Two days before graduating from my one-year MBA programme at IMD, I was contemplating my spreadsheet full of extremely objective criteria, which were to help me make an appropriate choice: should I (or not), commit to a job offer from a leading fashion brand? Or should I instead wait to explore other opportunities?
IMD Career Services had done an excellent job in helping us to define our goals and to reach our targeted companies. More than 60 international businesses visited the Lausanne, Switzerland, campus for just 90 students. At IMD, we also met top executives attending programmes tailored for their companies.
One country manager of a famous cosmetic group offered me his help and gave me superb advice and lists of his personal contacts in the industry. Within weeks, I obtained interviews targeted to my search, supported by the help of alumni who gave us insider insights. At this stage, most of my classmates were eager to make a decision; a few, such as myself, are still in the process – even now.
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Business students learn the lesson of giving back
The inaugural class of the University of Floridas new South Florida-based master of business administration program worked to make the grade in more ways than one.
Before the students walked away with their diplomas, they made sure to leave something behind for the community they trained in.
If you are just looking out for yourselves, its not going to make a good neighborhood, student Michelle Gold said.
Throughout the year, Gold and her 39 fellow students took part in six charity projects. They were the first graduates of the 24-month Professional MBA program offered at the
A Illinois Math and Science Academy graduate has given a $100,000 gift to the IMSA Fund for Advancement of Education.
The gift will support the Stephanie Pace Marshall Endowment to Ignite Innovation.
Mike McCool, a 1991 IMSA graduate, said giving to the endowment was an easy decision because it had it all.
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I remember," says Sanjiv Lamba, MD, BOC India, of a memorable moment wooing B-school students, "we once placed a dozen oxygen cylinders on the stage, and turned them on in front of a hall full of management grads, and asked how many would be interested in selling the product." This presentation was part of the Pre-placement Talks (PPTs), and competitive recruiters had already moved from clickety old slide-shows and yawn-inducing speeches to SFX-enhanced razzle-dazzle. Students had to be hit between the eyebrows, went the prevailing wisdom. "There was stunned silence for close to a minute," recalls Lamba, "apart from the
Two MBA students were sentenced to life in Pune on Thursday for murdering their classmate—a case of a love triangle gone wrong.
Additional Sessions Judge S S Phansalkar Joshi sentenced Aditi Sharma and her boyfriend Praveen Khandelwal for murdering Udit Bharati on April 22 last year by giving him prasad laced with poison.
All three were 25 and students of the IIHM MBA institute in Wakad, Pune.
Udit and Aditi came to Pune from Jammu where they had studied together in an engineering college. They planned to get married after finishing their MBA degree but their relationship changed.
Aditi met Praveen at the MBA
Having initiated a commercial venture aimed at yielding profits, you genuinely expect quick and adequate returns but things may not always turn up the way we think. It takes time to reap the fruits of your labour. Results may fall short of your expectations. It could be because of a wrong choice of place, product, or technology, lack of experience, lack of funds, etc. But in case there is nothing radically wrong with all these and you strongly feel that you are perfectly on the right track then you must not look back. Never let disappointment come to your mind
Students in the spotlight at MBA Case Competition
Most of us get back into gear slowly after the holidays, but those involved in the John Molson School of Businesss annual International MBA Case Competition have to hit the ground running.
The students really are the stars of the show, said Klaus Kepper, who has been a judge for the competition since 1989 except for the years he spent in Europe. He is currently on the advisory board.
The competition, Jan. 8 - 13, is now in its 26th year, and brings together 36 teams of MBA students from around the world. Each team
Top MBA graduates celebrate success at UQ Business School
Nine outstanding UQ MBA graduates have been recognised at a UQ Business Schools Downtown ceremony.
Guest speaker Lord Mayor Campbell Newman also a UQ MBA graduate reminded the audience of the importance of giving something back to the community.
Head of UQ Business School Professor Tim Brailsford said the Lord Mayors message was particularly appropriate as a new award for service to the community was introduced this year.
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Swoosh, there it is: Knight giving $105 million to Stanford
Nike Chairman Phil Knight is donating $105 million to Stanford University, all but $5 million of which will be used to help build a new campus for the business school.
The eight-building, $275 million project will be named the Knight Management Center -- but were wondering if anyone suggested simply branding the buildings with a huge Nike swoosh. Construction is expected to begin in 2008, although Stanford is still raising the rest of the money needed for the project.
Phil Knight has once again shown the depth of his commitment to Stanfords future,
Indians’ fetish for education, poor educational infrastructure and ambitious parents is giving rise to a booming coaching industry in the country. The coaching industry, estimated at Rs 5,000 crore, is growing annually at 20%.
From board exams to school tuitions, IITs, medical, IIMs and now GRE, there is demand at all education and income levels. There are at least eight big players in the organised sector like Career Launcher, IMS, TIME, Brilliant Tutorials, FIITJEE, Pie Education, Raus’s IAS, who comprise 20% of the market.
This is in contrast to just two to three organised players five years back. The
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NEW DELHI, FEB. 13 The courage and presence of the rare shows spirit, a young student management Delhi contributed to the police that two people had begun allegedly robbed and killed a man in Delhi Cantonment, in the south-west of Delhi. The Good Samaritan the duo has a long continued hunting and police information Control Room (PCR) van just-in-time, whereby the accused were arrested.
According to the police, Shailender Nayak, a resident of Basai Darapur, west of Delhi and works as a sales executive with a private company, was on its way to the office, when it's no longer his scooter
NEW DELHI: IIFT invited projectiles in the first leg of the Grand Citi AND zonal master, a national school for B opens the challenge of competition in a passionate response to the IIT Delhi on Sunday. MDI Gurgaon took second place. With the opening of the event, a simulated war from the Business Skills began. Over the next two months, India some of the best talents from Premiere B-schools slug it out in five rounds zonal show their business acumen.
Nearly 30 teams, consisting of 250 participants from various schools, including B-IIMA, IIMB, IIMC, IIML, FMS, Management Development Institute (MDI), Gurgaon,
ICFAI University is helping in the globalisation of Indian business education and research through its case study development. ICFAI started developing its own case studies because of the lack of contemporary Indian cases and the non- usability of case studies developed by the Harvard Business School due to unfamiliar terms and language used. According to Dr A Besant C Raj, Chancellor of ICFAI, case studies help students in developing communication and interpersonal skills besides imparting knowledge. Case studies also instil confidence in students and expose them to industries, organisations, functions and responsibilities.
The case studies developed by ICFAI are used by
MBA student gets 7 years for rape
Less than a month after he raped a German tourist, the son of a top IPS officer was today sentenced to seven years’ rigorous imprisonment in a superfast verdict that was unusual also because of the circumstances of the case.
B.H. Mohanti, 22, was found guilty of raping the 26-year-old woman at an Alwar hotel after dinner on March 20. They had checked into the hotel after arriving together from Delhi, where the MBA student had befriended the victim during a visit to the German embassy.
Womens activists hailed the ruling. It shows that if there
Ritu Beri, leading fashion designer, highlighting the importance of fashion shows and exhibitions writes that show business is the key to big business. In every country and in every industry there always will be the need for a national show. In addition, which exhibition is considered the main international one will always change, and in fashion it changes faster than in any other field.
The premier collections show began in 1990 as a women s apparel only event but it has since expanded to cover mens wean footwear, childrens wear, lingerie and swim wear. There are few other product categories the