University at Albany-SUNY students in the evening and weekend MBA programs are in Budapest this week as they visit seven companies there and immerse themselves in Hungarian business, history and culture.

The School of Business entourage includes two dozen students, retired Dean Paul Leonard, and several faculty and staff. New School of Business Dean Donald Siegel popped in for a visit last weekend.

In the evenings, the future MBAs take an international business class with Professor Yasha Crnkovic.

ZEE Network has announced an in-house reorganisation possibly in the wake of Zee TV President, Ms Apurva Purohit’s plan to quit.

The company says the move is aimed at job enrichment and offering higher responsibilities.

Mr Sunil Khanna, CEO, Zee Turner, would take over from Ms Purohit. Mr Khanna has been with the Zee Network for 10 years, occupying various positions, and has a track record in distribution and marketing. Mr Khanna, an engineering graduate from IIT Kharagpur and management graduate from the Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore, is a marketing professional having worked in various marketing positions before joining Zee.

Mr Ashwini Yardi, Business Head, Zee MGM and Zee English, will assist Mr Khanna as head of programming for Zee TV.

Mr Khanna is expected to take over formally at Zee TV in Mumbai after Ms Purohit’s service period ends on 31 January.

Mr Dheeraj Kapuria, at present heading operations of Zee in the US, will take over as CEO of Zee Turner from Mr Khanna. Mr Kapuria’s deputy in the US, Mr S. Venkatasubramanian, will take over from him.

Mr Sunil Rohra, head of the UK operations and Mr Pushpinder Singh, head of the Africa operations, will report to Mr Kapuria, a press release said.

“This re-organisation is a result of our learning from an in depth internal communications exercise in which I met most of the managers within the network to assess the width of in-house talent. It was truly satisfying to reaffirm that we have an extremely talented pool of people in-house. I believe by enriching their portfolios, they will lead Zee Network into the New Year with greater vigour and effect,” the release said quoting Mr Subhash Chandra, Chairman, Zee Network.

Some of the executives have been given additional responsibilities. Mr Abhijit Saxena, currently handling international business (Asia-Pacific) and syndication of programming, will handle Zee English, Zee MGM, Trendz, Smile TV and FX Channel as business head. Mr Yogesh Radhakrishnan, in addition to his current portfolio of Zee Cinema and Zee Music, will also handle Premier Cinema, Action Cinema and Classic Cinema.

After dumping taxes in the six IIMS, the HRD ministry has its eyes on other B-schools in the country.

The ministry is governed by the All India Council of Technical Education (AICTE) to follow the recommendations of the UR Rao Committee and the state fee committees, once their reports, Slash and costs of all schools B.

Among the prominent institutes, which is perhaps in the line of fire of the line Indian Institute of Foreign Trade (New Delhi), Jamnalal Bajaj Institute (Mumbai), Symbosis (Pune) and XLRI (Jamshedpur). There are over 600 institutions managing the AICTE, all may have to reduce their costs, less than Rs 40,000 per year, ministry officials sources said. Currently, fees range from 60000 to R RS 1.5 lakh.

The UR Rao Committee has already, with its recommendations, which were used by the ministry to justify its decision to reduce taxes on IIMS 80 per cent. A Ministry said government sources charges committees its recommendations to the AICTE within two months.

The development of India Mr. NK need to take up the challenge to ensure that growth is just a meeting of stakeholders on the growth of multi-national Indian said. Participation in the two-day national conference organized by the Institute of Chartered Financial Analysts of India (ICFAI) Business School, leader noted that during the Indian MNC can not find growth in itself a problem, Charts real challenge was just to success.

Among the measures proposed by experts, the promotion of competitive international industry has been enhanced regime, measures to strengthen the currency of India and respect international recognized quality standards.

K. Pandia Rajan, director, Ma faith Management Consultants, opened the conference on “multi-national Indian - Blazing New Trails”. A.V. Sivarama Prasad, Vice President (HR), KCP Biotech, R. Ramasubramanian, President, Sundaram brake linings and K. Srinivasan, Director General, Carborundum Universal also spoke.

About 50 delegates visit the meetings organized under the growing phenomenon in India of multinationals and their impact on the management of culture and education.

The last day of the conference will discuss topics such as Business Process Re-engineering of globalization, cross-cultural and professional challenges and solutions, as B are schools to cope with future challenges.

Bangalore: ICFAI Business School (IBS) began in 2008 authorization of two years MBA program, said the director of Bangalore IBS TR Venkatesh.

Sharing the calendar of events, on Friday said IBS Venkatesh, Bangalore, recognize, some 500 students, including participation in national competitions. IBSAT, the entrance test will take place in 200 centres, December 16.

According to the timetable, the deadline for filing the application is 20 November. Interview and approval of the decision, in the admission examinations will take place between February 4 and 18 years.
New Campus

IBS said Venkatesh building was a State-of-the-art campus in Mysore Road, priced at Rs 70 crore. He said IBS has already acquired the land and worked other formalities. The new campus is a youth hostel for students and districts of the Faculty. It would be ready by June 2009, he said.

Darice Paula Grippo, a vice president in the investment-research division of the Putnam Management Company in Boston, was married yesterday to Robert Leonard Wareham, a senior trust officer with the Old Colony Trust division of the First National Bank of Boston. The Rev. David Drew Rose, a United Church minister, performed the nondenominational ceremony at the Houghton Memorial Chapel at Wellesley College.

The bride, who will retain her name professionally, is a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Milo Paul Grippo of Orange, Conn. She was graduated from Wellesley College, where she was a Wellesley College Scholar, and the Harvard University Graduate School of Business Administration. Her father, who formerly owned the New London (Conn.) Seaplane Service, is a consultant to the Avco Lycoming Corporation in Stratford, Conn., from which he retired as superintendnent of research and development quality assurance. Her mother was formerly a pilot with Piper Aircraft in Lock Haven, Pa.

Mr. Wareham is a son of Harry Percival Wareham of Chapoquoit Island, West Falmouth, Mass., and the late Mrs. Wareham. He was graduated from the Brooks School in North Andover, Mass., Boston University and the National Graduate Trust School of Northwestern University. His previous marriage ended in divorce. His father is retired and was a manufacturer’s representative in F.N. Burt Company, a packaging concern in Rochester.

The former ambassador to India and Australia, the Philippines and professor of management, CP Ravindranath, provide the address to the national conference on the theme “New growth cycle in the context of globalization: lessons for India Inc Shimoga to Friday.

SHIMOGA: Former ambassador to India and Australia, the Philippines and professor emeritus at the Xavier Institute of Management and Entrepreneurship, Bangalore, CP Ravindranath said Friday that prospects for India in the growth cycle arising of globalization are considerable.

“But to implement requires a mixture of politics, institution building and good governance from the government, strategic thinking and a high degree of competitiveness on the part of the economy and sustainable industry and the improving quality in that part of our education system, “he said.

It was the availability of Keynote of the national conference on “New growth cycle in the context of globalization: lessons for India Inc organized by the Department of Management studies on the Jawaharlal Nehru National College of Engineering (JNNCE).

He said: “For the economy as a whole around to make sure the most of the growth cycle for the words of economist Dani Rodik, is the combination of opportunities offered by global markets, with a national investment and institution-building strategy and the Promotion of minds pets contractor. ”

Mr. Ravindranath said that in a historical perspective, globalization can be seen as the last phase in the evolution of the world by the industrial revolution.

The story was written by globalization, are now in two colors: a color by technological developments in transportation and communication and the other by State measures, nature and how governments are intervened to reduce barriers to the flow of trade and investment worldwide.

He asked: “Now, with all this in perspective, what are the tasks for India Inc see how we opportunities and the challenges of globalization?” He said: “Given that India Inc` “Includes the government, our political class and industry, including workers, answers to this question, represent a wide range of opinions. But it should be possible to consider some projects, like we should approach the globalization and respond as well on what it promises and what he claims. ”

Mr. Ravindranath said the GDP of India, which had stagnated at 3.5 per cent in the first three decades of planning and rose to 5.5 per cent in the years 1980, had an average of 6 percent from 1992 — 93 which could be allocated for economic reforms. “But the logic of globalization dictates other reform measures in various areas ranging factor markets for restructuring the public sector and financial sector and fiscal reform,” he said.

He said that radical economic reforms without increasing the annual growth rate of 9 per cent to 10 per cent for the eradication of poverty and to achieve developed country status by the year 2020 has not been possible.

“So it is a major challenge for India Inc” to a “globalization” of the world, our willingness and capacity to implement the rest of basic economic reforms, “he added.

The assertion that the removal of economic performance would depend on our ability, except for more economic reforms, improvement of infrastructure essential to attracting more foreign direct investment and a better governance, he said that an overview of the prospects in India and in knowledge sectors of manufacturing industry in a “globalization of the economy, namely that the country is the potential force scalability capabilities. ”

The Vice-Chancellor of the University of Kuvempu, K. Chidananda Gowda, opened the conference, India has spoken in detail the strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and risks in the global economy. He said that India was amended by the third phase of globalization and said that during

India has also in the first phase of globalization, the first century AD, the establishment of its economic contacts with Rome with Kerala, a large shopping mall, but not much else to do in the second phase of globalization, between 1870 and 1914, when the British regime.

However, India must consider if the necessary political will, seize the opportunities thrown by the globalization of the world overcome its threats and vulnerabilities to achieve economic growth to strengthen, he said.

The head of the Department of Management Studies, N. Diwakar Rao, in his opening remarks, said that one of the objectives of the conference was to assess and understand the experiences of enterprises and their leaders in the new growth cycle in the context of globalization.

The president of the National Society of Education, DR Rathnakar the presidency of the Conference. The secretary of the municipality of the national education, SV Thimmaiah, published in the conference. Previously, the president of JNNCE, A.V. Subramanyam, welcomed the collection.