Events at the ISB

CAF Banking Symposium
February 1, 2008

Topic: How to make Indian banks more competitive at home and abroad?
Time: 11:00 AM to 1:30 PM
Venue: Khemka Auditorium, ISB

The symposium will be held on Friday, February 1, 2008, 11am – 1:30 pm, at the ISB. CAF conferences typically focus on important policy issues and are attended by leading academicians, practitioners, and regulators and policy-makers who share an interest in the issues. The upcoming banking symposium will provide an opportunity to hear the leaders discuss the important topic of competitiveness of Indian banks and to participate in the discussion.
For more information please visit: http://www.isb.edu/bankingsymposium/


First Asian invitational Conference on family Business
February 1 -3, 2008

Family businesses have been contributing to most industrial wealth creation in all the Asian countries. But the factors and processes that sustain family businesses as a thriving category have not been of academic interest until recently. Similarly, it is only now that business families and other stakeholders have started discussing the challenges and possible approaches to perpetuating and growing family wealth and happiness.

Organised by the Thomas Schmidheiny Chair of Family Business and Wealth Management, this conference facilitates in the following three ways, the process of filling these gaps and contributes to building more vibrant family businesses in Asia:
Share research insights that benefit academics as well as practitioners
Learn from the experiences of members of business families and non-family professionals
Network and benefit from each other in multiple ways
For more information, please visit: http://www.isb.edu/FamilyBusinessConference/



Global Social Venture Competition (GSVC) Asia Round
March 8 – 10, 2008

The finals of the Asia Round of the Global Social Venture Competition will be held at the ISB in March 2008. The GSVC awards prizes to the business plans that show the highest, most integrated financial and social returns. The programme is made possible through the corporate sponsorship of Helios and Matheson.

All competing ventures must have an active team member who is a current MBA student or who has graduated less than two years ago.

For further details and information, visit: http://www.isb.edu/wadhwani/GSVC_AsiaRound.html



Second Annual CAF - FIC - SIFR Conference in Stockholm
April 17-19, 2008

Starting 2007, the Centre for Analytical Finance (CAF) at the ISB, the Financial Institutions Center (FIC) at the Wharton School, and the Swedish Institute for Financial Research (SIFR) at Stockholm will organise joint research conferences in the area of emerging market finance. The conferences are annual, held in spring, and rotate between Philadelphia, Stockholm, and Hyderabad.

The second CAF - FIC - SIFR conference will be held in Stockholm, April 17-19, 2008. The theme for this year's conference is Emerging Market Finance. The conference will begin with a reception on the evening of Thursday, April 17, and the sessions will be held on April 18 and 19, 2008

For more information on the conference, visit: http://www.isb.edu/CAF/UsrSiteEventMgmt.aspx?ModuleID=14&TopicID=62