Liberal Arts Students Sign On For MBA Courses

You don’t have to have an MBA to know the value of basic business skills. Just ask Greg Shaw, 22, and the 54 other recent graduates of the Carolina Business Institute at University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill.
These new biologists, psychologists and arts majors added the business course to their resumes before stepping out into the [...]

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FSU MBA program golf benefit Sunday

The second golf outing to benefit Fairmont State University’s MBA program will be held next Sunday at White Day Golf Course.
Organizers Jeff Jacobs, Dan Everly and Terri Markle are hoping for a full field of 36 participants, compared to the 18 golfers at the first tournament.
“Our last one was on a football Saturday with WVU [...]

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Samford changes schedule of night MBA program

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 [...]

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Growing demand for tourist guides

The Indian Institute of Travel and Tourism Management (IITM) provides a short duration of course, after which the candidates can be empanelled as a guide. Guide license has been granted both at the state and central level by the Department of Tourism. They hold examination according to their needs and advertise in leading newspapers. The [...]

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Competition panel to examine state policies.

State governments still harbouring a legacy of the control and licence raj will have some tough questions to answer now.
The Competition Commission of India (CCI) is set to scrutinise the liquor and passenger transport polices of state governments to see if there are any practices that blunt free market competition.
Sources told ET, the commission is [...]

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How we are a high-taxed nation.

Looking merely at direct taxes, it is often suggested that India is an under-taxed nation. This, says R. Vaidyanathan, does not take into account the speed money paid for government service. This rent-seeking makes the nation high-taxed.
THERE is a view among some experts that India is an under-taxed economy. Many a time Finance Ministers believe [...]

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People’s budget market must be taken in the right direction.

There are signs indicating that the budget for increased spending on health, education, Mid-day meal, the use of state guarantee schemes and other emergency aid for the common people. This is a continuation of the policy over the past 50 years. He was the municipal development and the cooperative movement in the sixties, garibi hatao [...]

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IIMS not the end of history.

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 [...]

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IT the key to banking revolution

Information Technology (IT) holds the key to kick-starting a revolution in banking, said Radha Unni, chief general manager, State Bank of India, here.
She was inaugurating a national conference on `Braving new frontiers in banking,’ organised by the ICFAI Business School, here.
She called for standardisation across banks and appealed to them to take the services to [...]

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James S. Vick wife Katherine R. Novak

Katherine Rose Novak, a director at Arthur Young & Co. in New York yesterday, was married to James Stockard Vick International Treasury Manager of American Standard Inc. in New York. The Rev. Thomas Buckley, the ceremony of the Saint Francis of Assisi Roman Catholic Church in Medford, Mass.
The bride, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John [...]

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