In-house Research Centers
Apart from corporate supported research initiatives, Unitedworld also hasa cell for in-house study of economic trends. All study reports will be fed to the curriculum so that managers of tomorrow get familiar with future market trends. Students will be specially trained to appreciate global canvas of Indian products & services.
Balance sheets of Small and medium scale industries are virtual economic health cards of a country - as they are the building blocks of economic system.
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SSI or SMEs face a lot of business issues that large organization can afford to ignore. From getting working capital loan to fiscal management, SMEs need to put lot of valuable management time. Studying SME issues are critically important because they learn to do business in the hard way and they are more sensitive to business environment changes. It is easier to understand effect of changing fiscal and monitory policies from the perspective of SMEs.
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The aim is to build an archive of relevant reports, analyze policy amendments and suggest required changes. The objective is to have SME based real-life caselets for Unitedworld classroom, minimising the dependence on US/ EU based cases which have problem of relevance.
Microfinance & Empowerment
Bad debt is lowest in Microfinance among all lending categories. Microfinance allows social empowerment and promotes entrepreneurship mostly in rural and semi urban areas.
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Today not even 50% of rural population is engaged into Agriculture. Microfinance is allowing rural youth to access non-agro professions and become micro-entrepreneurs. Even management graduates from premier B-Schools have started looking positively as a career choice compared to investment banking. Unitedworld is working closely with a number of such organizations, towards developmental research. This will create exposure for Unitedworld students in leading Micro-finance organizations.
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Commodity & Derivatives
Today an Indian commodity dealer can purchase yet to be produced palm oil from Malaysia to export it to China at a future market price.
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The dealer needs to predict rainfall in Malaysia during production time and forecast demand from China during lean period alongwith currency fluctuation possibilities. This is a complex financial instrument which is gaining momentum.
Unitedworld has developed a special cell with advisory support from some of the Industry Council members to identify such opportunities for students. They would be encouraged to interact with organizations experimenting with new tools and bring back as learning. This would enable Unitedworld students to become future ready - in real sense.
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