4000 out of a total of 30000 students who have registered for the Management Aptitude Test or MAT have chosen the online option; a number that amounts to a little more than 13 percent. MAT has been scheduled to be held in around 30 cities starting September 6th, 2009. The paper based test will be […]

Entrepreneurship initiatives are on an all time high in B-schools (CSR initiatives too, though more on that later). Its amazing to see the high amount of management students interested in starting their own businesses; although some of them do admit that their zest is influenced by the lack of suitable jobs in the market. Whatever […]

Seven new Indian Institutes of Managements proposed by Union HRD Minister Kapil Sibal have finally been approved by the Cabinet today on August 27, 2009. These new IIMs will come up at Tamil Nadu, Jammu and Kashmir, Jharkhand, Uttarakhand, Haryana, Chhattisgarh and Rajasthan. Locations of four of these IIMs has already been specified in the […]

For PG users, this requires no introduction or explanation. For the lesser mortals, I shall explain.The Dream Team comprises of CAT aspirants who can crack the CAT even in their sleep if it may so be required. They are consistent 99 percentile scorers in the mock CATs and thus are almost demi gods for MBA […]

NIS L.I.V.E and XIM-B join hands to launch Advanced Post Graduate Certificate courses NIS L.I.V.E, an initiative of NIS Sparta Ltd., (L.I.V.E. stands for Learning in Interactive Virtual Environment) has in association with Xavier Institute of Management, Bhubaneswar (XIM-B) announced the launch of advanced Post Graduate Certificate courses earlier this week. The programs are: PGCBM […]

Management institutes are wholesome entities in themselves. Generally. Management institutes (or I should rather call them departments) in the North Campus of The Delhi University are pretty much the best bargain you will find between a conventional management institute and a University set-up with Management studies as just another department. Colleges offering management education in […]

The Graduate Record Examination’s (GRE) big shot at trying to wrest the business school admissions space from the currently prevalent Graduate Management Admissions Test (GMAT) comes in an interesting period of time, when applications to b-schools in the US and Europe are dwindling. Last month, Wharton joined Harvard, Stanford, MIT-Sloan and 250 business schools worldwide […]

SRIJAN 09 – IMI’s Annual Marketing Summit SRIJAN09, the marketing summit of International Management Institute, New Delhi to be held on August 28 and 29, 2009 will provide an opportunity for the young managers to assimilate, learn and implement the concepts and to understand the cycle of idea evolutions in different companies. The panel discussion […]

Considering that everyone today believes that MBA education lacks the wherewithal to train managers, Fastcompany.com, a business magazine that reports on technology, design and digital media too has come up with a feature called 30second MBA where stalwarts of the industry answer basic questions on management for whoever might be interested. How it goes is […]

Later this week, I’m traveling to an interesting conference at ISB Hyderabad on the role of business schools in the current economic crisis, and how they need to change in order to be more relevant in the new economy that will emerge out of the crisis. The conference, among other matters, will examine b-schools’ obsession […]