Of what use can 140 characters be to ICICI Bank, India&rsquo;s largest private bank? If those characters make a &ldquo;tweet&rdquo;, and belong to a micro-blogging site called Twitter, the results will surprise you.

All that Twitters

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The Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore (IIM-B) will refund the fees of around Rs 8 lakh that students pay for their two-year Post Graduate Programme (PGP) if they take up a job in any non-profit entity (NGO) and work there for at least three years.

IIM-B to refund fees of students opting for NGO placements

The Indian Institutes of Management (IIMs) have, till date, invited close to 6,000 CAT candidates for a personal interview.

IIMs made around 6,000 CAT calls this year

After the Indian Institute of Management-Ahmedabad (IIM-A) changed its selection criteria for personal interviews by replacing its academic ratings system with a fixed minimum score of 70 per cent in both the board (10 th and 12 th standard) exams, other IIMs are following suit.

IIMs revise admission process; more weightage to Class X, XII marks

At the Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore (IIM-B), where post-graduate programme (PGP) placement starts on March 4, a sense of anticipation and optimism is in the air. Over 70 pre-placement offers have been received by the students. The B-school expects over 100 companies to visit its campus in the next one week. The batch has 266 students.

Offers aplenty as IIM-B, IIM-C gear up for placements

After Rin took on Tide in its ad campaign, Ariel is expected to do the same with Surf.

P&G may pay Lever back in the same coin

The Indian Institutes of Management (IIMs) have, till date, invited close to 6,000 CAT candidates for personal interviews.

IIMs call around 6,000 candidates

The fashion week, which begins tomorrow, will showcase clothes that are available now and not what will come later.

Lakme's just-in-time fashion statement

Even as many students got calls from the Indian Institutes of Management (IIMs) and other business schools for personal interviews and group discussions, many others are upset with their low scores in the Common Admission Test (CAT) and are raising a &ldquo;transparency&rdquo; issue with the institutes, besides mulling legal action.

MBA aspirants file RTIs, may move court

The beverage station was located in a non-descript office in Newcastle in Northeastern England. It was not different from thousands of other office stations where tea, coffee and milk were dispensed using an honour system. People assembled their beverages and dropped money in an honour box. An office maven sent out emails every six months or so, reminding people to pay for their beverages. This particular machine was located in a spot where people could not be observed.

Madhukar Sabnavis: Inspiring consumers

Employer of choice&rdquo; is not a branding that the country&rsquo;s largest bank is used to. But it finally happened last month when the State Bank of India (SBI) figured in the list of the top 10 employee-friendly Indian organisations in a Business Today survey.

Shyamal Majumdar: Banking on talent

The Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad (IIM-A) has put on hold the Post-Graduate Programme in Public Management and Policy (PGP-PMP) that was primarily designed for, and offered at a subsidised cost to, government bureaucrats.

IIM-A gives subsidised PGP course for bureaucrats a break

The rebid decision is hardly a setback for one of the hottest sporting properties in the world.

IPL: The $2 bn brand

Tim Love is the vice-chairman of the world's second-largest advertising group Omnicom. He is also the CEO of the network's Asia-Pacific, India, Middle East and African regions (APIMA). India has been a country where Omnicom has been trying to strengthen its operations for some time now. It has an office here under the leadership of ex-Hindustan-Unilever Chairman Keki Dadiseth. Love spoke to Viveat Susan Pinto about Omnicom's plans for the Indian market.

'Omnicom finds country branding most promising'

They say, travel broadens the mind, well then, following the links sent by your more clued in friends opens it up with pneumatic piledriver. Now, the odd corporation may label this activity as &lsquo;de-efficiencyfying individual productivity&rsquo;, or whatever the current, popular jargon is for &lsquo;wasting time&rsquo;. The thing is, it is anything but. The output of your brain is linked to the input. No maths class, ergo no one knows two plus two is equal to five, oh sorry, six.

Somewhere in brandland

While 2009 placements saw a 20-50% dip in salaries, the institutes are optimistic this time, even though salaries and number of offers per student are yet to touch 2007-08 levels.

Job offers aplenty at IIMs this year

IIMs, students spar over CAT score method

The Delhi-based Indian Institute of Foreign Trade (IIFT) this year has seen its highest international salary package, till date, of $150,000 per annum, besides recording the highest average salary of Rs 11.54 lakh.

IIFT sees 100% placement; highest-ever salary of $150,000

Not long ago, family businesses were seen as a route taken by the less adventurous. It&rsquo;s no longer the case. Today&rsquo;s youth are seeing family businesses as potential growth drivers and are not hesitating to give up corporate offers to be part of family businesses.

More youth at ISB take the family business route

The final placement process at IIM-Calcutta (IIM-C) kicked off to an expectedly positive start today with top financial and global consulting firms making numerous offers to students from the batch of 2008-2010. The institute went into placements today with more than 125 offers in hand.

Financial, consulting firms make 50 offers at IIM-C on Day Zero

After reeling under the impact of the economic downturn last year, the placements at Xavier Institute of Management-Bhubaneswar (XIMB) has bounced back to record new highs in this year&rsquo;s placement season.

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