Articles in XLRI Jamshedpur
Prof Rakesh Godhwani of IIM-B and Prof Soumendra Bagchi of XLRI have recently published books. In a first of sorts, we got the professors to review each other’s books. Below is Prof Soumendra Bagchi’ review of Prof Godhwani’s book titled – Seek: Finding Your True Calling Rakesh Godhwani The book is a finely packed collection […]
Prof Rakesh Godhwani of IIM-B and Prof Soumendra Bagchi have recently published books. In a first of sorts, we got the professors to review each other’s books. Below is what Prof Rakesh Godhwani’s review of Prof Bagchi’s book titled – Election Campaign – A strategic theory. Prof Soumendra Bagchi Soumendra ‘s effort of writing on […]
I graduated from a reputed National Institute of Technology and joined a major automobile firm in 2010. I realised in few months that tech was not for me and decided to do an MBA . CAT 2011 was my first attempt. I prepared well but answered a few questions I unsure about. I wrote XAT […]
Photo Credit: Marian Institute of Health Care Management In jest, Fr Romuald D’Souza is often referred to as the founder of founders. After serving as director of XLRI Institute of Management, Jamshedpur and starting both, Xavier Institute of Management, Bhubaneshwar and Goa Institute of Management, this 88 year old now wants to start a wellness […]
The Xavier Aptitude Test (2014) paper will have a few minor changes. To begin with, GK will be made part of the main test and not a separate paper like last year, when it was introduced. This also means that the main test which was of a 2 hours and 20 minutes duration last year […]
(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 […]
(Photo: Peter Gibbons) India’s biggest lender State Bank of India (SBI) has slashed the education loan interest rate for premium b-schools to as low as 10.7%. Further, for students who have two years of work experience and add a parent or the spouse as co-borrower, the interest rate would be even lower at 9.95%. These […]
(Graphic by Sanjit Oberai) In the first part of this two-part series, we highlighted how executive MBA courses haven’t quite delivered to the expectations of the students pursuing them. In this second part, we take a look at what the b-schools have to say on the subject On placements… While the students we spoke to […]
We are less than two weeks away from the mother of all PaGaLGuY Meets, the All India PaGaLGuY Meet 2013. Of the roughly 100 passionate puys who will be attend the meet at Corinthians Resort and Club near NIBM at Kondhwa in Pune on June 1 and 2, 2013, we asked a few how their […]
XLRI Jamshedpur XLRI School of Business and Human Resources, Jamshedpur has completed its final placement for the batch of 2013 and publicised its placement report. A total of 255 offers (including 49 lateral and 65 pre-placement offers) were made by 70 companies, of which offers made by 69 companies were accepted by the 2013 batch […]