Special Rates on Executive Education Programmes

The ISB’s Centre for Executive Educations (CEE) is pleased to announce two funded programmes in February 2008.

The Private Equity Programme from February 22 – 27, 2008 will focus on all the core concepts and tools of the global private equity industry, both from the perspective of asset managers and from that of industry executives. The programme will be conducted by Thomas Hellman, Associate Professor Sauder School of Business and visiting Entrepreneurship faculty at the Wharton School and Marco Da Rin – Assistant Professor at Turin University. And Fellow at Innocenzo Gasparani Institute for Economic Research ( IGIER), Bocconi University, Milano.

Funding from the Times group allows us to offer partial scholarships to all participants. Regular fee is INR 150,000. Fee after partial scholarship is Rs 50,000 per participant which includes tuition, course material, meals and on campus accommodation.


The Global Growth Entrepreneurship Programme is targeted at senior executives from SMEs in industries that are poised for growth. Participants will learn to evaluate global opportunities and implement a sustainable global business model. In addition, participants will gain insights into the dynamics of global growth and managing SMEs as global businesses. The programme is taught by Gerry George, Professor of Innovation and Entrepreneurship andthe Director of the Rajiv Gandhi Centre for Innovation and Entrepreneurship, Imperial College and Charles Dhanaraj professor of global strategy and international alliance at Kelley School of Business, Indiana University.

Funding from Wadhwani Foundation makes it possible to offer partial scholarships to all participants. Regular fee is INR 75,000. Fee after partial scholarship is INR 24,000 per participant which includes tuition and course material.

For the convenience of participants, the programme will be offered in three cities:
Delhi February 17 to 19, 2008
Chennai February 21 to 23, 2008
Mumbai February 25 to 27, 2008


ISB Features on French TV

The ISB has been featured in the French TV, TFI, which is one of the leading TV channels. The team had visited the ISB in October to do this story.

Please click on this link to see the video
http://videos.tf1.fr/infos/jt/0,,3608972,00-inde-campus-modernes-attirent-europeens-.html


ISB Team Places second at Darden Innovation Challenge

An ISB Student team comprising Prashant Goel, Pushkar jain, Meghna Rao, Sushant Bhansali, and Nishant Pandey came in second at the Darden Innovation Challenge Business Competition - the largest competition of its kind, uniting hundreds of teams from the top 100 MBA programmes worldwide. A team from University of North Carolina was placed first, followed by the ISB team, and the LBS team

There were two ISB teams in the final 10 selected for the presentation round at Darden during November 15-17. The second team comprised Jaspreet Sidhu, Ankush Wadhera, Rao Korupolu, Anand Narasimhan, and Kiran Kumar Alla.

This is the third year in succession that there are two teams from ISB in the final top ten. The Darden organizers as well as the major sponsors - Amex and Hilton - both made a special mention of this.


Admissions Chat Room

A recent Admissions initiative was the Chat Room for prospective students. The Chat Room is a moderated forum for prospective applicants, to chat with ISB management, students and alumni on admissions tips, placements information, learning and curriculum, and many more topics.

To date, 13 chat sessions have been held, with over 300 prospective students registering. Chat transcripts were made available at http://www.isb.edu/PGP/AdmissionsChat.Shtml for those who couldn’t register for the session. The sessions have been well received by prospective students.

The Admissions Office would like to thank Sandeep Khurana (’04) and Suryanarayna Shahstri (’03) for their participation on the Chat Room forums.


Admissions Updates 

This year at the close of the second deadline for domestic applications, we had received close to 3500 applications. This is up about 20% from the same time last year.

The deadline for international applicants to apply through the rolling process is January 31, 2008.


ILS 2007 Sets New Standards

This ISB Leadership Summit (ILS) 2007, the flagship event of the Indian School of Business (ISB), successfully brought together the best learning, and the most innovative minds of accomplished industry leaders, forthright policy makers, and influential academics, from across the country. The empowering one day Summit fused these minds by relevant and focussed interactions, where speakers shared personal insights and strategies for excellence in leadership and business development.

This year, the Summit raised its bar of discussion, and for the first time included six different panel discussions hosted by the participating clubs. Again, for the first time at ILS, students moderated all panels, bringing a very different dimension to the panel discussions.

For more news on ILS, go to http://www.isb.edu/media/UsrSiteNewsMgmt.aspx?Topicid=325


Centre for Analytical Finance to co-author book on Indian Financial Markets

The ISB’s Centre for analytical Finance (CAF) and Nomura Institute for Capital Markets Research (NICMR), a think-tank established by Nomura Securities, Japan, have entered into an agreement to bring out an authoritative book on Indian capital markets. The book is intended for foreign investors, analysts, and others interested in Indian markets. Under the agreement, CAF will be responsible for the content including identifying and engaging experts to write different sections of the book. NICMR will provide funding for the project.

The book is expected to be ready for publication by December, 2008. Under the agreement, CAF and NICMR will hold joint copyright to the English-language edition of the book. NICMR will hold the right to a Japanese translation. Following the first edition, the book will be periodically updated.

Until now NICMR has partnered only with Brookings Institution, a highly regarded think-tank based in Washington DC.


ISB Insight – September 2007 issue now online

The September 2007 issue of the ISBinsight is now online at http://www.isb.edu/isbinsight/Insight_Sep07/contents.html This issue focuses on the changing dynamics of marketing in a world of new media choices. ISBinsight bring to you the views of our faculty experts - all top-notch researchers and academicians from some of the leading B-schools around the world.

Also featured is an exclusive interview with Marshall Goldsmith, ranked one of the top ten executive educators by the Wall Street Journal, and a world authority in executive coaching, who visited the ISB to conduct an Executive Coaching Programme for CEO Coach aspirants.