He is further anticipated to talk about creative leaders who are visionaries and will help in driving innovation and growth in global knowledge economy. He is also expected to talk about the importance of education in cultivating creative leaders in both developed and developing countries and the role of youth in providing this leadership, added […]

Two months after graduating, five PGPX students are still to secure jobs. Placements for the PGPX program take place over an extended period of time from December to March and according to a statement released by the institute, aThe five students still remaining to be placed have niche skills and are looking for well-targeted positions.a […]

How is The Wharton School responding to the economic crisis? Business schools have a responsibility to prevent a repeat of this crisis. Several of our faculty are looking at executive compensation systems which have been misaligned. Senior bankers had short-term incentives to take leveraged bets on risky assets to increase their own bonuses and their […]

CIMA: the qualificationCIMA is a regulatory body that focuses on accounting for business which enables you to formulate financial strategies for business. However, it is different from being a Chartered Accountant. According to Narsimham, “People with CIMA qualification are different from Chartered Acoountant (CAs) as they can advice an organization while the transaction is going […]

During the institute’s 48 year long presence it has alumni like Indira Nooyi, Chairman and CEO of Pepsi Co Inc.; Shantanu Khosla, MD of Procter and Gamble (India); Ajit Balakrishnan, Founder and CEO of Rediff.com and present Chairperson of IIM Calcutta; Dr. Ramachandra Guha, noted historian and author and R. Ramaraj, Founder of Sify.com, added […]

This year’s edition of Vantage, the annual recruitements program at Vinod Gupta School of Management (VGSoM), IIT Kharagpur has concluded with 65 companies recruiting 110 students from the institute. The highest annual domestic salary secured was Rs 14.7 lakhs and the average annual domestic salary was Rs 8.93 lakhs, a drop of 22 percent from […]

Also read Part 1 – How are IIM placements planned, how the placement committee is elected Part 2 – How the placements are executed on-ground Why do firms participate in the IIM campus placements at all? After all, the IIMs charge a substantial participation fee, as well as a recruitment fee for each student who […]

The event was inaugurated by Dr. C. S. Venkataratnam, Director IMI, and Dr. Nagaraj Sivasubramaniam, Chair Leadership, Ethics and Global Business Division, Duquesne University. The view of having sustainable development in Indian business and meeting the needs of future generations was backed by Mr. Viraf Mehta Chief Executive, Partners in Change and Mr Bharat Wakhlu, […]

The reason for this increase being the belief that the Indian economy will revive soon and will emerge as a market full of opportunities in diverse fields like entrepreneurship, social, corporate, academic, etc. and attracting international students to try new ideas and approaches, added the release. This increase is also a result of the total […]

“This MoU is primarily aimed at developing R&D; programmes; expanding knowledge and expertise in the field of research, fostering scientific cooperation through bilateral exchange visits of scientists and students, and other collaborative activities in accordance with the statutory requirements set by Council of Scientific & Industrial Research (CSIR) or governments of both the countries,” added […]