Disclosing this at the graduation ceremony of the Class of 2005, ISB dean P Ram Mohan Rao said, “The placement season has been very vibrant this year. We have seen some excellent lateral offers to the class of 2005 from high-quality recruiters including Novartis, Goldman Sachs, Microsoft, BCG, McKinsey and many others.” He went on to add that the school had achieved 100% placements this year also. Stating that a course in rural marketing had been introduced this year, he said ISB was the only institute in India to offer entrepreneurship as a compulsory subject in the core courses. “Under the student exchange programme, we have introduced four schools this year and are in discussion with other business schools such as LUMS in Pakistan, HEC in Paris and Tel Aviv University to increase the exchange programmes,” said Rao.
The school will soon set up a centre for manufacturing and logistics as well as a behavioural laboratory. Novartis AG managing director, chairman and CEO Daniel Vasella, in his address to the students, said knowledge without action is useless. He advised students to be aware of the poor even while they generate great wealth. A total of 273 students were awarded certificates for the Post Graduate Programme in Management at the school’s fourth Graduation Ceremony here on Saturday. Two students — Tarandeep Singh Ahuja and Sachin Bhalla — were awarded the ISB Scholar of excellence awards in recognition of outstanding academic performance throughout the year. Reliance vice-chairman & MD Anil Ambani, HDFC chairman Deepak Parekh, Biocon Ltd CMD Kiran Majumdar-Shaw and former CEO of HSBC Ltd Aman Mehta were also present.
Source: Times of India
