms, wondering about roommates, making their first friends or scouting for paying-guest accommodation, […]

(Image credit: W Marsh) MBA graduates of 2010 across the world feel more optimistic about the health of the economy than those in 2009 did, even though the number of MBAs having a job before graduation has dropped to a seven-year low, reports a GMAC survey. Only 33% of the management graduates of the world […]

(Photo credit: David Reece) Jamshedpur’s Xavier’s Labour Relations Institute, now known as XLRI Jamshedpur School of Business and Human Resources will implement a revised curriculum for students joining the two-year Business Management (BM) and Personnel Management and Industrial Relations (PMIR) programs in June 2010. The new curriculum would reduce the number of contact hours in […]

(Image: Thomas Hawk) The MBA Oath has regained spotlight after the appointment of one of its strongest advocates Nitin Nohria as Dean of Harvard Business School. The question remains however is whether such an oath is meaningful in a context where the MBA graduate is expected to work purely to achieve higher targets and greater […]