Articles in IIM Bangalore
Admissions waitlists at the Indian Institutes of Management (IIMs) may be better managed during the upcoming season with the IIM directors agreeing towards closer cooperation in admissions at a meeting with the Human Resources Development Minister Kapil Sibal in New Delhi today. Earlier, the idea of the IIMs conducting a common interview process on the […]
(Image credit: Chris Hand) Heres a language test for all of you: what do you call ‘business management’ in Hindi? Okay, before you pull out all those English-to-Hindi dictionaries gathering dust in your ancestral bookshelf, just log on to Indian Institute of Management (IIM) Ahmedabads swanky new Hindi website that was launched on September 26. […]
(Photo credit: Abhishek Kamble) Arriving in Kashipur late evening last week, I asked the three-wheeler drivers outside the railway station if they would take me to the one and only good hotel in town. None of them acknowledged having even heard of the name. I then casually mentioned that it was barely a kilometer before […]
(Photo credit: Tom Taylor) Five technology and design firms pipped finance and consulting companies to appear among the top 10 most coveted companies to work for in US business schools according to a survey reported in the Wall Street journal. When asked to pick up to five ideal employers out of a list of 170, […]
(Photo credit: KC Toh) The Telengana row has hit the Hyderabad campus plans of the Indian Institute of Management (IIM), Ahmedabad and Xavier’s Labour Relations Institute (XLRI), Jamshedpur yet again. In a Business Standard story, both institutes divulged that they had not been allotted the land promised by the state government for their campuses yet. […]
Photo Credit: Benson Kua IIM Bangalore’s recent decision to make student attendance in classrooms optional is raising a lot of questions. Are Indian students at the post graduate level mature enough to come to class without the whip of compulsory attendance? Will they use or misuse the freedom that they are being entrusted with? And […]
Indian Institute of Management (IIM) Bangalore has decided to make attendance voluntary across all courses, starting with the first year students of this academic year. This may sound like an odd thing to do for a premier b-school like IIM Bangalore, but Bringi Dev, the head of Communications and an adjunct professor there, is convinced […]
(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’ […]
(Photo credit: meddygarnet) Engineers continue to be the largest group in the 2-year MBA-equivalent PGP programs at the Indian Institutes of Management (IIMs). While IIM Bangalore’s class of 2013 will have 91.32% engineers, at IIM Calcutta’s batch comprises 95% engineers. The Times of India reports about IIM Bangalore that the new batch has 85 women […]
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 […]