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It's spring, and at the Indian Institute of Management - a premier management school in this industrial town - the campus is abuzz with company recruiters offering fat pay packages to new grads. . Bagging a $185,000 per year offer, Manan Ahuja, an affable 26-year-old lad, coyly notes that his salary package offered by Barclays Capital, a British investment bank, is far more than his father, a Delhi government bureaucrat, earned in his entire lifetime. "It feels great to get an international offer," Mr. Ahuja says. "Beyond the salary, this promises an interesting job profile and great growth prospects." Ahuja's...

President George W. Bush is the very first President to hold a Masters Degree in Business Administration. Even better (or worse, depending on your perspective), his MBA is from Harvard Business School, where postgraduate management training was invented in the early part of the last century, and which to many stands as a symbol of the good, the bad, and the ugly faces of modern management. Harvard MBA’s indisputably lead more major corporations, receive higher starting salaries fresh out of school, and carry with them more élan and glamour than the graduates of any rival business schools – facts which...

Three US mags face ban over illegal entry CHINA'S publishing authority has warned that the Chinese-language version of Newsweek, Forbes and Harvard Business Review could be banned for illegal entry. Earlier reports from Hong Kong and Taiwan newspapers said the three elite American magazines had acquired permission from Beijing to enter the Chinese mainland market in the form of monthly periodicals. But the State Press and Publication Administration (SPPA) denied that it had given approval to any of the three American magazines. An official said the three American magazines had not submitted any application for approval so far, so their...