Saturday, July 19, 2008

Mukesh Ambani to bring international faculty in IIM

Mumbai: Mukesh Ambani, Chairman and Managing Director of Reliance Industries, has expressed interest to foot the salary bills of international faculty at the Indian Institute of Management (IIM), Bangalore, reported Business Standard.

At the institute's recent board meeting, Ambani, who is on the governing board of the premier IIM, insisted that the institute recruit international faculty to attain a world class standard, said a source. However the institute could also approach the board members to raise funds for the purpose....

For more : Silicon India

NoeL

Sunday, July 6, 2008

GMAC Vs ScoreTop.com Scandal

Guys,

If you are a GMAT aspirant, the following news will be important for you.

www.scoretop.com, a website that was providing online study materials for GMAT was sued by Graduate Management Admission Council (GMAC), the owners of GMAT. Scoretop, through their VIP membership, was supposedly distributing copyrighted material of GMAC.

The U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia has issued a default judgment awarding the damages in the amount of $2.3 million, attorneys’ fees, court costs, and other relief in a copyright infringement case brought by GMAC against Lei Shi and other operators of the U.S.-based web site known as Scoretop.com.

GMAC goes on to say "... if individuals have violated its testing policies through their participation in Scoretop. Violators may have their GMAT scores canceled, and business schools will be notified of those cancellations..."

So, if anyone among you have/had subscribed to the VIP Membership at www.scoretop.com, be careful. Also, praying to all the known Gods will be a good idea.

More on this can be read at the links below.

NoeL

Trivia: The famous 1000 series (1000SC, 1000RC, 1000CR) used by many for preparing for GMAT was compiled and distributed by www.scoretop.com

Friday, July 4, 2008

An interesting Calculator!

Guys!

Check out the link below. This tells you what your chances are for making it into the various B-Schools in the world. What you need to enter there is your CGPA out of 4 and your GMAT score.

Are your GMAT scores competitive?

If only getting into a B-School was this easy...!!

NoeL

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