In the TBLA contest, participants were invited to present ideas on the theme of ‘Globalization — identifying global growth opportunities for the Tata Group‘. The teams were given the challenge to present a business case on the opportunity for the Tata Group to grow globally, which could be organic or inorganic. The winners were handed […]

The inaugural ceremony of the SHRM chapter of TISS was held at TISS itself. Ms Nina Woodard, Executive Director, SHRM, pointed out that American industries didn’t yet understand how to do business in India and SHRM would be the platform that would bring about a transfer of knowledge, both to and from India and the […]

The inaugural address was given by the guest of honour Mr Chandra Wadhwa, President ICWAI and Dr AK Sarkar, Director (Finance) CCL, Chief Guest for the seminar delivered the keynote address. Dr D Ravishankar, Ex. Director, Investment & Risk Management-CRISIL, discussed about risks faced in Banking Industry, Basel II and the risk management architecture & […]

On day one, more than 100 teams from various B-schools participated in a series of competitions like case study competition, personality tests, entrepreneurial games and on-the-spot games like HR based consulting games. At the end of the day, there was a DJ nite. The media conclave is scheduled on the third day of the event […]

Financial institutions like Citibank, Standard Chartered, Kotak Mahindra Bank, SBI Caps were some of the companies that offered PPOs in Finance, while companies like L’Oreal, Cadbury, RPG Spencer’s Retail and others offered profiles in Operations. Feedback Ventures and The Progress Group offered profiles in Consulting. Companies offering profiles in the Systems domain included Wipro and […]

According to the press release, both schools will work together on implementing the following points: Exchange of at least two faculty members per academic year. Jointly design, market, and conduct short duration executive development programs in countries, especially, in the Asian region. Identify research themes of international, particularly Asian, relevance and to form joint teams […]

According to the institute’s press release, the content of magazine will figure various macro and micro economic issues faced by contemporary managers. Apart from articles of experienced people in Indian and global economy, the magazine will also have inputs from the faculty of the institute and students. The institute is targeting not only corporate leaders […]

What are the top 3 reasons an applicant should join the LIBA PGDM over other b-schools in the same league? Besides the general reasons that mark any great b-school such as the well experienced and highly qualified faculty, constantly updated curriculum meeting the needs of the industry, 100 pc placement records with good salaries, etc., […]

The trend this time leaned towards consulting again, with the crème de la crème of the industry visiting the campus. The KPMG, Ernst & Young, PriceWaterHouseCoopers, Hewitt Associates and Accentures of the world jostled with each for the small batch of 41. The fact that 16 students of the batch had already accepted Pre-Placement Offers […]

Placements 2008 saw 47 companies that revisited our cam-pus while 23 new companies participated in the process for first time. Each organization offered a mix of profiles and packages. With batch strength of 239 students in PGDM and MMS this year, the average salary went up to 7.70 Lacs p.a., from the past year’s average […]