“The seats at IIM Shillong will be available through the common pool of CAT 2007 admissions,” he informed about the seventh IIM, which shall be called Rajiv Gandhi Indian Institute of Management (RGIIM), Shillong. “The special name was chosen on the collective wish of the governments of all north-eastern states,” he added. The institute will […]

How do you see Management Education and Business Schools emerging in Delhi and NCR in the next 10 years? There will be an IIM in Delhi/NCR Region. The focus will shift increasingly to executive PGDM and distance education with huge demand from emerging sectors. A few b-schools in Mumbai have been aggressively entering domain-based management […]

The IIM Calcutta notification in the CAT 2007 bulletin reads, “A candidate (including a reserved category candidate) to be shortlisted for GD and PI for admission to post-graduate programmes should obtain a minimum of 20%, 20% and 10% in ‘quantitative’, ‘logic and data interpretation’ and ‘verbal’ sections respectively.” IIM Calcutta’s Chairman of Admissions Prof Ashish […]

It seems that the absence of certain B-school names accepting the Common Admissions Test (CAT) scores in the online copy of the CAT bulletin released yesterday was assumed as a proof of their exit from the CAT system by a section of the media. Among others, SP Jain Institute of Management and Research, Mumbai and […]

The notifications of both these exams appeared in the newspapers today. Nearly 1.91 lakh students had appeared in CAT 2006 and the number is expected to cross 2 lakh this year. The CAT 2007 Examination Details are as below: Issue of CAT Bulletin by UTI/Vijaya Bank starts: July 16th 2007, MondayIssue of CAT Bulletin by […]

‘Shaping careers, building lives’, the organization’s vision, gives direction to every activity organized. Keeping the CAT aspirants as the primary focus, IMS, allows all the non-IMS students to take one of the SimCATs. The Open SimCAT is held across the country, at more than 100 venues, multiple venues for every test location. IMS picks up […]

In his inaugural address titled – “Challenges for Indian managers in the new globalized business scenario,” he shared his long standing experience in the field of management and urged the incumbent student managers at IMT-Nagpur to be ‘future-ready’. The ‘orientation program’, spanning over one week, is conducted by IMT-Nagpur every year to introduce the incumbent […]

IIM Ahmedabad has always been known as a general management school. But do you tailor your program to serve area-specific specialization? The starting point of students once they are in an IIM is more or less the same and first year of the program has courses, which allow them to evolve an overall perspective on […]

Congratulations! IIM Kozhikode is awesome. Which other B-school admits did you have this season and how many did you convert?I had calls from IIM Ahmedabad, Calcutta, Lucknow, Indore and Kozhikode and I managed to convert Kozhikode. I am on the waitlist for Indore but the campus at K is awesome! Besides I need to pay […]

Upset over Singh’s move to bulldoze them into delaying the admission till disposal of the HRD Ministry’s appeal in the Supreme Court, the IIM directors are understood to have approached Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and conveyed their “worries and disappointments.” Buckling under pressure, Singh took a U-turn within five hours of asserting that the IIMs […]