Articles in IIM Bangalore
(Photo credit: Alan Cleaver) In perhaps the most significant leap by any Indian Institute of Management (IIM) ever, IIM Indore this week announced a five-year integrated management degree which will admit students directly after class XII in school. A Times of India story reports that the total tuition fees for this fully residential ‘integrated PGP’ […]
(Photo credit: meddygarnet) Engineers continue to be the largest group in the 2-year MBA-equivalent PGP programs at the Indian Institutes of Management (IIMs). While IIM Bangalore’s class of 2013 will have 91.32% engineers, at IIM Calcutta’s batch comprises 95% engineers. The Times of India reports about IIM Bangalore that the new batch has 85 women […]
Until 2008 — before the Common Admission Test (CAT) became a computer-based test — a single year’s print order of the paper-pencil test’s information bulletins and question papers weighed more than 50 tonnes, recounts Prof Satish Deodhar, the Convener of the first computer-based CAT in 2009 and a professor at the Indian Institute of Management […]
We usually react in either of the two ways to a physically or mentally challenged person sympathize or ignore. Prem Kumar Ravi, presently a second year student at the Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta (IIM C) reacted differently. He helped. Even while struggling to get into an IIM himself, Prem decided that helping ‘others’ would […]
Among the only two few Padmashri recipients in the management education space, management guru Dr Pritam Singh, Director General of International Management Institute (IMI), Delhi is well-known for having hauled up the fortunes of the Indian Institute of Management (IIM), Lucknow and the Management Development Institute (MDI), Gurgaon during his tenures as their Director. This […]
Visual by Deanmeyersnet It is no secret that if entrance scores permit, many MBA hopefuls would seek admission only to those b-schools that offer the most lucrative placements. That an MBA degree in India, comes packaged with a job is understood. But not so in b-schools abroad, where students have to hunt for their jobs […]
In the volumes of b-school placement reports, one piece of statistics gets overshadowed by the numerical platitudes and eulogies. Mentioned mostly as an afterthought, it is about students who opt-out of the placements, to follow their calling and start their own businesses. PaGaLGuY speaks to some of these souls and learn their stories. M Vivekanandan, […]
Roughly between March and June, business schools carry a vacant look. The first-year-going-on-second-year MBA batch leaves for its summer internships to the corporate world whereas the faculty gets temporary relief from teaching and can concentrate on the other vital role incumbent on them — management research. This essential mandate of a b-school to pursue knowledge […]
(Photo credit: Luca Boldrini) Final admission results for India’s top business school have started pouring in since yesterday. XLRI School of Business and Human Resources The XLRI School of Business and Human Resources, Jamshedpur declared its final admissions list for the 2011-13 classes of Post Graduate Diploma programmes in Business Management and Human Resources Management, […]
In an effort to inculcate ‘social awareness’ in MBA students, Indian b-schools have been sending them on mandatory or optional stints to Non Governmental Organizations (NGOs). SP Jain Institute of Management and Research (SPJIMR), Mumbai, for instance, has a six-week compulsory stint while International Management Institute (IMI), Delhi has a three-week schedule in an NGO. […]