A light-hearted look at life at IIM Lucknow.
The recent controversy over faculty pay at the IITs and IIMs suggests that they need to radically reorient themselves as academic institutions
The driver of slain IIM professor Amrita Panchal was on Tuesday taken into custody by the Madhya Pradesh Police in connection with her murder. Anil Patel was questioned on Monday night for his alleged role in the murder and was taken into custody today morning, said the police. Panchal, 32, was killed on the night of December 17 at her official residence inside the high-security campus at Rau. She was attacked with sharp-edged weapons and was stabbed nearly a dozen times.
From the free rider who does things at his own place to the Kotler derivative who lives by the rules, meet the specimens you can bump into at IIM-Ahmedabad
President, Student Exchange Cell, Prof Shailendra Singh said on Friday that the 45 students going abroad will not only act as brand ambassadors of IIM Lucknow but also promote India's culture, ethos and values.
The CAT results have been declared, but candidates are still left with a lot of unanswered questions. Here's why.
Regular recruiters such as Deutsche Bank, HSBC Global Research, Standard Chartered Bank, Axis Bank, Yes Bank, FuturesFirst, Johnson and Johnson, ITC, Deloitte Innovation, Knightfrank, Larsen and Toubro, Jindal Steel and Power Corporation, Infosys and CTS among others continued their relationship with the institute this year also.
In its latest annual report, IIM-A has said it generated a net surplus of Rs 6.83 crore (Rs 68.3 million) for fiscal 2010-11 against an operating loss of Rs 50.49 lakh (Rs 5.04 million) in 2009-10, and Rs 6.33 crore (Rs 63.3 million) in 2008-09.
A couple of days earlier, IIM Ahmedabad said it would hike the fees for its two-year PGP course.
Early this week, we published the results of Business Today's top 10 b-schools in India which surprised many as IIM-A, the top-ranker according to many such surveys had lost its prime position. Here's the list of top 15 business schools based on Outlook magazine's survey results. Interestingly, this survey leads the list of top b-schools with IIM-A. Read on...
The Indian Institute of Management (IIM), Ahmedabad on Monday said it will go ahead with the admission process for the 2007 batch without providing for 27 per cent reservation for OBCs in the wake of the Supreme Court order.
During its summer placements in 2006, six start-up companies had visited the IIM-A campus for the first time, of which six students had interned with them.
... And what explains the directions of change? asks Ajit Balakrishnan.
The Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad has decided not to hike the fees for its post-graduate programmes for the academic year 2005-06 being conducted at the institute, IIM (A) director Bakul Dholakia said in Ahmedabad on Saturday.
The Delhi battlefield may not be a cakewalk for the Rhodes Scholar.
Three years after India declared its goal to become a net-zero economy by 2070, the policy design for achieving the target has begun, with the NITI Aayog forming dedicated multi-sectoral committees to prepare a transition plan. In 2021, India joined a select group of nations that set a target year for becoming net-zero carbon economy. At COP26 in Glasgow, Prime Minister Narendra Modi outlined a five-pronged 'Panchamitra' climate action target for India and committed to a net-zero target by 2070, joining nations like the US, the UK, and China.
The six Indian Institutes of Management will also start more courses from the coming academic year.
Aiming at nurturing management leaders in the energy sector, Indian Oil Corporation on Friday signed a MoU with the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad
We asked experts who gave the CAT 2011 exam on the first day to give us a detailed analysis of the new pattern. Here, expert Naveenan Ramachandran of 2IIM shares his views about the exam.
Dr Samir Barua, director, IIM Ahmedabad suggests that b-schools in our country must pool their resources and conduct placements collectively to ensure employability of its graduates.
The annual results of Business Today's best b-schools of India for 2011-12 are out. IIM-Bangalore outpaced IIM-Ahmedabad's number one ranking after a record 10 years. Read on to know the top 10 business schools of India.
The Rs 400,000-increase, applicable from this session, comes a year after the increase in fee by other IIMs. IIM-C is also increasing its need-based scholarship fund and stipend for research scholars.
Working tirelessly even on his last day, Dr APJ Abdul Kalam had planned a surprise assignment for the students of IIM Shillong on finding innovative ways to end disruption in Parliament.
The music composer, along with Dhanush, gave a lecture at the prestigious management college.
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.
Toeing the line of other IIMs, Indian Institute of Management-Lucknow on Wednesday decided to charge Rs 130,000 per annum as tuition this year and announced a fee waiver to students whose family income is below Rs 200,000 a year.
General Insurance Corporation plans to tap professional institutions like Indian Institute of Technology and Indian Institute of Management for young managers after cutting flab through a voluntary retirement scheme in the next fiscal.
Coal India Ltd, Steel Authority of India Ltd, Bharat Heavy Electrical Ltd and Oil and Natural Gas Corporation were among the 15 top PSUs, which went about head hunting at the IIM-L. CIL and SAIL recruited 12 students each. "Out of the total of 267 IIM-L students graduating this year, PSUs recruited 65 students," IIM-L Placements Chairman Sushil Kumar told the media in Lucknow.
The options include doing away with Day Zero and reducing placement fees. Day Zero is the name given to the day placements begin at the IIMs. Day Zero and Day One are reserved for top companies and placement fees are higher on these days. In good times, most students are placed on these days, leaving the smaller companies to return empty-handed.
The recently-concluded lateral placement process at IIM-B saw the emergence of management consultants as the preferred choice for more than 55 per cent offers.
The IIM's new centre in Trichy, the 11th in the country, would commence operations from the academic year starting June.
...followed by financial services, IT, and sales and marketing.
The mood at the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad (IIM-A) is festive, with one of its alumnii, Raghuram Rajan taking over as the next Reserve Bank of India (RBI) governor.
