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Plan what you want to achieve. At intervals gauge the level of your achievement as compared to what you had planned. Then you take remedial measures to increase your target or to correct deviations from the plan. Control not only puts right your plan of action, but it also helps in getting things done better on the basis of the information received.

Full-time vs part-time MBA I am 32 years old and working as a quality manager in the automotive component industry. I have been in this line for over seven years now. I am contemplating doing a full-time MBA (Finance) in one of South-East Asias reputed B-schools. I have done a one-year diploma in financial management and am interested in finance, investments and insurance (am qualified to sell insurance too). I plan to do an MBA because I feel it would give my career a lift and also because I think I have been in my field (quality assurance) for too long.

Kolkata, December 29: A meeting of minds across the seas via a friendship board, some innovative ideas about organising farmers to grow and process aloe vera and a penchant for business plans. Thus was spawned the winning idea for the annual business plan competition of the Indian Institute of Management-Calcutta (IIM-C) this year, the core of the i2I entrepreneurship festival. Some students of a private institute in Kolkata got together with likeminded folks from National University of Singapore, who they had met on Orkut, to come up with the B-plan that won the Rs 20 lakh seed money put up by

UNM students pocket $25,000 in University-wide Technology Business Plan Competition After months of sweating the details and false starts – and despite the heavy load of classes associated with being full-time students, 17 teams presented plans at the University of New Mexico’s first Technology Business Plan Competition held recently. A who’s who of New Mexico venture capitalists, including VSpring’s Paul Ahlstrom, Verge’s Ray Rasosevich, and New Mexico Community Capital’s Jarratt Applewhite, whittled the group of 17 down to six finalist teams and then awarded first, second and third place prizes worth more than $40,000 to the top three teams. Satyrne Biotechnologies, a

OSU gets creative with housing plan A proposal to build $26 million in housing for MBA students at Ohio State University has turned into a scholarship plan that puts construction of the housing on the shoulders of private developers. Fisher College of Business administrators will unveil for university trustees April 7 a plan that calls for the university to lease 4.5 acres to Edwards Communities Development Co. LLC for a 120-unit apartment complex with 144 bedrooms. Soure: msnbc.msn.com

I was among the chair car passengers onboard the Coal Field Express travelling from Howrah to Dhanbad. This was my first journey to Kolkata and beyond. The compartment was almost full as the train rolled out from Howrah station. The train quickly whizzed past the suburbs and soon everyone settled in their seats lost in their world. I started looking at the greenery outside, as I had nothing else to do. I was thinking of my next day's schedule of admission formalities at the Indian School of Mines. Out of the blue, a middle-aged dhoti clad man walked in. People noticed him only

Visva-Bharati University authorities have taken exception to students agitating over the controversial, self-financing MBA course run by them on its Kolkata campus. The students staged a demonstration before the university’s academic council members on 1 September. Earlier the executive council, the university’s highest governing body, decided to scrap the MBA course from the 2008-2009 session as recommended by the high-level committee appointed by the then President, Dr APJ Abdul Kalam, for restoring Visva-Bharati’s lost glory. The executive council took the decision without taking the academic council into account, on the plea that the course did not suit the ideals of

The Indian Council for Agricultural Research (ICAR), a book agree with the plan Colombo-based International Water Management Institute Tuesday. Mangala ICAR Director General of RAI and the IWMI director general Frank Rijsberman, signed the plan of mutual cooperation between the two organizations for 2006-07 in Colombo. "Through this work plan, water as a whole to improve productivity, which is advantageous for a country like India, where every drop of water is precious," said after the signing of the Rai work plan. The two organizations is also common knowledge and know-how in the fields of natural resources and management of schedules for the poor.

Rice Business Plan Competition Day Set to Pit 36 Top MBA Schools Against Each Other Houston Mayor Bill White has declared Saturday, March 24, 2007 as Rice Business Plan Competition Day in the city of Houston, TX. The Rice Alliances Business Plan Competition is being recognized for its outstanding achievements and contributions in the fields of education and entrepreneurship, such as providing real world business opportunities for numerous local, national and international students to learn what it takes to launch a successful business as well as facilitating financial opportunities to grow a successful business through VCs, CEOs, other entrepreneurs and investors

The controversial, self financing course in Master of Business Administration (MBA) run by Visva Bharati in its Kolkata campus will be soon replaced by courses in Rural management and reconstruction. The decision was recently taken by the executive council of the university on the plea that the MBA course does not “suit the ideals” of the world renowned institution founded by Tagore. The MBA course was introduced during the regime of the former vice-chancellor, Prof. Sujit Basu . Earlier in July, members of the VB’s executive council, the highest decision making body of the university were reluctant to continue the

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