IIM Calcutta, IIM Ahmedabad, IIM Bangalore, IIM Indore, IIM Kozhikode and IIM Lucknow have declared the results of the Common Admission Test held on November 20. \n
Banking and finance companies, whose dismal performance in late 2008 caused panic among students and faculty members of the premier Indian Institutes of Management, are making up this year with better profiles and stipends.
In an exclusive online chat with readers on November 16, CAT 2010 topper Vidit Agarwal from Indian Institute of Management-Lucknow addressed reader queries related to cracking CAT and also guided aspirants on the way ahead. For those who missed the live chat, here's the unedited transcript.
There are reports that the government will soon cut income taxes by about Rs 50,000 crore to boost consumption.
Prime Minister Modi, I suggest that, instead, you distribute about one lakh crore rupees per year to the 80 crore poor, which will boost both consumption and economic growth, suggests Kalyan Singhal, McCurdy Professor of Business at the University of Baltimore.
Start-ups, especially the e-commerce players, are either staying away from these campuses or recruiting in much smaller numbers than last year
Seven students were made international offers.
Irrespective of demonetisation and GST blues, IIM Lucknow has been able to successfully place their batch of 459 students.
Some of the highest number of offers at IIM-A were made by Royal Bank of Scotland, Ernst & Young and Microsoft.
CAT began in 1984 and after 25 years of pen and paper mode, it moved to a computer-based test in 2009.
Former Indian Administrative Service (IAS) officer M G Devasahayam, who was one of the signatories to the representation on the credibility of electronic voting machines (EVMs), voter-verifiable paper audit trail (VVPAT) and the vote-counting process, had filed an application with the poll panel under the Right to Information (RTI) Act, seeking details of the action taken on it.
The B-school also witnessed new roles in the domain.
According to an Andhra government statement, Naidu 'reposed confidence' in the PM's leadership.
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.
While only the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad (IIM-A) has voiced its concerns so far, the company says it has done so due to the ongoing restructuring of its business
The Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad was ranked the best among 200 plus business schools that participated in the India Today survey.
Reliance ADAG, Tech Mahindra among top recruiters at IIM-A
This includes the power to select own directors and chairmen and pay the faculty as desired.
The new Indian Institutes of Management appear to be well on their way to a good start, thanks to the mentoring by their established predecessors, says Swati Garg.
IIM-A, other top B-schools moot IIT-like joint placement committee
Indian Institutes of Management (IIMs), specifically IIM-Ahmedabad (IIM-A), which have announced a steep hike in their fees last week are unlikely to revise (scale down) the new fee structures.Vijaypat Singhania, the chairman of the governing council of IIM-Ahmedabad who met Minister of Human Resource Development Arjun Singh, justified the fee hike and said they would take steps to ensure that all deserving students get into the premier institution.
The IIT-Bombay features on number 53 the top 100 for engineering while IIM-Bangalore finds a spot in the 101-150 category.
'I have realised that if we want to make a difference in global ranking, there has to be movement in a few dimensions, but it is a bit beyond us.' Outgoing IIM-A director Ashish Nanda discusses his tenure at the revered institute with Vinay Umarji.
Though the number of IIMs has gone up in the past two years -- from seven to 13 -- the pool of companies which these B-schools approach for placements, remains largely the same.
Studying at the Indian Institutes of Management (IIMs) is going to be costlier with IIM-Calcutta (IIM-C) and IIM-Ahmedabad (IIM-A) hiking fees.
Some have been cherry-picked to assert the BJP's supremacy over its allies or, significantly, its leaders who charted an independent course in the recent past.
Mangesh Zope, a student of Post Graduate Diploma in Management at IIM Calcutta finds time to pen down a few essential notes to CAT aspirants. Interestingly, he scribbled this while waiting for a train at Munich railway station. Read on.
Mangesh Zope, a student of Post Graduate Diploma in Management at IIM Calcutta finds time to pen down a few essential notes to CAT aspirants. Interestingly, he scribbled this while waiting for a train at Munich railway station. Read on.
They say degree or diploma doesn't make a difference anymore.
After months of uncertainty, IIM Ahmedabad has finally declared the dates for CAT 2009 and other information students have been seeking.
IIM-A will be offering six programmes that are blended or a mix of online and offline.
... And what explains the directions of change? asks Ajit Balakrishnan.
An alumnus of IIM-A from the 1983 batch, Nanda was a Robert Braucher Professor of Practice at Harvard Law School and later a Harvard Business School faculty member, before he took charge on September 2, 2013.
Companies now require more than just academic marks; they seek students with internship experience or extra certification courses.
Over 100 companies are expected to make offers to the 256 students who will graduate this year.
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