You don’t have to have an MBA to know the value of basic business skills. Just ask Greg Shaw, 22, and the 54 other recent graduates of the Carolina Business Institute at University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill.

These new biologists, psychologists and arts majors added the business course to their resumes before stepping out into the real world. Many think it will give them a competitive edge in the workplace. Some think such skills are necessary if they want to one day run their own businesses. And others want the confidence of knowing how to manage personal finances.

UNC’s Friday Center has offered a 4-week business boot camp to non-business students for 16 years. The intense course covers basic business practices including marketing, accounting, finance and operations management.

Its latest class graduated in June.

Among them was Shaw, who received a bachelor’s degree in biology at UNC-Chapel Hill.

Shaw said that in addition to helping with his personal budget, the class gave him the skills to one day manage his own medical practice. “Running a clinic is a business,” he said. “You have to know what to pay people and how to buy equipment and machines.”

Other schools across the nation offer similar programs, including the Tuck Business Bridge program at Dartmouth College and the Summer Institute for General Management at Stanford University.

At North Carolina State University, nonbusiness students are offered four business minors, in accounting, business administration, economics and entrepreneurship, said Steve Barr, a professor who heads the department of management, innovation and entrepreneurship.

In the past, students took such classes mainly to bolster their resumes. But the curriculums have been enhanced to help with a variety of business practices, and students are gleaning practical use from such programs.

Will Aldridge, 28, a UNC psychology graduate who completed the institute in 2006, said the courses give him a competitive advantage in the workplace.

Aldridge was working as an intern at a workplace consulting firm in Atlanta when a client needed advice about the benefits of Six Sigma. It’s a management program that identifies and replaces the causes of defects and errors in manufacturing and business processes.

“I told them, ‘Hey, I just had a class on that,’ ” Aldridge said. His boss was not familiar with Six Sigma, so Aldridge used what he had learned to help the client.

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If the IBM-Board meets Tuesday, the key decision will face as deeply to cut this period. And the result would be to say much about how fast and powerful, as the company’s new chief executive, Louis V. Gerstner Jr., wants its mark on the troubled computer giant, he joined in April.

Most of Wall Street and industry analysts expect that the sources of board to take a cargo of large profits for the second quarter against the closure of factories and equipment balances, since the company streamline its activities. The fee for the cutting of production capacity - which could be enriched by $ 1 billion to over U.S. $ 4 billion, said one analyst - would, in addition to $ 2 billion of depreciation announced earlier this month as provided for greater reduction of staff. The operating loss expected

The International Business Machines Corporation is also expected to announce its second quarter results after the committee meeting. In addition to a special levy for the reductions, analysts predict that the report is an IBM operating loss in the area of $ 140 million to $ 180 million.

Most analysts believe that the board decides Tuesday on the slice of IBM dividend for the second time this year, given that the company cash to recover the fighting. The quarterly distribution is 54 cents and analysts predict that this is more than half, or 25 cents.

The computer industry are also noted, if the name of IBM or compensation for its two onboard. Three out of directors recently decided to bottom, and Tuesday of the meeting are also the last of Jack D. Kuehler, a vice-president of IBM, retired. A clean, bold stroke

If you are a second quarter enormous fees is that it works to the advantage of Mr. Gerstner - and IBM - for financial housecleaning necessary for a stroke and bold move with the reconstruction process. That must stop IBM, analysts say, is its recent history, the costs quarter after quarter, year after year, react to market changes, rather than control.

“Death by a thousand cuts is exactly what IBM has done for years,” said David Yoffie, a professor at the Harvard Graduate School of Business Administration. “Gerstner has helped to reduce as much as possible, as quickly as possible, that behind him.

Mr. Gerstner, provides Dan Mandresh, an analyst for Merrill Lynch & Company, is in favour of a “clear the decks” approach.

Kerala Industrial Infrastructure Development Corporation (Kinfra), nodes-agency assistance to states for development of infrastructure for export (AIM) system of Kerala, has received proposals worth Rs 33.98 crore for the establishment of infrastructure exporting State.

They have since approved for assistance under the State-Level Export Promotion Committee (SLEPC) is with the sanction under the regulatory powers, the government said sources Business Line.

Marine Products Export Development Authority (MPEDA), Seafood Exporters Association of India (SEAI), Cashew Export Promotion Council (CEPC) and Kerala State Industrial Enterprises (KSIE) are among those who have submitted their proposals.

Kinfra himself proposed a RS-7.25 crore water supply project for its Techno-Industrial Park in Kakkanchery in Malappuram circle.

The park provides facilities for the treatment of foodstuffs.

The regulation provides for the implementation of water from the Kadalundi river, 13 km.

The Thiruvananthapuram-Institute for Human Resources Development (IHRD) has proposed an Indian Institute of Management in export Kinfra High-Tech Park in Kalamassery with a total cost of Rs 7 crore

Of which, RS 4.2 crore be made available under the scheme purpose.

Kinfra and IHRD in each chip RS 1.4 crore for the first capital.

The Institute will seek to train professionals for the management of foreign trade logistics and human resources development, to meet the demand of the industry.

It is used by an association duly registered in possession of the Government of Kerala and IHRD Kinfra and member of the Indian Institute of Foreign Trade (IIFT).

The CRC has proposed in a modern laboratory for testing Cashew Kollam and other products.

The total cost for construction and equipment were crore RS 6.

The CRC has another proposal to install an electronic scale, the Pont de Cochin Port Trust premises at a cost of Rs 18 lakh.

KSIE a Rs 3.95 crore project for the expansion of exports to the Bay of Thiruvananthapuram Air Cargo complex and for the provision of necessary equipment.

This is in conformity with the safety specifications published by the Office for the Safety of Civil Aviation under the Union Ministry of Civil Aviation.

The base Kochi Seafood Exporters Association of India (SEAI) has proposed the creation of a central quality control laboratory for testing specializes in seafood according to EU standards against a tax of Rs 3.5 crore on

The proposal in the context of the controversy concerning a ban on exports of seafood latest from India in terms of quality reasons.

The Hazard Analysis Critical Control Points (HACCP) requires technical support schemes for industry in India, it is therefore necessary for the establishment of the laboratory.

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (USFDA), the governed, that imports must be from a processing plant unit of the practice and implementation of HACCP by the entire production chain .

The European Union is also insisting on the check-clean “system based on HACCP.

MPEDA has proposed the creation of 30 pre-treatment in the major centres of fish processing in the regions of Kerala at a cost of Rs 9 crore, for which a grant of Rs 90 lakh are made available under the scheme BUT .