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A chance encounter with a bunch of bamboo baskets and the merchants who sell them 30 years ago changed the course of A.G. Rao’s life and work. On a visit to what was then part of Bihar, the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay (IIT-B), professor was impressed with the shape and .....

Programme in executive management launched at IIM-Calcutta

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IIMC sticks to OBC interview schedule

IIM Calcutta (IIMC) interviewed 20 OBC candidates on Thursday, a day after the Calcutta High Court put the brakes on the Centre's order to impose OBC quotas in post graduate courses in IIMC and IIT-Kharagpur (IIT-KGP). According to Dinesh Varma, chief administrative officer of IIMC, "We interviewed the students we .....

IIM, IIT jointly launch new post-graduate programme

The Indian Institute of Management (IIM)-Calcutta launched a one-year residential post-graduate programme for executives in ‘visionary leadership in manufacturing’ in collaboration with the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT)-Kanpur and IIT-Madras Sunday here.The programme has been designed by Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) - a governmental agency of Japan that provides .....

Madras School of Economics Signed A Partnership Venture With GE Money for Decision Sciences and Financial Research Lab

Madras School of Economics (MSE) has signed a partnership venture with GE Money, US to set up The GE Money-MSE Decision Sciences and Financial Research Lab" (GMDS-FL). The lab is designed to support and promote quantitative research in decision sciences to test and implement fresh ideas for GE's consumer finance .....

Calcutta HC stays quotas in IIM & IIT

In a jolt to pro-reservationists, the Calcutta High Court today (May 14) stayed quota for OBCs in post-graduate courses in Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta, and stopped interview of OBC candidates for the same. Justice Maharaj Sinha, in an ex-parte interim order, granted the stay on a petition by Sayan Guha, .....

A fund to engineer entrepreneurship

Indias second largest software and services firm Infosys Technologies Ltds chief mentor N.R. Narayana Murthy and venture capitalist Gururaj Deshpande have committed $600,000 (Rs2.4 crore) of their own money to hone the entrepreneurship skills of engineering students across India. The money will be spent on getting professors from top universities in .....

ISB organised the Asia semi-final of the Global Social Venture Competition last week

ISB organised the Asia semi-final of the Global Social Venture Competition last week SOCIAL VENTURE Indian School of Business (ISB) organised the Asia semi-final of the Global Social Venture Competition (GSVC) last week. The competition attracted over 200 social business plans from the Asia Pacific region. The shortlisted plans came from countries .....

IIM students skip campus placement, but return to recruit juniors

That the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad (IIM-A) has underestimated the talent of its own students cannot be better judged than by the fact that the very same students who had opted out of placement session last year to start their own venture are back on the campus, and not .....

IIM Lucknow Launches ’Start-up Showcase’ for Entrepreneurs

Do you believe that your new venture has the capability to succeed but wondered how you will manage the much needed funds to give it a boost? Here is an unique opportunity for you in IIM Lucknow 'Start-up Showcase' where both embryonic and established entrepreneurs dreaming to make it big .....

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