In the first-ever collaboration between an Indian and European institute, premier business school IIM-Ahmedabad on Friday signed an agreement with French business School ESSEC for double degree programme for a limited number of select students.
On September 18 this year, Prasad would be delivering a lecture to management students and the faculty at IIM-A, explaining finer points of the Indian Railways 'turnaround,' which earned a profit of Rs 15,000 crore (Rs 150 billion) in 2005-06.
The Indian Institute of Management Bangalore has announced that the Common Admission Test (CAT) of the Indian Institutes of Management is going to be a Computer Based Test (CBT) from this year onwards.
Faculty of top academic institutions like the Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs), the Indian Institutes of Management (IIMs), and central universities say the Sixth Pay Commission's recommendations do not have a direct bearing on their compensation levels. The new pay structure of assistant professors, associate professors and professors will be finalised by an internal committee of the Ministry of Human Resource Development, which would take a couple of months at least.
The transcript of the CAT analysis chat with Rakesh Kumar and Munish Kumar of Top Careers And You.
We asked readers about what they think of the union HRD ministry's proposal to levy an exit tax on IIT and IIM graduates who go to work abroad for lucrative salaries or to pursue higher studies. Here's the readers' response on the subject.
The number of companies invited sees a 50 per cent jump over last year.
India Inc may be on a mad rush to pick up independent directors, but there is a long queue of professionals waiting to take up the challenging job. \nAs many as 2,738 professionals, including high profile IIM, IISc and IIT graduates, have enrolled th
The Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore, announced on Tuesday it was entering into a partnership with Hughes Escorts Communication Ltd to offer a host of long term programmes to working executives.
CIIE Initiatives, a non-profit company set up by the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad's incubator-cum-angel investor, the Centre for Innovation, Incubation and Entrepreneurship (CIIE), is in talks with the central government and private organisations for establishing a renewable energy (RE) fund.
Although the BJP has never been ballistic about the BJD and Narendra Modi has avoided being critical of Naveen Patnaik, the BJP is optimistic that the party can improve its electoral fortunes in Odisha on its own, notes Rup Narayan Das.
Human Resource Development Minister Arjun Singh has called a meeting of the directors and the chairmen of all the six premier Indian Institutes of Management on May 31.
The Delhi Daredevils, IPL's Delhi team which is owned by the GMR Group, has recruited a student of the Postgraduate Programme in Public Policy and Management (PGP-PMP) from the institute to manage its operations. Colonel Vinod Bisht, the student, has been hired as assistant vice-president (operations) for the company for a Rs 30-40 lakh package.
When Samir K Barua took over as the director of the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad (IIM-A) in November 2007, he had listed knowledge creation, hiring and retention of faculty members and increasing contacts with the industry as his priority work areas. Four months on, Barua is planning a number of initiatives in the upcoming academic year towards achieving his objectives.
The Shunglu committee, which went into the financial needs of the Indian Institutes of Management, is understood to have backed the drastic fee reduction mooted by Human Resources Development Minister Murli Manohar Joshi.
The annual event attracts a vast number of delegates from industry, academia and policy areas from beyond the 700-strong alumni network of India's top business schools -- the six Indian Institutes of Management.
'I tell those in their 20s that age is on their side and they should start exercising early.' 'Just like investing in good stocks, if they start early, they will get the multiplier effects of being healthy, fit and strong later in life.'
Academy award winning musician Resul Pookutty attempted to drive home the importance of respect, labour, skill, art and inventiveness in achieving success in today's dynamic world.
Business Today in partnership with MDRA has released the results of the top 100 business schools in India. We bring you the top 10 schools as per their findings.
Consistent practice is crucial for retaining math concepts and formulas, says rediffGURU CAT expert Ashish Sood.
In response to our 'Life After CAT' series, Get Ahead reader Saurabh Uboweja narrates his journey from being the 'first' person in Bhopal to get calls from 6 IIMs after the CAT exam and the challenges he faced as he ventured into entrepreneurship. Read on.
The human resources development ministry has decided to set up an Indian Institute of Management in the North East mainly to cater to the students of the region.
The premier management institute, Indian Institute of Management-Bangalore, is in a bind. It had asked for Rs 114 crore (Rs 1.14 billion) to build infrastructure to accommodate additional students under the OBC quota.
A bench comprising Justices Arijit Pasayat and L S Panta delivered the verdict on a batch of petitions filed by various organisations and individuals challenging the decision as being unconstitutional.
According to sources close to the development, the government is shortlisting the states where the new IITs and IIMs will be set up. The states will be selected on the basis of their economic and social status.
In the latest rankings for masters in management released by Financial Times, the country's premier management institute has slipped eight places down and is ranked at Number 18.
In 2008-09, all students from the PGPX batch were recruited by June. The batch of 2009-10 was expected to follow suit.
Practise a mock test every two to three days. Don't start learning or attempting anything new, advises rediffGURU and CAT expert Aashish Sood.
Software and training organisation NIIT Ltd has tied up with one of country's leading business school, Indian Institute of Management-Calcutta to offer 'Executive Development' programmes through virtual classrooms.
This semds a signal that reservation for OBCs (Other Backward Classes) in elite educational institutions might not be implemented at one go.
Kolkata software engineer who scored a perfect 100 percentile in CAT 2011 says that he is looking forward to he wants to be an investment banker and will join IIM-Calcutta because it is the best management institute to study finance.
It is for the first time that students of PGPX, a one-year programme that targets young industry executives with an average work experience of 7 to 9 years, has got such offers. Last year, a PGPX student had broken all records by receiving the highest job offer of over Rs 1 crore (Rs 10 million).
The Supreme Court will go into the IIM fee cut issue as the government has declined to give a written undertaking not to interfere with the autonomy of the management schools.
