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The Business Today-AC Nielson ORG-MARG survey has ranked India's business schools based on certain performance parameters. The parameters include, reputation, success and quality of placement, infrastructure and faculty. The responses to the survey came from 5 distinct groups, current management students, aspirants, young corporate executives and recruiters and functional heads. A total of 427 respondents participated in the survey. The Indian Institute of Management (IIM), Ahmedabad, topped the list of premier management institutes in the country. IIM, Bangalore, and IIM, Kolkata, ranked second and third respectively. Through the top positions are held by the IIMs, the newer institutes like Loyola Institute, Tata

The biggest secret of success lies in your attitude toward your work. To be successful you need to have a positive attitude. You have to think how to solve even the most critical problems and how to come out of even the worst situations. It is basically this approach which distinguishes the successful people from others. Unlike the latter, people with positive approach never start counting the difficulties, the hurdles and the problems they may face in taking up a particular task. Thats the way the successful people think. One must endeavour to take risks, at least calculated risks. To-be-or-not-to-be

Moving away from the political and administrative hustle bustle of Raipur, Chhattisgarh chief minister Raman Singh and a large number of his cabinet colleagues gathered here on Wednesday in the academic environs of Indian School of Business (ISB) to learn over the next two days tenets of e-governance. The chief minister, ministers and some officials too will be taking lessons on topics such as 'transforming government', 'leadership, strategy and change management', 'critical success factors for e-government', 'e-government vision & road ahead'. They will also be visiting AP government's eSeva centres and Road Transport Authority offices, regarded as success stories in e-governance. The

A survey of 759 graduating MBAs from 11 top U.S. business schools revealed that a company’s corporate social responsibility performance is a major factor when they select whom to work for, reports BusinessGreen. The graduates expect to make an annual salary of $103,650 from their first employer, but 97 percent said they would be willing to sacrifice up to $15,000 to work for a company with an exemplary environmental performance, ethical business conduct and good employee and stakeholder relations. The survey was conducted by David Montgomery of the Stanford University Graduate School of Business and Catherine Ramus of the University of California

The economy seems likely to at least post some improvement. A recent Bond Market Association survey found economists, on average, think gross domestic product will grow at a 3.4 percent annual rate in 2003, compared with estimated growth of 2.8 percent in 2002. GDP is the broadest measure of the nation's economy. But the true shape of Econ 2003 will depend on the answers to some other critical questions. While this list is by no means exhaustive, and surprises almost certainly will pop up and alter the equation, the following questions are most often raised by economists when thinking about 2003.

When we talk of marketing we generally think in terms of selling our products to as many customers as possible at profitable rates. But we often ignore what marketing implies in real terms. Marketing, in fact means giving something to someone to satisfy his needs or wants and in turn get ours satisfied. From this theoretical aspect of marketing we can learn how to do business by marketing goods and services. We must keep in mind that each one of us has innumerable wants, involving different levels of preferences which we want to fulfil. To elaborate, we can say, we

New Delhi: More than anything else, students who will graduate in 2008 from the six Indian Institutes of Management (IIMs) want to become management consultants. Thats the finding of the Nielsen Campus Track B-school Survey 2007, a survey of 349 students from the IIMs who will graduate in 2008. Although the survey covered more students from other business schools, research firm The Nielsen Co., which conducted the survey, said the findings it released on Thursday were based only on the responses of 349 students from the IIMs. It declined to give details on the number of students surveyed from other

Survey finds MBA students most likely to cheat When it comes to cheating in graduate school, a new study finds that MBA students are the champs. A survey of 5,331 students at 32 graduate schools in the United States and Canada found an alarming amount of cheating across disciplines, but more among the nations future business leaders. Fifty-six percent of graduate business students admitted they had cheated at least once in the last year, compared with 47 percent of non-business students. The students, who were surveyed between 2002 and 2004, told researchers from Pennsylvania State,

Chennai, 18 August. TECHNICAL capabilities alone can not the IT service company again. An organizational culture that honors confidentiality is the most important property for more than an IT company services customers, the tough competitors, says Mr S. Ramadorai, CEO, Tata Consultancy Services. Mr Ramadorai, the chief guest of the Loyola Institute of Business Administration at the Convocation 2003 here on Monday, said TCS own record in bagging a high percentage of repetition was proof of the presence of such a culture. "It also makes business sense," he said. Stressed that the "old values, ethics and responsibility," had "suddenly" back as indicators

In many Sino-foreign equity joint ventures, transfer of technology is an important issue. A critical stages in the transfer of technology is the product of the selection process. This process is complemented by a number of factors, particularly on the Chinese business community. This paper examines some of the factors influencing the choice of product on the basis of information from questionnaires, interviews with managers and case studies. The most important factors in the selection of products identified. (Reproduced with the permission of the publisher.) The identification of general problems within the product selection The main factors influencing the choice of product

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