In Nov 2011, Class of 2013 at IIM Kozhikode was the first batch at any business school for which the InsideIIM Placement report was published. Read the Summer's Report for this batch here. Read Final Placements Report for 2012 here.
Over the last few months, we have been peppered with queries about the one year residential Executive PGP programmes at the IIMs. We have finally decided that EPGP students at the IIMs would be the ones best placed to answer them. We are delighted to announce that IIM C is on board. You can get your queries answered by (Rajgopal Iyengar and Anindya Bhattacharjee), students of the IIM Calcutta PGPEX programme, Class of 2013. Later on, a new team from the Class of 2014 will take over to answer your queries.
(Edit: This is the last post after 23 weeks of intense travel across India. To know how it all began, read this! It is an achievement to have actually completed this adventure. We all wait for the book now!)
This is in continuation of my previous post. In case you haven’t gone through it, I suggest you read that first.
This is an unverified report. We wrote to SPJIMR asking for the report in the InsideIIM format but we did not receive any response.
For last week's GD on Capitalism, please read here
First in our series of reports for this year. XLRI was one of the first schools to report completion of placements this year. XLRI registered 100% placement in this tough year. 63 PPOs would have helped. Over 25% of the batch was placed before the placements started and that would have made life considerably easy for the placement committee. (You can read about the Summer Placements for this batch here)
A percentage, for the lack of a better definition, is a number or ratio as a fraction of 100. Probably its oldest application, like so many other things in today’s world, was at the time of the Roman Empire. Augustus, founder of the Roman Empire and its first Emperor, levied a tax of 1/100 on goods sold at auction known as centesima rerum venalium. Computation with these fractions was similar to computing percentages. The word itself is derived from the Latin per centum meaning “by the hundred”. The percent sign evolved by gradual contraction of the phrase “per cento”. The "per" was often abbreviated as "p." and eventually disappeared entirely. The "cento" was contracted to two circles separated by a horizontal line from which the modern "%" is derived. But enough about history…let us come back to the present and some practical uses of percentages.
