Samford University’s Brock School of Business is changing the schedule of its evening MBA program.

The graduate program - taken often by working professionals - is being revamped into two semesters that are nine weeks each with a 10-week summer semester, the school reported Thursday.

The program used to have five, nine-week terms in a year.

Under the new schedule, each course will meet for a two-hour class each week, giving students more time to study and learn the material, school officials said.

“We have retained the flexibility and convenience for working professionals through the option of attending one evening a week,” said Larry Harper, director of Graduate and Executive Education Programs at the Brock School of Business in a news release. “In addition, students can complete the degree in as little as 12 months by attending full-time or 22 months by attending part-time.”

The new curriculum covers all business functions and is designed to offer a more complete general management experience. Students also learn to exercise ethical business practices.

“Managers need comprehensive skills and sound values in order to achieve the disparate goals of their investors, customers, employees and the public at large,” said Beck A. Taylor, dean of the Brock School of Business. “At the Brock School, our charge is to help current and aspiring managers to discover solutions that meet these goals.”

The evening MBA program is the oldest in the state of Alabama and takes applications year round. Students can enter the program in January, June and August.

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Two researchers surprised the public in a convention of security during the last month of its finding a version of Microsoft Windows is more secure than Linux, an operating system competitor.

Download a copy of Windows vs. Linux study in PDF (265K).

This week, researchers released their finished report, and they contain more of a surprise: Microsoft was funded by the project long.

Researchers at the Florida Institute of Technology and Boston-based Security Innovation Inc., and defend their conclusions valid. They say they have “full control over all editorial research and analysis” on the project. His report details of its methods, and they invite other experts to examine and duplicate their work.

But their disclosure of the project, source of financing this week is agitation new debate on what has otherwise been encouraging messages for Microsoft in a field in which they fight. Researchers have been presented during last month’s RSA Conference, which attracts some of the biggest names in computer security.

“It was proof that Microsoft was better, and now the evidence unclean,” said Counterpane Internet Security founder Bruce Schneier, a long RSA Conference speaker. “The results may well, but now nobody is going to mind, because they all see, this is a prejudice that has not been revealed.”

But one of the researchers, Herbert Thompson of Security Innovation, said he and his colleagues have examined the final report, which has not gone presentation, the proper place for advertising. In addition, he said, the report presenting the detailed project research methods should be any concern about the possible prejudices.

“We knew that some of the criticism, which are collected in the report Microsoft is funding,” said Thompson. As a result, he said: “Our own method claim, it is very open and transparent. We wanted the recipe for humans, they could go further and recalculation of figures themselves. ”

The 37-page final report, published Tuesday, it is expressly Redmond on the role of the company: “This study and our analysis, under a research contract from Microsoft,” he says on the fourth page.

But during his presentation on February 16 on the RSA Conference, Thompson and Richard Ford Fellow researchers at the Florida Institute of Technology does not mention that one of the subjects of their research was part of a project financing.

Thompson said yesterday that it had decided it would be better to wait until the release of the final report on that disclosure. In part, he says, the idea was to avoid some of the divisiveness, which are often characterized by Windows vs. Linux debate.

The presentation of the RSA Conference “does not seem like the ideal place for the conduct of religious war,” said Thompson.

What is the relevance, if hundreds of MBA graduates to manage and large multinational corporations, products and services for ordinary citizens can not buy, because they are poor?

The Institute for Planning and Management (IIPM), MBA-degree (two years full-time during the planning and entrepreneurship) and BBA level (three years full-time when planning the programme and the spirit of company), where the emphasis is on the prosperity of the economy.

“Policies and academics, intellectuals too. There is no economy without the prosperity of the economy,” says Professor Arindam Chaudhuri, dean of IIPM. “This is an MBA / MA (Economics). Manager without adequate knowledge of the economy remains a mental handicap, “he adds.

IIPM is of the opinion that in the context of globalization, it is essential to train a new generation of entrepreneurs, given the new global challenges of the confidence of international markets, while others obligation for the eradication of poverty among Indian masses within a generation. The Institute, before the two tasks: a reorientation of education and research on the needs of public and private sectors and for the connection between national economic planning and development of private enterprises in the country. It aims to develop a three-dimensional personality of his students: the pursuit of knowledge, commitment to economic, social and cultural upliftment of the masses and culture of taste for literature and the visual arts.

The research has helped to develop their own IIPM themes such as “beyond the principles of Economics and Management Sciences learned that students concepts such as the survival of the weakest, the law of the marginal increase, with the exception of the old concepts of survival of the fittest on the market economy and the law of declining marginal. All students specializing in areas of marketing and information technology. “Business average sale . They do not understand, if you do not understand marketing, “says Arindam Chaudhuri. In addition, students have the option of specialization in finance or human resources.

Source: The genesis of this IIPM dates back to the sixties. A proposal by Dr MK Chaudhuri, the Institute under the name of the Institute for planning and management of the national economy has been sent to Jawaharlal Nehru, then Prime Minister and Chairman of the Planning Commission. A study has been turned by Dr MK Chaudhuri during 1964-65 to acquire first-hand knowledge on the treatment of similar institutions in Europe. A working paper on regional planning was put into circulation under the name of Indian Institute of Planning in 1969. The Institute was founded in 1973 by its founder Mr. Chaudhuri, director of the resumption as a professor and director of research at the resignation of the Chair Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore.

Attendance at movie theaters: IIPM authorization test, e-Pat (entrepreneurship and planning Admission Test) is based on a written test, group discussion and interview. E-Pat is based on several parameters regarding EQ (emotional quotient) and mapping of the entire personality of IQ are often too high EQ rear seat when it comes to entrepreneurship.

Tests for admission-cum-interviews have been conducted so far in 15 centres - Ahmedabad, Bangalore, Bhopal, Bhubaneshwar, Mumbai, New Delhi, Calcutta, Chandigarh, Delhi, Guwahati, Hyderabad, Jaipur, Lucknow, Chennai, Patna and Trivandrum.The Faculty includes more than 75 permanent members and more than 35 members travel to each branch of the IIPM.

Internships: Last year, there were over 200 companies for IIPM campus placement, including several Fortune 500 companies. IIPM is located in Bangalore since the last academic year. It is also in New Delhi, Mumbai and Pune.

Mumbai’s visual environment is saturated with signs of a traditional spirituality

If you’re feeling depressed? Is your hypertension, asthma or acidity, your quality of life? Stuck in a job you hate, wonder why you drag five days a week?

The simple solution would be to consult a doctor or a psychiatrist. Recent studies have shown a trend where more and more people to visit holy places and seeks the help of spirituality in healing in a series of complaints.

Mumbai, the commercial capital of India, is rapidly becoming a booming market for the saviour of souls in distress, and a growing number of young New-Ager are engaged in a wide range of treatment itself spiritual healing.

Mumbai’s visual environment is saturated as a sign of spirituality traditional repackaged for this growing public by a new class of Pop-gurus. Satsang or religious discourse, have a regular nature of Mumbai’s socio-cultural circuit. Community halls, parks and auditoriums are packed on weekends and holidays researcher spiritual.