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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

Rotman MBAs Win Not-For-Profit Case Competition For the second consecutive year, a team of MBA students from the University of Torontos Rotman School of Management have won an international case competition at The George Washington University School of Business. ALSO SEE: The Rotman team, consisting of first-year MBA student Sarah Stern and second-year MBA students Abhijit Rawal, Hala Kosyura, and Ellie Avishai, defeated teams from 20 other business schools to take the first place prize. The annual competition, held the weekend of March 17 in Washington D.C., focuses on finding business solutions for a not-for profit agency. This years case focused

Forecast: MBA Hiring Up Again The hiring of MBA graduates is surging this academic year, with employers expecting to bring in 22.1% more MBA grads in 2007 than they did in 2006, according to a survey of companies across the country. An improved economy, business growth and employee retirement all contribute to this escalating demand for newly minted MBAs, says Andrea Koncz, employment information manager for the National Association of Colleges and Employers (NACE). And with growing industries comes growing competition to attract the best and brightest. At JP Morgan (JPM), hiring of MBAs is up between 10 and 15% this

Employers plan to boost the number of new MBAs they hire in 2007 and are reporting less interest in people with only an undergraduate education, new research from the Graduate Management Admission Council® (GMAC®) shows. Corporate recruiters expect to hire an average of 18 percent more workers with MBAs and other graduate business degrees this year than they did in 2006, according to the 2007 GMAC Corporate Recruiters Survey. This increase follows the 18 percent jump in MBA hiring recruiters projected in last years survey. The survey also found that employers plan to increase the number of jobs for people

Employers plan to boost the number of new MBAs they hire in 2007 and are reporting less interest in people with only an undergraduate education, new research from the Graduate Management Admission Council (GMAC) shows. Corporate recruiters expect to hire an average of 18 percent more workers with MBAs and other graduate business degrees this year than they did in 2006, according to the 2007 GMAC Corporate Recruiters Survey. This increase follows the 18 percent jump in MBA hiring recruiters projected in last years survey. The survey also found that employers plan to increase the number of jobs for people

Jamshedpur, December 16: Vivekanand Nandi, a second year student of Human Resources and Labour Relations (PMIR), Xavier for the laurels of work and relationship Institute (XLRI), where he won the prestigious ups Leadership Award. The contest was organized by TA-based Manipal Pai Management Institute December 3 to December 5. Nandi was 12 participants from B up schools in the country, attended the competition. The contract is awarded a cash prize of Rs 1 lakh. This is the second consecutive year that the award was won by an XLRI student. Last year, Deewakar Loshali, a business management student, won the prize. After Nandi,

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

Swansea business school in world class Swansea University School of Business and Economics is celebrating official recognition of the high quality of its Master of Business Administration (MBA) programmes. AMBA, the Association of MBAs, has accredited Swanseas full-time and Executive MBAs to its prestigious and internationally recognised global standard for postgraduate management education. And the AMBA recognition means that Swansea Universitys Business School is the only one in Wales to offer accredited full-time and part-time MBAs. The only other accredited MBA in Wales is the full-time programme at the University of Wales Aberystwyth. Other MBAs offered by Welsh institutions have not been assessed

MBAs are growing not only in number but variety and content. A report by The Independent shows that over the last 10 years, the number of MBA schools on the continent has grown exponentially. There are now at least 500, although according to the report, barely a third have the sector’s gold standard seal of approval – accreditation by Britain’s Association of MBAs (AMBA). More : .hrzone.co.uk/

KOLKATA: An Indian Institute of Management Calcutta Alumni of the team left with the Top distinctions "in the implementation of ideas" (2002), a comprehensive business plan for competition, which aims at promoting of entrepreneurship in the overall management of the forces of the future. Former members of the Indian School of Business, in a second University of Mumbai was third team. Astral Systems Inc and Srei International Finance were the main sponsors and verschenkte Rs 5 lach the victory of Team, lach of R 3 and R runner's lach 2 to the third team. Astral group chairs Dave Mukherjee, considered

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