Once again students from the School of Business & Economics MBA programme will be taking up the challenge of competing in the 2008 Cranfield Regatta, an international sailing event which is designed to allow MBA students and alumni from all over Europe to meet their counterparts from other business schools. The regatta will take place around Port Solent and Cowes on the last weekend in July and Exeter’s eight-strong crew are working hard in the hope of a high placing for the University. The crew is made up of part-time and full-time MBA students and alumni who have a broad range of sailing skills and experience but are dedicated to doing their best for Exeter. This year’s crew consists of current students Nadia Nikolova, Simon Baird, Nagyb Shah, Stuart Harris, Richard Dawson and alumni Jonny Malcolm, Mark Roberts and Wade Tipton. The race will consist of four head to head races with the various business school teams taking part. The team has is being sponsored by Vospers South West Motor Dealership, Jam Creative, The Birmingham Assay Office and House of Marbles.

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Walk through the halls of the University of Chicago’s Graduate School of Business during the school year, and along with students cramming facts for macroeconomics and operating strategy you may encounter some students stretching their bodies and doing something really unusual for business school students: relaxing.

They’re members of Chicago’s yoga club, a student group founded earlier this year by two GSB students and which last term attracted 15 to 35 regular attendees to classes in the school’s Harper Center. The classes are “time to shut your brain off,” says Jody Kirchner, one of the group’s founders.

The Chicago GSB yoga classes reflect a growing popularity of yoga in the U.S., with about 16 million Americans engaging in the practice, according to statistics released by Yoga Journal. The publication said $5.7 billion is spent annually on yoga classes and products, nearly twice as much as four years ago.
Indian Odyssey

During a school-sponsored trip to India last year, Kirchner and fellow student Doug Neal bonded over a mutual interest in yoga. Kirchner and Neal, who both had been practicing yoga for years before they met, eventually decided to start a group dedicated to the practice on campus—after Kirchner noticed that other business schools had yoga groups, but Chicago didn’t.

In midyear, Neal, a 2008 MBA graduate, and Kirchner, a rising second-year student and co-chair of the club, conducted an interest survey for the group. Of the 1,100 students attending the school, about 200 expressed interest.

Kirchner said she was surprised at the large response the survey garnered, finding that a sizable portion of the student population already practiced yoga, at least to some extent. “People I know outside of school say the same thing,” she said. “After a stressful day, it’s time they can do something easily to take their mind off their stress.”

Neal says yoga isn’t just for stress relief. “Yoga is very multifaceted, and the benefits of yoga are different for each person,” he said. “Some use it for exercise, for meditation poses, some for relaxation, some for injuries.”

Aaron F. Cooper II, a self-described worrywart, never thought his penchant for devising foolproof backup plans could translate into a calling. But that all changed when he signed up for an elective in risk management while at the University of Georgia’s Terry School of Business executive MBA program last fall. “It entails pretty much everything I’ve always been interested in my entire life, even before I knew risk management existed,” said Cooper, 27, a telecommunications engineer at AT&T (T).

Cooper is part of a new wave of students hitting business school campuses. For years, risk management—the process of analyzing exposure to risk and determining how best to handle it—occupied a sleepy corner in business schools, a subject mainly of interest to those who want to enter the insurance field. But with the recent turmoil in the financial markets and a push for more accountability, risk management has rocketed in status at business schools.

In the past decade, a growing number of B-schools have added concentrations in the subject, ramping up the number of classes they offer. Executive MBA programs are also incorporating risk management electives into their curriculum, responding to increased demand from executives and companies. In some instances, schools such as Georgia’s Terry are developing custom programs on the topic for top executives and boards of directors.

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It is that time of the year again when thousands of students across the country appear for a slew of entrance examinations conducted by various business schools in the country.

This year, the examinations begin on November 11 and end on January 6. Unfortunately, Symbiosis National Aptitude Test (SNAP) and ICFAI Business School Aptitude Test (IBSAT) are scheduled on the same day (December 16).

Speaking to The Hindu, Ajay Arora, Director, Triumphant Institute of Management Education, Bangalore centre, said that the clash in the dates of a few management aptitude tests is not uncommon. “I do not know what the fuss is all about. Every year, something similar happens,” he said.

Last year, the entrance exam for Faculty of Management Studies and Narsee Monjee Aptitude Test were held on the same day. “One cannot blame the institutions for the clash in dates. The best time to conduct the entrance tests is between November and January, as the students will not be over-burdened with mid-term examinations,” Mr. Arora said.

The admission cycle is such that for a programme to commence in June, the entrance test must be conducted between November and January, so that the results may be announced in April. Mr. Arora said that around 20,000 students of the country appear for the IBSAT and 18,000 to 20,000 appear for SNAP. “The question is how many of those students will appear for both the entrance tests. That group is not very big. The number of students ‘affected’ is minimal,” he said.

Several times a week for two years, Abraham Zaleznik, a professor at Harvard Business School and practitioners psychoanalysts, was created by the president of a large American group to his supervisor a plush offices of Boston’s skyscrapers. In order to write a biography of the committee, Mr. Zaleznik settle a slight lead chair and begins his tape recorder, and the businessman would talk about his ambitions and emotions, projects, it took declaration of love and its plans.

Hundreds of hours of interviews, history was born a company president, was able to feel like the seduction of power, was forced to make decisions that stirred his sense of fairness. Mr. Zaleznik its theme and spoke about the businessman’s regrets and lessons to learn from its experiences.

But the executive decided at the end of completing the book. ”I think there were some ambivalence about him, because he knew he was not able to be on a podium,’’said Zaleznik. Unfortunately,”I do not think he understands the importance of his life.”

The psycho-biographies aside for typical problems related to the review of the personalities of leaders: They are not always willing to discuss or allow the study, as they think. But Mr. Zaleznik persists, try inside the heads of corporate head interviews, observation and psychoanalysis at work.

In order to study on the psychology of the entrepreneur, Harvard University, last month appointed the 59 years of solitary Konosuke Matsushita Professor of Leadership.

The chair is equipped with a donation of $ 1 million by Matsushita Electric Industrial Company of Japan, for the first time a foreign company has stiftete a professorship at Harvard’s Graduate School of Business Administration. The grant is the result of negotiations in 1981 by M. Zaleznik and a colleague who went to Japan for funding is requested.

”In the past 25 years, emphasis on Business Schools was to improve the technical skills of students so that they can better financial analysts, statisticians better, better enforcement of economists’ ’said Zaleznik, in an interview at his Lexington home, Out of Boston. ”We have lost what I believe is an important idea that the execution of an organization with a human dimension. I see this chair as a determined effort to really detail in the centre of an organization.”

Other teachers not to ignore the factors of personality, but a lot of stress management courses organization charts, with lines of the Authority, productivity and rewards. These can be learned, thought, but it is difficult to negotiate someone for a certain type of person.

Professor Zaleznik says, however, that the company’s success is more by the personality of their leaders by how they are organized. The person in charge, he said,”is the instrument by loyalty and morality is created and people are motivated.”Personal relations between the leadership and downstream are more important, he added, that those reports to a staff member. And he said, students can indeed learn how personal relationships.

Professor Zaleznik has isolated the approach of the Harvard Business School, and collected a few eyebrows as if the date was announced. Le”doyen knew very well that this would be a controversial appointment,’’said a person familiar with the decision requested not mentioned.

ICFAI Business School in Hyderabad is one of the three business schools have been awarded global accreditation by the Association of Management Development Institute in South Asia (AMDISA).

The other two are: Suleman Dawood School of Business in Lahore University of Management and Management Development Institute, Gurgoan.

The AMDISA accreditation committee under the chairmanship of M. Rammohan Rao of the Indian School of Business decided to award the admission on the basis of their recommendations.

A concert live from the Indian Ocean marked the conclusion of all days, the annual festival of the Xavier Labour Relation Institute (XLRI).

Nearly 200 students from 22 business schools across the country have participated in the Festival.

The three day Extravaganza has shown all the regular events with a handful of new ones.

He began by Xhume - the “night” online, a treasure hunt organised by Socrates (Society for the rapid assimilation of Technology and Systems), which verifies the ability participating in the search for correct answers on the Internet through decryption references encrypted.

XLRI bags host the first prize in Xtracts a case study IR-competition, participating teams dealt with the latest trends in the industry as redundancy, restructuring and compensation.

Faculty of Management Studies, New Delhi, won first prize in Poonji, a set of scholarships and Xigency a case study in direct competition.

A popular demonstrations during the festival was Lekh, a paper-writing competition in five categories - Marketing, strategy, human resources management, finance and systems.

Awards in five categories were won by XLRI, IIM, Ahmedabad, IIM Bangalore, SJ Mehta School of Management and XLRI, Bhubaneshwar.

East-India is a leading business schools - Xavier Institute of Management, Bhubaneswar, (XIMB) - provides a second campus in the State.

The 20 years of the Institute planned, built and operates the second campus of 2012, on the occasion of celebrating its silver jubilee.

“We have a plan to open a second campus in the State. We will be similar double State-of-the-art facilities, we are here in the new campus, “said E. Abraham, Director of the Business School.

The campus was the Institute on a larger than 20 hectares. Though Abraham did not reveal the situation, “said XIMB sources of the Institute for prospecting for a large patch of land, more than 100 hectares on the outskirts of the city.

“Discussions with the owners, but the operation is not yet complete,” said XIMB sources.

The Institute, which opens a session batch of 120 students in the program Post-Graduate in business administration, 60 per lot for rural management programme and another 60 per batch within three years part-time, program has already all India, the Council for Education for additional technical seats.

This year, XIMB has argued that it had guaranteed investment of 100 percent with the highest salary of Rs 12.75 lakh per year nationally and $ 85000 at the international level.

“The average salary was about Rs 8.75 lakh per annum and each student took an average of more than two-and-a-half to choose jobs,” he said.

Kapur, a student ultimately bags International Placement lucrative offer by Singapore Olam International, an international trading house.

“There is a strong likelihood of some of these students to a contractor in the near future.” Is it that everything the director.

The Institute raised its postage full-time Graduate Programs RS 4.35 lakh this year, 3.96 lakh earlier.

“We have slightly increased fees this year, as every year, we have to improve infrastructure. Our decision about increasing taxes is not in any way by the IIMS,” Abraham added.

Recalling that XIMB has been consistently ranked among the top 10 B-schools in the country, she spoke to Abraham, the high quality of education, double, while shooting.

Mumbai, March 21 - HILE die Debatte über die Gebühr-Struktur auf der IIMS wütet auf, mit dem SC Festsetzung weitere Anhörung zum Fall für April 8, Management-Ausbildung in der eine Stadt spiegelt unterschiedliche Kostenstruktur.

Unter den führenden Management-Schulen in der Stadt, die Jamnalal Bajaj Institute of Management Studies (JBIMS) und der Sydenham Institute of Management Studies and Research, haben eine niedrigere Gebühren Struktur, im Bereich von R 30000 - 40000 R.

Es überrascht nicht, dass die Verwaltung auf diese Institute darauf hin, dass es keine Stärke in der Arguments, dass die Qualität der Ausbildung steht in direktem Zusammenhang mit der Gebühr belastet.

Allerdings sind diese Institute haben alternative Einnahmequellen. JBIMS macht eine beträchtliche Summe, indem Sie und Verwaltung von Entwicklungsprogrammen Forschungsprojekte, während Sydenham Staatliche Zuschüsse erhält.

Am Ende des anderen Spektrums selbst sind die finanzierten Instituten, von denen bis auf alle RS 1 lakh pro Jahr. Klar, das ist Denken yesterday, dass eine Gebühr Senkung der unter ein bestimmtes Level würde letztlich Auswirkungen der Qualität der Ausbildung vermittelt.

Die Lösung of finanziellen Belastungen eine hohe Gebühr Struktur Plätze Studenten ist auf die Vergabe von Förderungen, Beihilfen und Kredite, sagen sie.

Laut dem der Direktor JBIMS, Dr. R.K. Jadhav, eine Grundvoraussetzung für eine erfolgreiche sollte nicht wie Bildung preislich hoch. Management Institute sollten sich auf der Beschaffung Mitteln von durch die laufende Verwaltung und von Entwicklungsprogrammen Forschungsprojekte, so lebensfähig zu bleiben und gleichzeitig keine Belastung Studenten mit einer hohen Gebühr Struktur.

Das Forum für Institute, ein Gremium von 23 selbst finanziert verbundenen Business Schools an der Universität Bombay, sagt die Vergabe von Stipendien, Sponsoring von Studenten, und die Unterstützung von bedürftigen Schüler und verdienstvollen durch einen Treuhandfonds einzurichten, waren die mehr Optionen vorzuziehen.

Laut dem Präsidenten Forum, Prof. .. Arya, eine Studie aktuelle, die von den Institutionen hatten gezeigt, dass nach wie vor lebensfähig, finanzierten Schulen müssten selbst eine Gebühr von minimum Rs 1 lakh pro Jahr, unter Berücksichtigung einer jährlichen Einnahme von 120 Studenten.

Unter den Instituten vertreten Forum sind das durch die Welingkar Institute for Management-Entwicklung und Forschung, die KJ Somaiya Institute of Management Studies, und der Bhartiya Vidyapeeth’s Institute of Management.

Gebühren Die, die durch ein Institute sollte den Markt, Prof.. sagt. Abbas Ali Gabuli, Vorsitzender der für Außenbeziehungen in autonomen, SP Jain Institute of Management & Research yesterday.

Ihm zufolge die Gebühren bezahlt werden sollte als eine Investition, die von students für ihre Zukunft.

Forced by the government to delay the declaration on the results of the entrance, at the beginning of Indian Institute of Management, fear the loss of the best and brightest to other business schools.

I do not know if it IIM class, students can register and pay fees for the second season-B-schools, with their list of candidates before their IIM administrations fear.

The European Union human resource development ministry yesterday a circular to IIMS, IITS and other higher education institutions require a central funding freeze on the Declaration on the final results until a new directive .

The IIMS had planned to explain the results on 12 April.

The main strategy is apparent there is a threat of the initiative, we get a Supreme Court stay free and the introduction of the CBO rate itself this year. The government expects that the Supreme Court earlier.

But IIMS keep their thumb on the sidelines. “The scientific meeting will probably still time, but there is a danger that we lose some of our best students from other schools B”, Professor Ashish Bhattacharya, cinema attendance in Charge at IIM Calcutta, said.

Posted excited by an administrator IIM Bangalore: “All schools B, require that the fees payable (usually a few lakhs) within a specified period. In most cases, fees are not refundable. A student who receives somewhere, but he is not sure he has on IIMS would probably choose the other B-school. ”

This is the first time that the IIMS have not been able to explain their final results of its time in over four decades of history.

IIMS in Ahmedabad, Bangalore and Calcutta are systematically evaluated, the three B-schools coveted by students. Tune on their heels, but are deprived B as schools Xavier Labour Research Institute in Jamshedpur and the SP Jain schools in Mumbai and Delhi.

Other popular B-private schools, as school Narsee Monjee in Mumbai, the Institute of Management and Technology in ghaziabad, and the Indian Institute of Management at Gurgaon admit students based on their results with cats , Including qualifying examinations for IIMS. The centre of the freeze does not apply to these institutions, most of which is awaiting final results in two weeks.

CBO students, the Indian Institute of Technology’s entry - the common admission exams - are invited tomorrow, check-Mark to the cashier an answer booklet.

IIMC President

Ajit Balakrishnan, head, Repeated, was appointed chairman of the Board of Directors of IIM Calcutta. Balakrishnan, IIMC Alumnus, the resumption of YC Deveshwar.