The True Story behind IIM Indore's UAE Campus
Team InsideIIM caught up with IIM Indore Director Prof.Rishikesha Krishnan to know the actual facts about the IIM Indore UAE campus and the PGP programme in particular.
Team InsideIIM caught up with IIM Indore Director Prof.Rishikesha Krishnan to know the actual facts about the IIM Indore UAE campus and the PGP programme in particular.
The best talent in India will transform the nation. CNBC Awaaz wants to collaborate with the best among the best of them to bring the issues pertaining to our great nation to the forefront. It is time for Action, Collaboration and Transformation. Some of the best from IIM A B C L I K, XLRI or ISB will fly to New York and become CNBC Awaaz Reporters for a week.
It was in the early nineties that India Inc. woke up to the “business of B-Schools”. A liberalizing economy needed managers to manage the organisations that were mushrooming all over the country. Everyone was thinking ‘managers’… very few were thinking ‘management teachers’. The result today is for all to see. According to the latest HRD report (in Lok Sabha), there are 3,644 business schools in the country offering MBA and 308 institutions offering PGDM; this after the spate of ‘B-school shutdown’ in the last decade. Had it not been for the IIM’s doctoral Fellow Programme in Management (FPM), matters would’ve gone well beyond control.
This is the latest in our Career Perspectives Series. We spoke to Sriram Makineedi, IIT Kharagpur, IIM Lucknow, Ex- BCG on Careers in Consulting and his stint in The Boston Consulting Group.
As a pioneer of imparting practical learning to its participants, IIM Indore organizes some unique activities, under the umbrella of what is very rightly dubbed as “Experiential Learning”. There are three programmes organized during the course of the two year PGP course, viz Himalayan Outbound Programme for the second year participants, Rural Immersion Programme and Industrial Visits for the first year participants.
In the last couple of months, there has been a spurt in my external speaking engagements on innovation. I am not sure why this is happening – perhaps its increasing optimism regarding the future, but it could be something more mundane like this being the preferred “season” for corporate events. Whatever the reason, it’s been fun to speak to a variety of audiences – a large multinational known for its print and imaging technologies; a leading public sector enterprise in defence electronics; a top global brand in denim; and a home-grown, pioneering consumer products company.
Many among us who pursue MBA either come from IT sector or wish to enter one. Irrespective of which industry you enter, IT will always play a crucial role. As IT continues to evolve, new aspects have started to surface that need understanding. Data Privacy is one among them. Through this article I try to explore the status of Privacy in India.
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