Urgent need to Internationalize Indian B-Schools: Dr Rama Velamuri, CEIBS, Shanghai
In this hard-hitting address, Dr Velamuri spoke on the urgent need for Indian B-schools to Internationalize. Dr Velamuri also wrote a column for MBAUniverse.com on this theme, below. The columns is a wake-up call for IIMs and other top tier B-schools, who are pioneers in India but are laggards compared to their Asian peers.
Internationalizing Indian B-Schools
By Dr Rama Velamuri, CEIBS, Shanghai
Former Kellogg & INSEAD Dean Dr Dipak C. Jain named Director of Sasin Thailand
Well known for making Kellogg School of Management as Worlds No 1 MBA School, most recently, Dr Jain was The INSEAD Chaired Professor of Marketing, and served as Dean of INSEAD, based in Fontainebleau, France, from 2011-2013. Earlier, was the Dean of the Kellogg School of Management of Northwestern University from 2001-2009, where he had been a faculty member since 1986.
IIFT 2015: Quant, DI, LR to have maximum weightage; English and GK to follow
A number of approximately 55 thousand candidates are expected to compete for IIFT 2015-16 MBA(IB) admission. Indian Institute of Foreign Trade (IIFT) will conduct the entrance test for its Delhi and Kolkata campuses in 20 cities across India for admission session 2015-16 on Sunday, November 23, 2015. The conventional paper pencil mode test will be of two hours duration from 10.00 A.M. to 12.00 Noon.
Kshitij & Finomics at XIMB focus on HR Analytics and Regulations & Politics
Xavier Institute of Management, Bhubaneswar, (XIMB) conducted its Annual HR Summit, Kshitij 2014 and National Level Finance Summit, Finomics14 on August 17, 2014. The topic of the panel discussion for Kshitij was HR Analytics: The Next Frontier for Workplace Transformation and for Finomics, it was Impact of Regulations and Politics on Indian Financial Markets and Its Future Challenges.
CAT 2014 New exam pattern demo: When do IIMs plan to make it live
It is going to be a month since CAT 2014 notification has been out on July 27, 2014 but despite carrying out a bundle of changes in proposed CAT 2014, to be held on November 16 and 22, 2014, there is no murmur from CAT convening IIM Indore when they propose to launch the CAT 2014 practice test on CAT site.
Time Factor in CAT 2014 New pattern; 5 important things to meet the expectation
Going to appear in CAT 2014 with hard and meticulous preparation based on past trends! Well, sure march on. But CAT 2014 proposes to move away from the past pattern and the test will be coming to you with many changes in its pattern.
CAT 2014 five big challenges and their expert solutions; no need to panic
CAT 2014 has brought many changes and challenges for the aspirants and more may be in stock to appear in due course but before the exam. CAT 2014 site still remains unfolded on various issues and an uncertain situation of what next is there in CAT 2014 store continues to persist among the aspirants.
IIM Calcutta becomes first IIM to earn AACSB Accreditation
AACSB congratulates Indian Institute of Management Calcutta and Director Prof. Saibal Chattopadhyay on earning accreditation, and we welcome them into the family of AACSB-accredited business schools, said Robert D. Reid, executive vice president and chief accreditation officer of AACSB International.
IMC Award 2014 Winners Case-study: How TAPMI increased its applications in a slowdown
TAPMI Manipal won the IMC Silver Award 2014 for its initiative titled Experience TAPMI. The initiative highlighted how TAPMI has managed to grow applications to its PGDM program for Admissions 2014, when most other B-schools were struggling to meet even their last years numbers.
MBAUniverse.com presents the highlights from Experience TAPMI Initiative. This detailed Case-study, along with all IMC Award Winners & Finalists, will be published as a book by global publishing company McGraw Hill in September.
Excerpts from TAPMI Case-study:
XAT 2015: 7 Steps of Registration; fill up the information with patience
XAT 2015 to be conducted by XLRI on behalf of XAMI, is proposed to be conducted on January 4, 2015, the first Sunday of New year of 2015. XLRI has been conducting Xavier Aptitude Test (XAT) for the last 60 years at All India level. XAT is aimed to select the most appropriate candidates who wish to pursue management education. Apart from XLRI, XAT scores will be used by 11 member institutes and 123 other B schools apart from XLRI as the criteria for admission to MBA/PGDM programmes for 2015-17 batch.
How to Register and apply for XAT 2015; know the steps