IIM-A students set up PE, VC interest club

Five post-graduate programme (PGP) students of the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad (IIM-A) have set up a Private Equity (PE) and Venture Capital (VC) club to help students get hands-on experience by involving PE/VC players from India and abroad. Unlike finance clubs run by most B-schools in the country, this club exclusively focuses on PE [...]

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Coming Soon to a GMAT Near You: More Security

Would-be MBA students getting ready to take the GMAT might be in for a little surprise when they show up at the testing center. In addition to all the usual security measures—including video monitoring and the computer adaptive test itself—test takers will soon be asked to submit to a new one: a biometric device that [...]

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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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IIM-A ropes in MIT hand to promote innovation

An innovation expert from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) will be visiting the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad (IIM-A), in November to promote the importance of user-based innovations in creating successful companies.
“India and Indians residing worldwide have a wonderful record as innovators and entrepreneurs. I believe users tend to be the real developers of [...]

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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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Working professionals keen on upgrading skills

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 [...]

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Growing demand for tourist guides

The Indian Institute of Travel and Tourism Management (IITM) provides a short duration of course, after which the candidates can be empanelled as a guide. Guide license has been granted both at the state and central level by the Department of Tourism. They hold examination according to their needs and advertise in leading newspapers. The [...]

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Tax Rebate, AICTE direct B-schools

The All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) action plans, students and their parents and complaints issue showcause notices management of schools and universities that are not tuition reimbursement and keep the certificates original university students wishing to change their school before the academic course begins.
The technical training corps plans direct regulation on institutions refund [...]

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Infosys’ MURTHY receives most admired Business Leader.

Chairman and Chief Mentor of Infosys Technologies Limited (BSE: INFY) NR Narayana Murthy was presented on Saturday, the “brand-comm’s most admired Business Leader Award.
brand-comm, leading brand consultancy, advertising and relations company, said that after its third annual b-school study, Murthy has been admired for the most visionary and its value for the third consecutive year, [...]

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How we are a high-taxed nation.

Looking merely at direct taxes, it is often suggested that India is an under-taxed nation. This, says R. Vaidyanathan, does not take into account the speed money paid for government service. This rent-seeking makes the nation high-taxed.
THERE is a view among some experts that India is an under-taxed economy. Many a time Finance Ministers believe [...]

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