    Based on a report published by UN for the year 2011, Qatar is ranked No.1, Luxembourg is No.5 and USA is ranked No.

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As our by cameraman gets ready to shoot, the team gathers around a chair with the very ornate twin lion heads. That is where the 70-year-old Adi Godrej will take his place for the group photo. But when he walks in, he avoids the chair and proceeds to stand with the young team who complete the frame. The third generation head of the 115-year-old business group, Adi Godrej, does not want to draw a line between him and a team that, he admits, has taught him to listen better.

On a new trajectory

Teaching services provider Core Education and Technologies has entered into a management partnership contract with the government at Ras al Khaimah (RAK) in the UAE to run an existing higher education institute.

Core Education in management tie-up with UAE institute

The Union Ministry of Human Resources Development has nominated Larsen &amp; Toubro Limited's chairman and managing director AM Naik as the chairman of Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad's (IIMA) society and the board of governors for a period of three years.

AM Naik nominated as chairman of IIM-A board

Fifty- six year-old Mukta Joshi, a resident of Dadar in Central Mumbai, says she enjoys shopping in the refurbished Sahakari Bhandar co-operative store, now managed by Reliance Retail.

Sahakari Bhandar gets facelift

B-school placements have begun and its raining plum jobs for students. Last week, National Institute of Industrial Engineering (NITIE), Mumbai, Indian Institute of Foreign Trade (IIFT), Delhi, and

B-school placement update

Asian School Business Management (ASBM), a Bhubaneswar based leading management institute has decided to go for back ward integration of its academic curriculum by launching courses of integrated BBA

Asian School rolls out course

Australian education institutions are high on India. The University of Western Australia has tied up with IIT- Madras and Delhi for an exchange programme for staff, students and research and is in

Australia bets big on Indian students

Orissa's Jagannath Institute for Technology and Management ( JITM) in collaboration with its rural B -school Centurion School of Rural Enterprise Management ( CSREM) has embarked on a Rs 17 crore-odd

Jagannath Institute plans rural centres

Institute of Chartered Financial Analysts of India better know ICFAI is contemplating setting up National Colleges in the major cities of the country. 


ICFAI plans more B-schools

Industry bigwigs have continually shown faith in the managerial talent nurtured at the Vinod Gupta School of Management (VGSOM), IIT Kharagpur as the placement statistics for the batch of 2005-07 from

Vinod Gupta School places batch in one day

Shillong may not have its Indian Institute of Management (IIM) till end 2008 going by current indications. 


IIM Shillong yet to get off the ground

Companies like Microsoft, Intel and IBM have launched a series of initiatives in the country to encourage science and engineering graduate students to continue with further studies and take up

Opt for research work, say global IT majors

The average salary at the Jamnalal Bajaj Institute of Management Studies (JBIMS) has jumped by 25 per cent this year exceeding the Rs 10 lakh mark. The entire batch was placed on day one. 


JBIMS salary jumps 25%

The high-level committee set up by the board of Britannia Industries, to iron out the Tiger brand right issue, has not made any headway yet. This committee on intellectual property rights was set up

No headway in Tiger brand issue

<B>WORKPLACE:</B> The company uses contests to groom a talent pool. 


Titan sets store by front-end staff

Ruchi Soya is on the lookout for brand acquisitions in the health food space. Dinesh Shahra, managing director, said, "We are examining all options to add additional products to our portfolio." 


Ruchi Soya on prowl for food brand buyouts

The post-graduate diploma in management and entrepreneurship (PGDME) course at the Indian Institute of Entrepreneurship (IIE) in Guwahati, was formally inaugurated by the Assam Governor, Lt. Gen

IIE Guwahati launches course

The city-based Nirma Institute of Management (NIM) has inducted a compulsory course focussed on the social sector and is also planning to tap the corporate social responsibility domain of the

Nirma Inst focuses on social sector courses

Hyderabad-based Sathguru Management Consultants (SMC) has executed an exclusive agreement with the US-based Cornell University for representation of Cornell technologies in South Asia with Cornell

Sathguru inks pact with Cornell University

The Indian Institute of Management-Lucknow (IIM-L) is all set to host the eighteenth annual convention of the Association of Indian Management Schools (AIMS).


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