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Drug trial turns awry for NRI MBA student An Indian student who completed a management course and agreed to be part of a drug trial has been struggling to cope with the effects of the trial and is looking forward to returning to India. Navneet Modi, the student, agreed to a drug trial for US testing firm Parexel in March, but is now said to be a pale shadow of his former outgoing self. He is reported to be taking anti-depressants and medication to stop his skin itching. The London-based Modi also has problems with his bowels and kidneys and his

Morse loses finance head Technology services group Morse is saying goodbye to its chief financial officer Stuart Cruickshank. Cruickshank has resigned from the job and leaves the board of directors and the company with immediate effect. Cruickshank joined Morse in July 2005. He was previously finance director at games company Eidos. Morse director of finance Eric Dodd is filling the position in the interim. A statement to the London Stock Exchange said: Eric is a chartered accountant with an MBA from the London Business School. Prior to joining the company in autumn 2005 he held senior financial management positions in GlaxoSmithKline, Whitbread and Marconi. More

Executive MBA students from the London Campus of the University of Chicago Graduate School of Business will this week be awarded their diplomas in a graduation ceremony at the University’s campus in Chicago, Illinois (USA). On March 21, 2008, the programme’s 81 students, from a record 33 different nationalities, will graduate alongside a total of 270 students from Chicago GSB’s other campuses in Singapore and Chicago. As the first and only business school with three dedicated campuses in North America, Asia, and Europe, Chicago GSB’s EMBA is one of the world’s most international programmes, attracting executives from as

Deputy Director-General of International Business Center (IBC), Amity Business School, Gurinder Singh, recently presided at the second International Conference of the World Review of Science, Technology and Sustainable Development, held at Naiper University, Edinburgh, UK, issued a press release. When presenting his research results at the conference, Singh stressed that the lowering of prices, quality, creditations International, jobs and the nature of the services, to decide the fate of international universities in the global scenario. He gave a mathematical model on how the price held steady, and at a low level, which is a necessity for survival and a prerequisite

London Business School sets up in Dubai The Dubai International Financial Centre (DIFC) and London Business School (LBS) yesterday announced the launch of London Business School operations in Dubais DIFC. These will include a Dubai-London Executive MBA programme - the first time the school has set up its own branded programme overseas - and Executive Education programmes. The courses will be run from the DIFC. HTTP/1.1 404 Object Not Found Server: Microsoft-IIS/5.0 Date: Fri, 22 Dec 2006 03:42:48 GMT X-Powered-By: ASP.NET Connection: close Content-Type: text/html 404 Object Not Found The dual campus EMBA will be the first degree programme available in the

My brilliant acquisition is an MBA The streets of London are paved with gold, or so the saying goes; and this year MBA graduates from across Europe are hoping to find their fortunes in the city. The city of London is drawing in the brightest and best of this years graduating classes. The starting salaries for London Business School graduates going into finance are £58,000 with sign-on bonuses of up to £20,000 on top of that and annual bonuses depending on a firms performance. It is a similar deal for graduates from Iese Business School in Barcelona. Salaries for those going into investment

Extra aid for women MBA students T PAYS to be a female MBA (Master of Business Administration) student as many top schools provide additional financial aid to women, revealed Georges Knell, associate dean of business programmes at the London School of Business and Finance. We are offering scholarships worth £4,000 (RM28,270) to students from Malaysia. Women get £2,000 (RM14,140) extra, he said, adding that women make up about 35% of enrolment at the school. Knell was one of four speakers at the forum on The MBA Experience and Getting Into Business School which was held in conjunction with the World MBA

Extra aid for women MBA students IT PAYS to be a female MBA (Master of Business Administration) student as many top schools provide additional financial aid to women, revealed Georges Knell, associate dean of business programmes at the London School of Business and Finance. We are offering scholarships worth £4,000 (RM28,270) to students from Malaysia. Women get £2,000 (RM14,140) extra, he said, adding that women make up about 35% of enrolment at the school. Knell was one of four speakers at the forum on The MBA Experience and Getting Into Business School which was held in conjunction with the World MBA

The first big budget event on Indian Business School campuses is going places. Literally so. The Indian Institute of Management Calcutta has tied up with Yale University for i2i (ideas to implementation), IIM Cs international business plan competition. The institute is also planning to tie up with a European partner and is in the final stages of negotiation with three business schools in Europe, including the London Business School and Rotterdam School of Management. The final event, which will be held at IIM C early next year, has a budget allocation of almost $2m. Semi-finals will be held in the US,

LBS representatives recently participated in an online chat about diversity, admissions, work experience expectations, and other issues London Business School offers one of the top MBA programs in Europe. If you're thinking of going to graduate school outside of the U.S., it might be at the top of your list of possibilities. Recently potential applicants signed on to a live chat event with David Simpson (DavidLBS), acting associate dean for the full-time MBA program at LBS, and LBS student Manish Gajria (ManishLBS). The session was moderated by BusinessWeek reporter Francesca Di Meglio (FrancescaBW). Here is an edited transcript of the

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