Continuum, the rolling seminar series, is a regular event at Shailesh J. Mehta School of Management, IIT Bombay. This event aims to cover the latest trends in management by inviting eminent speakers from business and academia. Each of these seminars focuses on issues and challenges faced by a management function, and aims at drawing insights […]

“Top consulting firms like McKinsey and Co and Bain and Co, along with leaders in the investment banking industry such as Goldman Sachs and Deutsche Bank among other prominent firms have extended fulltime offers to all their summer interns from IIM Ahmedabad,” announced an IIM Ahmedabad press statement released today. The number of PPOs, even […]

In CAT 2006 too, the message send by IIMs was very clear: We are looking for people who are ‘well read’. It proved to be a nightmare for those who were not good readers. Gone are those days when there used to be many passages with 5-7 questions each and it used to be a […]

The session started off with Mr. Manikkan giving a brief overview on the basic functions that come under the Investment Banking practice. These could be broadly divided across Equity and Debt. Equity services include M&A; Advisory, Corporate Restructuring Advisory, Private Equity, Privatization and Privatization. Debt services include Project Finance Advisory, Loan Syndication and Treasury. Mr. […]

Quantitatively, the good student MUST score better than the not so good ones to ensure that CAT does its job! Let us go one step further. This means that each question in the CAT should and must differentiate between the good and the not so good. This in turn would mean that in each question […]

What used to be a set of simple graph-based arithmetic questions, DI in its new-age incarnation is a confusing mixture of charts, tables and logical reasoning and thus a pet peeve for many. Hitesh Devalia of Endeavor Careers makes sense of new-age DI and provides useful tips to help you tame this section. Click here […]

How is FMS-DU’s MBA (Management of Services) different from your full-time MBA program? To answer that question we’ll have to go back and explore why we launched this course in the first place. All over the world, MBA programs have a common core element where you have to teach the basics. So the finance, accounting, […]

“Although we had gone ahead with announcing 185 seats for the Post Graduate Programme in Management (PGPM) for the 2008 admissions, we just received the AICTE approval for upgrading the course to 240 seats,” he said. “We already have 85 fulltime faculty on campus but we are recruiting more faculty to handle the additional load […]

Prof. Sonu Goyal, Program Chairperson, PGDBM IT, Faculty in the area of Business Strategy while introducing the theme of the conclave emphasized that, ” Information technology today has become integral to the functioning of an organization. The rising pace of change and the growing pressure on organizations to do more for less has accelerated the […]

Last year SITM organized Communiqué 06- The X National Telecom Seminar, which focused on the theme “Enhancing vision for growth across the telecom panorama- Changing with Growth “. It involved understanding the future trends across the telecom industry, the thematic address for which was delivered by Mr. Sam Pitroda, Chairman, National Knowledge Commission, India. In […]