The speakers at the event included: Mr Abbas Ali Mirza, Partner & Member, Deloitte & Touche (M.E); Dr Khalid Maniar Founder & Managing Partner, Howarth Mak and Mr Atul Shukla, Group Director, Howarth Mak. Mr Mirza spoke about the global adoption of IFRS and the relevance of accounting and auditing standards in times of recession. […]

The roles offered to the students varied between business planning & strategy to marketing and finance. Regular recruiters like RPG, Godrej, Marico recruited for junior to mid management level positions along with public sector players like Union Bank, Bank of Baroda & IOCL. Start ups like FINO & ABTL offered higher corporate positions with greater […]

Rolling, but not quite on a roll With most traditional b-school recruiters freezing hiring or reducing intake substantially, placement committees across b-schools are having to contact newer companies that until now have been out of sight and out of mind of top b-schools. These companies are in sectors such as pharma, publishing, small and medium […]

The theme of the Supply Chain summit is aSupply Chain in Recessionary Timesa and the case study competition is based on supply chain issues faced by aPaint Industrya. This year, the winners get to take home Rs 25000 and the runners up Rs 10,000 along with some other prizes. The case study has been developed […]

The placement process saw participation from 109 firms across sectors, out of which 95 firms recruited in the final placements process. The placement process this year was conducted over a nine day period from February 25 to March 05, 2009, the longest ever since the MBA job boom. The average domestic salary was reported as […]

The inauguration of the event was held on February 14, 2009 which was presided over by Dr A Sivathanu Pillai, Director DRDO, CEO & MD BrahMos Aerospace; and Dr M Ponnavaikko, Honorable Vice Chancellor of Bharathidasan University; Prof M Sankaran, Director, BIM Trichy and the conference Chairman, Dr David Jawahar, Head, CECMAR (Centre for Contemporary […]

Unmukta Nikash has built a model of internal revenue generation through B school merchandising. They have tied up with FMS for their merchandising for the current year. It has also partnered with Euphoria, (www.euphoriaonline.net) the cultural fest of NMIMS. aThis is a unique partnership where a cultural fest is supporting a social cause. This is […]

The theme for Udaan 2009 is aCSR as a strategic imperative for sustainable developmenta and its sub-themes include CSR in Contemporary World: Relevant Issues and Dimensions; India Inc. Social Transformational Leaders; Law, Ethics, Governance and CSR; Example of Best CSR Practices; Brand Building Through CSR and Audit and Ratings. The conference will have individual addresses, […]

Fourteen teams from business schools like, Kellogs Business School, Johns Hopkins School of Public Health, Yale School of Medicine, University of Alberta, Singapore Management University, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, USA; University of Buckingham (UK); University of British Columbia; University of Washington, Seattle, USA, Indian School of Business, Hyderabad and few others, were participating for […]

The school has set aside a corpus of Rs. 30 lakhs which will be used to support selected students through payment of their educational loan EMIs for a period of two years. ISB would initially support five graduates starting this year. Those students who have accepted employment in social ventures (like microfinance, NGOs, grassroot level […]