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IIM Bangalore achieves 100% summer placements; 130 firms make 529 offers

All 525 eligible students of IIM Bangalore were recruited for summer placements by over 130 companies, which made 529 offers. Roles offered included in the domains of PE/VC, Business Analytics, Consulting, Finance, General Management, IT/Product Management, Operations, Sales and Marketing", IIMB said in a statement on Monday. "The entire process of summer placements was conducted online, all 525 students, including PGP and PGP BA students, were placed in less than a week of starting the process, said Professor U Dinesh Kumar, Chairperson of Career Development Services at IIMB. "Traditional recruiters have supported us by bringing in new roles across divisions. New recruiters have come in. Other than the domain of Consulting, students have also received a large number of offers for S&M (95), General Management (81) and Finance (71)," said Anushree Jibhakate, Student Placement Representative, IIMB. Accenture, Amazon, Bain, BCG, Kearney and McKinsey were the top ...

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Learning curb

The latest challenge to IIM autonomy is counterproductive

Barring Quant, a shortened CAT 2020 turns out slightly more difficult

Verbal Ability and Reading Comprehension were slightly more difficult than last year in the morning slot and grew even more difficult in the afternoon slot

CAT 2020 to be held on November 29 in three shifts across 159 cities

Number of centres up from 376 last year to 430, registrations down by over 15,000

IIM-B retains top spot in Eduniversal's B-school rankings for Central Asia

IIM-Ahmedabad and IIM-Calcutta are the other B- schools that have been awarded this year.

IIM Lucknow achieves 100% summer placements in entirely virtual process

Top stipend Rs 2.5 lakh a month, average compensation at Rs 1.1 lakh

Indians' love for things foreign

…is this a virus more dangerous than Covid-19?

No global offers, but highest domestic pay up 35% in IIM-A's PGPX placement

Attracts domestic maximum earning potential (MEP) of Rs 81 lakh as against Rs 60 lakh last year

IIMs start preparing for summer placement; response from firms encouraging

Response from companies encouraging, placement cells indicate

BS READS: Job security vs skill upgrade - the future of one-year MBA course

As the IIMs discuss the status of degrees, the programmes themselves face many questions about placements and applications in the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic

IIMs open to meeting MHRD midway on one-year post-graduate programmes

Responding to a query, IIM Bangalore director G Raghuram said that the matter needed to be discussed, "especially if the MHRD, through the IIM Act, has given autonomy to the IIMs".

Unlike the West, endowment funds still a nascent revenue source for IIMs

Emulating major global B-schools like Harvard and Stanford for the first time, IIM Ahmedabad recently launched a Rs 100 crore endowment fund with the help of alumni with an aim to raise Rs 1,000 crore

IIM-Ranchi concludes final placement with avg annual pay of Rs 15.11 lakh

The highest international compensation offered stood at 59.37 lakh per annum and the highest CTC offered to the MBA-HR batch stood at 26.50 lakh per annum

Covid-19 impact: IIMs likely to resume classes in August this year

Usually, sessions for new incoming batches for their flagship two-year post graduate programmes in management start by July every year

Covid-19 impact: IIMs to roll out shortlists for admissions from May 8

In a normal year IIMs usually send out invitations to shortlisted candidates for participating in their respective admission process by mid-April

R T Krishnan named as IIM-Bangalore director; to take charge from July-end

Krishnan has served as Director of IIM Indore from 2014-2018 and one of the founders of IIM Sambalpur

Summer internship at top B-schools deferred or made virtual due to Covid-19

In some cases, existing internship offers have even been cancelled or squeezed to 5 weeks from the normal 7-8 weeks

Coronavirus: IIMs, IITs defer convocation ceremonies, suspend classes

ISB asks student to vacate campus; takes classroom lectures online

Average stipend for summer internships at IIM Shillong jumps 17%

68 firms participated in the process this time, from domains such as consulting & strategy, finance, general management, human resources, operations, and sales & marketing