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Centre for Management Services (CMS) is the specialized division of AIMA undertaking testing and other management services. The testing services have been in operation since 1988 under the trademark All India Management Aptitude Testing Services (AIMATS) facilitating academia, industry and government to screen and select candidates for higher studies, recruitment, promotion etc. Hundreds of organizations and lakhs of candidates have availed these services. AIMATS has the unique distinction of being the first to be awarded with ISO 9001: 2000 Certification for the range of services under its scope.

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The Indian Institute of Management-Bangalore’s (IIM-B) business fest, ‘Vista’ will begin from October 10 and go on till the 12th at its Baneraghatta campus. The campus will see participants streaming in to see how well they can survive in “Emerging Economies, Emerging Realities”. This time, Altar Vista, a rolling trophy for the institute that has the best overall performance has been introduced. Every event wil add points the participating B-school, except those events where participation is by invite only.

The run-up to Vista has already started with online events like Coffee Break targeted at corporate participants every day at 3 pm, to a daily quiz at Online@9. This time, the keynote address will be delivered by senior journalist Shekhar Gupta. The panel discussion involves speakers like Manab Majumdar (Senior Director of FICCI), Jayanta Roy (Principal Adviser – CII), Narayan Ramachandran (Global Head – Emerging Markets Division, Morgan Stanley), Dr Saikat Sinha Roy (Reader – Dept of Economics, Jadavpur University) and Gopi Gopinath (Vice President – Asia Pacific, AT&T) on Oct 11.

Gurcharan Das (Author, India Unbound), Raju Narisetti (Editor, Mint), Vinay Tewari (Executive Editor, CNN IBN) and Narendra Pani (Senior Editor, Economic Times) will speak at the Media Conclave and discuss “The Great Indian Media Circus – Just who is watching whom?” to determine which one of the audience or the media has the upper hand in influencing the other.

A new event Sparsh, a brand new event will also be held. It’s focus is to involve B-school students to work with Non-Governmental Organisations to solve the real problems they face.

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Applications are invited for admission to Ph.D and M.S programmes under regular full time [with/without Half-time Teaching/Research Assistantship (HTRA)] and part-time/external in the engineering departments of Aerospace, Applied Mechanics, Biotechnology, Chemical, Civil, Computer Science & Engineering, Electrical, Engineering Design, Mechanical, Metallurgical & Materials and Ocean and in the departments of Chemistry, Humanities & Social Sciences, Management Studies, Mathematics and Physics.

Opportunities exist for candidates to do Joint Ph.D in Engineering & Sciences offered by IIT Madras & National University of Singapore. Joint Ph.D programme is also offered by IIT Madras, Sree Chitra Tirunal Institute for Medical Sciences & Technology, Trivandrum and Christian Medical College, Vellore in the area of Biomedical Devices and Technology.

Application and Admission Brochure may be obtained by post with a request enclosing a self-addressed envelope (26 x 18 cm) and a demand draft for Rs. 250/- (Rs. 125/- in the case of SC/ST/PD/Female candidates) drawn in favour of “IIT Madras” payable at Chennai to the Deputy Registrar (Acad.), IIT Madras, Chennai 600036 on or before 17.10.2008 by post and upto 24.10.2008 in person. Reservations are applicable to SC/ ST/ OBC/ Persons and Disability (PD) candidates as per Govt. of India rules. The envelope must be superscribed as “Request for application for Ph.D/M.S programme”. Candidates applying for more than one department should submit a separate application for each department.

For more details, Application and Admission Brochure please visit www.iitm.ac.in Candidates applying online have to send the demand draft along with a hard copy of the filled in application.

Candidates seeking admission to Biotechnology, Chemistry, Electrical Engineering and Mechanical Engineering Departments must apply online following the instructions given therein through the respective Website and send the application to the concerned departments.

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‘Business Ethics’ introduced in the curriculum to produce socially-sensitive managers.

Gone are the days when it was all about numbers and corporate strategies at the Indian Institutes of Management (IIMs). The institutes have now begun sensitising students about business ethics and morality as well. Be it inviting eminent personalities like the Dalai Lama to speak on business ethics or incorporating ethics as a compulsory course, IIMs are making efforts to produce ethical managers.

The Post Graduate Programme (PGP) review committee at IIM Ahmedabad (IIM-A) had recommended inclusion of business ethics, business taxation, organisational leadership and internet technology in the first year curriculum this year. Now, instead of continuing with business ethics as an elective in the final year, IIM-A has incorporated ethics as a compulsory course in the first year.

Ajay Pandey, chairperson, PGP, IIM-A, said: “Our social conditioning by and large makes us unethical vis-a-vis a lack of civic sense and concern for the environment. Management students are at an age when they are less vulnerable and can differentiate the right from the wrong. The subject has been introduced to sensitise students about ethical issues as and when they take up responsibilities later in their career.”

It all began in January 2008 when IIM-A invited the Dalai Lama to give a talk on ‘Business Ethics’ on the campus. Even as the spiritual leader talked about how principles and ethics in business bring a sense of peace and mental tranquillity, the institute decided to make make increased efforts to sensitise its students.

Other IIMs also seem to have drawn inspiration from IIM-A. IIM Calcutta (IIM-C) has set up a ‘Business Ethics and Communication Group’ this year that focuses on teaching, research, training and offering consultancy on human values and ethics in management. The group tries to achieve an authentic synthesis of Western and Eastern (especially Indian) approaches to management by creating frameworks of knowledge and methods of application of the same in the context of existing management concepts and practices.

“A separate academic group has been set up from this year to design courses to further the cause of ethics in management. We have also introduced ethics as a compulsory course from this year. It were the fiascos like Enron that made us realise that these issues need to be taken up,” said a faculty member at IIM-C.

IIM Indore (IIM-I) will be hosting a three-day programme on Business Ethics & Corporate Social Responsibility at its campus in November. The objective of the programme is to understand the conceptual foundations of business ethics and corporate social responsibility, appreciate the wide variety of corporate responses to ethical and societal demands; and chalk out a CSR policy appropriate to their organisations.

Consistent with the institute’s goal of creating socially and environmentally responsible business leaders, IIM Kozhikode (IIM-K) has had a course in business ethics for first year students for a decade now.

Saji Gopinath, PGP chairperson, IIM Kozhikode, said: “We introduced a compulsory course on Business Ethics for the PGP students 10 years ago. We felt that management students need to have a clear-cut understanding of ethics, while taking important decisions. The course would give them a better idea of the responsibilities of a manager in an organisation. That, combined with a course on ‘Social Transformation in India’, which focuses on the societal issues across the country, would help the students take sustainable decisions for the society when they graduate.”

As for IIM, Lucknow, J J Irani, chairman, Board of Governors, at IIM Lucknow had, in his address earlier this year, emphasised the need for incorpoating business ethics in the curriculum.

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Source: http://www.business-standard.com/india/storypage.php?autono=336601

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Invites Applications for Admissions to Two year Full Time Degree Programme of Master of Business Administration (MBA)- 2009-2011 in Agribusiness -Twelfth Batch
for Engineers-Fourth Batch & in Food Retail & Supply Chain- Third Batch

College of Agribusiness Management (CABM) is a constituent of premier Farm University, the G. B. Pant University of Agriculture & Technology, and benefits from its highly qualified and dedicated faculty. The MBA programme approved by the AICTE is offered for three streams viz. one for Engineering Graduates (MBA), other for Agriculture and allied Graduates (MBA-Agribusiness) and the third for Agriculture and allied, Business Administration/ Studies, Commerce Engineering, and Pharmacy Graduates. Whereas first one provides specialization in relevant functional areas, the industry specific specializations in Farm Engineering, Food Industry, Hi-tech Agriculture, Horticulture, Input Supply, Vet. Pharmaceutical Industry and Livestock Industry; specialization in functional areas are provided in the second; and focus is on Food Retail and Supply Chain Management in the last one. The programme has patronage of leading corporate houses for projects, placements, MDPs, research and consultancies and has a track record of 100 percent placement.

Selection Procedure:
The candidates will have to appear in Common Admission Test (CAT) being conducted by IIM, Kozhikode on November 16, 2008. Our institute uses CAT for short listing the candidates for our twoyear full time Post-graduate Programme in Management. IIMs have no role either in the selection process or in the conduct of the programme. The candidates short listed on the basis of CAT Score will have to appear for Group Discussion and Personal Interview at CABM, Pantnagar on specified date(s).

Important Dates:
Sale of Application form October 15, 2008
Last date for Obtaining and submitting Filled Application Forms December 10, 2008
Last date for Obtaining and submitting Filled Application Forms (With late fee) January 30, 2009
Last date for Obtaining and submitting Filled Application Forms (for sponsored candidates) June 30, 2009

How to Apply:
The application form and Prospectus of the programme can be obtained from and submitted in the office of Dean, College of Agribusiness Management, Pantnagar on payment of Rs. 1500/- in the form of Crossed Demand Draft drawn on Punjab National Bank (branch 4446) in favour of Dean, CABM payable at Pantnagar. The forms can be obtained and submitted up to January 30, 2009 with a late fee of Rs. 3000/-. For details regarding eligibility, number of seats and companies participating in placement log on to www.cabm.ac.in

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Hi All,
Recently a company had participated in IIM’s Placement Sessions. They asked some interesting questions to students during recruitment.

Here are some of them:-

Q1. There is one word in the English language that is always pronounced incorrectly. What is it?
1. The word “incorrectly. “

Q2. A man gave one son 10 cents and another son was given 15 cents. What time is it?
2. 1:45. The man gave away a total of 25 cents. He divided it between two people. Therefore, he gave a quarter to two.

Q3. A boat has a ladder that has six rungs, each rung is one foot apart. The bottom rung is one foot from the water.
The tide rises at 12 inches every 15minutes. High tide peaks in one hour. When the tide is at it’s highest, how many rungs are under water?
3. None, the boat rises with the tide. Googly

Q4. There is a house with four walls. Each wall faces south. There is a window in each wall. A bear walks by one of the windows. What color is the bear?
4. White. If all the walls face south, the house is at the North pole, and the bear, therefore, is a polar bear.

Q5. Is half of two plus two equal to two or three?
5. Three. Well, it seems that it could almost be either, but if you follow the mathematical orders of operation, division is performed before addition.
So… half of two is one. Then add two, and the answer is three.

Q6. There is a room. The shutters are blowing in. There is broken glass on the floor. There is water on the floor. You find Sloppy dead on the floor. Who is Sloppy? How did Sloppy die?
6. Sloppy is a (gold)fish. The wind blew the shutters in, which knocked his goldfish-bowl off the table, and it broke, killing him.

Q7. How much dirt would be in a hole 6 feet deep and 6 feet wide that has been dug with a square edged shovel?
7. None. No matter how big a hole is, it’s still a hole: the absence of dirt.

Q8. If I were in Hawaii and dropped a bowling ball in a bucket of water which is 45 degrees F, and dropped another ball of the same weight, mass, and size in a bucket at 30 degrees F, both of them at the same time, which ball would hit the bottom of the bucket first?
Same question, but the location is in Canada ?
8. Both questions, same answer: the ball in the bucket of 45 degree F water hits the bottom of the bucket last. Did you think that the water in the 30 degree F bucket is frozen? Think again.
The question said nothing about that bucket having anything in it. Therefore, there is no water (or ice) to slow the ball down…

Q9. What is the significance of the following: The year is 1978, thirty-four minutes past noon on May 6th.
9. The time and month/date/year American style calendar are 12:34, 5/6/78.

Q10. If a farmer has 5 haystacks in one field and 4 haystacks in the other field, how many haystacks would he have if he combined them all in the center field?
10. One. If he combines all of his haystacks, they all become one big stack.

Q11. What is it that goes up and goes down but does not move?
11. The temperature.

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Actor Aamir Khan has been invited to teach students of the prestigious I.I.M. Ahmedabad for an elective course on ‘Introduction to Contemporary Film Industry’.

Aamir has been approached to be a visiting professor for this course. Many other creative people from the film industry have also been approached to handle this course. These includeKaran Johar, Ronnie Screwvala, Om Puri, Ram Gopal Varma, Mahesh Bhatt, Kishore Lulla, Kamal Hassan, Apoorva Lakhia, Madhur Bhandarkar and last but not the least Vidhu Vinod Chopra .

Apparently sixty five second year students have signed up for this elective. The course is expected to cover production, economics and marketing, in short the business financials of the film industry.

According to sources, Aamir Khan is positive about the project and is contemplating on the opportunity to give students tips on inside workings of Bollywood.

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Source: http://www.infoahmedabad.com/2008/10/aamir-khan-to-teach-iim-students.html

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Today, MBA degree is undoubtedly the most famous degree in India. Thanks to the obscene packages (as one of my MBA faculty speaks of the packages) offered to most of the B-School graduates. Rising packages of IIMs and international placements constitue the headlines easily during the placement season. Many students are of the opinion that placements are the USPs of an MBA degree.

However, I am of a different opinion. I genuinely feel that the much hullabaloo (created due to placements) around the MBA degree has done much of a disservice to the student community than good to it. Nearly, every Engineer who passes out of E-School even before personally reading about the MBA program details offered by the institutes orients himself to join a B-School, forget about taking an exposure in the industry or understanding the fundamentals of business administration which should form the guideliness to form a decision to go for an MBA. The ultimate result of which is “A dissatisfied MBA graduate in his post-graduation tenure and finally a non-interested and relatively lesser competent manager than expected  passes into industry”.

Majority of the prospective students entering an MBA do it inorder to switch their career. But, as per my observation, these students are not fully aware of what they want to get into and tend to experiment a lot (Probably, I am one of them). One of the incident I would like to quote here is of one of the alumni of my institute who worked in IT industry wanted a switch, came for an MBA but later in the second year realised he wanted to pursue MBA in advertising which was not offered by the institute. I think the indecisiveness manytimes hits such students badly as was the case with my senior and thereby the student is not able to appreciate the program and design his curriculm (choose electives) to get benefitted from it the most.

Moreover, the Indian mentality of judging a students calibre on his ability to score reflects on the selection system of B-Schools. You would rarely find a 90 percentiler or 80 percentiler student making it to IIMs. But, at the same time you may find a 650 score getter making it to Harvard Business School. B-Schools tend to give more weightage to written scores and the underlying concept is to identify the best score not the best learner which is derivative of the Indian mentality of scoring more nor learning more. The same mentality percolates during the post-graduation tenure as well and the MBA graduates slog hard to get a higher score in the examination. According to many of the passed out MBA graduates, higher score does not necessarily reflect in depth subject knowledge and pragmatic approach.

Taking all of these aspects, I do feel Indian MBAs do not make great leaders. One of the Harvard Professors commented once about Indian MBA Managers “Indian MBA Managers can keep a well-doing business afloat or move upwards, however they cannot errect a dying business.“

One of the panacea for the flaws in the MBA system of India which have been mentioned above can be pre-requisite work experience before joining MBA. The best B-Schools around the world have such pre-requisites of work experience. Work experience often lets a candidate understand the practical aspects of industry, clears confusion about career path and hence is able to appreciate the MBA program in a much better mode.

With various coaching institutes helping aspiring students to crack the tests and the GD/PIs, I feel somewhere the basic aptitude and intellegence of a candidate is not put into test in the present format of tests. Some of the institutes like ISB, G-LAKES, SPJIMR, SCMHRD, even IIMs have now adopted selection process in which the weightage given to written scores have come down and resume evaluation (background story) is being enforced.

Leadership or life cannot be taught in the class, but surely education system and enterance systems can be altered to help student learn leadership outside the class. The underlying fundamental concept of an enterance system needs to be indentifying the best learners not the best scorers.

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