The ongoing cold war between the Indian Institutes of Management (IIMs) and the ministry of human resources development has now taken another turn. 


IIM-A decides to reject HRD ministry grant

Business Standard

Few in India know it but the affinity between India and Italy goes beyond Sonia Gandhi, not to mention Octavio Quatrocchi. The Italians, too, have been trying to cope with the problem of rampant

Bad news about candidate selection

WHAT THEY DONT TEACH YOU AT B-SCHOOL 



It's Not Enough To Have A Great Idea

The Panchdhatu Amalgam

'B-school should teach leadership styles and values'

'B-schools tend to foster conventional thinking'

Mumbais National Institute of Industrial Engineering Management (NITIE), is organising Srijan, the strategy game in association with Britannia, beginning the first week of September. 



Testing waters at NITIE

'Management Institutes Teach You Skills, Few Develop Competencies'

<B>The global fear about Indias growing IT and BPO clout has to be tackled scientifically</B> 



The It Backlash: The Way Forward

Scouting for new business opportunities seems to be the latest pre-occupation of the advertising industry. TBWA Anthems interactive division is doing exactly this with a vengeance. The division has

TBWA launches e-commerce package

Advertising agency FCB-Ulka is all set to launch a new media tool called Brand Insights which is likely to take on Young &amp; Rubicams Y&amp;R) proprietory tool, Brand Asset Valuator (BAV).


FCB Ulka to take on Y&R with its new tool

DVD-video player prices are expected to fall by 40 per cent in a years time, making it an affordable entertainment hardware for Indian homes, says the consumer electronics and television

DVD majors to drop prices by 40% to fuel demand

Economic slowdown notwithstanding, the slot zero of Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta (IIM-C)'s final placement process saw finance and consulting majors recruiting students from the campus. While over 135 offers were made during the coveted slot zero held on March 3 and 5, 2013, much of it came from finance and consulting sectors.A total of 25 students from IIM-C have secured placements in Boston Consulting Group, Bain & Co, McKinsey, and AT Kearney, along with Accenture Management Consulting, Opera Consulting, CGN and Hay Group, among others."Finance proved once again to be the stronghold of IIM-Calcutta with several top-notch firms coming to IIM-Calcutta for slot zero placements despite the economic slowdown. Some of the financial majors like JP Morgan, Deutsche Bank, Goldman Sachs, Citibank, Royal Bank of Scotland, HSBC and Standard Chartered among others flocked to the campus to recruit students in large numbers during the slot zero process," a communique from the insti

Finance, consulting firms rule the roost at IIM-C's slot zero placements

BS Reporter

Firm looking to make deeper inroads into entry D-segment

Skoda to bring third-generation Octavia to India this Diwali

When the focus at Europe's premier auto show is firmly on Ferrari and McLaren's hypercars rather than regular, mass driven cars, you know something's amiss

Cars catch cold at Geneva

While B-school education helped me realise some of my strengths as I stepped into the corporate world, I also felt somewhat inadequate. 


Collaborate, not just compete


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The Strategist Quiz #014

Company's Kolkata academy to help creative managers in making films.


ITC opens music vault for admen

Pearl School of Business (PSB), an initiative of garment manufacturing company House of Pearls, plans to launch its Doctorate in Business Administration (DBA) programme in all Saarc (South Asian

Pearl B-School plans spread in Saarc nations

Sensing the need for jewellery retail experts, the Indian Institute of Jewellery (IIJ) is launching a training programme, Jewellery in Organised Retail Management, in October this year. 


Course in jewellery retail management

Management institutes send their students abroad as summer interns to lure firms for placements.


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