With the rising demand for management programs especially targeted to family-owned business in the last two years a number of famous B schools have started offering courses for family managed businesses. Well known B Schools offering FMB Programmes are as follows:

The differentiating factor is that while other full-time programs create quality management professional for various organizations, this program seeks to professionalize the approach of owners of family business in the nitty gritty of modern management. The course often helps students to identify family dynamics that affect most business decisions, and learn how to overcome day-to-day operational hurdles to continue growth and profitability. Since the stakes are different, the focus is different as well.

To pursue a management course you dont always need to look for management colleges situated in big cities, rather you may find good B schools in your vicinity and in your own city. This article from MBAUniverse.com shares valuable information about the well known B Schools in Keralas port city of Cochin and key details related to them. SCMS,Rajagiri Business School,Xavier Institute of Management and Entrepreneurship,SCMS School of Technology, Kochi Business School and DCSMAT Business School are the well knownB Schools of Cochin.

Gone are the days when business families used to send their children to international B schools to learn the tricks of the trade before inducting them finally to the family business. India is exploding with opportunities, and who wants to miss all the action! Also, a good number of Indian B-schools like ISB and SP Jain now offer special courses on family business management. Indeed, living and studying in India provides the next generation of family business owners the much needed connect with the realities of Indian business ethos and market.

Maharashtra CET has staged a comeback after a gap of one year and after winning a legal battle. Unlike the earlier paper pencil based test, forthcoming Management entrance to Maharashtra B schools in 2014 will be an online examination which will be held on March 15 & 16, 2014.

XLRI, Jamshedpur organized the22ndAnnualJRD Tata Orationon Business Ethics on Dec 7, 2013 at the Tata Auditorium. The theme of the oration was Ethical Challenges for India Today. Union HRD Minister Dr MM Pallam Raju delivered the oration.

After the end of CAT 2013 exam and XAT 2014 registrations its time now to think about the leading B Schools in the country and how to get admissions there. MBAUniverse.com had already published MBA in City series. Now we are taking that series forward to the next level to make you well informed about the key details needed to decide about the B schools matching your parameter.

Reacting sharply to the recent UGC draft guidelines to regulate thousands of technical colleges including engineering and management schools in the country, Education Promotion Society of India (EPSI), and the newly formed Indian Association of Autonomous Business School, have both objected to the rushed manner in which UGC is trying to create a new regulatory framework.

Verbal Ability and Reading comprehension in SNAP 2013 shall have 40 questions of one mark each. Prof. S.K. Agarwal, expert on Verbal Ability, shares useful tips to score more in Verbal Ability and Reading comprehension. SNAP like other important Management entrance examinations has the sectional cut off aspirants, therefore have to score at least a minimum cut off score in each of the four sections.

Out of the 40 questions in Verbal Ability section there are about six questions on Reading comprehension and six to eight questions on Error corrections.

IBSAT is an important online computer based MBA entrance test to be conducted across India by ICFAI Foundation during 22 days examination window from December 16, 2013 to January 7, 2014. It is conducted at 95 Test centers across India.

IBSAT is the gateway for admission to the 9 IBS B schools namely IBS Hyderabad, IBS Mumbai, IBS Bangalore, IBS Kolkata, IBS Ahmedabad, IBS Gurgaon, IBS Pune, IBS Dehradun and IBS Jaipur.

IBSAT 2013 Exam Pattern