According to well known author and management guru Dr Jagdish Sheth, Most Indian airlines will make money on non-airline services. He offers the example of Ryan Airways: Ryan Airways of UK is offering $20 return trip to USA from London. They can do it as they have a captive audience for 8-10 hours to sell their products and services, which is more lucrative compared to air ticket.

Published by Oxford University Press, the book sees Retailing as part of a value-delivery process of a company, and also addresses Retailing as an emerging business in itself. The book draws on over a decade of research by Prof Sinha and his co-author. Prof Sinha, who is the Chairperson of Center of Retailing at IIM-A, has written several important cases on the subject. Some of these cases like FoodWorld and Planet Health form part of the book.

Noticing this need, Delhi based International Management Institute (IMI) organized a lecture on The changing global Economy Paradigm: What does it mean to Indian Business leader by Prof Jean Pierre Lehmann of IMD, Lausanne on October 10.

Talking about the changing global economy Prof Lehmann said, Globalization leads to borderless world where there are lots of exchanges and flows taking place between India, America, China and many other countries. Its a period of massive change!

It was the Annual Management Conclave which was organized between October 5 and 7. The theme for this year was Bharat ek Khoj with sub themes of Rediscovering Rural India, Unleashing India Inc. and Unlocking the Human Potential.

Recognizing this challenge, Mr M Damodaran, SEBI Chairman, said, Indian economy is buoyant and will continue its march. To continue their march, Indian corporates need availability of finances at the right price, and speedily. SEBI wants to usher in more financial sector reforms to help Indian corporates get better access to markets. He was speaking at National Finance Symposium organized by Indian Institute of Foreign Trade (IIFT), along with Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FICCI), on October 9 in Mumbai.

In a move to bring Brand IIMs under spotlight, Europe Chapter of Alumni Association of the six Indian Institutes of Management held The IIM Global Management Summit. The theme of the summit was The Changing Face of Business and was attended by over 200 delegates. This was the second such summit.

The 5th Annual Techno Legal Management Fest witnessed over 120 events organized by three colleges of the University with attracting participation crossing over 4500 across the nation. This years theme was inspired by the campaign Make in India that our beloved Prime Minister Honorable Sh. Narendra Modi enthusiastically started. As a result most of the events were mapped towards this theme, to ignite young minds to make in India. With more than 100 events distributed among the three constituent colleges i.e.

The programme was held from July 09 to October 10 at XLRI. The valedictory function was held on recently in Jamshedpur. ETA Star Group is a UAE-based company, established in 1973, with an annual turnover of over 4 billion USD, and over 51, 000 employees in 23 countries.

On the occasion, NITIE will recognize corporate icons with Lakshya Business Visionary Awards. The Lakshya Business Visionary Awardees for the year 2007 are Mr. Rahul Bajaj, Chairman, Bajaj Auto Ltd and Mr. Rama Prasad Goenka, Chairman, RPG Group. In past, Lakshya Business Visionaries have Mr. Azim Premji, Mr. Keshub Mahindra, Mr Y C Deveshwar, Mr. Ratan Tata, Mr Subir Raha, Mr K V Kamath, Dr. Verghese Kurien, Mr. Adi Godrej, Mr. Nandan Nilekani, Mr. Kumarmangalam Birla and Mr. S.Ramadorai.

coupled with stringent working conditions and increasing switching over to newer promising areas of aviation, hospitality and retail. The BPO sector which is already encountering 25 to 30% attrition rate may face the toughest challenge of managing with 30 to 40% shortages of trained manpower in the next two years.