Articles in IIM Calcutta
The Indian Institute of Management Calcutta (IIM C) recently concluded its summer placement process for the Post Graduate Program (PGP) batch of 2012-14. The institute told PaGaLGuY that out of close to 240 firms which confirmed participation, only 154 among them could make offers due to the process ending ahead of schedule. A total of […]
Despite a tight job market, in search of a dream placement offer (Photo courtesy: thegoldguys.blogspot.com/) To help students combat placement stress, the Indian Institute of Management (IIM), Calcutta will allow the 2012-14 batch PGP students to have multiple summer placement offers from companies. The institute is also introducing a day break between the summer process, […]
Prof Shekhar Chaudhari The Indian Institute of Management Calcutta (IIMC) has kicked-off a few radical moves in the last few months. From initiating ‘reservation’ for women applicants to aggressively going after alumni to keep its infrastructure plans ticking. IIMC director Professor Shekhar Chaudhuri, spoke to PaGaLGuY about these measures and also on his institutes contribution […]
(Photo: Soubhik Chatterjee) The Indian Institute of Management (IIM), Calcutta finished its final placements for the 2010-2012 batches of its PGDM and PGDCM courses with 423 offers for a total effective batch of 345. Before the final placement process started, the students had already received 130 lateral and 95 pre-placement offers (PPOs), out of which […]
Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta (Photo: Ashok Kumar) The Indian Institute of Management (IIM), Calcutta is in the process of forming a ‘General Alumni Association’ which would help tap the 6,000+ rich alumni base of the b-school in collecting funds to support its major infrastructure expansion plans. The school also intends this association to assist […]
All that is transparent may not serve a real objective, believes IIM Calcutta (Photo: Horia Varlan) Until the last update, 25 of India’s business schools had committed to release detailed and audited placement statistics as per the Indian Placement Reporting Standards spearheaded by the Indian Institute of Management (IIM), Ahmedabad. The standard lays down a […]
In an exclusive interview with PaGaLGuY, Prof Shekhar Chaudhuri, director of Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta (IIM-C) speaks about the importance of diversity in class, development plans for IIM-C and the affect of foreign universities making an entry into India. The inclusion of X and XII marks during admissions has not received a very favourable […]
Photo credit: Abhishek Kathuroju The Indian Institute of Management (IIM), Calcutta closed the summer placement process for the batch of 2011-13 with students getting training projects across 142 companies. Although the placements began as a 5-day process, it switched over to a rolling process owing to it being the biggest batch ever at IIM Calcutta […]
Pic by Soubhik Chatterjee The Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta (IIM-C) is thinking of drawing in corporates and its alumni base to seek funds for completing some of its infrastructure projects. According to sources, it was at a meeting held at the Chennai Chapter of IIM-C Alumni Association, a few weeks ago, that the IIM-C […]
The country’s two premier b-schools, Indian Institutes of Management (IIMs) at Ahmedabad and Calcutta will hold a joint conference on the future of India’s management education on October 14 and 15, 2011 at the IIM Calcutta campus. Titled ‘Management Education: The road ahead, Meeting the challenges of globalization’ the conference would seek to take stock […]