In a unique partnership, students from the three premier institutes of Ahmedabad - Indian Institute of Management, National Institute of Design and Mudra Institute of Communications, Ahmedabad - have got together to put their core skills in creating business plans for start-up ventures.
The collaboration, which currently revolves around the students of one institute taking up elective courses in the other institutes, has led to students from NID taking up the business design aspect, students of Mica taking up the communications management, while their counterparts from IIM-A shaping the financial side of the business plan.
With a number of top venture capitalists and angel investors visiting the IIM-A campus as part of the institute’s Annual Venture Conclave 2007, the students are leaving no stone unturned to create a business plan that would catch the investors’ attention
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Atul Tandan, Director, Mudra Institute of Communications Ahmedabad (MICA) — one of India’s premier communications management institutes — talks to Archana Mohan about investing in technology, research and his plans for MICA.
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What can be expected from MICA in 2007? Any plans to expand to other cities?
In 2007, MICA would be launching new courses in Health Management with an emphasis on studying water, sanitation and hygiene issues in the country, the doctor-patient relationship, and the like. We might also launch a programme in new media or digital media which is the need of the hour today
Ahmedabad, February 21: THE Mudra Institute of Communications, Ahmedabad (MICA) will host the fifth meeting Alumni MICA, on Saturday and Sunday. More than 300 alumni MICA, is currently working with national institutions and renowned companies are expected to return to campus, where they learned a communication education.
It is hoped that finding the former students to work with MICA HTA, Leo Burnett, Lowe Lintas, TNS-mode, ORG-Marg, Grey, Genesis PR, FCB Ulka, Mudra, Madison, Dainik Jagaran, Mid-Day and The Hindu - The best heads of some work in diverse communication flows ranging from design to programming from Canal mark in the media
The annual management mark Feast of the Mudra Institute of Communications, Ahmedabad (Mica), Micancanvas takes place from 27 until 29 October.
The theme for the festival, "The Black Box-Unlocked" is a space in the thoughts of consumers and the sum and substance of everything that defines the New Age Indian consumers, Atul Tandon, director, mica , Said.
IIMS student, FMS, ISB, MDI, TAPMI, IMT, IIFT, XLRI, XIMB, JBIMS and IITS would be three in the event. Furthermore, asked to choose Mica Undergraduate Colleges, for the first time. .
AHMEDABAD: Mudra, the Institute of Communications, Ahmedabad (MICA) is double its capacity in the programs postgraduate course in the field of communication (PGPCM) from the academic year 2007-08. The home PGPCM current is 120 students in two batches.
MICA director Professor Atul Tandon said: "The capacity of PGPCM has been doubled this year. This was confirmed by All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE). "
He spoke at the 12th Convocation MICA, on Saturday. PGPCM more than two years of residence of the program, this is the flagship of MICA, it is also a PGPCM for executives from the next year. "This
Clarkson University MBA Student Lindsey Lathrop to Join Peace Corps
Clarkson University student Lindsey Lathrop of Queensbury, N.Y., will join the Peace Corps soon after she graduates with her MBA this May.
I came to Clarkson to do my MBA because I was familiar with the area and I knew I would have the freedom to choose what I wanted to get out of the program, says Lathrop. To expand my horizons, I decided to apply to the Peace Corps. It was something Ive wanted to do for a long time. I took a human rights course in London taught by
Mumbai: Distribution Association of India (RAI) and Mudra Institute of Communications, Ahmedabad (MICA), to wash their hands at the beginning of a professional program six months from Visual Merchandising and creative communication.
Visual Merchandising (VM) is the art of persuasion by the presentation of the goods at home and in perspective too. It makes the customers, creates desire and finally, to increase sales.
Distributors Association of India CEO Gibson G Veda Manitoba, said: "Unlike the western countries, where Visual Merchandising is a top priority in retailing, the Indian industry and the practice of understanding the concept of VM is inadequate. As the
Marketing communications is an important aspect in selling a product and training in this area will help the executives. The retail market is growing at a steady rate of 12 per cent and has the potential to generate five lakh more jobs in the next few years, according to a joint study made by the Confederation of Indian Industry and the McKinsey.
The Mudra Institute of Communications (MICA) of Ahmedabad, the first residential institute in the country, is launching its first postgraduate programme in retail communications management from January next. The programme, combining business management and marketing communications, is spread over
Scoring on all major advertising agencies, Market Research (MR) to businesses and IMRB org Margrete held the first mediating role in personnel Mudra, the Institute of Communications Ahmedabad (MICA) this year. Campus setting MICA, especially on advertising and MR-agencies is generally regarded as a barometer of trends in the industry.
While the average annual salary on campus this year was Rs 1.6 lakh, Margrete org fresh graduates offered an annual salary of Rs 2.1 lakh on a cost to the company, while IMRB closely monitored with a package Case of 2.01 lakh The two best MR-eight agencies to recruit graduates specializing
July 6 - AHMEDABAD, India - It may seem like drops in the R-99000-crore Reliance Ocean - but an equal amount of a city like Hamburg, has seen the development of these institutions during the year so late Dhirubhai Ambani India Efforts are made to the largest conglomerate companies.
In the Anil Dhirubhai Ambani Enterprises kitty are institutions such as Mudra Communications, whose headquarters is based in Ahmedabad, and done business with a value of Rs 200 crore annually, Mudra Institute of Communications, Ahmedabad (Mica) , which has some of the best professional advertising in the country.
He also Dhirubhai Institute of
Mumbai: Mudra Institute of Communications Ahmedabad (MICA) announced, Post-Graduate Certificate Program Management broadcasting. The course takes place on the premises between the 12th MICA 11 August 2003 and May 2004.
The nine long months, the course focuses on the needs of new challenges in the management of television and radio companies - that demand for new skills, new knowledge and a new spirit of the game, which also increases the employment opportunities.
According to a press release, the course provides for the application of the hour - the development of a coherent and comprehensive approach of education and training, instead become familiar
Each morning, RK Laxman's "common" - the average Indian man with a blank face to flash a new strike rope with you when it freezes decisive moment of a pending case. The cherubic Amul girls cooess "quite delicious butterly" in your ears How about "Taste of India" on your bread. So what are real and other fictional characters, by the media, they are closer to fiction.
Exhibition "minus sign or more," organized as a farewell gift to graduates of the Mudra Institute of Communications, Ahmedabad (MICA) to the convening of the fourth ceremony, Monday, a number of profiles of fictional characters,
MICA (Mudra Institute of Communications, Ahmedabad), announced a programme of career development in new fields of communication - public relations and events. The course starts from July 15, 2003 and will cost Rs 150,000 ($ 4,000).
A press release adds that the main objective of the programme is to develop students in leading specialists in the fields of public relations and event management for careers in sectors Public Relations, Corporate Communications, event management and communication marketing functions.
The program is a nine-month full-time-which has a home on a Post-Graduate Certificate in the fields of public relations and event management.
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It was a day all the work for the twelfth part of the flagship Post Graduate Program in Communications Management (PGPCM) Mudra, the Institute of Communications, Ahmedabad, (Mica), where all students received a zero day with the best package is Rs 9.5 lakh per annum.
Nearly 50 companies have participated in the placement of nearly 120 offers for a batch of 72 students. Of these 17 were for the first time in search of a job. Ten per cent of the lateral load was created by the process (for candidates with professional experience) and nine in total, offers investment (public postal
Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu on Sunday called on the first batch of graduates from the Indian School of Business (ISB) to join the state government's Centre for Good Governance (CGG).
Naidu, the guest of honour at the first convocation ISB, said, "I would encourage some of the graduates to join our new Centre for Good Governance". He said he foresees many areas of collaboration between the faculty, students of the ISB and the state government. "My government is in the quest of excellence in governance in order to improve the people's quality of life.
We are constantly searching for sound and
AHMEDABAD: Be rich in less than two hours inherit the 500 years of tradition of communal harmony, the architectural quality and heritage of the town. With this invitation appearance of lines and visuals, the students of Mudra Institute of Communications, Ahmedabad (MICA), a draft poster campaign innovative of the Heritage Walk in the Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation (AMC).
More than 20 students from the party Crafting MICA, Creative Communication (CCC) draw attention to their posters Heritage Walk during the Ahmedabad Heritage Festival.
Faculty, CCC, MICA, Subhash Tendle said: "Our course is aimed at the development of art and we are still in this