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  • Thursday, April 09, 2009
    Posted at 11:59:00 AM
    What are the activities that you think you will accomplish in your two years at B-school? Become a good public speaker, win lots and lots of B-school competitions, become adept at writing business plans, come up with some entreprenuerial ideas...Whatever we may have thought before joining IIFT, Delhi, writing a book certainly did not feature among the activities we had thought we would end up doing while still studying here. For us, it was the chance of a lifetime when we were asked to co-author a book as part of an international research project.
  • Monday, March 23, 2009
    Posted at 9:33:00 AM
    B-school students are not used to having any spare time. They are always on the run- doing something or the other, rushing to do stuff that will add those magical CV points that will fetch us our dream jobs. Well, once we have those jobs, what to do next? Hmmm, one thing's for sure, no one is going to sit and twiddle their thumbs. The number one activity on everyone's agenda is to travel. For those of us here at IIFT, travelling to all the tourist hot-spots in north India has been the only preoccupation, of late. Different groups of students.
  • Tuesday, March 17, 2009
    Posted at 9:50:00 AM
    So, the batch of 2009 is on its way out. We have had to bear the brunt of the recession and growth rates gone sour. We knew things were not that rosy, but as the world started unravelling and companies started going bust one after the other in September 2008, nothing, absolutely nothing, had prepared us for the bloodbath that was to follow. Our batch, in fact, hardly had any breathing time before things went absolutely haywire. The batch of 2010, however, has a lot of time ahead. Their lateral placements will start only in December 2009, a good.
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  • Thursday, March 05, 2009
    Posted at 3:09:00 PM
    PSUs, long-forgotten in the collective psyche of B-school students, have come back with a bang this year. Be it manufacturing PSUs or banks, they have all found several takers at India’s premier B-schools, something that would have been unheard of at last year’s placements. This is because of three main reasons. First and foremost, in times such as these, a PSU job is seen as a secure one, where the chances of being handed a pink slip are zero. No one quite knows just how long the recession is going to last and after hearing horror stories of how.
  • Thursday, February 26, 2009
    Posted at 3:49:00 PM
    For several years now, placements at India’s premier B-schools have typically been a question of a day or two. You start off in the morning and by evening, a major chunk of the batch would have been picked up by some good company or the other. Students are spoilt for choice and at the end of the two or maximum, three days when placements get over, many companies have to be turned away because everyone is already placed. Saying that things have been different this year would be an understatement. B-school students have had several anxious moments.
  • Wednesday, February 25, 2009
    Posted at 1:40:00 PM
    Henry Mintzberg, author of the landmark book 'Managers not MBAs' emphasised that work experience is must before an MBA. Most B-schools abroad do not even let freshers apply to their programme. In India, too, B-schools are increasingly adopting this trend. Today, premier Indian B-schools pride themselves in the fact that up to 60-70% of their students have work experience. But have lateral placements really taken off at Indian B-schools? They have to the extent that B-schools now have a dedicated placement week set aside for students with.
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