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IIHMR University to Conduct Free Faculty Development Program Sponsored By AICTE Training And Learning (ATAL) Academy

May 26, 2021 by Rekha Nair 0 Comments #Dr. PR Sodani, #IIHMR University, #President

Jaipur: COVID-19 has increased the importance of digital marketing with the number of online users that have increased exponentially. Considering the growing market demand and need to train, IIHMR University shall be conducting a 5-day Faculty Development Program. The program on Digital Marketing shall be conducted online by the Centre for Incubation, Innovation, and Entrepreneurship (CIIE) at IIHMR University, Jaipur, sponsored by AICTE Training & Learning (ATAL) Academy. This Digital Marketing program will be conducted from July 26, 2021, to July 30, 2021. The faculty members of the AICTE approved institutions, research scholars, PG scholars, participants from Government, Industry (Bureaucrats/Technicians/Participants from Industry, etc.), CBSE Teachers can register free of cost for this program.

Dr. PR Sodani, President, IIHMR University, said, “The Faculty Development Program on Digital Marketing is free of cost and sponsored by ATAL Academy. We are happy to receive this opportunity from AICTE. Our idea is to support government’s endeavour and constantly provide new knowledge. The Digital Marketing program will include emerging digital technologies relevant to business. COVID-19 has created ample opportunities and innovations which have brought in newer scope for the health and education sector on the whole.. The program will cover dynamics and latest trends in digital marketing, comprehensive digital marketing strategy and its application, hands-on experience to use new age digital tools such as SEO, SEM, digital analytics and business strategies for popular social media handles. Dr. Sheenu Jain, Associate Professor – Marketing Chair, Centre for Innovation Incubation Entrepreneurship, said, With the increased focus of organizations towards digital marketing, it is our effort to enhance skills of faculty and professionals towards digital marketing tools. We are getting very positive response from the faculty members. The program has 200 seats out of which we have received 130 applications already.

With this support from AICTE Training and Learning (ATAL) Academy we are contributing towards empowerment and skill development of faculty of higher education institutions and training and creating skilled faculty members.

This program does not require any prior experience in digital marketing skills. Any faculty member from Management / Engineering/ Social Science or any other field who wishes to teach the course or aspire to become a digital marketing professional can attend this program. This is an experiential online course that involves lot of interaction, hands on exercises, and project. Each course will be taught with the help of case studies, live corporate examples, and general discussions.. This program will help faculty to upskill and plan their growth. Interested participants are requested to register for FDP on the ATAL Academy website on or before July 10, 2021. Intimation of selection will be given by July 20, 2021.

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Kestone Endeavors to Make Virtual Events Equally Immersive Even for the Differently Abled; Adds Accessibility and Interactivity Features for the Dyslexic & Visually Impaired

May 25, 2021 by Neel Achary 0 Comments #Kestone, #Piyush Gupta, #President

25 May 2021, New Delhi, India: Kestone, India’s leading data-driven integrated sales and marketing services company, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Career launcher (NSE, BSE: CLEDUCATE), in an endeavor to support disability inclusion at virtual events, today announced adding assistive tech/ high-tech accessibility and interactivity feature to its platform for the dyslexic and the visually impaired. With this, regardless of the disabilities that some of the virtual event attendees might have (visual impairedness, dyslexia, etc.), Kestone would be able to provide them with an equally immersive digital event experience based on their unique accessibility needs. This step will empower corporates to add disability into their diversity and inclusion plan, widen access to more talent and skills at a time when hybrid working mode, knowledge sharing through virtual events is gaining mainstream significance due to COVID19 2.0 impact.

Speaking on the occasion, Piyush Gupta, President, Kestone said, “The need for a disability-inclusive business culture is highly critical to help voice the talent and skills of persons with disabilities (PWDs), the underrepresented community in the corporate world, which constitutes not even 0.5 percent of employees in India’s top companies. Social isolation, insufficient job opportunities, and financial uncertainty have already taken a major toll on them during the pandemic. Kestone has always assessed and added new-age tech features on its virtual event platform. The addition of Assistive Tech will help the dyslexic and the visually impaired gain more immersive experience, navigate the event schedule with more ease, and make corporate virtual events more inclusive. The presence of such disability-friendly virtual events will surely encourage innovation, talent, and a sense of equality across industries”.

Digital tech innovation has never been more significant than it is today. With only 1 in 10 PWDs having access to the virtual technologies according to the WHO and the pandemic protocols impacting their lives and mental health all the more, India needs to accelerate technology adoption in its disability inclusion road map. Considering that flexible and disability-inclusive work policies benefit employees across the board and boost an organization’s resilience, communication, and knowledge sharing through virtual events will need to have such assistive technology at its base. As companies rethink their business models and work environments to adapt to the pandemic, disability inclusion will take a vital significance.

The future will need the marketing tech world to innovate around designing content solutions that ensure accessibility, inculcate thoughtful adjustments, support inclusivity, and remove disability discrimination within information and communication technologies. With Govt.’s Accessible India Campaign (Sugamya Bharat Abhiyan) that aims to achieve universal accessibility for PWDs and the corporate world endeavoring to adopt remote working, touchless technology due to the pandemic impact, India is sure to embark on a promising start and the role and contribution of virtual tech designers will become more integral.

About Kestone:- Kestone, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Career Launcher (NSE, BSE: CLEDUCATE) and India’s leading data-driven integrated sales and marketing services company, founded in 1997, is the player behind India’s first, entirely home-grown, experiential “virtual platform”. Replicating every element of an offline events experience i.e. unlimited customizable virtual environments, gamification to ensure active user engagement, interactivity to ensure in-person meetings/conversation experience, or the marketers’ need for real-time data and analytics to arrive at a performance index, coupled with multilingual functionality, 3D environments, LIVE video streaming, audience engagement interventions with polls, quizzes, real-time reporting, etc., data privacy and security encryptions, Kestone offers limitless possibilities for businesses to collaborate, communicate and grow across sectors. In 2021, they introduced VIRSA BOT – India’s first AI-powered Virtual Event Smart Assistant whose intelligent make and analytic capability could spike average audience engagement time at virtual events by 5 times. Kestone has aced 15K+ hours of streaming and engaged over a 10Mn audience. Headquartered in New Delhi, it has a presence in 250+ Indian Cities, and 15+ International destinations including Singapore, Dubai & the US. The INR. 130 Cr firm counts Dell and Cisco as among its longest-serving clients and has strategized & executed several campaigns for 100+ orgs including NASSCOM, SAP, TiE, Wipro, Airtel, 3M, Amazon, etc., across IT, ITES, FMCG, travel, transport, automotive, and real estate. It has built a portfolio of successful IPs – Melting Pot, Inquizitive Minds, Pocket Events, and Axis and won ACEF Global Customer Engagement Awards in 2018, 2019 & 2020, WOW Awards, Lighthouse Insights Best Mobile Marketing 2018, and Marketing Excellence Awards 2017 among other accolades. For more info, visit https://kestoneglobal.com/

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Spike in WPI inflation due to skyrocketing commodity prices: PHD Chamber

May 18, 2021 by Rekha Nair 0 Comments #PHD Chamber of Commerce and Industry, #President, #Sanjay Aggarwal

The spike in WPI inflation at 10.49% in April 2021 from 7.39% in March 2021 is majorly due to skyrocketing commodity prices, which have escalated the overall WPI inflation in the double digits and have severely impacted the price cost margins of the businesses in the difficult pandemic time of coronavirus, said Sanjay Aggarwal, President, PHD Chamber of Commerce and Industry, in a press statement issued here today.

WPI inflation of the manufactured products has increased to 9.01% in April 2021 from 7.34% in March 2021. The increase in costs of raw materials is affecting the MSMEs which are already struggling because of pandemic impact and squeezed working capital, said Sanjay Aggarwal.

WPI inflation of the food articles has increased to 4.92% in April 2021 from 3.24% in the month of March 2021. We expect that the prices of food articles will soften and food inflation will be in the benign conditions in the coming weeks with improved supply chains, said Sanjay Aggarwal.

WPI inflation of fuel and power has increased to 20.94% in April 2021 from 10.25% in March 2021 which is significantly increasing the input costs of the industry and its competitiveness in the domestic and international markets, said Sanjay Aggarwal.

At this juncture, we urge the government to consider petroleum products in the ambit of GST to rationalize the prices and to contain the rising inflation, said Sanjay Aggarwal

High commodity prices are posing a serious challenge to the businesses to operate in the difficult pandemic times, which needs to be addressed immediately through the adequate reforms in the supply chains of high commodity prices, said Sanjay Aggarwal.

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Narayan Seva Sansthan Launches #Ghargharbhojan Campaign amidst second wave of COVID-19

May 15, 2021 by Rekha Nair 0 Comments ##Ghargharbhojan Campaign, #COVID-19, #Narayan Seva Sansthan, #Prashant Agarwal, #President

National: Narayan Seva Sansthan today announced the #Ghargharbhojan Campaign. The campaign has been launched with the aim of distributing free food to the migrants and those in need during the second wave of COVID-19. The campaign will be to distribute free food amongst COVID-19 positive families of the differently abled in cities such as Baroda, Meerut and Parbhani.

Narayan Seva Sansthan has been running another campaign very successfully in Udaipur under the name #Sathihathbadhana. Under this campaign the NGO is offering free Food, Hospital Bed, Ambulance and Oxygen to those in need. NSS has supported about 572 patients with free Ambulance Seva , has offered Oxygen facilities to 127 people free of cost and has offered Hospital Bed facility to 122 needy in Udaipur.

In its PAN India Corona Medical Kit campaign, NSS has offered 1234 free Corona Medical Kits in the Delhi, Baroda, Udaipur, Ahmedabad, Jaipur, Kota, Meerut & Bangalore by courier till date. The campaign was for those COVID-19 patients who have tested positive and have been prescribed medicines. The Medical kit would have specific medicines pre-prescribed by Doctors. The Kit would include medicines such as Paracetamol, Doxy Capsule, and Vitamin tablets zinc with Azithromycin, tablet Ivermectin, tablet D3 60 k with Multivitamin Tablets.

Prashant Agarwal, President, Narayan Seva Sansthan said, “Stay Home and Stay Safe and do not venture out of your homes with no work and no mask. We can help this virus from further spreading by abiding the simple norms laid by the Government. Our motto has been to serve the humanity and with small causes we and our teams would love to help those in need. We have seen the ground reality of Oxygen unavailability and we are trying our best to offer everything as an assistance to save lives of those in dire need during this COVID-19 crisis. Our free sevas could help each patient who is in need with necessities. We pray that all of us get off the crisis as soon as we can.”

Amid the second wave, NGO has already in progress an extensive dissemination exercise of 18108 meals to help the local and needy in different states across India. Also, for getting NSS Corona Medical Kit through courier from anywhere in India, the people in need can contact on 9649499999 with their lab certificates and prescriptions from their doctors with the mention of the medicines in the NSS Corona Kit.

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IIHMR University urges to introduce Management Training Programs this International Nurses Day

May 13, 2021 by Rekha Nair 0 Comments #Dr. PR Sodani, #IIHMR University, #President

Jaipur: COVID-19 has been creating a massive stir in the healthcare sector. Not only has COVID-19’s second wave increased an intense pressure on the healthcare infrastructure, but it has also created strong pressure on the already overworked workforce. According to a WHO, Report India has 37.6 health workers for every 10,000 people. The nurse to the patient ratio is 1:483, which means a shortage of twenty-two million nurses. IIHMR University shared its insights on International Nurses Day today and reminisced the theme “Nurses -the voice to lead a vision for future healthcare 2021”.

Dr. PR Sodani, President, IIHMR University, said, “Indian nurses have a huge demand in the International Market. India has 5085 institutes that produce 335000 nursing professionals every year. The country has in total 3.2 million nurses and we sense there is still a shortage with only 15 nurses for every 10000 individuals. According to the theme that correctly says, Nurses are a voice to lead a vision for future healthcare of 2021 since they are the sole individuals working on the ground level and understand the ground reality. Indian nurses have tremendous demand in countries such as UAE, UK, USA, Ireland and even Germany.”

Dr. Sodani further expresses, “Overseas Development and Employment Promotion Consultants (ODEPC) in Kerala was sending about 40 nurses every month in countries abroad which increased to six times in February 2020 just after the outbreak of the pandemic. With the rise in the need of the nursing workforce, India has must look at implementing some changes in the nursing curriculum. In addition, management training programs must be incorporated in their curriculum since nurses must also be able to mitigate risks at the ground level and manage them.”

IIHMR University has been correlating this theme and has conducted multiple management development training programs to uplift nurses in society. One of them was the recent training program that has been conducted to train almost 100 Administrative Nursing Cadre for the Government of Madhya Pradesh. The primary objective of this training was to enhance the management and administrative skills of nursing managers and administrators. In addition, the training was planned to make and share great comprehension of various valuable and social skills, needed for conveying top caliber and individuals driven nursing administrations.

Dr. Sodani adds, IIHMR University urges people from hospitals to incorporate management training programs for the hospital staff, including nurses, where they can also contribute to the hospitals’ administrative capabilities. Every staff on the ground for the hospital should be aware of management aspects in running the whole premises through a proper Management Training Program.

As India proceeds with its Fight against COVID-19, Healthcare workers are at the front doing combating the pandemic and offering types of assistance to forestall the spread. India is short of the endorsed strength of nurses and specialists.

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Only 15 nurses for every 10,000 individuals- IIHMR University urges to introduce Management Training Programs this International Nurses Day

May 13, 2021 by Neel Achary 0 Comments #Dr. PR Sodani, #IIHMR University, #President

Jaipur, 13th May 2021: COVID-193 has been creating a massive stir in the healthcare sector. Not only has COVID-19’s second wave increased an intense pressure on the healthcare infrastructure, but it has also created strong pressure on the already overworked workforce. According to a WHO, Report India has 37.6 health workers for every 10,000 people. The nurse to the patient ratio is 1:483, which means a shortage of twenty-two million nurses. IIHMR University shared its insights on International Nurses Day today and reminisced the theme “Nurses -the voice to lead a vision for future healthcare 2021”.

Dr. PR Sodani, President, IIHMR University, said, “Indian nurses have a huge demand in the International Market. India has 5085 institutes that produce 335000 nursing professionals every year. The country has in total 3.2 million nurses and we sense there is still a shortage with only 15 nurses for every 10000 individuals. According to the theme that correctly says, Nurses are a voice to lead a vision for future healthcare of 2021 since they are the sole individuals working on the ground level and understand the ground reality. Indian nurses have tremendous demand in countries such as UAE, UK, USA, Ireland and even Germany.”

Dr. Sodani further expresses, “Overseas Development and Employment Promotion Consultants (ODEPC) in Kerala was sending about 40 nurses every month in countries abroad which increased to six times in February 2020 just after the outbreak of the pandemic. With the rise in the need of the nursing workforce, India has must look at implementing some changes in the nursing curriculum. In addition, management training programs must be incorporated in their curriculum since nurses must also be able to mitigate risks at the ground level and manage them.”
IIHMR University has been correlating this theme and has conducted multiple management development training programs to uplift nurses in society. One of them was the recent training program that has been conducted to train almost 100 Administrative Nursing Cadre for the Government of Madhya Pradesh. The primary objective of this training was to enhance the management and administrative skills of nursing managers and administrators. In addition, the training was planned to make and share great comprehension of various valuable and social skills, needed for conveying top caliber and individuals driven nursing administrations.

Dr. Sodani adds, IIHMR University urges people from hospitals to incorporate management training programs for the hospital staff, including nurses, where they can also contribute to the hospitals’ administrative capabilities. Every staff on the ground for the hospital should be aware of management aspects in running the whole premises through a proper Management Training Program.

As India proceeds with its Fight against COVID-19, Healthcare workers are at the front doing combating the pandemic and offering types of assistance to forestall the spread. India is short of the endorsed strength of nurses and specialists.

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Smt. Nirmala Sitharaman in a virtual session organised by the PHD Chamber of Commerce and Industry

Apr 23, 2021 by Rekha Nair 0 Comments #PHD Chamber of Commerce and Industry, #President, #Sh. Sanjay Aggarwal, #Union Minister for Finance & Corporate Affairs Smt. Nirmala Sitharaman

New Delhi: Provision of oxygen, vaccines and their logistics to people affected by coronavirus is being ensured, given the recent surge in cases of COVID-19 pandemic across the country. This was stated by Union Minister for Finance & Corporate Affairs Smt. Nirmala Sitharaman in a virtual session organised by the PHD Chamber of Commerce and Industry here today.

Speaking at the event, Smt. Sitharaman mentioned that the Government is reviewing and monitoring the situation regularly and working arduously for a better co-ordination between States, hospitals and suppliers of oxygen and vaccines to match the demand and supply in the country.

The Finance Minister stated that the Prime Minister himself is monitoring the situation with eminent doctors and vaccine manufacturers. The import of vaccines, certified by international bodies has been allowed in India; support is being extended to manufacturers by the Government by way of giving advances and vaccination drive against coronavirus has been allowed for people aged 18 years and above from 1st May 2021, She added.

Smt. Sitharaman said a slew of announcements have been made in regard to the drug Remdesivir and custom duty has been waived and quantity for export has been held back for use in country considering the requirement of Remdesivir injection.

These announcements are expected to increase the availability of the injection, the Finance Minister said.

For oxygen supply, the government is identifying idle manufacturing capacities to match the demand and supply in the country, Smt. Sitharaman said.

Smt. Nirmala Sitharaman said that the way forward to tackle the current situation is through micro containment zone so that life and livelihood can be protected.

Sh. Sanjay Aggarwal, President, PHD Chamber of Commerce and Industry, said that the Central Government had last year acted swiftly and extended the timelines for compliances under various corporate laws and the same steps and support measures are required this year also.

The Union Finance Minister assured that the valuable inputs received from PHD chambers of Commerce and Industry will be considered for the industrial and economic growth of the country.

Former presidents, senior managing committee members and members from industry also participated in the virtual interactive session with the Union Finance Minister

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The address by Hon’ble Prime Minister would build confidence among the people to fight against pandemic: PHD Chamber

Apr 21, 2021 by Rekha Nair 0 Comments #Mr. Sanjay Aggarwal, #PHD Chamber of Commerce and Industry, #President

Mr. Sanjay Aggarwal, President, PHD Chamber of Commerce and Industry said that the address by Hon’ble Prime Minister would build confidence among the people to fight against pandemic covid-19

The measures suggested by Hon’ble Prime Minister are inspiring and mitigate the impact of covid on migrant workers, trade, industry and economy, said Mr. Sanjay Aggarwal

We appreciate that Government is taking all necessary steps to ensure adequate availability of hospital beds, medicines, oxygen etc. across the country and the nation would emerge out of the pandemic very soon, said Mr. Aggarwal

We assure our fullest support to the Government of India to mitigate the daunting impact of the pandemic covid-19 on workers, people, industry and economy, said Mr. Sanjay Aggarwal

India has a very high component of young population which shall help mitigate the risk of the virus. Vaccination of above 18 years from May 1, 2021 would mitigate the pandemic impact sooner than later, said Mr. Aggarwal

Mr. Aggarwal, however, stressed on the importance of social distancing, wearing masks and Covid-appropriate Behavior protocols.

Mr. Aggarwal believes that the nation needs to focus on setting up mini containment zones in areas suffering high infection rates with effective medical focus rather than implementing a national wide lockdown.

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The nation would emerge out of the pandemic very soon: PHD Chamber

Apr 20, 2021 by Rekha Nair 0 Comments #Mr. Sanjay Aggarwal, #PHD Chamber of Commerce and Industry, #President

Mr. Sanjay Aggarwal, President, PHD Chamber of Commerce and Industry while expressing his full confidence in the resilience of the Indian economy said in a press statement issued here today that though many parts of the country have seen an emergence of the second wave of the COVID virus, the measures taken by both the central and the respective state governments would prove to be very effective and the nation would emerge out of the pandemic very soon.

Mr. Aggarwal mentioned about his telephonic conversation with Smt Nirmala Sitharaman, the Hon’ble Finance Minister of India on 18th April, 2021 in which the Hon’ble Finance Minister said that the Government is taking all necessary steps to ensure adequate availability of hospital beds, medicines, oxygen etc across the nation.

Mr. Sanjay Aggarwal said that the Finance Minister also mentioned that urgent efforts are being made to increase Covid-19 vaccine production in the country and to arrange for imports also to vaccinate nation’s population in the shortest time possible.

Mr. Aggarwal was also appreciative of the statement by the Finance Minister that the Government is not going to impose any National Lockdown which may harm the economy and that the states may impose lockdowns locally as needed.

We assure our fullest support to the Government of India to mitigate the daunting impact of the pandemic covid-19 on people, industry and economy, said Mr. Aggarwal

Mr. Aggarwal mentioned that the central government’s mass vaccination drive like the Tika Utsav along with the measures taken by states like Maharashtra and Delhi would help in curbing the spread of the virus.

PHD Chamber organized Tika Utsav at various state-chapters of the PHD Chamber including Punjab, Rajasthan, Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, J&K and North Eastern region to help build confidence among the people to come forward for vaccination without any hesitation, said Mr. Sanjay Aggarwal.

He added that India has a very high component of young population which shall help mitigate the risk of the virus.

Mr. Aggarwal however again stressed on the importance of social distancing, wearing masks and Covid-appropriate Behavior protocols.

Mr. Aggarwal believes that the nation needs to focus on setting up mini containment zones in areas suffering high infection rates with effective medical focus rather than implementing a national wide lockdown.

According to Mr. Aggarwal, sectors like manufacturing, services, and construction would have been negatively impacted if the government had decided to implement a complete national lockdown.

Mr. Aggarwal stated that there is a need for a normalization of all kinds of economic activity as the rollout of the COVID 19 vaccines gathers pace.

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Management Education needs to evolve to incorporate a global outlook: S P Jain Global Survey

Apr 17, 2021 by Rekha Nair 0 Comments #Dean of the EMBA program, #Dr. Gary Stockport, #Mr. Nitish Jain, #President, #S P Jain School of Global Management

Mumbai: Today, S P Jain School of Global Management (S P Jain Global), a Forbes Top 12 ranked business school, shared findings of its 2020 Executive MBA Survey. The 130+ participant pool comprised current students, alumni, senior executives and experts, members of the School’s Industry Advisory Boards across Singapore, Dubai and Sydney, and senior executives and experts from global corporates such as Amazon, DHL, Landmark, Microsoft and UAE Exchange. Alumni and students interviewed were primarily managers / senior managers representing the aviation, banking and finance, consultancy, entertainment and media, healthcare, oil and gas, manufacturing, services, and shipping sectors.

Here are some of the top insights from the survey: MBA education at an executive level must evolve to train students to be intuitive and effective at managing crises and think/act on a global scale. Commenting on the knowledge, skills and capabilities future leaders needed to possess, 90% of participants emphasised the inclusion of topics like Career adaptation, Strategic thinking, Business acumen, Value creation and Entrepreneurship in the MBA curriculum.

Insights from this survey have been used to design and develop a brand-new curriculum for S P Jain Global’s internationally-recognised Executive MBA program. The new curriculum now includes topics like Leadership and Cross-cultural Management, Change Management, and Corporate Governance and Ethics. The curriculum also lends an increased focus upon applied projects and soft (employability) skills, which has proven to benefit students and their organisations.

Mr. Nitish Jain, President, S P Jain School of Global Management, said, “We believe strongly in empowering our students to lead real change and deliver lasting impact that adds value for their organisations. Our classroom consists of students from around the globe; the program participants have the chance to work in global teams, form strong cross-cultural connections, and understand global business practices through the shared experiences of their classmates.” In 2021, the program attracted students from 16 different countries, such as India, Japan, Australia, Singapore, Indonesia, Oman, Qatar, Bahrain, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, the Philippines, Denmark, Nepal, UAE, the Netherlands, and the US.

Dr. Gary Stockport, Dean of the EMBA program, who also has experience working at top global business schools across five countries, commented, “We are committed to providing education that evolves continuously in response to changing industry needs. Our renewed EMBA curriculum reflects a strong understanding of the market and industry standards, giving our students an edge when competing for global jobs.”

The S P Jain Global Executive MBA is an 18-month part-time program that prepares experienced managers to transition to broader leadership roles. Every intake, the program attracts a number of high-potential candidates from the IT, Healthcare, Consulting, Manufacturing, Banking & Finance, Technology and Energy sectors. On average, students have about 11 years of professional experience. The program is offered in two learning formats: on-campus in Singapore, Dubai and Mumbai and virtually via S P Jain Global’s proprietary Engaged Learning Online (ELO) technology.