Raise The Bar

CAMPUS DIARY

Just how competitive is Indian Manufacturing? ISB Hyderabad, it seems, would rather not be distracted by all the frilly cheerleader squads for "Chindia" that are breaking decibel records in the Western press.

And so 18-19 August shall see a sober on-campus summit to "explore the challenges and opportunities of global supply chain management in India and the secrets to success of Indian enterprises operating in global industries". Hype or no hype, India's bar still has a lot higher to rise.

AMITY B-SCHOOL, NOIDA
Integration, Sir

Globalization is the challenge, and Human Resources (HR) is the discipline that has to play lubricant-in-chief. With that in mind, Amity Business School has dedicated 24-25 August to a summit on HR strategies entitled "Integrating People, Culture and Change". Apart from familiar faces from the corporate conference circuit, it boasts of participation from Sachin Pilot, Sheila Dixit and Oscar Fernandez. Integration evidently remains a charmed word "" even in the world of business.

IIT DELHI
Pride Talks

Institutions, academic or otherwise, reveal much by the alumni they're most proud of. Take IIT Delhi's Alumni Association, which has formally facilitated its "great achievers" for 2005.

The list? K. Venkataramanan, board member and president, operations, L&T; Krishan R. Sabani, Senior Vice President, Networking Research, Lucent Technologies, USA; and Raghuram G. Rajan, Economic Counselor & Director of Research, IMF. Any wonder that IIT is seen as a catapult to the higher echelons of management?

RAI UNIVERSITY, DELHI
Free Market Advocate

The Rai Foundation, the force behind the heavily advertised Rai University, has started a Centre For Public Policy. Headed by Satinder Bajaj, former director of Lady Irwin College, the Centre's stated aim is to is start assorted debates in varied fora on public policies in India. Some examples?

Water policy, disaster management, and""ahem""-higher education, through which it presumably hopes to start a public debate on the "legitimacy" of such privately-run setups as Rai.