A Talk with the Director SIMS makes you put an MBA in perspective. Quite simply. Brig Rajiv Divekar is a retired Army brigadier who did his MBA while still at services and through it realized the ‘why’ of his own job. He still believes that this is what an MBA ought to do for a […]

Test taking trends for MBA admissions abroad seem to imply that there is an inverse relationship between the economyas strength and B-school enrollments. The number of test takers for the Graduate Management Admissions Test (GMAT) from July 2007 to June 2008 was the highest number since the test was established in the 1950as. The second […]

aThe economic slowdown will affect MBA applications for foreign business schools as only candidates with work-experience apply to such programs. If pink slips are handed out then it is natural for people with work-experience to strive to do an MBA at B-schools abroad. In India, the scenario is not the same with fresh graduates constituting […]

What would be a brief overview of operations management? Operations management as a stream nowadays has a specific focus. It has taken off very well this year, particularly so after 2005 because every company needs a manager who will understand the overall enterprise process. Operations management highlights the process, technology and people aspects. Whether the […]

Hey Harshal, tell us a little about yourself.Hmm… can I get back to you on that later? No? Ok. Well, ‘myself’ is a topic I find difficult writing about. Here goes the answer I did not give in my MBA interviews. A simple guy, eccentric at times, I don’t have any of those irritating habits […]

With the Common Entrance Test (CET) to Maharashtra’s b-schools around the corner, PaGaLGuY.com caught up with last year’s CET Rank 1 Shreyas Shah between his busy class schedules at Jamnalal Bajaj Institute of Management Studies (JBIMS), Mumbai and asked him how he cracked the exam all the way to the top. We were surprised to […]

To be called Symbiosis Institute of Business Management (SIBM), Bangalore, the new institute will see an intake of 120 students in a two-year MBA equivalent program. “The new campus is ready and the intake would bethrough the SNAP 2007 exam,” SIBM Pune’s Prof Pranab Deb informed PaGaLGuY.com. “The courses would be the same as they […]

How has SIBM evolved over the years? We have been around since 1978 and when we started we were affiliated to the Pune University. Everything was controlled by the University back then and we had to abide by the rules and regulations of the Government of Maharashtra. There was no freedom to design courses as […]

Prominent institutes accepting the SNAP score for their postgraduate programmes include Symbiosis Institute of Business Management (SIBM), SymbiosisCentre for Management and Human Resource Development (SCMHRD), Symbiosis Institute of International Business (SIIB) and many more. The registration is on at www.snaptest.org. The two-hour test will be held at 2 pm on December 16. SNAP is an […]

In fact, there is still a general notion in the world of MBA wannabes that there are two kinds of MBA aspirants. Those who are poor at quant and those who are very poor at quant. People who are good at quant and DI stay on Mars. However, I dare to make a tall claim […]