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  • Best Indian B-Schools for HR Professionals

    Best Indian B-Schools for HR Professionals

    Each time an interviewer, with his self-assured attitude and a smirk on his face, spills out the words, “So, where do you see yourself five years from now”, I undergo a dire craving to retort with, “In your chair!” I am sure each one of you can relate to me at the moment. While we…

  • So you wanna go to B-School? An informal timeline to help you through the process

    So you wanna go to B-School? An informal timeline to help you through the process

    One of the hardest things to gauge in the business school application process is knowing when to get started. When it’s all fun and sun over the summer, it doesn’t seem like those round 1 deadlines in October and November are going to come around any time soon. Similarly, when there are so many good…

  • How to Get into the Top MBA Programs

    How to Get into the Top MBA Programs

    As everyone will tell you, if you don’t know already, How to Get into the Top MBA Programs is more or less the bible of getting into business school. Richard Montauk, the author, runs an admissions consulting firm and has written books on college and law school admissions as well. The most common criticism leveled…

  • GMAT 101

    The GMAT is the Graduate Management Admission Test, a standardized test used by business schools as a measure of an applicant’s academic ability. Schools require applicants to take the GMAT and submit their scores in order to be considered for admission to M.B.A. and other business-oriented degree programs. The GMA T is a computerized test;…

  • Indian Institute of Management Calcutta

    Since its inception in November 1961 as the first national institute for Post-Graduate studies and Research in Management, Indian Institute of Management Calcutta (IIMC) has created a niche among the Ivy League B-schools, world over. Established in collaboration with Alfred P. Sloan School of Management (MIT), the Government of West Bengal, The Ford Foundation and…