Keep your chin up: That&rsquo;s what leading business schools have been advising their students at a time when the barrage of bad tidings can be overwhelming. B-schools are now putting that management mantra into practice in their own operations.

B-schools keep their chin up, to hike seats

Business Standard

The Indian Institute of Management, Indore, has claimed to achieve 100 per cent placement for its 10th graduating batch (2009).

100% placements, claims IIM-Indore

Press Trust of India

Wills Lifestyle, the premium lifestyle retail arm of ITC Ltd, has said it is reworking strategy to protect bottom line and check a drop in sales, even as it has cut its growth forecast for the fiscal year.

Wills Lifestyle reworking strategy

The Common Admission Test (CAT) this year too may remain a paper-pencil test. Last December, the Indian Institutes of Management (IIMs) had floated a tender and shortlisted four companies to conduct CAT 2009 online. These companies include ETS Prometric, Pearson VUE, Eduquity Career Technologies and Mumbai-based Attest, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Aptech.

CAT may not go online this year

Kolkata based, Globsyn Business School, will expand, by setting up a fully residential campus near Joka.

Globsyn plans residential school

The battle to quench Indian consumers' thirst is now a year-round affair for rivals PepsiCo and Coca-Cola - and it's not just about colas.

The fizz fight

Project delayed by two years due to land-acquisition tussle.

Vedanta varsity to open by 2011

A Nielsen survey reveals that the anonymous throng of cyber caf&eacute; audience has a profile much sought-after by marketers.

Cyber cafe audience: Captive power

Game-based learning seems to be the new fad in the e-Learning space and has gained popularity with the computer savvy generation.

Companies explore game-based learning

Not restricting the institute&rsquo;s knowledge creation activities within the campus, the Indian Institute of Management-Ahmedabad (IIM-A) is set to create a publishing platform for case studies of B-schools across the country. The premier institute will conduct editing and quality check before publishing the case studies through its platform.

IIM-A to publish case studies

Companies forced to innovate and look for cost-effective products and services.

Slowdown designs a new path for students

At a time when the global economic slowdown has made the future of many youngsters uncertain, there is a silver lining in the form of clinical research.

Clinical research: An emerging field

&ldquo;We have already spent &pound;55 million (Rs 390 crore) of the total investment. Besides basic research, we are also spending on research in select areas like medical technology, steel technology, economics and history. Moreover, it is important for universities to become international to have close relationships with other universities,&rdquo; said Professor Nigel Thrift, vice-chancellor of Warwick.

Warwick to invest #250 million in Vision 2015

Ronnie Screwvala's move to invest in different segments of the media industry has helped UTV sail through tough times.

UTV: Diversify and prosper

The top 10 business bestsellers

Currently, India has about 1.14 lakh hotel rooms.

KIT: Hotels in India - The demand and supply

    This company was founded with an impromptu loan from a drunken rock band manager and its founder was hailed as his country&rsquo;s answer to Bill Gates. Today, it is its country&rsquo;s largest software company by market value and its software has been popular with government agencies, particularly intelligence services. Name the founder and the company.

The Strategist Quiz (#090)

    An Indian company&rsquo;s promoter was inspired by the first moon-landing because it reflected his vision of being the first and foremost in his chosen field. He started his venture in the 1980s and also named his company appropriately. Identify both the founder and the company.

Answers to last week's quiz (#089)

Parle Agro, the Rs 950 crore FMCG company, has raised prices of its Frooti and Appy Classic drinks after a decade. This has come at a time commodity prices have dropped and several companies are seeking to lower prices to boost sales.

Parle Agro raises fruit drinks prices

BASE, the Bangalore-based educational training organisation providing training for IIT-JEE, AIEEE, AIPMT, CET and COMEDK, has announced that it will be the strategic content partner for an interactive and integrated mobile learning and assessment tool mPlg. mPlg, the mobile phone based testing platform created by Ipomo Communications India delivers and renders question papers of various competitive exams.

Now you can prepare for IIT-JEE, CET on your mobile

The global slowdown is taking a toll on the number of takers for international education training programmes. Enrolments for the Common Admission Test (CAT) at MBA test-preparing institutes, however, are in full swing.

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