To excel, B-schools will need to redefine the restrictive walls within which they currently operate.

The B-school of tomorrow

Business Standard

The Indian School of Business (ISB), Hyderabad, has tied-up with three top Asian B-schools to devise a strategy to attract more students from the US, Canada and Europe.

ISB forms 'Ivy League' with 3 Asian B-schools

Indian B-schools need to revamp intake of students to make a mark.

Challenges for Indian B-schools

Business Standard Best B-Schools Survey does not rank the management institutes but puts them in hierarchical categories which help aspiring students to compare.

Under the lens

Business schools in each category have been ranked in alphabetical order. That is why, in the Super League, Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, is on top and the School of Business and Human Resources, Jamshedpur, at the bottom. In other categories, this has caused business schools with a lower overall score to be listed above those with a higher overall score.

How to read the ratings

A list of aspects that organisations expect from fresh management graduates.

A will-do attitude works

Some top business schools that are not on the list tell their story.

Edge over others

Cloud service is a simple technology with a complicated name. Verticals that predominantly have security aspect on top of their mind are now exploring this seemingly cost-effective and secure system. To a geek it is ubiquitous servers storing valuable data, for a corporation it is a managed service with complete control.

Is the cloud ready for India?

Some time towards the end of February last year, credit rating agency Crisil had downgraded Lifestyle International, a part of the $3.2-billion Dubai-based Landmark group, a notch. The closely-held company, which today runs 22 Lifestyle departmental stores, 11 Home Centre furniture and household accessory stores and six value format Splash stores, had totted up losses of Rs 46.5 crore in the first nine months of 2008-09, up sharply from Rs 18.9 crore in the whole of 2007-08. Crisil put down the mounting losses to high rentals and people cost, low productivity and weak debt protection measures. The prognosis was grim. The economic slowdown was at its peak, and consumers had started to down-trade heavily. Retailers like Lifestyle could not expand, and that kept economies of scale from kicking in &mdash; aggregation holds the key in modern retail. Crisil, little surprise then, predicted more losses in the future.

A thrifty lifestyle

Research conducted with a group of global organisations reveals how they are proactively addressing cultural integration issues in mergers and acquisitions.

Leveraging the lessons

As service operations use IT to become more efficient across all processes and workflows, they will need to align their work practices with the strengths of automation.

A better way to automate service operations

Deciding how and what to hedge requires a company-wide look at the total costs and benefits.

The right way to hedge

Indian handset brands have taken on their multinational rivals.

Local call

Though the International Monetary Fund has raised its global growth projection for this year by 0.4 percentage points to 4.6 per cent &mdash; it is 3.3 per cent for the US, 1 per cent for the Euro region, 10.5 per cent for China and 9.4 per cent for India &mdash;, things don&rsquo;t look that rosy.

The inside story

Negotiations are a part of everyday life. It is a process of using a wide variety of skills to create a valuable proposition for all concerned.

Master the art of negotiation

How to balance the ethics formula in clarifying the ethical bases for executive choices.

Balance the ethics right

Titled 'United Minds', the event is being planned to create awareness about India's impending demographic dividend. &ldquo;A large simulation is the best way to get participants more actively involved in the competitive process, and so to improve the effectiveness, efficiency and scale of the competition. The premier strategic management simulation combines practical hands-on decision making with real world modelling. The effort is to identify extraordinary minds that embody the potential to lead young India to its pinnacle,&rdquo; said Ritesh Hada, managing director, UnitedWorld School of Business (UWSB).

UWSB ties up with IIM Bangalore 

The top 10 business bestsellers

India accounts for 7.5 per cent of the total new cases of cancer globally, with China and the US being the only two countries ahead of India in new cases (22 per cent and 11 per cent incidence, respectively).

KIT: Oncology market: Trends and opportunities

    The Indian founder of this business group was a college drop-out who drove taxi cabs in London and cleaned hotel rooms to support himself before starting his career in the business of retailing. Name him.

The Strategist Quiz (#227)

    According to business history, China was the largest economy in the world from 1500 AD to 1890AD, but its run at the top position was interrupted briefly in 1700 AD by another country. Name it.

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