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Technology has the potential to improve the quality, safety, and efficiency of health care at a much reduced cost. The digitisation of healthcare create a foundation for a future that offers more efficient patient care and cost savings. Innovations such as M-health, Telemedicine, VoIP, multimedia collaboration tools, and wireless services allow medical staff to access patient data and communications tools from any location while nanotechnology in healthcare is all set to revolutionise the entire gamut of services and its delivery.

KIT: Technology in healthcare

Packed stadiums, close finishes and a brand new winning team owned by the country&rsquo;s biggest movie star &ndash; the fifth edition of the Indian Premier League (IPL) was all these and more. Yet, brand IPL has taken a few hard knocks following a series of controversies. Result: decline of ratings and advertiser&rsquo;s interest.

Brand IPL comes under a cloud

A party spokesperson defended his leader&rsquo;s obsession with building statues of her own with the explanation that it was just a &ldquo;permanent poster&rdquo;. The ostentation of constructing a big garden to celebrate a particular community was explained away by comparing it to the Taj Mahal. When the Taj was made, it too may have been seen as the extravagance of the king but today it is seen as a memorial to eternal love.

Madhukar Sabnavis: The laws of creativity

India, in the twenty first century, is comfortably poised at the threshold of excellence when it comes to business education. However excellence in my view, is the state or quality of excelling that earns honour and respect from people. Moments of excellence can happen by default when the rest fail and only one succeeds. That is not sustainable excellence since this is achieved by only a stray episode coming through a stroke of luck.

Dynamics of business education: An Indian perspective

Companies find identifying the right talent as much a challenge as colleges in identifying the right corporation to place their final-year students. However, the All India Management Association (AIMA) has already set in motion a solution to such problems.

Spotting the right talent in a bigger pool

&ldquo;Education is not the filling of a vessel but the kindling of a flame,&rdquo; said Socrates. Yes, that&rsquo;s a tough call but management education institutes in India seem to have done a decent job so far. An entry into an IIM is a passport to success for many. This is based on past history of IIM pass-outs getting plum jobs in the information technology sector, in banking and in other fields. Indeed, Indian professionals are in great demand across the world. It is not simply because they hail from reputed educational institutions but also because they put in a lot of hard work to prove themselves.

Down but not out

India&rsquo;s growing over Rs 350-crore executive education continues to attract B-schools. While the US-headquartered Harvard Business School (HBS) opened its classroom in India at the Taj Lands End, a five-star luxury hotel at Bandra, in suburban Mumbai recently, the Wharton School of Business, University of Pennsylvania, is firming up plans to have a physical presence in India.

India's executive education market attracts International B-schools

The economic slowdown seems to have taken the steam out of entrepreneurship &mdash; at least in the campuses of premier business schools.

Entrepreneurship bug lies low at B-school campuses

As companies stay away from campuses and pay packages plunge by over 30 per cent, the lesser known business schools in the country are asking students to look out for jobs on their own. B-schools began their placements last October-November, but five months down the line, they have been able to place only 30 to 50 per cent of their batch sizes.

B-school students to fend for themselves

The older Indian Institutes of Management have competition from the younger ones. After learning the tricks of the trade from their mentors, the younger IIMs are now approaching the regular set of companies that visit older IIMs for placements.

IIM vs IIM for placement pie

The Wharton School of Business, University of Pennsylvania, is the latest entrant to the growing Rs 350-crore executive education space in India. The school, ranked number two by Financial Times in its Global MBA rankings, said it will soon have its own centre in India.

After Harvard, Wharton looks for a classroom in India

A bad job market and a relatively unknown institute profile have made many B-schools add a new component to their charges &mdash; placement fee.

The art of placement: Cash under the table

At a review meeting in June 2011, the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Delhi, decided to do away with the Joint Management Entrance Test (JMET). The decade-old exam, a qualifying test for getting admissions into business schools run by IITs and the Indian Institute of Science, has now given way to the Common Admission Test (CAT), promoted by the Indian Institutes of Management (IIMs).

Shot in the arm for CAT, as B-schools seek credibility	

Down south, a B-school has put up kiosks at an airport to promote itself. Another B-school is flaunting its international tie-ups to attract students.

Demand for seats in lower rung b-schools to dip further

Since the opening of Indian economy in the 90s, it is being integrated in the global business environment at a fast rate. The changes are coming from many directions and present both opportunities and concerns. The challenge is transforming students joining B-schools today to face the new world with confidence. This requires fresh thinking in designing and delivering management education.

Lifting up non-premier b-schools

Business education in India stands at the crossroads. On the one hand, we read reports of global schools seriously looking at India as the destination for their next off-site campus, on the other we see debates raging about the quality of education imparted within the hallowed precincts of our business schools.

Quantity or quality: What matters more?

India is not perceived as a study destination by international students, tells Dr Stephen D&rsquo;Silva, director, Jamnalal Bajaj Institute of Management Studies (JBIMS), Mumbai to Indian Management as he discusses myriad subjects like slowdown in placements, research being the sore point of Indian management institutes and the challenges that foreign universities coming to India will pose.

We are not so worried about student's choices getting affected due to a slow year: Dr Stephen D'Silva

Even as The Foreign Education Providers (Regulation) Bill has been gathering dust for almost two years, international universities and international B-schools are finding their ways to India.

Global attractions

Rohan Verma conceptualised and created MapmyIndia.com, a company that specialises in GPS navigation, online maps and various enterprise solutions, in the summer of 2004, after completing his first year of college at Stanford University, USA. He now leads the marketing operations at MapmyIndia, one of the fastest growing mapping start-ups in the country, and focuses on &ldquo;introducing innovative and disruptive products to the Indian market.

We see navigation moving towards the in-dash and mobile platforms for convenience reasons: Rohan Verma

Some of the biggest names in the corporate world didn&rsquo;t go to business schools. Both Steve Jobs and Bill Gates were college dropouts and yet went on to build two rival empires. Probably, the stories sound illusory but they are true. However, in the world which you and I live, this cannot be generalised.

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