MBA Roundup: IIM Ahmedabad Releases 2024 PGPX Placements

The Indian Express: “The Indian Institute of Management (IIM) Ahmedabad concluded the final placement process of its one year MBA (PGPX) at the end of June 2024. About 121 students from the IIMA PGPX class of 2024 accepted offers across sectors, geographies and economic conditions.

According to the final audited placement report of IIM Ahmedabad, as many as 105 companies from diverse sectors offered a wide range of roles to the students of the PGPX 2024 batch.

The final audited placement report, aligned with the ‘Indian Placement Reporting Standards’ (IPRS), was audited by an external agency and finalised in August 2024, an institute statement released in this regard said adding that IIMA is one of the first management institutes in India to put forth an audited placements report since 2011.

The placements, it added, continue to have a good mix of returning and new recruiters, a clear sign of robust demand for the PGPX programme and its diversity.”

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Wanda Costen to Step Down as Dean of Smith School of Business

Queen’s University: “Principal and Vice-Chancellor Patrick Deane announced today that Wanda Costen will step down as Dean of the Smith School of Business, ending her term on Dec. 31, 2024, to become the Provost and Vice-President Academic at Dalhousie University. Lynnette Purda will serve as Interim Dean of Smith Business as of Jan. 1, 2025, for an 18-month appointment.

“I would like to congratulate Dean Costen on her new appointment at Dalhousie and thank her for her numerous contributions to Queen’s and the Smith School of Business,” says Principal Deane. “Under Wanda’s leadership, the school has made important progress in several key areas, including a new strategic plan, greater integration of teaching and research, and improved access and inclusion for students. While she will be greatly missed, I wish her the very best as she takes this exciting next step in her career.”

Dean Costen joined Queen’s in 2021 and during her tenure led the business school and its key stakeholders through a process to develop a comprehensive new strategic plan. She increased the focus on research at Smith, including more exposure to research in the undergraduate Commerce program. Dean Costen invested in the future of Smith’s faculty by adding 10 new assistant and associate professors with a diverse set of experiences and backgrounds. She worked with a generous alumni donor to establish the Quinn Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) Professorship, and expanded the school’s partnership agreements for exchange and double degrees in the Global South, including Costa Rica, Morocco, and Nigeria.”

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Cambridge Judge Business School Launches Cambridge Peaceshaping and Climate Lab

Cambridge University: “The Cambridge Peaceshaping and Climate Lab (CPCL), an initiative that aims to stimulate innovation in order to spot climate-related conflict before it occurs, has been launched at Cambridge Judge Business School, University of Cambridge.

The goal of the new Lab, which is part of the Cambridge Centre for Social Innovation, is to pre-empt climate-related conflict through socio-ecological action such as mitigations to damaged environments, or if that fails to inform policy makers in order to seek timely peacekeeping interventions.

“The Lab aims to stimulate research and action to prevent climate change contributing to conflict – new or existing,” said Neil Stott, Lead of the CPCL, who is Management Practice Professor of Social Innovation and Co-Director of the Cambridge Centre for Social Innovation at Cambridge Judge. “The intensification of climate change threatens how water, food, transport and energy systems are organised. The complex interrelationship of climate, ecosystems and human activity creates a high degree of climate uncertainty, and fear related to ecological fragility can make relationships fraught.  But will the intensification of climate enmities lead to violence, conflict and war? We do not know the answer. But climate uncertainty itself can drive enmities and create enemies, real or imagined.”

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