Byline: Reported by Arnab Mitra, Kushan Mitra, Priyanka Sangani, E. Kumar Sharma, Supriya Shrinate and Nitya Varadarajan

Sanjiv Lamba boasts the kind of resume any MBA would die for; only, he isn’t an MBA. At 39, Lamba is the managing director of BOC India. He started off as a junior exec, “doing all the things no one else wanted to, including photocopying documents and fetching coffee for the bosses”, as he once mentioned to this magazine; three-and-a-half years later, he earned a two-year stint with the parent, impressed people there sufficiently to have his stay extended by a further two years, and returned to India in 1997, when he was just 32, as General Manager (Finance). In late 2001, after he had turned around the fortunes of the company, he was named CEO (he was then 36, and the average age of employees was 43). “I emphatically disagree with the view that an MBA is sine qua non for running a company or indeed, for rising up the corporate ladder,” he says. “What matters most is the ability to envision and execute; here, experiential learning provides the single most important input in a successful manager’s repertoire.” The man is right, of course, but circa 2004, even he would find it difficult to replicate his success-without an MBA, that is.

It isn’t that business has changed enough in Lamba’s years at BOC-he is a lifer, and has spent 15 years at the company-to make an MBA qualification indispensable, even at the entry level. It is just that the market has changed dramatically since the time Lamba signed on with BOC. Today, no one stops with a mere graduate degree. Those with a bachelors degree in arts, science, or commerce, proceed to a masters degree, either in their own discipline, or in management; and those with a bachelors degree in engineering, opt for a Master of Science degree in the US or an MBA from an Indian or US B-school. At one level, this phenomenon has resulted in the mushrooming of business schools. At another, it means it isn’t really worth its while for a company to recruit from undergraduate campuses; there may be some undergraduates good enough to merit admission to B-schools who choose to work instead, but their numbers are insignificant. In effect, to get ahead and land a job with a blue-chip company, an individual needs to possess an MBA.

Just ask Ravinder Zutshi, Director, Samsung India. The man is a science graduate (from the University of Delhi) and while he has himself not suffered from having not gone to a B-school, he believes the times make it imperative to do so. “The current dynamics of business do not allow growth without being an MBA, and there is no time for any internal (training) initiative on the company’s part.” That is an opinion seconded by B.V.R. Subbu, President, Hyundai Motor India, and another non-MBA (he holds a masters degree in economics from Delhi’s Jawaharlal Nehru University). So, what is it that makes a stint in a B-school crucial? “In addition to developing general management, analytical, and strategic thinking skills, business schools also help in developing attitudinal skills,” says Rajiv Kaul, Managing Director, Microsoft India, and an alumnus of XLRI, Jamshedpur. “B-schools not only teach you resilience, but also help you learn to cope with tremendous pressure.”

In recent years, India has undergone enormous economic progress, but progress in traps in the form of air, water, noise and soil pollution. On the positive side, large-scale degeneration of the environment has many opportunities in another branch of the art - the environment. Today, the environment, engineers have an important role to play in providing security guards for the environment.
According to the assistant professor, environment, Indian Institute of Technology in New Delhi, AK Mittal,”graduates and postgraduates in the fields of environmental engineering have a variety of options in the form of openings in the Industry, stations Sewage in environmental management planning and public sector enterprises.”They are regarded as analysts within the framework Pollution Control Board and the State Pollution Control Boards, at he added.
Yes, what kind of context, is doing research on specialized high schools, while admitting students in this branch of art? Mittal bemerkte”Environmental IITS engineering branch in New Delhi, Kanpur, Kharagpur, Chennai and Delhi offer programmes of M-Tech-level, but only for those at the B-Tech in civil engineering. In addition, M-student technology programmes have been approved by Graduate Admission Test in Engineering (GATE).”
The IIT-Mumbai M-Tech offers the program in environmental Engineering Through a division known as Centre for Environmental Science and Engineering.”Most institutions of higher technical education in the country offer Undergraduate programs in terms of technical environment.
Regarding compensation, Mittal pointed out,”In the normal case, the environment, engineers start with a salary between 10000 and R 12000 R in the public sector organizations, but it could be higher the side, if a member of the private sector. In addition, consultancy firms in other countries to recruit engineers on the environment for various environmental projects.”
Not only that, there are opportunities for students Master of Science and even Ph E-programmes in the fields of environmental engineering of the USA of U.S. and European universities, “said Mittal.

WHEN it comes, the supply of diplomas, the halls of science are not immune to fashion. Some colleges and universities bank blue blazer classics such as history and philosophy. But also, as they try to read what from time to time.

What zischend just now, taking into account the achievements of the amount of dot-com, e-commerce Credential. In a source of many teachers and administrators say, it is faster to maintain the trend in the slow evolution of the world of higher education, universities and universities of Germany rush for the study of ‘Business Via Internet degrees, large companies, minors, concentrations, specialities, certificates, scholarships and research centers.

During die”University of Alabama does not have an e-commerce program, we are working at full speed on the establishment of un”écrit Bill Gerdes, a spokesman for the university, in an e-mail In response to a question on the topic of Commerce e degrees on the campus of Tuscaloosa.

There are so many variations of e-commerce education, given that the institutions. Dozens of programs or also now available, some are focused on Internet technology, training in the field of Web site design, Electronic Data Interchange authentication and Technology in collaboration with the marketing and consumer services. Others focus on entrepreneurship and the basics of running a business on the Internet, including managing tabs, and on the finances of the inventory.

Some curricula and intense participation Undergraduate degrees in disciplines such as computer science or finance. Others unless, of course, the demands and would appeal to students who are not necessarily easy with computers.

Carnegie Mellon University’s Graduate Business School, Pittsburgh only a programme of Master of Science in e-commerce, teaching economics and computer science. The programme throughout the year, in May last year, has started, it cost $ 38,000, and the university said it is appropriate that graduates of the construction and operation of a business online, mounting system ground

The main programme in the field of science Marlboro College in Marlboro, Vt., which began in the year 1997, offers online instruction in basic research, web design, marketing and strategic planning for the Web. The 11 months of the program are needed to attract students on campus every second weekend and costs $ 15000. ”We focus on less deep, and most of the technical infrastructure necessary for the student to orchestrate strategies for the Internet,’’said Paul J. LeBlanc, the president of the university.

At the University of Florida in Gainesville, a certificate in electronic commerce as part of a two-year MBA program, after the completion of seven e-commerce, the rates of subjects, such as information on As the prices of products and services and one-to - One Marketing About the Internet.

Every student at LaSalle University in Philadelphia, can be regarded as electronic commerce Stipendiaten””durch the visit of two E-Commerce-Cours, courses in other disciplines, with an e-commerce component, or part From September - A series of lectures. All grantees must write a word-2500 research paper and work in practice - for a company or organization of service, for example - for 40 hours. The scholarship is for graduates term “portfolio fellows of the transcript and walk away from e-commerce.

Student interest in the new e-commerce programme level and of the management of higher education on the strengths of saying. Carnegie Mellon said it has received 180 applications, of which he chose his first 37 candidates. Paul R. Brazina, the executive director of LaSalle’s New Electronic Commerce Institute, said that 470 students have shown interest in the implementation of the award of the program, earlier this month.

At Vanderbilt University, Nashville, 110 students, a quarter of the candidates have chosen to MBA e-commerce as the concentration or specialty.

Companies are even more enthusiastic e-commerce as an academic and Uni-admins. Most companies believe that people with an intimate knowledge of modern information technology, technology and e-commerce strategies for competitive advantage. Some companies are e-commerce promoter of research centres, sometimes as a means of transforming his company, problems in the case studies, that students can try to resolve them.

”The width of the company’s request for the e-commerce experience, the CS First Boston General Electric, the start-up, like Priceline.com, is surprising,’’said Robert F. Bonner, Director of the Office of Career Management Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. ”A few years ago, companies would say, e-commerce on a Student’s experience was even “nice to have”. Now, they say, “must be.”

Mr. And Mrs. Michael E. Autera of Ridgewood, NJ, and Southampton, LI, have announced the engagement of her daughter Katherine T. Autera, Leonard J. Jardine, the son of Mr. Jardine and Mrs. Leonard C. Providence, RI

An April wedding is planned.

Miss Autera, a graduate of Colgate University and received a master’s degree in management from New York University Graduate School of Business Administration, is an auditor of Main Hurdman in New York.

His father, as Senior Vice President of Finance of the Bristol-Myers Company.

Mr. Jardine conclusion, the Dartmouth College and received a Master of Science from New York University Graduate School of Business Administration. He worked as a consultant for the firm in New York accounting Peat, Marwick, Mitchell & Co. His father is chairman of the Jardine Associates, representing Providence.