Nostalgia - the last two weeks in a B school
The journey that began with fear and trepidation…..
The journey that began with fear and trepidation…..
Final Placements for IIM Ahmedabad concluded recently, with all 378 students achieving placements by the third cluster. The summer placements at IIM Ahmedabad had been equally impressive, in terms of the sheer number of marquee names, and the number of students hired by these names on campus. IIM A has repeated its blockbuster performance during finals. Accenture Strategy Consulting hired 18 students at the final placements, and BCG hired 15 students. All these are figures for the PGP programme.
School of Inspired Leadership (SOIL) launched a special scholarship scheme to salute the spirit of the sacrifice of late Capt. Vikram Batra, Param Vir Chakra, for his actions during the 1999 Kargil War. ‘Captain Vikram Batra Scholarship Scheme’ will enable defence personnel who had to take premature release on medical grounds, to avail upto 100% scholarship on the program fee. Meritorious children or spouses who are graduates with some relevant experience, irrespective of family income could get upto 25% scholarship on the program fee.
IIM Shillong emerged as the zonal winner of L’Oréal Brandstorm 2014 held at IIM-Calcutta campus on 24th February 2014. L’Oréal Brandstorm is marketing competition conducted by L’Oréal for premier B-schools all over the world. This was the 22nd edition of the signature marketing competition of L’Oréal. The teams were to put themselves in the shoes of the marketing director of the popular brand Kiehl’s and come up with a range of products for its men’s collections.
In line of its continuing efforts to serve the society around it the ECoBiZ Club of IIM Shillong organised the 3rd blood donation camp on 22nd February, 2014.
Banking, Financial Services and Insurance (BFSI) emerged as the largest recruiter in the recently concluded summer placements conducted at IIM Shillong.Despite a 10 per cent increase in batch size, the successful trend from the previous year continued to be prominent.
TISS Mumbai is well known for running one of the best HR programmes in the country (the Human Resources Management and Labour Relations programme). We had begun featuring their placement reports last year, starting with summer placements for the batch of 2015. You can read that report here. We noted that the sixty student batch had a pretty wide choice of recruiters across industries.
We are back with the Icons of IIM Indore. This time we have one of the superheroes at the campus, Ruchik Gandhi. He has won several accolades and is highly appreciated by one and all for his sober persona.