Book Review: Malaysia: Challenges and Perspectives by Fore School of Management
The book was inaugurated by His Excellency Dato Naimun Ashakli Bin Mohammad,HonbleHigh Commissioner of Malaysia to India. Mr R C Sharma, President, FORE; Dr Jitendra K. Das, Director, FORE and Dr Hitesh Arora, Chairman (Publication, Research and Seminars), FORE shared the dais with the chief guest.
Trends in CAT Exam; Still in Evolution process; impact will be on CAT 2014 test takers
No MBA entrance test has gone through so many perceptible changes as CAT which opens the gates to IIMs and other top rated B schools. Admission in 6 more proposed IIMs, going to start functioning in 2015, will be through CAT 2014. Its going to substantially increase the intake in IIMs in 2015. This is the reason that despite these changes and surprises, varying number of questions, changing pattern and composition, CAT has always been the aspirants most favourite of all the MBA/PGDM entrance tests conducted in the country.
XAT 2015: How different will it be from CAT 2014?
Despite being a preferred management entrance test in India XAT 2015 will be much different from CAT in many ways. Candidates preparing for XAT 2015, have to understand the key differences and proceed accordingly in their preparation strategy.
How and When to finalize your CAT 2014 Registration; No amendment after submission
Once you click on Submit button and pay the fee, you will not be allowed to carry out any amendment in your CAT 2014 Registration and application forms. Numbers of modifications have been incorporated in the registration and testing pattern in CAT 2014. 56 days Registration window for CAT 2014 got opened at 10 AM on August 6, 2014 which will continue till 11.59 PM on September 30, 2014. MBAUniverse.com has already shared with the aspirants the step wise registration process for CAT 2014 http://www.mbauniverse.com/article/id/7851/CAT-2014-Registration-open
Cases from IIMA, MDI, SPJIMR, TAPMI win ISB-Ivey competition
The second prize and special category prizes were bagged by teams from Management Development Institute (MDI) Gurgaon, SP Jain Institute of Management & Research, Mumbai and T.A. Pai Management Institute Manipal.
The annual competition is held jointly by the Centre for Teaching, Learning, and Case Development(CTLC) at theIndian School of Business (ISB) and Ivey Business School, Western University, Canada. In total, 109 entries from more than 50 institutions in India and around the world participated in the contest.
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.