To be called Symbiosis Institute of Business Management (SIBM), Bangalore, the new institute will see an intake of 120 students in a two-year MBA equivalent program. “The new campus is ready and the intake would bethrough the SNAP 2007 exam,” SIBM Pune’s Prof Pranab Deb informed PaGaLGuY.com. “The courses would...
Read MoreBusiness success has become a function of a firm’s ability to rediscover markets, redefine targets, reengineer processes and rejuvenate the workforce. This is the essence of the Vista’07 theme: Rediscover: Learning the forgotten aspects of management from the masters. Redefine: Articulating the new rules of management. Refocus: Concentrating on the...
Read MoreWhat is Real India? Mr. Harish Bijoor, CEO, Harish Bijoor Consults Inc., tried to answer this question while separating truth from hype. He dwelt on the increasing chasm between Rural and Urban India and pointed out that the current pace of growth will not be sustained unless it becomes inclusive....
Read MoreThe event this year was kicked off with a short film on SIIB. The institute has indeed come a long way since its inception and thus the gone by era was only reflected in modest terms. The various courses as well as extra-curricular activities were showcased to the audience. The...
Read MoreEvery year, about 1,500 students make it to the IIMs. Each of them does different things in the last few days before the CAT. There isn’t any universal formula or strategy for the last mile. It is essential for you to pause a bit and take a look at your...
Read MoreAmidst arrangements made by the host Indian Institute of Foreign Trade (IIFT), the color, the stage and the mood all set the tone for what stands as the year’s biggest B-School event in India – The Business Today – Aditya Birla Group Acumen 2007. The applause that followed after the...
Read MoreLet us start by asking the most fundamental question. Q: What is your objective?A: Your objective is to maximize your score. To maximize your score, you should, in the given time, score as much as possible. As much as possible essentially means that you have solved all the questions that...
Read MoreThe Post Graduate Diploma in Business Management (PGDBM) course, publicized around the same time last year through extensive advertising and media PR was to inherit the syllabus as it is taught at XLRI Jamshedpur. While XLRI, Jamshedpur was to provide the intellectual capital, a Singapore-based agency named ‘Image International (Singapore)...
Read MoreHis message to the IMI Students Body was concise – “….While emphasis in your MBA programme is more towards preparing you for business management, I suggest that you should not overlook the challenges and opportunities for improving management in almost all segments of Indian society, going much beyond the corporate...
Read MoreThe Leadership Series is the flagship event of SIIB and has been so for the past decade of the institute’s existence. As the name says it all, one understands that this lecture series cherishes and celebrates the fortitude of leading from the front, giving direction and astute management in the...
Read MoreLakshya represents the conception and implementation of ideas in different companies under the five modules of Supply Chain Management, Operations Management, Financial Management, Systems & IT Management and General & HR Management. This time around, Lakshya has gone global with a good number of international participants in various modules. Some...
Read MoreCan you update us about the status of class sizes in your post-graduate courses? We had 180 seats in the Post Graduate Program in Management (PGPM), 60 for PGP in Human Resources and currently 32 students from India and 15 foreign students for PGP in International Management. From the next...
Read MoreThe students sold Mahatma Gandhi’s autobiography ‘My Experiments with Truth’ for a day across Mumbai. This was an innovative attempt to inculcate Gandhian values in the heart and soul of the general public. The literature was arranged by ‘Sarvodaya Samstha’, a Non-Governmental Organization and the proceeds of the sale from...
Read MoreAthenaeum is derived from the Greek “Athenion”, the temple of Goddess Athena. Athena is the Goddess of Wisdom and of course Civilization itself. The “Athenion” temple of ancient Greece also symbolized the place where scholars congregated to deliberate and nurture Philosophy and Thought. The process is initiated with a call...
Read MoreThe Marketing Continuum 2007, this time around, was centered on the theme – “The India Growth Story – What’s in it for Marketing?” The inaugural address by our very own, Prof. Shishir Jha truly set tone for the events lined up during the day. This was followed by the keynote...
Read More“I am very pleased to see the efforts of the students, and I am sure that this rural marketing fair is a unique initiative by any management institutes in the country. Despite the academic pressure, the students successfully organised this on such a grand scale and I am really impressed...
Read MoreThe event spread across three highly interactive sessions with speakers representing Commodity Exchanges, reputed Brokerage Houses and Trading Community. They spoke on various aspects of commodities trading in India from an Indian and a Global perspective. The event began with a lighting of the lamp ceremony and a welcome address...
Read MoreContinuum, the rolling seminar series, is a regular event at Shailesh J. Mehta School of Management, IIT Bombay. This event aims to cover the latest trends in management by inviting eminent speakers from business and academia. Each of these seminars focuses on issues and challenges faced by a management function,...
Read MoreTechnical institutes have always been prime targets for mass recruiting MNCs. The EDcell in SVNIT aims at bucking the trend by organizing events aimed at encouraging entrepreneurship. The success of such events in last year’s Mindbend and Autofest technical festivals has emboldened them to take the next step and have...
Read More“Top consulting firms like McKinsey and Co and Bain and Co, along with leaders in the investment banking industry such as Goldman Sachs and Deutsche Bank among other prominent firms have extended fulltime offers to all their summer interns from IIM Ahmedabad,” announced an IIM Ahmedabad press statement released today....
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