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From smoke signals and carrier pigeons to smartphones and their ubiquitous apps, the way people interact across distances has drastically evolved. With each passing year, innovation appoints a new form of communication as revolutionary while decrying another form as passé.

During the past six months, you’ve probably learned what a “tweet” is and what it means to “friend” someone. Though both are interesting new forms of interaction, their applications to small business communication are less clear.

Twitter and Facebook are, at their most basic levels, additional channels aiding in small business communication. Like print or broadcast advertising, these social media initiatives allow a company to directly communicate with consumers. Though unlike advertising, these services allow for two-way communication where your audience – which includes customers, prospects, advocates, government entities and the general public – can respond. It is this engagement where many companies fall flat.

In these economically challenging times, the only good business is the one that makes a lot of money for a lot less capital. If you’re thinking what the best online business could be, try e-books or any other online business marketing strategies which allow you to maximize your profits through low production costs. And when you equip yourself with skills for marketing for online business, there’s simply no room to fail.

The Internet has never been a bigger place as it is now. One can find different business online. The internet community is bigger than ever and it continues to grow each passing day. People these days sell almost anything online from ideas to underwear. And it simply is amazing that one can just do business at the comfort of their own home. But then again, why not? Because of e-commerce, our lives have become so much easier. Because of this, our lives have become fuller than ever. It made things a lot easier and simpler for us..

Looking at the different needs of the business and industry, IIPM Business School offers new management courses that will help in overall development of a person as a manager and entrepreneur. These courses include:

Two-year Programme in National Economic Planning & Entrepreneurship

In this program, the students are taught some core subjects (National Economic Planning, Finance & Accounting, marketing, production, IT systems, etc.) in their first year. In the second year, they have to select the subjects according to some area of specialization like IT, Marketing, Operations, etc. At the end of the course, they have to submit a thesis on the basis of their study. This program leads to the award of MBA degree by IMI.

Three-year integrated programme in National Economic Planning & Entrepreneurship

It was first established in New Delhi in 1974. There were a very few students in the school who were selected on the basis of admission test and interview held in places like Delhi, Mumbai, Kolkata and Bangalore.

Infrastructure of IIPM Business School

Today, IIPM has many campuses in many big cities like Delhi, Mumbai, Chennai, Pune, Ahmedabad, Mohali, Lucknow, Dehradun, and Kolkata. All campuses have well built AC classrooms, libraries, auditoriums, computer domes, etc. IIPM also provides other facilities like gymnasium, swimming pool, billiards, mini golf, pool and other games. This helps in overall development of the students. Delhi campus is spread over 5 acres of area which is the largest among all the business institutes in Delhi.

A new study from the Olin Business School at Washington University in St. Louis finds it’s difficult to maintain “Chinese walls” – self-regulated firewalls – intended to keep client information from leaking between loan and investment departments when they are housed in the same financial institution.

The repeal of the depression era Glass-Steagall Act 11 years ago allowed financial institutions to engage in commercial and investment activities under the same roof.

The study “Do Bank-affiliated Analysts Benefit from Lending Relationships?” by Xiumin Martin, PhD, assistant professor of accounting at Olin, and Ting Chen of CUNY Baruch College, is forthcoming in the Journal of Accounting Research.

When the walls that had previously separated lenders from equity analysts came down, according to the new study, information about borrowers (that was private and restricted under Glass-Steagall), began to flow from commercial to equity research divisions within financial conglomerates.

Today’s business world is united by the Internet and by international trade in a way it never was in previous generations. Keeping this in mind, it is vital to attend a business program within an International Business School that recognizes the importance of a universal approach.

Centennial College in Toronto, Ontario is a post-secondary institution that boasts many areas of study, including international business. The college’s international Business School prides itself on fostering an entrepreneurial spirit from the minute students step foot through the doors of the centrally located Progress Campus, which houses its programs. Speaking of the programs, the School of Business offers more than 30 different ones that range in length for one semester to three years and are designed for specific interests. So what exactly is the approach that sets this international business training apart from other schools? Centennial College balances theory and academic study with optional co-op, internship terms and work placement programs. Career placements have proven to help Centennial graduates from the International School of Business earn job-specific skills, make important industry connections and tailor their individual career paths.

Imagine telling your boss that the plan to re-organize your department is wrong-headed via a secured anonymous e-mail and he responds to your concern in a video message delivered to everyone in the company. Fiction? No, it’s called “ChangeCasting” and a new approach to leading organizational change outlined in a book by professor Jackson Nickerson, the first in a series from the Brookings Institution Press and Olin which offers practical solutions and strategies for today’s managers.

In this era of YouTube, Skype, iChat and v-casts, video is everywhere. And Jackson Nickerson, PhD, the Frahm Family Professor of Organization and Strategy at Washington University in St. Louis’ Olin Business School, says CEOs and managers can harness the power of video to lead and accelerate change within their businesses.

Black swans, green coal and a blueprint to reduce uncertainty were just a few of the topics discussed during the second annual Leaders in Business Summit Sept. 28 hosted by Olin Business School at Washington University in St. Louis and Deloitte & Touche.

Over 100 executives participated in the daylong dialogue at the Charles F. Knight Center on the campus of Washington University with CEOs and top officials from industry leaders such as Ameren, AT&T, Edward Jones, Energizer Holdings, Monsanto, Peabody Energy and the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis.

Panel discussions moderated by Olin Business School faculty covered topics from corporate social responsibility and sustainability to strategies used by companies to navigate the volatile economy of the past two years.