Indian Institute of Management, Lucknow today announced its fourth six months General Management Programme for Defence officers. This 24 weeks General Management Programme is the fourth in a series of such programmes being organized for Defence officers, and the first at NOIDA campus. The programme is open to both short service commission officers and others. The programme was inaugurated today at the NOIDA campus by the Major General, SG Chatterji, VSM, Director General, Resettlement.

The response to the first three programmes conducted by IIML was a huge success with all 49 officers of the first programme and 60 of the second getting good job offers. The third batch, which is undergoing placements right now, is also witnessing a slew of great offers. This year after applying the selection criteria 59 Defence Officers from all three branches of the Armed forces have been selected for the programme. Out of the 59 Officers, 7 candidates are Lady Officers.

“Management education to defence personnel contributes to providing defence officers a second career choice after retirement. But the larger role in the national interest is to prepare a disciplined and responsible citizen to play important roles in today’s competitive business scenario” say Prof. NK Gupta & Prof. SC Bansal, Program Directors.

The Indian Armed Forces carefully selects Officers and continuously trains them in the art, science and craft of WINNING. Every year, hundreds of these Officers retire, with rich experience in learning, critical reasoning, objective decision making, creative thinking, leading and motivating people, running organisations and managing projects. The aim of the programme is to capitalize on these skills of the officers and optimize them to suit the corporate world’s requirements.

As in the past, the fourth programme is also expected to generate an enthusiastic response from the corporate world and given the intense nature of the programme it is sure to equip the participants with the necessary skill set so very essential to conquer the corporate world.

The objective of the GMP is to provide the participants with a basic understanding of the managerial systems and processes. The programme has been designed to provide the defence officers with basic functional inputs in subjects such as accounting and finance, decision sciences, organizational behavior, human resources management, communication skills, marketing, strategy, information technology and business environment.

The idea is to familiarize the officers with the requisite analytical tools and techniques; and develop a holistic perspective and global mindset to understand issues of an enterprise.

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Indian Institute of Management Lucknow (IIML) on Wednesday opened a campus here at the edge of the National Capital, will focus on updating skills and knowledge of professional work.

The campus, which covers 20 hectares and built at a cost of Rs 60 crore, professionals of the restoration work in Delhi and in the nearby Hari Shankar President IIML Sing Hania told journalists after the opening of the branch Noida.

IIML, he said, is the first IIM, at the beginning of a second campus.

“In line with its vision of a comprehensive, integrated and socially conscious centre of learning, a contribution to development management in India and abroad, IIML campus Noida, the Centre of Excellence ‘ hotel and March, there are global tie-ups and World Class programs, “he said.

The campus, which assumes that the functional September this year, have a university degree block, a library, an administrative section, a youth hostel, a computer centre and other agencies.

Initially, the Centre offers the work. Later, the campus offers comprehensive management programs, IIML director Devi Singh said.

“The campus is on a global scale, and we plan, approximately 20 full-time teachers. Prices are an underlying the establishment by world leaders, “he said.

Lucknow, Sept. 12: The premier business school here is looking beyond the city and into the future, when perhaps it will be called ?International Institute of Management?.

Besieged by requests from industrial houses to run module courses to upgrade their managerial cadre, Indian Institute of Management, Lucknow, is looking to set up shop in the industrial hub of Noida.

?The new campus in Noida is a deliberate strategy to bring about a change of face of IIML because of its locational disadvantage,? former institute director Pritam Singh said at a recent workshop here.

The demand ? fuelled by the B-school?s state-of-the-art infrastructure ? is such that the new venture will kick off from June, 2005, from rented premises even before the 23-acre campus comes up in 2006.

IIML, too, had started off from rented premises in old Lucknow till its present, green campus was set up on Sitapur Road, 30 km from here.

?The Noida campus will start functioning from 2005 and supplement some jobs we have been doing here in Lucknow,? institute dean Bharat Bhaskar said.

But why Noida? ?Historically,? Bhaskar said, ?the decimation of Kanpur, about 70 km from our campus, as the industrial heart of Uttar Pradesh proved to be a handicap. The satellite campus in Noida, the new industrial pilgrimage of Uttar Pradesh, would cater to the corporate challenges faced by management graduates (already) in jobs.?

For students? hands-on experience of the corporate set-up, the upcoming campus at Sector 32, near Khonda village, will also have a board-meeting facility for practising chief executives.

?The executives and managers who are already working need to be trained on the basis of the need of the hour. So, these personnel can be trained through weekend classes at the centre for faculty development on the Noida campus,? said IIML communication-in-charge Roshanlal Raina.

The Rs 30-crore project will include a rooftop restaurant.

The Noida campus will have a deputy director leading a team of 15 permanent faculty members, backed by information technology personnel. The team will keep in touch with the Lucknow campus via video conferencing.

The students, mainly practising professionals, will be equipped to cope with rapid globalisation. ?To enable managers to have a global vision, the Noida campus would introduce International MBA course, for which some trainees would come from companies with sponsorship,? Bhaskar said.

NEW DELHI: IIFT invited projectiles in the first leg of the Grand Citi AND zonal master, a national school for B opens the challenge of competition in a passionate response to the IIT Delhi on Sunday. MDI Gurgaon took second place. With the opening of the event, a simulated war from the Business Skills began. Over the next two months, India some of the best talents from Premiere B-schools slug it out in five rounds zonal show their business acumen.

Nearly 30 teams, consisting of 250 participants from various schools, including B-IIMA, IIMB, IIMC, IIML, FMS, Management Development Institute (MDI), Gurgaon, IIFT, giving his best to win, Thursday the Treasury, case study competition and a competition.

Each member of the winning team will receive a prize of Zen Estilo. This is the first time that Citi AND Grand Master is put on hold. IIFT is now in the zone of north-finals on January 30, 2008.

The first edition of Delhi took five teams of the SGF, IIM-Indore, IIM Lucknow, IIFT and MDI-compete for the award. The competition has a cash game, followed by presentations of case studies.

He presented two case studies on the bank and the automobile supply chain. The last to come, was a competition. The case studies were industry leaders such as KPMG CEO Sanjay Aggarwal, Citi Group Sandeep Soni MD, Senior VP ICRA Vivek Mathur, NIIT COO P Rajendran, among others.

Next are the 20 rounds in December, in Mumbai, Bangalore and 22 and December 6 at Ahmedabad in January, followed by one on Jan. 19, in Kolkata. The finale is Promi quiz master Derek O’Brien anchor.

The two months of the event is seen as a good opportunity for leaders of companies to assess their potential recruits. In addition, with a B-school, the event provides a solid platform for employers, but also branding.

For students, it is good for them, their strengths and areas that affect them in Excel, before the Indian economy.

AHMEDABAD / BANGALORE / LUCKNOW: This is the time of year, if the money flowing IIMs and large campuses paypackets proposed new levels of the scale of the stands. Lorries Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad (IIMA), and IIM Bangalore (IIMB) began his mediation on Thursday while the campus of IIM Lucknow (IIML) has its own.

But it is bad news for all those who have waited to see in the new offer back to the earth Campus Premium Business Schools have decided, for the first time, it’s not for salaries to offer, or at the very to play less, De money.

One reason why the heads of IIM have to play in the big Hype wages, the complaint lodged by leaks recruiter that spoiled the party for them. In addition, students from the “Bimaru” States have drawn attention to the fact that the stories about their fat checks, they can pay the objectives of the kidnappers return home.

However, there is sufficient evidence that wages jaw-dropping runs in the campus as never before. For example, it could IIMA in the field of new human resources very high international standard, such as fishermen in Jordan and Bridgestone, the towers.

“In total, about 20 companies visited the campus for recruitment, the first day of placement,” said a source IIMA ET on the condition of anonymity. They contain BCG, Barclays, McKinsey & Company, ABN Amro, AT Kearney, Bain Consulting and UBS to mention only a few.

According to some sources, the highest wages to zero housing at the Institute this year was in the order of $ 225000, a cooler of $ 40000 more than last year, the highest bid. The Institute, however, did not confirm the number.

The highest international salary was Rs 4.25 lakh while the highest domestic salary was Rs. 50,000.00 per month.

Indian Institute of Management, Lucknow (IIML) announced the completion of its summer placement for the 2006-07 batch on Thursday. A total of 312 offers were made for 278 first year PGP students by 80 companies out of which 19 were international offers.

The highest international salary was 5000 pounds per month (around Rs. 4.25 lakh) while the highest domestic salary was Rs. 50,000.00 per month.

Finance was the area of choice with over 32 per cent of the batch opting for the domain. Within Finance, the emphasis was on research, investment banking, consulting, treasury, advisory, trading, corporate & retail banking, private equity, wealth management & business intelligence.

The major recruiters were BNP Paribas, Singapore, JP Morgan, London, Citibank Hong Kong, Barings Private Equity, Deutche Bank, Goldman Sachs, Lehman Brothers, JP Morgan, etc. Within Finance, more than 24 per cent students opted for insurance, consumer & corporate finance and equity research.

Sales & Marketing saw around 31 % offers being accepted and students have chosen to work with world leaders. P&G, HLL, J&J Consumer Healthcare, Glaxo Smithkline, Coke, Pepsi, Nestle, Cadbury, Asian Paints, Marico, etc. were among the prominent recruiters.

IT saw 12 per cent students lining up for job offers and so did Consulting. Some of the companies, which found favour with students here, were Deloitte Consulting, Yahoo, SAP, Hewitt Associates, Accenture, KPMG, PWC, TAS, TCS, Cognizant, Wipro, Infosys, etc.

“This year’s summer placements show a distinct inclination for Finance followed closely by Sales & Marketing. Each year sees an increasing number of global companies making a beeline for our students. The overwhelming response from regulars and first timers for the recruitments on campus is only an indicator of the high quality of education provided to the students at IIML”, says Dr. Devi Singh, Director, IIM Lucknow.