Articles in MDI Gurgaon
They tell you that ‘you can’t win em all’, we at IMI say ‘The Winner Takes it All’. International Management Institute (IMI), India’s first corporate sponsored Business School, has for long been one of the best institutes with respect to intellectual capital and corporate interaction. Here emphasis is laid on academics, as well as on […]
Neeraj Kakkar, CEO, Hector Beverages (Photo credit: Astha A)Most entrepreneurs that we interview here tend to have started their businesses during b-school or right after graduating from one. But how are their startup stories different from those who work in a corporate job for a few years before deciding to go it on their own?Neeraj […]
In India, the Management Education has expanded exponentially, during the last two decades. Even today, the industry is crying aloud that most MBAs are misfits in the corporate set up. Much of what is covered in the class room is simply not relevant in the Corporate world. Industry needs executives who have the right attitude […]
Continuing from where we left off in the November 2011 update about the seat availability in the top 10 b-schools as per the PaGaLGuY B-school Rankings 2011, here is a similar update on the number of seats available across categories at the b-schools ranked 11 to 20, for the upcoming 2012-14 batch. Six colleges among […]
Following the previous Director’s retirement, Prof Chandra P Shrimali has been appointed as the Officiating Director of Management Development Institute (MDI), Gurgaon starting December 1, 2011, informed an institute press release. Prof Shrimali became the Director after the previous officiating director Prof VK Gupta retired, added the statement. Prof Shrimali will also head MDI’s campus […]
The IITs’ (Indian Institutes of Technology) loss is GMAT’s (Graduate Management Aptitude Test) gain. With the canning of the Joint Management Entrance Exam (JMET), regulatory body All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) has added the GMAT to the six acceptable entrance tests for admissions to the Post Graduate Diploma in Management (PGDM) offered at […]
Launched with much fanfare in 2006 as Indias first MBA comprising 50% international students, the Post Graduate Programme in International Management (PGP-IM) at the Management Development Institute (MDI), Gurgaon has been seeing a steady decline in the number of international students participating. The two-year dual-degree programme which MDI runs in collaboration with the European School […]
Among the only two few Padmashri recipients in the management education space, management guru Dr Pritam Singh, Director General of International Management Institute (IMI), Delhi is well-known for having hauled up the fortunes of the Indian Institute of Management (IIM), Lucknow and the Management Development Institute (MDI), Gurgaon during his tenures as their Director. This […]
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, […]
This year, only 13 crossed the 150 mark at the Maharashtra MBA CET written exam. An exclusive club indeed, considering that last year 600 crossed the same mark. PaGaLGuY spoke to three from this exclusive lot who were genuine MBA applicants (and not personnel of coaching classes). Incidentally, this year’s topper who scored 172/200 is […]