USD Mentor Program Connects Alums With Undergraduates
Starting a career in business can be intimidating for many undergraduate students. That’s one reason behind the Mentor Program run through the Ahlers Center for International Business at the University of San Diego School of Business. The program enhances career preparation skill sets by connecting undergraduate students with MBA alumni at companies such as WD-40, Qualcomm, UTC Aerospace Systems, Leidos, Hologic and more. Continue reading…
Wharton Indian Economic Forum to Take Place in India and Philadelphia
The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania has announced that it will hold its annual India-focused conference next year in India for the first time. The Wharton India Economic Forum (WIEF), which is marking its 20th anniversary, has historically been held on Wharton’s Philadelphia campus. The 2016 conference will be held both in Mumbai and Philadelphia. The main goal of the conference is to bring together industry leaders, investors, government leaders and Wharton professors to discuss specific challenges facing the Indian economy and Indian businesses. Continue reading…
Cambridge Judge Professor Visits and Speaks in Mumbai
Plenty of blame was cast for the financial crisis of 2007-2008, but finance education and training has hardly been blameless – this is the argument of Simon Taylor, University Lecturer in Finance at Cambridge Judge Business School.
A “standard set of finance concepts and tools” have been used to train people in the finance industry for decades, but many of those are based on very shaky foundations, Taylor told an audience in Mumbai on 28 January.
“We have to make students aware of what is known, but also how limited, fragmented and tentative that knowledge is,” Taylor says, urging that several elements should become standard fixtures in the education of financiers and others entering the investment industry.
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8th Oxford India Business Forum Held in Mumbai
The 8th Oxford India Business Forum was held on December 9th in Mumbai, focusing on the theme of Responsible Business – an area that is being championed across research, events, teaching and student and alumni initiatives at Saïd Business School. Representatives from various Indian professional sectors jointly explored what responsibility means, the role of business in economies and society, and how that role will be defined under the new government and recent legislation.
In his opening keynote, UK Sinha (Chairman, SEBI) explained the role regulators already play in India by insisting on explicit policies and practices covering shareholder democracy, transparency, and minority protection structures. The main role, he asserted, has to be played by corporations building a culture of responsible business from within.
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