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Often criticised for not doing enough for the society despite getting attractive remuneration packages, students from top business schools across the country are using skills learnt in the campus to make inroads into social entrepreneurship.
As many as 65 entries have come for the Social Entrepreneurship Fair, to be organised in September by Indian Institute of Management-Ahmedabad (IIM-A) and its Centre for Innovation, Incubation and Entrepreneurship (CIIE).
The event has bagged a Rs 5 lakh title sponsorship from Dena Bank and has caught the eye of prominent social entrepreneurs and venture capitalists who have shown interest in offering seed funding for interesting projects. Kunal Upadhyay, CEO, CIIE, which offers incubation to start-ups has also said they are open to taking up interesting projects.
More : .business-standard.com
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The University of Colorado at Boulder Leeds School of Business MBA program has been ranked in the top 20 in two surveys released this week.
The Aspen Institute has ranked the Leeds School 20th for social and environmental stewardship in its 2007-08 Beyond Grey Pinstripes rankings. The biennial global ranking evaluates business school efforts to prepare graduates for new business realities demanding social and environmental stewardship. Beyond Grey Pinstripes also ranked the Leeds School eighth among small schools with spring 2007 enrollments of less than 100 students.
Entrepreneur magazine and the Princeton Review partnered in a survey of entrepreneurship programs
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,
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Sitting in the campus canteen, sipping coffee, research student S Basu is accessing research papers on the Net on his WiFienabled laptop. He's exhilarated that his science institute has gone WiFi as it enables him to access the web anytime, anywhere on the college grounds.
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U.S. News & World Report magazine has ranked Babson College the #1 MBA program for entrepreneurship for the 15th year in a row.
Besides Babson, other top five entrepreneurship programs are Stanford University, Harvard University, University of Pennsylvania (Wharton), and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Sloan).
Additionally, U.S. News has ranked Babson's MBA program #48 overall.
The full rankings are available at www.usnews.com.
Babson has a rich history in the field of entrepreneurship studies:
* First course in entrepreneurship -- 1966
* First "hall of fame" for distinguished entrepreneurs -- 1977
* First academic center for entrepreneurship -- 1978
* First undergraduate entrepreneurship major -- 1979
* First endowed
Bharathidasan students at the Institute of Management, Tiruchi, participation in a social entrepreneurship in Seattle early next year.
THE Bharathidasan Institute of Management (BIM), Tiruchi, won a scholarship to participate in the global society of competition Social Entrepreneurship (GSEC).
The Global Social Entrepreneurship Competition (GSEC) of the University of Washington, the Global Business Centre, the Centre for Technology consequences of entrepreneurship, Daniel J. Evans School of Public Affairs.
The event must take place between 22 and 25 February in Seattle, Washington. The winning team in Seattle received thousands of dollars in seed money for start-ups own.
The competition is scheduled
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The team from Bharathidasan Institute of Management (BIM), Trichy have won a scholarship to participate in the Global Social Entrepreneurship Competition (GSEC).
The Global Social Entrepreneurship Competition (GSEC) is conducted by University of Washington, the Global Business Centre, the Centre for Technology Entrepreneurship, and the Daniel J. Evans School of Public Affairs. The event is to be held between February 22 and 25, at Seattle, Washington. The winning team at Seattle will receive thousands of dollars of seed funding to start their own ventures.
The competition, scheduled for February 2005, invites students from around the world to find creative and
The Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Delhi, under the leadership of Vinayshil Gautam, Dalmia Chair, professor at Department of Management Studies, IIT-Delhi organised a National Seminar on 'Entrepreneurship Management in an era of Liberalised Environment: Future Directions of Growth' on January 4-5, 2003.
The seminar could not have been timelier, given the current debate in the country regarding the nature and impact of liberalisation.
Amongst the distinguishing features of the seminar was its ability to attract all major entrepreneurship related institutions for the two-day discussion.
The National Entrepreneurship board; the National Science and Technology Entrepreneurship Development Board; the National Small Industries Cooperation, Entrepreneurship
Life no more begins or ends with MBA
College students are learning that life need not begin and end with the three magic letters MBA.
From NID Nift hotel management and architecture colleges to institutes for vocational studies the yre all reporting good placement seasons. Salaries job offers and the number of recruiters campuses have multiplied.
Most are reporting a sharp surge in first time recruiters. Firm profile too has changed. Names have become bigger more varied and emerging sectors like retail and aviation are scouring these campuses.
More : economictimes.indiatimes.com
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