Through the corner of my eye, I took another glance at my phone. The notification tab still remained empty. It was about time. The Facebook and Whatsapp groups of MBA aspirants were abuzz with rumours that CAP results had been declared. Some aspirants had even received congratulatory mails.
Gautam is a Junior Associate at McKinsey & Company, where he secured a pre-placement offer after his summer internship in 2020. He completed his MBA at IIM Lucknow, where he majored in Strategy & Marketing. He was also a member of the Placement Committee, a team that secured 100% internships for 500+ students despite the COVID-19 pandemic. Read on to know more on how he bagged a PPO from McKinsey and Co.
Prof. D.V. Ramana is XIMB’s InsideIIM Professor Of The Year 2021. He completed his Masters (Commerce), M.Phil (Commerce), and Ph.D. in Commerce from Utkal University. He joined Xavier Institute of Management, Bhubaneswar (XIMB) as a full-time faculty and teaches Accounting to students. Find out why MBA students at XIMB have voted Professor Ramana as their favorite professor on campus!
It is now an undisputed fact - consulting is, by some margin, the most desirable sector to work in for MBA students across India's top IIMs and other top-ranked management institutes, and for good reason; management/strategy consultants are some of the highest paid professionals in the world, and consulting provides an opportunity to gain exposure to a plethora of industries and diverse business problems. Which are the top Consulting companies that come to hire on the IIM campuses? What kind of roles do they offer at these campuses? What is the difference between working with McKinsey or BCG, and working with PwC or Deloitte? To find out answers to these questions and more, we bring to you a live session with Consultants from BCG, Bain and other top firms who will guide you! Join the live session now.
It’s that time of the year again. Your chance of getting into the hotlist of your most desirable companies. An opportunity to know more about the work culture, profiles, and growth you can experience and a chance to clear your doubts from top recruiters. And all this, even before you start treading on your B-school path!
IMI Kolkata has successfully concluded its final placement process and claims to have placed 100% of its students in PGDM Batch 2019-21. The final placement report of the institute has now been released with the highest salary touching Rs. 20,70,000 per annum. A feat like this in a year affected by a global pandemic is certainly commendable. Top brands including JSW Steel, Deloitte, ICICI Bank, PwC, Amazon, and others picked students in varied roles.
“What really decides consumers to buy or not to buy is the content of your advertising, not its form.” – David Ogilvy From 'Washing powder Nirma' to the iconic Fevicol ads, the '90s was a terrific time in the advertisement industry. Brands were in a race to make their presence felt in people's minds, one-liners would make people hum the famous jingles non-stop. TV, newspaper, and billboards were the major mediums at that point in time, and digital was not yet born. Cut to today, where digital marketing spends of every company is shifting rapidly. With so many options available currently and OTT platforms selling “Ad-Free” products, are advertising agencies still relevant in today’s world? To answer these questions and to ponder some light on the future of advertising, advertising agencies, and marketing, we have Mr. Kunal Jeswani, CEO of Ogilvy India, in today's episode of CXO Central.
We have often heard stories about the cultural and gender diversity in B-schools that provides learning opportunities to students beyond classrooms. The collective learning and problem solving provide a window of opportunity to learn things that a normal B-school curriculum can’t provide. FLAME university believes in every bit of it and thus puts emphasis on students from different walks of life while making their final selection for programs. We spoke to three FLAME university students, Kanisha, Nikhil and Sagarika to understand their journey, why they chose FLAME over other B-schools and how they manage their passion and B-school life together currently. Here are the excerpts:
