UWI - Institute of Business eBuzz
Friday April 1st 2005
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Association of MBAs
Important Links !

Centre For Training and Development

Financial Management Seminar

Speaker - CFA Professor Tom Robinson
Topic - Accounting Scandals and Expensing Stock Options
Date - May 25th 2005
Contact: Anya Teelucksingh 662-9894 ext 119

Upcoming Public Programmes

Here is a list of the programmes being offered in April 2005.
Please see our website for more information on each of these programmes.

  • Train the Trainer
  • Business Spanish
  • Finance for Non Financial Managers
  • Personal Productivity
  • Project Management Essentials
  • Small Business - Positioning For Entrepreneurial Success
  • Strategic Thinking For HR Managers

Project Management

Project Management goes down south!
Classes to start on April 18-20th 2005 and will be held at the Plipdeco House.
Contact: Nalini Bhansingh-Ramadhin 662-9894 ext 136

Marketing and Stakeholder Relationship

Annual Sports and Family Day and Cook Out Competition

The Marketing and Stakeholder Relationship Unit & Staff of the UWI-IOB will be hosting its 3rd annual Sports & Family Day.

Date: Sunday 24th April, 2004 (Marvin Lee Stadium, Center of Excellence)
Time: 11:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m

Come out in your numbers and help to create some energy between IOB staff, faculty & all current students.
Current as well as Past Students can liaise with class reps or programme coordinators.
Facilitators and graduates can contact Kemmy Jackson or Nicole Pierre at 662-9894 ext 120
Looking forward to more fun this year.

Centre For Applied Business Research

2nd Quarter 2005: IOB Corporate Confidence Index (CCI)

The Second Quarter Corporate Confidence Index (CCI) will be released on April 13th.

When I Grow UP

Release of "When I Grow UP" on April 18th.

Completion of the Executive Opinion Survey: GLOBAL COMPETITIVENESS REPORT: 2005 to 2006

Over 75 Executives participated in the Annual Global Competitiveness Survey of the World Economic Forum. The results of this survey would be released in September 2005.

Management Information Systems

Web Blog

For the first time in its history, the IOB has launched its informative Web Blog - a state-of-the-art semantic web publishing platform. Think of it as an online diary where you read our daily notes.
Posts are neatly separated into categories and archived on a monthly basis. Some of the features include:
  • Instant Publishing by our authors
  • Password-protected posts
  • Multiple authors
  • Multiple categories
  • Sub-categories
  • Comments by the general public
We encourage you to bookmark our web blog so that you can always be informed of current events happening right here at the IOB.
Link: http://www.uwi-iob.org/blog
Technical questions related to the web blog should be directed to Shivan Jaikaran.
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