Articles in IIM AHMEDABAD
Prof Prathap Oburai There is still no trace of Prathap Oburai, professor of marketing, at the Indian Institute Management, Ahmedabad (IIMA), who went missing from Uttarakhand two days ago. According to Tehri Superintendent of Police, Rajeev Swaroop, the professor, who is also an IIMA alumnus, was mentally stressed and had attempted ending his life earlier, […]
(Photo credit: Alan Cleaver) In perhaps the most significant leap by any Indian Institute of Management (IIM) ever, IIM Indore this week announced a five-year integrated management degree which will admit students directly after class XII in school. A Times of India story reports that the total tuition fees for this fully residential ‘integrated PGP’ […]
(Original photo credit: Egan Snow) The Indian Institute of Management (IIM), Ahmedabad plans to release its placement report for the batch of 2009-11 adhering to its proposed Placement Reporting Standards by June-end. The report will be externally audited, for which the institute is in talks with credit rating agency Crisil. The standards — which aim […]
(Photo credit: Nils Geylen) Starting this weekend, we will post a weekly digest of links to analysis or opinion articles from other websites and blogs that we feel might enrich both your knowledge and perspective about business education. We will try to cover the best of all prolific writing out there in the online beyond […]
Until 2008 — before the Common Admission Test (CAT) became a computer-based test — a single year’s print order of the paper-pencil test’s information bulletins and question papers weighed more than 50 tonnes, recounts Prof Satish Deodhar, the Convener of the first computer-based CAT in 2009 and a professor at the Indian Institute of Management […]
Next weekend (June 1, the Indian Institute of Management (IIM), Ahmedabad will host a conference to discuss and finalize a common and transparent format for b-schools to report their placements with. IIM Ahmedabad’s Placements Chairperson Prof Saral Mukherjee hopes that a standardized process to record and report placements information will deter b-schools from lying about […]
The vitriolic public reaction to Union Environment Minister Jairam Ramesh’s seemingly innocuous comment that “The faculty in Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs) is not world-class. It is the students in IITs who are world-class. The IITs and Indian Institutes of Management (IIMs) are excellent because of the quality of students and not because of quality […]
Only the likes of Anjali Mullati can make a statement like the one above. A graduate from the Indian Institute of Management Lucknow (IIM L, batch of 1993), Anjali has done more than just graduating from a prestigious college; she has tried to change the society and has succeeded too. She, along with her husband […]
(Photo credit: Hriddhi Doley) The Indian Institute of Management (IIM), Calcutta finished its placements for the PGDM and PGDCM classes of 2011 with 464 offers for a total strength of 381 students. According to the school’s placement cell, a total of 129 companies made offers during the placements process that lasted 5 days. ICICI and […]
As many as 20 students from the Indian Institute of Management (IIM), Raipur received summer internship projects with the Chhattisgarh government. The batch comprising 69 students — which is the first at IIM Raipur, received internship offers from 40 companies, said the institute’s placement committee. Incidentally, IIM Raipur is possibly the last IIM to declare […]