Articles in XLRI Jamshedpur
The showcase event was the ‘Idea Summit’ wherein renowned speakers from different walks of life distilled and shared their experiences, insights and thoughts with a diverse audience. The summit revolved around the vital discussion on inclusiveness in India’s growth story. The competitions were a treat not just for the participants but also for the audience […]
The festival is a thriving mélange of case studies, business plan contests, paper presentations and strategy games. Last year, Ensemble 2007, with the theme India Unbounded: Unleashing the Tiger, saw 200 participants from the best b-schools in India battle for top honours and a prize money of around 7.5 lakh rupees. The theme for Ensemble […]
The event comprised of two competitions – Antithesis (a debate) and Minerva (a quiz). The topic for the debate was whether “vintage is losing ground in today’s competency driven workplace”, and it was a hotly contested motion. Minerva consisted of three gruelling rounds of quizzing, which had diverse questions from the field of HR as […]
“Each year our esteemed guest lecturer is carefully selected from the world’s foremost leaders on business ethics,” said Fr E Abraham S.J., director of XLRI. “Dr. Snyder was chosen because he is an eminent leader known for his intelligence, enterprise, social and ethical concern.” As a distinguished guest lecturer and innovator of leadership competency development, […]
The program involved two parts, the first being an overview of Australian business climate and industrial scenario. As their visit coincided with elections in Australia, the students began with an assignment to cover election issues and different political agendas. They were also asked to analyse the policy shifts that the new Kevin Rudd government proposed […]
The eastern part of India is not particularly the hotbed of business education, the number of b-schools here being being much lesser than those in the rest of India. However, all that seems to change every year at the Aditya-Birla Group and Business Today’s b-school quiz and debate event Acumen 2007. The fever ofexcitement at […]
A total of 12 teams – four each for the b-school quiz, b-school debate and alumni quiz – drawing from the best talent of India’s top MBA programs reached Mumbai on December 15 for the Acumen finals. The names of the b-schools itself – IIM Ahmedabad, IIM Calcutta, IIM Bangalore, SIBM Pune, IIFT Delhi, Narsee […]
Recently, XLRI signed up an MoU with Audencia Nante School of Management, leading European business school with a worldwide outlook. This school of management is one of the only four French schools featured in top 100 programmes worldwide and scores particularly highly in the category of faculty quality, occupying the 11th place worldwide. Audencia is […]
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 […]
Our report earlier this month had brought to light how the top-rated b-school Xavier Labour Relations Institute (XLRI) Jamshedpur’s Singapore arm had been unable to start the MBA-equivalent fulltime PGDBM course, which they had extensively advertised and sought applications for. Read the full story in the link below. XLRI Singapore unable to start fulltime course, […]