IWSB’s Academic Council, which is shaping the curricula for the Post Graduate Programme in Management, has quite a few big names in the field of management education, including Phil Anderson, Dean INSEAD Singapore, Ishwar Dayal, the founding Director of IIM Lucknow, Mirza Saiyadain, former faculty at IIM Ahmedabad, and many more. Benchmarked with some of […]

SATURDAY: 17 NOVEMBER · Don’t cram! Preparation for CAT is a long term process. Whatever efforts you have put in till now are sufficient, you cannot learn any new things anymore, so just relax. · Get your gear together! Gather everything you’ll need to carry with yourself to the test centre: Admission ticket, a ballpoint […]

“Going beyond a traditional summit, AIMS 2007 in association with Calicut IT Initiative (CITI, a professional citizens’ initiative) launches ConnectCalicut, a round table discussion where decision-makers from major IT companies, the Kerala Government and infrastructure developers including the Aditya Birla Group will converge. ConnectCalicut will set the stage for high-level discussions on developing Calicut as […]

“India has seen an explosion of its middle classes over the last few years with an emerging generation of highly educated young workers earning higher incomes than ever before,” says Arun Mehra, Head of Investment Strategy at Fidelity India. “This has driven massive growth in domestic consumption and if you combine this with the boom […]

Table 1 depicts the employment sectors in which MBA candidate respondents are currently employed. Table 1: Current Employment Sectors of MBA respondents – Worldwide (expressed as a percentage) Accounting 3.9 Banking 6.0 Consulting 9.3 Consumer Products 5.0 Education 5.5 Engineering 8.8 Financial Services 7.4 Industry 5.5 Information Technology 14.1 Media 2.6 Non-Profit 2.7 Pharmaceuticals 2.1 […]

Preferred Industry Sectors – India Academia 1.72 Consulting 25.08 Financial Services, Banking & Accounting 27.23 Industry & Engineering 9.8 IT & Telecommunications 18.62 Non-Profit & Public Sector 2.05 Pharmaceuticals & Healthcare 3.23 Retail, Consumer Products & Media 9.26 Other 3.98 Source: 2007 QS TopMBA.com Applicants Survey But many students, both in India and around the […]

The school reported an increase in internships into the finance sector with recruitments by Lehman Investment Banking, EightCapital Hedge Fund, Indea Capital, Lotus Asset Management, in addition to the traditional recruiters like JP Morgan Chase, The Carlyle Group, Edelweiss, Rabo Bank, Goldman Sachs, HSBC, Citi Bank, Standard Chartered, ICICI Bank, Axis Bank and SBI Capital […]

Courses that the IIM-A students will study in one week include ‘Introduction to Business Negotiations’ with Prof Elke Weber, a ‘Marketing Module’ with Prof Gita Johar and ‘Credit Risk & Fixed Income Markets’ with Prof Suresh Sundaresan. Over the course of the week, the students will also have the opportunity to interface with other faculty […]

The theme chosen for Intaglio 2007-08 is ‘Reaching Out… Staying Ahead’. Boundaries and limits are set only by the ability to dream, and the new era calls for an exploration beyond these old mental blocks, to reach out and uncover new avenues. Survival, Sustenance and Success, in that order, no longer mean clichéd price wars […]

‘Crescita’, the annual conference of the BIM Trichy saw speakers from various sectors sharing their perspective on issues such as currency appreciation, inclusive growth, energy requirements, supply chain establishment, financial inclusion, effective communication with target audience and talent retention. Mr BL Ghasolia, executive director-chief corporate finance, ONGC, who inaugurated the two-day seminar, outlined the energy […]