The News Review:
- Close Brothers says Martin Andrew appointed CEO of asset management…
- State House OKs deer-management audit
- Interactive session on management education held
- Army, MTNL officials enroll for IIM-Lucknow’s management programme
- E.ON Bulgaria management reshuffle
Close Brothers says Martin Andrew appointed CEO of asset management…
Forbes – Apr 10, 2008
said it has appointed Martin Andrew as chief executive of its asset management division with effect from May 1, 2008, as part of the continuing development of the division. The UK investment bank said Jonathan Sieff, current chief executive of asset management, will be stepping down, and added that Rufus Warner, chief executive of Close Investments, will also leave the business. Asset management is one of the four divisions within Close Brothers Group. 31, 2008, it had 8. 9 billion pounds of funds under management across a broad spread of asset classes, the company said.
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State House OKs deer-management audit
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette – Pittsburgh Post Gazette – Apr 10, 2008
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State House OKs deer-management audit
Out-of-state agency will conduct review
Thursday, April 10, 2008
By John Hayes, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
The Pennsylvania Game Commission’s controversial deer-management plan will be audited in a review overseen by the state House of Representatives’ Budget and Finance Committee. Yesterday, the House adopted a resolution sponsored by state Rep. The committee will contract a yet-to-be-determined out-of-state deer specialist to conduct the audit of the white-tail deer-management plan. Since 2001, the Game Commission has embraced a deer-management philosophy called “quality deer management.
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Interactive session on management education held
Hindu – Apr 10, 2008
Krishnan, Member, Governing Council, CBS, highlighting the various courses offered by the school in Tiruchi. —
TIRUCHI: Promising a contemporary approach to management education, industrialists at the helm of the two-year-old Chennai Business School organised an interactive session on ‘Management Education – Opportunities Galore in the New Era,’ here on Sunday. Real-world learning in the school’s one-year Post Graduate Programme in Management under trimester system with specialisations in five of India’s growing verticals – Banking and Financial Services, Information Technology, Operations, Telecommunications and Retail, is meant to create industry-ready managerial talent, said K. Krishnan, Member of the School’s Governing Council, and former joint president, Landline & Broadband, Bharti Airtel. Fifty per cent of the faculty are industry experts.
Army, MTNL officials enroll for IIM-Lucknow’s management programme
Economic Times – Apr 10, 2008
The officials have been
admitted to the one-year residential course, which was inaugurated today and
will be conducted at the Noida campus of the institution. Around 45 per cent of the
students are from the IT and technical backgrounds while the rest belong to
sectors such as telecom, power, banking, finance and defence. The officials, who are
selected for the IIM-Lucknow’s first of its kind course, represent organisations
like Defence Ministry, BSNL, NTPC, BHEL, Wipro, Satyam Computers, IBM Global
Services, Bank of India and Tata Steel.
E.ON Bulgaria management reshuffle
Sofia Echo – Apr 10, 2008
ON Bulgaria, the German-owned utility operating the Gorna Oryahovitsa and Varna electricity distribution companies in northern and north-eastern Bulgaria, announced plans to reshuffle the top management of the company, Dnevnik daily reported on April 9. The new managerial team will officially be presented next week, when the company will also make public its financial results for 2007 and investment plans for 2008.
[...] Inventors turn to Saginaw Valley State University students for marketi…mlive.com – Apr 10, 2008Assels, a 61-year-old Freeland resident, and Sid A. Hansen, 62, of Beaverton shared their inventions — a metal handle for ladders and a training system for baseball and softball players, respectively. Then they listened to the students’ recommendations for marketing the products. The students, seeking master’s degrees in business administration, split into two groups. Seven judges critiqued the students’ plans, and Team A won by a slight margin. The judges evaluated the students on their presentation and the quality of their analysis… The tee costs $295, and Playball has yet to price the mirrors or the screen, which simulates whether a batted ball is a grounder, single, double, home run, fly-out or pop-out. Team A recommended that Hansen focus on selling the technology to high schools, colleges and baseball schools. Team B also recommended marketing the product to schools and even to hospitals to aid in rehabilitating people with eye or hand diseases or injuries. Assel’s Ultimate Ladder Handle — patent pending — is a metal handle welded to metal U-shaped pieces that hook underneath the sides of the ladder. Assel said he went to hardware stores and larger outlets such as Lowe’s and Builders Square to market the handle but found no takers. When Assel asked people he knows to lift the ladder out of his vehicle, all grabbed the handle. Almost all of those individuals purchased the handle, which Assel sells for $19.Related: State House OKs deer-management audit [...]
[...] Panasonic and Kalypsys Expand Collaboration with North American …WebWire – WebWire (press release) – Apr 10, 2008and Kalypsys, based on a Joint Development Agreement signed in September 2006, have worked to understand the current and future needs in new drug development. Together they created and are now commercializing a new automation platform that embodies a number of new technological developments to meet these needs. As part of this agreement, PFSC and PFSA will provide sales, marketing and maintenance for the systems. Kalypsys will furnish application solutions based on its drug discovery expertise – including assay application support and customer assay evaluation. The collaboration combines the strengths of the two companies and is expected to bring new business solutions to the life science industry. Under the agreement, Kalypsys will receive royalties on product sales during the contract term. The modular HTS system currently under development is scheduled to make its first North American appearance at the Society for Biomolecular Sciences Conference in St.Related: E.ON Bulgaria management reshuffle [...]