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

Bangalore, March 16. COGNIZANT Technologies has been the biggest recruiter in the Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore’s (IIM-B) campus recruitment programme this year, notching up 24 of 180 students.

“They made 30 offers, but were accepted by 24 people and this is the first time that an IT company has made so many offers,” said sources in the institute. This year’s batch was snapped up in record time, according to the institute. In just two days, all the offers were made and accepted.

At the IIMs, ’slot one’ companies (chosen by the students) are given the first two days to conduct their placement process. This year, there were 14 companies that made 100 plus offers on day zero. These include Dresdner KW, Capital One, McKinsey Consultants, AT Kearney and British Petroleum. The ’slot two’ companies were P&G, HLL, ICICI, ABN Amro and Cognizant Technologies.

Officials, however, refused to reveal the average salary, as the details “are yet to be computed.”

If his intention was evozieren a sense of patriotism and pride among young graduates of IIM Bangalore, M. Anand Mahindra, vice-chairman and Managing Director, Mahindra and Mahindra Ltd, doubtless succeeded.

Time, the convocation address on the 30 annual Convocation of the Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore, Mr. Anand Mahindra, invited the graduates to create a model of capitalism compassion and investment with integrity. ”

He advised the students strap on an anti-gravity belt, had three buttons: one to turn off their failure mechanisms of protection, the second to activate its secret weapons (brahmastra) and the third to activate self-belief. In his view, India is not USP’s Low-Cost yet the advantage of linguistic knowledge in English, but ensuring the lowest cost through innovation. Following the example of how Mahindra’s Scorpio R & D team, he said, “We are against a fee of $ 120 million, while the USA have not done so to $ 600 million.”

IIM-B Terming as “one of the best business schools in the world,” these studies Harvard Graduate asked the party from 2005 to tackle the gravity and soar high. ”

“You are the first generation of Indians to be completely free. You are diploma, if India wins its second freedom fight,” he said.

On the convocation today, four students were the headlines a Fellow of the IIM-B, 192 students were established by the degree of post-graduate diploma in management, 54 students have graduated from a PG software business management and 28 students were graduates PG-Public Policy.

GThe students prefer to study the Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore (IIM-B), a ranking of the list of Business Schools in India, outdoing IIM, Ahmedabad (IIM-A).

This is because IIM-B-initiatives to improve the quality of education, according to a survey of the Economic Times

After nearly two years of slump, banks and finance companies are back on the stage of recruitment.

For almost 30 per cent of vacancies this year in the first Business Schools, as Indian Institute of Bangalore (IIM-B) were banks and financial institutions, which was also similar in small schools like B-Management Development Institute, Gurgaon. Speaking to-Business Line, Prof Ganesh Prabhu, chairman (placements), IIM-B, said: “Finance and has a come-back this year with 16 Icici Bank made offers and American Express Bank, eight bids.

The other important placement agency in this sector were Standard Chartered Bank and HSBC. Indeed, companies like General Motors have also recruited students to fund. ”

Likewise, companies and FMCG and automobile companies such as Nestle, Hero Honda have also recruited students finances on campus positions MDI Gurgaon.

Prof. Prabhu also mentioned the existence of a marginal increase of job opportunities in the sector Consulting. “While McKinsey has offered jobs to three students, the other major agents investment in this segment was Boston Consulting Group and Tata Strategic Management Group,” he said.

Prabhu Although the professor was not too enthusiastic reaction of FMCG and automotive companies in this year, Mr. Amit Mookerjee, placement Co-ordinator, MDI Gurgaon, said that the Institute was a come-back from these sectors.

“Nearly 40 percent of the parameters of this year have been adopted by the FMCG, durable consumer goods and automotive sector. The main mediators of staff in this sector have been companies such as Nestle, Samsung, Whirlpool, Maruti, Hero Honda and Eicher. ”

Mr. Mookerjee said that most of these companies never came on campus during the year, because they were unwell. He also pointed out that companies like Old Economy DCM Shriram, and the Aditya Birla group made a comeback in the recruitment scene.

“It shows that the Indian economy is back to normal,” he said.

Talking about the nature of professional images of this year, “said Mookerjee regardless of the distribution, marketing and finance companies have also recruited students from many other functions, such as systems and Supply Chain Management.

While the BPO and retailing is not to recruit in a big way this year, companies began to resume recruitment.

While Infosys, 13 bids and 11 offers material on the IIM-B-campus, companies like TCS, HCL-Net and Wipro recruited a large number of students on the campus of MDI.

FIRST principle of philosophy, according to Rene Descartes, was: ‘I think therefore I am.’ So sure of it he was that “all the most extravagant suppositions of the sceptics were unable to shake it”. For Murli Manohar Joshi, however, the line has to be adapted a bit: “I think therefore IIM.”

It used to be said when philanderers ruled the earth, commoners rushed to hide their pretty wives when the royalty passed by the street, you know why. Now, they are doing something similar with institutions that enjoyed autonomy thus far, only these bodies are too big to hide behind walls. Frantic efforts are on, such as industry captains meeting with top powers, suits filed to nullify interference, and articles filling up newspapers and magazines.

Among the myriad reports, there is one that is titled, “Keep off: Kurien,” talking about the views of the father of the white revolution in India, Dr Verghese Kurien. His 1991 report to the Centre on IIMs had suggested independence from the government, establishment of a corpus fund, block contributions from the government and so on.

In the wake of the current controversy, his recent views have predictably been pro-autonomy and anti-meddling.

Kurien is no mincer of words and if you want to know his views on IIM, a good place to look at is a book by S.N.Chary, an IIM-B prof. Titled, “Business Gurus Speak”, and published by Macmillan in 2002, it features interviews with ‘extraordinary personalities’ such as Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw, Azim Premji, N.R.Narayana Murthy, Venu Srinivasan, Deepak Parekh, and Mukesh Ambani, apart from Kurien. “You at IIM are using public funds to provide managers for Hindustan Lever and Nestle,” he says, and Joshi may please note.

Kurien was on the IIM’s Board. “So, I spoke in the Board,” narrates the nation’s milkman. “The raison d’etre of this Institute is to provide managers for the under-managed sector, which means NGOs, co-operatives and the public sector, but not multinationals.” Not a popular thought, you muse. Which is what the Board too felt. “One person sitting next to me with a cigar in his mouth said, ‘You mean to say that the graduates of our Institute are to be taught how to milk cows?’ Everybody giggled at that and he put his cigar back.” Is that the end of the story? No. “So, I said, ‘No. You teach them how to suck cigars. I don’t want to work on this Board.’”

Then, Kurien went on to build IRMA, the Institute of Rural Management Anand, with inputs from his cousin Ravi Mathai, who was the Director in IIM, Ahmedabad. Avoid mistakes that happened in IIM, Mathai instructed: “So cousin, when you build IRMA, please build a bigger house for the director than for the professors so that they will know that there is a boss.” Next, don’t give too much powers to professors; this is not Harvard. For this, Kurien recounts Mathai told him: “I told a professor whom I had appointed, ‘You are free to go ahead and fill all the lower posts in your department.’ That person went to his village, brought all his relations and appointed them. That was a terrible mistake which I made.”

And, there’s one more: “The third point cousin, is that you should cut down on the number of people you employ. We have so many people, and therefore, labour union problems, courts, and so on. I am tired of it all. You are a dictator, so run it as a dictator. If anyone steps out of line, sack him. I can’t do that; I am not made that way.’”

Now, this is Kurienspeak: “I said, ‘Ravi Mathai, neither you nor any of your professors have ever managed anything.” Keep off Kurienspeak on IIMs, shall we say?

Thus far, no further. This player says its software can help companies, even schools, regulate use of the Internet. It’s responsible use of resources. Alas, no freaking out.

PATHWAYS World School in Gurgaon wanted to insulate its students from pornography and ensure that they did not become nerds despite carrying their personal laptops to class.

Tata Interactive Solutions was worried that its employees should not unwittingly compromise the company’s security through file-sharing on Kaaza or use up precious bandwidth to download movies in the night.

The two are among over 250 organisations who found the answer to their concerns in ‘Cyberoam’, an Internet management solution from Ahmedabad-based software developer, Elitecore Technologies Ltd.

“As per our company policy, we do not put any restrictions on Internet usage at user level. But we need to optimally utilise our bandwidth resource. I have heard of cases in other companies where employees set up a download of a hefty file, like a movie, when they finished their day and left their systems on through the night. Cyberoam has helped us prevent such activites,” says Usman Kathi, Systems Administrator at Tata Interactive Systems.

Kathi says Cyberoam allows him to manage bandwidth more effectively. The software not only helps him to aggregate bandwidth from different gateways but also to allocate it among different users.

That feature comes in handy for the company in order to optimally utilise the scarce resource and allocate it real-time among different users.

The Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore, too had this problem of students choking the Internet pipe by setting up a download of a big file before coming to class.

The institute now uses Cyberoam to cut down the bandwidth available to students during class hours and directing the same to the faculty.

In the evenings, the students’ quota of the bandwidth is stepped up, says Venu Gopal, Assistant Systems Officer at IIM-B.

While IIM Bangalore does not restrict its students from visiting any Web sites, Pathways World School in Gurgaon is concerned that its students should not access unwanted sites dishing out pornography or any material unsuitable for children.

Bangalore, Jan. 5 - The Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore, with Infosys Technologies launches its programme of PG-management software company in Chennai.

In announcing the opening of Wednesday, Mr. Abhay K. Ojha, President, Post-Graduate SEM IIMB, said: “Seven years later, it offers Bangalore, we feel the program was quite ripe for another city.” There was a strong demand for courses in Chennai and Hyderabad.

According to Professor Ojha, Hyderabad, Chennai, after the experience stabilized.

PGSEM is two years, a general management program for mid-career professional software. Students for the program are selected by the CAT, the IIMS, even if this year being audited for candidates.

REM, like other management course consists of a core courses and a number of choices of materials. Infosys has proposed the program Mahindra City on its campus in the city, but the program is open to candidates from all companies. More than 45 candidates are selected in Chennai.

According to Professor Ojha, the weekend in Chennai programme is the same as that in Bangalore in the IIMB campus.

The classes in Chennai is synchronous with two-way audio and video, with the help of technology to support an intense interaction between teacher and students in Chennai and Bangalore.

Faculty are also travel to Chennai every few weeks to live classes, and facilitate interactions class. “We are very excited by them, as it offers us the opportunity to explore new paradigms and new technologies,” said Kris Gopalakrishnan, Chief Operating Officer, Infosys Technologies.

The class of 2006 in the Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore, the history of species with 43 students from overseas received 163 offers internships for the summer.

After a release by the Institute, which is strongest in all IIMS in the country. Some companies, the bids are submitted by Goldman Sachs, Lehman Brothers, HSBC, Barclays Capital and Deutsche Bank in different localities throughout the world.

This year, consultants have a return on campus with KPMG, Cap Gemini Ernst & Young, Price Waterhouse Coopers and Accenture parameters participants during the summer. Techno Almost a first board at the Institut d’outre-mer and six bids stage.

Other participating companies are IBM (18 offers) Icici (16 offers), HLL (10), Aware (nine) and Citibank (six).

At the Indian Institute of Management (IIM)-type institute would be soon in Bihar.

If notification of the decision by the State Government for the opening of the Institute chief executive Kah Subramanian said Tuesday the main campus of the Institute would be on 35 hectares of abandoned factory Fatuha scooters, near Patna.

A team of experts Rajan Saxena, ex-IIM (Indore) Director, is currently ICFAI B-school, Gurgaon, and Kamlesh Mishra, Director of the Institute of International Management and Technology, Gurgaon, visited three possible sites — the industrial zone in Patna, Giddha in the industrial zone near Koelwar and housing in Digha board. All these sites were rejected for various reasons.

The team eventually chose the Fatuha site for the institute. It was requested, a detailed project report on May 15. “This institute is at par with one of IIMS with regard to university courses, the quality of teaching and accommodation possibilities. We in India, all competitions for admission to the institute” , Said Subramanian, adding the institute would be functional within one year.

The team also evaluated the infrastructure and upgradation LN Mishra of the Institute of economic development and social change. Some management capabilities would be open to the institute are at the Institute starts working properly Fatuha