For those who fail to make it to the famed IIMs or other premier management institutes, IIM-Calcutta has plans to offer quality online courses to more than 5,000 students in the coming years.
In his representation to the Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, the Gujarat chief minister Narendra Modi submitted a memorandum on long pending issues of the state.
The institute has revised fees for the one year post graduate programme for executives by five per cent as well.
The Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad would start the summer placements for the post graduate programme (PGP) batch 2010-12 from November 12, according to a release from the institute. The institute has decided to modify the basic process to include the cohort-based system used in the final placement process for the PGP batch 2008-10 in March.
Pagalguy speaks to a few candidates who have taken the CAT in the latest 'computerised' avatar both years.
Most of the Indian-origin CEOs and top executives, who have taken up blogging, are associated with Information Technology and internet sectors, a study conducted by the Indian Institute of Management-Ahmedabad (IIM-A) has said.
A study conducted by the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad has said that it is time for the premier B-school to study from the Indian diamond industry, lessons 'of its rise, recession and recovery'.
Best-selling author Chetan Bhagat's fourth book '2 States: The Story of My Marriage', is semi-autobiographical. Here, an excerpt.
Nearly half of the India Inc's professionals in chief executive role hail from the country's elite institutes -- IIT and IIM, a study says.
Final placements at IIM-Ahmedabad start this Saturday, while IIM-Indore and IIM-Lucknow will begin the process next week. IIM-Bangalore (IIM-B) and IIM-Calcutta (IIM-C) will start their final placements from March 4.
The research output of ISB stands out clearly, giving it an edge over the IIMs.
Titled Uyyala Jampala, the film is set to release in December.
Ram Mohan, an engineer and an IIM-A graduate has dabbled in investment, stock broking, entrepreneurship, media till he turned a film producer with Ashta Chamma.
The technical glitches that marred the country's first online CAT have done more than inconvenience students. They have left the convenor, Satish Deodhar, taking the blame and dented the image of premier IIMs.
After supplying Micro Electrical Mechanical System-based (MEMS-based) Inertial Navigation System to the Navy and the Airforce, Whirlybird Electronics, the co-incubated company of Indian Institute Management, Ahmedabad (IIM-A), is looking for markets in the automation and automobile industry.
The scam-hit Satyam Computer founder B Ramalinga Raju, brother Rama Raju and ex-chief financial officer Srinivas are in 'protective custody', former Securities and Exchange Board of India chief M Damodaran said in Ahmedabad on Saturday.
Banks are coming up with innovative products to attract B-school aspirants. Take your pick...
"A small hardware placed at the location will ensure that 100 metres around the area becomes the bluetooth hotspot, where people get an alert about promotional offers in the surrounding retail environment. The applications could be audio or video images, which can be downloaded and shown at the counter to avail of the discounts claimed by the message," says Gautam Jayaraman, head of sales at Value First.
For those mulling their first job offer and wondering if they are being paid right, here is a website that could give an indication.
Deepak Satwalekar, managing director and CEO, HDFC Standard Life Insurance, confirmed that the company would be hitting the capital market very soon. Satwalekar said that the company was planning an IPO and its nitty gritty was yet to be sorted out.
The Indian economic growth story is being reflected on B-school campuses too.
For executives who quit their cushy jobs to do a one-year post-graduate programme in management at reputed management schools, it could be a problem of plenty, with placement offers pouring in two months before their course comes to an end.
Four engineering graduates chucked high-paying offers to start a business of their own.
Across top 20 management campuses, the average salary offered this year is about 22 per cent more than what was offered last year said a report prepared by MBAUniverse.com. Among the institutes surveyed, IIM-A saw the biggest salary hike of 30 per cent, while Indian School of Business (ISB) witnessed a jump of about 19 per cent. The average domestic salary of the IIM-A graduates stood at Rs 18.75 lakh per annum. Banking and financial services were the biggest recruiters.
His first Telugu film, Grahanam fetched Indraganti Mohan Krishna 11 awards including the Indira Gandhi Award for the Best First Film by a director. The National and Gollapudi Srinivas award-winning director then made his second film, Maya Bazar. Now, the filmmaker is ready with his latest film, Ashta Chamma (the original version of the game ludo). Well, the title is a metaphoric one though there are references to the game.
Though the banking and financial services sector has been ruling the campus so far, many students have opted to wear the entrepreneurial hat too.
Students who appeared for CAT 2006 will be able to access their full score by logging into the IIM-A website.
Will the fee hikes announced by India's six IIMs affect deserving students? Will you now put your IIM plans on hold?
The premier Indian Institutes of Management will have to draw on all their management skills to solve the current financial imbroglio they are in. On the one hand, the fee hike by IIM Ahmedabad and IIM Bangalore has caused heartburn not only among students and the Union Human Resource Development Ministry but also among the other IIMs who say they were not consulted despite an existing agreement to do so. IIM-A and IIM-B have said that a fee hike is a prerogative of their own
Dispelling rumours about reduced hiring due to the sub-prime crisis, investment banks were once again the most preferred recruiters at the Indian Institutes of Management. At IIM Ahmedabad, 35.9 per cent of the students opted to take up their two-month internships with I-Banks, whereas 19 per cent of students took up the same at IIM Bangalore.
As the MPC is mandated to target CPI inflation rate at 4 plus minus 2 per cent, any measurement error in CPI is likely to have grave consequences for monetary policy.
IIMs have categorically asked the government not to interfere in their internal affairs so that they can smoothly carry out their work of making IIMs a global brand on par with the big B schools like Harvard and Wharton.
Their success stories will inspire you too.
The prestigious Indian Institute of Managements in various parts of the country are facing shortage of faculty members with some having a short fall of 15 members or above.
Post-Moily, the debate is about how the IIMs' quality is likely to suffer. Yet, good US B-schools have a lot more students and a lot better research.
The average lateral domestic salary increased 52 per cent to Rs 16.13 lakh a year.
After being invited by IIM-A to lecture on the turnaround of the loss-making railways, Railway Minister Lalu Prasad and his management techniques will be the subject of a new book.
'What is forgotten but is actually as important for a society's long run success is morality.' 'Morals and trust are the nuts and bolts of an economy.' 'Without those you can get short run success, but not long-run development.'
JAM editor and Get Ahead columnist Rashmi Bansal says the first step is to find something you enjoy doing.
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