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NEW DELHI: It was the former President A. P. J. Abdul Kalam’s day out on the North Campus of Delhi University on Saturday. From taking a class at Faculty of Management Studies to delivering a talk at the Central Institute of Education, the educationist in Mr. Kalam invigorated and charmed one and all. At the FMS, Mr. Kalam lectured a class of final-year MBA students as well as visitors from the Lahore University of Management Sciences and a South Korean university on “Creative Leadership”. Creative leadership Mr. Kalam illustrated graphically how creative leadership can help transform India into a developed economy and also

Mercury Associates and Oakwood Worldwide Form Partnership The U.S. Department of Labor has awarded Mercury Associates, Inc. a contract to provide corporate housing management services for DOLs MBA (Masters of Business Administration) Fellows Program. The small business set-aside contract covers one year plus four option years and is valued at $1.47 million if DOL exercises all options. Through this contract, Mercury Associates will plan, schedule, coordinate and assure effective and economical corporate housing services for the MBA Fellows designated locations and has partnered with Oakwood Worldwide, Inc., the worlds largest temporary housing company, to provide 90-day stays at up to 20

A feeling of the youth hostel life years. A dream for many, but a set of Indian School of Mines (ISM) Alumnus, he literally. The ISM Alumni Association of Mumbai has therefore set for building a society housing password-outs, buildings named after the Inns of the leading institutes of engineering Dhanbad. Sunil K. Jha, a graduate of petroleum engineering in 1964 and the current vice-president of the Association, launched the idea of returning in 1980 to give ISM graduate work in Mumbai housing in a city with prohibitive costs of goods . "Living in Mumbai is very expensive and my plan was a

Ramanuj Shastry quits McCann-Erickson Ramanuj Shastry, senior creative director, McCann-Erickson, has put in his papers. Shastry, who is an MBA and holds degrees in Economics and Mathematics, has been with McCann for the last 11 years. Confirming this development to agencyfaqs!, Prasoon Joshi, regional creative director, McCann-Erickson, South and South East Asia, says, Ramanujs exit is certainly a loss for McCann. He was one the best creative minds McCann had. But then, each one of us has our own personal as well as professional preferences and needs to move on in life. Ramanuj was also a personal friend and I can

OSUs MBA students get housing option For the past four years, Columbus developer and Ohio State University graduate Pete Edwards has donated use of dozens of his companies apartments to the Fisher College of Business. The college uses the apartments, situated around the city, to recruit students. While that arrangement will end with the coming academic year, Edwards involvement with student housing will not. Edwards Communities is building Fisher Commons, a 118-unit apartment complex designed for graduate business students at Fisher College. Located at the southeast corner of Kenny Road and Lane Avenue, the apartments are a mile west of Fisher College,

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U.S. MBAs Mortgage Applications Index Rose 4.6% Last Week An index of U.S. mortgage applications rose last week to a level that still suggests weakness in the housing market, an industry report showed today. The Mortgage Bankers Associations index of applications to buy a home or refinance an existing loan increased 4.6 percent to 588.0 from 562.1. The gauge is down 16 percent in the last year. The increase last week suggests job and income growth are keeping the housing market from collapsing even as higher mortgage rates put purchases out of reach for some buyers, economists said. I dont

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Indian advertising can be worlds best At the first sight, tall Sumanto Chattopadhyay with his long hair and beard looks as if he has just walked out of the sets of Lord of the Rings. The group creative director of Ogilvy & Mather Mumbai and creative director of the companys Kolkata unit, dons many hats. When not making award winning advertisements, Chattopadhyay takes up the role of a writer, a model or an actor. He talks to Komal Mehta on what drives him. More : inhome.rediff.com

The Indian Institute of Technology in Bombay, everything is focused on the launch of the Indian chapter of Creative Commons, a world premiere, knowledge sharing, their annual festival of the technology will begin on January 26. Creative Commons is a non-profit, the group is working on expanding the range of work for the creation of other "Building Act and actions." It allows people creator of the exhibition of work in the part of a license allows for greater flexibility than the default "all rights reserved" copyright. From its humble home Cyber cc-india.org, Indian branch of the worldwide movement is to spread the

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