Half of India Inc CEOs from IITs, IIMs

Nearly half of the India Inc’s professionals in Chief Executive role hail from the country’s elite institutes — IIT and IIM, a study says.
“A whopping 50 per cent of the professionals in Chief Executive or Strategic Business Leadership roles hail either from the IITs or the IIMs or both, across corporations studied,” global executive search [...]

CAT may not go online this year

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Last Dec. IIMs had floated a tender and short-listed 4 companies to conduct CAT 2009 online.
Logistics issues might hinder possibility of CAT going online this year. 300,000 students to take exam on same day on computer terminals – large scale provision of infrastructure and facilities involved – huge task.
Pankaj Chandra, director, IIM Bangalore: [...]

Good news in bad times, for IIM Calcutta

Everyone is talking about recession and poor job prospects for business school graduates. But despite the hue and cry, schools like IIM Calcutta are not complaining. And here’s why.
It is good news in bad times from IIM Calcutta. Recession may have affected pre-placement offers which fell from 90 last year to 54 this year, but [...]

IIM-Indore average salary declines by 15-20%

Indian Institute of Management Indore (IIM-I) has wrapped up its two-phase final placement process with the entire batch of 175 students getting placed over a total of 10 days. Though the institute was unwilling to comment on the actual figures, it claimed that this year’s highest international offer from an IT major represented an increase [...]

IIM-Lucknow to hike fees

One of the top B-schools in the country, Indian Institute of Management-Lucknow (IIM-L) on Monday announced that it will soon hike the fees for its two-year postgraduate programme.
“We have our financial requirements and to justify it we hope to increase the fee,” institute director Devi Singh told reporters here.
According to institute officials, the [...]

IIM Calcutta places students without big fat pay checks

IIM Calcutta has managed to keep its head above water, at least as far as placements are concerned. It has managed 100% placements, with average salary dipping just 12%. CNBC-TV18’s Kritika Saxena delves deeper.
Here is a verbatim transcript of Kritika Saxena’s comments on CNBC-TV18.
It may be the worst of times, but for IIM Calcutta, placements [...]

Fresh grads from IIMs post CVs at job portals

With the first round of campus placements evoking a lukewarm response from top companies, graduates from the country’s elite business schools such as the Indian Institute of Management(IIM) and the Indian School of Business (ISB) are activating their Plan B: posting resumes at job portals.
The number of IIM students tapping job sites such as TimesJobs, [...]

IIT, IIM alumni to contest 40 Lok Sabha seats

The Bharatiya Punarnirman Dal (BPD) – a political outfit floated by Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) and Indian Institute of Management (IIM) alumni – will contest the Lok Sabha election from at least 40 seats across the country, a party leader said Saturday.
“We are all geared to contesting the election. Till now, we have only [...]

IIM-C students opt for PSU positions

In a market swooning in the downturn, caution is the key. And who would judge that better than budding management gurus? The batch passing out of IIM, Kolkata, has taken this safety-first mantra to heart with 36 students out of 265 opting for jobs with the less paying, but more secure public sector units.
All 36 [...]

Devi Singh to resume charge as IIM-L director again

Six months after he left as the Director of IIM-Lucknow on completion of his term, Prof Devi Singh will again be at the helm of affairs of the prestigious post for a second term on Monday.
Singh’s first term ended on August 24, 2008, but his successor could not be decided as a turf war [...]