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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Giving in to pressure from academia and corporate guide, the Indian government has granted permission on the Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore to open a new campus in Singapore. The research activities and management Education Center’s only IIMB campus of Southeast Asia.

If IIMB sought permission to open the facility in Singapore in November last year, officials of Human Resources Development Ministry said IIM law does not allow open offices overseas. Officer employee beyond the need to meet the needs at home. The conflict ended on Feb. 1, according to HRD and Minister Arjun Singh IIM directors met to consider changes, the solution of the impasse.

This is the third Business School - and the only Business School in India - by the Wall Street Journal’s Top 100 Business schools have a campus in Singapore. The other two schools are INSEAD in France and the University of Chicago’s Graduate School of Business.

The Singapore campus offers an MBA part-time for the mentoring program at the level of forces, Executive MBA programs for executives at the level of short-term Executive Education programs for executives and tailor programmes for Executive Education companies.

The Indian Institute of Management are the best business schools in India. Graduates of schools have a successful career in Asia, Europe and the USA.

IIM has six centers, which is based in Ahmedabad, Calcutta, Bangalore, Lucknow, Indore and Kozhikode. Schools lead the postgraduate diploma in management programmes (which corresponds to an MBA), scholarship programs in the fields of management and organization based on programmes IIM also research and extension of the Institute for different industrial sectors.

The first 39 graduates of the executive MBA program offered by the University of Regina’s Kenneth Levene Graduate School of Business received their degrees at a convocation ceremony on Tuesday.

The convocation marked the culmination of an intensive, 16-month program designed for professional managers. The program is open to people with undergraduate degrees and at least five years of managerial experience, or people without undergraduate degrees with at least seven years of experience.

According to Anne Lavack, dean of the university’s faculty of business administration, the regular MBA program offered by the university — which requires two years of work experience — typically caters to younger students than the new executive program.

“We saw a need in the market place for a degree that would help senior managers and middle managers advance in their careers,” she said.

There are about 15 such programs offered by other universities in Canada, but this is the only one in the province, Lavack said.

“This was our opportunity to be able to offer something to business people in Saskatchewan that would help them in their careers,” she said.

Even though this year’s graduates made up the first class to go through the program, Lavack said things went fairly smoothly.

“Several of our faculty members have experience in executive MBA programs elsewhere so we knew what to expect. But there’s no question that we learned a great deal from our students,” she said.

Graduate Terry MacDonald, a vice-president with the insurance services division of CAA Saskatchewan, said the executive MBA program at the U of R finally made it feasible for her to pursue a degree she had wanted for some time.

“I think that there were lots of people like me who were looking to do this and jumped at the opportunity,” she said, referring to the size of the program’s first graduating class.

MacDonald said she valued the opportunity to network with other students, something that would not have been possible with correspondence courses.

Insp. Len Delpino — who heads the provincial Commercial Crimes section of RCMP — said he entered the program to hone his managerial skills and to serve as a role model for his three children. Like MacDonald, he said he benefited from the face-to-face meetings with classmates.

“That, for me, was a positive experience, being able to interact with other managers from all walks of life,” he said.

Meanwhile, Mike Blaisdell — the former Regina Pats player and NHL player, who also served as a Pats assistant coach — said the program offered an opportunity for him to complete his university education.

“I went to the University of Wisconsin on a hockey scholarship, but I didn’t complete my degree there because I wanted to play pro hockey,” he said.

Blaisdell said the broad-based program will serve him well in any professional endeavour, whether it be in hockey management, acting as a player agent or in business.

“It’s changed the way I think about a lot of things,” he said.

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The Indian Institute of Management (IIM), Bangalore is perhaps soon even more management programs to its list already exists. In addition, in the offing is an international program called Advanced Leadership Programme (ALP), which is managed jointly by INSEAD in Singapore IIMB campus, Lancaster, UK, and McGill Canada.

Taking floor on new initiatives, Prakash G Apte, director, IIM-B, said: “We expect more than a few Executive MBA programs for 2008 are provided in part by the mode of distance education and in part by monitoring Regular campus. ”

About ALP-international program, he said that the program is based on the fact that the leaders must stop and their growth and how to use their experience to qualification. “With three international schools B, which his extradition, it is also an international programme,” said Apte.

The director also informed that the B-school is working on a Post-Graduate programme in software, starting from the year 2008, and the strengthening of its students and teachers to exchange and research.

Regarding soil fungi of the Executive MBA programs in all schools B, Apte said that there is a growing demand for skills graduation in all areas, demand is increasing gradually Executive MBA.

On the quality of these programs, Apte said: “While living in such a growth, that not all actors, for the quality of care, but focuses on a profit basis. This is inevitable, unless the Government is taking several measures to strengthen the university B-schools with good benefits for the Faculty and infrastructure development. ”

The two private schools management currently in India after Apte, MDI Gurgaon Hyderabad and Boston. “The schools are good and standards for others to emulate.

Throughout the country’s education system, Apte believes that the amount of targeted subsidies are needed to develop the country’s education system. “If we access to quality education and financial incentives for education on the right of the village and earn and retain teachers to supplement the education system is a failure,” he says .

He added: “Instead of populist subsidies, we should incentives such as targeted subsidies for teachers in village schools and its students.”