Evalueserve Assistant VP Addresses MBA Students At Kanpur

Assistant Vice President of Evalueserve, addressed MBA Students at IIT Kanpur about KPO. Knowledge Process Outsourcing remains a fairly new concept to most of us. The general perception is that it is the higher-end version of the by-now-famous BPO or Business Process Outsourcing. Mr.Manoj Madhusudanan, Assistant Vice-President, Business Research, Evalueserve...

Assistant Vice-President, Evalueserve, addresses MBA students at IIT-Kanpur

TAPMI Celebrates 20th Convocation

TAPMI celebrated its 20th Annual Convocation on March 25, 2006. The institute awarded the Post-Graduate Diploma in Management to 131 students and Post-Graduate Diploma in Entrepreneurship and Management to one student of the 2004-06 batch on this day. The program was held on the lawns of Hotel Valley View International....

Convocation of The Eleventh Batch of PGPCM at MICA

The eleventh batch of the Post Graduate Programme in Communications Management (PGPCM) of Mudra Institute of Communications Ahmedabad (MICA) passed out on Sunday, 2nd April. A total of 61 students received their diplomas from Mr Gerson da Cunha, Chairperson – MICA Governing Council. The programme was kick-started with Mr Madhukar...

Surviving an International MBA a Part 2

Things start looking too big and you go through the motions of everyday life without really savoring it. My advice, take it easy! It is just a 2-year stress period in life, all the hard work will pay off and at least you will know how much you are capable...

The MBA Hitchhiker’s Guide

The following article comes with an inherently flawed assumption – that I have received my PGDBM degree (which by the way, is still subjected to the vagaries of nature and the powers at my institute). It is an attempt to demystify some of the myths surrounding MBA education and a...

Case Study Developed at SPJIMR Deals With Ganguly-Chappel Strife

Illustrations on how combinations of these parameters influence team performance are available in extent literature. Numerous case studies have been written and shared in this connection in the academia. However, a case that has been recently developed by the faculty at S. P. Jain Institute of Management & Research, Mumbai...

Guest Lecture by Vijay Mahajan at IIT Kanpur

Mr. Vijay Mahajan was on the IIT Kanpur campus on the 21st of march to receive the distinguished alumni award for this year and deliver a lecture on globalization. Mr. Mahajan, former dean of the Indian School of Business, holds the John P.Harbin Centennial Chair in Business at McCombs School...

MDI Sets New Standards Of Achievement

The class of 2006 at the Management Development Institute, Gurgaon has set new standards of achievement by attracting leading companies from India and abroad during the placement process that concluded recently. The students of the 2004-06 batch of MDI Gurgaon will soon enter the corporate world as alumni of one...

Seminar on Infrastructure Management Held at DoMS, IIT Madras

Department of Management Studies (DoMS), IIT Madras played host to three eminent personalities Mrs. Sheela Priya IAS, Director, Chennai Water Supply board, Mr. Sanjiv Paul, Managing Director, JUSCO and Mr. Sudhakar Rao General Manager (P&A;), HAL, representing Public Administration, Private sector enterprise and a PSU respectively. The occasion was a...

NITIE Plays Host to Yet Another Samiksha

Keeping their tradition of taking up unusual but highly relevant topics, the students of Industrial Safety and Environmental Management (ISEM) at NITIE organized a panel discussion on Corporate Social Responsibility. The discussion titled “Corporate Social Responsibility: A reality or an Illusion” had a panel graced by eminent speakers like Mr....

International Seminar on Entrepreneurship at SJMSOM

The “International Seminar on Entrepreneurship” organised by Shailesh J. Mehta School of Management, IIT Bombay from March 16-18, 2006, provided a platform for the faculty and research scholars of management and behavioural sciences, consultants, trainers, counselors, administrators, and executives to share their research-findings, thoughts, and experiences. The audience had an...

IIMC Continues to Break Records

Placements at IIM Calcutta came to an end on 17 March, with recruiters coming in from all across industries such as investment banking, consulting, marketing, manufacturing and IT. 89 companies could pick up students from campus and students were placed within a record time with 249 students having 505 offers...

IIMB Students Prove Their Mettle

The Final Placement Process at IIM Bangalore concluded on Tuesday, the 14th of March, by the end of Slot 2 of the process, with IIMB setting new benchmarks for the Indian MBA Graduates. The highest salary offer for foreign placements touched USD $193,000 setting a new record across the IIMs....

IIM Lucknow Final Placement 2006

With a graduating batch of 249 students to be placed this year and positive signals from the economy, IIM Lucknow went into final placements with an air of optimism. This optimism crystallized into reality at the end of slot three, as there was widespread jubilation on campus with the hallowed...

IIMB Rewrites History on Day Zero

Friday marked the beginning of final placement process and the story unfolded with a bang at IIM Bangalore! Day -zero of the process saw an IIMB student, being made an unprecedented offer of $1 93,000, and create history as the highest paid graduate, across any of the IIMs. And if...

XLRI batch signs off with Rs 13 lakhs highest salary

The Campus Recruitment Program 2006 at XLRI Jamshedpur, School of Management witnessed companies vying with each other to select the 186 students, both from the Business Management (BM) and Personnel Management & Industrial Relations (PM&IR;) courses. Three students signed out with offers from McKinsey, the consulting major, which offered a...

Can MBA teach ‘hunch’ and ‘inspiration’?

I started this article with a huge dose of MBA bashing, but then I ran out of steam. I’ve been part of one such program for a while (which I’ve now decided to quit in order to study the same thing at a better school), but what I have come...

Why you cannot overlook IMI-Delhi anymore

The interiors of the main building are elegant and impressive. The IMI Director Dr CS Venkata Ratnam’s self-professed focus on accessibility and freedom between the students and the faculty seems to be implemented into the building itself. Unlike other MBA institutes where the Director sits somewhere inside a multi-layered administrative...

NUS MBA Global Business Case Challenge aCerebration 2006

Cerebration is a global business challenge, organized annually by NUS Business School, Singapore. It is essentially a hybrid of a business plan and business case competition and looks to combine the best elements of both. At the heart of the competition are real life case studies of four leading Singaporean...