IFMR Digest Sep 2017

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ACCOLADES NIRF 2017 Ranking IFMR has been ranked 38 (All India management schools category) in Government of India- Ministry of Human Resource Development's (MHRD) National Institute Ranking Framework (NIRF) for 2017. The Hindu Business Line - MBAUniverse. com Annual B-School Ranking 2017 IFMR has been ranked 22 (All India) in The Hindu Business Line- MBAUniverse. com annual B-School Ranking 2017. MBAUniverse.com, in partnership with The Hindu BusinessLine newspaper, released the annual B-school Ranking 2017 on December 22. The Ranking, conducted in guidance of an eminent advisory body chaired by Dr Bakul Dholakia, Former Director, IIM Ahmedabad, used a comprehensive 360 degree evaluation framework built around three criteria: Input, Process and Output. Complete Rankings are available in this link www.mbauniverse.com/mba-ranking/2017/ 26
INAUGURATION OF 2017-19 PROGRAM IFMR’s 18th batch of post graduate program in management (and its first ever MBA batch) were inaugurated on Thursday 1st June 2017 by its new President Mr. Kapil Vishwanathan, who shared about his own MBA days at Havard Business School. This was followed by a lively interaction with IFMR’s largest batch till date – the incoming Batch with 240 students. Questions ranged from Macro-economic concerns (Trump effect), to Conflict between Founders and Managers (Infy effect). Prof G R Chandrasekar, PGP Chairman proposed the vote of thanks. The induction and orientation programme, which involved interaction with alumni, practicing managers, and faculty to get both functional and sectoral perspectives, was done on a fast track basis and regular classes commenced on Monday 12th June and the campus is already buzzing with industry focused academic activities ranging from case discussions to business dissection of annual reports. Director PK Biswas mentioned in his welcome address that the admission selection process was conducted over a period of two months across 17 cities; this batch has students from 97 towns/ cities spread across 21 states of India. While IFMR had traditionally enjoyed good patronage from women applicants and has a track record of having more than 30% women at all stages – application, shortlisting, and selection, this year has been a record with 36% women. “That it has taken place without any quota or bonus marks validates our belief that given fair opportunity, women will come to management” – said Director Biswas. While there has been not much change in the proportion of engineers (70% +/- 2%) there has been a surge in students with commerce background this year (from the usual 17%-18% to 26%. Prof Suresh Venkatraman, Chairman- Admissions also shared his perspectives on management education and 27
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