Unlike most management graduates for whom the sky is the limit in corporate matters, Kaushalendra with a management degree from IIM Ahmedabad chose to sell vegetables on city streets and still dreamt of making it big.
Beauty, Nykaa's founder Falguni Nayar realised, is a very long-tailed business and with e-commerce picking up in India, it seemed like a good idea to venture into.
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B-schools have been and are an excellent platform for short-listing candidates for a corporation. However, they don't teach you the importance of understanding organisational behaviour and organisation dynamics.
Former Indian ambassador to the US Naresh Chandra, noted litterateur Raja Rao (posthumous) and scientist S E Chandy George and civil servant V Krishnamurthy were also selected for Padma Vibhushan.
IIM-Ahmedabad has written to Flipkart co-founder Binny Bansal on the issue, saying the students felt cheated for no fault of theirs for choosing the company over other brands and will suffer as they have to re-pay their education loans.
The government's decision to invite applications for the post of director in three Indian Institutes of Management has drawn a strong reaction from IIM-Ahmedabad director Bakul Dholakia.
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IIM Ahmedabad will provide a performance-linked pay model to the Sixth Pay Commission which has been assigned the task of recommending revised pay scales for central government staff.
With India's top business schools eager to establish themselves as leading global brands, government control is hugely restrictive.
The six IIMs will be announcing the list of admissions for the coming academic session by April 21.
Dispelling rumours about reduced hiring due to the sub-prime crisis, investment banks were once again the most preferred recruiters at the Indian Institutes of Management. At IIM Ahmedabad, 35.9 per cent of the students opted to take up their two-month internships with I-Banks, whereas 19 per cent of students took up the same at IIM Bangalore.
The Common Admission Test for the Indian Institutes of Management, Ahmedabad, Bangalore, Calcutta, Indore, Kozhikode, Lucknow, will be held on Sunday, November 19, for their various programmes.
While IIM-B is yet to decide on the exact quantum, the increase could be anywhere between Rs 20,000 and Rs 50,000. The institute will be revising its fee after three years. Through the revision, the institute plans to increase its earnings from the placement fee.
The IIM Bill, passed by Rajya Sabha, gives B-schools autonomy and power to award full-fledged degrees.
The premier Indian Institutes of Management will have to draw on all their management skills to solve the current financial imbroglio they are in. On the one hand, the fee hike by IIM Ahmedabad and IIM Bangalore has caused heartburn not only among students and the Union Human Resource Development Ministry but also among the other IIMs who say they were not consulted despite an existing agreement to do so. IIM-A and IIM-B have said that a fee hike is a prerogative of their own
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It's a story of contradictions across the Indian Institute of Managements as far as the 'Certificate Course in Business Administration' for the Officers of the Indian Armed Forces is concerned.
According to Ajit Balakrishnan, chairman of the board of governors of IIM-C, "Most students who study in IIM-C come from families whose annual income is Rs 5 lakh. We are a public higher education institute funded by taxpayers' money. Hiking our fees just because IIM-Ahmedabad or IIM-Bangalore has hiked theirs will make IIM-C an opportunist."
The highest international offer of $3,40,000 (Rs 1.36 crore) during final placements on the Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta campus this year has come from an international investment bank. The highest domestic salary has been in the range of Rs 65 to Rs 70 lakh per annum.
IIMs have categorically asked the government not to interfere in their internal affairs so that they can smoothly carry out their work of making IIMs a global brand on par with the big B schools like Harvard and Wharton.
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.
IIM C and IIM A have hiked their fees for post graduate programme by Rs 1 lakh.
A senior IIM-A professor is confident the institute can accommodate the additional quota of students.
As the MPC is mandated to target CPI inflation rate at 4 plus minus 2 per cent, any measurement error in CPI is likely to have grave consequences for monetary policy.
Rising costs, service tax and recognition of their own increased brand value has prompted most Indian Institutes of Management to raise placement fees this season -- in some cases like IIM Kozhikode's -- even up to 25 per cent.
On LinkedIn, job postings for software engineers were the highest across multiple industries.
Tata Trusts is one of India's oldest, non-sectarian philanthropic organisations involved in areas of community development.
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.
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.
With the Indian Institutes of Management (IIMs) hiking their fees, many general category students will have to approach banks for educational loans. Most will also have to furnish collateral to get that all-important loan.IIM-Ahmedabad, for instance, has almost trebled its fees to Rs 4 lakh to Rs 11.5 lakh. IIM-Kolkata has hiked it from Rs 5 lakh to Rs 7.5 lakh. Others like IIM Bangalore and IIM Lucknow have hiked it from Rs 5 lakh to Rs 8 lakh and Rs 4 lakh to Rs 5 lakh.
"If India truly wants to be a superpower," Dr Abhijit Vaidya tells Kangana Pandiya, "48 per cent of our people cannot be malnourished. We need to ensure health for all."
Ahmedabad's Indian Institute of Management and four other business schools from Asia have figured amongst the world's top 100 management schools in a survey published by the prestigious London-based weekly Economist's Intelligence Unit.
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