Articles in IIM Bangalore
?One of the new kids on the ‘IIM’ block, the Indian Institute of Management, Udaipur (IIM-U) sure makes a pretty picture. The peach-coloured building that houses IIM-U looks rather regal on a cold winter morning. The early sun rays strikes it gently and the pockets of fog around the building, slowly melt away. Under the […]
Dr Janat Shah, director of IIMU Dr Janat Shah, director of the Indian Institute of Management (IIM), Udaipur already has a detailed strategy in place for the next ten years and aims to make IIM Udaipur better than IIM Ahmedabad and IIM Bangalore. A product of IIM Ahmedabad who spent two decades working with IIM […]
The newly established MYRA School of Business in Mysore, Karnataka, is one of the latest additions to the list of premier management education institutions in India. MYRA was born out of the need to redesign management education in the country and groom the leaders of tomorrow. Keeping in mind the rapid economic development in emerging […]
Admissions waitlists at the Indian Institutes of Management (IIMs) may be better managed during the upcoming season with the IIM directors agreeing towards closer cooperation in admissions at a meeting with the Human Resources Development Minister Kapil Sibal in New Delhi today. Earlier, the idea of the IIMs conducting a common interview process on the […]
(Image credit: Chris Hand) Heres a language test for all of you: what do you call ‘business management’ in Hindi? Okay, before you pull out all those English-to-Hindi dictionaries gathering dust in your ancestral bookshelf, just log on to Indian Institute of Management (IIM) Ahmedabads swanky new Hindi website that was launched on September 26. […]
(Photo credit: Abhishek Kamble) Arriving in Kashipur late evening last week, I asked the three-wheeler drivers outside the railway station if they would take me to the one and only good hotel in town. None of them acknowledged having even heard of the name. I then casually mentioned that it was barely a kilometer before […]
(Photo credit: Tom Taylor) Five technology and design firms pipped finance and consulting companies to appear among the top 10 most coveted companies to work for in US business schools according to a survey reported in the Wall Street journal. When asked to pick up to five ideal employers out of a list of 170, […]
(Photo credit: KC Toh) The Telengana row has hit the Hyderabad campus plans of the Indian Institute of Management (IIM), Ahmedabad and Xavier’s Labour Relations Institute (XLRI), Jamshedpur yet again. In a Business Standard story, both institutes divulged that they had not been allotted the land promised by the state government for their campuses yet. […]
Photo Credit: Benson Kua IIM Bangalore’s recent decision to make student attendance in classrooms optional is raising a lot of questions. Are Indian students at the post graduate level mature enough to come to class without the whip of compulsory attendance? Will they use or misuse the freedom that they are being entrusted with? And […]
Indian Institute of Management (IIM) Bangalore has decided to make attendance voluntary across all courses, starting with the first year students of this academic year. This may sound like an odd thing to do for a premier b-school like IIM Bangalore, but Bringi Dev, the head of Communications and an adjunct professor there, is convinced […]