India's Best Business Schools 2016
Outlook-Drshti Survey

Fits and Start-Ups: The A+ Schools

Although the start-up scene remains abuzz with activity, many B-schools are setting grads on the old-school employability path

Arindam Mukherjee
Column
A Dance Of Substance
Recruiters are back on terra firma, so pass-outs will have to prove employability
A.K. Balaji Prasad
Bureaucrats
Steel, Forged In Fire
Bureaucrats perform against great odds as super-managers of governance. Outlook profiles 10 of them.
Arindam Mukherjee
Column
An MBA In The Vanity Bag
Had corporations been mindful, I would not need the badge. Clearly, they aren’t.
Rashmi Bansal
World Rankings
B-Drive
The world’s best business schools, according to Financial Times and the Economist. IIM Ahmedabad leads from India and is ranked 15th by FT.
Placements
Bleak Times Ahead
The job market is down—and freshers bear the brunt of start-up burnout
Arushi Bedi
Column
The Manager’s Map
What the young manager in 21st century India needs to know to get a head start
Haresh Chawla
Jobless Growth
The Great Job Chase
FDI’s up, so is GDP. And yet the demographic dividend lies untapped. Here’s why.
Lola Nayar
Interview
‘Data On Indian Workforce Is Misleading’
Deputy director, ILO Decent Work Team for South Asia and Country Office for India, Sher Singh Verick...
Outlook Interviews Sher Singh Verick
Sports Management
Running With The Stars
No course can prepare one to manage athletes. It’s all down to patience, gut feeling and being practical.
Qaiser Mohammad Ali
Case Study
Vanilla Spread Evenly
The Bectors built Cremica foods from Rs 300. Theirs is a model business story.
USHINOR MAJUMDAR
Start-Ups
Promise Not
The much-touted start-up scene is cracking up. Is the boom over then? No, say experts. It’s necessary course-correction.
Ajay Sukumaran
Column
In Spite Of FT 50
We need a metric that captures quality of thinking and rigour in management research
B. ‘Nary’ Narayanaswamy
Wit & Wisdom
B-Drive
Mind hacks to boost and bolster self-belief, pointers to which way the trade winds are blowing. Our short roster of reading and listening musts.
Business History
The Cooked Book Raj
The East India Company, the Raj and the roots of Indian corporate malpractice
Raman Mahadevan
Book Extract
An Innovative Buzz
The Honey Bee network gathers lessons in creativity from the grassroots
Anil K Gupta
The Big Debate
Two Schools Of Trade
Experts tell us how both public and private B-schools are important
Pritam Singh
Future Biz Stars
 
The Big Debate

Why Public­ ­Institutions Are Better For Education

The leadership of leading business schools in both sectors is best left to the leaders of the schools themselves.

Debashis Chatterjee
NATIONAL
Leader Comment
War Is A Zero-Sum Game
Pakistan should realise that it doesn't really help any reasonable vision of its own future well-being to keep bleeding India
 
Security
The Gauntlet’s Shadow Across The Line
Avoiding reactionary retaliation, Modi government plans for a cold, calculated response to the Uri attack
Bhavna Vij-Aurora
BJP
Hardening The Knuckle
Post-Uri, the prospects of Modi and party hinge on walking the talk on freedom from terror
BULA DEVI
Interview
‘We'll Take A Hard Stand Against Troublemakers’
Senior RSS pracharak, Dattatreya Hosabale, on the volatile situation in Kashmir and on the course of action the government can take
BULA DEVI INTERVIEWS DATTATREYA HOSABALE
Opinion
The Way To Poona
‘Separatism’ is not the way to an egalitarian India
MARKANDEY KATJU
Environment
Green Crimes
Biggest polluting states don’t even figure in the NCRB list
ARUSHI BEDI
THE LATEST ISSUE
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Sports Tip: Shooting FitnessAbhinav Bindra, India’s first Individual Olympic gold winner bade adieu in Rio. Both the mind and body are engaged in rifle shooting. It’s true that it demands fierce concentration. But equally important is strength and cardio training.
International
Opinion
Game Of Inception
Our columnist puts himself in Raheel Sharif's shoes
Syed Ata Hasnain
Eat
Pray
Live
Soil to Soul: Combating Hidden HungerThe UN has come up with 17 sustainable dev­elopment goals (SDGs). The top two are no poverty and zero hunger. It does seem that ending poverty will also end hunger, but we now have a new phenomenon—hidden hunger.
Society
Society
An Olympus Higher Than Rio
Our Paralympians have done us proud, but, as a crucial law hangs fire, most Indians with disabilities lead diminished lives
PRAGYA SINGH
Opinion
A Boy’s Awakening
Even acute disability isn’t a barrier to a thirst for knowledge
World Heart Day
The Heart Of The Matter
On the occasion of World Heart Day (September 29), a take on how cardiovascular disease can be kept at bay
RITU BHATIA
Books
Interview
‘Even Anti-Establishment Is A Coterie In Delhi’
Eminent intellectual Ramachandra Guha on his latest book - a collection of 16 essays covering a wide range of topics
SATISH PADMANABHAN INTERVIEWS RAMACHANDRA GUHA
Review
Double Album
Except for the excellent profiles, rehashed articles don’t serve Guha well
Ajaz Ashraf
REGULAR
LAST PAGE
Mumbai Diary
Art has never stopped a war, or fed a poor stomach, but art makes all of us better humans.
Tannishtha Chatterjee
ARTS AND ENTERTAINMENT
TIFF
All Aboard On T’ronto Express
Frames of India from the The ­Toronto ­International Film Festival
Anirudh Bhattacharyya
The Insider
Deep Throat
A regular column on the essential buzz
 
 
OUTLOOK ARCHIVE
ISSUE DATED | JUNE 03, 2013
REVIEW
Father And Sons, Or The Lie Of The Land
An honourable Svengali and his Mujib-speaking protege ply their trade in liberated Bangladesh. Imam weaves a hyper-realistic tale of tragedy, farce, idealism and power.
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Outlook in Rewind
10 Years Ago
Even in the still and serene surroundings of his 2,000-acre estate on the Sahayadri slopes in Chikmagalur in the Western Ghats, Ashok Kuriyan can feel the hustle-and-bustle and the pace of the Indian economy. At Balanoor Plantations, the "feelgood" factor has gripped every worker, including its MD Kuriyan. After all, despite a huge rise in input costs, it netted a cool profit of Rs 30 lakh this season, compared to a "no-profit, no-loss situation" in the previous one. "If we had not got the Rs 25 lakh subsidy last year, we would've been in serious trouble," says Kuriyan.