The Summer Placements process for the 2009-11 batch of the Agri-Business Management (PGP-ABM) programme at the Indian Institute of Management (IIM), Ahmedabad ended on the fourth day with 17 firms recruiting 34 students.
Apart from regular recruiters like ITC, Britannia, Mahindra & Mahindra, Godrej Agrovet and TATA Rallis, the students were also offered internship roles by [...]

IIM Ahmedabad concluded the summer internship placement process for the class of 2009-11 by placing 310 participating students in a record 4 days. At 44%, Finance roles were the single largest preference of students, featuring the return of the big names in investment banking and private equity and an increase in the number of offers [...]

In this round up:

• Barkha Dutt addresses the students on leadership at IIM Kozhikode
• Utsaha: Marketing event at IIM Indore
• Avenues: The annual festival of SJMSOM, IIT Bombay
• JBIMS, Mumbai: Strategym’09 concluded and Guest lecture organized with Manish Jain

This MBA season, international MBA aspirants would be applying to a new b-school everyday wondering about the post recession scenario there. At PaGaLGuY, we talked to alumni, new aspirants, faculty members and Eric Morse, Associate Dean at the Richard Ivey School of Business and deciphered the MBA program there.

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For people who joined a two-year program at an MBA coaching institute and are wondering why they are still miles away from their choicest b-schools, here are some revelations. In a survey conducted by PaGaLGuY.com amongst 366 students from the top b-schools in India on ‘which preparatory program helped them get through a b-school’, only 5.74 percent of the students attribute their success to the two-year program. Of the people who had taken MBA entrance tests for the first time, only 9 percent give credit to the two-year program and amongst the retakers (students who had taken the CAT one or more times before finally achieving success), only 3 percent think that they were successful because of the two year preparatory course.

In this roundup:

• IIM Lucknow students organize workshop for career guidance
• PRAGYAAN-The business quiz of Shailesh J Mehta School of Management
• Western Classical Music Concert at IIM K
• Jaipuria Institute of Management, Noida organized ‘Enlightened Manager
• MDI Gurgaon hosts Padamshree Guru Kalamandalam Gopi
• VGSOM, IIT KGP Hosts Awdhesh Krishna, MD, Nomura
• ‘Retail Week’ organized in VGSOM
• IIM Bangalore confers its Distinguished Alumni Awards 2009