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.
As against the existing channels of delivery of banking and financial services in the rural under-banked areas, adoption of mobile financial services (MFS) may tend to be easier, says a study by the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad (IIM-A).
The institute has revised fees for the one year post graduate programme for executives by five per cent as well.
The Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad would start the summer placements for the post graduate programme (PGP) batch 2010-12 from November 12, according to a release from the institute. The institute has decided to modify the basic process to include the cohort-based system used in the final placement process for the PGP batch 2008-10 in March.
The Union HRD ministry on Friday issued directives to all Central educational institutions to begin admissions for general and SC/ST categories as per last year's norms.
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.
The Indian Institutes of Management will have to provide reservation for the other backward classes in addition to SC and STs from the coming academic session, Rajya Sabha was informed Tuesday.
Studying at the premier Indian Institutes of Management is no longer cheap. The Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad on Saturday almost trebled the fee for its flagship two-year post-graduate management programme from Rs 400,000 to Rs 11.5 lakh (Rs 1.15 million), beginning from this academic year. The fees have gone up from Rs 200,000 each year to Rs 550,000 for the first year and Rs 600,000 for the second. Its fee hike is the highest among all IIMs.
The proposed Indian Institute of Management in Bihar will be set up at Bodh Gaya in Gaya district, state Education Minister Brishen Patel said on Wednesday.
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The Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore, invites applications for admission to its Post-graduate Programme in Software Enterprise Management.
Saris were in vogue at the dinner President Droupadi Murmu hosted for G20 leaders on Saturday evening and earlier as well on Saturday morninbg when Kyoko Jaishankar, External Affairs Minister Subrahmanyam Jaishankar's wife, hosted the leaders's spouses in New Delhi.
A recently published survey by magazine careers360 has revealed that IIM-Bangalore tops the list of b-school rankings in the country. Read on.
Piyusha Baghel is the only girl student among a batch of 45 who made it to the first batch of IIM Ranchi this academic year.
IIM Lucknow recently hired a PR agency along with other top schools like ISB, Hyderabad and MDI Gurgaon.
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.
We invited readers who have taken the CAT in previous years to share their experiences. Archit Shrivastava, an IIM Indore student, shares his advice.
The Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs) and Indian Institutes of Management (IIMs) need to revise their curriculum to compete at the international level, newly-appointed Union Minister for Ministry of Human Resource Development (MHRD), Kapil Sibal, told mediapersons while taking charge today.
Top consulting firms like McKinsey and Co, and Bain and Co along with others in the investment banking industry, such as Goldman Sachs and Deutsche Bank, have extended fulltime offers to students who interned at IIM-A.
The 27 per cent OBC quota in elite educational institutions, like IIM & IITs) will be decided after the Supreme Court hearing on May 8.
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.
Aniruddha Jaju, a non-IITian who cracked the Common Admission Test and made it to the prestigious Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad shares his experience with us.
The reason: The Planning Commission has decided to cut the allocation for higher and technical education in the Budget 2007-08.
As per the new criteria of selection effective for the 2014-16 academic session, work-experience of prospective candidates will assume lesser weightage and preference will be given to the most recent academic score; marks obtained in the class 10 and 12 examination will be given less importance.
Sabarmati Central Jail in Ahmedabad and Central jail in Baroda have contacted IIM-Ahmedabad to help them in issues related to sale, distribution and management of factory products and also help inmates acquire more skills which they may be able to best utilise outside when they are released from prison, Dheeraj Sharma, associate professor of marketing and international business, IIM-Ahmedabad, said.
To help test-takers, we asked readers who have taken the CAT to share their tips and tricks. Here, Rahul Sharma, IIM Lucknow -- batch of 2010, shares his experiences.
The CAT 2009 has been plagued with various problems and has candidates scrambling for answers. But Karan Agrawal, who will be taking the test on December 3, has some different concerns.
IIM Lucknow students share their (hilarious) take on what it's like to study in a B-school.
The average lateral domestic salary increased 52 per cent to Rs 16.13 lakh a year.
Handsome pay packets in the range of Rs 50 lakhs or Rs 5 million (international offer) and Rs 18 lakhs or Rs 1.8 million(domestic offer) per annum were offered to the passing out batch of the country's youngest Indian Institute of Management, Indore.
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh addressed the Golden Jubilee of Indian Institute of Management-Calcutta in Kolkata on August 22, 2011.
'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.'
Human Resource Development Minister Arjun Singh has convened the meeting of directors of all IIMs to discuss issues relating to, among other things, autonomy and measures to further strengthen the institutions.
The Lok Sabha contest in Thiruvananthapuram is shaping up to be a significant battle involving key candidates like Shashi Tharoor, Rajeev Chandrasekhar, and Panniyan Ravindran. This three-cornered fight highlights the political dynamics in Kerala's capital city, with each candidate bringing their own vision and promises for the region's development, notes Rajeev Srinivasan.
It's tax returns season. Ask our tax experts Mihir Tanna, Hardik Parikh, Tejas Chokshi and Sanjeev Govila.
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.
