Monday, December 10, 2007

FICCI's Annual Capital Markets Conference

FICCI's Annual Capital Markets Conference

Indian Capital Markets: Ahead of Curve

31st January 2008, Hotel Taj Lands End, Mumbai

Key issues for discussion are: Trends in Indian and Global Economy, Capital flows, Liquidity and Capital Markets, Indian Equity Market - Investor's Perspective (Regulatory and Taxation Issues, New Products etc.), Fixed Income Market.

Faculties teaching financial management and electives in III and IV semester should apply.

Send in your nominations by 26th Dec 2007.

Saturday, December 8, 2007

MANAGING ORGANIZATION IN CHANGING TIMES: IDENTITY,ISSUES AND CHALLENES

MANAGING ORGANIZATION IN CHANGING TIMES: IDENTITY,ISSUES AND CHALLENGES

16 to 17 February 2008

Venue:IMT campus,Nagpur, Maharastra, India
The conference will be of interest to OB and HR faculties. You may pressent a paper or just attend the conference and learn.

IMPORTANT DATES


For submission of abstract : 30 November
For final submission of paper : 01 January
Declaration of the accepted Paper : 10 January

Note : Those who failed to submit abstract can send the full version
of their paper to the convener on or before 1st of January, 2008. you
can also attend the conference without submitting paper. However, the
registration fee and others charges remain the same.
Website: http://imtnagpur.ac.in/Moct/Moct.html

Last date for nominations 18th Dec 2007

Monday, December 3, 2007

Faculty Training program - II Batch

There is a good news for faculties from the training College at Gurgaon.
Two more trainers have joined us Mr. R. P. Bhatia for Marketing and Ms. Thangam Vaidyanathan for Human Resource development.

The I batch had exposure not only in subject knowledge but on research pursuits with Prof Ramesh Krishnan, Dean taking up a number of interesting sessions.I am sure you are aware that the I batch is coming to a close on the 18th Dec 2007.

Training College will be rolling out its II batch in marketing, Finance and HRM.
II Batch will commence from 26th Dec 2007 and may end by the 31st jan 2008.


We welcome you all for the II batch. Please send in your nominations through your Regional offices.

Last date for nomination is 17th Dec 2007.

Sunday, December 2, 2007

Globalization and Inclusive Growth

Conference Title - Globalization and Inclusive Growth
Date: 25, 26 and 27th April, 2008

Venue - Greater Noida

Areas of discussion will be
Sectoral Inequalities of growth in banking Insurance, other financial services, trade, Transport and communication and IT, Agriculture,Manufacturing, Health, education, and infrastructural inequality of growth.
Regional Inequalities of growth will include Regional Disparities of development of all above mentioned sectors and their effect.
Disparities of employment, unemployment among the highly educated and uneducated, skilled professionals.

Personal Inequalities of growth will also be included on areas of income, wealth and consumption, incidence of poverty etc.

Faculty intrested in Economics, Development, growth and inequalities may apply.

Last Date Dec 20

Wednesday, October 31, 2007

Supply Chain & Technology in Retail

Conference Title - Supply Chain & Technology in Retail
Date 17-18 December 2007

Venue - Delhi

Supply Chain Management in different retail verticals
Food and Grocery, Apparel Sector, Consumer Durables & Home Solutions, Pharma Retail, Leather and Footwear.
Rural and Agri Supply Chain Management catalyzing Indian retail
Capitalizing on advanced technologies to overcome the barriers of supply chain profitability
Creating competitiveness through highly developed supply chain

Faculty intrested in Retail Sector, Operations and Marketing
Last Date Nov 21

Tuesday, October 30, 2007

Sustainability Summit

Conference Title - 2nd Sustainability Summit: Asia 2007
Date 11-12 December 2007
Venue - Delhi

Faculty members intrested in Sustainable Strategy, CSR, Action Research, Development etc would be intrested in this. Held in a five star hotel!

Last Date 15th Nov 2007

Retaining Talent in Organisations

Conference Title - Retaining Talent in Organisations
Date January 4-5 2008
Venue - Mumbai

The conference is intended for Faculty who have intrests in OB / HR

Last date for application is Nov 10.

Use the comments section. Mention clearly - Name, Center, HR / OB electives (not the compulsory courses) currently being taught by you.

Derivatives & Risk Management

Conference Title - Derivatives & Risk Management
Date Jan 2- 3 2008
Venue - Mumbai

For Finance Faculty. List Finance electives (not compulsory courses) that you are teaching.

Last Date Nov 30.

VALUE STREAM MAPPING

Conference Title - VALUE STREAM MAPPING – AN EYE TO LEAN
Date Friday, 23 November 2007:
Venue NOIDA

Speed, flexibility, and operational efficiency are the important ingredients of success in
today’s highly competitive market place. To achieve these goals, a manufacturing set-up
has to continuously get rid of the waste that keeps on accumulating in the processes by
default.

To become competitive, the level of intolerance to any type of non-value added activities in
the organization need to be reduced and a culture to foster identification, quantification and
elimination of non-value added activities needs to be nurtured.

Waste elimination concepts have been adopted by many organizations globally, as a way of
providing better value to the customers by reducing costs, improving quality,
responsiveness and flexibility, and thus resulting in improved profitability.

Intended for those intrested in Manufacturing and Operations

Last Date for Nominations 15 November

Monday, October 29, 2007

Measurement in Management

Conference Title - Measurement in Management
Date Jan 24-26 2008
Venue - IBS Hyderabad

Three day workshop to improve SAS and SPSS usage skills for academics.
Site -

http://www.ibsindia.org/workshop.asp

Last Date for nominations (at our end) - 3rd November.

Intended for faculty who are intrested in Quantitative research. Should have basic knowledge of Statistics and preferably should have a laptop.

Send your nominations thru the comments column. Mention any research work done or proposed using Quanti techniques, mention if you have a laptop and confirm you will carry to workshop if sent.

Sunday, October 28, 2007

Technology & Innovation in Marketing

Conference Title - Technology & Innovation in Marketing
Date Apr 18-19 2008
Venue - IMT Ghaziabad.

The boom in direct and database marketing, the dawning of electronic commerce, new ways to automate sales force management, and the sudden blossoming of the World Wide Web all suggest that the discipline is under pressure to reshape(John Deighton).

This is a paper presentation event.Find the details at http://www.imt.edu/ictim2008/index.asp?page=about.htm

Only those faculty members whose papers are accepted will be sponsored by us.Please see the site for detailed deadlines.

Last Date for Abstracts (by organizers) is November 30.

Please do not send abstracts to the Staff College. Send them directly. Inform us if you get selected.The conference is intended for Faculty who have intrests in Marketing, Technology.

Saturday, October 27, 2007

Compensation and Benefits

Conference Title - Emerging Trends in Compensation and Benefits - Design to delivery
Date November 22 - 23 2007
Venue - Mumbai (Note that this is change. Previously I mentioned delhi)

Crafting a compensation strategy that can enable organizations to deliver better results.

The conference is intended for Faculty who have intrests in OB / HR
Last date for application is Nov 10.

Use the comments section. Mention clearly - Name, Center, HR / OB electives currently being taught.

Friday, October 26, 2007

Tourism

Conference Title - Tourism in India - Challenges Ahead
Date May 15 - 17 2008
Venue - IIM Kozhikode. Kozhikode is the new name for Calicut. It is a major town in north Kerala. Note that the letters 'zh' is pronounced as the letter 'Y' in the word "Yash"

This is a paper presentation event.
Find the details at http://www.iiml.ac.in/events/tourism_conference.pdf
Only those faculty members whose papers are accepted will be sponsored by us.

Please see the site for detailed deadlines. Last Date for Abstracts (by organizers) is December 1. Please do not send abstracts to the Staff College. Send them directly. Inform us if you get selected.

The conference is intended for Faculty who have intrests in Strategy, Marketing, Service Sector.

Challenges in Organizing and Managing (HR /OB)

Conference Title - Challenges in organizing and Managing in rapidly emerging economies : Learning to organize in the Global world.

Date December 9th to 12th
Venue Gurgaon

Globalization and hence the rapid exposure to internatonal competition and markets has caused domestic companies from Rapidly Emerging Economies (REEs) such as China, India and other countries in Asia, Central and Eastern Europe, and Latin America to grapple with continuous change.

The colloquium will bring together international scholars and practitioners to address the political, economic, sociological, cultural, institutional and legal factors and issues that shape governance structures, employment relations, and management practices in the contemporary functioning of organizations.

The colloquium will debate how evolving management practices, processes and change, in their convergence and divergence across industries, cultures and nations, are shaping the world, and our understanding of it, today.

The conference is intended for Faculty who have intrests in OB / HR

Last date for application is Nov 21.

Use the comments section. Mention clearly - Name, Center, HR / OB electives currently being taught.

Sustainable Health Insurance

Conference Title - Sustainable Health Insurance - Need of the Hour
Date 29th November 2007
Venue New Delhi

Objective - Examine and discuss challenges in creating a sustainable health insurance sector in India

Highlights -
  • CS Rao Chairman IRDA will deliver Keynote speech
  • McKinsey are Knowledge Partners to this conference
  • Senior Partners of McKinsey will present international perspectives in this seminar
  • Increasing Health insurance is a key objective. How do we overcome the challenges?
  • How to maximize consumer benefit?

The conference is intended for Faculty who have intrests in Insurance, specially Health / general insurance.

Last date for application is Nov 15. Use the comments section. Mention clearly - Name, Center, Insurance/Finance electives currently being taught.