Shobhit Bhatnagar, founder of Gradestack.com and graduate from IIM-Calcutta tells you why it's not an impossible feat.
With the Centre ignoring the Pachauri Committee report advising against implementation of the controversial Sethusamundram project, eminent scientist R K Pachauri has said that he stands by the report and warned of serious ecological ramifications.
Management institutes are putting in additional efforts to get more woman students on their campuses.
In an online chat with readers, Rahul Reddy, IIM-Calcutta alumnus and co-founder, VistaMind Education, a CAT training institute, answered questions on how to crack the management entrance examination.
India's premier management institute IIM-A has failed to make it to YouthIncMag's top ten list of best business schools in the world this year.
Start-up entrepreneur Ashish Chaturvedi speaks about the challenges start-ups face.
Join us for a chat with ARKS Srinivas, IIM-Calcutta alumnus and CEO, VistaMind today, October 11 between 4 and 5 pm IST.
Referring to first Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru as the one who built modern India, Mukherjee said that he had helped build an atmosphere of free debate and discussions and not conflict and confrontation.
Suresh Reddy and Vishal Kumar Jatin, visually impaired students from IIM Calcutta IIM Lucknow share their experience of clearing the CAT and tell us how they cope with the rigour of studying in the country's top B-school.
Shajan Samuel, an IIM Calcutta alumnus and Divisional Head, IIJT Education suggests seven useful courses in Accounting and Finance that graduates can pursue in India.
Ashish Kumar Chauhan, who was appointed BSE's full-time chief executive officer and managing director early this month, has his job cut out - to steer the country's oldest stock exchange through challenging times and get it listed.
The summer placement process is undergoing a digital transformation this year.
An alumnus of IIM Calcutta and author of two CAT books, Sidharth Balakrishna provides an innovative way to remember the meanings of certain words.
Dr Venkatram Ramaswamy, Hallman Fellow of Electronic Business and Professor of Marketing at the Ross School of Business, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA, is in India to speak at Guruspeak, an annual event organized by IIM-Calcutta.
In the volumes of B-schools placement reports, one piece of statistics gets overshadowed by the numerical platitudes and eulogies. Mentioned mostly as an afterthought, it is about students who opt-out of the placements, to follow their calling and start their own businesses. PaGaLGuY speaks to some of these souls and learn their stories.
Mangesh Zope, a student of Post Graduate Diploma in Management at IIM Calcutta finds time to pen down a few essential notes to CAT aspirants. Interestingly, he scribbled this while waiting for a train at Munich railway station. Read on.
Mangesh Zope, a student of Post Graduate Diploma in Management at IIM Calcutta finds time to pen down a few essential notes to CAT aspirants. Interestingly, he scribbled this while waiting for a train at Munich railway station. Read on.
Does IAS officers' work go unappreciated, asks Ajit Balakrishnan.
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.
For those who fail to make it to the famed IIMs or other premier management institutes, IIM-Calcutta has plans to offer quality online courses to more than 5,000 students in the coming years.
There were hardly any surprises in CAT 2011 exam, says ARKS Srinivas, author and IIM Calcutta alumnus.
In the third and last part of the CAT series ARKS Srinivas, an alumnus of IIM Calcutta and ex-Director at T.I.M.E presents a low down on what to do one day before the exam.
In the first part of last minute CAT 2011 preparation series, ARKS Srinivas, an alumnus of IIM Calcutta and ex-Director at T.I.M.E. Mumbai spoke about the mental strategy. In the second part, here, he shares tips and strategies to solving Quantitative Ability and Data Interpretation sections. Read on
With CAT 2011 commencing on October 22, 2011, expert ARKS Srinivas, an alumnus of IIM Calcutta and ex-Director at T.I.M.E. Mumbai advises aspirants on what to bear in mind while appearing for CAT 2011 this year. Read on
In two chats with readers on September 15 and 23, Sidharth Balakrishna, an IIM Calcutta alumnus and adjunct faculty member at leading b-schools across the country, addressed queries related to cracking CAT 2011 and other b-school entrance exams. For those of you who missed it, here is a combination of the two transcripts.
Asian Paints Managing Director & CEO P M Murty is the Business Standard CEO of the Year for 2009-10.
Industry majors keen to hire freshers based on their performance during summer internships.
Lenovo had just 3.8 per cent share in the SMB segment.
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.
Some of the highest number of offers at IIM-A were made by Royal Bank of Scotland, Ernst & Young and Microsoft.
Indra Nooyi, the former chairperson and CEO of PepsiCo, has said that she has "never, ever, ever" asked for a raise as she found it "cringeworthy" and cannot imagine working for somebody and saying "my pay is not enough." Nooyi, 65, who helmed the beverage giant PepsiCo for 12 years and stepped down as its chief executive officer (CEO) in 2018, has published a memoir 'My Life in Full'. Born in Chennai, she graduated from the Madras Christian College and studied management at the Indian Institute of Management (IIM), Calcutta before moving to Yale University in the US for a master's degree.
NIIT Imperia, Centre for Advanced Learning, offers management programmes from IIM-Ahmedabad, IIM-Calcutta and IIM-Indore to working professionals.
While 2009 placements saw a 20-50% dip in salaries, the institutes are optimistic this time, even though salaries and number of offers per student are yet to touch 2007-08 levels.
Both IIM-Bangalore and IIM-Calcutta confirmed the development. "We have received placement requests from some students from the 2006-08 batch. We are trying to approach companies at a personal level and help these students get placed," confirmed a professor from IIM Bangalore.
The programme is a free, student-driven initiative and independent of the admission process but is backed by the administration of these institutes. The programme is managed through either the institute website or a separate purpose-built website that matches the profile of mentors and aspirants based on the background and discipline.
Presenting an excerpt from The Immortals of Meluha, a mythological work on the Hindu god Shiva by Amish Tripathi.
Announcing the one-year full-time joint IIMC-IITK-IITM post graduate programme for Executives for Visionary Leadership in Manufacturing (PGPEX-VLM).
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The Indian Institute of Management-Ahmedabad has awarded Hyderabad-based Sarovar Park Plaza, a subsidiary of Sarovar Hotels, a long-term contract to provide management-backed hospitality services.
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