Some of the firms that participated in campus placements were Arthur DaLittle, ITC, Colgate Palmolive, Nomura Holdings, Coca Cola, Mahindra & Mahindra, Bharti Airtel, Glenmark, Titan, Bajaj Auto, Cargill, Tata Motors, Axis Bank, ICRA, Unicon Securities, Eli Lilly, Vodafone, Virgin Mobile, Philips Godfrey, Essar Group, Tata Steel, Reckitt Benckiser, ICI Paints and Avalon Consulting. These […]

Rolling, but not quite on a roll With most traditional b-school recruiters freezing hiring or reducing intake substantially, placement committees across b-schools are having to contact newer companies that until now have been out of sight and out of mind of top b-schools. These companies are in sectors such as pharma, publishing, small and medium […]

The placement process at IIM Ahmedabad, which in boom time used to finish in 3 days, entered its sixth day today (March 2). The institute has put a complete media gag on the students. aWe will release a statement only after the placement process is completely over,a said student member of placement cell Vivek Jain. […]

Mr Schueler emphasized that business is first about people & relationships and then products. He also drew a contrast between the German and Indian way of doing business and outlined the two core values that Germans upheld a reliability and efficiency. Answering a query on the threat from China, Mr. Schueler pointed out that Germany […]

The aim of SPRINT is to bring out the fitness and sporting side of MBAs. The meet provides an opportunity for the participants to interact with their peers from colleges across India. Events: Athletics, Swimming, Chess, Carom, Basket Ball, Badminton, Volley Ball, Throw Ball, Cricket, Football, Table-Tennis. Participating Colleges: IIM-A, IIM-K, IIM-I, FMS, MDI, IIFT, […]

Starting from an initial pool of over 8,500 participants, 46 participants from 12 countries made it to the Final Round, where they competed in 10 international teams. 5 of these 10 teams had a Great Lakes student as a member. Prasanna Joshi, Oza Rutvij Siddharth, Rohit Menon, Parth S Bhimani and Adarsh Nand Bahadur flew […]

KT Chacko, Director, Indian Institute of Foreign Trade (IIFT) received the President along with Dr RM Joshi, Chairperson, Management Development programmes IIFT. “We are delighted that President of Rwanda has chosen a premier management institution like IIFT for his visit. This is indeed a prestigious event for us,” said Mr Chacko HE Paul Kagame, President […]

The programme covered major WTO issues such as the scope, function and structure of the WTO, its implications on international business, trade protectionism, regional economic integrations, sanitary and phytosanitary measures, technical barriers to trade, antidumping measures, intellectual property rights, subsidies & countervailing measures, special and differential treatment, trade in services, trade facilitation measures, non-agriculture market […]

The Jury consisted of the Chief Economist of the Aditya Birla Group (ABG), the Editor of Business Today (BT), Publishing Director Business Today and CEO and Founder of Naukri.com. The competition got off to a start with the first semi final between IIFT- Delhi and IIM-Bangalore. The topic was aCut Prices, not Production in a […]

What according to you would be the principal need for an MBA programthat focuses on international business, such as the MBA-IB program in place at IIFT? IIFT was the first Indian institution to startan MBA program in international business. It was set up 45 years back and atthat time India had a philosophy based more […]