Mudra Institute of Communications Ahmedabad(MICA) today organized a talk by Velvan Subramaniam, Director South Asia AC Nielsen BASES on Simulated Test Marketing. Simulated Test Marketing (STM) was developed in the 1970s and refined over the next 20 years, STM has supplanted traditional in-market testing as the predominant method used by...
Read MoreWith over fifty top Indian companies and MNC’s participating, a plethora of “live” projects were on offer across varied domains. Companies from all sectors and functional areas like Investment Banking, Consulting, FMCG, Retail Banking, Insurance, Derivative Trading, Pharma, Manufacturing, Automobile, Advertising, IT, ITeS etc, were present, which enabled the students...
Read MoreThe first speaker to address the seminar was Mr Sam Balaji, Partner, Deloitte Consulting LLP, and MD, Deloitte Consulting India. Starting his talk on the topic “Consulting in the Telecom Industry” on a humorous note, he said that the world’s first consultant was probably the Serpent in the Garden of...
Read MoreXIM has recently signed an MOU with the University of Stellenbosch Business School (USB), South Africa, for international collaboration. The Director of XIM, Fr. Abraham, had visited the campus and also met other international collaborators of USB. The first initiative towards XIMB-USB Collaboration would be a student exchange program over...
Read MoreConfluence to be held between 24th & 27th November, will play host to speakers such as – A.M. Naik (MD & CEO, Larsen & Toubro), Arun Shourie (Member of Parliament), Bob Hoekstra (CEO, Philips Innovation Campus), Chandrababu Naidu (Former Chief Minister, Andhra Pradesh), Deepak Parekh (Chairman, HDFC), Dr. J.J. Irani...
Read MoreDay Zero consisted of global investment banking firms like Goldman Sachs, Merrill Lynch, Deutsche Bank, JP Morgan, Lehman Brothers, HSBC and Barclays Capital. Companies like UBS, Freudenberg (the German Conglomerate) Reinsurance Group of America, General Motors Shanghai, Target Group (the International Retailing giant) recruited exclusively from IIMB. New recruiters in...
Read MoreSummer Placements 2005 at FMS, Delhi University saw corporate citizens vying with each other for inducting management students in India into their summer internship programmes. Summer Internships, an integral part of the MBA course, are designed to provide MBA students an opportunity to put their learning into practice, thereby enabling...
Read MoreAllwin Agnel aka Pagalguy, founder of PaGaLGuY.com broached up the concept of ‘arrogance of thought’ as a trait dearest to all entrepreneurs. CEO of Contest2win Alok Kejriwal called on students to break existing perceptions in their minds and rebuild them, in the manner of a ‘demolishing a brick wall and...
Read MoreThe Summer Internship Program 2006 at XLRI Jamshedpur, School of Management, has concluded on a successful note. A total 182 first year students were in the fray, both from the Business Management (BM) and Personnel Management & Industrial Relations (PM&IR;) courses. As many as 9 overseas offers were accepted, including...
Read MoreAlso to feature on the talk are Alok Kejriwal of Contest2win and Rashmi Bansal of Jam Magazine. The webcast shall go live on Friday, November 11, 2005 between 3 and 6 pm. Keep visiting here for updates and link to the stream! Now is the time to worship your F5...
Read MoreThe Department of Industrial & Management Engineering (which conducts the MBA Program), IIT Kanpur organized a two-day workshop on globalization at its campus. The workshop witnessed enthusiastic participation from not only the MBA students but also the M.Tech & B.Tech students of the institute. The guest faculty for the lecture...
Read MoreMs. Jayashree Mohanka, Senior General Manager – Marketing for Eveready Industries Ltd. visited Mudra Institute of Communications Ahmedabad (MICA) on Wednesday and delivered a lecture on “Rural Marketing in India.” Ms. Mohanka talked about how rural India was still a very important market for companies and how its dynamics are...
Read MoreEven as I type this report, the entire hilltop campus is alive with over 100 participants from across the country. You can identify the ones from the south from the multiple layers of winterwear on their bodies. ISB (Hyderabad), IIM Ahmedabad, IIM Kozhikode, Narsee Monjee (Mumbai), IIM Calcutta, SP Jain...
Read MoreThe differentiating factor of this year’s festival is the underlying theme: ‘Inverting the Pyramid’. This theme will focus on building sustainable profitable business models for mass markets. The theme will be common for all business games, case-analyses, simulations and paper writing contests where leading B-schools and top corporates from across...
Read MoreMr. Ashok Jayaram (Managing Director, Rotork Controls India), Mr. RD Thulasiraj (Executive Director, LAICO Aravind Eye Care System) ,Mr. Mohan Eddy (Executive Director & Senior VP, Satyam Computer Services), Mr. PVR Murthy (CEO, Exclusive Search Recruitment Consultants), Mr. KR Chandrasekaran (CEO, Java Green), Mr. Ravi Santhanam (MD, Hindustan Motors), Mr....
Read MoreThe nature of the talk was such that it was directly related to a lot of things that the students of XIMB learn in their classrooms. Prior to joining JP Morgan, Mr Bhave worked for the Mckinsey Knowledge Center. He also worked with Divisional Securities for three years, as a...
Read MoreWhile giving a complete overview of the India’s energy status he highlighted that the share of crude oil in the country’s energy matrix would increase to almost 90 pc by 2025. “The share of civilian nuclear energy would only increase from 3 pc to 6 pc in meeting the demand,...
Read MoreMr. Alan Durante: “Creating Winning Brands against All Odds” As a part of “Ribandar Talks – A lecture series by eminent personalities” (a student driven initiative), Goa Institute of Management organized a talk by Mr. Alan Durante (Executive Director and President, Auto Sector, Mahindra & Mahindra) The launch of “Mahindra...
Read MoreZEITGEIST ’05 October 28, 2005, IMT Campus, Mouza Dorli, Nagpur The Institute of Management Technology, Nagpur, recently concluded its first ever national event. Titled ‘Zeitgeist’, meaning the spirit of the times, the two day event was a fun filled one, with an exciting mix of cultural and business-academic related activities....
Read MoreOPUS 2005: Operations Seminar at IIM Kozhikode“Indian Industry at Crossroads: A Century after the Industrial Revolution”29th October 2005 OPUS 2005, an annual seminar on operations management, was conducted on 29th October 2005 at the Indian Institute of Management, Kozhikode in their Calicut campus. The theme of the seminar was “Indian...
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