The Alumni Cell of IIM Calcutta hosted a two-day event to celebrate Golden Jubilee reunion for PGP Batch 6. 23 alums from the batch and their spouses graced us with their presence on this special occasion. Some of the alums residing in the city of Kolkata joined their batch mates who flew from different parts of the country to reminiscence Read More

The reunion of the 4th batch of IIM Calcutta, the Batch of 1969 was held from 8th to 10th of February. It was attended by twelve alumni, and four of them were accompanied by their spouses. They arrived on campus on 8th February. The reunion started with an informal gathering followed by an interactive session with the new Director, Prof. Anju Seth, Dean Academic, Prof. Runa Sarkar andRead More

The reunion for the 18th batch was held on the 12th of January, 2019. The day started with a short campus walk and a few of them visited their old classrooms. A group photo was clicked in front of the Old Hostel, which the alums warmly referred to as Ramunajan.

After the walk, the alums proceeded to the Read More

Homecoming 2019, the first ever alumni reunion of PGPEX was held on 23rd Feb 2019. The event was inaugurated with a short video clip and welcome addresses by Dean NIER, Prof. Prashant Mishra and PGPEX Chairperson, Prof. Amit Dhiman. Prof. Mishra spoke about the latest developments in the campus and shared his vision to build deeper alumni relations. Prof. Dhiman shared his experiences with PGPEX program over the years in an evocative presentation while aptly summarizing the idiosyncrasies of each batch with Read More

The Center for Development and Environment Policy (CDEP), organized a one-day workshop on ”Challenges in the Lives of Urban Slum Dwellers" on January  17th  in the institute. The event which was inaugurated by the Director (Acting), Prof Leena Chatterjee was co-hosted with Heritage Academy, and attended by more than 70 participants. The keynote was given by Mr NB Basu, Technical Advisor, KMC also former Chief Engineer (Civil) K.M.C. Mr Basu spoke about the requirements of civic planning and sustainable lifestyles that we need to maintain to maintain health, and hygiene in our lives.  A documentary film titled, “Ei to Jibon” (Such is life) was screened which documents the lives of three families living in the slums in Kolkata.Read More

The Economics Group of IIM Calcutta in association with the Centre for Environment and Development Policy, IIM Calcutta, organized a two-day Conference on ‘Perspectives on the Contemporary Indian Economy’ on the 21-22 February 2019. The Conference was inaugurated by the newly appointed Director of IIM Calcutta, Prof. Anju Seth who last served as Pamplin Professor of Management at Virginia Tech, USA. She highlighted the need for policy to be based on rigorous research. The two-day Conference witnessed discussion Read More

The Management Centre for Human Values (MCHV), IIM Calcutta and the Association for Information Systems - India Chapter co-hosted the "Workshop on Being (more) Human in a Digitised World" at the MCHV Seminarium on February 1-2, 2019. The workshop was inaugurated by the Director, IIM Calcutta, Dr. Anju Seth. Professor Priya Seetharaman of IIM Calcutta and Professor Saji K Mathew of IIT Madras were the workshop chairs. There were 14 paper presentations, one panel discussion and one experience sharing session spread over one and half Read More

IIM Calcutta hosted the European Union Day on Feb 22, 2019 with delegates from the European Union. Dr. Anju Seth, Director, IIM Calcutta and Prof. Prashant Mishra, Dean, New Initiatives & External Relations, hosted the delegation and led the interaction. The Ambassador of the European Union to India, H.E. Mr. Tomasz Kozlowski who initiated his talk by praising the state of the art infrastructure the B-school has provided to its students, discussed why India is an important nation to the European Union in terms of working together to find solutions for issues impacting the globe, namely climate change, security concerns, global economic governance and science & Read More

The 27th Institute's Lecture Series was held on February 12, 2019 and Prof. Ashok Jhunjhunwala, Institute Professor, IIT Madras delivered a talk, "Can India’s transport become all electric by 2030?". Dr. Anju Seth, Director of IIM Calcutta inaugurated the event, welcoming Professor Jhunjhunwala for the talk. The talk was on how, with the help of innovative approaches, India’s transport Read More

IIMC Case Research Center (IIMCCRC) hosted the 7th Case Method Workshop at the IIM Calcutta campus on March 29-30, 2019. The workshop brought together academicians, practitioners and doctoral students from different areas of management. The participants represented reputed organizations and many had decades of industrial experience. Prof. Anju Seth, Director of IIMC inaugurated the workshop Read More

The Management Centre for Human Values, Indian Institute of Management Calcutta organized an international workshop on “Spatial Justice and Stewardship: Theoretical dialogues among schools of thought” in Pondicherry during March 20-22, 2019 jointly with the Institut Français de Pondichéry (IFP), a research institution under joint supervision of the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the French National Centre for Scientific Research. The workshop brought together European and Indian scholars, who addressed issues of spatial Read More

The Grand Finale of the 7th edition of Tata Social Enterprise Challenge 2018 to find India’s most promising early-stage social innovators was held in Kolkata on 12 January, 2019. The start-ups were from sectors such as agriculture; healthcare; water and sanitation; technology and development; education and skills development; housing; handicrafts; Read More

'Health Trail’- The Healthcare Accelerator Program is to foster start-ups endeavouring to offer innovative solutions to some of the largest health problems in our country, especially in the rural sector. It has a 15-member cohort, Read More

To honour the accomplishments and contributions of Late Professor Amitava Bose, Renowned Professor of Economics and Former Director of IIM Calcutta, IIM Calcutta in alliance with Late Professor Bose’s family announces the launch of the Amitava Bose Lab for Economic Analysis and Policy (ABLEAP) Fund. The family of Late Professor A. Bose has donated an endowment of Rs 1 crore Read More

Samsung has picked top students from IIM-Calcutta and other B-schools for the two-month long summer internship program called IGNITE (Inspiring Growth & Nurturing Interns Towards Excellence). Through IGNITE 2019, Read More

Jaya Upadhyay, a first-year FP student from the Public Policy and Management group, has received the Alexander von Humboldt International Climate Protection Fellowship 2019 for her research idea on Read More

Rupeshkumar Jadhawar, a student of IIM Calcutta and belongs to a team of 4 business students from all over the world were listed as the top 44 of the 1113 teams that participated in the 2018-2 track Read More

During September last year, a group of students of IIM Calcutta launched an initiative to collect unconsumed food from one of its student's canteen and to feed the street kids. The initiative has been an instant success and following this they have started collecting more such unconsumed food from other student's hostels. Now they feed 500 plus street kids every Read More

All 441 students of 54th PGP batch were placed, ensuring 100% placement in Final placements. 123 firms from diverse sectors participated in the placement process making a total of 501 offers, translating to 15% of the batch receiving more than one offer. 50% of the batch accepted offers in Consulting (29%) and Finance (21%) sectors. Reputed consulting firms such as AT Kearney, Bain & Co., The Boston Consulting Group, and McKinsey & Co. made offers in double digits. Other prominent names included EY-Parthenon, Alvarez & Marsal and PwC amongst Read More

The Final Placements for the PGDBA Programme of IIM Calcutta, ISI Kolkata and IIT Kharagpur for the 2017-2019 batch concluded with the batch of 52 receiving a total of 66 offers made by 35 firms. The average CTC has risen to ₹25.05 lakh per annum from ₹22.89 lakh per annum last year with the domestic median CTC of ₹23.23 lakhs per annum. The domestic offers alone recorded 11 Read More

IIM Calcutta students, Paras Gala and Rashmeka Banerjee emerged as winners at the Inter-University Annual Debate Competition organized jointly by Observer Research Foundation, Kolkata and Victoria Memorial. While Rashmeka spoke in favor, Paras presented opinions against the motion at this year’s debate themed around ‘Social Media is the New Courtroom Read More

Indian Institute of Management Calcutta has signed a MoU with The Jan Chetna Trust--established by Late Prof. Nirmal Chandra--for organizing the Nirmal Chandra Memorial Lecture series. IIM Calcutta has additionally received an amount of Rs 10 lacs for the implementation of the initiative, which will be held annually between November and Read More

IIMCIP, the four-year old company incubates 46 start-ups and has not only helped 18 start-ups raise funds worth over Rs 52 Crores but has provided access to over 100 mentors to help the entrepreneurs create an efficient business model as well as scale-up faster. IIMCIP, as a part of its pledge to handhold social start-ups, has embarked into an ambitious project “INVENT” Read More

Professor Partha Priya Datta was invited as one of the honourable jurors to be part of the jury panel for the regional Tata InnoVista, Tata Group’s flagship annual event for recognizing and celebrating innovations of Tata companies, which was held on 11th March 2019 at Kolkata for the Implemented Innovations award category. His co jurors Read More