Archive for the ‘MBA-School’ Category

High GDP growth, GDP growth for last two years and renewed focus on agriculture and rural economy, showed its impact on campuses as Agri Business program at IIM Ahemadabad concluded on Nov 1 2006. Full story

Speaking at youth festival, Mr. Bhupinder Singh Hooda, Chief Minister of Haryana announced that Haryana would soon have an Indian Institute of Management (IIM) as he had already sought informal approval from HRD Ministry. Full story

Wharton India Economic Forum 2006 (WIEF), the premier student-run business forum focusing on India, will take place on November 11th, 2006 at the Doubletree Hotel in Philadelphia. Established in 1996, Full story

BITs Pilani, the premier unaided private institutes has denied that it has agreed to reservation system. In a press release issues, BITS Pilani has said that NDTV and certain other news channels have wrongly quoted BITs Pilani name in the list of unaided deemed universities, who have agreed to implement reservation for SC/ST & OBC in which BITS, Pilani’s name is also mentioned. Full story

Opsyrus 2006 being organised by Operations Interest Group (OIG) at IIM L in partnership with Coolaveneus.com provides participants a chance to ponder over the latest issues in Operations management while competing with the best brains across the country. Full story

NIIT has launched Imperia, a Centre for Advanced Learning created exclusively for working professionals. Designed keeping in mind the constraints faced by working professionals, NIIT Imperia offers specially designed short-term and long-term programs from some of the finest institutions across the country, at convenient times and convenient locations, directly from the most prestigious institutions in the country. Full story

Amity Business School has been fined Rs 1.10 lakh by a Delhi based Consumer court as compensation to a student for misleading her on the status of AICTE approval. AMITY told the students that its course was recognized by the All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE), though AICTE has already withdrawn recognizition to Amity Business School. Full story

In a move that is expected to bring cheers to community of MBAs (alumni as well as aspirants), MRTP (Monopolies and Restrictive Trade Practices Commission) has asked Mumbai based SPJIMR ( S P Jain Institute of Management & Research) to refund Rs 1.4 lakh to a student who left SPJIMR to join IIM Lucknow for MBA program. Full story