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.

MAT to go online

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How McDonald's is trying to get more out of its stores.

Bigger bites

BOLLYWOOD: After just a film or two, young film stars are charging the earth for endorsing brands.

Charge of the tyke brigade

Titan Industries, the watch and jewellery arm of the Tata Group, is planning to put a break on its advertising plans. The Bangalore-headquartered company will hence forth focus on tactical advertisements, which will generate immediate sales rather than &lsquo;theme advertising&rsquo;, which aims at brand-building over a longer period.

Titan to shun theme ads

Even as the mass-market watch brands are experiencing poor sales growth, the premium-to-luxury watch segment is seeing rapid growth, attracting global jewellery and watch players to India.

Premium watch segment beats slump, grows by leaps and bounds

Sri Dharmasthala Manjunatheswara Institute for Management Development (SDMIMD) has joined the BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa) Business Schools consortium to ensure world class education and knowledge sharing for the future managers.

Mysore biz school joins BRICS

Of these, 56 offers are pre-placement offers (PPOs), made to students based on the summer internships. A few PPOs were rejected by students due to the expected curb on H1B visas and location preferences.

207 job offers for 265 IIM-C grads in Phase I

The economic slowdown has finally reached campuses of the premier Indian Institutes of Management (IIMs).

Slowing economy may end IIM placements boom

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 School of Business set to churn out global MBAs

Mumbai, the largest metropolitan city of India, may well be on the path taken by cities like Amsterdam and Netherlands, if it gets inspired to implement sustainability development.

Now, a protocol to sustain Mumbai

Faced with a severe downturn at home, several US universities have now turned to India to sell their executive education programmes.

US universities sell executive courses in India

Madhukar Sabnavis on the highs and the new of the year gone by.

Madhukar Sabnavis: Of Brands And Advertising 2008

Let&rsquo;s face it. If you are a premium fabric brand, it is very difficult to stay away from the fashion circuit.

The warmth of a time-worn leader

To focus on green buildings, hospitals and pharma.

Wipro's  lighting business to revamp strategy

At a time when liquidity has become more of a bane for start-ups as well as firms looking for expansion, the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad (IIM-A) is organising a first-of-its-kind Venture

IIM-A students to host venture capital, private equity conference

ADVERTISING: Agency will now handle 7UP as well as Quaker Oats.

BBDO grabs two Pepsi accounts from JWT

NAAC is studying university ranking systems worldwide to identify parameters.

Indian varsities will be ranked

At a time when most B-schools are slashing annual festival budgets because corporate sponsorships are drying up, IIM Calcutta (IIM-C) has increased its budget by nearly 20 per cent for its four

IIM-C fests insulated from downturn

Mumbai Business School (MBS), which is all set to launch officially this month, is finalising collaboration with leading universities like Georgia State University, Atlanta USA, for executive

Mumbai Business School set for launch

The All India Management Association (AIMA), the apex body of management schools in India, plans to go global by forming alliances with foreign universities like Yale and INSEAD.

AIMA to collaborate with foreign universities

Gurgaon-based Pearl School of Business (PSB) is planning to set up a new campus at Knowledge Park, Greater Noida. The institute has already bought five-acre land at the proposed new location.

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