Xavier Institute of Management, Bhubaneswar (XIMB) expects to roll out a 15-month regular executive Post Graduate Programme in Management from June this year. This programme would cater to the needs of corporate executives and it will have the academic rigour of a two-year MBA course.

XIMB to launch PGP for executives

Business Standard

Tata Consultancy Services, the country&rsquo;s largest IT company, has changed its hiring strategy and will focus on just-in-time hiring or real-time talent management.

TCS to go for just-in-time recruitments

Soft drinks major PepsiCo is dropping Shah Rukh Khan from its &lsquo;Youngistaan&rsquo; advertisement campaign as the company focuses on youngsters, though it is understood that the company is not fully severing ties with the Bollywood Badshah.

Age factor: SRK out of Youngistaan

Press Trust of India

&ldquo;If you get emotionally attached to a hotel, you will never make money. Build in a down cycle and sell when the market is up,&rdquo; Peter Barge, the well-regarded former chairman of Jones Lang LaSalle Hotels, had advised Sanjay Chandra in 2006 when he was in two minds whether to sell his stake in the Delhi Radisson or retain it.

Unfinished business

To stay competitive, organisations need to build managers who can deal with and manage change effectively.

Closing the gap

The economic meltdown has brought employee compensation in sharp focus. Salary expectations have softened as fears of joblessness mount across countries. Directors and senior management are grappling with the implications for their business and human capital strategy. Most of them have already revisited their executive pay programmes. Equity grants and severance packages are getting a fresh look-in.Sky-high Wall Street bonuses have been called obscene.

Make performance matter

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TEH HEALTH AND fitness market in India is estimated at around Rs 2,900 crore.

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    Link the West Indies cricketers Lance Gibbs, Carl Hooper and Shivnarine Chanderpaul to the name of a product that is mostly found in coffee bars and restaurants.

The Strategist Quiz (#086)

    This company&rsquo;s website greets you with the tag line: &ldquo;Faster. Further. Freer &mdash; Our Message in a Bottle.&rdquo; These are its leading principles on the basis of which it runs its business. Name it.

Answers to last week's quiz (#085)

The recruitment process undergoes a change as companies gear up for recession.

Firms shift to online interviews as technology saves cost

The premier Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs) and Indian Institutes of Management (IIMs) will mentor smaller entrepreneurship cells across engineering and management institutes.

IITs, IIMs to mentor entrepreneurship cells

If James Champy wasn&rsquo;t the chairman of Perot Systems&rsquo; consulting practice and a best-selling writer, he&rsquo;d probably be a motivational speaker. And his latest book, Inspire!: Why Customers Come Back, which he launched at the recently- concluded Nasscom summit in Mumbai, only reiterates that.

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Long dismissed as sitting ducks for private and foreign banks, state-owned banks have undergone a complete makeover to attract new customer segments. Here's how.

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The Indian Institute of Management-Calcutta (IIM-C) has increased the fee for its two-year post-graduate programme to Rs 9 lakh. The Rs 4 lakh increase, applicable from this session, comes a year after the increase in fee by other IIMs. IIM-C is also increasing its need-based scholarship fund and stipend for research scholars.

&#39;Increase in fees will help us break even&#39;

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The Strategist Quiz (#087)

Answers to last week&#39s quiz (#086)

Even in the times of meltdown, the education sector seems to be a favourite option with corporates planning a sucessful venture. In the backdrop of open economic policies, liberal trade regime and global mobility of resources throwing new challenges to the management education, Unitedworld School of Business aims to produce skilled management resources, trained to engage themselves with major global trends and new economic world order.

Unitedworld to churn out global MBAs

The All India Management Association (AIMA)-administered test for admissions to B-schools in India, the Management Aptitude Test (MAT), will go online from September. The online MAT will be conducted in addition to the regular MAT.

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XIMB to launch PGP for executives

TCS to go for just-in-time recruitments

Age factor: SRK out of Youngistaan

Unfinished business

Closing the gap

Make performance matter

The top 10 business bestsellers

KIT: The health and fitness industry in India

The Strategist Quiz (#086)

Answers to last week's quiz (#085)

Firms shift to online interviews as technology saves cost

IITs, IIMs to mentor entrepreneurship cells

Learn to deliver more with less: James Champy

Public sector banks: A brand new mould

The top 10 business bestsellers

KIT: The Indian textile industry

'Increase in fees will help us break even'

The Strategist Quiz (#087)

Answers to last week's quiz (#086)

Unitedworld to churn out global MBAs