B-school trends come and go, but one that seems to have legs is the creation of specialized MBA programs, particularly by second-tier schools. The schools find them useful for attracting students and cementing their brand identities at a time when competition among schools for the best students is intense. In recent years, they’ve becoming increasingly common (BusinessWeek.com, 7/19/07) even at high-profile schools. Haas School of Business at the University of California at Berkeley, Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Sloan School of Management, and the Wharton School now offer specialized MBAs, majors, or dual degree programs in areas like real estate, sports management, biosciences, electronic commerce, and health care.

But is a specialized program always a good choice for an MBA student?

Not necessarily. While established programs have placement records on par with those of their general MBAs, many newer programs have not yet established the kind of recruiting relationships that guarantee students high-paying jobs at graduation. And graduates always run the risk of getting hamstrung by their specialties later in their careers, when an industry downturn forces them to look outside their specialties for opportunities.
Chart Your Own Path

Some who have gone through the specialized programs say they are best for those with a firm idea of their future goals, and who are keen to chart their own path. “I knew what I wanted to do,” said Carrie Stern Rathod, who received her MBA from Wisconsin’s Brand ‐ Product Management Center in 2005 and now works for Procter & Gamble (PG), which recruits regularly from the program. “There’s a range of people for whom this program is ideal. If you have an entrepreneurial bent but are not sure you’re ready to take the leap yet, the program might be right.” But, she added, “I think it would be tough if you wanted to go into consulting or something like that.”

For students who aren’t comfortable breaking away from the pack or seeking out professional contacts in unconventional ways, a specialized MBA might not be the best choice. This is especially true at less well-known schools, where big companies often don’t recruit. Students in these programs agree that making industry connections can require a lot of initiative from the student. “If you have a very specific company in mind, you might need to be a trailblazer in making relationships with those companies,” says Rathod.

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Pune, Jan 5: Scene I: A Balasubramanian, high-profile director of the prestigious Symbiosis Institute of Management Studies (SIMS), Pune, which is regarded as one of the best private business schools in the country, and flaunts a 100 — Position record percent Suspended after a student complains about what he agacés. He is a director and revolt finally recedes.

Scene II: The season is the placement. The Institute can not be without head and authorities to make a choice. Enter Mudholkar Ranjeet, 24, graduated in computer science and a student SIMS von’96 the classroom. A year after his separation from service graduation Mudholkar chucks his work with the Birla AMC Capital Limited, New Delhi and agrees with The Sims as director.

Gasp you like, roll their eyes and I wonder what went wrong. Thus, the child is soon rubbing shoulders with the management gurus and the top brass in the sector? Is he a genius or a boy, he is … SIMS is abuzz.

His courses are at a whisper in Art Gallery Mudholkar appointment, the rules we have not yet been violated because he was the unanimous choice of the symbiosis for the body, but some students and teachers are perplexed.

Indeed, Mudholkar academic record is not just World Class, sources say he was “ one of the best students .”“ One of his succès”touted round that Ratan Tata to participate in a seminar in Mumbai.

Few are under discussion. No student or teacher publicly criticized the new director. Indeed, the subject is taboo and there is a watchful eye on each eye, each time you question. “ Yes, it is a Go-Getter. It has big names on campus. Yes, it is in order, OK.”Mudholkar, but it is a “ type-of-Service”zu his alma mater. “ In fact, I am strongly with SIMS. Money plays no role,”he said. He prefers to call the discipline itself a soldier SIMS and said it is already in the momentum of things “.”

BHUBANESWAR : The city branch of ICFAI Business School claimed that all its students were absorbed by different companies marking 100 per cent placement in 2006-2007 season.

“The average remuneration on a per annum basis is Rs 4.5 lakh while the highest range has touched a mark of Rs 6 lakh per annum,” the school said.

It said some of the major recruiters, who participated in the placement drive, were ICICI Bank, India Bulls, Kotak Securities, HDFC Bank Ltd, Anand Rathi, UTI Securities, Pantaloon Retail India Private Limited and Indus Bank Limited.

The next batch placement season would commence from the month of September and was expected to be completed early 2008.

A forum was recently on the AVC College of Engineering in Mayiladuturai in the district of Nagapattinam, in the interest of personality development and improving the communication skills of students.

Dr.Arun V. Parwate, Principal of the school, the need for students to improve communication capacity to face interviews for placement.

Dr S. Rama Nathan, Director, Department of Management Studies at the university, to coordinate the activities of the Forum stresses in a oratoire Honing’s capabilities and recalled that the forum would focus on this aspect.

The Forum has ambitious plans, many training programs to negotiate self-confidence among students. The current generation of engineering graduates should try to improve their communication skills to achieve employability, Dr.Ramanathan said.

The PG-Department of Computer Science, Hans Roever Than Thai College, Perambalur, the campus has organized an interview last week for its students, has just been passed out of college.

Of the 100 graduates fresh MCA, M.Sc. Science, M.Sc. Information Technology skills, participated in the interrogation by the Nagpur-based Software Development Firm-Master-Software, ten candidates were approved by the company to its partners are working on sites in Tamil Nadu, as a trainee software engineers with a package of wage moderation. The company recruits Freshers exclusively for software management College, promised on the recruitment of candidates with skills in Hindi, in its development based Nagpur in central and northern India. The provision of training and troubleshooting.

The Master Marketing Executive Sivakumar software, and Software Engineer, Nitin Dange the interview conducted in the presence of the Principal, V. Ganesan, director, Duraisamy. The company also announced its plans for the recruitment of qualified candidates in the basement of the college for data entry.

The activities of the association Chemistry - Resonansone Club - JJ College of Arts and Science, Namanasamudram, Pudukottai district, was inaugurated in a function held recently.

N. Kalaiselvi, scientific, Advanced Battery Division, CECRI, Karaikudi, a conference on “Next Generation” current sources green “on the occasion.

A stated Dr. Kalaiselvi lithium batteries play an important role in various electronic devices. With the scratch, “said Dr Kalaiselvi the various potential candidates for secondary batteries. She gave an exhaustive account of the different types of lithium batteries, which could be regarded as the next generation of energy sources environmentally friendly. His briefing the various activities of the CECRI. Several models of lithium batteries have been an opportunity for students and was surprised to see a little size batteries to play an important role in food.

National Institute of Management (NIM), Calcutta, 69th place (with a total score of 432.76) in the Cosmode Management Research Centre-Business-Global Survey 2003 of the best business schools in India. The survey was billed as the collection of data used a ladder to reach ordinal ranking relative. India has about 840 business schools, management of 65000 graduates a year. The rankings were based on estimates of key parameters in nine: Rank (which had the maximum weighting of 300 points for a total score of 1000), Faculty (200 points), academic institutions, industry and the network interface and innovation (100 points each), implementation of the programme (75 points), programmes and cinema visits (50 points) and expenditures scientists (25 points). NIM has scores of placement 133.21 points, 56.49 points faculty, 62.58 points out of academic institutions, 67.99 points at the interface of industry, 25 points on networking and l innovation, 60 points in the delivery programme, 13, 41 points on cinema visits and 14.08 points for university expenses.

New Delhi: A post-graduate of the London School of Economics dismissal of several young and more pay, as RS 2 lakh for the plum job of the United Kingdom - Computers for professionals British Railways.

The Economic Offences Wing of Delhi Police has arrested Maharukh Javat, LSE holds a diploma in computer science. A case of fraud, breach of criminal law and trust was a criminal conspiracy, a few days back on the complaint of several persons who claimed they were misled by a Mumbai company, Mazda Information & Systems Technologies, which also took place at a branch Civil Lines, New Delhi.

The complaint, the company had declared an advertisement in the newspaper in November 2003, which seeks professionals 40-45 British Railways. The company, by Javat with Rakesh Grover argued that it had signed a contract with the British Railways may computers professionals a monthly salary of £ 3,000 (about Rs 2.4 lakh) with accommodation and meals free of charge.

The selected candidates were then trained in computer operations for about four months in New Delhi. During training””, they were available in different forms. Each candidate was asked to pay RS 2 lakh for training, tickets for the United Kingdom, visa and job placement.

They were later told British Railway staff would be given specialized training. After training, it was said, they wait until their employment policy a letter that companies would mail home. Many candidates have also resigned jobs in call centers and sales organizations so that they can operate in the United Kingdom. Most of them came from New Delhi, Gurgaon and Noida.

After a few months, when the letter was nowhere in sight, candidates began to put pressure on companies officials said their accession appointment had only been postponed. In April 2004, the company has stopped his Civil Lines. Surveys Brit Rail was a subsidiary of ACP Marketing Ltd, Canada based on a sale of railway, which had nothing to do, Javat. If candidates have made them, some have received cheques to be returned.

Javat, lives in Mumbai, has landed on the network of police, as they have come to New Delhi a business venture. A student of Sophia University, she also had a master’s degree in management from the Jamnalal Bajaj Institute of Management Sciences.

The journey of India Inc globalization proves bonanza for Indian Business Schools. A student in Hyderabad-based Indian School of Business (ISB), has bags with an offer of Rs 1.04 crore ($ 233800), the highest in all Indian B schools this year for an international position with a Indian information technology companies. M ISB dean Rammohan Rao went to the disclosure of names of officers placement.

“This year we have had no fewer than 42 international tenders, many of whom came from Indian companies for their international activities,” said Rao. With $ 233800 of the international offer, ISB has trumped-IIM Calcutta record for most international lot (225000 $ 2001). He also excellent, IIM Bangalore’s number of $ 193000, the highest so far this year. Indeed, four ISB students - including two women - have crossed the magic figure of $ 200000. At 120700 $ (53.5 lakh RS), the International average grade was 21% compared to the previous year. “A large part is the fact that we have students and students with considerable professional experience and many of them have worked abroad,” said Rao.

Graduates of women have done a good job in recruitment. Rao said: “This year we have seen land more women in leadership roles.” It is interesting to note that a female graduate of recruiting international energy companies, has a content bags 2.23400 $ (1.01 crore R), a record of species.

ISB of the average national wage Rs 11.77 lakh (an increase of 18% more than last year) was higher than every school in India this year (IIM-C-average content in India was the highest among all IIMS For in this year and 9.81 lakh R). However, the ISB the highest salary of Rs 30.33 lakh household is less than IIM, Ahmedabad-Rs 34 lakh.

The class of ISB 2006, 345 students, of whom 328 to investments. More than 145 companies came to campus recruitment this year. The other sectors continue to dominate places. Most bids (almost 41%) were consulting firms, followed by distribution and marketing, information technology, banking and financial services, FMCG and retailing.

The Indian Institute of Foreign Trade, Kolkata its new operational centre of this academic year SMEs and the creation of a training centre for small and medium enterprises.

The IIFT, with their annual convocation on 5 April placement had a good season with the whole lot of jobs that the first day.

The convocation address would be the Minister of Commerce Kamal Nath and the secretary general of the Chamber of Commerce SN Menon, an official said.

The Kolkata centre is open to the growing demand for education in international commercial transactions and trade, said the release.