Placement Stuff , is obviously what some of the blog readers expect from a bschool blog :) ,so here it is 2006 placement details.
"It took the bastion of Indian spirit, the Indian Cricket Team 72 years for a triple Ton. S.P Jain Institute of Management and Research, the pioneering Business School in India in only its 25th year of inception completed a triple ton in style for the Final Placements of 2006!!!
In a never seen before frenzy of excitement , SPJIMR surpassed the landmark of over 300 offers on campus within a small space of a few hours in pretty much the same way Sehwag raced to his and India's first triple on a scorchy day in Multan.
And if Sehwag's triple was laced with lusty hits all over , SPJIMR's triple reflected the best of offers from myriad sectors ranging from Business Consulting to FMCGs and Banks to IT companies
A record 75 Companies made a whopping 331 offers to the 147 students who sat for Final Placements from the Class of 2006. Rewriting history, a stunning 35 companies were first time recruiters on campus. If this itself was not path breaking, the candidates also had the icing of multiple offers going upto maximum of 6, that gave them the luxury of choice which they will make on Feb 10, 2006 after completion of the placement process. More than 75 % of the Class of 2006 had 2 or more offers to choose from.The highest offers were scored in overs bowled by CTS 16, HCL 14, Genpact 12, Infosys 9 and Wipro 9.
Laced with offers from some of the top notch companies like Accenture, Asian Paints, BNP Paribas,Capgemini, Citibank, Colgate Palmolive, Cadbury, Deloitte Consulting, Deutsche Bank, DSP ML, GE India, Goldman Sachs, HLL, HP, IBM, ICICI Bank, ICICI Securities, Intel, ITC, Lehman Brothers, Microsoft, Nestle, Oracle, SAP, Standard Chartered Bank, TAS and many others, the placement day turned out to be a dream day for every candidate on campus. The highest domestic salary offered was a dazzling 15.5 lacs.
The average salary would be known only after all candidates exercise their choice and all the offer letters are received but a back of envelope calculation indicated it crossing 8.5 lacs. Foreign offers were received from Australia, Singapore and Dubai from Macquarie Bank, P&G and Schlumberger.
If the epic SPJIMR Final Placements for the Class of 2006 is anything to go by Brian Lara's knock of 400 now seems eminently surpassable in the days to come!"
Consider this
Plot Size: 5.3 acres roughly
Consortium of: Nagarjuna Construction Company (NCC), ICICI Ventures, and Maytas
Total Deal Worth: Rs335 crore (Almost double the reserve price)
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Location: Jubilee Hills, Hyderabad ( not Malabar Hills , Mumbai !)
The real estate market in Hyd is on fire, this latest auction may just have triggered it. With the announcement of new projects like the Hyderabad international airport and, more recently, the $3 billion FabCity, property prices have skyrocketed with unofficial rates in Jubilee Hills areas (prime spot) touching Rs80,000 plus per sq m. Hyderabad seems to be giving Bangalore competition in the technology sector and Mumbai in the realty business.
This is bad news for two reasons:
i. I can never afford to buy a house in my hometown, in my life time :(
ii. The biggest edge for Hyderabad ,low cost of living, is gone for a toss
Consider this, just couple of years back , the cost of living in Hyd was considered on par with Indore. In fact , I used to tell my friends who worked in the Oracles,MS etc," how do you spend money in twin cities, it must be difficult to figure out in a place like Hyd , when everything is dirt cheap (relatively speaking !)." Not anymore!
Apparently the news was enough for the CM to instruct officials to redraw the Hyderabad masterplan.(supply and demand in action). Looks like Hyderabad is going the Bangalore way, unless more land and comparable infrastructure is developed in Hyderabad.
Wanted to share this article that i came across..
enjoy,
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ABN AMRO- In the 1960s, the Nederlandse Handelmaatschappij (Dutch Trading Society; 1824) and the
Twentsche Bank merged to form the Algemene Bank Nederland ( ABN; General Bank of the Netherlands). In 1966,the Amsterdamsche Bank and the Rotterdamsche Bank merged to form the Amro Bank. In 1991, ABN and Amro Bank merged to form ABN AMRO.
Accenture- Accent on the Future. Greater-than 'accent' over the logo's t points forward towards the
future. The name Accenture was proposed by a company employee in Norwayas part of a internal name finding process (BrandStorming). Prior to January 1, 2001 the company was called Andersen Consulting.
Adidas- from the name of the founder Adolf (Adi) Dassler.
Adobe- came from name of the river Adobe Creek that ran behind the houses of founders John Warnock and
Chuck Geschke .
AltaVista- Spanish for "high view".
Amazon. com - Founder Jeff Bezos renamed the company to Amazon (from the earlier name of Cadabra. com)
after the world's most voluminous river, the Amazon. He saw the potential for a larger volume of sales in an
online bookstore as opposed to the then prevalent bookstores. (Alternative: It is said that Jeff Bezos named
his book store Amazon simply to cash in on the popularity of Yahoo at the time. Yahoo listed entries
alphabetically, and thus Amazon would always appear above its competitors in the relevant categories it was
listed in.)
AMD- Advanced Micro Devices.
Apache- The name was chosen from respect for the Native American Indian tribe of Apache (Indé),
well-known for their superior skills in warfare strategy and their inexhaustible endurance. Secondarily, and
more popularly (though incorrectly) accepted, it's considered a cute name that stuck: its founders got
started by applying patches to code written for NCSA's httpd daemon. The result was 'a patchy' server â€"
thus the name Apache.
Apple- for the favourite fruit of co-founder Steve Jobs and/or for the time he worked at an apple
orchard. He was three months late in filing a name for the business, and he threatened to call his company
Apple Computer if his colleagues didn't suggest a better name by 5 p.m. Apple's Macintosh is named after a
popular variety of apple sold in the US. Apple also wanted to distance itself from the cold, unapproachable,
complicated imagery created by the other computer companies at the time had names like IBM, NEC, DEC, ADPAC,Cincom, Dylakor, Input, Integral Systems, SAP, PSDI, Syncsort and Tesseract. The new company sought to reverse the entrenched view of computers in order to get people to use them at home. They looked for a name that was unlike the names of traditional computer companies, a name that also supported a brand positioning strategy that was to be perceived as simple, warm, human, approachable and different. Note: Apple had to get approval from the Beatle's Apple Corps to use the name 'Apple' and paid one-time royalty to
McIntosh Laboratory, Inc., a maker of high-end audio equipment, to use the derivative name 'Macintosh', known now as just 'Mac'.
AT&T- American Telephone and Telegraph Corporation officially changed its name to AT&T in the 1990s.
Bauknecht- Founded as an electrotechnical workshop in 1919 by Gottlob Bauknecht .
BBC- Stands for British Broadcasting Corporation.
BenQ- Bringing ENjoyment and Quality to life
Blaupunkt- Blaupunkt (Blue dot) was founded in 1923 under the name Ideal. Their core business was the
manufacturing of headphones. If the headphones came through quality tests, the company would give the
headphones a blue dot. The headphones quickly became known as the blue dots or blaue Punkte. The quality
symbol would become a trademark, and the trademark would become the company name in 1938.
BMW- abbreviation of Bayerische Motoren Werke (Bavarian Motor Factories)
Borealis - The Northern Lights or Aurora Borealis, is the celestial phenomenon that features bursts of
light in colourful patterns dancing across the night skies of the north. Borealis, inspired from the shining
brilliance of the Northern Lights, was formed in 1994 out of the merger between two northern oil companies,
Norway's Statoil and Finland's Neste.
BP - formerly British Petroleum, now "BP" (The slogan "Beyond Petroleum" has incorrectly been taken to
refer to the company's new name following its rebranding effort in 2000).
BRAC- abbreviation for Bangladesh Rural Advancement Committee, world's largest NGO (non governmental
organization). It works in development programs around the world.
Situated 32 km south west of Pune, and standing at an imposing 1215 m above msl overlooking Pune city, Sinhagad, even today stands testimony to the grand Maratha Regime.
Narvir Tanaji's Impossibly Brave Deed: Lil bit of History !! 
The fort of Kondana, which is today on the outskirts of Pune town was then an outpost overlooking Pune and the surrounding countryside. It was strategically placed in the center of a string of forts of Rajgad, Purandar, and Torna. The capture of Kondana was necessary if Shivaji Maharaj was to re-establish de facto control over the Pune region.
Recognizing the strategic importance of Kondana, the Mughals had maintained a battalion of 5000 troops led by Udai Bhan, a relative of Mirza Raja Jai Singh. The fort was built in such a way that all its approaches were covered by cannon-fire. Only on turret was not well defended as it was at the top of a vertical overhanging cliff.
Tanaji decided that this was the only way, he could enter the fort. He dressed himself as a Gondhali (devotee of the Goddess Bhavani of Tuljapur) and roamed the surrounding villages. He won the trust of one Mahadev Koli who was in the service of Udai Bhan. Koli presented the disguished Tanaji to Udai Bhan, who was suitably impressed by this "devotee" and allowed him free access to the fort.
‘Kondana’, which was rechristened by Shivaji Maharaj as ‘Sinhagad’ after the brave heroics of Tanaji, occupies a special place in the hearts of Trekkers and Mountaineers, because of its massive expanse and the panoramic view it offers over the Deccan region.
Tanaji carried out a careful surveillance of the fort and at that very night when he was told that at the overhanging cliff Udai Bhan and all his senior commanders would be celebrating a usual party with an alcohol and dance orgy; Tanaji decided that he should seize this opportunity.
With almost all his troops, Udai Bhan had a roaring party on top of the overhanging cliff. Unknown to them after midnight, Tanaji and his brave followers who numbered 300 scaled the cliff using ropes tied to a reptile called Ghorpad. The Ghorpad can stick fast to any surface and a number of adults can use this force to scale a vertical cliff with the help of a rope, one end of which is tied to the Ghorpad. Silently Tanaji and his comrades slunk up to the top of the cliff.
Shivaji Maharaj is said to have said on this occasion "Gad aala, paan Simha gela" (We have won the fort but have lost the Lion - Tanaji). The fort of Kondana was renamed as "Sinhagad" in honour of Tanaji's brave deed
Seen anything like it
Some facts about the Fab City’s 3 billion dollars project coming up at Hyderabad
Total FDI inflow into India in 2004-05 :
$3.75 billion
Total FDI expected this year:
$7 billion
What Intel planned to invest in Bangalore:
$ 1 billion
What Bill Gates planned to invest in India:
$1.7 billion
Total investment by Japan in India:
$2 billion
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5,000 jobs by 2009 10-14 lakh spinoff jobs in 10 years 200 ancillary industries
