The youngest Indian Institute of Management, Rajiv Gandhi Indian Institute of Management-Shillong, will have its maiden convocation tomorrow where its 63 students will be awarded post-graduate diplomas by finance minister Pranab Mukherjee.

First convocation of RGIIM Shillong today

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Last year, IIM-C increased the fee for the PGP to Rs 9 lakh from Rs 5 lakh. Till 2008, the two-year PGP students paid Rs 5 lakh (Rs 3 lakh for the first year and Rs 2 lakh for the second year).

IIM-C raises fee by Rs 4.5 lakh

The Indian School of Business said placements this year were better compared to the 2009 batch.

Job offers at Indian School of Business better than '09

The MIT Sloan School of Management (SSM), one of the five schools of Massachusetts Institute of Technology (US), will be an associate school of Indian School of Business for its upcoming Mohali Campus.

ISB associates with MIT Sloan

The Indian School of Business had a better placement season this season compared with last year. The number of companies coming to the campus increased by about 30 per cent.

ISB to extend placement

The sports channel is set to score heavily as advertisers queue up for the twenty20 World Cup in the West Indies.

Over to ESPN Star

Unilever&rsquo;s biggest brand is still a small play in India.

Knorr's new recipe

Abundant references to reincarnations and re births in our mythology notwithstanding, as a nation, we remain largely squeamish about the subject of death.

Straight talk

Rajiv Gandhi Indian Institute of Management, Shillong-- which began operations in July 2008-- has successfully placed its first batch of 63 students.

IIM Shillong achieves full placement for first batch

What do you expect two young investment bankers, pursuing an MBA from London Business School (LBS), to discuss when they meet? Deals or investment banking. When Gaurav Mehta and Ankit Agarwal met at LBS in the summer of 2008, they spent most of their time discussing rural India, and how they could create a business out of it.

From B-school to dusty rural roads

While the Indian Institutes of Management (IIMs) have been consistently increasing tuition fees for the two-year post graduate programmes (PGPs), they have simultaneously attempted to lower the financial burden for deserving students by increasing the disbursal of need-based scholarships.

IIMs sweeten fee hikes with increase in scholarships

The MIT Sloan School of Management (SSM), one of the five schools of Massachusetts Institute of Technology (US), will be an associate school of the Indian School of Business for its upcoming campus at Mohali near Chandigarh.

ISB ties up with MIT Sloan School of Management

Private unaided schools are smarting under a clause of the Right to Education (RTE) Act which mandates that even private educational institutions have to reserve 25 per cent of the seats for children from poor families. They believe the Act, which came into force last week, will do more harm than good by enforcing quotas.

Pvt schools stumped by 25% quota for poor children

Hyderabad-based Indian School of Business (ISB) plans to organise workshops for other B-school faculty in a bid to enhance management education in the country.

ISB collaborates with peers to enhance B-school education

The Loyola Institute of Business Administration (LIBA), a premiere Jesuit Institution with worldwide collaborations, is planning to revise its curriculum from next year to keep abreast with the latest in management practises. In an interview with Pradipta Mukherjee, the institute&rsquo;s director P Maria Joseph Christie S J says the institute is exploring collaborations with international institutes.

'We are in talks with four global universities for collaborations'

Havells tries to pep up the low-key electrical products category with new ads.

Shock & sombre

ITC is set to add 25 more hotels under the Fortune brand in the next year or year and a half. &ldquo;These are at different stages of development,&rdquo; says ITC Executive Vice-president (hotels) Pawan Verma. The tobacco to paper, FMCG and hotels major runs 34 Fortune hotels at the moment through a web of sub-brands like Select, Park, Inn and Resort.

ITC: Fortune in hotels

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