NMIMS to organise annual corporate event ‘Paragana 2008’

The flagship event of the festival is the war of words, Caviar and Daydreams, a competition designed to ignite the spark in the corporate event. This three day event commences with a seminar where speakers like CB Bhave, Chairman, SEBI, Jayant Patil, Minister of Finance & Planning, Government of Maharshtra...

Students at EABS organize ‘Mandi’ to sell educational toys

The event is a brainchild of the faculty at the EABS, Dr T Prasad who conceptualized the Mandi initiative to help students understand and discover management wisdom. The educational toys made by Navnirmiti aim to help students learn and innovate. Navnirmiti caters to providing children from the slums, tribal children...

XIMB: Annual fest ‘Xpressions’ launched

The discussion was started by Mr Ramesh, who at the outset said that he felt that social entrepreneurship and venture capitalism go hand-in-hand. He highlighted that the focus on the issue at hand is relatively new and it is only off-late that venture capitalists (VCs) are moving funds into Micro-Finance...

MDI, Gurgaon: Mgmt convention Delphique to start on Nov 8

Given the unprecedented upheavals that the global economy is experiencing, the implications and opportunities for the Indian Businesses in such a scenario have become especially relevant. The idea behind keeping this as the theme was to invoke ideas within the student community about the changing dynamics of various industrial sectors...

FIIB: Students to participate in Airtel Delhi Half Marathon on Nov 9

Prof AK Puri, Director General of the Institute stated that as per research findings on past Assembly and Lok Sabha elections, candidates securing very low percentage of total eligible votes got elected, primarily due to low polling. This is a matter of grave concern as such candidates do not truly...

VP & Chief, Corporate Communications, ITC group addresses MBE students

In his lecture, he pressed on the fact that high GDP growth rates were not sustainable in the long run if businesses keep exploiting the natural resources and not replenish them. He explained the ITC Model of focusing on the Triple Bottom Line i.e. Economic Environment and Social Growth rather...

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IMT, Ghaziabad: Inter b-school event ‘Conquest’08’ to be held on Nov 22

‘Meguriai’, a Short Term Project competition, where the best of short term projects in the field of HR will compete and interact with young student managers of Human Resources Department and industry executives. ‘Taiketsu’, a contest designed to test the innovation and event management ability of the participants, where they...

IFMR, Chennai: Academic programs and important facts

The Institute for Financial Management and Research (IFMR) Chennai has about four decades of rich experience in research, consulting and world-class management education. Established in 1970, IFMR was sponsored by ICICI, the House of Kotharis and other major industrial groups. IFMR is now a leading business school moulding bright and...

IIM-K: 102 companies participate in the summer placements

27 pc of students opted for Banks and financial institutions domain in banks like Citibank, Standard Chartered Bank, American Express, ICICI Bank, Axis Bank along with Investment Banks like JP Morgan, Deutsche Bank, and Edelweiss Capital. Roles in Private Equity were offered by Tata Capital, and IDG Ventures. Strategy and...

DoMS, IIT-D: Business summit ‘Building India Inc’ organized

The two day event was inaugurated by Professor Dr SK Jain of Department of Management Studies, IIT Delhi who was accompanied by Mr Gurcharan Das, Author, Columnist a Times of India and Mr Krishan Kalra, Secretary General, PHD chambers of commerce. Speaking at the occasion, Dr SK Jain talked about...

NIT, Silchar: Techno-management fest ‘TECNOESISa08’ starts from Nov 7

‘The Arena’, will be a platform to compete in technical events organized under each branch. ‘ACUMEN’, the management symposium will have case studies and Business plan contests. Robotics will be explored in ‘BOTCRAFT’ with aquatic, semi-autonomous, autonomous and manual robots. ‘MYNDSNARE’, the quizzing contest comprises of two main quiz shows:...

JBIMS: 35 pc opt for finance during summer placements

FMCG AND CONSUMER DURABLESCoca Cola and Britannia offered international profiles and companies like Hindustan Unilever Ltd., Procter & Gamble, Colgate Palmolive, Dabur, Heinz, ITC, Kelloggas, LaOreal and Nestle and PepsiCo recruited students for various functions like Marketing, Corporate Finance and Treasury. Apart from FMCGs, marketing profiles were offered by ASUS,...

XIMB starts ‘State Training and Resource Centre’ jointly with NACO and OSACS

Training programmes will be conducted so that the participants can act as trainers and facilitators for Targeted Interventions (TIs) amongst High Risk Groups (HRGs). Members of HRGs and even former participants of the LAMP programme will act as consultants for the STRC. The goal of the programmes operated by the...

IIFT: Workshop organized on aExport competitiveness in Processed Foodsa

Indian food processing industry is dominated by micro-small and informal enterprises, some medium level and a few large enterprises, for manufacturing a large variety of food products and ready to eat foods, with varying tastes and qualities. However, the challenges in production, food preservation, distribution and processing sectors are diverse...

All about getting into AIM, Manila

What is unique about AIM Manila’s MBA in contrast with peer b-schools? AIMas uniqueness among Asian B-schools is case-based learning. Few schools in the world practice the case method in pure form: AIM, HBS, Darden, Ivey are probably the ones left. In Asia we continue to be its main proponent....

IIM-K: Sanjay Purohit lectures on aDynamic Strategya

Starting with a brief history about Infosys over the years, Mr Purohit noted how important decisions were based on corporate strategies and long term development themes. He remarked that strategies evolve as we travel through time; because the environment is fluid we have to constantly think on the move. Talking...

JBIMS concludes the aKnowledge Weeka

October 20-21, 2008 saw aStrategym 2008a, JBIMS’ annual business convention at ITC Grand Maratha. The theme for this year was aHope: In Current Turbulent Timesa. The paper on Connecting Bharat proposing to connect urban India with the rural India won Strategym 2008. Papers on Home Equity Liquidation and Social Security...

The Matt Symonds Column: Is recession a good time to get an MBA?

Iam delighted to have been asked by the PaGaLGuY.com team to submit a column on the admissions process to business schools. Eight years ago I co-authored a book to help candidates better understand and successfully manage the admissions process to the worldas top MBA programmes. Sponsored by Goldman Sachs and...

DoMS, IIT Delhi: Business summit aBuilding India Inc. a08a starts on Nov 01

The two day summit has been divided into four sessions: 1) Cross-Border Investments: Managing the Downturn Participants:Mr Adesh Jain, Chairman, Council of Delegates, IPMA Mr Ambuj Jain, Controller, Foreign Exchange, Jubliant OrganosysMr Amit Khosla, Managing Director, AsiaBridge Capital Advisers Private limitedMs Kalpana Jain, Senior Director, DeloitteMr Manish Aggarwal, DGM Finance,...