Gone are the days when coaching centres threw a party just a day or two before the D-day to de-stress CAT takers. Or, when they handed over free tickets of a latest Bollywood flick or had a movie screening inside the coaching centre to lessen the anxiety associated with CAT. With the CAT testing window, […]

An interesting bit of information came to light during our conversation with the IIFT Registrar yesterday. The Indian Institute of Foreign Trade (IIFT), which has its campuses at New Delhi and Kolkata too would have made its entrance test computer-based had it not been for the collapse of the system during the controversial CAT 2009. […]

The official notification for applying to the Indian Institutes of Foreign Trade, Delhi and Kolkata is already out. The first step of the admission process is the written test which will be held on November 28, 2010. The shortlisted candidates from the test will appear for a group discussion and personal interview Here are some […]

Registration is open for the IIFT Entrance Test 2010 which will be held on November 28, 2010. And while we are at it, the Symbiosis SNAP will be held on December 19, 2010. Both test days are Sundays. IIFT Entrance Test 2010 Now that the IIMs have frozen the October 27 to November 23 period […]

This year, the Common Admissions Test (CAT) will begin in October, a month earlier than the usual November-end. How does an early CAT 2010 affect your preparation? Here are the top 5 repercussions and predictions. 1. Lesser prep time – Preparation time has been reduced by a whole month. Which means that you will have […]

The country’s one of its kind meet for top b-schoolers, MBA aspirants and MBA alumni is back! Two days of fun, music, networking, theater, sports and more with the best posters of PaGaLGuY, next to a pretty beach on the outskirts of Mumbai. On May 22 and 23, 2010 at Arnala Beach, Mumbai. Entry by […]

Dressed in shorts and a crumpled white t-shirt and sitting coyly in his apartment in Dombivali, on the outskirts of Mumbai, Shashank Prabhu looks more like the teenager next door who you’d see rushing to his tuition classes. But once he begins to speak, the confidence and command of a topper are quite evident. Prabhu […]

The combined placements for the Indian Institute of Foreign Trade’s (IIFT) Delhi and Kolkata campuses concluded with 161 students of MBA (International Business) 2008-10 batch receiving jobs across 62 companies. Of the 164-strong batch, 114 students belonged to the Delhi campus and 60 to the Kolkata campus. Three students opted out of the placements. The […]

IIM Calcutta to introduce ‘Citi Woman Leader Award’ ISBs initiative for Indian B School Faculty SP Jain’s students selected for 40th St. Gallen Symposium Rajdeep Sardesai Addresses TAPMI Fraternity Finale of Unleash the CEO within you held at EASB, Pune IIM Calcutta to introduce ‘Citi Woman Leader Award’ for meritorious women students Indian Institute of […]

(This article is based on the National Rankings list of the PaGaLGuY B-school Rankings, 2010.) The years 2008 and 2009 made business schools extremely vulnerable to the same market forces that they had been training managers to deal with. In many ways, the PaGaLGuY B-school Rankings 2010 mirror the performances of b-schools during the economic […]