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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Samford University’s Brock School of Business is changing the schedule of its evening MBA program.

The graduate program - taken often by working professionals - is being revamped into two semesters that are nine weeks each with a 10-week summer semester, the school reported Thursday.

The program used to have five, nine-week terms in a year.

Under the new schedule, each course will meet for a two-hour class each week, giving students more time to study and learn the material, school officials said.

“We have retained the flexibility and convenience for working professionals through the option of attending one evening a week,” said Larry Harper, director of Graduate and Executive Education Programs at the Brock School of Business in a news release. “In addition, students can complete the degree in as little as 12 months by attending full-time or 22 months by attending part-time.”

The new curriculum covers all business functions and is designed to offer a more complete general management experience. Students also learn to exercise ethical business practices.

“Managers need comprehensive skills and sound values in order to achieve the disparate goals of their investors, customers, employees and the public at large,” said Beck A. Taylor, dean of the Brock School of Business. “At the Brock School, our charge is to help current and aspiring managers to discover solutions that meet these goals.”

The evening MBA program is the oldest in the state of Alabama and takes applications year round. Students can enter the program in January, June and August.

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In today’s highly competitive corporate world, working professionals are keen to upgrade their skills and qualifications like never before. SP Jain Center of Management, a business school that offers programs of intensive management business, both working for executives as well as full-time students, recently sought applications for its Executive MBA second batch of sixty and was overwhelmed by the response.

SP Jain Center of Management, located at Knowledge Village, Dubai has a legacy of being at the cutting edge of management education. Its parent campus, SP Jain Institute of Management and Research (SPJIMR), ranked seventh by Asia Inc, the Singapore based business magazine, and India’s top business school for job placements, has been constantly innovating not just the curriculum and pedagogy but also the imparting methodologies employed in business education. These advances are now available at Dubai’s SP Jain campus for the region’s business management aspirants to benefit from.

THE faculty council of the Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta (IIM-C) on Monday decided to move the Calcutta High Court challenging the validity of the 164th meeting of the board of governors, which took place on March 26, 2004.

Prof Asish Bhattacharyya, Dean (Planning & Administration) and spokesperson of the faculty council, told newspersons that the validity of the said meeting was being called into question since four members had been replaced or substituted just before the crucial meeting to decide on the fee cut issue.

The council has also recommended that the Director of the institute provisionally maintain the fee structure for the forthcoming session, which begins in May.

Prof Bhattacharyya said that the council has suggested that since the board of governors has not been able to take a decision on fee reduction as directed by the Union HRD Ministry, the continuation of the same fee structure was advisable in view of smooth functioning of the institute as per the curriculum.

In the just concluded two-year session, IIM-C had charged a total of around Rs 2.5 lakh. The payments were obtained in various stages. The initial payment was around Rs 48,000.

“We have also suggested to the Director, who was present at the council meeting today, that fee received in excess of what might be finally decided by the board of governors or the Supreme Court be refunded with interest to the students.”

Prof Bhattacharyya also said that it has been the practice at IIM-C that before every session the faculty would recommend the fee structure and the board would take it up for approval. The council has also suggested that the Director, in the absence of clarity, might keep aside the Central Government’s proposed grant of Rs 4 crore for 2003-04 on account of non-Plan expenditure.

“The fund has not come in yet. But if it comes, the council advises that it should not be used until the matter is resolved by the Supreme Court or through a process of dialogue.” Meanwhile, the IIM-C faculty council has requested the Ministry that it be included in the process of dialogue on the fee revision issue.

The council has decided to form a three-member committee consisting of two faculty members and one alumnus for the proposed dialogue.

Demand for management professionals is growing, but the supply of quality manager was unable to maintain in the future. In Chennai, for example, there are only a few institutions in the city of meals to the growing demand for quality training.

The Franco-Indian Chamber of Commerce (IGCC) has decided to close the gap with the launch of the Indo-German Training Centre and offers a platform for management aspirants to acquire skills to meet the needs companies.

The management of institutions IGCC development goals, administration and management skills of students who, otherwise, that the academic, adapting to the culture of work in the industry.

The 18 months Post Graduate Diploma in Business Administration has launched Thursday, a German company of the German Management by its “dual system”. This system offers practical training, transmission of industrial training, in collaboration with classroom meetings.

Furthermore, that students learn German as part of the curriculum. Graduates and young researchers from 50 per cent for the course. Working visit sponsored by the forces of their business are also eligible.

Inauguration of the Centre, L.S. Ganesh, Head of the Department of Management Studies, IIT Chennai, there is a growing demand in Chennai for admission to the quality of institutions. Chennai with emerging countries, as an automobile race in the capital and health care, we need good institutions, innovative programs management.

Three basic E –

Give advice to students, he said that three basic E’s expected of leaders - the efficiency of production quality, efficiency with minimal resources and excellence. The management of these institutions in their abilities of candidates.

During their training must develop 5 E’s - excitement, boredom, know-how through experience, energy and empowerment, “he said.

Stefan Graf, the German Consul General, Chennai, said the institution would open the doors of Germany and globalization for students. If one compares the globalization of football games, he said that students should be trained, are winners in the global game.

T.R. Gopalan, regional director of the IGCC, said that 25 students across the country, including Delhi and Coimbatore, have opted for the course. The number will increase to 40 in the next game.

More than 70 students, received access to land the best Management Institute, met Sunday evening to celebrate their success at an event organized by the richest victory of Education Institute of Management Pvt Ltd, mouth of the people known as the name of TIME.

The students were gecoacht Time, which has 51 centres in cities and municipalities across India. The Institute manages more than 25000 students from the town Admission Test (CAT) -2002.

According to Rajeev Sathyesh, provided that the number of visitors IIMS at Ahmedabad, Calcutta, Lucknow and Kozhikode, who was coaching full-time and up-to-date, the group discussion and dialogue was a breeze. Sathyesh, an engineering degree, specializing in marketing plans at IIM, Ahmedabad.

Aditi Tandon, an art student at St. Francis College, received the Management Development Institute, Gurgaon, if time coaching they do not know much about Management Studies. “However, coaching and equipment delivered at TIME has also helped a student of art as I surely admission to institute a premium,” said Aditi.

“It is the” Relationship Management “, particularly the extraordinary studentfaculty report that staff met TIME independently of other coaching institutes,” Sainag curriculum vitae is accession IIM Bangalore reported next month.

Sainag, gave his second shot on the chat in 2002, said the faculty and staff in the TIME are also concerned and caring, even if it is not that the entry into the IIMS in 2001, she continues to strengthen its morale and encouraged the entry test other shot.

Ilya MV sand, has received, IIM, Calcutta, said coaching in time, so that one feels “more comfortable” in interviews and focus groups.

TIME P theatre directors and Manek Daruvala Viswanath, the payer and teachers of high schools in the city were also in the Get-together. 670 students have finally secured IIMS selections solely on the Cat 2002

With a view to develop harmony between students’ mind and body, the Chandigarh education department has planned to introduce Yoga as a part of curriculum in the city schools from this session.

Disclosing this the DPI (S) S.K. Setia, said, “It is the brainchild of home secretary Krishan Mohan which will help students reach the pinnacle through healthy minds and fit bodies. Our objective is to make our students mentally alert and physically lithe.”

Telling further, Setia said, “Yoga will be of great benefit especially to those who are into sports as it is all about concentration.”

Yoga will be taught by the teachers of B.Ed Colleges and the classes would most probably be held during the morning assembly or in the free or games period. “Actually, the concept is in the pipeline and we are chalking out the programme. Very soon, it will be done,” added DPI.

Rendu, publishers have decided to come together to share their experiences with the accession of the publication of the branch. Penguin India’s David Davidar and potash for women Urvashi Bhutalia belong to those who teach the curriculum by the Association of publishers and booksellers associations in India (FPBAI) the introduction of three months, a certificate, of course, when publishing on June 2. Twenty-five students are enrolled in courses by them to the Jamia Millia Islamia. Students receive an experiment to introduce editorial, production and marketing with the help of three training modules developed by the FPBAI School of Science Publishing.

The course is open to fresh graduates and those who only for the industry. The Federation has roped in big names in the publication sector, a contribution to golf.

Ambituous attack on a plan of doubling its network, the largest private sector bank Icici Bank plans hiring of nearly 50000 people in the next three years.

Although the vast need for the number of employees of the bank is in retailing, but also a lack of personnel in all sectors, including finance, marketing, operations, information technology and human resources .

The Bank has the shorter the orientation of their students from 180 days to 60 days by various measures. Icici Bank wash their hands with institutions such as NIIT ICFAI Business School and the establishment of the curriculum on the needs of the banking sector. The bank is in discussions with the country’s institutions and the establishment of specialization courses in relation to banking services.

The British Council is prepared to help each institution in Bangalore is the interest of a tie-up with a British university for distance education in the curriculum and economic management.

The Institute for Financial Management and Research has already Chennai-up a tie with an Open University MBA programs, said L. Dhanasekaran, Manager, Education Division for the Advancement Council of Chennai. He was in Bangalore Wednesday to advise students in economics and management studies in the United Kingdom.

From the survey that the Council receives each year, 40 percent are for these courses. Of this amount, nearly 80 percent of students are PG with the goal of an MBA. “ The advantage of an MBA in Britain is that you stop within one year”, said Dhanasekaran. The period starts in September. Tuition fees range from 9000 to 18000 euros pounds sterling, according to the course and the university.

In studies of three years. And unlike the USA, United Kingdom do not expect to universities, that 16 years of training as a qualification for higher education. Prices are the most under-ground, such as combinations of business and accounting, commercial and financial, networking systems and even combinations such as music and management.