Setting sail with the MBA

Once again students from the School of Business & Economics MBA programme will be taking up the challenge of competing in the 2008 Cranfield Regatta, an international sailing event which is designed to allow MBA students and alumni from all over Europe to meet their counterparts from other business schools. The regatta will take place [...]

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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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B-Schools Tackle Risk Management

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 [...]

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Education fair for MBA aspirants in Delhi

The QS World MBA Tour, the world’s leading series of career and education events, will organize a one-day fair for aspiring MBAs in the capital tomorrow.
The MBA fair will be held at the Hyatt Regency (Ring Road) in New Delhi tomorrow between 2 pm and 6 pm.
More than 30 B-Schools from across the globe including [...]

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The movement of natural persons: a case of claim from the WTO.

Developing countries can jubelnd, impedes investment and competition from registration issues on the agenda of the WTO in Cancun. But it is perhaps too early to celebrate.
In an article in schools, the former Secretary General of Finance of India and WTO negotiators in the Uruguay Round, Mr. SP Shukla, reminds us, as in December 1988, [...]

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ONGC plans to hike included in equity Videsh.

Oil and Gas Corporation (ONGC) has submitted a government proposal to increase paid up capital by ONGC Videsh of Rs 300 crore according to RS 500 crore.
ONGC Videsh is a subsidiary of ONGC, is investing in oil ventures abroad.
“The registered capital of ONGC Videsh is relatively low compared to debt on its balance sheet. The [...]

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ICFAI team wins quiz

HYDERABAD: ICFAI Business School representatives M.V.R. Raja Satish and Rallapalli Raghuram won first prize at the NTPC ‘Electron Quiz’ Southern Regional Final competition held in the city on Monday.
Over 42 teams from various engineering and management colleges across the twin cities took part in the quiz competition and top three teams from the competition would [...]

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BIM walks away with top honours in biz quiz

Who are the Snow White and Seven Dwarfs of the corporate world? Ever heard of co-opetition? And how does one term mutual funds that will not cover liquor companies?
Not just the competitors, even the audience had a fun time, guessing answers to these questions at the finals of the business quiz, conducted by the IIM-Ahmedabad [...]

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All, for the start of the second part PGDIM

THE SECOND batch complete the Graduate Diploma in Post-Infrastructure Management (PGDIM), proposed by the Visvesvaraya Technological University (VTU), is scheduled for the beginning of the School of Management for buildings, facilities and development strategies (MINDS) India, here.
The PGDIM one year full-time for graduates in all disciplines of engineering sciences, including agriculture and the technical architecture [...]

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Students Graduate in Ceremonies for 122d Commencement at St. John’s

St. John’s University conferred 2,146 undergraduate degrees at three graduation ceremonies held over the weekend.
The Rev. Donald J. Harrington, president of the university, gave the keynote address at all ceremonies for the 122d commencement exercises.
Addressing the students at the campus in Jamaica, Queens, yesterday, Father Harrington told the students that “the quality of life in [...]

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