Articles in Symbiosis Institute
The biggest advantage of the shrinking boundaries and the concept of the world becoming a global village is the ease of accessibility to products, ideas, talent, and a lot more from any corner of the world. In fact, as a result of the evolving global business scenario, the rate of expansion for ventures has also […]
(Photo courtesy: Matt Reinbold) It’s not easy for applicants to talk to Indian b-schools to ask for admissions-related information, something we discovered during a little experiment we did this month. Between July 4 and July 15, 2013, we posed as applicants and asked simple admissions-related queries to top 20 Indian b-schools (as per the PaGaLGuY […]
The classrooms at the School of Management and Labour Studies at the Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS) Mumbai will have a different look to them this year. According to information provided by Bino Paul, professor and chairperson, Centre for Human Resources Management and Labour Relations, the proportion of both non-engineers and women in the […]
Sandip Soparrkar and his wife (dancer and model) Jesse Randhawa Sandip Soparrkar, one of India’s most popular western dancers is not willing to disclose ‘when’ he graduated from Symbiosis Institute of Business Management (SIBM), Pune. He simply says it was years ago. But what he is willing to share, is that he did not take […]
A Supreme Court (SC) ruling on April 25, 2013 could have long term implications on the business education regulatory landscape of India. The court, hearing a petition filed by a group comprising the Association of Management of Private Colleges and some Tamil Nadu-based private institutes, has taken away MBA (not PGDM) and MCA courses in […]
(Photo courtesy: neubie) MBA applicants have more reason to worry this year. If the increasing costs of application, exam fees and tuition of business schools were not enough to break you into a sweat, get prepared to pay atleast 10-15% more for test preparation this year, no matter what part of the country. At Career […]
The buzz inside b-schools this year is, that 2013 is the worst placement season Indias MBA programs have ever seen, worse than 2009 even. We are trying to reason this years peculiarly startling results of the PaGaLGuY B-school Rankings survey in that context, and need your help further. Never before in the five years of […]
Photo credit: pasukaru76 (www.flickr.com) Padaki Sagar Shrinivas, a 24-year old aspirant from Mumbai has secured the second rank in February 2013 Common Management Admission Test (CMAT). Extremely happy with his score, Sagar said that a single minded approach and a well-placed strategy keeping in mind the structure of the CMAT paper is what helped him […]
Photo courtesy: kevin dooley (www.flickr.com) In the second part of this series, PaGaLGuY drills down the number of seats as well as the fees structure of the b-schools, other than Indian Institute of Management (IIMs), ranked 1-25 according to the PaGaLGuY b-school rankings 2012. Amongst the major changes, as reported by PaGaLGuY earlier, XLRI, Jamshedpur […]
Symbiosis Centre for Management and Human Resource Development (SCMHRD) If you are attending the Group Exercise-Personal Interview (GE-PI) process at Symbiosis Centre for Management and Human Resource Development (SCMHRD) this year, it would pay to know your cartoons as much as it would to know about the Syrian conflict! The institute, which has abolished essays […]