BPO firm ropes in IIM Lucknow for management tips

Leading business process outsourcing (BPO) firm Genpact has roped in professors from the Indian Institute of Management (IIM) Lucknow to give its employees lessons in management skills and improving productivity.
Through electronically enabled interactive sessions, workers at Genpact’s operation hubs in Delhi, Gurgaon, Hyderabad, Kolkata and Jaipur will learn the finer nuances of management, soft skills [...]

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SP Jain heads Singapore.

For Indian Business Schools with global ambitions, Singapore is fast, hot as a goal. Earlier this year, IIM Bangalore announced its plans for the creation of a campus. And now Mumbai-based SP Jain Institute of Management and Research expects to likewise.
If this SP Jain overall the second incursion within two years. In 2004, the Institute [...]

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IIM-B weighing options to make good the loss.

NOW that the IIMs have more or less ruled out a legal recourse against the HRD Ministry’s directive to impose a fee cut in their PGP (Post-Graduate Programmes) courses, the country’s premier business schools are busy considering various options to make up for this revenue loss.
“One of the options before us is to increase the [...]

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Learn, relearn… or unlearn.

“It is important for people at the middle level to be exposed to broader thinking and to integrate perspective. Mid-career training programmes enable executives to constantly read, reflect and relate.”
It may sound like a platitude, but in today’s business environment what executives need most is the ability to manage change. Faced with the hard realities [...]

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IIM Calcutta, Cima in talks to set up accounting centre.

The Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta (IIMC) is all set to enter a collaboration with the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants (Cima), to jointly establish a National Centre for Management Accounting.
The intention is to shape international best practices in the area of management accounting, which, along with enterprise governance, is a core strength of Cima, [...]

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A Dedication to the Business And Science of Change

THREE months before Prof Nick Binedell, founding director of the University of Pretoria’s (UP’s) Gordon Institute of Business Science (Gibs), opened the doors to SA’s youngest business school in January 2000 he showed Laurie Dippenaar, co-founder of the FirstRand Group, around the Gibs campus in Illovo, Johannesburg.
“It was still under construction. It looked like Kosovo. [...]

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TAPMI new campus.

Manipal March 21 (PTI), the foundation stone of a new Rs 58 crore campus of the TA Pai Management Institute (TAPMI) has been reported in 80 Badagubettu here in the vicinity of Chairman of the Institute, KK Pai .
Briefing on the new campus TAPMI D Nagabrahmam director said that the first phase of the new [...]

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