Mr. Mittal has been awarded Fortune magazine’s “European Businessman of the Year 2004,” “Steelmaker of the Year” in 1996 by New Steel in the USA, and the “Willy Korf Steel Vision Award” in June 1998 from American Metal Market and PaineWeber’s World Steel Dynamics. Following the creation of Arcelor Mittal, the world’s largest steel company, Mr. Mittal was awarded “Business Person of 2006” by the Sunday Times’, “International Newsmaker of the Year 2006” by Time Magazine and “Person of the Year 2006” by the Financial Times for his outstanding business achievements. In January 2007, Mr. Mittal was presented with a Fellowship from King’s College London, their highest award.
Established in 1980, the Institute of Management Technology, Ghaziabad is today widely recognized as a centre for excellence in management and technology education, quality research and strong industry interface. IMT has been consistently ranked among the top management institutes in the country and had broadened its horizon by opening a campus at Nagpur in 2004 and the first international campus in Dubai in 2006. Aiming to be a globally recognized Business-school, IMT has international partnerships with 11 institutes.
On the occasion of the Convocation, IMT will honour an eminent alumnus through the Distinguished Alumni Award instituted in 2005. The award has earlier gone to Mr Rajeev Karwal, Mr Prasoon Joshi, Mr Ravi Soni and Mr Arshi Narang.
Post-graduate degrees and diplomas will be awarded to 476 students from the Ghaziabad and Nagpur campuses. These include 170 students of Post Graduate Diploma in Business Management, 38 students of Master of Human Resource Management & Corporate Governance, 40 students of Master of International Business, 22 students of Post Graduate Diploma in Executive Management, 60 students of Post Graduate Diploma in Business Management (Part-time), 107 students of GMBA (Nagpur), 2 batches of 38 students of GMBA (Ghaziabad) and 1 student of Fellow Programme in Management.
In terms of placements, the graduating students are excellently placed in some of the best companies. Even before the start of the placement process, 31 students had PPOs from leading companies. 102 companies vied to recruit 253 students of the class of 2007 from the PGDBM, MHRM, and MIB courses from the Ghaziabad campus. The largest recruiter this year was Kotak Mahindra Bank, which handed out 31 offers. Infosys, Cognizant Technology Solutions, ICICI Prudential, Bharti, and Trident were also amongst the leading recruiters on campus. As a testament to the growing brand equity of IMT Ghaziabad, the placement process saw many first-time recruiters including Union Bank of Switzerland, Irevna, BA Continuum, eClerx, Jumbo International, Covansys, Dell, and Accenture. They joined an already impressive portfolio of companies visiting the campus for the recruitment process, which includes GE, JP Morgan Chase, Dabur, Marico, HLL, Henkel, Godfrey Phillips India, Citibank, HSBC, SBI, SabMiller, Wipro, Infosys, Cognizant Technology Solutions, Satyam, Bharti, Idea, Tata Motors, Mahindra & Mahindra, Essar Group, Vedanta, Indian Oil Corporation Limited, Avalon, Anand Bazaar Patrika and Radio Mirchi, to name a few.