Articles in IIM Nagpur
(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 […]
It’s finally here, the audited and mind-bogglingly detailed placement reports of the Indian Institute of Management (IIM), Ahmedabad’s PGP, PGP Agri-business and PGPX batches graduating in 2011. The report is based on the Placement Reporting Standards proposed and finalized at IIM Ahmedabad in June 2011 and has been audited by credit-rating firm CRISIL. Quick overview […]
First View Raipur, the capital of Chattisgarh, is more notorious for its proximity to the Maoist-dominated district of Dantewada than anything else. But last year when the HRD ministry decided to start an Indian Institute of Management (IIM) in the area, b-school aspirants began looking at the city anew with hope and expectation. Along with […]
When the news first flashed a couple of weeks ago, that The Indian Institute of Management, (IIM) Ranchi wants to ‘map’ India cricket captain MS Dhoni’s brain, it seemed too bizarre to be true. But now that Dhoni has reportedly agreed to the mapping, it makes sense to know what is exactly brewing in the […]
(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: Preetam Rai) Ambitions of venturing into undergraduate education ran into rough weather at the Indian Institute of Management (IIM), Indore this week which was reprimanded by the Union Human Resource Development Ministry about the three-year exit option in its five-year Integrated PGP. Reports The Hindustan Times, A fortnight ago, the institute had proposed […]
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 […]
The Indian Institute of Management (IIM), Ranchi is going to start a weekend executive management program starting September 2011 for professionals with five or more years of work experience in the government, private or public sector. According to MJ Xavier, director of IIM Ranchi, classes for the 18-month program titled ‘PGPEX’ will be held on […]
(Photo credit: Aashish Mylapally) After growing a franchise on the back of the two-year MBA format degree for 50 years, an Indian Institute of Management (IIM) has for the first time announced a foray into undergraduate education. With the five-year Integrated Post Graduate Program (IPGP), IIM Indore seeks to deliver a BBA+MBA type cocktail to […]