The prospects for investment, capacity utilisation, production, employment and exports as elements that build up the business confidence were also looked into by the survey. The survey revealed that 30 per cent of the respondents plan to increase investments during April-September 2009-10.
The equations would take change completely in case a third front forms the government. Many experts feel that banking, insurance and healthcare will not be impacted whoever forms the government.
As part of its focus on developing startups across the world, Goldman Sachs is looking at training and development of around 29 select women entrepreneurs in India.
The study by iimjobs.com reveals that salaries in finance tend to rise faster than in other sectors. The average salary for a finance MBA with 5-7 years of experience, reveals the survey, was Rs 18.5 lakh, about 20 per cent higher than their batchmates in the IT industry. While the difference between salaries in finance and consulting is not significant early in the career, it increases for people with over 5-6 years of experience.
A student of IIM, Ahmedabad, said: "Usually most students from IIMs get good job offers. They move on to even better ones within six months' time. But in the current meltdown scenario, many students have seen a dearth of good offers and taken up whatever average jobs offered. There is a feeling of insecurity and dissatisfaction, which has prompted most to rely on job portals like naukri.com, iimjobs.com and others and given the hope of procuring better offers."
"India and China are the two countries which have showed growth," he said in Ahmedabad. "India has high positive growth and it is faced not with recession but a slowdown," he added.
In the wake of interest rates coming down, realty companies seem to be banking on low cost affordable housing projects.
EON48 offers intuitive user interface and touch sense navigation for efficient call management and one touch access to system features.
In a bid to increase efficiency, telecom major Vodafone Essar is set to relocate over 1,500 of its employees to Ahmedabad from all over the country.
A number of companies are coming out with learning modules and solutions, either as complete game-based educational courses or part of a larger learning module. This connects learners into environments that closely represent the actual environment within which they need to apply their learning, including related real-life problems or complexities.
Despite a troubled job market that could continue for another year or more, many B-schools are looking at expanding the number of seats by up to 50 per cent and launching new programmes. B-schools maintain the demand for good students will remain even in a troubled job market and the student pool and programme portfolio need to be expanded. "Besides, when these students pass out in the next two years, the market will be better," said a director from one of the institutes.
Car lovers have yet another reason to rejoice with the launch of BIGgaddi.com,a unique and informative automobile portal, specialising in online buying and selling of used and new cars and two-wheelers.
Lignite contributes large part of total royalty income in the state. Lignite production in Gujarat is estimated to be decline by 10 lakh tonnes this year on account of closure of Panandhro mines, according to government sources. Last year, the lignite production in the state stood at 99 lakhs (9.9 million) tonnes resulting into a royalty income of appoximately Rs 50 crore (Rs 500 million).
Celebrations after India's Oscar moment refuse to die down. Now, it is the telecom services providers who are laughing their way to banks, thanks to the Slumdog Millionaire's Oscar sweep.
Mumbai, the largest metropolitan city of India, may well be on the path taken by cities like Amsterdam and Netherlands, if it gets inspired to implement sustainability development.
Mumbai-based SP Jain Institute of Management and Research has announced that it will provide initial financial assistance to the tune of Rs 20 lakhs (Rs 2 million)to any of its students who wishes to don the entrepreneurial hat. The business school has set up an entrepreneurship cell in association with National Entrepreneurship Network.
Firms like Abbot, Piramal and Bayer India have made their presence felt at KJ Somaiya Institute of Management Studies, Mumbai. Increasingly, pharma companies are finding it easier to recruit people from B-schools for jobs in marketing, human resources and finance.
Analyses cricketers' valuation based on their attributes.
Apart from textiles, gems and jewellery, engineering, chemicals and petrochemicals, which are the sectors where the state has proved its strength, the new policy will focus on potential sectors such as agri business, fisheries and informal sector. Emerging sectors such as IT/ ITEs, nano technology, biotechnology, non-conventional energy resources have been given priority in the policy.
Mumbai Business School (MBS), which is all set to launch officially this month, is finalising collaboration with leading universities like Georgia State University, Atlanta USA, for executive development programme and Educatis University, Switzerland, for doctoral programme.
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