In a conversation with Mint, Aly Shariff, managing director, Premier Inn South Asia (India, Sri Lanka and Maldives) spoke on expansion plans of the hotel chain in India, the strategy forward and challenges in the hospitality sector. Premier Inn is a large hotel chain in UK with over 600 hotels. The firm would also look Read More… »
Author Archive
» Premier Inn invests Rs 300 crore to set up mid-market hotels in India
Premier Inn, part of the UK-based Whitbread Hotels and Restaurants is now increasing its presence in India going by the opportunities from a growing middle class population. It slated an investment of Rs 300 crore to open up a total of five mid-market hotels in the country. While it has commissioned two, one each at Read More… »
» AI Pilots Strike – break the impasse
Even ten days after the strike by the Air India’s pilots began there appears to be no resolution in sight. With civil aviation minister Ajit Singh unwilling to adopt a more flexible approach to enable initiation of a dialogue for breaking the impasse, one wonders how long will the agitation go on, and how much Read More… »
» TIPS ON COST-CUTTING Pilots tell AI how to save Rs 452 crore a year
Mumbai: Polishing and cleaning aircraft exteriors on a regular basis results in about 1% less fuel burn from reduced air friction at high speeds. A 1% saving translates to Rs 72 crore per annum. While this might sound like a suggestion made by an airline consultant for cost reduction, It actually comes from Air India Read More… »
» Teaching MBA Students to Think!
1. Research-based learning and its value in the corporate sector In both large international conferences and intimate round-table discussions, corporate leaders around the globe have expressed their disillusionment with the quality of top-MBA graduates. They lament the 6-10 months of hand holding needed to ready fresh graduates for the job and question their ability to Read More… »
» Mr. Mehmet Akay takes over as General Manager, Southern & Western India, Turkish Airlines
Mr. Mehmet Akay takes over as General Manager, Southern & Western India, Turkish Airlines Mumbai, May 11, 2012 Europe’s fastest growing airline company, Turkish Airlines announces Mr. Mehmet Akay as the new General Manager of the airline for Southern & Western India. In his role, Mr. Akay will be taking charge of Turkish Airlines’ strategic Read More… »
» Vivid Sydney 2012 lights up the harbor city
Vivid Sydney, Australia’s most renowned sound and light extravaganza, is back for its fourth year, with a program that will transform the city at night into a colourful canvas of light, music and ideas. As the largest annual festival of its kind in the Southern Hemisphere, Vivid showcases Sydney as the creative industries hub of Read More… »
» Foreign faculty, a new mantra for emerging B-schools
As international perspective for managerial roles becomes increasingly important in the globalised economy today, Indian B-schools are not only inviting visiting faculty from abroad but also hiring them as regular faculty to enhance global outlook of their curriculum and pedagogy. While inviting faculty from foreign University to teach students at Indian B-schools has been prevalent Read More… »
» MBA shake-out is painful but healthy
The management fraternity at Bengaluru will not forget the evening of April 25 in hurry! More than twenty big-wigs of Indian Management Education & CEOs from Corporate India descended in the city’s prestigious Century Club for the ‘Directors’ Round-table’ hosted by MBAUniverse.com, India’s No 1 MBA Portal. In audience were more than 150 Vice Chancellors, Read More… »
» MBA Quality Gap: MYRA dean
Management education in India is best characterized by the huge gap between the demand for high quality education and the ability of the majority of institutions to supply it. While there are over 3500 AICTE approved business schools in India, they vary widely in terms of their infrastructure, pedagogical approaches, faculty training, and student placements Read More… »