Showing posts with label IIM Calcutta. Show all posts
Showing posts with label IIM Calcutta. Show all posts

Tuesday, October 23, 2012

More trouble lies ahead...

he recent mass upsurge against the CPI(M)’s anti- people policies in Lalgarh & other places has caught on in a big way in West Bengal. More trouble lies ahead...

The Superintendent of Police, East Midnapore district, Pallab Kanti Ghosh, had told B&E on June 15 that five revolvers, 12 pieces of improvised rifles, 21 rifles, six country-made pipe-guns, 1,566 rounds of cartridges and 99 desi bombs had been seized from Khejuri. But villagers, who consider Ghosh to be a protector of CPI(M) toughies, say this is just the tip of the iceberg and that the illegal arms and ammunition in the party’s possession are far in excess of what has officially been accounted for.

The courtyard of the palatial party office at Kalagechhia in Khejuri block, which was ransacked by non-Maoist mobs, is littered with burnt papers, official documents and party flags. The half-burnt BPL cards and identity cards of the NREGA beneficiaries, which should have been kept in the panchayat’s offices, were strewn all around. The scene at the CPI(M) Zonal Committee Office at Kunjapur was no different, except that it was under lock and key. The Kamardah party office had been razed to the ground. According to the West Bengal CPI (M)’s own admission, 60 party offices are currently controlled by the opposition Trinamool Congress. Its own men, say these reports, have resigned.

So which party or group mounted those raids? Says Swapan, the younger brother of Khejuri-based CPI(M) leader Makhan Panda, “Those who came to demolish our houses are CPI(M) workers and supporters. The TMC men did their best to save us and our property. CPM leaders Kamalesh Maal and Lalu Maal were in fact supervising the ghastly operation; and others like Himangshu, Prashanta, Nirapada, who killed and beat up innocent people, now have to pay the price”.


Source : IIPM Editorial, 2012.

For More IIPM Info, Visit below mentioned IIPM articles.
 
IIPM : The B-School with a Human Face
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Thursday, October 18, 2012

Land of the up‘set’ Sun

Sun must ideally go back to the negotiating table with IBM; it will be tough for it to survive on its own

If they are still part of the game 8 years later, Sun Microsystem's shareholders deserve a special reward for their patience. Or may be they need to undergo a detailed medical check up to assess the level of their sanity. They have seen the company's management perform miraculous deeds in these years. A stock that traded at around $250 in those days of the dotcom boom now trades at a pathetic $6.42 (as on April 13). It isn't a cake walk to achieve such numbers!

Not that shareholders are always napping though. Sun's stock dropped by a precipitous 23% on April 6, when talks with IBM for acquisition of the company (for a price of around $7 billion) were reported to have collapsed. It shows that IBM was a hope that shareholders were desperately latching on to, a hope that seems to be fading away now. There are a few smiling faces of course; in companies like Intel, HP and Dell, which would have found the going tough if IBM would have successfully taken over Sun.

More interestingly, the old guard seems to have come back into the reckoning. Current CEO Jonathan Schwartz was apparently in support for the deal while the founder, previous CEO and current Chairman Scott McNealy was against it. Speculation is that Schwartz may exit from the company now. Schwartz seems to be on borrowed time already. His strategy to make the company lead in open source hasn't yet paid off, and this deal was a ray of hope for him too.

Sun and IBM had been in talks for holy matrimony for over three months now but it is being said that the deal has been called off because there were differences with regard to the settlement price and some other terms of the agreement. For instance, Sun was reportedly eager that IBM staunchly go ahead with the deal even if the regulatory challenge over monopoly charges gets stiffer. “The reason for this deal not materialising could be the result of IBM not getting blown away in the deal heat and making a prudent decision in these tough times,” informs technology analyst Rob Enderle. Many analysts feel that Sun is making the same mistake that Yahoo! made about 14 months ago. As a coincidence, founders played spoilsport in both instances.


Source : IIPM Editorial, 2012.

For More IIPM Info, Visit below mentioned IIPM articles.
 
IIPM : The B-School with a Human Face
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Wednesday, August 08, 2012

ARINDAM CHAUDHURI ON WHY ISB IS BETTER THAN THE IIMS AND HOW TO JUDGE B-SCHOOLS

First things first... Ever since we started Business & Economy, we avoided the temptation of undertaking B-school rankings for the simple reason that IIPM is a B-school that we are very closely associated with; and at IIPM, we have always claimed that we are the best B-school globally when it comes to education. So any B-school ranking brought out by us would have had IIPM right at the top, at least in the three parameters of ‘course contents’, ‘global exposure’ and ‘research & consulting’! But if we were to have finally published such a ranking, our friends in the media would have taken no time to call them biased, however fact-based the rankings might have been. And undertaking a B-school ranking without speaking about ourselves would be next to impossible for an aggressive group like ours, which so passionately believes in our (IIPM’s) superiority. So finally, this is what we did!

We decided to go ahead with the B-school ranking in B&E. However, we decided to keep IIPM totally out of it. We didn’t have any editorial representation in the ranking team. We selected the top 30 B-Schools of India – IIPM included – and gave the list to a team of five unbiased members in order to rank all the B-schools: Naresh Gupta (MD, Adobe India), Dr. Sanjeev P. Sahni (Head, Strategic HR, Jindal Steel and Power Ltd), Girish Vaidya (Director, Infosys Leadership Institute), V. Balakrishnan (CFO, Infosys), Brian Tempest (former CEO, Ranbaxy). And I am sure no one would think that such kind of credible people – two of them from Infosys included – could be made to do something unethical! After they gave their rankings, we removed IIPM’s name from the list and gave out the top 29 B-Schools because ethically, it was still not fair for us to rank ourselves as Planman Media is a sister concern of IIPM; and also because the experts did rank IIPM quite amongst the top B-Schools! [see the whole survey in the Business & Economy issue dated Nov 27-Dec 10, 2009.]

However, having removed IIPM from the ranking, I do think that as the editor-in-chief of this magazine, I have a right to say what we stand for! So I brought out this article I had once written earlier and made some changes so that our readers have an exact idea of what our magazine believes! This article will give our readers a clear view of why we at Planman Media think that ISB today is ahead of the IIMs – even if fractionally – in India and in every parameter worth mentioning where IIPM stands compared to the IIMs and ISB. This article will also give our readers insights on why we have always maintained that given the right weightage for specific parameters, IIPM is undoubtedly ahead of all other B-schools in the country! My comparisons will be only between these three institutes (IIPM, ISB, IIMs), because frankly speaking, these are the only three B-schools on whom I keep a detailed track and do my research upon!

But before I begin expressing my views, I must clarify something; and that is that despite IIPM’s ‘Dare To Think Beyond The IIMs’ campaign, I have nothing against the IIMs. Rather, all I have is sheer respect (My father was a professor at IIM Bangalore and is extremely proud of the same. My Managing Partner, my best friend at IIPM and the Editor of this magazine itself, A. Sandeep, is a product of IIPM and IIM Calcutta; and he specifically had gone to study there to have a first-hand knowledge about the ‘IIM way’ before coming back to IIPM to take it up. And finally, my best friend in school and the Head of our news portal, TheDailyIndian.com, Partha Saha, is a proud product of IIM Calcutta). We believe we are the best when it comes to education, but that doesn’t mean we don’t know how good the IIMs are or that their students get better placements than our students or even the fact that they attract the best of students of India – though we may still not accept that the final IIM product is, therefore, necessarily better! So, this article is not an attempt to malign the IIMs, but a simple attempt to analyse some facts.

Having said that, let me also state that what I am writing shouldn’t shock many; at least not those who know that the 2009 Financial Times rankings have put ISB as the 15th best B-school in the world and haven’t put any of the IIMs even in the top hundred! Yet, what I hope this article will do is to bring perspective to those rankings and explain to people what management education is all about; since no magazine undertaking B-school surveys in India has even a fraction of the ability to comment upon management education in India, compared to our capability.




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