Maruthi Raj, a first year post graduate student of IIM-Ahmedabad finds time to pen down his journey right from cracking the CAT to getting into India's leading b-school. He shares his experience here. Read on.
At the Gurukul session, Vijay spoke about 'managing your psycho-dynamics' (a phrase Vijay claims ownership to), various ways of managing it, and why managing it plays a crucial role in an enterprise's success.
This year's computerised Common Admission Test (CAT), which was marred by technical glitches, will not be scrapped, the exam committee announced today.
Amidst all the tension of the economic meltdown, Srijan Pal Singh took the call of letting go of an offer from a much sought-after consulting group and followed his instinct.
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The management graduate from IIM-Ahmedabad has been with ICICI group for over 15 years. She is likely to be replaced by Anup Bagchi, executive director at ICICI Securities, sources said. Both Buch and Bagchi are also ICICI Securities board members.
A 1978 batch IAS officer, Ranjan, who assumed office this evening, said he would try to ensure clean administration.
Some of the highest number of offers at IIM-A were made by Royal Bank of Scotland, Ernst & Young and Microsoft.
Rashmi Bansal's book Connect The Dots chronicles lives of 20 entrepreneurs who made it big without an MBA. In the first part of a three-part series beginning today we feature Kunwer Sachdev of Su-Kam inverters and Sunita Ramnathkar of Fem care Pharma.
The IIMs reason that foreign tie-ups are important given the increasing demand for student and faculty exchange programmes and joint programmes in research and training.
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Day Zero was created when demand for IIM graduates had peaked and the institutes had to resort to creative mathematics to accommodate big recruiters without offending the existing ones. Falling job market has forced the B-schools to review the strategy, including placement fee revision.
There is nothing more inspiring than the story of a boy born on the wrong side of the tracks making it big against all odds.
NIIT Imperia, Centre for Advanced Learning, offers management programmes from IIM-Ahmedabad, IIM-Calcutta and IIM-Indore to working professionals.
Some directors think pooling their resources - financial and faculty - for their international foray makes eminent sense.
The Union Cabinet has already approved the Bill for tabling in Parliament.
He took the CAT three times. Third time lucky, he finally got a call from IIM Ahmedabad, Bangalore, Calcutta and Lucknow.
The institutes have now begun sensitising students about business ethics and morality as well. Be it inviting eminent personalities like the Dalai Lama to speak on business ethics or incorporating ethics as a compulsory course, IIMs are making efforts to produce socially-sensitive managers.
A couple of days earlier, IIM Ahmedabad said it would hike the fees for its two-year PGP course.
Among the key demands of agitating farmers has been a legal guarantee on minimum support price (MSP). The protest reached a crescendo when thousands of farmers from Punjab and elsewhere marched towards Delhi late last year and decided to block the main entry points once they were denied entry. The Centre, on its part, held 11 rounds of discussions with the protesters and even offered to amend some of the provisions without much success. With now one of their chief demands met, farmers have now moved on to force the government to concede on MSP.
'The Northeast is the biodiversity saviour of the country,' says Sikkim MP Prem Das Rai. 'Thirty to 40 per cent of the biodiversity of the country is housed in the Northeast. It is the battery of India. Not only oil and gas but it has a hydroelectricity capacity of 70,000 MW. It has so much colour and diversity within itself.'
IIM Ahmedabad (IIM-A), which had agreed to set up a campus in the state, has not been able to start work due to the political uncertainty caused by the Telangana issue.
In this era of rapid change, the education of children has become a major component of financial planning.
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.
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Arpit Jaiswal, currently studying in IIM-A, skipped studying abroad because he wants to give something back to the country of his birth.
Stay Hungry, Stay Foolish is the story of 25 IIM Ahmedabad graduates who chose the rough road of entrepreneurship. The book seeks to inspire young B-school graduates to look beyond placements and salaries. To believe in their dreams.
Cross-border M&As get cheaper and easier, but this requires one set of laws -- on takeover codes, for instance - for local firms and another for the dual-listed ones.
Lack of adequate infrastructure major drawback.
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The government's efforts to set up six new Indian Institutes of Management have been marred by resistance from some of the existing ones which are not keen on the idea of mentoring the new institutes, forcing the government to set up a committee to evolve a suitable module for the purpose.
The sixth and last excerpt from Stay Hungry, Stay Foolish, the story of 25 IIM Ahmedabad graduates who chose the rough road of entrepreneurship.
The fifth excerpt from Stay Hungry, Stay Foolish, the story of 25 IIM Ahmedabad graduates who chose the rough road of entrepreneurship.
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The third excerpt from Stay Hungry, Stay Foolish, the story of 25 IIM Ahmedabad graduates who chose the rough road of entrepreneurship.
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After IIM Ahmedabad and IIM Bangalore, the IIM Lucknow has decided to increase the fee of its post graduate programme in management by Rs 1,50,000 per annum from the coming academic session. "We will increase the fee from Rs 2,50,000 per annum at present to Rs 400,000 per year from 2009-10 academic session. The fee will be Rs 400,000 each year during the two-year programme," IIM Lucknow director Prof Devi Singh told PTI.
This year, IIM Ahmedabad, the largest and most prestigious of the institutes, has seen a 50 per cent slowdown in placements on the coveted "day zero" (the first day), probably for the first time since the dotcom bust in 2000.
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