Vikasana, the social service club of IIM Bangalore initiated a clothes collection drive to help those in need. It partnered with Goonj, a partner NGO working towards providing relief material to those affected by floods in the region of Jammu and Kashmir and other states such as Orissa, West Bengal and Assam through its ‘Rahat Floods’ initiative.
It is a proud moment for IIM Indore UAE, as a team of five students from PGP 2 has won the prestigious GOMC (Google Online Marketing Challenge) in the Google+ Social Media Marketing for the APAC (Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation) region under the guidance of Professor Srinivas Gunta, Faculty of Strategic Management, at IIM Indore. The team comprising of (L-R) M Nitin Teja Reddy, Anne Mary Sebastian, Krishna GS Chirraavuru, Yukti Arora, and Santhanam Balaji worked with Afkar.me by Intigral, a 4 month incubation program, to help create a digital product in the MENA (Middle East and North Africa) region.
In recent years, it has been heartening to see a good number of well-qualified and “successful” men and women from “middle class India” take on the challenge of national development. The social enterprise bug has bitten these professionals and they have taken on, in their own way, some of the country’s biggest challenges.
With the Summer Internship placements round the corner and the Final placement hysteria a few months away, B-Schools are buzzing with the ‘expectations and anxiety’. Having been a part of the process as a candidate last year and as a recruiter now, I am sharing some tips on placement interviews.
