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Leading business strategist, Michael Porter, will present a programme covering corporate strategy and corporate social responsibility initiatives in Johannesburg on July 3, 2007. Porter, who is head of Harvard Business Schools Institute for Strategy and Competitiveness, believes that corporations can use their charitable efforts to improve their competitive context - the quality of the business environment in the locations where they operate. Source : marketingweb.co.za

FINSHASTRA, the publication of X-Fin was launched last year with the aim of promoting B-School students to express their well thought out and researched views on topics of financial interest. This publication is sponsored by: ICICI Bank For the upcoming publication articles are invited on the following topic : 1. Industry Analysis : You can choose industry of your choice. Below is a brief description of what you are can to do in Industry Analysis. The list is merely indicative and not exhaustive. In industry analysis you are supposed to define the industry, list the standard factors used to profile an industrys economic

The number of engineers graduating annually from U.S. universities trails the numbers of like graduates in India and China, a worrying statistic that presents the greatest single threat to American prosperity, says Harvard Business School professor Michael Porter, co-author of a Competitiveness Index produced by the national Council on Competitiveness. While the U.S. still turns out highly educated graduates, other countries are doing a better job of modifying their educational systems to ensure that grads possess the skills they will need to meet the needs of shifting global economies, Porter says in a recent internetnews.com article. According to UCLAs Higher Education Research

Changing the law When law graduates Tom Astle, Emma Nicholson and Beth Freeman joined City law firm Lovells two years ago, their careers appeared to be mapped out. They would complete training contracts and move on to specialise in areas such as dispute resolution, insolvency, taxation or employment law. Learning the ropes from a senior partner, the legal eagles would be given their own client cases as they progressed. This is the way corporate law has always worked. That was until last September, when Lovells joined forces with Cass Business School to launch the worlds first MBA for lawyers. Astle, Nicholson and

JAMSHEDPUR: Men in uniform studying at Xavier Labour Relations Institute (XLRI), Jamshedpur, are gearing to take up corporate challenges. Three months from now, 62 officers from all the three armed forces will be talking strategic planning, supply chain management, logistics and team building by making a smooth transition from operations room to boardroom of different corporates. A post-graduate certificate in business management for the armed forces at XLRI is a six-month programme designed to help officers fit for managerial roles in the corporate world. The first batch of the retiring defence officers is already midway and the officers are expected

Dr. V Manoirs, president of the Institute of Rural Management, said, National Dairy Development Board should consider the second joint-ventures. He told journalists: "I do not think it will be possible joint ventures. We can not give market forces, unbridled freedom. He spoke of a two-day workshop in companies Designing Cooperative / joint ventures in the economic development scenario. "The secret of success Amul, He said that "it is a dairy farmer in possession, managed by their elected representatives, and sensitive to the needs, if the farmer." Dr. Manoirs, said the appointment of the next President of the NDDB was

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