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New IIMs divided over mentorship with appointment of full-time director

Some new institutes believe older IIMs should cease to be mentors once a full-time director is appointed, while others are of the view that hand-holding is required till operations stabilize

HRD Ministry leaves it to IIMs to chose between degree and diploma

The directors of all the 20 business schools met in the national capital on February 28 to reach a consensus on the issue

Bitcoins, neurosciences drive demand for blended programmes at IIM-A

To tap online exec education, IIM-A will offer 6 programmes that are a mix of online and offline

From HUL to Amazon: FMCG, e-tail firms take part in IIM-A summer placements

Cluster-II of the summer placements process for the PGP class of 2019 saw participation from more than 45 firms

Microsoft's Rs 1.39-cr offer highest at IITs; Accenture top IIM-A recruiter

Microsoft would likely offer close to Rs 1.39 crore per year for jobs at its Redmond headquarters

Consulting, finance make half the offers as IIM-C wraps up placements

Over 130 firms led by consulting at 27% and finance at 23% make 481 offers

At 32%, IIM-A's incoming batch has the highest female ratio ever

28% of 395 PGP students, half of agri-business batch are women, up from 21% and 46% earlier

Gender diversity rises to 50% among doctoral research applicants at IIMs

In the past three convocations, IIM Kozhikode has seen 11 male and five female fellow students graduate

IIMs may see better gender mix, greater discipline diversity in new batch

The premier B-schools have been according weightage in pre-interview screening and shortlisting process to enhance gender and discipline mix

Top 3 IIMs see rise in gender parity

At 31%, IIM Calcutta has posted its highest share of female candidates among its 462 strong batch

BSE financial education arm collaborates with IIM Lucknow to offer courses

Inks MoU for advanced management education module

'Acche Din' for e-commerce: Flipkart, Amazon recruit at IIM Lucknow

The college achieved 100% placement for the batch 2016-18

Job offers at IIM-C dip in 2017 placement season

It is not clear whether the drop in offers is a fallout of demonetisation

IIM-C post-grad student lands Rs 4.5 lakh per month stipend offer

Out of over 460 summer internship offers made on the campus, the consulting sector had the highest share

BCG top recruiter at IIM-Calcutta summer placements

Apart from BCG, McKinsey, Bain and Accenture also made internship offers

A year on, IIM-Sambalpur toils without full-time faculty

Six new IIMs, announced in Budget 2014-15, started academic sessions last year. The first of a three-part series takes stock of IIM-Sambalpur

11 gone already, more students may leave IIM-Sambalpur over lack of hostels

Institute says Sambalpur University, where it has been housed since April, is refusing to honour an MoU to provide two hostels to its students

IIM-B climbs 7 places in FT ranking

IIM-C's rank down 7 places, IIM-A by 1 for the flagship two-year post graduate programme

Consulting top recruiting sector at IIM-B; e-commerce slows

A total of 160 recruiters from India and abroad across sectors participated

Loyalty programmes back in focus and firms scramble to retain customers

From picking cues from a consumer's personality to his kids' diaper sizes, retail and airline brands are using data to design newer schemes and tweaking them to satisfy newer demands