30 Industry Sponsored Scholarships amounting to more than 30 lacs of rupees. Up to 100% of the tuition fee is being given to the meritorious applicants of Core Business School.

The Indian industry at present has reached the most crucial turning point where it has had to face dynamic demands of the competitive domestic and global markets by providing high quality products and services. To survive and succeed in this new scenario, human resource is the most essential input.

Industries are seeking management graduates at an increasingly younger age, many in their 20s instead of late 30s and 40s. The recent trend being followed by industries is to build partnerships with premier management institutes in order to address the ever increasing need of fully equipped professionals from time to time.

The biggest strength of CORE Business School is its exhaustive industry network built meticulously to reach a broad spectrum of companies from varied fields.

A college education continues to be critical to one’s quality of life. Scholarships allow our most talented students, or those who are in need of financial support, to concentrate on their studies without the pressures of financial hardship.

Nurturing the students’ talents and career ambitions is the foundation stone to offering such scholarships. Scholarships also come with a dual responsibility from the industry as well as the student. On one hand, scholarships encourage academic excellence and perseverance on the students part while on the other it also binds the industry in monitoring the progress of the candidate sponsored by them.

Provogue India Ltd joins hands with a B-school in Indore

Sponsors scholarships and bridges gap between Industry-Academia.

Collaboration between academia and industry has long been discussed and desired for a more meaningful education system in India. Recent changes and opportunities have attracted Indian corporate to this area.

Provogue India Ltd has a long term vision of entering into higher education sector to create world class education and research institutions. Provogue through this strategic collaborative endeavor with Core Business School plans to redefine higher education standards through world class academic pursuits.

Mr Nikhil Chaturvedi, Chairman and Managing Director of Provogue India Ltd was already in the advisory council of Core Business School. Now, he along with his corporate network of companies and associates have come forward in form of strategic alliance to play an active role in building Core Business School as a World Class Management Institution.

Such joint ventures will certainly bridge the gap between the industry and the academia, bringing in the best practices of corporate governance to B-school education and preparing a league of business leaders for tomorrow’s India.

This association between CBS and PIL will have tremendous advantages to all the stakeholders, particularly the students. Highlights of these advantages are:

• Industry participation in developing the academic curricula suitable for the dynamic business world
• Seamless flow of experts and professionals from the corporate world to the pedagogic process of CBS
• Excellent summer and final placements to students of CBS as more companies will come to the campus for placements
• Understanding best practices of industry and incorporating these in institutional set-up
• Infrastructural development of CBS would match with the best in the world
• Financial support to meritorious students through industry sponsored Merit-cum-Means Scholarships

Mr Nikhil Chaturvedi passionately talks about this strategic partnership and said that he has elaborate plans to contribute in building Core Business School into a world Class Institution.

Answering the question as to why he chose to become strategic partner of Core Business School he said that the good thing about the Core Business School is the team at the strategic and functional level. The creation of infrastructure facilities, residential campus and conducive learning environment at core Business School is very impressive. Quoting the fact that only IIM Bangalore features in the top 100 B- Schools in the global ranking, he added that if more institutions are constructively supported by corporate, India would soon be in the forefront of higher education.

CORE B- School receives exceptional response for summer internship offers

The world is turning the downturn back and management mantras are being taken with a pinch of salt. Despite the global economic slowdown, the summer internship for the batch of 2010 of Core Business School found ‘exceptional’ response by way of international and national offers along with stipends.

CBS Placement Committee Head Mr Meetesh Jha told that there was stupendous performance by the students during the internship placement process. He also added that with a network of over 60 companies each student had an average of 2 offers to choose from.

The internships offered were from various quarters of the industry like- Banking, fast moving consumer goods (FMCG) majors, service sector and industrial behemoths.

It was a challenging task to get a 100% summer placements despite this being the 1^st batch of the institute. Companies like Diaspark, Tata International, Airtel, Mahindra & Mahindra , Axis Bank, HDFC Bank, Sundaram Finance, Indusind Bank, Bridgestone, Raymond, Kotak Mahindra, Provogue India Ltd. , Prozone Liberty, Hotel Sayaji etc.were some of the companies that recruited the CBS Students for a two month paid internship, Meetesh said.

Of the total students interning this year, majority of the offers came from Finance (39 percent students) and Marketing (31 percent students) sectors. Students also opted for other disciplines of management like Human Resources (12 percent students), Systems (9 percent students) and Operations (9 percent students).

Dr. Deepak Kaul, Director at CBS informed that, summer internships are a mandatory requirement of the course and students will spend 8-10 weeks in these companies in the months of May & June this year. Summer internships complement the rigorous academic programme that acts as a backbone to transform a student to a desirable candidate for the industry, he added.

The 360^o approach to education followed at Core Business School involves a rigorous academic pursuit involving case studies, simulations and management exercises, individual and group presentations, role plays and live projects clubbed with social events and cultural activities. In essence, CBS is focusing on developing well-rounded and confident personalities ready to accept and meet challenges ahead.

Strong emphasis is also laid on building analytical capability among the students through participation and presentation of cases ranging from brief business situation analysis to functional cases in each stream.

Students from diverse backgrounds, qualifications and learning styles are encouraged to bring in their experiences and perspectives as key learning in both individual and team based projects.

About Core B-School:

With a vision of cultivating Dynamic and Ethical Leadership for the New Business Age, the Core Business Schools edifice stone is based on the philosophy of transcendental quality.

It is an institution built with innate excellence in all its domains. At Core we nurture Innovation, encourage Explorers, Push the Boundaries and Embrace All.

In consonance with the vision, Core Business School strives to offer an education which is not just leading to a degree but to inculcate a spirit of striving for excellence in various perspectives, dimensions and domains and making a meaningful contribution to the socio-economic development of India.

Superior Faculty:

Core Business School includes a fine mix of full time faculty with experience in academics and industry and visiting faculty with a unique blend of academicians, consultants and senior executives from diverse background.

First Rate Infrastructure:

The world class and State-of Art campus of Core is conveniently located at Bhonrasala on the Indore Ujjain highway. Spacious acoustically designed lecture theatres with LCD projectors and public address systems facilitate course delivery through use of audiovisual inputs from slide presentations to video clips and video lessons. The campus is Wi-Fi enabled to permit wireless internet access from any point in range.

Programme:

Core Business School offers AICTE Approved Two Year Full-Time Post Graduate Diploma in Management Programme

Advisory Council – A Lighthouse

Industry interaction through the members of our advisory council who are prominent names in the industry help us get the live industry projects and summer internships. We are honoured to have with us some of the brightest and most accomplished names of the corporate world covering various business categories like FMCG, Retail, Finance etc. Some of the prominent names are:

• Mr. Govind Shrikhande- President &MD; Shoppers Stop

• Mr. Puneet Goenka- Director, ZEE Network

• Mr. Manish Parekh- Director, Nilkamal Plastics

• Mr. Sujoy Ghosh- Director, The Times Of India

• Mr. Shrinath Bolloju- MD & CEO, Deutsche Bank

• Mr. Mahesh Madhavan- MD & President , Bacardi

• Mr. Vipul Raval CEO, Siemens

Guest Lectures and events:

Core B-School keeps facilitating guest lectures and interactions from dignitaries to enlighten students with not only managerial training and real life industry experience but also with issues related to the betterment of the entire mankind.

Inter B- School competitions are a regular feature at the institute. The annual fest by the name of SPECTRUM is organised each year at the institute.

Core endeavours to bring the best in academia, industry interface and infrastructure to build a truly world class facility in order to unleash the potential of young minds to excel in their life pursuits after education.

(Note: This is a sponsored article and has NOT been written by the PaGaLGuY Editorial Team. It is intended from an informational perspective only and it is the readers prerogative to research and verify the claims and judgments in the article before reaching a conclusion.)