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St. Joseph's signs agreement with U.S. university

THE CITY-BASED St. Joseph's College of Business Administration has a signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the United States-based University of Central Oklahoma (UCO) to broaden the level of international understanding between faculty and students of the two countries.

Among the objectives of this formal institutional partnership are to select qualified Indian students to be able to earn a degree from UCO after completing degree requirements at the SJCBA to help the two institutions take up cooperative research opportunities for select qualified faculty and to effect exchange opportunities.

The MoU will involve a select Master of Business Administration (MBA) programme, for which the students of the MBA course can apply for admission.

XIME triumphs at Ushus 2005

The team from the Xavier Institute of Management and Entrepreneurship (XIME) has bagged the award for the best team at "Ushus 2005," an inter-collegiate management fest organised by Christ College Institute of Management.

XIME students George Abraham and Arun Samuel won the first place in the systems game, Technotes, while Priyanka M. and Sonia T. won the second spot in the HR game, Perfect Pitch.

While ICFAI Belgaum walked away with the quiz trophy, the other events were won by teams from ICFAI Hyderabad, IBMR, XIME and ICFAI Kolkata. The Best Manager event had the participants being grilled by Fiona from Radio City.

Eventually, Tejaswini, a student of ICFAI Hyderabad, was crowned as "The Maestro," the host's way of calling the best manager.

Day two of the fest had about 30 corporate teams take part in "Inquest," the corporate quiz. The quiz winner was a cross corporate team from Kotak and HCL.

Thirty-seven colleges, including 17 outstation teams, participated in a mix of nine innovative contests, held over the two-day event.

Inaugurating the event, Tesco Chief Executive Officer Meena Ganesh said globalisation has created the need for global managers.

Refresher course

The Bangalore University UGC Academic Staff College, along with the Departments of Commerce, Management and Economics recently conducted an inter-disciplinary refresher course in Business Studies. An MoU was signed on the occasion between Bangalore University and Tally Solutions to promote computerised accounting education among students and the teaching fraternity.

PES students score

The P.E.S. College of Pharmacy has bagged the 1st, 2nd and 6th ranks in M. Pharma "Pharmaceutical Chemistry" subject in the final examinations conducted in April 2005 by the Rajiv Gandhi University of Health Sciences. The college secured a 100 per cent result in the examination.

The rank holders were R.G. Shruthi (1), Devesh Talan (2) and K. Pavan Kumar (6).

Seminar

The ICFAI Centre for Business Research, engaged in developing books and case studies in the ramified disciplines of Business Management, has organised a seminar on "Impeccable Logistics and Supply Chain Management" on December 3.

Among the speakers will be G.L. Talekar, president and secretary of the Mumbai Dabbawallahs' Association.

The Dabbawallahs, incidentally, is a 113-year business run by a group of people with practically no formal education, no investment and no technology. Management guru C.K. Prahlad had hailed Mumbai's ubiquitous Dabbawallahs as the quintessential masters of supply chain management.

The ICBR team is writing a book on the Dabbawallahs, the content of which will span their 100-year-old history, their logistics, business efficiency, fame and future.

RASHEED KAPPAN

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