People Matters

Raising the bar for rankings

By Esther Martinez Hernandez

May 1st 2013

MBA rankings are integral to the management education world because they address the needs of three sets of stakeholders: Faculty, alumni and students look at rankings to evaluate how their school fares with respect to others; employers peruse rankings to gauge alternative hiring sources; and MBA aspirants trust rankings to help them shortlist schools to apply to and choose from. Whether you like them or loathe them, you can’t ignore rankings.There are many who criticise the concept of M... Read more »

Which B-school would you choose?

May 1st 2013

Methodology and Differentiators: In a first-of-its-kind endeavour, National HRD Network joins hands with People Matters to gauge and rank B-schools in the country. It is the only ranking to have involved more than 30 senior corporate members in its design and execution.Sixteen years ago, Business Today magazine and independent research agency Cosmode jointly carried out the first B-school ranking. Since then, there has been a plethora of rankings and surveys, leading to cynicism and confu... Read more »

The Why, What, How and Who of the rankings

May 1st 2013

Industry leaders and captains from the National HRD Network tell People Matters why employers and aspirants should take this B-school ranking seriously and how it will become a game changerWhy is this ranking needed?“In the absence of any consistent ranking system with high credibility, we received feedback from B-school aspirants who were unable to take an informed decision and were often misled. Organisations themselves were not able to choose the B-school most suited to thei... Read more »

How do companies shortlist B-schools?

May 1st 2013

With business schools being a consistent source for high potential talent pipeline, how do companies ensure that they get the best? People Matters talks to industry experts to find out the defining parameters.A medium to ensure consistent in flow of high potential talent –campus recruitment is a critical part of an organisation’s talent strategy. with talent being scarce, mba students are generally hired with a plan to be trained and fast tracked into leadership positions. with suc... Read more »

The B-School perspective

May 1st 2013

The academia have high expectations from the National Human Resource Development Network-People Matters B-school Rankings 2013 as they believe the former lends credibility and fairness to the survey“The fact that it is NHRDN who conducted the exercise gives it credibility. I trust that the ranking will be far closer to reality in terms of what exactly a B-school is adding towards the development of the workforce.” Dr Bibek Banerjee, Director, Institute of Management Technolog... Read more »

The NHRDN - People Matters B-school Rankings 2013

May 1st 2013

The B-schools are rated on the basis of nine parameters: Student profile, faculty profile, academic excellence, infrastructure, placements, corporate connectedness, leadership & governance, accreditation & linkages and campus life RANK 1: Indian Institute of Management, AhmedabadLocation: Ahmedabad Top-scoring parameters: Faculty profile, academic excellence Differentiator: Significant use of case study method in the course curriculumLed by Dr Vikram Sarabhai, the... Read more »

Ranked happiness

By Elango R.

May 1st 2013

When People Matters sent me the theme for this month, it brought to my mind my childhood obsession with ranks. What is your rank in class? What rank does the school have? Which place is the house that I am in? How were we doing as a family against the chosen comparison for that summer? Life seemed like an unending march of ranking – real, imagined and forced upon.I would love to dismiss this against our school grading system where the first is celebrated each year. But how do I explain t... Read more »

Do business school rankings matter?

By Abhijit Bhaduri

May 1st 2013

Quick, give me the name of the best hospital in the country. Now write that name on a piece of paper. Once you have done that, let me ask you about the factors that you have used in coming up with that name. You may have gone by your brand perceptions of the hospitals and may have been influenced by very positive or very negative experiences you may have personally had (even if that makes it a statistically insignificant number) with that hospital or a doctor. You may have been influenced by o... Read more »

The Counsellor by Vivek Paranjpe

May 1st 2013

Vivek Paranjpe, Consultant & Strategic HR Advisor to Reliance Industries answers professional and ethical dilemmas faced by our readers at their workplaceQ) My boss, who is a very respected and inspirational role model in our field, is leaving the organisation for another role elsewhere. As someone who has worked with him for many years, I would like to move with him to the other organisation since I think I would get to work on much better projects there and continue to learn from him. H... Read more »

Select L&D services that justify Investments

By Vikram Choudhury

May 1st 2013

Five critical components help an L&D manager justify investments - objectives, delivery, capabilities, scale and accountabilityWhile every single business function has come under the cost scanner in the last two years, the organisation’s L&D function speaks a different story. Market studies suggest that despite tight budget monitoring, the outlook for L&D in the coming times remain positive.Vinay Kumar, Principal Consultant at C2C Consulting, a learning consulting firm, says,... Read more »