Harivansh Chaturvedi, director of Greater Noida-based Birla Institute of Management and Technology (BIMTECH), is busy these days sifting through some unusual proposals from B-schools. In the past six months alone, five B-schools &mdash; two from Kolkata, one from the Northeast and two from Delhi &mdash; have approached him to take control of their B-schools.

Tough course: B-schools on sale

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Summer internships are important for management students as it is the first exposure of students to the corporate world. It also helps the students to gain the knowledge which may be linked with theoretical one.

Students' corner

    Director Sajid Nadiadwala is convinced that Housefull 2, which releases today, will be a blockbuster, riding on its previous box-office success.

Lucky twice over? 

Here is some bad news for ultra-luxury brands wanting to set up shop in India. A study by CPP Luxury Industry Consultancy reveals that more than 60 per cent of India&rsquo;s ultra rich buy stuff abroad, especially in Dubai, followed by London and Hong Kong.

The ultra-luxe feel

A new job as a recruitment consultant should sound easy enough. Supplying candidates to high-profile clients and negotiating the (often astronomical) offers made is all part of the territory. One must keep their wits about them and ensure that the deal goes smoothly. All this was drilled into my head from the moment I occupied my seat at the glitzy office of my firm in a Mumbai suburban business district.

Wear deodorant at all times

The University of Westminster, one of the UK&rsquo;s leading international universities, on Friday signed a memorandum of understanding with HR College of Commerce and Economics, Mumbai.

Westminster University, Mumbai college tie up

It began with a provocatively titled headline &mdash; WTF &mdash; in January this year. But by the end of it, Women Take Forever (or WTF) was the most popular topic on Facebook and Twitter, with men as well as women voicing their opinions on the subject, even taking potshots at each other whenever the opportunity presented itself.

Maybelline seeks to crack the beauty code

Jawed Habib, the popular hair and beauty salon chain, opened 150 outlets last year. From 37 outlets in 2006, Habib has grown to over 340-plus outlets across 83 cities in India. That&rsquo;s a huge growth, but others such as Lakme, VLCC, Naturals and Juice are not far behind in tapping the Rs 6,900- crore salon industry, growing at a CAGR of 35 per cent.

Salons make the cut

From the Eurozone trouble and the ripple effect of the Arab revolution, to the issues relating to corruption and protests against nuclear power plants back home - India Inc is facing a new era of risk. An air of concern surrounds global players interested in India as well. But there are opportunities round the corner, points out Richard Fenning, chief executive officer, Control Risks, and Patrick Lord, managing director, India, Control Risks.

Now is the time Indian companies should be pumping up their investments overseas: Richard Fenning & Patrick Lord

Sustainable business is much more than managing risks. It&rsquo;s increasingly a lot about creating value by converting challenges into opportunities. Embedding sustainability into strategy and operations is increasingly becoming necessary for competitiveness and to remain relevant in rapidly changing markets and industry structures.

Transforming business to create sustainable value

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Indian Telemedicine market is estimated to be $7.5 million and is expected to grow at a CAGR of around 20 per cent over the next five years.

KIT: Telemedicine market in India

    After the recent tragic killing of Trayvon Martin in the US, this brand has unintentionally taken on the role of brand representative for the shooting protests. Name the brand and state the reason.

Answers to last week's The Strategist Quiz (#247)

Eeryone has a type, but only Wall Street will take anything with a pulse. My industry spends countless hours and millions of dollars teaching people how to read people. Understanding individuals&rsquo; motivations, what makes them happy or sad and fearful or trusting, will allow the practitioner to sell them things.

How Wall Street sees you

Nearly 560,000 aspirants took the IIT Joint Entrance Exam (JEE) on Sunday, compared to 460,000 who attempted it last year.

560,000 candidates take IIT-JEE examination

The economic slowdown of 2008-09 is one Amit Suryavanshi would love to forget. Despite bagging a plum job offer from an international bank, Suryavanshi remained jobless for a good six months after graduating when the bank sent him a regret letter. He passed from one of the top 10 B-schools, based in Mumbai.

Indian job market upbeat, no slowdown blues

If healthcare services in India has to be made ubiquitous, rise in public expenditure as well as specific taxes should be taken up by the government, said Dileep Mavalankar, faculty member of Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad.

'Public expenditure on health should be raised'

Companies in Asia are concentrating on retaining talent and upgrading skills, according to a survey by BTI Consultants, the executive search division for Kelly Services India. &quot;In the current global scenario, business leaders across are bounded with uncertainties and concerns ranging from economic conditions to staffing problems and government regulations,&quot; said James Agrawal, Consulting Director &amp; Head, BTI Consultants India.

Asian biz needs skilled employees, says survey

After the success of Swift, small car giant Maruti Suzuki now hopes to create ripples in the multi-utility vehicle (MUV) space with the launch of the Ertiga on Thursday.

Ertiga creates a new category

After this year&rsquo;s Budget, the international and domestic business community has added the spectre of retrospective tax laws to the litany of complaints against India. The usual big-ticket suspects are uncertain policy, multiplicity of rules, corruption, lack of infrastructure and so on and so forth. But commercial life in India involves some other peculiarities that don&rsquo;t get captured in the big indices like the World Bank&rsquo;s Doing Business or other numbers.

Kanika Datta: Small change, big deal 

After years of fighting with the government to go international, the Indian Institutes of Management (IIMs) may not spread their wings at all. The three IIMs &mdash; Ahmedabad, Bangalore and Calcutta &mdash; confirmed to Business Standard that the economics of having an international campus is not in their favour and the same may not happen in the near future.

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