The word KathaKali is derived from the Malayalam word Katha (story) and Kali (dance), which means that a story or play is enacted in the form of a dance. The name of the play enacted at XIMB was aLord Dakshayagaa and it was based on the Hindu mythological story of Lord Shiva, Devi Sati and […]

1. Career Launcher, headquartered in New Delhi aThere will be dedicated computer laboratories at our coaching centers and on an average 15 hours of online preparation would be provided for every 100 hours of classes at the centers. Computer based learning will become an integral part of teaching methodology and there will be focus on […]

How do you see placements at ISB getting affected this season with the economic scenario and accompanying doomsday prophecies?The way I see it, we have 400 odd students and the whole world is our market. Over the last 3 years, our focus has been international as well as within India. International offers at ISB have […]

Four months after his convocation from IIM Calcutta, Ankur put together a team with Maninder Gulati, a senior from IIT Bombay who quit his job at ITC to join Lifeinlines.com. Nirjhareswar Bannerjee and Nilesh Pancholi, both into technology, also joined the team. Explaining in detail about Lifeinlines, Ankur said, aItas about capturing moments, thoughts and […]

Dr Bala gave the welcome address in which he mentioned that aIndia is standing tall because of its HR practicesa. Dr Bala said that the times are changing very rapidly and talked about the changes in the next 3 to five years. Some of the changes he mentioned were aThe change will be accelerating. The […]

The event started with a satirical play titled aThe Wedding Storya. The play opens with a storyteller who is telling a story of a gorgeous bride and a handsome groom. Throughout the play, the couple rudely interrupts the storyteller and contradicts every detail of the wedding. The storyteller lashes out and tells the real wedding […]

The session began with Mr Mariwala narrating the story of how Bombay Oil Industries Ltd. (BOIL) began as a small family owned unit engaged in producing and selling branded vegetable oil. Mr. Harsh joined BOIL after his graduation in 1971 and eventually took over its consumer products division in 1980. Here he realized the need […]

Dr Harsh Vardhan Verma, Faculty of Marketing at FMS Delhi, in his keynote address talked at length about the crumbling boundaries and the compulsion that corporates essentially face to go global in order to stave off competition. He also spoke about the DNA of brands and how certain brands do not need to abenda since […]

The first batch of the programme was started last year and has justconcluded the placement process. The average salary offer was Rs 15lakhs and the highest offer was Rs 25 lakhs. The companies where thestudents have been placed include Procewaterhouse Cooper, CenturyPlywood, Cummins, Infosys, Jindal Steel, Reliance ADA, Satyam, Ranbaxy,Tata Power etc. Interestingly, no foreign […]

First in line was the panel discussion on Innovation in Sales and Distribution. Participants included Mr Apoorv Varma, Corporate advisor, CEEZAY Trade Mart; Mr Rahul Goel, National Sales Head, Sony Ericsson and Mr Samik Dasgupta, VP, Yes Bank. The post lunch session began with the studentsa presentation contest on the topic aInnovative Brand Buildinga. The […]