| India remains attractive for B-school aspirants | 23-NOV-09 |
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| Foreign universities may be going the extra mile to lure Indian students abroad, but a new report reveals that Indian students who aspire for a Master in Business Administration (MBA) degree continue to find the country an attractive destination for higher studies. |
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| IIM-B ranked No 1 B-school in India | 16-NOV-09 |
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| The Indian Institute of Management Bangalore (IIM-B) has for the second consecutive year been recognised as the number one business school in India. |
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| Dream jobs lure IIM alumni back to campuses | 12-OCT-09 |
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| When Sapna Agarwal graduated from the Indian Institute of Management Bangalore (IIM-B)’s prestigious Post Graduate Programme (PGP) in 1993, IBM lapped her up. For the next 15 years, the self-confessed workaholic built her career with some of the best companies including IBM, Intel, Red Hat and EMC. In 2009, however, she gave it all up to join her alma mater IIM-B as head of career development services. |
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| IIM-B to play bigger role in global business education | 09-OCT-09 |
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| The Graduate Management Admission Council (GMAC), the association of international graduate business schools and owner of the GMAT exam, has admitted the Indian Institute of Management-Bangalore (IIM-B), as its newest member. The move is expected to increase the institute’s participation in policies and decisions involving international business education. |
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| IIM-B alumni to launch hiring services for ex-students | 05-OCT-09 |
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| Last September, a few students of the Indian Institute of Management-Bangalore (IIM-B) — who had accepted job offers from traditional dream recruiters like Lehman Brothers and Merrill Lynch — were shell shocked when the banking sector started collapsing with Lehman Brothers being the first to pull the plug. |
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| French students to study working of Bescom | 16-SEP-09 |
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| The Bangalore Electricity Supply Company (Bescom) has caught the fancy of students of the HEC School of Management, Paris, who are planning to prepare a case study of the same in association with students from the Indian Institute of Management - Bangalore (IIM-B). The students were in Bangalore as part of the first year of the HEC IIM-B Exchange Programme (HIEP). |
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| Academicians meet to discuss Yash Pal Committee report | 13-SEP-09 |
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| A large number of academicians, including principals and vice-chancellors of various colleges and universities, met here today to discuss the Yash Pal Committee report on higher education, according to Pankaj Chandra, director of Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore (IIM-B). |
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| IIM-B holds summit for entrepreneurs | 06-AUG-09 |
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| IIM-Bangalore will hold the second edition of its entrepreneurship summit Eximius ‘09 on the 15th this month. The two-day event, which aims at providing the budding entrepreneurs a platform to showcase their ideas, will have venture capital workshops, speaker series and panel discussion centering around entrepreneurship. |
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| Celebrity profs | 22-JUL-09 |
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| India hasn’t reached the stage where top professors acquire celebrity status, but it could be getting there. At an event organised by the All India Management Association, a student asked IIM Bangalore Director Pankaj Chandra for his autograph. Professor Chandra was a bit taken aback and suggested the student get autographs of important persons at the function — the student was adamant, so Chandra obliged. |
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| IIM-B selects SunGard Education's Banner UDC | 16-JUL-09 |
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| The Indian Institute of Management Bangalore (IIM-B), has selected SunGard higher education's Banner Unified Digital Campus (UDC) solution to help increase its efficiencies in course administration, improve student services and enhance capabilities for collaboration with institutions in India and abroad. |
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| Laid off overseas, IIM students request institutes to place them again | 13-MAY-09 |
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| Approximately 300 students from the premier Indian Institutes of Management (IIMs) and even Indian School of Business (ISB), Hyderabad, who were placed overseas last year, are bearing the brunt of a slowing economy. Having lost their jobs abroad, many students are requesting their institutes to help them with placements again. |
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