IIM Lucknow inducted the 4^th batch of the Post Graduate Programme in Sustainable Management (PGPSM) at its Noida Campus, on the 4^th of July, 2018. The induction program was inaugurated by the Chairperson, Prof. Ashish Aggarwal, who emphasized the increasing importance of sustainability in light of rising social and environmental risks, which called for equitable growth and responsible leaders. Prof. Rajiv Kumra, Dean Noida Campus highlighted the fact that the private sector is integrating sustainable business practices into their strategies and operations, making this course well positioned to address the demand for management professionals in the field of sustainability. Ms. Neelima Khetan, Group Head- CSR, Vedanta delivered the keynote address for the event. She underscored the fact that the practice of sustainability is to be understood as a part of an entire ecosystem of stakeholders. She also spoke about the evolution of the drivers of sustainability – with the baton being passed on from governments, to civil society and finally to markets and businesses. At its NOIDA Campus, IIM Lucknow also offers one-year full time residential International Programme in Management for Executives and two-years Working Managers’ Programme.

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IIM Lucknow inaugurated its 34^th batch of MBA and 15^th batch of MBA-ABM students on June 24, 2018.

Chief Economic Advisor Dr. Arvind Subramanian delivered the inaugural address and advised the students to prepare themselves well in these two years with skill sets and knowledge for a changing global economic landscape.

Dr. Shravan Subramanyam, M.D Roche Diagnostics India and Neighboring Markets was the Guest of honor and stressed in his speech that “Change” and “Choice” would be two key words that will determine the students’ career path.

Dr. Ajit Prasad Director in his Inaugural speech advised the students to work hard but stressed that happiness is the key to achieve a more fulfilling life.

IIM Lucknow admitted 447 students in this batch, 70% of whom are males and 30% females. Bringing in more diversity to the batch this time the commerce and economics students constituted 18% of the batch, whereas Engineers are 70%. The batch has students from 23 states and Union Territories thus giving a wide geographic diversity, in addition to gender, age, and diversity in work experience that the batch has.

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L-Incubator, IIM-Lucknow incubated Artificial Intelligence (AI) & IoT Start-up, Constems-AI (C-AI) Systems, officially launched its state-of-art AI based products on 19^th Aug, 2017 in joint dealers and system integrators meet at New Delhi, in collaboration with Bluei India. The launch event witnessed the gathering of more than 70 eminent system integrators and project solution providers in and around North India.

Both Co-founders, Amit Srivastava and Amit Singh, are alumni of IIM Lucknow and have sacrificed their hefty salaries to pursue the entrepreneurial spirit within. The encouraging Startup ecosystem and support extended by L-Incubator, IIM Lucknow have motivated the Co-Founders to realize their dreams and take the idea forward.

C-AI, is a full stack vertical AI solutions company, solves business and operations problems in retail, infrastructure, transportation & real estate using computer vision, IoT and machine learning and its hardware partner Bluei India, has a glorious history of more than two decades in sourcing and assembling innovative electronic hardware. Four innovative systems solution launched during the event are Retail Management System, Human Path Tracking & Counter, LNPRPT – License Number Plate Recognition & Path Tracking, SAS – Staff Attendance System.

Given the rise in concerns around, operational efficiency, security and perimeter control, dealers and systems integrator have shown keen interest in adapting these innovative technological solutions. Many dealers explored the possibility of enhancing their existing projects using smart CCTV cameras and sensors solutions. These AI based products have been developed through intensive R&D, basis identified market requirements and customer feedback over period of 24 months. In a joint statement by C-AI and Bluei, it has been said that this collaboration is to bring innovative technological solution to the market to assist in taking, our clients and customer’s business solutions, to next level.

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IIM Lucknow has once again come out with flying colours: 100% Final Placements in just over 3 days for one of the largest IIM batches in the country

The iconic dhol’s thunderous beat resonates in IIM Lucknow’s convocation ground post-placements on 3^rd February once again. IIM Lucknow achieved 100% final placements for its 31^stbatch of 435 students, in a record time of just over 3 days. The recruitment drive saw participation from over 170 domestic and international recruiters. The highlight of the Placement Season was the participation of esteemed firms like EMAAR, McKinsey & Company, o3 Capital and The Boston Consulting Group. The participation of these firms also marked the ascent of IIM Lucknow as a preferred recruitment destination for marketing, finance & consulting roles in the country.

The top 4 segments based on roles offered were sales & marketing, finance, consulting and business development including some extremely sought after and niche profiles in the finance domain. The rest of the offers came from domains such as operations/supply chain, general management, systems/IT, market research, analytics and HR.

Some of the top recruiters across different sectors were Accenture, Aditya Birla Group, Amazon, Avendus, Goldman Sachs, Hindustan Unilever, McKinsey & Company,  TAS and The Boston Consulting Group. Our first time recruiters includeClinton Health Access Initiative, EMAAR,  Societe Generale among others. International profiles were offered by Capgemini, EMAAR, M.H. Alshaya, UAE Exchange and Olam International.

Profile breakup

The top segments based on roles offered were sales & marketing (26%), finance (23%), consulting (22%), e-Commerce (8%), systems/IT (12%) and general management (9%). Given economic situation, recruiters continued to prefer IIM Lucknow as their preferred campus.Offers came from domains such as finance, market research, analytics, business development, social media marketing and HR among others.

FMCG/consumer goods/telecom/digital media sector

In the FMCG/consumer goods/telecom/digital mediasector saw some of the top firms being Airtel, Colgate Palmolive, Dr Reddy’s, GSK, Hindustan Unilever, ITC, Marico, P&G, Pepsi, Samsung, Star TV and United Breweries. In addition to the traditional sales & marketing roles, these firms offered roles in supply chain management, IT, corporate finance, HR and analytics with some of them being exclusive roles for IIM Lucknow.

BFSI sector

BFSI sector sawthe participation of a number of international firms hiring for a diverse set of profiles.The campus secured its position as a potential recruiting destination amongst premium recruiters. BFSI sectorsaw a total of offers by firms such as Amex, Altisource, Avendus Capital, Bank of America Merrill Lynch, Citibank, DBS,HSBC, Goldman Sachs, ICICI Bank, Kotak Investment Banking, o3 Capital and Societe Generale among others. The major roles were in front end investment banking, global markets, investment research, corporate/wholesale/retail banking, market research, trading and operations.

Consulting and General Management sector

In the consulting domain, Accenture, Alvarez &Marsal, Avalon Consulting, Capgemini and Feedback Infra among others made offers, with Accenture, The Boston Consulting Group and McKinsey & Company being the top 3 recruiters. The General Management domain saw participation from companies such as Aditya Birla Group (ABG), Airtel, Lodha Group, Mahindra and Mahindra, RPG and TAS among others. ABG, TAS and Mahindra and Mahindra are the highest recruiters in this domain.

IT/e-Commerce/Technology sector

Some of the firms from the IT/e-Commerce/Technology sectors were Amazon, Cloudtail, Paytm, Rivigo, Uber and Wipro. These firms opened not only IT/Systems profiles, but also roles such as category management, sales enablement, business development, supply chain management, product marketing, strategic alliances, program manager and analytics.

The institute has created history yet again by placing one of the largest IIM batch in just over 3 days during Final Placements. This performance has once again stamped the authority of IIM Lucknow in the wake of a volatile market.

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Indian Institute of Management-Lucknow is pleased to release the report of achievement of 100 per cent summer placement for their second batch of 19 students who are pursuing the Post Graduate Programme in Sustainable Management (PGP-SM) at Noida campus. The recruitment drive saw participation from 13 firms with a total of 26 offers being made to these 19 students.

Highlight of the placement season was participation of diverse firms such as PwC, KPMG, Mahindra, Tata Sustainability Group, UPL, Biocon, Wipro Earthian, who have set up benchmarks in their respective domains in the realm of sustainability. It reaffirms IIM Lucknow as the preferred recruitment destination for sustainability related roles in organization.

Given the diversity of the batch, multiple roles were offered primarily from Consulting (26 per cent) and Corporate Sustainability (26 per cent) as well as from Strategy, Operations, Finance and Marketing including some niche profiles in policy-making domain. These roles were offered across sectors, namely, smart city consulting, sustainability reporting, rural development, social and community inclusion, renewable energy solutions, carbon neutrality and pricing.

Prof Sourindra Bhattacharjee, Chairperson of PGPSM Placements said “Business  environment has become increasingly complex and requires qualified individuals who understand the importance of investment in long term strategy geared towards resource optimization, favourable environmental impact and greater community inclusion. We are glad to see such an overwhelming response from the corporate world towards the same”

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IIM Lucknow: Achieves 100% Summer Placements in 4 days for one of the largest IIM batches in the country

This day, 22^nd October, 2016, IIM Lucknow, one of the leading B-Schools of this country, yet again accomplished 100% summer placements for its 32^nd batch of 458 students in 4 days. The recruitment drive saw participation from 151 domestic and international recruiters.The participation of these firms also marked the ascent of IIM Lucknow as a preferred recruitment destination for marketing, consulting & finance roles in the country.

The top 4 segments based on roles offered were sales & marketing, consulting, financeand business development including some extremely sought after and niche profiles in the finance domain. The rest of the offers came from domains such as operations/supply chain, general management, systems/IT, market research, analytics and HR.

Some of the top recruiters across different sectors were Accenture, Aditya Birla Group, Amazon, A.T. Kearney, BCG, Deutsche Bank, Edelweiss, Hindustan Unilever, ITC, RPG, TAS & Uber among others. Our first time recruiters include ABinBev, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Duff and Phelphs, Master Card Advisors and Morgan Stanley among others. International profiles were offered by ABinBev, Deutsche Bank and Hindustan Unilever.

Profile breakup

The top segments based on roles offered were sales & marketing (30%), consulting (25%), finance (20%), e-Commerce (15%), systems/IT (5%) and general management (5%). The strong economic situation supported IIM Lucknowin attracting diverse roles in the finance domain. Rest of the offers came from domains such as market research, analytics, business development, social media marketing and HR among others.

FMCG/consumer goods/telecom/digital media sector

In the FMCG/consumer goods/telecom/digital media sector a total number of 140 offers were made with some of the top firms being ABinBev, Airtel, Asian Paints, Colgate Palmolive, Dabur, Hindustan Unilever, HT Media, ITC, L’Oréal, Mondelez, Marico, Nestle, P&G, Pepsi, Samsung & Star TV. In addition to the traditional sales & marketing roles, these firms offered roles in supply chain management, IT, finance, HR, and analytics with some of them being exclusive roles for IIM Lucknow. HUL, which was the top recruiter in this segment, opened the highest number of profiles this year.

BFSI sector

BFSI sector saw the participation of companies like Morgan Stanley this year which hired for its Investment Banking profile. This was a remarkable achievement for the campus in securing its position as a potential recruiting destination amongst premium recruiters. BFSI sector saw a total of 40 offers by firms such as Avendus Capital, Bank of America Merrill Lynch, BNP Paribas, Citibank, DBS, Deutsche Bank, Duff & Phelps, Edelweiss, Fidelity International, ICICI Bank, J.P. Morgan, Lumis Partners and Standard Chartered among others. The major roles were in front end investment banking, global markets, investment research, corporate/wholesale/retail banking, market research, trading and operations.

Consulting and General Management sector

In the consulting domain, Accenture, Alvarez & Marsal, AT Kearney, Auctus Advisors, BCG, Deloitte, Hay Group, Hitachi Consulting & MasterCard Advisors made a total of 54 offers. The General Management and Strategy domain saw participation from companies such as Aditya Birla Group, Airtel, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Mahindra, Larsen & Toubro, RIL, RPG and TAS among others. Aditya Birla Group and TAS are the highest recruiters in this domain.

IT/e-Commerce/Analytics sector

Some of the firms from the IT/e-Commerce/Technology sectors were Amazon, CIBIL, Cognizant, eBay, Microsoft, Snapdeal, Uber and Wipro. These firms opened not only IT/Systems profiles, but also roles such as category management, sales enablement, business development, supply chain management, product marketing, strategic alliances, program manager and analytics.

New Recruiters and profiles

32 companies hired for the first time from IIM Lucknow with over 60% coming from the Sales & Marketing, Finance and e-Commerce sector. Some of the other sectors that were represented by these firms were consulting, systems/IT, general management, media and automotive. The roles were primarily in sales and marketing, finance and e-Commerce. The healthy economic environment has helped IIM Lucknow maintain its status as a top recruiting destination and has attained 100% placements for its largest graduating batch.

The institute had created history last year by placing the largest IIM batch in 4 days during Summer Placements. This year, having achieved 100% placements for 5 consecutive seasons with new premier recruiters in each domain, IIM Lucknow has raised the bar for placements in Indian B-schools.

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IIM Lucknow achieves 100% Final Placement for its 30^th batch of 446 students, in a record time of just over 3 days.

The recruitment drive saw participation from over 160 domestic and international recruiters. The highlight of the Placement Season was the participation of esteemed firms like Alvarez & Marsal, BlackRock, MasterCard, Advisors and o3 Capital. The participation of these firms also marked the ascent of IIM Lucknow as a preferred recruitment destination for marketing, finance & consulting roles in the country.

The top 4 segments based on roles offered were sales & marketing, finance, consulting and business development including some extremely sought after and niche profiles in the finance domain. The rest of the offers came from domains such as operations/supply chain, general management, systems/IT, market research, analytics and HR. Some of the top recruiters across different sectors were Accenture, Aditya Birla Group, Amazon, Avendus, Flipkart, Hindustan Unilever, P&G, TAS and The Boston Consulting Group.

The first time recruiters included Avalon Consulting, BMW Group, Kotak Investments and Tata Sky among others. International profiles were offered by Equirus Capital and Olam International.

Profile breakup:

The top segments based on roles offered were sales & marketing (25%), finance (22%), consulting (21%), e-Commerce (15%), systems/IT (10%) and general management (7%).

Rest of the offers came from domains such as market research, analytics, business development, social media marketing and HR among others.

FMCG/consumer goods/telecom/digital media sector:  In the FMCG/consumer goods/telecom/digital media sector a total number of 110 offers were made with some of the top firms being Airtel, Colgate Palmolive, Dr Reddy’s, GSK, Hindustan Unilever, ITC, Nivea, P&G, Pepsi, Puma, Samsung and Star TV. In addition to the traditional sales & marketing roles, these firms offered roles in supply chain management, IT, corporate finance, HR and analytics with some of them being exclusive roles for IIM Lucknow.

BFSI sector: BFSI sector saw the participation of a number of international firms hiring for a diverse set of profiles. The campus secured its position as a potential recruiting destination amongst premium Slot 0 recruiters. BFSI sector saw offers by firms such as Arga, Avendus Capital,Bank of America Merrill Lynch, Blackrock, Citibank, DBS,Edelweiss, Equirus Capital,Goldman Sachs, ICICI Bank and o3 Capital among others. The major roles were in front end investment banking, global markets, investment research, corporate/wholesale/retail banking, market research, trading and operations.

Consulting and General Management sector: In the consulting domain, Accenture, Alvarez & Marsal, Avalon Consulting and Feedback Infra among others made offers, with Accenture and BCG being the top 2 recruiters. The General Management domain saw participation from companies such as Aditya Birla Group (ABG), Airtel, Lodha Group and TAS among others. ABG and TAS are the highest recruiters in this domain.

IT/e-Commerce/Technology sector: Some of the firms from the IT/e-Commerce/Technology sectors were Amazon, Flipkart, Google, Magicbricks, Microsoft, Uber and Wipro. These firms opened not only IT/Systems profiles, but also roles such as category management, sales enablement, business development, supply chain management, product marketing, strategic alliances, program manager and analytics.

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Two faculty members from IIM Lucknow, Prof Sanjay K Singh and Prof Ashutosh K Sinha attended the “Microeconomics of Competitiveness (MOC) Faculty Workshop” from Dec 7th to Dec 9th, 2015, at the Institute for Strategy and Competitiveness (ISC) at Harvard Business School (HBS), Boston, MA. Research papers were presented on the first day, and the next two days were devoted to the faculty workshop. Prominent speakers during the session were Professors Michael E. Porter, Christian H.M. Ketels, Jorge Ramirez-Vallejo and Laura Alfaro.

As a part of the affiliate network of this institute at HBS, IIM Lucknow shall be able to access the continuously updated MOC teaching material developed by Prof Porter and the ISC. This elective course on “Microeconomics of Competitiveness” shall be offered to students of different programmes at IIM Lucknow in the coming year.

Not only this, now IIM Lucknow, will be able to use the Harvard Expertise in Cluster Development at local government level too.

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Noida, 11^th December, 2015: The 4^th Biennial IAM Conference was inaugurated today in the IIM Lucknow – Noida Campus by Dr Ajit Prasad, Director of IIM Lucknow. The theme of the conference revolves around “Managing in the Indian Context”. The conference, spanning over three days, is being attended by over 300 delegates, where they shall be making their paper presentations, mentoring doctoral students along with a junior faculty consortium.

The papers that are being presented revolve around 13 key topics like leadership, strategy & organization, entrepreneurship, innovation and new venture management to name a few. The day began with the doctoral consortium chaired by Professor Shailendra Singh. This was followed by parallel sessions on Research Design, Theory Building & Case Research Analysis & the junior faculty consortium. After this, two enlightening sessions were conducted by professors Sumit Kundu & Somanth Lahiri where they described the prerequisites towards writing better papers and the reasons for papers being rejected by journals. Professors Naresh Khatri, Arup Varma & Pawan Budhwar in their sessions brought out various shortcomings that plague manuscripts submitted to journals with the Indian context in mind. The session also sought to dispel several myths around manuscript submission and rejection. The professors advised that researchers and scholars must be persistent and persevere in the face of paper rejections. The common point was that the papers must ask the right questions and seek to answer them and not the amount of data crunching that goes into it.

Post lunch, the conference was inaugurated by Dr Ajit Prasad, Director of IIM Lucknow with a lamp lighting ceremony. This was followed by the keynote address by Professor Pradip N. Khandwalla, Chairman, Academic Council, AHRD – Ex Director IIM Ahmedabad. The professor in his speech contrasted on the differences between market driven economy and social welfare driven economy. He highlighted the economy of Sweden as an example of balance of the above two types of economies and how it has helped Sweden reach its current path of success and growth. He proceeded to describe a roadmap of how the Indian economy can also improve despite its several shortcomings.

He ended his speech on a high note by reciting lines from one of Tagore’s poems.

About IIM Lucknow

IIM Lucknow has broken new grounds in being the first IIM to have two fully functional campuses at Lucknow and Noida. The admission for the post graduate and fellowship programs is done through Common Admission Test (CAT), while GMAT score is used for the MBA program for candidates having significant industry experience (IPMX). The programs are accredited by the Global accreditation body AMBA. The institute has tie-ups with 24 leading B-schools across the world for student exchange. Many management events, competitions, cultural and sports events are organized by various committees throughout the year.

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IIM Lucknow presents Udyam 2015, the annual industry-academia interaction summit. Udyam is part of IIM Lucknow’s constant endeavour to provide a platform where eminent personalities from corporate world and academia can exchange ideas that are going to shape the future of India Inc. Udyam 2015 is going to touch the topics of Consultancy trends, E-commerce supply chain, Skill India initiative and VUCA in today’s business environment.

The event will focus on discussing trends and challenges in the Indian corporate arena. The panel speakers include esteemed personalities such as Mr. Subramania Ramadorai (Advisor to PM, Padma Bhushan awardee), Dr. Shalini Lal (Director HR, Deutsche Bank), Mr. Pankaj Dubey (MD & Country Head, Polaris India), Mr. M M Singh (Executive Advisor, Maruti-Suzuki) and Mr. Sandeep Kumar (VP, ITC InfoTech).

Event Date & Time:

6^Th Nov: 1:30 pm to 6:00 pm

7^th Nov: 10:00 am to 5:45 pm

Venue:

IIM Lucknow Noida Campus, B-1, Sector-62, NOIDA 201307 U.P.

http://www.iiml-udyam.com/

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