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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AS A PhD student at Oxford University, Cleo Choong spent most of her waking hours at the lab, researching ways to help heal damaged bones with biodegradable material.

When she returned to Singapore, the bioengineering graduate wanted to market her work, but didn’t know where to start.

‘I was lacking skills in areas like finance and management,’ said Dr Choong, 29.

So, she enrolled in the executive MBA programme at at the Nanyang Technological University (NTU) in July 2007.

Dr Choong represents a new breed of student that the university’s Nanyang Business School is trying to attract.

Spring Singapore chairman Philip Yeo, who helms the school’s advisory board, said that many fresh graduates in science and engineering had a strong technical grounding.

However, they lacked equally important skills in other areas, such as training, managing and retaining staff, for example.

‘We want future technical people to become CEOs of start-ups,’ he said, calling MBA training a necessity, not a luxury.

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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 has a campus in Dubai and was the first to offer a full residential full-time MBA program in the Middle East. Beflügelt by its success, it now has its sights on Singapore.

It is interesting to note that both SP Jain and IIM-B-plane orientation of the Indian diaspora in Singapore. Nearly 7.9 percent of 4 million people of Singapore are of Indian origin, this is the third ethnic group by the Chinese (76.8 percent) and Malays (13.9 percent).

IIM-B is planning to target the leaders to work in Singapore is short-term programmes Executive Education and Executive MBA, while SP Jain can be full-time program or an Executive MBA. “What are we going programmes make a bit of localization,” says ML Shrikant, dean of volunteers, SP Jain. “There will be a strong component of India programmes, such as the Modern World increasingly interested in India in the region, “she added.

Both IIM-B and SP Jain plan to fly down right in India. This could lead to a serious crisis of the resource, especially for SP Jain, given that the same option is also Deputy Director of Dubai. “This is probably a lot more pressure on resources, therefore we are in the process of the Faculty employs more,” said Shrikant

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.

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.

Indian Business Schools are centres of the opening in Dubai. Business School, administrators and professors have been visiting Dubai to conduct feasibility studies and preparation of teaching materials.

XLRI and SP Jain Institute of Management and Research in Dubai. Xavier Institute of Management, Bhubaneswar, Management Development Institute, Gurgaon and Indian Institute of Foreign Trade plan the establishment of Dubai, Africa and Southeast Asia. As a government of Dubai rules do not allow international institutions to fully utilize in possession of centres of Dubai, in collaboration with Al-Abbas XLRI the definition of their environment.

Al-Abbas, manages the logistics and infrastructure, while XLRI their curriculum and teachers from Dubai.

SP Jain Centre for Management has established its knowledge centre in the Village, by the Government of Dubai.

It is the only institute, a lounge full-time MBA program in the United Arab Emirates. The charge in the centre of Dubai is 3-4 times higher than the fees of India. The cost of Executive MBA course is 45000 Dirhamss, while the price of full-time MBA 55000 Dirhamss costs.

Indian Institute of Foreign Trade has also reserved a distance of 6500 square feet in the village for his knowledge venture.

The Minister of Information and Broadcasting, GTS. Sushma Swaraj said that the benefits of the latest management techniques and education must focus not only on the company alone, but must in all fields, if the government, non-governmental or corporate bonds. The aim must be to promote the company management and leadership abilities, responsibility, ethics, human and contribute to society as a whole. She said, a knowledge society, we will LEAPFROG in seeking new and innovative opportunities to meet the challenges of establishing a just and balanced social order.

GTS. Swaraj was the provision of the convocation address in the Management Development Institute, Gurgaon today. The emphasis on the role of leaders as a group leader and strategists, GTS. Swaraj said they have a difficult task analysis of the existing competition and potential pressure from the realities, monitoring changes in general economic conditions and new tools and technologies, new products and services in conformity with the requirements and expectations of consumers and, most importantly, not to lose Touch human aspects of management and administration.

GTS. Swaraj said efforts and our goal should be to put more and more services with the right combination of the quest for knowledge and the need for the realization of a solid collaboration with the human spirit and the ability to keep in touch with the ground to another. We must understand that knowing how to use it effectively, so that our aspirations, GTS. Swaraj said.

Postgraduate Diploma in Management were sent to 125 students and 15 participants of the national programme management (Executive MBA) leaders of public, private and heads of government sectors except gold medals and other awards.

Setting up the Industrial Finance Corporation of India (IIFCI), MDI is one of the leading institutes of India.

Mumbai: After the international success of establishment of two higher education institutions, Mumbai’s SP Jain Institute of Management and Research (SPJIMR), its tourist sites in the west.

“We seek the possibility of doing something the USA or Europe,” said ML Shrikant, dean of volunteers, SPJIMR. ”The situation in the west is very different from Singapore and Dubai. We’re looking on options and we tried to see what we can do.”

In 2004, SPJIMR its campus in Dubai Knowledge Village and was the first Indian Business School have a site in another country.

Later in the year 2006, he made a second campus in Singapore to fly back IIM-Bangalore, India, for the first B-school to have a presence in the city-state. SPJIMR offers its two countries Global MBA program in these two institutions of higher education.

But clearly, Shrikant think this is not enough. In Inde”10-15 years, higher education becomes a force. And Going Global contributes to improving the quality of education in the country,”he said.

The idea is that either as an independent or resources with a local university, and then offer their programmes, as the base. ”We could green light to a quasi-partnership or invest’’said Kant, Shri.

The school is already in discussions with institutions in Europe and the USA for possible partnerships. In the USA, it is Washington University in St. Louis and Virginia Tech, with which it already provides a master’s degree in computer studies alternation.

In Europe, it is a conversation with Kingston University (UK), University of Ulster (Ireland) and University of Reutlingen (Germany).

It is still to determine what programs it is likely that the supply of the third campus, Sunil Rai, joint director, SPJIMR believes that programs such as Family Managed Business (FMB) and the Executive MBA are two possibilities. A program such que”la FMB is unique to the public,’’said Rai.

Maveric Systems, a software company testing with emphasis in the areas of banking, financial services and insurance (BFSI) vertical, has announced its academic partnership with Loyola Institute of Business Administration (Liba) for two years in an Executive MBA the field of banking and software testing.

This course was designed for graduates in engineering knowledge and cutting-practical experience in software testing.

To ensure high quality input, the company decided to scholarships for students. The course starts July 10 and after the culmination of students is absorbed in Maveric system.

The programme was formulated, taking into account the specific challenges of software tests. The two-year programme is divided into a classroom-centric first year and second year focus on project implementation stage of intensive Maveric system. Läge emphasis on banking and financial services operations knowledge, test, test automation and project management.

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Ranga Reddy, CEO, Maveric Systems, said: “The software testing space is the threshold at the big growth spurt. However, the segment is facing a huge deficit of skilled manpower. We Liba’s Management Development Centre for the last two years and face a Best-in-Class-curriculum. Maveric system aims to take 60 students. The application form can be downloaded from the company’s website (www.maveric . co.in) of 17 May. The deadline for submission of application forms is June 10. Students who apply would be shielded by a written examination in Chennai, Bangalore and Hyderabad. The test would be followed by a group of discussions and an interview on June 24.

Direction: What is the next step towards a global thinking company, which already enjoys the label that his name of a Business School? (Empty, the William E. Simon Graduate School of Business Administration at the University of Rochester.) An export licence programme, of course.

What is the next step towards a global thinking company, which already enjoys the label that his name of a Business School? (Empty, the William E. Simon Graduate School of Business Administration at the University of Rochester.) An export licence programme, of course.

In January, the Australian Simon University - the first private Graduate School of Business Administration at the Antipodes - opens its doors in downtown Sydney. His first offer: 19 months of an Executive MBA programme for middle management courses observed after a series of school-Simon Erasmus University Rotterdam.

Simon, a former Treasury Secretary, a Venture Capital its activities in the Pacific. The Australian proposal for school, and his visit to drum Sydney, only of course.

In the meantime, Robert Maxwell, the International Management School, funded by the British Mogulanlagen is due to open this fall in Sofia, Bulgaria.