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World Conference on Global Opportunities & Threats Analysis: The GOTA programme for this year has had sponsorship and support from some of the world's leading organizations. IIPM students visited various organizations in Europe, North America & Asia during the months of March, April and May 2002 and understood global dynamics of managing international businesses and undertaking strategies in multi-national corporations. Finally, this culminated in the World Conference on Global Opportunities and Threats conducted at the ADIU Convention Center, National Chambers of Commerce & Industry, New Delhi on July 1st, 2nd and 3rd 2002 wherein student & faculty participants from various business schools across the world were sponsored by IIPM to participate and learn from the combined experiences of various IIPM students & faculty. Many multi-national corporations also sent their corporate participants to the conference, thus enhancing the industry involvement. The conference was a huge success with extremely high levels of involved learning gained by participants from across the world. Commendation Certificates and Letters of Appreciation were designated and awarded to various top management personnel in organizations across the world for contributing to the GOTA programme.

IMI professors from Europe, Professor Luc Van Mele and Dr. Patrick Martin, submit Class of 2002 degrees after the Annual Convocation lecture at the New Delhi campus. Professor A.Sandeep awards the MIS degrees at the convocation at the Mumbai campus.
European Commission funded Wilton Park Conference rates IIPM faculty amongst top 50 thinkers of South Asia.

Arthur Andersen Commendation Letter to HRIC: "This is to put on record the Outstanding support from HRIC...in the Business Consulting Practice of Andersen..." ADIU Online Library becomes one of the largest online library resource database in the world. Students of the Class of 2004 joined the best that the industry had to offer. More than 100 companies participated in this year's campus placement session. The companies that vied against each other for recruiting the Class of 2004 included HSBC, LG, McKinsey & Co, PricewaterhouseCoopers, Electrolux, Asian Paints, ICICI Prudential, Coca Cola, HDFC Bank etc. More than 20% of the companies that came to the campus were first time recruiters. Like last year, the specialization stream that took the maximum recruitments was again marketing. However, Salary average was the highest in the Finance specialization. HR and IT were at ranks below Marketing & Finance specializations.

Coke selects 8 students, PricewaterhouseCoopers selects 5 students, becoming the top two recruiters in terms of numbers of students selected during campus placements.
University of Leeds, Brisbane University join an admirable list of US, Canadian & Australian Universities that have opened doors to IIPM students for undertaking further studies.
Professor Arindam Chaudhuri's recent book 'Count Your Chickens Before They Hatch' creates a record in India for having the maximum number of copies sold, beating titles like Jack Welch's 'Straight From The Gut' etc.

United Nations provides the first ever of its kind 'Security Council Briefing' to IIPM students in the previous GOTA tour.

Confederation of Indian Industry invites IIPM faculty to undertake key note speeches at the annual CII conference.

IIPM & Rotary Blood Bank organize blood donation camp.

IIM Calcutta selects IIPM alumni for higher education & advanced management courses.

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Faculty from INSEAD, teach IIPM students during the GOTA tour.

IIT Kharagpur invites IIPM faculty to speak at the annual festival Ideon 2002.

IIPM sponsors year long academic research fellowships for fellows to stay in China, Malaysia and Indonesia.

IIPM Alumni meet in December 2002; National & International Alumni Chapters finalizing the exact details in August 2002.

Two IIPM alumni sponsored by Brisbane University (Australia) to visit Copenhagen (Denmark) as a part of the annual student exchange programs.

O&M commends IIPM's ICMR division for providing one of the most excellent best market research support.

HRIC's workshops rated as 'Outstanding' & 'Excellent' by top managers of Fortune 1000 organizations like Sony, Samsung, Adobe, Government of India.

Microsoft & Andersen become highest net worth clients of HRIC.

2002 saw Nike, Mahindra & Mahindra, Planet Sports take ICPAR services for PR efforts.

Indian Oil Corporation, O&M, Akai, Sony become clients of ICMR. India's biggest research on the consumer durables segment undertaken by ICMR for a leading electronic segment player.