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INTERVIEW
Hummingbird Suites
- Vinod Thimmaya
"Entrepreneurship is extremely difficult in India; there is great excitement in translating one's dreams into reality."
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NEWSMAKER
Barack Obama : First African-American President of USA
-- M P Vishali
The President-elect Obama, faced with the biggest global financial crisis and a host of domestic economic ills, which include rising unemployment, falling home values, deeply shaken confidence and a daunting array of foreign policy challenges, needs to darn up the country's frayed international image.
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HUMAN RESOURCE
Employment and Employability
-- Bholanath Dutta
In the current scenario, employment opportunities are immense, but the industry seeks employable graduates and not just graduates. Employability doesn't mean getting a job. There is a wrong perception: qualification=employability. Just because a student has completed MBA degree, somehow people think employability is automatic. Employability is not just developing attributes, techniques and skills just to enable a student to get a job or progress in his career. It is all about continuous learning, and less emphasis on `employ' and more on improvement of `ability'. This article discusses the concept and different contexts of `employability'. It also focuses on measures to develop the employability skills of management graduates and bridge the demand-supply gap.
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CAMPUS LEARNING
Summer Internship Program
-- Vissapragada Srinivas
Summer Internship Program (SIP) provides numerous benefits and an opportunity for MBA aspirants to gain work experience. It is a professional development activity and is an added advantage for the MBAs to gain academic credit and hands-on work experience.
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BUSINESS ENVIRONMENT
Global Meltdown and its Impact A Perspective
-- Vikas Shrotriya
The global meltdown is exhibiting ripple effects in different corners of the world. It is definitely going to affect most of the economies as interdependence among various economies has been increasing in recent times. This article discusses some effects of the recent global meltdown.
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BUSINESS ENVIRONMENT
Business Ethics, Bank Failures and Government Bailouts
-- K C Sharma
The blow-up of the financial crisis was seen in the crumbling of iconic investment banks such as Lehman Brothers, Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley. The waves of the financial tsunami have breached the continental boundaries and assumed global dimensions.
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COVER STORY
Talent War : Myth or Reality?
-- Neeta Baporikar
Today's employees are being hard-pressed to achieve high levels of production, all the while coping with the stress of wondering whose head is next on the chopping block. Against this, organizations that create cultures, value work-life balance, make people feel appreciated and provide a sense of security will ultimately win in the long run.
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COVER STORY
Talent Management
-- V Venkateswara Rao
Strategic talent management is gaining prominence against the current uncertainty in global economic climate. Against growing skills shortages across the globe, talent management will increasingly become a key differentiator for companies.
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CAREER MANAGEMENT
Attrition
-- Indranil Banerjee
To reduce the shock of employees leaving individually or in groups, the Human Resource Departments (HRD) must draw cross-functional support for due implementation of employee-friendly policies and processes.
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CAREER MANAGEMENT
Understanding Corporate Culture
-- Vivekanand
This article tries to look at corporate culture from the student's point of view. Specifically, it looks at the significance of understanding the importance of corporate culture with respect to their future work life and its impact on their professional career.
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MANAGEMENT GURU Michael E Porter : Father of Modern Strategy
-- N Vijaya Lakshmi
Michael Porter is one of the most-sought-after experts on strategy worldwide. He is a leading thinker in areas of strategy, competitiveness, healthcare delivery and other subjects related to business, government, non-profit organizations and philanthropic activities.
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TECHNOLOGY
Business Intelligence
-- Jyotiranjan Hota
There is a wide variation and inconsistency in the way Business Intelligence (BI) is perceived by the top management, its implementation methodologies and success rate.
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PERSONALITY DEVELOPMENT
Service-Learning : Gaining Momentum
-- Venugopal Menon
This article covers the different benefits of service-learning and its impact on students, teachers, other stakeholders and the community. It throws light on the actual implementation by the teachers, management and community, the impediments in the entire process and how one can overcome these. It also talks about priming and fine-tuning a student's behavior, attitude, communication and critical thinking in his approach not only as a professional but also as a socially responsible human being.
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BOOK REVIEW
Billions of Entrepreneurs : How China and India are Reshaping Their Futures and Yours
-- M Hanumantha Rao
The book offers a fairly comprehensive comparative study of how China and India have gone about the task of transforming their respective economies. It dwells at length on the fundamental difference between the two countries and the underlying compulsions.
© 2007 Tarun Khanna. All Rights Reserved. IUP holds the copyright for the review.
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