After real estate and luxury lifestyle products, Gitanjali Gems is now diversifying into branded apparels. The flagship company of the Rs 6,500 crore Gitanjali Group is known primarily as a branded jewellery manufacturer and retailer.

Gitanjali Gems to debut in branded apparels

Business Standard

The first day of the final placement at the Indian Institute of Management Calcutta (IIM-C) passed off smoothly today with 230 plus offers already in hand, including pre-placement offers and the laterals process.

IIM-C begins final placement with 230 plus offers

Press Trust of India

Indian Institute of Management-Calcutta (IIM-C), the oldest institute in the IIM system saw participation from 25 companies on Day-zero, (as the first day of final placements for PGDBM students is known) a significant increase over last year.

Final placements begin at IIM-C

Gustav Baldauf&rsquo;s resignation as Air India&rsquo;s Chief Operating Officer was on expected lines. But the frivolity of the national carrier&rsquo;s latest crisis was surprising even after discounting the sheer incompetence of successive managements and the way the civil aviation ministry has been handling Air India&rsquo;s affairs.

Shyamal Majumdar: The Maharaja of mess

The recently-concluded lateral placement process at IIM-B saw the emergence of management consultants as the preferred choice for more than 55 per cent offers.

Management consulting dominates lateral placements at IIM-B

Indian Institute of Management-Calcutta (IIM-C), the oldest institute in the IIM system, saw participation of 25 companies on the first day of final placements for PGDBM students &mdash; a significant increase over last year.

IIM-C kickstarts final placement season

The Indian Institute of Management Lucknow (IIM-L) has wrapped up its higher entry placement process (HEPP), with over 75 firms offering roles across various positions. ICICI Bank led the pack with 22 offers for investment banking, followed by 20 from consulting major Deloitte.

ICICI Bank, Deloitte top recruiters at IIM-L lateral placements

Last December was hardly a holiday season for Debu Bhattacharya, managing director of Hindalco, his key lieutenant CFO Sunirmal Talukdar and their core corporate strategy and finance teams. Even though Christmas was round the corner, Hindalco, the Aditya Birla Group flagship, was in the middle of reaching a crucial milestone to financially integrate Novelis with Hindalco and make cash fungible between the two. This exercise in turn would give Hindalco the much needed extra legroom and cash to accelerate its ambitious growth plans in India.

All the right reasons

Guerrilla marketing in its purest form is about achieving conventional goals using unconventional means. There are a lot of people using social media as a marketing tool, but many are still approaching it as if it were a conventional marketing media. There are spending a lot of time, energy and resources blasting out content, pitches, and generic slogans and offers.

Go guerrilla on social media

Companies expanding their footprint in other countries must first ask themselves why they are successful in their original businesses, says Harvard Business School Jorge Paulo Lemann Professor and Harvard University South Asia Initiative Director Tarun Khanna. When not spearheading courses on strategy, corporate governance and international business for MBA students and senior executives at Harvard, he serves on the boards of global companies from different sectors. Khanna also mentors startups in Asia. In conversation with Sayantani Kar, Khanna says few companies introspect on their core strengths before seeking growth in new markets. Khanna&rsquo;s experience with companies and investors in emerging markets worldwide has seeded his two books, Billions of Entrepreneurs: How China and India are Reshaping Their Futures and Yours (2008) and Winning in Emerging Markets: A Roadmap for Strategy and Execution (co-authored in 2010).

Q&A: Tarun Khanna, Professor

The world&rsquo;s largest truck maker Daimler recently unveiled BharatBenz, a brand, as the name suggests, tailormade for the Indian market. This will be the auto behemoth&rsquo;s fifth brand in the global truck portfolio which includes Mercedes-Benz, Mitsubishi Fuso (Japan), Freightliner and WesternStar (United States). In India, Daimler also handles the sales and after-sales of Mercedes-Benz Actros, a premium range of trucks targeted at the mining segment.

Daimler: Stepping on the gas

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When Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee announced a grant of Rs 200 crore to the Indian Institute of Technology-Kharagpur (IIT-Kgp) in his Budgetary speech, he facilitated more than just infrastructure upgrade at the institute.

MBBS at IIT Kharagpur

It&rsquo;s not only the B-schools which are drawing companies on campus. Improved global recovery has brought the companies back on the campuses of Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs), too.

IIT placements back to pre-recession levels

The health insurance industry, which had underwritten premium of over Rs 8,000 crore in 2009-10, is expected to expand manifold with an annual growth rate of 30 per cent for the next five years.

KIT:  Health insurance

    Name this supply chain game played by up to four people with an objective to minimise the total cost for everyone in the supply chain by maintaining low stocks but managing to deliver all orders. It is named after a beverage.

The Strategist Quiz (#191)

Indian Institute of Management Calcutta (IIM-C) and Hughes Global Education have launched Executive Programme in Financial Risk and Investment Management.

IIM-C to offer course in financial risk

    Name the Indian businessman and nationalist who was the first to enunciate the &ldquo;drain theory&rdquo; in the 1860s. He argued that the basic cause of India&rsquo;s poverty was drain of wealth &mdash; excess exports over imports.

Answers to last week's quiz (#190)

Indian Institute of Management, Lucknow (IIM-L) has won the Lucknow round of Tata Crucible Campus Quiz 2011 on Sunday. The winning team will now compete with regional winners from 23 other cities in India for berth in national finals in April in Mumbai. UP Principal Secretary (technical education) Vrinda Swarup felicitated the winners with cash prize of Rs 75,000. The Lucknow round saw the participation of over 350 teams from the region.

IIM-L wins Tata Crucible Quiz 2011

It was not the punters alone who were smiling when Netherland&rsquo;s Ryan ten Doeschate scored a century against England in the Cricket World Cup. Several people in a small town of Gujarat were also cheering the Dutch team.

Utterly butterly dutch

The biggest cricketing event on the planet has kicked off amidst great expectations, anticipations, excitement and frenzy. As the ICC Cricket World Cup 2011 proceeds into its third week, let&rsquo;s take a look at the fortnightly action. While most of the things have gone according to the script, the World Cup has sprung up a few surprises of its own. Amongst the biggest ones is the astonishing defeat handed over to England by their Irish neighbors in a record run chase.

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