With 17 per cent market share in the Indian mobile market, Samsung Mobile plans to add another six to seven per cent market share this year.
Industry majors keen to hire freshers based on their performance during summer internships.
In 2008-09, all students from the PGPX batch were recruited by June. The batch of 2009-10 was expected to follow suit.
A large number of management schools in the country have begun outsourcing the process of student placements to human resource consultants. Traditionally, B-schools have an in-house placement team, headed by a faculty member. Several B-schools, on condition of anonymity, confirmed they had hired HR consultancies to find jobs for their students. Many of them also plan to have the agencies help out with placing their students as interns with companies.
In 2010, those armed with an MBA degree and one-two years of work experience got the highest salary hikes
Uncertainty may shroud their deemed status with the apex court yet to deliver its final verdict. However, admissions to nearly 50 per cent of deemed universities blacklisted by the Ministry of Human Resources and Development (MHRD) are on in full swing.
To re-connect with its consumers who have moved up the economic ladder in the last few years, Cafe Coffee Day (CCD), India's largest cafe retail chain, will soon reveal a new look for its lounge outlets. The company plans to convert its existing lounges into the new design and set up 50 new lounge outlets by the end of this financial year.
The Rs 30,000-crore consumer durables market is expected to rake in more money this summer on the back of rising mercury levels.
PVR Ltd., the retail entertainment company, is planning to open 500 screens across the country in three years. For this financial year, the company plans to open 60 screens in cities including Surat, Kochi, Pune, Bhopal, Vijaywada, Mysore, New Delhi and Jalandhar.
The India-born global management guru not only helped companies but also MBA students and faculty to think laterally.
A year after its split with Britannia, the French dairy major is betting big on milk products. But the task ahead is tricky
A couple of days earlier, IIM Ahmedabad said it would hike the fees for its two-year PGP course.
To ease the load on faculty members taking admission interviews for the post-graduate programme (PGP), the Indian Institute of Management-Bangalore (IIM-B), for the first time, will include alumni members as part of the interview panel.
The entrepreneurial bug does not appear to have bitten students at the Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad this year. So far, not even one student is believed to have opted out of the final placements process to start his own venture.
The IIMs were just recovering from the uproar over technical glitches during the CAT. Now, at least five students have filed applications under the right to information law.
At the Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore (IIM-B), where post-graduate programme (PGP) placement starts on March 4, a sense of anticipation and optimism is in the air.
Students who work in an NGO for a year, too, could get a part-waiver of their fees.
Whether it's colas, shoes, mobile connections or vehicles, the celebrity who endorses a product becomes the face of the brand.
Having witnessed a surge in the number of offers and average salaries as compared to 2009 -- a year marred by the impact of the global slowdown -- they believe the exuberance of 2008 would only return in 2011.
Institutes are seeing many first-time recruiters for lateral placements. Not only are they expecting more offers, but higher salaries, too.
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