FMS holds commodity market workshop

The event commenced with a team from NCDEX conducting a workshop on commodities and derivatives trading. The workshop educated the participants regarding the commodity markets in India, their evolution, product conceptualization, design and contract specifications, risk and settlement process. It was supported by a demo of an NCDEX trading terminal...

NITIE organised a field sales activity

The event gave NITIE students an opportunity to experience the thrill of direct sales of educational toys, made by the NGO Navnirmiti, for a social cause- engendered disadvantaged children. Prof. T.Prasad, Mandi, conceptualized it. It helps in integrating the theoretical principles of statistics, managerial economics, marketing and basic market research...

What makes Eureka Asia’s Biggest Business Plan Competition?

What it has been over the years? • Eureka! has led to the birth of fourteen successful startups in five years – Voyager Infotech, Myzus, eInfinitus, Herald Logic, Whizlabs, TheraNova, Duesco, Embedded Robot Technologies, Phonologies, PowaiLabs, Techsoft, Eisodus Networks, Convis and Genesys. • Eureka! was recognized as “Asia’s largest business...

aJobs galore for MBAs, engineers in constructiona a L&T; VP at LIBA

A gold medalist from Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai Mr Sharma has more than 27 years of experience working with companies like Vedanta, EID Parry and SPIC. He was holding key posts in CII, FICCI, MMA, and AIESEC. His lively presentation captivated the gathering of 250 Students of LIBA....

IIM Kozikode to hold IT Management seminar

The theme of this year’s seminar is “IT India: From Cost Advantage to Strategic Partnerships”. The seminar aims to bring together IT industry practitioners, consultants, academicians and students for stimulating and engaging discussions on the latest trends in IT Management. As a part of AIMS 2006, IIM K is conducting...

SP Jain’s first one-year PDGM class convocates

The convocation address was delivered by Uday Gharpore, CEO ATOSOrigin at the sprawling institute campus in Mumbai. Some of the other guests on the occasion to congratulate the graduating students were Mr Samik Biswas, CEO – McKinsey KC, Mr Aveek Mukherjee, CTO – ANZ, Mr Soumitra Sen, President, Brand Therapist...

DMS IIT-Delhi’s Rostrum seminar to be held in Mumbai

A symbiotic relationship and close interaction with the industry on one hand provides an opportunity to the students to hone their management skills in a real life business environment and on the other provides a forum to the industry to discuss plausible solutions to contemporary/current business challenges. Keeping this aim...

How the GMAT finds your score

As you probably know by now, the GMAT is a Computer Adaptive Test (“CAT”). This means that the questions that you see on the exam are selected by the computer based on your performance on earlier questions. For example, if you answer a question correctly, your next question will be...

“Companies failing to use the Internet are making a huge mistake” – Dr Philip Kotler

Author of the 1967 classic ‘Marketing Management’, Dr Philip Kotler shares space with Bill Gates, Peter Drucker and Jack Welch as the world’s most influential management thinkers. Currently the SC Johnson & Son Distinguished Professor of International Marketing at the JL Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University, USA, Dr...

Should you do an MMS or a PGDBA at KJ Somaiya?

As an alternative to increasing seats in existing courses, KJ Somaiya is walking the expansion road by starting new courses. Beside short term courses, KJ Somaiya has launched a two-year Retail Management course in partnership with Pantaloon. MMS vs PGDBA Among the two flagship courses of KJ Somaiya, the Masters...

“Marketing as a tool not utilised enough in India” – Philip Kotler at Great Lakes

Speaking with the students on his new formula for marketing, Dr Kotler varied from his popular theory of 4Ps and emphasised on the customer and not the product. The 4Ps of marketing as earlier propounded by Dr Kotler are product, price, promotion and place. “We have to look beyond the...

“Sharper problem identifiers need of the hour” – HLL VP at NITIE

An IIM Ahmedabad alumni and one who cherishes interacting with fresh minds, he gave the audience an insight into both the FMCG industry and the turn around of certain flagging brands. With the beauty and health sectors witnessing a considerable growth rate over the past 10 years, the skincare industry...

Great Lakes organises Dr Philip Kotleras visit to India

Dr. Philip Kotler will be in India on an invitation from Great Lakes to address the participants of the seminar titled ‘Marketing Mantras’, in Chennai on July 17, 2006, in Bangalore on July 18, 2006 and in Mumbai on July 20, 2006. The event will be attended by the various...

The Retail Revolution

With supermarkets and shopping malls coming up at an ever-increasing pace, retail management is perhaps one of the fastest growing careers in recent times. The Indian retail sector is considered to be one of the largest in the world. Along with retailers such as Shoppers stop, Pantaloon, Westside even big...

Where do you stand in your CAT preparation?

Almost all of us are now at a juncture in our preparation where we have to decide between studying and taking tests. But where one ends up depends a lot on where one started from. Hence let’s look at the possible stages where a student could find himself/herself. We can...

DoMS IIT- Roorkee breaks new ground for its Summer Placements

GIM leaves its shell: Director’s interview

Large-scale construction work is on inside GIM’s idyllic campus. But if you look at the 200-year-old heritage building that was once a hospital, you will hardly notice any signs of revamp. GIM has preferred to retain the vintage exterior look of its structure, making it the only B-school which does...

Breaking 750 at GMAT

Your overall score out of 800 results from your performances in quant and verbal, each of which is first scored independently on a scale of 0-60. These subscores are then combined to yield your overall score according to formulae to which only ETS (the organization that administers the GMAT) is...

What is Private Equity?

What is Private Equity? Private equity first emerged in the early 1980s, with Kohlberg, Kravis and Roberts (KKR) opening the first, and still among the largest LBO (Leveraged Buy Out) firms. The logic for LBO firms, at least initially, was this: Publicly traded companies are forced to focus on extremely...

The what, why and how of the Family Managed Business MBA

While the SP Jain Institute of Management and Research (SPJIMR) started the two-year FMB niche programme a decade ago, other local biggies of Mumbai like the LN Welingkar Institute of Management Development and Research and the Narsee Monjee Institute of Management Studies (NMIMS) have launched this course in the past...