Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad is planning to hike fees for its one-year post-graduate programme in management for executives for the year 2007
As part of its new partnership with the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad (IIM-A), Columbia Business School is hosting 11 students from the former's Post Graduate Programme for Executives (PGPX) for one week of dedicated classes and industry visits.
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 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.
Axis Bank's chief talks of her stress-busters and brushes over the 'Chanda-Shikha' stories.
Despite the recent spate of glitches in the computer-based Common Admission Test (CAT) 2009, Satish Deodhar, convenor of CAT and Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad faculty, says that online CAT is here to stay.
A group of six IIM-A students proposed the idea of starting the helpline to former President A P J Abdul Kalam and IIM-A professor Anil Gupta, which was appreciated by them.
The BCG project, which is supported by the United Nations' World Food Programme, the government of India and the government of Orissa, involves scanning finger prints and the iris for preparing biometric cards for a population of around 1 million. Srijan Pal Singh, an IIM-A student, who is part of the project, says the biometric cards will be filtered through a super computer to avoid duplications.
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.
There are students with 10+ years of work experience who have done two-year full time MBA, says rediffGURU Patrick Dsouza.
The proposed bullet train will run between Mumbai and Ahmedabad.
The Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad (IIM-A) has finally agreed to set up a satellite campus near Hyderabad. The decision was taken at a board meeting of the premier B-school on June 24, according to government officials.
The IIM-A director said the Sixth Pay commission affected the institutes's resources severely.
The Indian Institute of Management-Ahmedabad on Thursday introduced a course specially designed for officers of the armed forces who are on the verge of retiring and keen to take up managerial jobs.
In a clear sign of how global recession has affected placements, Day 2 of the Slot Zero at the Indian Institute of Management-Ahmedabad saw consulting firms emerge as the clear favourite over the traditionally-preferred investment banks.
The minister, accompanied by his wife Rabri Devi, met IIM-A director Bakul Dholakia and told reporters that he had come prepared to deliver the lecture.
'India has no shortage of money. It's people with certain types of expertise, commitment -- we have a shortage of,' says Devesh Kapur, associate professor at Harvard.
The bill to amend the IIM Act of 2017 was introduced in the Lok Sabha last Friday amid disruptions by opposition members over the Manipur violence issue.
Ivan Manuel Menezes, the India-born CEO of the world's biggest spirits company Diageo, died on Wednesday, days after being hospitalised for treatment of stomach ulcer. Menezes, 64, who was to retire at the end of this month, died in London, the company said. "It is with great sadness that Diageo announces that Sir Ivan Menezes has passed away following a brief illness, with his family at his side," it said in a statement. Diageo had on Monday announced that CEO-designate Debra Crew will assume the top role on an interim basis immediately as Menezes undergoes medical treatment.
The country's premier B-school is all set to help MPs in effectively spend their grants so that maximum number of people can reap benefits. A group of students of Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad has taken up a project to study the spendings and suggest changes for the Rs 2 crore (Rs 20 million) grant given each year to parliamentarians under the MP Local Area Development (MPLAD) scheme.
In an attempt to resolve gender issues in corporate houses of the country as well as understand the diverse experiences of both men and women in the boardroom, the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad has set up a Gender Resource Centre.
The premier Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad saw a 25 per cent drop in the average compensation package offered to its final-year post-graduate programme students in this year's placements, conducted over nine days from February 25 to March 5.The average yearly salary for domestic offers stood at Rs 12.17 lakh and international offers at $83,000. Last year, the average offered by domestic companies was Rs 17.85 lakh -- a 30 per cent jump from Rs 13.7 lakh in 2007.
Final student placements of the Indian Institute of Management (Ahmedabad) was over on Tuesday, with the premier B-school witnessing a hike in domestic and international salaries, as well as growing preference for enterpreneurship.
Over 100 companies are expected to make offers to the 256 students who will graduate this year.
The efforts of IIMA to defend its steep hike in the fee structure comes in the backdrop of a Parliamentary panel taking exception to the fee hike and suggested that the IIMs should wait for the report of the Bhargava committee, set up to review functioning of the Institutes. Under the unique arrangement, students who belong to families with annual income levels of upto Rs 100,000, could complete the two-year post graduate programme beginning next month.
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.
In the university category, IISc stood first, followed by JNU and BHU.
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