Articles in IIM Calcutta

(Photo: Soubhik Chatterjee) The Indian Institute of Management (IIM), Calcutta finished its final placements for the 2010-2012 batches of its PGDM and PGDCM courses with 423 offers for a total effective batch of 345. Before the final placement process started, the students had already received 130 lateral and 95 pre-placement offers (PPOs), out of which […]

Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta (Photo: Ashok Kumar) The Indian Institute of Management (IIM), Calcutta is in the process of forming a ‘General Alumni Association’ which would help tap the 6,000+ rich alumni base of the b-school in collecting funds to support its major infrastructure expansion plans. The school also intends this association to assist […]

All that is transparent may not serve a real objective, believes IIM Calcutta (Photo: Horia Varlan) Until the last update, 25 of India’s business schools had committed to release detailed and audited placement statistics as per the Indian Placement Reporting Standards spearheaded by the Indian Institute of Management (IIM), Ahmedabad. The standard lays down a […]

In an exclusive interview with PaGaLGuY, Prof Shekhar Chaudhuri, director of Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta (IIM-C) speaks about the importance of diversity in class, development plans for IIM-C and the affect of foreign universities making an entry into India. The inclusion of X and XII marks during admissions has not received a very favourable […]

Photo credit: Abhishek Kathuroju The Indian Institute of Management (IIM), Calcutta closed the summer placement process for the batch of 2011-13 with students getting training projects across 142 companies. Although the placements began as a 5-day process, it switched over to a rolling process owing to it being the biggest batch ever at IIM Calcutta […]

Pic by Soubhik Chatterjee The Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta (IIM-C) is thinking of drawing in corporates and its alumni base to seek funds for completing some of its infrastructure projects. According to sources, it was at a meeting held at the Chennai Chapter of IIM-C Alumni Association, a few weeks ago, that the IIM-C […]

The country’s two premier b-schools, Indian Institutes of Management (IIMs) at Ahmedabad and Calcutta will hold a joint conference on the future of India’s management education on October 14 and 15, 2011 at the IIM Calcutta campus. Titled ‘Management Education: The road ahead, Meeting the challenges of globalization’ the conference would seek to take stock […]

The much-hyped annual sports meet, called CLassiXX between Xavier Labour Research Institute (XLRI) Jamshedpur, Indian Institute of Management (IIM) Calcutta, IIM Lucknow and Xavier Institute of Management Bhubhaneshwar (XIMB) packed more than a punch on its inaugural day at the XLRI campus today. An argument that apparently started with an alleged discrepancy in the score […]

(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 […]

???With an office that is almost about 1,000 sq feet in size, has glass walls and is perched on top of a hill with acres of coconut trees below, one would expect Prof Debashis Chatterjee, Director of Indian Institute of Management, Kozhikode (IIMK) to speak Wordsworth and Shelly. But Prof Chatterjee is far from being […]