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It is a mid September Sunday morning when the director of one of the Indian Institutes of Management (IIMs) receives a call from a student from last year's batch. The former student (anonymity was requested) is worried; he and a few of his batchmates

The cooperative banking sector has survived many failures and scams. But it remained untouched, mostly due to political affiliation a large number of these banks are controlled by politicians. The power equation is largely responsible for the slow

The Founders Atul Rai, Anurag Saini, Chetan Rexwal and Pankaj Sharma. Rai holds a master's degree in AI from the University of Manchester and worked abroad as a research associate specialising in machine learning and computer vision. Other three co f

In an exclusive interview with Business Today's Rajeev Dubey and Joe C. Mathew, WEF Founder Chairman Klaus Schwab explains why, despite multiple doomsday predictions, he believes the global economy will not go into recession. More importantly, who co

Self driving vehicles had a tumultuous journey. The media is rife with speculative stories which say around 1.8 million truck driving jobs will be lost when autonomous vehicles take over. Whether it happens or not in the near future is a matter for c

Amid the gloom and doom, the latest findings of the Business Today's Business Confidence Index (BCI) show that the slowdown seems to have bottomed out. The BCI for the July September quarter rose on expectations of improvement in economic growth afte

For those who are not its practitioners, artificial intelligence (AI) is a black box. It is both intriguing and vexing. That is probably because much of today's debate is around the potential of exponential technologies to wipe out jobs across many i

The new age business leaders expect a lot more from a business school than learning how to diagnose and solve business problems. For they know that the key to building sustainable and valuable companies in the 21st century is understanding the new an

Q. The biggest challenge in your career A. Challenge is part of life. I remember the time early in my career when I was heading the largest bottling unit for Coca Cola, and the issue of pesticides in colas created doubt among consumers. Suddenly, bus

No iPhone lover can resist its powerful cameras (12 MP wide and 12 MP ultrawide), which capture stunning shots in bright and low light. Its all new A13 Bionic chip with an eight core neural engine is a performance booster as well and just right for p

The numbers that the All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) throws up for postgraduate institutes of management show a worrying trend the number of institutions have been steadily declining. The total number of these institutions is 3,03

This is the fifth year that Business Today and Marketing & Development Research Associates (MDRA) are bringing out India's most exhaustive list of B schools offering full time management courses (PGDM/MBA) established at least five years ago and with

International placements and high salaries that come with it have traditionally been an important highlight of placement reports from business schools. This time, however, the Business Today MDRA study has thrown up data to the contrary. As many as 1

The Indian Institute of Management at Ahmedabad added a major research centre last year the Misra Centre for Financial Markets and Economy, a Centre of Excellence. It aims to provide impetus to focussed research and teaching related to financial ma

Every year, as many as 30 employees from Pidilite Industries (maker of the ubiquitous Fevicol range) spend a total of 20 days on the campus of S.P. Jain Institute of Management and Research (SPJIMR), spread across a span of five months. Known as Caps

A new phenomena has taken shape recently top rated B schools are spreading their wings rapidly while many at the bottom are finding it difficult to sustain. In five decades (1961 2009), seven Indian Institutes of Management, or IIMs, were set up in

Call it mindless proliferation or an attempt to take high quality management education to all corners of the country, the rapid expansion of Indian Institutes of Management (IIMs) in the last few years has given policymakers a lot to think about, esp

In S. P. Jain Institute of Management & Research's (SPJIMR's) two year full time Post Graduate Diploma in Management (PGDM) programme, women comprise 41 per cent of the class of 2020. The B school's gender diversity has always been exceptional, espec