Looking to do a management courses? Here is a review of MBA schools for you.

Bangalore Management Academy (BMA):

The new breed of Indians sees opportunities everywhere. While we’re still a careful culture, we’ve come to believe in acceptable risks, for rewards. This is why even as financial legends topple in the West, young Indians are already preparing for the next wave of prosperity, led by the Asian giants – India China.

It is at places like The Bangalore Management Academy that young, aspiring professionals are groomed to take on the mantle of the next generation of global leaders, to build tomorrow, on the remarkable accomplishments of today’s Indian Business giants.

BMA is a new management Institution that they choose to apply more than the tried and tested traditional methods to education. The institution has well-earned reputation for providing globally recognised Master’s and Bachelor’s degrees in a truly international academic environment. The curriculum, faculty, teaching methods, facilities, infrastructure – all measure up to the highest international bench mark and maintained through superb educational alliances with the best universities and institutions around the world, such as the Bharathidasan Institute of Management (BIM Trichy), the Edith Cowan University (Australia), the University of Aberdeen School of Law (UK), the Asia Pacific University College of Technology and Innovation (Malaysia), the Retailers Association of India (RAI), the Pondicherry University (PU) and the Singapore Human Resources institute (SHRi).

These tie-ups imply that BMA now offers various kinds of MBA programmes, as well as MA degrees including law and technical degrees. The Singapore Human Resources institute (SHRi) alliance offers Indian professionals qualifications from Singapore’s internationally renowned HR accreditation authority.

Institute for Financial Management and Research (IFMR):

Established in 1970 as a non-profit organization, The Institute for Financial Management and Research (IFMR), Chennai, is a leading business school, aiming to train and develop globally competitive managers to serve the needs of the Indian industry. Its curriculum is a mix of theory and simulated real life exposure, so its graduates are equipped to meet all kinds of challenges. Sponsored by ICICI, the House of Kotharis and other major industrial groups, and with the Finance Secretary, Government of TamilNadu and the Vice Chancellor of the University of Madras are ex-official board members. IFMR is recognised as a Social Science Research Institute by the Department of Scientific and Industrial Research, Government of India, and is approved as an institution of national importance by the Ministry of Finance. The faculty members have worked and consulted with both national and international organizations. The students too, are involved in these projects, ensuring a continuous interaction with industry. IFMR has a University of Madras approved Ph.D. degree in Finance and Economics. IFMR emphasizes a global perspective as to bring in the best international practices. It also believes in forging strong links with the industry in the development of teaching material, research, student projects, placement and consultancy services. The stress is on leadership with ethics. The approach to learning seeks to prepare students to be effective managers in the face of changes in management theory and practices as well as in the external environment. IFMR helps students realize their potential through active involvement in the learning process-they learn how to take decisions and meet stringent deadlines through assignments, cases, role-play, projects and simulated real life situations.

CSR-GHRDC B-School Survey 2008: New Emerging Potential and Promising B-Schools

Name of the B-Schools (alphabetically)



Asian School of Business, Thiruvananthapuram

Bangalore Management Academy, Bangalore

Cosmic Business School, New Delhi

IILM Business School, New Delhi

KIIT University, Bhubaneswar

K.R Mangalam Global Institute of Management, New Delhi

Poona School of Business, Pune



Competition Success Review 2008.

When used effectively business cards can be a great marketing tool. In this article we will discuss 5 of the most effective ways that you can use your business cards everyday.

1. Be Creative.

Be creative in the design of your business cards. Business cards do not just need to be bits of paper with your contact details on them. Be creative and give your business cards a use and purpose. Make them a powerful marketing tool in the promotion of your business.

Your aim is to make your business card something that the receiver will want to keep and make use of. This is the difference between a well thought out and designed business card and a piece of paper with your contact details on it that will probably be thrown into the trash.

Give the recipient of your business cards a special offer. For example if you are a school/training centre you may offer ‘first lesson for free with this card’ or if you run a shop maybe you will offer ‘10% of any purchase over $50′.

Whatever your business, there is a creative way to give your business card real value to the receiver. If you can think and implement these new creative ways before your business does, you will have an instant advantage in that area of business, and should definitely see a rise in business if you have promoted you cards correctly.

2. The 1 minute rule

The 1 minute rule basically says, if you talk to a person for longer than 1 minute they should already have one of your business cards in their hand.

This means in conversations you need to find a way to talk about what you do, and be in the position to be able to offer one of your business cards to the person you are talking to in the first minute of conversation. This can be likened to a conversation you may have with someone at the bus stop or on the elevator. The conversation will end in a very short time and you only have a very short time to get your message across, or in this case get your business card to the recipient.

The 1 minute rule is basically just practice to get your business card out there as much as you can. Many people go through all the trouble of ordering business cards just to let them sit in a corner of their office. To use business cards effectively you must be giving them out at every opportunity that you have.

3. Make them keepers

Once you have given your business card to someone what is going to keep it from being thrown in the trash or forgotten about. Unless you are selling necessities it is probably fair to say that most likely they do not need the product/services you are offering at the present moment. Hopefully though in the future will come a time when they are looking for that product/service and that is when your business card still needs to be in the hands of the person.

Why does someone want your business card? If you cannot answer that easily, maybe it is time to think about a new business card design.

Does your business card have valuable information on it? By valuable I mean a map, discount, calendar, measurements, charts or anything relevant to your industry? If it doesn’t, you may want to think about adding a value feature to your business card.

4. Leave them everywhere you go

During a number of trips around a number of businesses in my local area I have noticed piles of business cards on the counters of various businesses. For example a recent trip to my accountant I noticed they had a few piles of business cards on the counter for mortgage lenders, home loans, etc.

This can be likened very much to link swapping that goes on with webmasters looking for business referrals from similar businesses.

Every place that you frequent, you should ask if they mind you leaving a stack of you business card there for their customers. You could try this at your doctors office, your dentist, accountant, lawyer, beauty saloon or hairdresser.

For similar businesses (e.g. accountant > lawyer or money lender) maybe you can arrange to have a stack of their business cards displayed at your business when they offer your business cards at theirs. This can be a very effective way to use you business cards and can have great returns.

5. Ask for an opinion

‘Do you mind if I ask you a quick question? I’m looking for opinions on my new business card’. After asking the question and bringing the topic up hand them a business card. Make sure that they keep it, even if they try to hand it back to you tell them that you have thousands printed already.

Thank the person for their time, and if they ever need the product or service that you are offer that your contact information is on the business card. Even if that person may not directly contact your business, there is always a chance that they may pass your card or business name onto another party.

Even in the worse case they may go home and tell their friend how a nut just came and talked at the bus stop and handed them a business card for his lawn mowing service. That friend may say, ‘I’ve been looking for a good lawn mower’. ‘Here’s the business card I got’. And there is a situation where you may still even get business out of handing your business card to a stranger and even a disinterested stranger.

By following just one of the above five ideas each day, you can turn your business card into a great marketing tool, and see an almost instant increases in business.

Businesses are always looking for cheaper, smarter, safer solutions, and as a result many businesses constantly update their data management and IT solutions for ease of use and in response to their changing needs. The problem is, implementing new IT solutions absorbs a lot of budget and time.

Recently, more and more business experts have been recommending that businesses consider cloud computing as an alternative to traditional data management methods. Cloud computing provides businesses with new software and IT solutions over the internet, which, say the business experts, has the potential to benefit all businesses.

The latest expert business TV show on cloud computing suggests that it is particularly beneficial for smaller to medium size businesses because these businesses have smaller budgets. When using traditional methods of data management, businesses have to purchase hardware as they require it and then sell it on or store it when they are finished using it. This often means businesses have their budgets tied up in equipment in the back room.

Business expert Fergus Gloster believes that another important benefit of cloud computing is its low risk. “Cloud computing services are able to expand and contract with the business’s needs and because cloud computing is delivered on a pay-as-you-go basis, it means none of the budget is wasted on solutions that are only temporarily required”, says Gloster.

Gloster shares his expert business advice in a recent business TV show on business television network, yourBusinessChannel.

Features Editor at yourBusinessChannel Mark Sinclair understands the practical benefits of cloud computing more than most. Says Sinclair: “With cloud computing working on a pay-as-you-use basis, there is little guesswork in the budget. This is excellent for our business, as we are a business television network and we are constantly looking for low risk, but effective ways to screen business TV shows and provide expert business advice to others.”

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