Many European business schools saw a sharp rise in the number of experienced engineers and technical professionals opting to study an MBA between 2000 and 2003, followed by a slight drop in 2004 and a resumed increase in numbers in 2005. Kai Pieters, Director at Ashridge Business School and previously at Rotterdam School of Management, […]

What should be your key motivating factors for taking an MBA?What are your personal motivations for taking an MBA? Are you a career switcher, or a career progresser? Is a jump in salary what matters most, or do you seek international experience? Is your primary goal to broaden your education and your horizons, or to […]

SP Jain is known to send GD-PI calls to candidates even before the CAT is held. Why and how is it done? We do respect the CAT, which is an entry-level examination for the MBA education. However, how can you have the full idea about somebody’s potential using a two hour test? So we have […]

Speaking to more than a large audience, Prof. Basu expressed his optimism on the globalization of Indian economy and the prospects and challenges facing the Indian economy as it emerges into one of the fastest growing economies of the world. While applauding India’s efforts for development of professional education, he expressed his concern for the […]

Mr. Manish Gupta, Chief Technical Officer, IBM, the keynote speaker for the event, presented IBM’s perspective on the changing face of the Indian IT industry and its shift towards the higher-end of the value chain. He underscored the point by mentioning the role played by Indian engineers in developing ‘Blue Gene/L’: The Fastest Supercomputer. In […]

The workshop on Mortgage Based Securities was the second in a series of industry talks that Finance and Investment Club of IIM Calcutta is organizing this year. The previous workshop was conducted earlier this month by Dr L Sankar who is a Managing Director (Credit Quantitative Analysis group) at Citigroup, New York and an alumnus […]

“Years can teach what a day can never know”. In an effort to learn from the experiences of some of India’s most enlightened corporate personalities, Symbiosis Institute of Business Management is organizing a mega management conclave. ‘Summit SIBM’ will see the confluence of personalities from the fields of Human Resources, Marketing, Finance and Marketing Communications […]

Due to inclement weather, the convocation ceremony was held in National Insurance Academys Campus on June 18th,Sunday. The Convocation ceremony at NIA SOM signified the official conferral of degrees for all NIA SOM postgraduates. During the convocation NIA SOM acknowledged the individual achievements and recognized each student by name. The Chairman of Unit Trust of […]

A very common flaw on the GMAT, and in life, is the confusion of absolute numbers and percentages. For example, which is larger, one-third of x or one-half of y? Without any information to compare x and y, we cannot answer this question. It is true that one-half is larger than one-third when applied to […]

Every year, as part of its ongoing research project, TopMBA surveys nearly 4,000 aspiring MBAs to establish whether the issue of finance was likely to prove a barrier to study. The latest poll found that practically all had already looked seriously into how they would fund their time at business school and a wide variety […]