Walk through the halls of the University of Chicago’s Graduate School of Business during the school year, and along with students cramming facts for macroeconomics and operating strategy you may encounter some students stretching their bodies and doing something really unusual for business school students: relaxing.

They’re members of Chicago’s yoga club, a student group founded earlier this year by two GSB students and which last term attracted 15 to 35 regular attendees to classes in the school’s Harper Center. The classes are “time to shut your brain off,” says Jody Kirchner, one of the group’s founders.

The Chicago GSB yoga classes reflect a growing popularity of yoga in the U.S., with about 16 million Americans engaging in the practice, according to statistics released by Yoga Journal. The publication said $5.7 billion is spent annually on yoga classes and products, nearly twice as much as four years ago.
Indian Odyssey

During a school-sponsored trip to India last year, Kirchner and fellow student Doug Neal bonded over a mutual interest in yoga. Kirchner and Neal, who both had been practicing yoga for years before they met, eventually decided to start a group dedicated to the practice on campus—after Kirchner noticed that other business schools had yoga groups, but Chicago didn’t.

In midyear, Neal, a 2008 MBA graduate, and Kirchner, a rising second-year student and co-chair of the club, conducted an interest survey for the group. Of the 1,100 students attending the school, about 200 expressed interest.

Kirchner said she was surprised at the large response the survey garnered, finding that a sizable portion of the student population already practiced yoga, at least to some extent. “People I know outside of school say the same thing,” she said. “After a stressful day, it’s time they can do something easily to take their mind off their stress.”

Neal says yoga isn’t just for stress relief. “Yoga is very multifaceted, and the benefits of yoga are different for each person,” he said. “Some use it for exercise, for meditation poses, some for relaxation, some for injuries.”

GThe students prefer to study the Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore (IIM-B), a ranking of the list of Business Schools in India, outdoing IIM, Ahmedabad (IIM-A).

This is because IIM-B-initiatives to improve the quality of education, according to a survey of the Economic Times

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.

India had 840 Business Schools (B schools) from March 2002, which have 65,000 Masters in Business Administration (MBA). A survey by Cosmode and the World Series Indian Institute of Management (IIM) Ahmedabad in the first top-10 B-schools in 2003.

– IIM Bangalore, Calcutta, IIM, IIM Lucknow, National Institute of Industrial Engineering, Mumbai, Management Development Institute, Gurgaon, Xavier Labour Relations Institute, Jamshedpur, SP Jain Institute of Management and Research, Mumbai, Faculty of Management Studies, University of New Delhi, Delhi, J and Shailesh Mehta School of Management, Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, follow Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad. According to the survey, the main factor that separates a top school is the rest of the Faculty and teaching, the others are research, publication and consultancy. On an average edge of the addresses of schools B-50 full-time professors, 73 percent with a promotion. The second phase of the school has 24 full-time professors, 47 percent with a promotion, while the third stage, 17 full-time teachers, of whom 35% have a doctorate.

The number of books published by the school average of 11.53 with the top-15, against 3.28 for the second phase of 25 schools and 1.08 for the remaining 60

On average, Management Development Programme Guidance and revenue amounting to Rs312.84 lakh for the Top 15, Rs42.38 lakh for the next 25 and Rs6.49 lakh for 60

Max New York Life Insurance Company of Gurgaon 20 ranking of India is the first list of Top 25 Great Places to Work.

The list was based on a survey of five months Grow talent company Delhi, in collaboration with Business World and Great Place to Work Institute Inc. The Great Place to Work model focuses on the staff, who to say about their workplaces.

It focuses on three main parameters of confidence (Do you have confidence in the people with whom you work?), Pride (pride, what you are doing?) And camaraderie (such as people with whom you work?). The survey of 20000 employees in 120 sites and participation was voluntary. Max New York Life employs 743 people in 18 sites. There were three women in senior management level and eight people, more than 44 years. Turnover rate is 26 percent. On a scale of five, the company had a rating of three on the four main parameters of fun working space, the development opportunities of camaraderie and pride. The company carefully implemented its philosophy to reward good performance. Agents and employees of the company with a lot of money, recognition of specific training and other rewards if they do well. The objectives are steep, 100 percent annual growth at all levels and latecomers will not be retained. Key Result Areas (kras) frameworks are available on intranets companies.

Mumbai, Jan 14 The Indian companies increasingly hooked on the passage subcontracting in mind for the entire bandwidth of their logistical requirements, the local logistics services market perhaps birth a series of new players in the fourth party logistics (4PL), providers of services.

During a clutch third-party logistics (3PL) are service companies to fixing are spread over a wide range of sectors of automotive, hardware, pharmaceuticals, telecommunications and communication on FMCG, consumer goods and durable fertilizer, the new generation of houses Corporate Outsourcing search nontraditional logistical requirements. These analysts feel can lead to what the service 4PL concept, service is the only interface between the client and several logistic service providers, such as centralized management of all aspects of the Supply Chain.

Having tasted the benefits of outsourcing their requirements such as Outbound logistics / transport Inbound, compensation personalized, Import / Export Management and Outbound / Inbound-Warehousing, companies houses are currently thinking in regard to outsourcing of non-traditional logistics requirements such as reverse logistics, inventory management, order-books processing, distribution, labelling and packaging.

Some market participants of the logistics service business, but the feeling that the transfer would take some time. “4PL provider of design, but it will take some time, in India, as domestic service 3PL market potential is not yet completely open. Even for 4PL concept click, we need a strong network of service 3PL - Deployment all aspects of Supply Chain Management, “said Vineet Agrawal, Executive Director of Transport Corporation of India (TCI).

He told the Business Line service 4PL not least, the orientation of the sector and provides businesses with all of its Supply Chain Management and unloading, then a multiple 3PL service providers, such as trend in developed markets.

Current trends indicate that the cement sector has reaped the greatest benefits of outsourcing logistics, 3PL requirements of service providers, particularly in logistics account for between 10 to 15 percent of their operating costs. Even for the automotive and mechanical sector, logistics, account for 5 to 10 per cent of their operating costs, while the FMCG ranges from 3 to 7 per cent, as the usefulness of volumes, analysts point out .

, Says Dr. B.S. Sahay, president of the Center for Supply Chain Management Development Institute of Management (MDI), Gurgaon: “Although the 3PL service providers, have a bandwidth of Supply Chain Services, the service is unable, to the satisfaction of the whole enterprise logistics requirements of corporate houses. The result is that companies have to mount a combination of in-house and sub-components of effective service to manage their supply chain required. The problem is that the new structure developed in which a key customer and a few other members come here 4PL to a service provider. ”

Today, however, service should 3PL their activities to develop and sharpen their effectiveness in a new increase in business confidence, say analysts. Indeed, according to a recent survey conducted by the MDI and TCI, we saw that among the 130 companies spread over 15 sectors were surveyed, only 55 percent are subscription services 3PL, compared to 75 percent in worldwide. The survey also revealed that over 50 per cent of companies have subcontracting activities such as transport, storage and personalized compensation / shipping, outsourcing, while the rest of the Supply Chain activities n It is not usual, because of “concerns regarding the poor infrastructure and 3PL concerned by service in the situation.”