Since its establishment in 2008, the Indian Institute of Technology-Patna has had a good run but it still has a lot of catching up with its richer and older cousins. It houses 10 departments and a little more than 500 students.

IIT-Patna: Enough faculty for all

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Sonia Sotomayor is one of the nine most powerful judges in the US. Yet, in My Beloved World, her memoir published last week, she admits to her insecurity about many things, including her appearance. In an interview with The Wall Street Journal, the judge said she had some variant of the &ldquo;imposter syndrome&rdquo; &mdash; feeling like she doesn&rsquo;t really deserve to be where she is.

Shyamal Majumdar: The 'imposter syndrome'

The world is in the post-PC world and for business model innovation to happen, companies should make effective use of the five webs. This was the message conveyed by Professors Venkat K Venkatraman, David J McGrath Jr Professor of Management at the Boston University School of Management.

'Effective use of five webs key to business model innovation'

The institute, with close to 500 students, functions out of Ropar&rsquo;s defunct women&rsquo;s polytechnic, converted into a transit campus.

IIT-Ropar: Roping in attractive recruiters

The Indian Institute of Technology, Hyderabad (IIT-H), had no faculty of its own when it started in August 2008. It was dependent on IIT, Madras, for its premises and the teaching of its first batch of 167 students. The first faculty member, U B Desai, now director of IIT-H, joined the institute a year later.

IIT-Hyderabad: Seeking entrepreneurs

Six of eight new IITs churned out their first batch this year from makeshift campuses.

The new IITs: Can they carry the flame forward?

Popular culture &ndash; films, music, TV shows, magazines, literature and so on &ndash; both reflects and influences social behaviour. People draw their role models from what these media project, and then they tend to imitate what these role models do. Advertising is a part of popular culture &mdash; an omnipresent part that enters uninvited every day into millions of homes. Thus, it needs to be socially responsible with regard to what it depicts.

Madhukar Sabnavis: Creative while being sensitive

The objectives of the PDRF are to provide management  researchers in India an opportunity to contribute to theory of management  specially suited to the Indian context and to enable faculty members at IIMC to  collaborate on research projects with bright young researchers in India.

IIM-C to institute Post-doctoral Research Fellowships

Ram Kumar Kakani, faculty of corporate finance and strategy at the XLRI School of Management, Jamshedpur, receive the "Best young teacher award" by the Association of Indian Management Schools (AIMS)

Award for XLRI teacher

ICFAI University is offering guaranteed placement service to students enrolled under the distance learning programme of Master of Science -MS (Finance), Master of Business Administration (MBA) and

ICFAI to place distance course students

While it is true that a host of Indian-owned ad firms have been gobbled up by MNCs, this is par for the course in a globalised world &nbsp;<IMG alt="Santosh Desai"

Is there room for an Indian-owned ad agency?

It's not often you get to interact with Robert Kaplan in person and when you get a chance, you just grab it with both hands, almost losing your balance in the process. 


Runaway rush to grab Kaplan Balanced Scorecard

Class, sophistication and quality gets reflected in many ways. The key parameters by which the All India Management Association (AIMA) survey of India's business schools measures these are through

Super league B-schools superlative in quality parameters

ITC has become the first Indian company and the second in the world to win this year's $100,000 Development Gateway Award for e-choupal initiative in rural India. 


$200,000 more for e-choupals

S D Shibulal, director and co-founder, Infosys Technologies, has been given the responsibility of global sales head after Basab Pradhan quit the company recently. 


Shibulal is new Infosys global sales head

Emami, the personal and healthcare major, has roped in Shah Rukh Khan in its club of brand ambassadors. 


Emami ropes in Shah Rukh

Honda Siel Cars India is planning to protest the marketing and promotion of TVS Motor Company for its bike StaR City as the name 'City' coincides with the name of its top selling Honda City.


Honda Siel chides TVS over City brand

The Mumbai-based Narsee Monjee Institute of Management Studies (NMIMS) in association with the Bombay Stock Exchange has launched a two-year full-time MBA in capital markets programme. 


MBA in capital markets


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The Andhra Mahila Sabha (AMS) - P Obul Reddy Institute of Technology And Management (PORTAM) will commence a 12-month Post PG programmes in social sector management, actuarial science, life insurance

Obul Reddy institute to start post PG courses

The Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad (IIM-A) is creating a case study for its students, documenting Gujarat Alkalies and Chemicals turnaround story.


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