1. PAXAR Plant Visit by BBS Students
On November 9, 2006, the Students of MSC 301: Operations Management went to visit the production plant of PAXAR Ltd., a multinational company that produces barcode printers, printed and woven labels, tags etc. for garments and leather industries. Accompanied by the course instructor Mr. Ashique Khan, the team consisted of 39 students and started for Savar EPZ (Ext.) at 9:30AM. They spent some interactive and informative 3 hours at PAXAR with their production personnel and Customer Service Manager - Mr. Maqsud Sobhani, an ex-lecturer of BBS. BBS aims to arrange more of such events to make the students' learning more effective.
2. Paper presentation and publication
Dr. Mojib Uddin Ahmed, Professor and director of MBA program, BRAC Business School (BBS), presented a paper in an international Conference entitled "Corporate Takeover Bids, Growth Opportunities of Bidders, and Announcement day Effect: An Empirical Study", International Academy of Business and Economics-2006 Annual Conference, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA from October 15 -18, 2006. One of his papers entitled "Corporate Takeover Bids, Growth Opportunities of Bidders, and Announcement day Effect: An Empirical Study", has been published in the Journal of Academy of Business and Economics, Vol 6 No.1, 2006, P137-147, USA, (with Niazur Rahim).