IIFM Bhopal is a sectoral management institute imparting specific education for managers in the area of forest, environment and natural resources management and allied sectors. IIFM has invited applications from candidates interested in the Fellow Programme in Management, which is a doctoral level program designed to develop and equip students for career opportunities in management education and research in the following areas of specialization:

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The Apeejay School of Management (ASM) has called for applications to the following programmes:
Post graduate diploma in management (PGDM) – 120 seats
Post graduate diploma in management (PGDM) in international business – 60 seats
Post graduate diploma in management (PGDM) in customer relationship management (CRM – 60 seats.

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The Indian Institute of Finance is an autonomous educational institute which provides high quality professionally oriented education, research and training. The institute invites applications for its two-year full time Management of Business Finance (MBF) and the Fellow program in Finance (FBA – Finance). The programme intake for MBF is 120 and for FBA – Finance is 10 students.

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The FMS 2010 entrance exam was held on Sunday, January 10, 2010. The test consisted of 200 questions divided into four sections and comprising 800 marks in total. The test duration was 120 minutes and for each correct answer students got four marks. There was negative marking of one mark for each wrong answer.

The Verbal Ability section was the most difficult of all and it consisted mainly of the vocabulary and English usage questions on idiomatic expressions, figures of speech etc. The reading-comprehension section had four passages on several topics ranging from business to philosophy and the passages were lengthy.

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Indsearch is an autonomous institute under the University of Pune established in 1973 by a group of academicians and management professionals from the corporate sector as an institute devoted to teaching, training, consultancy and research in management and information technology.

The institute invites applications to its two-year full time MBA with specializations in human resource management, marketing and information technology. The programme intake is 60 students.

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MIT School of Distance Education offers professional education in distance learning mode with the back-up of e-learning Learning Management Software (LMS) that affords round-the-clock back-up access to distance education, knowledge assessment, instructor guidance and certification. The institute invites applications to its two-year post graduate diploma in business administration (PGDBA) and one year post graduate diploma in energy, project management, marketing and technology management.

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The Advanc’edge B-school Tour, an event eagerly looked forward to by the aspiring MBA community, was flagged off in Pune today. Over 500 students and aspirants attended the Tour at the Pride Hotel in Pune, which saw the participation of leading schools such as SPJIMR Mumbai, NMIMS, the Shailesh J Mehta School of Management at IIT Bombay, SCMHRD Pune, IFMR Chennai, Welingkar Institute, Praxis Business School-Calcutta, IMDR Pune, Sydenham Institute of Management Mumbai, Loyola Institute of Business Management Chennai, KJ Somaiya Institute Mumbai and Great Lakes Institute of Management, Chennai. The attendees had an opportunity to interact with the representatives of each of these schools individually and have their queries addressed on various issues ranging from admissions to placement. At the end of the day, schools and aspirants were equally satisfied with the constructive interaction that they had throughout the day.

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The 3rd IIM-A Doctoral Colloquium is being organized at IIM-Ahmedabad on January 8-9, 2010. The annual event hosts presentations by doctoral students in management from across the country and abroad. The colloquium is conducted by the Institute with an aim to provide a platform for young management researchers to chisel their research ideas and skills from the symbiotic pool of budding researchers and experts. The colloquium also aims to build a strong network for young management researchers.

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The Indian Institute of Management, Kozhikode in association with Calicut Management Association & P T Usha School of Athletics will organize the first mini marathon in the city of Calicut on 31st January. The event is centred on the theme - “Be the Change”. The marathon, which is expected to see thousands running shoulder to shoulder, is a clarion call to the young minds of the city to wake up and act. It aims to bring forth awareness about the various issues plaguing the society and urge people to lead by example. This event is an attempt to inspire courage to start along the road of development, for a better India, a better tomorrow and for a better world.

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IFIM Business School, Bangalore (The Institute of Finance and International Management) founded in 1995  is accredited and approved by the AICTE, Ministry of HRD (GOI),NBA and offers several post graduate and PhD programmes in management.

IFIM invites applications to its two-year full time Post Graduate Diploma in Management: Finance (PGDM) Programme, two-year full-time Post-Graduate Diploma (PGDM) in Management, two-year full-time Post-Graduate Diploma in Management-International Business (PGDM-IB) Programme.

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IIM Lucknow invites applications for its three-year part time post graduate programme for working executives. The three-year evening programme is for working executives, entrepreneurs and professionals who desire to enhance their knowledge and skills in a formal setting while continuing to be engaged in their ongoing professions/businesses. The programme has an intake of 60 students.

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A Mumbai information session for daytime, cross-continent and global executive MBA programmes offered by The Duke Fuqua School of Business will be held on Saturday, January 9, 2010 at Taj Lands End, Garden View Hall, Mumbai.

The Duke MBA—Cross Continent programme is designed to help full-time working professionals earn a world-class MBA in only 16 months, and build a culturally-diverse peer network across the globe. Locations for the course would be London, Dubai, New Delhi, St. Petersburg, Shanghai, and Durham, North Carolina while part of instruction would also be imparted through the distance learning platform. This programme builds more than global awareness; it provides the real-world experience that will help students develop global competence and prepare them for international job responsibilities. The courses cover all functional areas of business.

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S.P. Jain Institute of Management and Research (SPJIMR) has invited applications for admissions to a one-year Global MBA, which is a residential programme jointly conducted at Dubai and Singapore with specializations offered in finance, marketing, information technology, global logistics & supply chain management and global human resources management.

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Jaipuria Institute of Management, Noida is affiliated to U P Technical University, Lucknow. The institute offers an AICTE-approved MBA course and its flagship programme is the two-year full time Postgraduate Programme in Management with dual specialization in Finance, HR, Marketing, International Business, and Information Technology. The institute also provides other courses like PGDM (Services) and PGDM (Marketing), and PGDM (Retail Management).

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Jaipuria Institute of Management, Noida is affiliated to U P Technical University, Lucknow. The institute offers an AICTE-approved MBA course and its flagship programme is the two-year full time Postgraduate Programme in Management with dual specialization in Finance, HR, Marketing, International Business, and Information Technology. The institute also provides other courses like PGDM (Services) and PGDM (Marketing), and PGDM (Retail Management).

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Vels University is a 15-year institution with a campus spread over four locations in and around Chennai. The University conducts several MBA, Phd, Engineering and Pharmacy related courses

Vels University invites application to its MBA (Logistics and Shipping Management), MBA (Logistics & Supply Chain Management) and MBA (Healthcare management).

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The Department of Management Studies at IIT Delhi has invited applications from candidates who have taken the JMET.

The Department launched management programmes in 1997. It currently offers a two year full time MBA programme with focus on Management Systems, a two year full time MBA with focus on Telecommunication Systems Management under the aegis of Bharti School of Telecom Technology and Management and a three year part time MBA programme with focus on Technology Management

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The Delhi Technological University affiliated to Delhi University has been providing engineering education for the last 65 years. Apart from B.Tech and Ph.D programmes, the University also invites applications for its MBA progreamme. Number of seats available is 60.

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XAT 2010, which was held on January 3, had a total of 101 questions and each question had 1 mark. The negative marking for the questions was 0.20 for first five incorrect answers and 0.25 marks for each incorrect answer thereafter. The numbers of sections were three, comprising data interpretation & quantitative ability, analytical reasoning & decision making and verbal & logical ability. The essay topic to be written within 20 minutes was ‘Earth provides enough to satisfy every man’s need but not every man’s greed’.

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IIM Lucknow has invited students and working professionals to attend and participate Manfest 2010 – IIM Lucknow’s Annual International Business Conclave to be held on campus between January 22 and 24.  The main attractions of the event are the management events, viz.

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The National Institute of Technology, Calicut (NIT-C)-School of Management Studies will place special importance on technology management in its MBA programme for the academic year 2010-2012. The programme will be offered only to B.Tech/B.Arch/BE/B.Sc or engineering degree holders. Candidates who have appeared or will take the graduation degree examination have to send the course completion certificate from the head of the institution and self-attested copies of all available mark lists along with the application data sheet.

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CAT Candidates who were anxiously looking forward to intimation of the retest schedules were finally answered with authorities putting up an official notification on the website to the effect that the second phase of testing will now be held on Jan 30 and 31. According to the release, candidates identified for the re-test in phase two would receive communication from Prometric by January 10, 2010. Results of the entire exam can be expected by the third week of February.

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According to sources speaking to one of the leading national dailies, CAT results may get delayed. The results, which were scheduled to come on January 22, 2010 may now be pushed back to February 2010. However, no official intimation to the effect has been released on the CAT Website or through a formal Press Release.

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Institute of Management previously known as Nirma Institute of Management is a constituent of the distinguished Nirma University of Science and Technology. The Institute was established in 1996 with a view to promote excellence in management education and to prepare young men & women to meet the challenges of the developing corporate world. The Institute has invited applications for two-year full time MBA program approved by the All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE).

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Mr Soiles Bhattacharya, Director Finance of Steel Authority of India Limited (SAIL) was conferred with the GSBA Top Rankers Excellence Award 2009 under the Best Finance Professional category at a function held in New Delhi.
The award is instituted by management consultants Top Rankers in association with the Graduate School of Business and Administration, Greater Noida. The GSBA Top Rankers Excellence Award is conferred annually to top industry professionals for their outstanding contribution in the fields of HR, marketing and finance.

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IIM Bangalore has invited applications for admissions to the PGSEM - a program designed for practicing executives. Interested applicants must be either working in the IT/ITES industry, or must be part of IT division of an industry.

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IEC Business School has invited applications for admission to its PGDM programme.

ELIGIBILITY
1. Graduates with 50% marks
2. Candidates should appear in any of the management examinations like CAT/MAT/XAT/ATMA.

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As per a survey conducted by research firm IDC and technology magazine Dataquest, IIT Kharagpur has topped the list of tech schools in the country for the third consecutive year followed by IIT- Delhi. The study included 111 engineering and technology schools in the country and on a scale of 100, IIT Kharagpur scored 81.9 points, which was closely followed by IIT-Delhi that scored 78.49 points.

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The Institute of Health Management Research, Jaipur invites applications for an 11-month online e-hospital management programme for executives. This program is for working professionals who cannot attend an on-campus program.

ELIGIBILITY
Applicants should have a Bachelors degree in medicine, nursing or dental surgery from a university approved by UGC, AICTE or Association of Indian Universities and should also have three years of relevant working experience in a hospital/health care organisation.

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Symbiosis Centre for Health Care invites applications for one-year distance education courses - Post Graduate Diploma in Medico Legal Systems (PGDMLS) and Post Graduate Diploma in Hospital & Health Care Management (PGDHHM) and a six month distance education course - Certificate Course in Clinical Research (CCCR).

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The Graduate Management Admission Test (GMAT®) is about to set a record of highest test takers in 2009. The number of test takers is to reach a record high of 267000 by the end of 2009 as against 264000 of the previous year. For the first time, majority of the exams administered (51%) were outside the US, making the GMAT® more international in nature.

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IESE Spain, which has been consistently ranked as one of the best business schools, has recently set up its research centre in midtown Manhattan, New York.  With the establishment of the centre, IESE became the first European school to have a permanent base in the US.  Eric Weber, Director of IESE New York Centre states “The activities of the centre will focus on global business, media and entertainment, executive education and custom programs.”   The centre serves as a focal point, in the US to connect IESE’s network of executives, faculty, alumni, researchers and knowledge.

Source: http://www.iese.edu/en/usa/home/IESEintheUSA.asp

 

Australia’s 15.5 bn AUD industry has been badly affected with the recent attacks on international, especially Indian students. Since 2001, Australia has had a large influx of students from India due to its relaxed immigration laws. This gave rise to dubious institutions that cropped up with the intention of providing students permanent residency visas.  Many colleges in Sydney and Melbourne collapsed leaving students disillusioned. As a result the Deputy Prime Minister of Australia, Julia Gillard appointed the former Liberal

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IDP Education, the largest student placement company has partnered with 11 US institutions to place international students into these universities. US universities have seen a drop in their international student enrollments in the past few years and face stiff competition from countries like UK, Canada and Australia.  The initiative to partner with IDP, by these 11 institutions stems from this fact.   “I am excited to be part of such a bold initiative,” says

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Nyenrode University has come up with a unique way for accepting university scholarship applications. Students applying for the MSc in Management program at the school can now use YouTube to apply for 4 partial scholarships of Euro 10000 each. Interested students have to create a short, 2-minute video explaining why they should be considered for the scholarship.  This tech-savvy method of application is the first of its kind for a Dutch school that usually has a lengthy application process for scholarship applications.

Source: Nyenrode Business University http://www.nyenrode.nl/Education/services/scholarships/students/Pages/Full-timeMSc.aspx

 

JBIMS has received pre-placement offers (PPOs) or pre-placement interviews (PPIs) for around 30% of the class i.e. around 36 students out of 120. Most of the offers have come from companies in FMCG, banking and financial services, telecommunications and pharmaceuticals sectors from where the students had initially completed their summer internships.

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The Post Graduate Diploma in Agri-Business from NIAM churns out professionals to cater to the needs of various sectors of agri-business management and also combines the best of MBA with unique skills required for a career agri-business sectors like food, retailing, Agri-input/output marketing, pharmaceuticals, Plantation, exports, commodity trading, micro finance, banking, Agri-Business consultancy etc

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The British government has announced the Chevening Gurukul scholarship for 2010 under its flagship scholarship scheme for mid to senior level professionals in India.

The Chevening Gurukul Scholarship on Leadership at the London School of Economics is the flagship British Government scholarship scheme in India. It offers an intense, all-expenses-paid, 12-week course through a combination of closely supervised academic courses, field visits, seminars, debates and interactions with some of today’s top public figures; this is a unique opportunity for up to 20 Indian leaders.

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IIM Kozhikode invites applications for fellow programme which aims at developing top quality researchers and faculty resources for academic institutions including IIMs, and it envisages itself as a leading source of top quality management experts and thinkers for business organizations, government and society in India and abroad.

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K.J Somaiya Institute of Management Studies and Research has invited applications for PGDM with specialization in finance, human resource, marketing, operations & logistics and supply chain management and post graduate diploma in management–international business.
The institute allows meritorious students of PGDM the option of dual specialization, wherein they can opt for subjects from two different areas of specialization. This facility is subject to a minimum of 20 students applying for a particular combination of specializations.

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SPJIMR's Executive Management Programme is designed to provide high quality management education to practicing executives with minimal absence from their workplace. The programme is spread over 4 phases over a 21-month duration and would involve 60 full days of classes at campus in Mumbai.

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India’s premier B-School, IIM Ahmedabad has decided to change its recruitment process from a day-based system to a cohort-based system. In a first of its kind recruiter conclave held at Mumbai yesterday, the IIM Ahmedabad placement committee invited recruiter feedback on the new process. The system, called the “Cohort-based” placements process will go live from the coming placement season beginning the second week of February 2010.

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THE all-important meeting between IIM-A top brass and leading companies was held on Tuesday in Mumbai to decide on the contours of the new placement process. The IIM-A, in its proposal, tried to drive home the point that the focus was on better careers, not just salaries, while suggesting the sector approach.

According to the new system, there would be no spot offers to the students. Instead, there would be clusters like Investment banking, Consumer durables, etc. Under each cluster there would be associates like marketing, consulting, IT and sales, which the students would get to choose from. Currently, the students choose the company based on its size and branding, irrespective of what position it offers.

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BIM invites applications for its two-year full time MBA Programme with specializations offered in marketing, finance, systems and human resource management.

ELIGIBILITY
1. Bachelor’s or Post Graduate Degree or its equivalent in any discipline with a minimum of 50% marks.
2. Final Year Degree students may also apply, subject to completion of the degree requirements with minimum 50% marks by July 2010.
3. CAT 2009 Scores are used for shortlisting candidates who apply for admission to BIM.

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The Fellow Programme of the Indian Institute of Management Bangalore is a doctoral programme with specialization in corporate strategy and policy, economics and social sciences, finance and control, marketing, organizational behaviour and human resource management, production and operations management, quantitative methods and information systems, public policy & public systems. The programme is committed to train individuals who will excel in their area of research through publication of quality work of international standard.

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The fellow programme in management (FPM) is a doctoral level programme which offers specialization in decision sciences (operations research/statistics), economics, finance and accounting, human resources management, information technology; systems, marketing management, operations management, strategic management.
The programme offers a unique opportunity to those who wish to brighten their research and teaching talents. It is designed to develop high quality teachers, researchers and management thinkers by providing an opportunity for inter-disciplinary education and research in management.

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NIIT Imperia has invited applications for the following programmes:
 
Advanced Program for Marketing Professionals - IIM Calcutta
The duration of the program is one year. One intensive workshop of 3 days will be conducted at the IIM Calcutta campus at the beginning of the program.

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Institute for technology and management (ITM) invites applications for 2 year full-time Post Graduate Diploma in Management offered at four ITM campuses in Bangalore, Chennai, Navi Mumbai and Warangal.

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Nirma invites application for two-year full time MBA program.

ELIGIBILTY
Bachelor’s degree in any discipline from recognised university with atleast 50% aggregate marks or equivalent CGPA. Students appearing in the final examination of a bachelor’s degree can also apply.

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Summer Placement process at Jamnalal Bajaj Institute of Management Studies (JBIMS) saw participation from 88 companies from various sectors. Some of the heavyweights were JP Morgan Chase, Citibank, HSBC, Standard Chartered Bank, Deutsche Bank, ICICI Bank, HUL, Procter & Gamble, PepsiCo, ITC, Britannia and Colgate Palmolive.

Apart from sectors like Banking, FMCG, Financial Services, Pharma, Consulting, IT and Telecom, who are the regular recruiters, there were companies from sectors like hospitality, media and insurance recruiting in large numbers.

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Welingkar invites applications for two-year distance learning postgraduate diploma program with specializations available in marketing, finance, hr, supply chain management, retail, banking, investment & insurance, e-businesss, international business and general management.

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Deen Dayal Upadhyaya Institute of management and higher studies invites applications for PGDM with specialization offered in Marketing Management, Financial Management, Human Resource Management, Operations Management Systems and IT

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Calcutta Business School invites applications for two-year full time PGDM programme.

ELIGIBILITY
Bachelor's Degree or Equivalent with a minimum of 50% marks from a recognized Indian or foreign University. Candidates appearing for final year Bachelor's degree examinations (or an equivalent examination) can also apply, provided they complete all degree requirements by September 30, 2009.

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IFMR announces admissions to Post Graduate Diploma in Management (PGDM) with specialization in Finance, Marketing, HR, IT/Operations, financial engineering, and developmental & sustainable finance.

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SIES College of Management Studies invites applications to its two-year full time postgraduate diploma in management with specializations in marketing, finance, human resource and systems and also to the PGDM in pharmaceutical and biotech industry.

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AIIM invites applications for One Year Residential Post Graduate Programme in Infrastructure Management (PGPIM) pioneered under the leadership of Dr. Bakul Dholakia, Director, AIIM and Professor at IIM Ahmedabad. PGPIM will prepare business leaders who will be well equipped to face the challenges of managing the fast growing Infrastructure & Allied Sectors in leading economies.

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Mudra Institute of Communications, Ahmedabad (MICA) has invited applications for admission to its PGDM-C for the academic year 2010-2012.

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The Graduate Management Admission Test (GMAT) is on track to set a new record in 2009 for the number of tests administered in a single year.

As per the projections released by the Graduate Management Admission Council (GMAC), the number of GMAT exams administered worldwide this year is expected to reach an all-time high of more than 267,000 as compared to 264,700 last year.

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The Fellow Programme of the Indian Institute of Management Calcutta is a full-time doctoral programme with specialization in Behavioural Sciences, Economics, Finance & Control, Human Resource Management, Marketing Management, Information Systems, Operations Research and Systems Analysis, Operations Management, Regional Development Sociology, Strategic Management and Public Policy and Management of Management.

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The Post Graduate Programme for Executives for Visionary Leadership in Manufacturing (PGPEX-VLM) will be jointly conducted by IIM Calcutta, IIT Kanpur, and IIT Madras and supported by Japanese International Cooperation Agency (JICA).

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The Indian Institute of Management (IIM) Calcutta announces a General Management Programme for Accounting Professionals (GMPAP) a satellite-based management programme for Chartered Accountants (CAs) and other accounting professionals. The programme will aim at developing competence and skills essential to climb the corporate ladder among CAs, Cost Accountants and Company Secretaries.

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The Institute of Management Education Ghaziabad invites applications for its two-year full time dual speicalisation course in Management and the three-year part time course.

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After the successful launch of ‘The Next CEO’, IIM Lucknow’s Manfest 2010 in association with the British Council, has launched ‘Treatise: The International Thought Challenge’. Treatise is an International debate challenge which is conducted online. This innovative format allows participating teams to contest from the comfort of their homes! A flagship event, Treatise has seen International participation from the likes of Stanford and University of Michigan. Business Standard is the associate title partner for the event which carries prize money of Rs. 75,000.

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It was out on national media by early evening on December 16 that the CAT Committee would not consider scrapping the recently concluded online test and that affected candidates would be rescheduled for a date in Mid-January. Thousands of anxious test takers were however awaiting a formal clarification from the IIMs and that came in this afternoon with the authorities putting up a detailed stance on the CAT IIM website.

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The T. A. Pai Management Institute(TAPMI) has announced an extension in the last date  to apply for its two year PGDM programme. The new deadline for applications is January 11, 2010. This has been done in view of the issues faced during the administration of CAT 2009. It will also accept GMAT 2010 scores.

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Education Testing Service (ETS) has developed a scholarship programme to recognise outstanding students in India who will begin their postgraduate studies in the U.K., U.S. or Canada in 2010. The programme will recognise students with high academic achievement who have demonstrated leadership skills, innovative ideas and an outstanding ability to communicate in English. There will be three $10,000 scholarships and four $5,000 scholarships awarded to selected test takers.

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Unitedworld, which positions itself as Asia’s first open economy focused B-school, operating in Singapore and India has invited applications to its post graduate program in management with specializations in marketing, human resource, information system, international business, retail management, agribusiness, media, entrepreneurship and finance.

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In the wake of issues that occurred in administering the computer based CAT this year the air was rife with speculations about the validity and fairness of the test. The seven IIMs had decided earlier to have a review of the complaints and issues with the test and submit a report of the same on a day to day basis to the HRD ministry. At meeting convened by the HRD ministry at Delhi the CAT committee came to the consensus that the test would not be scrapped and a fresh test would be held around mid-January for those students who were unable to give the CAT due to genuine reasons. This is what was quoted of the decision on the Press Trust of India news website.

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As MBA aspirants in India continue to deal with the implications of the technical glitches that marred the delivery of the first-ever online CAT, a bigger and more scandalous issue rocks the global MBA testing world. On November 23, a Chinese court issued a ruling in favour of the Graduate Management Admission Council (GMAC) to the effect that a Chinese test-prep website (under an organization ironically named Beijing Passion Consultancy) had infringed GMAC copyrights. Irregularities charged against them included providing exclusive GMAT materials to test-takers for a fee, such as reconstructed "live" questions from actual GMAT exams, GMAT preparation material, and PDFs of actual test books. The website not only had to apologise publicly in a national newspaper and post a warning from GMAC on its website about the consequences of unfair means, but was also directed to pay a penalty of RMB 520,000 (US$76,000) in compensation to the Council.
(For full report, see http://gmac.mediaroom.com/index.php?s=43&item=92)

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The IMT Center for Distance Learning has announced admissions to its three-year postgraduate programme, two-year advanced postgraduate diploma in management, one year post graduate diploma programmes and Ph.D programmes.

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ISBM has announced admissions to its postgraduate programmes in Business Management with dual specialization in HR and Supply Chain & Operations Management.

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The last date for submission of completed application forms for the Post Graduate Programme in Forestry Management (PGDFM) offered by the Indian Institute of Forest Management (Bhopal) has been extended to 21st December 2009. For further details visit website www.iifm.ac.in

 

Singhad Business School has invited applications for admissions to its postgraduate programmes in marketing, personnel, computer management and postgraduate diploma courses in foreign trade, materials & logistics, finance, marketing.

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Future Learning and Development Ltd. (FLDL), a part of Future Group in collaboration with IGNOU, has launched an MBA programme in Retail. The MBA Retail will be a two-year programme designed by industry experts and recognized by AICTE. It is a day scholar programme that will be conducted across 6 locations, namely Ahmedabad, Mumbai, New Delhi, Pune, Bengaluru and Kolkata.

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MDI Gurgaon has launched a 15-month PGDM in energy management in collaboration with the Ministry of Power, the Government of India and USAID. The programme will have 12 months of classroom training at the MDI campus in Gurgaon and entail 3 months of project work.

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The Seven directors of the Indian Institutes of Management (IIMs) will be meeting the Union Ministry of human resources and development at Delhi today to decide the fate of CAT 2009. This was the first time that CAT had adopted the computer based format but suffered several technical and other issues during its administration. Around 2.5 lakh students have their hopes pined on the CAT. Several of the candidates who were unable to give the test are waiting for a fresh rescheduled date from Prometric the US based company which has administered the computer based test over the 11 day window period across several centres.

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The Prevailing Scenario
Each child is born with a unique talent. However, most Indian children in the age group of 12 – 18 have to inevitably endure a lot of pressure. Although the Indian education system is one of the best in the world, it is not friendly to students who do not perform well academically.

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The Indian Institute of Management Bangalore announced its admission process for the flagship post graduate programme for the PGP-2010-12 batch. The announcement has come at a time when the computer based CAT 2009 having suffered several technical glitches and other issues is being reviewed by the IIMs. The selection process is based on cumulative data on the CAT applicants which would include; past academic performance, CAT score, performance at the personal interview and work experience. As per unconfirmed reports the selection criteria and weight age given to each of the parameters are based on previous admissions along with the inputs from the IIM B faculty and other stakeholders.

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The T.A. PAI Management Institute (TAPMI) at Manipal is offering part time certificate programmes in Sales and Marketing (CPSM) and in Financial Management (CPFM). Each programme will be complete within a period of 48 weekends.  This will also include a project of 5-6 weeks’ duration. These courses are ideally suitable for graduates with a work experience of around two years. Engineering graduates with no experience will also find the course beneficial for seeking good employment in the corporate sector.  Candidates with professional qualification like CA/ICWA can apply for the programme.

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IGNOU has invited applications for the following distance - learning programmes:

• Masters in Business Administration (MBA)
• Diploma in Management (DIM)
• Post Graduate Diploma in Management (PGDIM)
• Post Graduate Diploma in Human Resource Management (PGDHRM)
• Post Graduate Diploma in Financial Management  (PGDFM)
• Post Graduate Diploma in Operations Management (PGDOM)
• Post Graduate Diploma in Marketing Management (PGDMM)

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The Management Entrance Test conducted by UPES for MBA programs like Oil & Gas Management, Power Management, Energy Trading, Infrastructure Management, Aviation Management, Port & Shipping Management, Information Systems Management, International Business and Logistics & Supply Chain Management will be held on the 20th of February 2010.

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The Association of Indian Management Schools(AIMS) has invited applications for its AIMS Test for Management Admissions(ATMA) 2010. ATMA will be conducted on February 14, 2010 from 1:30 pm to 5:00 pm at 31 centers. ATMA has been approved by the Ministry of Human Resource Development of the Government of India for admission on All India Basis to the MBA / PGDM and other Postgraduate Programmes like MCA. Starting from 2009 the organizers have introduced the on line registration of Application forms.

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The National Institute of Agricultural Marketing(NIAM) has announced admissions to the 10th batch of Post Graduate Diploma Programme In Agri-business Management (PGDABM). This is an AICTE approved two year full-time residential course. The curriculum at NIAM for PGDABM is designed to provide students with the opportunities of learning the state of the art skills and techniques.

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MANAGE, Hyderabad invites applications for admission to its 15th batch of Post Graduate Diploma in Management (Agri-Business Management), a two-year full time programme. The PG Diploma at MANAGE is the niche programme in agri-business management and have attracted the attention of reputed national and multinational companies achieving 100 per cent placement since inception. The PG Diploma is approved by AICTE and accredited by National Board of Accreditation.

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The T. A Pai Management Institute(TAPMI) has announced an extension in the last date  to apply for its two year PGDM programme. The new deadline for applications is 11 January 2010. This has been done in view of the issues faced during the administration of CAT 2009. TAPMI has traditionally been accepting CAT scores for admissions to its management programmes. As per a notification released by the institute apart from CAT 2009, GMAT scores from 2008 to 2010 would be accepted for admissions.

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SVKM’s Narsee Monjee Institute of Management Studies (NMIMS) School of Business Management announces admissions to MBA/DIPLOMA in Social Entrepreneurship (Part Time) for 2010-11.

The courses in Social Entrepreneurship have been designed for NGO/Government/CSR professionals looking for better opportunities in social sector or becoming social entrepreneurs.

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All India Management Association (AIMA), the body which organizes the Management Aptitude Test (MAT), the MBA entrance exam, has notified about the exam to be held in February 2010. The exam will be held in both paper-pencil and computer-based forms and the candidate can choose any ONE of the two options.

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The Indian Institute of Management, Kozhikode will organize its Annual Marketing Conclave, Synapse, on the 12th & 13th December, 2009 at the institute’s scenic campus in Kozhikode (Calicut), Kerala. The event will be structured around the theme – “Is Left the Right Way?” The eternal conflict between analytical thinking and creativity that often splits a board room is brought to the fore as industry leaders, academicians, policymakers and management students put forth their views.

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The Indian School of Business(ISB), Hyderabad has invited applications for its second 15-month programme on management for working senior executives called PGPMAX. This programme has been designed for senior executives whose busy schedules do not permit them to pursue a full-time programme. It is equivalent in content and rigor to an Executive MBA Programme and is designed on a schedule that minimizes disruption of work and personal pursuit. PGPMAX also includes an international immersion module  in which the participants will go on a two week trip to USA and a one week trip to Brazil, where they will attend classes at leading global business schools, including Kellogg School of Management and The Wharton School.

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In the wake of the recent issues with the computer based test CAT the Indian Institutes of Management released a notification reassuring all candidates who have not been able to attempt the test successfully of an opportunity to give the test again and also of a fair result. In the release the IIMs have also apologized to all the candidates for the inconvenience caused. The note also appears on the CAT IIM website and reads as follows; “The first phase of computerized CAT 2009 concluded on December 8, 2009. Most candidates completed the test successfully in the first slot allotted to them; of the candidates who could not complete the test successfully in the first slot allotted to them, most have already been accommodated in another slot to take the test. However, there are still some candidates (numbering a few thousand) who could not take the test due to genuine reasons and test has not been rescheduled for them yet. A new test date will be announced in about a fortnight to provide an opportunity to ALL such candidates to write the test.

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In the view of recent technical problems which has occurred in the CAT computer based test, Narsee  Monjee Institute of Management Studies(NMIMS) which would be conducting an on line entrance test  starting this year  has released an assurance note to all the candidates.

“In the view of technical problems appeared during a recent online test for MBA, NMIMS, today advised candidates to not to get worried for ‘online test’ NMAT 2010.

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Interest Group in Food and Agri Business, IIM Lucknow in association with Greenpeace organised an event on 7th December 2009 to spread the message of ‘fight climate change’ in light of the United Nations Copenhagen Summit is being held from 7th to 18th of December 2009. The event was aimed at sending the message of IIM Lucknow community to join hands to fight climate change.

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As CAT-takers across the country find themselves puzzled by reports in a section of national media about IIM Directors planning to scrap the recently concluded online test and taking a paper-based retest, authorities at IIM Ahmedabad have categorically rejected any such indications having been released. Speaking to Advanc’edge MBA, convenor of CAT 2009, Professor Satish Deodhar revealed, “At this point in time, I have no instructions and the Directors' Forum has conveyed no inclination towards conducting a paper-pencil test.  As mentioned in our last-released press note, we will conduct the test on one more day, which will be announced by Prometric.  At this time, the Directors’ Forum is taking stock of the just-concluded test window.”

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One wonders how many more revisions and updates test takers can expect, but the latest to come from Prometric was not entirely unexpected with several candidates reporting that they were yet to receive intimation of feasible slots for retest, despite their originally scheduled tests being cancelled or remaining incomplete due to technical problems. On December 7, the IIMs and Prometric came out with a statement that while the main testing window for CAT 2009 would close on Tuesday, the 8th of December, any registered candidate who is not able to complete the computerized test within that time because of genuine technical glitches will be set a subsequent date and venue for testing sometime in the coming weeks.

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The graduate school entrance exam Graduate Record Exam(GRE) is all set to be revamped by 2011. Un confirmed reports suggest that the test would be slightly lengthened and it would be now graded on a new scale of 130-170. The agency which administers this test which is the Educational Testing Service (ETS) announced of this decision at the annual meeting of the council of graduate schools in San Fransisco.

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The CAT testing agency Prometric has come out with a report on the reason to the various technical problems that candidates faced in the recent days of the test. The CAT IIM website displayed the following update; “Candidates at various locations experienced different technical difficulties that were related to the viruses. Prometric is currently reviewing the experiences of all the candidates that might have been impacted by computer viruses and/or other sources of potential disruption. One of the key advantages of computer-based delivery is the ability to electronically record a candidate's exam and identify issues that might affect an individual's performance. That assessment is already underway and with the consent of the IIMs, Prometric will be offering a new test to the candidates who were impacted in this way.

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The Indian Institute of Management Bangalore(IIM B)  in association with NSRCEL will conduct it's Management Programme for Women Entrepreneurs from April 14 to May 26, 2010. the programme was first initiated in 2004 and since then it has been held annually. The programme aims to help participants convert their raw  business ideas into a viable business plan. All participants who attend a minimum of 90% of the scheduled classroom sessions, present their Business Plan to the group in class and submit a copy of their Business Plan for evaluation, will receive a certificate of program completion from IIMB.

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Book exhibitions can be tricky experiences. For the most part, they are merely a forum to bring together publishers, sellers, and readers. Readers tend to find a few rare pieces and mostly a collection of generally available books.

This weekend, the students and faculty of XLRI experienced a special kind of book exhibition. The staff members of Sir Jehangir Ghandy Library at XLRI with LibComm (Library committee completely run by a group of students of XLRI) held a grand exhibition of management books which was completely different from general book exhibitions. Eleven well known publishers brought in most of their best sellers and newly published books for the students and faculty of this esteemed management institute to have a look at.

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The Common Admission Test which was to have been held over a window ending on December 07, has now been extended by a day with test provider Prometric declaring that on December 8, CAT will be held over one morning session in 20 cities, viz. Bangalore, Bhopal, Bhubaneswar, Chandigarh, Chennai, Kochi, Faridabad, Ghaziabad, Gurgaon, Guwahati, Hyderabad, Kolkata, Lucknow, Mumbai, Navi Mumbai, New Delhi, Noida, Greater Noida, Pune and Varanasi. All candidates who could not complete the test as per the original schedule due to technical glitches will be accommodated by December 8.

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In an attempt to clear the air for all anxious CAT aspirants the testing firm Prometric has come out with a set of Frequently Asked Questions on the CAT IIM website http://www.catiim.in/

1. Is it likely that I will be rescheduled to test the next day?
   Prometric will allocated the best available slot to affected candidates and it is possible this could be as early as the next day. Candidates are advised to stay contactable by phone and email at all times.

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Columbia Business School announced on December 3 that the Jerome A. Chazen Institute of International Business has launched the Program on Indian Economic Policies: Free Trade, Democracy and Entrepreneurial Development. Under the auspices of the Chazen Institute, the program will support a robust research program led by scholars from Columbia Business School and other institutes across the University, as well as other universities and think tanks in the United States and India. The research will promote the creation of knowledge on India’s growing economy, and identify factors that will help transform India into a modern 21st-century economy. The program is supported by a major grant from the John Templeton Foundation.

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Suryadatta group of Institutes in association with Global forum Management who joined hands with Disney and organized a workshop on “ Quality Service and Inspiring creativity . The Disney institute, a recognized leader in experiential training for business professionals across the globe, with over 85 years of experience in helping understand the business behind the magic, shared its insights at this workshop.

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As per reports by PTI the CAT process across centers on the fifth day was largely hassle free barring the two labs which remained closed which was declared earlier. Meanwhile, some students appearing for CAT at L J Institute of Management Studies, Ahmedabad faced difficulties due to power cut during the exam. The institute authorities used a generator to restore power supply and alloted extra time to the students to complete the test.

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CAT Accounts from Day 4 (December 1)

Arjun Chakrabarty, Bangalore: I took the test at CMRIT and I must say it was flawlessly conducted. The process of verification and testing, however, is pretty thorough and time consuming and candidates would be well-prepared to know how it goes: At the first point of entry, the voucher and admit card are checked. The candidate is then directed towards a common area where there is a second round of checking of the documents and ID. After that, he is taken to the location of his test lab. In my case this was done by 1:30, which is two hours prior to the time of my slot (3:30). Here, the candidate has to submit all his belongings except the voucher, admit card and photo identification. One word of caution: what you submit will not be checked by them individually, so make sure you don’t end up submitting your photo ID along with the other belongings because you will have to come back to take it. After this begins the process of fingerprinting, photo-scanning etc., post which a seat number is allotted to the test taker. Once seated at the terminal, the proctor will enter the login id and password. The system will also ask for a verification id which the proctor should tell you. Once this is over, the test starts.

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December1, which was day four of the CAT faced similar technical issues in administering the test at a few centers. The glitches experienced by students were less as compared to the first three days. Many students were informed that their tests were canceled and would be rescheduled for a later date. As per prometric the candidates who were not able to take the tests would be given a rescheduled time and test date within 48 hours of the cancellation of their test. However students are yet to hear from Prometric.

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Faculty of Management Studies, University of Delhi organized its flagship  34th Annual Convention on 29th November. The topic for the convention at the conclave was “Knowledge and Innovation”.
The distinguished speakers for the session included Dr. Dinesh Keskar, President, Boeing India and VP, Boeing International, Mr. Sanjeev Srivastava, Editor, BBC India, Mr. Salil Agrawal, Director, PwC , India, Mr. Patu Keswani, Chairman and CMD, The Lemon Tree Hotel Company, Mr. KV Sridhar, National Creative Director, Leo Burnett India, Mr. TN Thakur, CMD, PTC India, Mr. Abheek Singhi, Partner and Director, BCG, Mr. Udayan Ray, Editor, Outlook Money and Mr. Anil Kothuri, VP, CItiGroup, Mr. Arnaud Soubelet, CEO, Bharti-Alcatel JV and Mr. Rajiv Narang, CMD, Erehwon Innovation Consulting and Prof NM Anand.

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The third day of the Computer Based Test of the CAT saw the same issues that plagued the first two days of the test. Around 33 testing labs could not administer the test on Day 3. The total number of aspirants who have not been able to take the test has now added up to 8000 approximately.

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Nadathur S Raghavan Centre for Entrepreneurial Learning (NSRCEL), at  the Indian Institute of Management Bangalore (IIMB) has announced admissions to the fourth batch of the Management Programme for Entrepreneurs & Family Businesses (MPEFB 4), starting February 9, 2010.

MPEFB is an exclusive programme meant to support the learning needs of entrepreneurs - those who are starting their business as well as those who feel the need to streamline and upgrade their business by acquiring advanced management skills. This uniquely designed programme, which combines 40 days of face-to-face sessions at IIM Bangalore campus with faculty-driven online interaction sessions over a span of one year, ensures that entrepreneurs pursue their learning agenda without taking significant time off from their businesses.

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Catering to an ever growing demand for a programme in Finance for mid career corporate managers, the Indian Institute of Management Lucknow(IIM L) has launched its first one year International programme in Finance for Executives (IPFX). The International Programme in Finance for Executives is a carefully crafted and uniquely designed, full time, one-year residential dual degree post-graduate program in Finance. The IPFX program helps develop advanced careers in Finance with an emphasis on the Indian and international business environments through a comprehensive and challenging curriculum jointly delivered by the Desautels Faculty of Management, McGill University, Canada and the Indian Institute of Management Lucknow. The IPFX programme integrates advanced financial theory & quantitative methods with real world business practice. The overall goal of the program is to broaden core financial management competencies to further enhance the professional growth of students.

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After a disastrous start of the computer based CAT the second consecutive day also saw computers crash across exam centers due to virus attack. Following the first day's problems the organizers of the nationwide entrance test had put up a notification on the CAT IIM website informing candidates of the closure of a few of the affected testing labs across a few centers for the second day in order to rectify the issue. Of the total 360 labs around 50 labs reported issues with its computers and around 2000 tests could not be delivered on the first day. Bangalore was the worst affected and 11 of its testing labs remained closed on the second day. For more information and updates log on to www.catiim.in

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On Day 2 of CAT 2009 the IIMs have put up a notice on www.catiim.in/ to announce that 49 labs of the 360 labs at 104 individual locations will remain closed on the second day Sunday November 29, 2009.

On Day 1 of CAT 2009 though a significant number of exams were completed various technical issues in approximately 50 labs prevented approximately 2000 exams being delivered.  Prometric has scheduled a closure of these labs on Sunday, 29 November 2009. Candidates affected will be notified by Prometric through SMS and email messages and provided with new appointments within this year's testing period.

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With the highest peak load of 241000 candidates in 10 days, CAT 2009 started out on a mixed note. There have been unconfirmed reports of delays in test starting, students being turned away from the venue for late arrival, and computers crashing on the one hand and successful completion of the tests by many on the other.

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XLRI School of Business and Human Resources, Jamshedpur has successfully concluded its Summer Internship Recruitments with 100% of its students being offered internship offers across geographies and sectors. Given the fact that we are coming out of recessionary scenario, the performance was exemplary if this year’s numbers are anything to go by. The batch size this year had undergone an increase to 240 from 180 students in BM and PMIR programmes till the previous year. The recruiters responded with an unprecedented 273 offers made to 240 students, an increase of 27.6% over the previous year. The number of recruiters that participated in SIP 2010 also increased to 81 from 74 last year. The average stipend this year was Rs.89,000, an increase of 4.7% over the last year. The highest domestic stipend has also been incidentally from another investment bank for its Mumbai desk. The number of international offers has undergone an increase as well with students being offered international assignments by Investment Banks, FMCG majors and the big-wigs of the industry. The highest international offer was made by an investment bank for its trading desk in Hong Kong which stood in excess of Rs.500000.

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Around 2.41 lakh students will give the king of all management tests the CAT starting November 28 to  assess their managerial skills and also to seek entry into  the country's premier B Schools. The test is scheduled across the country and to be held in a span of ten days. The CAT is also held as the toughest nut to crack  but it would be for the first time in its 33 year history that success would be just a  click away with its computer based format. The test would be held across 105 centers in over 32 cities.

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Indian Institute of Management Indore,  will be organizing its annual management summit ahvan ’09, on the 19th, 20th, and 21st of November 2009.
Āhvān ’09 is IIM Indore’s premiere business festival. The showcase events such as Ashwamedha, Kalpavriksha, and Klueless have seen tremendous participation from top B Schools over the years, attracting some of the best minds in the field of business and management. This year, they are expecting to host close to 500 participants from major B schools and Corporate Houses in their campus and another 2000 students and faculty from local institutes. Their theme, inspired by the Nandan Nilekani book of the same name, is “Imagining India” with most events circling around issues that deal with making India globally competent on multiple levels, while at the same time staying locally centric, and, above all, socially relevant.

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Summer Placements at IIM Lucknow began in the last week of October 2009. The Placement Process so far has seen a distinct revival in the financial sector, with several major banks and financial firms hiring in good numbers.
 
Slot zero at IIM Lucknow saw the participation of prestigious consulting firms including McKinsey, Boston Consulting Group, investment banks including Deutsche Bank International (GMC), BNP Paribas, and private equity firms including Baring Private Equity Partners.

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IIM Kozhikode  announced the successful completion of summer placements for its thirteenth batch (2009-11). Despite anxieties surrounding the increase in batch size to 309 from 260 last year, IIM Kozhikode is the first IIM to announce 100% summer placements this year. The summer placements season witnessed participation by over 120 firms. Global biggies such as Arthur D Little, KPMG, Hewitt, J P Morgan Chase, Citigroup, HSBC, Standard Chartered Bank, Deutsche Bank, HUL, Pepsico, Colgate Palmolive reaffirmed their faith in IIMK students. The highest stipend offered this year was over Rs. 1,00,000 inclusive of perks and allowances. “Students got challenging roles and profiles of their liking with the support of our regular recruiters who have re-instated their commitment towards IIM Kozhikode. The participation of new recruiters in the emerging fields of media, sports management, hospitality and NGOs is indicative that our students are also willing to explore new avenues and challenge oldstereotypes” says Prof Keyoor Purani, Chairperson Placements, IIM Kozhikode.

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As part of the Leadership Series organized by IIM Kozhikode, Ms. Barkha Dutt, Managing Editor of NDTV was on campus and interacted with the students, faculty members of IIMK on November 4, 2009.
Prof. Debashis Chatterjee, Director, IIMK welcomed the guest and recollected how she has redefined television journalism in India. 

The session, an engaging discussion, ranged from issues like 26/11, naxalism, discrimination in India, challenges and opportunities from new technologies et al. When asked how she would like herself to be remembered, Ms. Dutt replied tha’t as a person who would not take no for an answer and one who pushed existing boundaries’. On talking about challenges faced by conventional media in the wake of technological changes she opined that newspapers should reinvent themselves and that TV reporting would benefit from  internet/IP TV. She spoke about the growing acceptance of on line communities like Facebook, Twitter, blogosphere etc. ‘With mobile phones every man today is a journalist’ said Ms.Dutt and quoted instances where actual TV reporting was entirely based on information from ordinary people on the ground.

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October 30, 2009 saw the students and faculty members of IIM Kozhikode being treated to a Western Classical Music performance at the campus organized by the IIMK Chapter of the SpicMacay. Norwegian artists – Caroline Dahl (Flute), Ida Bryhn (Viola), Anders Nilsson (Violin) and Fredrik Sjolin (Cello) – regaled the audiences with their rendition of Musical geniuses like Bach, Beethoven, Mozart and Vivaldi. The theme of the evening was “European Music through the Ages” where the artists illustrated the morphing of Western Classical music by the events of each century.

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XLRI School of Business and Human Resources is hosting its management festival Ensemble 2009, from November 13th to November 15th 2009. From its beginning in 2000, Ensemble has grown to become one of the most awaited showpiece events in the B-School circuit.  Over the years, students from across the elite B-Schools of India have participated in a wide spectrum of business plan contests, case studies, on line simulation games, across all business functions like Consulting, Marketing, Finance, HR, Systems and Operations. In terms of corporate partnerships and finances, the event has grown over 14 times since its inception.

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The annual business event of IIT Bombay organized by the School of Management “Avenues 2009” will be a two day extravaganza of management events, competitions, workshops and seminars. The event spanning 31st Oct and 1st Nov will be a fantastic platform for budding young managers and entrepreneurs to showcase their talent. The theme for Avenues ‘09 is “People, Planet and Profit” - a concept where social, economic and environmental considerations collectively appraise corporate performance. All the management events that are lined up will focus on this “Triple Bottom Line” and the air is rife with the possibility of new ideas and ventures emerging from this B-fest.

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25th October saw IIM Lucknow host some of the who’s who from India Inc. for a discussion on the theme “Emerging Pillars of the Indian Economy”. A theme so intricate entailed the expertise of the best in the Industry and IIM Lucknow pulled this off with panache.

The mega event christened “Samvit’09 – The Leaders’ Conclave” hosted Ms. Kalpana J Morparia, CEO – JPMorgan; Mr. Pramod Bhasin, Chairman - NASSCOM and President & CEO – Genpact; Mr. Ajit Balakrishnan, Founder & CEO - Rediff.com; Dr. Sandeep Pandey, Magsaysay Award Winner for Emergent Leadership, 2002; Ms Meera Sanyal – Country Head, ABN AMRO; Dr. Biswadip Mitra – President & Managing Director, Texas Instruments India. The conclave was anchored by Mr. Sanjeev Srivastava, BBC India Editor.

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Narsee Monjee Institute of Management Studies(NMIMS) will begin the on line registrations for its very own entrance test NMAT 2010 for its MBA programmes from October 27, 2009. NMAT 2010 is an on line admission test which will be conducted during a pre-determined 10-day period. The on line test would be conducted in India and abroad. The entrance exam has been scheduled between January 30, 2010 to February 8, 2010.

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IIM Lucknow is celebrating its 25th anniversary this year.As a grand finale to the Silver Jubilee celebrations, IIM Lucknow is hosting some of the who’s who in the Indian Industry for key note speeches revolving around the theme “Emerging Pillars of the Indian Economy”. The mega event christened “Samvit’09 – The Leaders’ Conclave” will host the likes of Ms. Kalpana J Morparia, CEO – JPMorgan; Mr. Pramod Bhasin, Chairman - NASSCOM and President & CEO – Genpact; Mr. Ajit Balakrishnan, Founder & CEO - Rediff.com; Dr. Sandeep Pandey, Magsaysay Award Winner for Emergent Leadership, 2002; Ms Meera Sanyal – Country Head, ABN AMRO; Dr. Biswadip Mitra – President & Managing Director, Texas Instruments India. The conclave will be anchored by Mr. Sanjeev Srivastava, Editor, BBC India.

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IESE business school, University of Navarra has earned the top spot, ranking 1st in the world in this year's The Economist MBA ranking. This is the third time the school has achieved the highest position in the publication's ranking, previously published under the Economist Intelligence Unit brand. Other schools in the top five spots are; IMD, Berkeley, Chicago and Harvard in second, third, fourth and fifth positions respectively.

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The Indian Institute of Management Bangalore (IIMB), one of the leading management schools has announced the constitution of an Advisory Council of the Centre for Public Policy (CPP) for providing long-term guidance to the activities of CPP. “This is an integral part of creating global benchmarks and linkages for IIMB that will strengthen our research programmes,” say Professor Pankaj Chandra,  Director of IIMB.

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On Sunday, 18th October, saw the otherwise calm campus of IIM Calcutta buzzing with activity and bustling with energy. As the day drew to a close and the evening grew darker, the final round of the experiential marketing based event “Mandi” was launched amongst much fanfare. The event, having a footfall of over 600 students of IIM C, saw the final 8 teams selling, bargaining and promoting various items at their chosen stall locations. The uniqueness of such a common occurrence lay in the fact that these stalls, run by the students of IIM C, replicated the typical energy and commotion filled “bazaar-type” atmosphere which is usually seen in the local market in the city.

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Horizons – the annual management conclave of the Indian Institute of Management, Kozhikode was held  from 9th to 11th of October 2009. The seminar was organized by the Industry Interaction Cell of IIM Kozhikode. Horizons 2009 and it revolved around the theme - “Refuelling growth - Gearing up for a new Economic Landscape”

Day 1 of the event started with an analysis of the current global scenario from multiple perspectives and set a platform of learning and a framework to be carried forward and built upon. The second day looked at the present scenario, focusing on the marketing and operations aspects, and built a holistic view for participants to precipitate understanding and spark critical thinking. Day 3 looked into diverse sectors from construction to health care, with a view on the future, thus taking the economic debate to the next level.

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The Indian Institute of Management , Kozhikode (IIM K) is organizing its three day annual managemnet conclave from October 9-11, 2009. The theme for the conclave is “Refuelling Growth - Gearing up for a new Economic Landscape”.

The event serves as a platform for prolific discussion and debate between industry leaders, academicians, policymakers and management students. The objective of the event is creation and cultivation of knowledge that is beneficial for both the nation and society. 

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The Indian Institute of Management Indore has invited applications to its Fellow Programme in Management(FPM) in the following areas of specialization; communication, finance and accounting, financial economics, information systems, marketing management, operations management & quantitative techniques, organizational behavior & HRM, strategic management & entrepreneurship.

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Indian Institute of Management, Kozhikode organized a unique roundtable conference on the occasion of Gandhi Jayanti on October 2. The theme of the event was “Timeless Leadership: What Sustains Leaders.” This was a onetime event where fourteen CEOs from across India attended to discuss and debate on the values that the Mahatma lived by and gave to the world and their relevance in the contemporary context. The chief guest for the evening was the Hon’ble Union Minister of State(IC) for Corporate Affairs Shri Salman Khurshid who unveiled a bust of the Mahatma in the institute’s Library and Information Centre.

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The NMIMS Management Aptitude Test (NMAT) an all India entrance test conducted by the Narsee Monjee Institute of Management Studies(NMIMS) for its two year full time management degree programmes and its PhD programme will be an on-line entrance test this year.  On line Registrations will begin on October 27, 2009. The window period in which the test would be held will begin from January 30, 2010 and will end on February 8, 2010.

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Applications are invited from Indian nationals either through http://www.education.nic.in/ or on plain paper in the format prescribed  for nominations from India for the award of Commonwealth Scholarship tenable in United Kingdom from October 2010 for higher studies/research/specialized training in the following subjects in the United Kingdom. These scholarships will be awarded for studies leading to either: -Six month clinical training/research/specialization(For MBBS, BDS,MS, MD degree holders only);one year taught master's courses or equivalent degree; three years doctoral degree;one year research on a split site basis; towards a Ph D registered at a university in home country in a) Engineering and technology, Science(Pure and applied), Agriculture, Humanities and social sciences(Sociology, Management studies, Economics,  Psychology, Law, English etc)

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To celebrate the spirit of 25 years of IIML, students of IIM L bring together – Varchasva ’09, a mega event. 25 of the country’s best B-schools will be challenging each other in various extra-curricular activities like dramatics, dancing, singing and debating to sports like cricket, football and tennis. The three day magnum opus event starts on October 2 and will wind up on October 4, 2009.

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On 3rd October 2009, Indian Institute of Management Indore celebrates its 10th Foundation Day. As the institute looks back at its successful past and works towards an even greater future, what could be more inspiring than a series of talks on “Institution Building” by guests from various walks of life?

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The registration date and the date for the sale of the Common Admission Test (CAT) vouchers have been extended. The last date to register on line also for any editing and rescheduling is October 11, 2009. The last date for the sale of CAT vouchers is October 8, 2009.

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Indian Institute of Management Kozhikode(IIM K) is all set to celebrate Gandhi Jayanti this year in a unique way. IIM K will organize a CEO roundtable on October 2, 2009 aiming to carry forward Mahatma Gandhi's legacy of leadership. A delegation including the heads of 18 leading companies, across all industrial sectors, have been invited to discuss the different dimensions of leadership as they exist today. The theme for this Roundtable has been aptly chosen as “Timeless Leadership: What Sustains Leaders?”  Instances of the issues that would be discussed during the roundtable are, How does a CEO leverage the power of the self? What are the personal and institutional values that sustain leaders in a crisis?etc.

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As per unconfirmed reports Publishing giant Pearson of the Pearson-GMAC fame, the agencies responsible for the Graduate Management Aptitude Test (GMAT) have now come out with an English proficiency test called Pearson Test of English Academic(PTE). Their entry into the English language testing market has now posed a challenge to the other tests like TOFEL, IELTS etc.

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International business school, INSEAD which has two global campuses in France and Singapore is now offering a need based scholarship for emerging markets also known as “INSEAD Orange Endowed scholarship for emerging markets”. The endowed scholarship will be offered to participants at INSEAD who come from emerging markets by the France telecom group, one among the leading telecommunications operators in the world whose main commercial brand is Orange. Candidates supported by this endowment would also need to be motivated to pursue their career in one of the regions where Orange operates.

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The Joy of Giving Week (JGW) which started its celebrations on September 27th and will continue till October 3, 2009 aims to engage at least two crore Indians in different "acts of giving" - money, time, resources and skills- spanning the corporate, NGO and government sectors, schools, colleges and the general public. Brain-child of Mumbai-based NGO GiveIndia, it aims to create a "festival of philanthropy" that can, over the years, become a part of the Indian ethos, with the Week being celebrated every year covering Gandhi Jayanti.

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The Noida campus of the  Indian Institute of Management Lucknow (IIM L) has invited applications for its 3rd one year residential International Programme in Management for Executives(IPMX 2010-11) from executives with a bachelor's degree in any discipline and having a minimum of six years full time professional experience as on March 31, 2010.

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25 students from the Indian Institute of Management Lucknow(IIM L) had been selected for the one week experiential learning program in Singapore. Keeping in tune with its goal of fostering international alliances, Manfest, IIM Lucknow’s international business conclave, in association with Contact Singapore - an alliance of the Singapore Economic Development Board and Ministry of Manpower had organized Experience@Singapore – a one week study-cum-learning trip to Singapore which was scheduled from the 22nd to 25th of September.

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The Faculty of Management Studies(FMS) has invited applications from aspirants for its flagship MBA and MBA(MS)  programmes for the 2010-2012 batch. It has also invited applications from candidates having at least two years of teaching experience to apply for the Doctoral programme at FMS. All candidates have to appear for the FMS test which has been scheduled for January 10, 2010. Application forms will be made available on line at www.fms.edu or from designated branches of The State Bank of India(SBI) from October 5, 2009 to November 20, 2009.

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Indian Institute of Management Bangalore(IIM B) is gearing up for its annual culture festival “Unmaad 2009” which would be a three day event. It is to be held on October 2, 3 and 4, 2009. Unmaad will feature Rock shows, Unmaad nites, fashion show, Choreography competition, JAM, Quiz, Debates, Drama, Music, Street play, games and many more.

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An award scheme called the Young Scholar's Awards scheme has been launched by the Reserve Bank of India with an aim to generate interest in and awareness about the Indian banking sector and the RBI. Under this scheme 150 young scholars will be shortlisted by the RBI through a nationwide competitive examination. These shortlisted candidates will then receive a scholarship . The selection test will revolve around and focus on the role, the functions of the RBI and banks in India. The test would be conducted in English and all the other major regional languages. Candidates who are selected would get an opportunity to work on projects in select offices of RBI for 2 to 3 months and will be paid a consolidated stipend of Rs 7,500/- per month. Boarding and lodging would be provided to outstation awardees. However the awardees shall have no right/ claim for an appointment in the RBI.

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Shailesh J Mehta School of Management(SJMSOM) Mumbai is all set to organize its annual international business extravaganza “Avenues 2009” which has been scheduled on October 31 and November 1, 2009. The two day festival will play host to 12 events spanning different management streams. The theme for Avenues 2009 is “People, Planet and Profit”  a concept where social, economic and environmental considerations are incorporated to appraise corporate performance. This new way of measuring performance is termed as “Triple Bottom Line” or “TBL”. Also the theme for this year.

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The Institute of Rural Management Anand(IRMA) is all set to start an Alumni Mentorship programme. Here the basic idea is to leverage the Alumni base to help the current IRMA students. In a way it would bring Alumni closer to the institute as well.  The IRMA Alumni Mentor Program serves three crucial functions: 1. Easing the transition from college to work for students; 2. Fostering student networking opportunities; 3. Creating an easy transition from student to active Alumni Association member.

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 The Indian Institute of Management, Shillong is all set to kick start a six month certificate course on sports management starting this October. This programme is aimed at  equipping students with information in areas of sport event management, sports marketing and sponsorship sales. This basic learning should enable students to get a foot hold in the emerging Indian sports market. Employment opportunities exist in sports organizations like golf management companies, sport marketing companies and sport associations for ones completing the certificate course. The students will be exposed to case studies on the issue of celebrity management and sport event organization.

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A memorandum of understanding between the Indian Institute of Management Calcutta (IIM C) and the University of Melbourne, Australia was signed and made formal on September 14, 2009. IIM C partners with 43  institutes in all. The MOU will enable student exchanges between the two institutes and this would help provide better exposure to cross cultural business environments which are critical.

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The Indian Institute of Management Bangalore (IIMB) and the HEC School of Management (HEC), a 125-year old academic institution based in Paris, France have successfully extended their on-going partnership to a student exchange programme. This was formally announced on the 12 September, 2009 at the institute.

In the first year of the HEC IIMB Exchange Programme (HIEP), fourteen students of HEC visited IIMB during September 7-12, 2009. These students are working executives with considerable experience, ranging from five to fifteen years, across a number of industries.  They are of different nationalities, coming from countries such as Italy, Brazil, France, the USA, Senegal and France.  During their one-week stay they visited a number of companies and attended lectures.

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Columbia Business School is currently unveiling new curriculum offerings generated by a blue-ribbon faculty committee during the summer of 2009. Professor Paul Glasserman, Jack R. Anderson Professor of Business, Decision, Risk and Operations was tapped by Dean Glenn Hubbard to lead a faculty committee that would recommend ways the school’s curriculum could and should use the economic crisis as a vehicle to foster integrative thinking that cuts across academic disciplines. The committee spent this summer creating a robust set of recommendations that will serve to ensure that every Columbia MBA graduate will be prepared to maneuver any type of economic climate.

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A global initiative by Goldman Sachs called 10,000 women which offers relevant management education to women entrepreneurs of small and medium businesses in partnership with the Indian School of Business(ISB) Hyderabad has invited applications for its certificate programme from interested candidates for its Bangalore chapter.  The initiative aims to support deserving participants with full scholarships for the programme. With the education and mentoring coming in from ISB these women entrepreneurs can further their businesses. The programme for the Bangalore chapter is set to begin by November 15, 2009.

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The Indus Entrepreneurs (TiE) Delhi chapter will be hosting its  annual flagship event TiEcon Delhi 2009 which has been scheduled for September 18th & 19th, 2009 at Hotel Taj Palace, New Delhi. The theme of this year's conference is "Smart Entrepreneurship in Challenging Times". As one of the largest congregations of successful entrepreneurs, investors, industry leaders & other key stakeholders of the entrepreneurial ecosystem, TiEcon Delhi 2009 will be the forum for smart budding entrepreneurs to connect.

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A list of the  Common Admission Test (CAT) 2009 testing sites/centres have been updated on the CAT IIM website http://catiim.in/test_centres.html. A list of the centers where students would be attempting the CAT span 32 cities across the country. The On line registration for CAT 2009 starts on September 9, 2009. Important instructions for the same  have been provided on the website http://content.catiim.in/pdf/registration_inst_updated.pdf

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The Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur's MBA is all set to host its annual flagship management conclave Prabandhan 2009 starting on September 18 to September 20, 2009. The event has been centered around the theme “Phoenix rising from the ashes” which takes a focus on various aspects of sustaining the global financial turmoil.

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The T A Pai Management Institute (TAPMI) has invited applications from MBA aspirants to its 2010-12 Post graduate Programmes in management (PGDM). Admissions to the following two year full time residential programmes are open now; PGDM(Post Graduate Diploma in Management) with 120 seats, PGDM(Health care management) with 60 seats, PGDM in Banking and Financial services with 60 seats and PGDM in International Business with 60 seats.

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The Institute for Technology and Management(ITM's) Institute of Financial Markets, Mumbai has invited applications from interested candidates for the 2009-11 batch of the PGDM, Financial Markets programme.

The PGDM Financial Markets a two year full time program launched to fulfill the demand within the Financial Markets for individuals having superior knowledge about Financial Markets  the program provides participants with globally relevant, up-to-date training. Some of the Program Objectives are as follows; to develop a new stream of financial markets professionals having sound blending of concepts with applications, to expose participants to financial markets both in India and abroad...

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The Indian School of Business, Hyderabad will play host to the second international conference on 'Igniting the genius within'. This three day event will be held from October 22 to the 25, 2009. The conference is being organized by the Center for Leadership, Innovation & Change (CLIC). The conference will address the very contemporary theme “Leading and Innovating in Turbulent Times.”
Registrations for participation at the conference started on September1, 2009.

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The Faculty of Management Studies (FMS) will be organizing its annual marketing conclave 'Markibrand 09' on the September 5, 2009 at the FMS, south campus, University of Delhi. The theme of the event would be “ R.I.P Brand loyalty: In search of resurrection”. The event constitutes of two sessions through which the conclave aims to discuss the issues pertaining to the phenomenon of 'brand loyalty'. There would be interactive sessions on the feasibility of maintaining an emotional connect for brand loyalty, selectiveness of consumers to specific brands, Role and need of the marketers to develop brand loyalty, and many more such issues which are sure to provide an insight on the concept which is puzzling marketers all over.

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Common Admission Test takers for 2009 can now avail of a comprehensive test demo provided by the IIMs on the IIM Bangalore website http://www.iimb.ernet.in/cat2009/cat%20demo/index.htm. The CAT which is going to be a computer based test starting this year has already caused quite a flutter among MBA aspirants. This comprehensive IIM CAT test tutorial and sample test demonstrates how the computer based test operates.

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The Xavier Labour Research Institute(XLRI), Jamshedpur has invited applications for its all India level admission test, XAT 2010 which is scheduled for January 3, 2010. The on line registration has started from September 1, 2009 and will close by November 30, 2009. All candidates desirous of joining XLRI for its management programmes will have to appear for this test. The XAT score is also used in admitting students for management programmes at 60 other XAT associate institutes across the country. The XAT Bulletin & XLRI Prospectus can be obtained from 120 Branches of Axis Bank or from the XAT Office / Admissions Office, XLRI, Circuit House Area (East), Jamshedpur, 831001.

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The Common Admission Test (CAT) 2009 held by the Indian Institutes of Management (IIMs) will begin from November 28 2009 as per the updates released on the CAT website. The CAT which is set to be a computer based test starting this year will be conducted during a ten-day window period between November 28 and December 7. The test would be administered in two sessions (morning/afternoon). Candidates have the choice for the date and venue from a list of 30 cities across the country. The IIMs have also made it clear that starting this year bulky CAT admission bulletins will not be sold.

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The Entrepreneurship cell at the Faculty of Management Studies(FMS) is all set to play  host to the  International Entrepreneurship Challenge(IEC) 2009. IEC 2009 is a three stage event, with each phase designed to contribute to the learning of the participant in ways more than one. The shortlisted teams of Stage I will be part of a unique mentorship program lasting a month.

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Students have been invited to apply for The Joint Management Entrance Test (JMET) 2010  which is the first step in the process of admission to the two year fulltime Postgraduate Degree Programmes in Management offered by the IITs and the Indian Institute of Science(IISc). Currently IIT Bombay, IIT Delhi, IIT Kanpur, IIT Kharagpur, IIT Madras, and IIT Roorkee offer Programmes in Management.

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The graduating class of 2009 at the Alliance business school, Bangalore will are scheduled to have their convocation ceremony on the 29th of August at the Alliance business Central Campus, Chandapur Anekal Road, Bangalore. The Chief guest for the occasion would be Shri D.H. Shankaramurthy,M.L.C.

Deputy Chairman, Karnataka State Planning Board. The inaugural session/opening of the convocation  is expected to start at 4:00 PM.

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Kshitij 2009 an Inter School Talent Search Competition organised by the CII-Yi XLRI Net, took place on 22nd August 2009, at TATA Auditorium, XLRI.

‘Tinplate Kshitij 2009’ was bigger than Kshitij 2008 in terms of both scale and participation. As compared to Kshitij 2008 being only a quiz competition, this year the event comprised of 3 rounds – Quiz, Painting and a Cultural Competition (both singing and dancing) and the total participation was more than 300 students accompanied with 60 teachers from over 30 schools in and around Jamshedpur. Total prizes worth Rs.15000/- were awarded to the winners of all four individual events and also for the ‘Best School Overall’ – all events combined.

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XLRI School of Business and Human Resources to commemorate the Joy of Giving Week, has organized a platform for people and organisations from various walks of life to come together and participate in the national movement.

Joy of Giving Week will be celebrated all over India from September 27- October 3, 2009. A Give India initiative this event aims to encourage the spirit of volunteerism amongst corporates, NGOs, educational institutions, government departments and ordinary individuals across the country. To support the nationwide initiative, XLRI also has planned various activities across the city to promote the acts of giving for a cause.

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The Xavier Labour Research Institute(XLRI) Jamshedpur has launched  a six month certificate course in Agribusiness management at the Loyola Academy, Hyderabad. The course will be delivered on line. The materials and the programme been developed in association with Ikisan a agri-web portal promoted by the Nagarjuna group.

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The student community of the Institute of Rural Management, Anand (IRMA) yet again plans to organize a two-day event on September 5-6, 2009 called Udaan’09. Riding high on last year's phenomenal success with Udaan 08 this year  IRMA students council is hosting its annual event where the participation is open to not only the post graduate institutes but also professionals working in diverse fields. The theme for this year’s UDAAN is “ Rural Enterprenureship”.

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The world is facing extreme economic and environmental challenges today due to man’s pursuit of ‘success’, as ‘success’ is traditionally defined. Unless we change course dramatically, mankind may have to face even greater hardships in the days to come. In such a scenario, can management education be redesigned to provide solutions to the challenges faced by mankind today? Can it help mankind find answers to today’s global economic and environmental challenges and produce managers whose skills and abilities not only make them recession-proof, but equip them to fight the recession? The answer is: A beginning can be made. With this as the basic premise,  Neral-based AICAR Business School is introducing a unique course as part of its management education curriculum that will help students challenge preconceived notions, discover new ways of thinking and evolve into independent learners/thinkers.

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The Symbiosis National Aptitude test (SNAP) conducted by the Symbiosis group is meant for candidates aspiring for the autonomous post graduate management programmes at any of the institutes under the Symbiosis International University. On line registrations for SNAP 2009 that would admit students to the 2010-12 programmes is slated to begin from August 24, 2009.

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The All India Management Association (AIMA) is all set to kick off its 6th National Competition for Management Students 2009. The event is being organized in association with IIL M  who is also the principal sponsor  for the event. The nationwide event will start rolling from September 2nd -5th across four different cities. This would be the regional rounds following which the grand finale will be held in New Delhi on the 12th of September 2009. The four cities to host the regional rounds are Bangalore and New Delhi(2nd-3rd September), Mumbai and Kolkata(4th -5th September).

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Four students from the Suryadatta Group of Institutes have made it to the merit list of the Pune University for the Post Graduate Diploma in Marketing Management (PGDMM) examination and the  Bachelors Degree of Hospitality Science (B.Sc – HS) examination conducted by the University.

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The Common Admission Test (CAT) 2009 by the Indian Institutes of Management(IIMs) will begin from November 28th 2009 as per unconfirmed reports. The CAT which is all set to be a computer based test starting this year will be conducted during a ten day window period between November 28th and December 7th . The test would be administered in two sessions. Candidates have the choice  for the date and venue from a list of  30 cities across the country. The IIMs have also made it clear that starting this year bulky CAT admission bulletins will not be sold.

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Institute of Rural Management Anand (IRMA), Anand has invited applications from aspirants who wish to enroll for the two year Postgraduate programme in rural management (PRM) for the 31st batch (2010-12) and the Fellow programme in rural management (FRM) for the  9th batch(2010) and the certificate programme in dairy management(CPDM 2010). The PRM is a residential programme with course work divided into four segments, Classroom; Fieldwork; organizational understanding and management training.

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Press Release

On June 22nd, the 2009-11 batch of IIM Calcutta’s Post Graduate Programme commenced its course. The 408-member batch is the largest across the seven Indian Institutes of Management, and includes students in its two flagship PG courses, viz. the Post Graduate Diploma in Management (PGDM) and the Post Graduate Diploma in Computer Management (PGDCM). The PGDCM programme, the first of its kind in India, is in its 16th year, while the original PGDM course is seeing the 46th batch. The intake this year went up from 304 for the 2008-10 batch to 408 this year. PGDM has a batch strength of 370, while PGDCM has 38 students. The batch includes 389 students who have come through the IIM-CAT examination, while the remaining 19 are overseas students. There has also been a marginal increase in the number of female students this year; more than 10% of the students are female this year as compared to 8% last year.

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The healthcare industry has shown tremendous growth in the past few years and today, healthcare is no longer limited to just going to a hospital. India will need over a million (10 lakh) “Healthcare Management Professionals” by 2012, as compared to the existing 2 lakh. Obviously, therefore, there is tremendous potential for career upgradation through new professional courses related to healthcare and hospital administration. Value-wise, the Indian healthcare industry will touch Rs. 3,52,500 crore by 2014 from Rs. 1,64, 500 crore today, according to Technopak Advisors in their report – ‘India Healthcare Trends 2008’. Such market scenarios open up a plethora of job opportunities for Healthcare Professionals. In the healthcare industry, right now, a fresh MBA graduate from a reputed institute, has the potential to earn a salary of Rs. 50,000 per month, which can go up to Rs. 2 lakhs per month after he has gained an experience of few years in the industry.

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Just Careers Common Admission Test (JC CAT)which  is a national level entrance test conducted to screen and admit students to business schools and management institutes participating has invited applications from candidates for JC CAT . More than 100  b schools are participating in the test. The JC CAT is UGC, AICTE and DEC approved. This test is conducted four times in a year and it has 90 test centers located in 46 cities across India. The test consists of five parts; Language Comprehension, Mathematical Skills, Data Analysis, Intelligence and Critical Reasoning, and Indian and Global Environment. Each section carries 40 objective type questions and each question carries one mark. There is negative marking for a wrong answer.

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Bangalore-based Leviosa Business School, which invites applications for admissions to its BBM and PGDBM/MBA courses, seems to be a school with a difference. It clearly underplays the obvious offerings of infrastructure and 100% placements – which every other new school does – and emphasizes the difference that participants will derive from the quality education imparted by their “practitioner scholars” – business managers who have over two decades of experience in the most renowned organizations in industry and have recruited from the top B-schools on one hand, and on the other, have been directly associated with academia through teaching stints at top schools as visiting faculty. Thus students at the school get an opportunity to learn from business managers who can expose them to the best of academic instruction and industry insights. This will certainly help them emerge as true leaders in industry and government sectors and even as entrepreneurs.

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The students of Shailesh J.Mehta School of Management successfully conducted their annual continuum series for  Finance and marketing. The Annual Finance Conclave – The Finance Continuum 2009 and the Marketing continuum were held on the 18th and the 19th of July respectively. The Continuum is a rolling seminar series that is organized every year, by the students of SJMSOM, IIT Bombay. These seminars focus on issues and challenges faced by the Indian Industry.

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India's premier business school the Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad (IIM A) is all set to increase its student intake by 28% for the next academic session in 2010. As per unconfirmed reports the institute is also planning to increase faculty strength and also have a few changes incorporated in the curricula  starting next year. IIM A currently has 350 students. The government has sanctioned Rs 32 crore as funds for its expansion plans.

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XLRI Jamshedpur will be holding the Fifth Graduation Ceremony of its Executive Management Programme for Defence Officers on July 18, 2009.

Smt. Saroj Vinayak, Director General, Ordnance Factories and Chairman of Ordnance Factory Board, Kolkata will be the Chief Guest.  Smt. Vinayak has been with the Ordnance Factory since 1973 and has held varied and responsible positions.

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Indian Institute of Foreign Trade (IIFT) has invited applications from candidates for the MBA in International Business at  its Delhi and Kolkata campuses. Candidates with a recognized bachelor's degree of minimum three years duration from any discipline can apply. Admission to the programme will be done on the basis of a written test, group discussion, essay writing and  Interview. The written test would be conducted on November 22nd 2009 at select cities across the country. Students would then be shortlisted for further selection procedures based on the scores of the written test.

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Answers to a few queries about  Common Admission Test(CAT) 2009 have been posted on the official CAT website under “CAT 2009: FAQs dated July1st,2009”. As per the  website the CAT 2009 bulletin will be made available in the later part of August 2009. Dispelling misconceptions among aspirants, the website clarifies that the CAT will be a Computer Based Test(CBT) and not an Internet Based Test (IBT) .i.e instead of reading the questions on  paper the candidate will now read and choose answers on a computer terminal. CAT is also not a computer adaptive test and will not have any changes in the format of the test. At the test centers students will also be provided with writing pads with numbered pages for rough calculations.

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IIFT’s Social responsibility Club – Koshish has initiated a girl child education program under which it  gave away books and stationary to 100 meritorious girl students from Delhi’s schools as a token of appreciation and encouragement. The scheme aims to benefit girls from poor background who are meritorious. The girl students were felicitated along with their teachers at the ceremony.

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Management Aptitude Test(MAT) conducted by the All India Management Association (AIMA) will be an on line affair like the CAT starting this September. The Test has been scheduled in the September. AIMA has however not scrapped the paper-pencil format of the test which would take place on September 6th 2009 . The Computer Based Test(CBT) will however be held  from September 7th onwards at different time slots and at different test centers specified on the AIMA website. Candidates can either choose to appear for the pencil-paper format or the on line test, however if the number of applicants for the CBT are few then all candidates would be required to appear for the pencil-paper format.

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With an aim to promote innovation in business, the Indian School of Business (ISB) Hyderabad in partnership with Biocon Ltd launched the Biocon Cell for Innovation Management (BCIM). The Cell will be established under the aegis of the Centre for Leadership, Innovation, and Change (CLIC) at the ISB. The primary objective of the BCIM will be to foster innovation and link it to operational excellence. The Cell will also help organisations with issues like the gaps in a company’s ability to innovate,...

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The Indian School of Business (ISB) will play host to its first international conference on entrepreneurship policies on the 5th and 6th of June, 2009. The theme of the Conference is 'Catalysts of Entrepreneurship - Policies for Growth'. The Conference is organized by the Wadhwani Centre for Entrepreneurship Development at the Indian School of Business, in partnership with the RAND Corporation, US and Legatum Institute. The conference aims to address questions pertaining to areas such as policies and practices both at the state and central governments levels that encourage or discourage entrepreneurs in India, status of recent reforms, the present regulatory regimes etc.

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IIM Calcutta's alumni reunion which is held every year in the Month of May 'Nostalgia 2009' is being organized on the last weekend of May (except New Delhi which would be on 23rd May) at 9 locations across the world which includes London, Hong Kong, Mumbai and New Delhi. The IIM Calcutta reunion  is a chance for its well spread out alumni, to reconnect to its roots.

Alumni reunion events provide an opportunity to the students to interact with the alumni who have carved out a niche for themselves. The pearls of wisdom shared by the alumni make it a great learning experience for the ‘to be managers’, and provides them with a perspective of life.

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International Management Institute, New Delhi held a day long seminar on 'Sustainable Development' in the Indian context on 26th May 2009. The event was jointly hosted by International Management Institute at its New Delhi premises with School of Business, Duquesne University, Pittsburgh. A team of students and faculty members from Duquesne University along with students of XPGDM and faculty from IMI took part in a full day seminar with participation from Industry, NGO, Government and academia.

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Sangam 2009, the annual alumni meet of IIM Kozhikode was a remarkable and memorable affair this year. The annual alumni-fresher meet was held on May 23rd 2009. With the event being hosted at six cities across India it witnessed the highest attendance in the event history by alumni along with freshmen from the batch of 2011. The cities of Bangalore, Mumbai, New Delhi, Chennai, Kolkata and Hyderabad were the venues for the event where alumni from the institute’s various academic programs attended.

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The new Dubai campus of the Institute of Management Technology was inaugurated  on May 10. The new IMT campus is located at the Dubai International Academic City (DIAC). The Dubai programme of IMT, started in 2006, was earlier housed in Dubai Knowledge Village.

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The Birla Institute of Technology & Science(BITS), Pilani in collaboration with the Consultancy Development Center (an initiative of the DSIR, Ministry of Science and Technology, Govt. of India) is offering an MS in Consultancy Management. This programme aims to provide professionals with exposure to consulting processes, practices and tools and also to impart basic consultancy, project management and comprehensive problem solving skills to professionals and working executives.

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Senior and middle management officers of the Indian Railways will now receive training from HEC Business School in Paris. The French Business school was appointed to provide training to some of the senior officers in the Indian Railways, which is supposedly the world's  largest commercial employer. It has a staff of 1.4 million. In the first set of programmes under....

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Aspirants of MBA from B-Schools abroad will now have it tougher than before as the Graduate Management Aptitude Test (GMAT) will reportedly have 33% questions of a new type. 300 questions have been replaced with tougher ones in all the five sections, the highest being in data sufficiency. The number of questions however remains unchanged at 907.

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Four students from the Indian Institute of Foreign Trade (IIFT) have published a book called “Titans of Branding” which was internationally launched at a seminar at the Hanken University in Helsinki, Finland. The book even draws inputs from renowned marketing guru Kevin Keller (of “Kotler and Keller” fame) and is based on a set of interviews from nine stalwarts in the world of branding including Kevin Lane Keller, David Aaker, Don Schultz, Jagdish Sheth, Leo Berry, Bernt Schmitt, Raj Srivastava, Rod Brodie and Leslie de Chernatony – all of whom are renowned academicians in the best B-schools across the world. For the four students of the batch of 2009, Nishant Gupta, Apramey Dube, ....

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According to a press release from the Indian Institute of Foreign Trade (IIFT), New Delhi, the entire batch of 2009 at the Institute has been placed successfully. Placements concluded by the first week of April.

In this placement season, IIFT managed to attract 20% more recruiters than what it had done in the previous year. 73 companies visited the campus, including the top players across all sectors. Industry leaders like Arthur D’Little, ITC, Colgate Palmolive, Nomura Holdings, Coca Cola, Mahindra & Mahindra, Bharti Airtel, Glenmark, Titan, Bajaj Auto, Cargill, Tata Motors, Axis Bank, ICRA, Unicon Securities, Eli Lilly, Vodafone, Virgin mobile, Philips Godfrey, Essar Group, Tata Steel, Reckitt Benckiser, ICI Paints, Avalon Consulting etc. visited campus for recruiting students for various roles in marketing, corporate finance, treasury, international business, general management, consulting and so on. Emergent Ventures offered niche Carbon Consulting & Finance profiles.

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The Xavier Institute of Management, Bhubaneshwar achieved 100% placements for its PGDM batch of 2009 in the recently concluded placement session. According to reports, around 54 companies participated in Xuberance 2009, the final placement session at XIM-B. The average salary for the batch was Rs.7.3 lakh per annum while the median salary stood at Rs. 7.5 lakh per annum. Students of the 2009 batch got  33 Pre-Placement Offers and interviews. The highest offer made was Rs16 Lakh per annum.

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The Common Admission Test (CAT) conducted by the Indian Institutes of Management (IIM) will be a Computer Based Test(CBT) starting this year. The proposal which was made in 2008 has finally been approved by all the institutes. The CAT committee has entered into an agreement with an unnamed service provider for the computer based test.

Even as the official decision was made public, aspirants for the 2009 CAT remained confused about details pertaining to structure of the test, test centres etc. According to Dr. A Unnithan, Admissions Chairperson at IIM-K as well as Prof. Amarnath Krishnaswamy, Faculty-in-charge of the Communications unit at IIM-B, the CAT is not likely to be an adaptive test like the GRE/GMAT this year. However nothing has been mentioned about the exact manner in which the test would be administered or the location of test centres.

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The Indian Institute of Management Calcutta has introduced two new courses for working professionals - the "Executive Programme in Business Analytics"(EPBA) and "Executive Programme in International Business" (EPIB).

The EPBA programme is designed to expose participants to state-of-the-art tools and techniques of analytics. The programme coverage would include discussion on topics such as Data Mining, Artificial Intelligence, Soft Computing, Data Envelopment Analysis, Design of Experiments, Survey Sampling, Statistical Inference, Investment Management, Financial Modeling for Risk management, Advanced marketing Research etc.

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According to the QS Global top 200 business school's survey 2009, the Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore (IIM B) is among the top 10 preferred B Schools in the Asia Pacific region. It has been given the sixth position. According to unconfirmed reports IIM-Ahmedabad, IIM-Calcutta and ISB Hyderabad are a close 11, 12 and 13th rank. The factors that went into the survey are quality of students, specialization, success of alumni and activities of alumni network

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The Final Placement Process at the Shilesh J. Mehta School of Management at IIT Bombay ended with the entire batch of students getting placed with many students having multiple offers. A total of 60 companies were vying for some of the best minds across the business schools. The domestic average salary for the Batch of 2009 stood at INR 10.28 lakhs After including the foreign offers the average salary was INR 10.61 lakhs. The highest domestic salary offered was a staggering INR 21.08 lakhs.

The Final Placements saw almost all the sectors recruiting at SJMSOM, IIT Bombay. SJMSOM reaffirmed its relationship with its traditional recruiters like P&G, Marico, Coca Cola, Cadbury, ICICI Bank, GE, Wipro, E&Y, CTS, Feedback Ventures, RPG group and Inductis amongst others.

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The Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta(IIM-C) has signed a memorandum of understanding with the Indian Railway board to train its service officers for the next five years starting 2009. The new programme will help train Railway service officers and service probationary officers.

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The team from SJMSOM, IIT Bombay created history by being the first ever team from India to reach the finals of the NUS Cerebrations Global Business Challenge, the annual flagship event of NUS held at Singapore. The event saw participation from more than 200 colleges from across 30 countries. This is the second time in the last five years that the team from SJMSOM has reached the semi finals (the only Indian college that holds this distinction).

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The Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad (IIM-A) has launched a  training programme for UK based small and medium enterprises (SMEs) on “ Indian Marketing Strategies”. This will be a week long training programme.

The SMEs participating in the training programme represent  a wide range of sectors which includes telecom, information security, FMCG, safety, health and education services, pharmaceuticals, publishing and Internet software. They will be represented by Managing directors, chief executive officers and several heads of companies The turnover of the units ranges from 500,000 to 30 million pound sterling (about Rs 4-224 crore).

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The Kohinoor Business School, Khandala has invited applications from aspirants for its GD-PI session which would be conducted on April 18th at the Kohinoor Global Campus, Khandala at 10 AM and on April 26th  at the Kohinoor Corporate House, Mumbai at 10 AM.  Graduates/ candidates who are yet to appear for their final year exams are eligible to apply with either their CAT/XAT/MAT scores. Candidates who are appearing for Feb MAT and ATMA can also apply.

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The Xavier Institute of Management and Entrepreneurship (XIME), Bangalore has called for applications from engineers for its one year full time Postgraduate Programme in Construction Management (PGPCM). Graduates from any Engineering discipline or Architecture, with a consistent academic record, can apply for this programme. The programme for the batch of 2009 will commence from June 29, 2009.

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The Yi-Net, Association of Young Indians also an integral part of the Confederation of Indian Industry(CII) is organizing “Awaaz'09- the clarion for change” a national level seminar on “Global Financial meltdown and Indian Industries”. The seminar is slated for April 11th and the day long event aims to provide a platform for the best business brains in the country to come up with new ideas in the light of the current global recession through the competitions lined up at the event.

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The Indian Institute of Technology Delhi (IIT D) has announced a two-month certificate programme in Project Management meant for graduates and working professionals. The programme has been designed to instruct students to develop an understanding of tools and techniques for effective management of resources and cost in projects. The other highlight of the programme is training in the aspects of project leadership and risk management.

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The  Columbia Business School, one among the premier business schools in the US, played host to the Odyssey  competition organized by the students at CBS on the 27th and 28th of March . The students from Columbia had announced the launch of its  global competition on the 20th of March 2009.

The winners who took away the grand prize at the event were the London Business School in first place, Harvard Business School in second and Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad (IIM A) at the third place. The event was held at the Columbia Business School premises in New York.

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The Final Placements of the First Batch of the Kolkata-based Praxis Business School kicked off on February 15, 2009. The 2007-09 batch of Praxis, which is also the School’s first graduating batch, has 47 students, of which 45 have opted to go through the Placement process. From the developments so far, prospects for students seem to be bright despite the slump in the economy and slow-down in hiring by most companies.

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The SP Jain Institute of Management Research recently concluded its final placement season with 100% placement for its 164 strong batch of  PGDM 2009. The final placements at the Institute saw 119 companies making 183 offers to 164 students of Post-Graduate Diploma in Management (PGDM) course. 83 of the visiting companies were first-time recruiters. The average salary offered has been around INR 10 Lakhs per annum.
 
The sector that was highly preferred by the students was the Financial Services sector , it dominated the placements with nearly 33 % offers being made to students for various financial roles. Traditional sectors such as FMCG, Telecom and IT accounted for 29 % of the total offers made. Consulting firms contributed to 15 % of total offers while sectors like PSUs, regulatory bodies, market research, pharmaceutical, educational services, etc. contributed 23 % to the total offers made.

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XLRI School of Business & Human Resources reaffirmed its place among the top recruitment destinations by successfully ending the placement season and maintaining its 100% placement record for the batch graduating in 2009. Even in the grimmest of economic scenarios, students witnessed unparalleled job opportunities across the crème de la crème of the corporate world. The highlight of the placement season remained XLRI’s resilience in maintaining top notch profiles and roles which remain unmatched in the B-School circuit. The average domestic salary package offered on campus was INR 12.12 lakh per annum, a notch below last year’s figure. The mammoth placement season witnessed 76 companies participating in a strategically planned rolling process. Companies were conservative in terms of Pre-placement Offers this year with 30 PPOs being offered. 8 students ventured into the corporate world with their own niche business plans.

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The Asian chapter of the Global Social Venture Competition (GSVC) which was held from March 20-22nd 2009 at the Indian School of Business (ISB) saw two teams emerge as winners. The winning teams from ISB and SP Jain will now represent Asia at the Global Finals which will be conducted in Berkeley at the Haas School of Business in April 2009. The winning social venture business plans were “Pioneer Healthcare” from ISB and “Ummeed” from SP Jain. ISB had received around 50 business plans from five countries which included India, China, Taiwan, France and Hong Kong.

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IIMK’s Batch of 2009 walked off with great pride after the successful completion of an exciting Placement season. Braving the current recession, IIMK pioneered a deep foray into new sectors whilst also expanding its roster of conventional B-School recruiters. A total of 94 firms took part in the Placement process this year making a total of 251 offers to a batch of 185 students (the largest batch of the institute till date). These included the crème-de la crème from the Financial and Banking sector, top Consultants, the biggest FMCG firms, Marketing firms, Media Houses, and some of India’s largest Conglomerates. The participation of some NGOs added an endearing flavour to one of the most corporatized events on campus.

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It was a special occasion for the participants at IIM Indore as they sat in a class being taken by His Excellency Dr. Hynek Kmonicek, the Czech Republic’s ambassador to India, Bangladesh, Nepal, Maldives and Sri Lanka. H.E. Dr. Hynek, who is presently stationed in India, has worn many hats and taken up varied assignments in the UN (including the UN Budget head a few years ago) and across the world. At IIM Indore, His Excellency was glad to be back in his academician shoes. His lecture was spread across diverse topics including economics, politics, environment, education etc.

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IIM Indore saw the successful completion of Final Placements 2009 for the tenth graduating PGDM batch at IIM Indore, despite it being one of the most difficult economic times. In anticipation of tough times, IIM Indore worked strategically towards Final Placement 2009 by identifying and reaching out to a wider base of recruiting organizations and by helping partner firms spot the need for talent for various roles.

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In spite of the economic recession, the Institute of Rural Management, Anand, has achieved the distinction of placing its batch of 100 students in a span of just two days. Beating all apprehensions of a dismal placement season, IRMA effortlessly placed its students in a wide variety of organizations cutting across different sectors.The placements at IRMA this year saw the participation of number of international organizations in addition to the usual participants. 64 organizations expressed interest of participation and 243 seats were offered to the students. Of these, 28 organizations were invited on Placement Day.

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The second phase of the final placement process of IIM Calcutta concluded on Saturday, March 7, 2009, with all students getting job offers. The process took ten days in total, at the end of which all 265 students held a job. Phase-I of the process included Slot 0 and Slot 1, lasting for four days (February 21-24). The process came to a halt for the rest of the week, and resumed with Phase-II on March 2. The second phase, which consisted of Slot 2, was a six-day process. The staggered placement process was a strategic move to ensure that students got roles in sectors they preferred. By not declaring the day when the process would terminate, there was a continuous flow of companies for students to choose from.

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The Northpoint Centre of Learning at Khandala has announced its 6th Post-Graduate Programme in Advertising, Media and Marketing Communications which will commence in July 2009.  This programme is being run in partnership with Lowe Lintas, JWT, Ogilvy, Leo Burnett, Lintas Media Group and Aegis Media who will provide internships, course support and recruit the best talent.

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The Rajiv Gandhi Institute of Petroleum Technology (RGIPT), Rae Bareilli, UP has invited applications for its two year Post Graduate MBA programme in ‘Petroleum and Energy Management’ 2009. The programme is meant for BE/B Tech graduates who have taken either the CAT (Nov 2008)/ JMET (09)/ the GMAT (after June 2008). Students would be shortlisted based on merit and would have to appear for the selection process which comprises of group discussion and a personal interview.

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Pondicherry University, a central university has invited applications from aspirants for its two year full time MBA programme for the batch of 2009-2011. Candidates with minimum 50% marks at their graduation are eligible to apply. Applicants should have 10+2+3/4/5 years of education from a recognized university. Candidates will be short listed for selection on the basis of their CAT (2008)/ GMAT scores. The final selection process would include a group discussion and a personal interview.

Application forms can be obtained from the Department of Management Studies (DMS), Pondicherry University, Puducherry by sending in a crossed DD for Rs 200/-. The forms are also available online on the website www.pondiuni.edu.in .The last date for submission of forms is March 31st 2009.

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Students who have completed 10+2 years of education now have an opportunity of doing a five-year integrated MBA programme at the Coimbatore Gandhipuram Centre of Alagappa University starting this year through its distance education programme. The candidate who completes the first year gets a certificate in Business Administration. After completion of second year, a diploma in Business Administration will be awarded. After third year, a Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration will be awarded. At the end of the fourth year, the candidate will get a postgraduate diploma in Business Administration while at the end of the final year, a full-fledged MBA degree will be awarded to the candidate.

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IIM Calcutta held Phase 1 of its final placements process from 21st February to 24th of February’09. The campus saw participation of a large number of firms from various sectors who recruited students for roles in finance, consulting, marketing, operations, general management and IT.

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The Mentorship Program of IIM Kozhikode (IIMK), into its second successive year now, was a runaway success this year with 1200 plus registrations. This initiative by the students of IIMK is recognized across B-Schools as one of its kind. The program provides much needed information to the GD/PI call getters about the second round process and guidance on how to approach the same. The call getters get their queries answered through various mediums such as online forums, telephone calls, e-mails and online chat sessions. The program works through motivated groups of four mentors (current students) each, with each group having 25 - 30 mentees.

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The Indian School of Business (ISB) will play host to the Asia regional round of the Global Social Venture Competition during March 20-22, 2009. The GSVC is a business plan competition which aims to promote entrepreneurial businesses that satisfy the following two criteria:

1. the plan should have a clear and quantifiable social objective
2. it should be financially sustainable through revenue generation.

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The Loyola Institute of Business Administration Chennai (LIBA) will play host to “Chrysalis 2009” a campus event which aims to represent the spirit of casinos at Las Vegas and bring the principles of business management behind many of its games. The event will be held from February 28 till March 1, 2009. There would be eight offline and five online games to test the skills and aptitude in various disciplines of management. Chrysalis 2009 will also have its annual B-School corporate quiz ‘Exquizite 2009’ conducted by quizmaster Derek O Brien on the 28th of February 2009. This event has had over 700 participants in the past.

 

The Indian Institute of Management at Indore (IIMI) will be hosting a conference on education research starting on the 9th of April, 2009. The four-day conference till April 12 is being organized by the Institute for the first time on its campus. It has been designed with the objective of encouraging an environment conducive for doctoral research in Indian educational institutions that will strengthen the foundation of the subject for teaching, publication and practice.

The conference aims to provide an opportunity and a platform for individuals with different research philosophies and interests to get together and interact. Participants will get to interact with experts from educational institutions, research organizations and the industry.

 

The School of Inspired Leadership (SOIL), Gurgaon invites aspirants to apply for its Post Graduate Programs in Leadership for the academic year 2009-10. The programs offered are HR Leadership (graduates and candidates with work experience can apply) and Business Leadership (only candidates with minimum five years work experience can apply) – both are full time one year programs.

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The Symbiosis Institute of Management Studies (SIMS) and Standard Chartered Bank (SCB) in a joint venture will offer a Post Graduate Diploma in Retail Banking & Sales starting June 1st 2009. Two batches are already running successfully since August 2008.

The programme is of 12 months’ duration. Participants will get an opportunity to learn while they earn. They will be given a consolidated stipend of Rs 10,000 per month starting from the fifth month of the course which will be after completion of the classroom training. Participants who do complete the course successfully are assured a job as ‘Consumer Banking – Graduate Trainee’ an 8B officer (Entry Level Managerial Band) at SCB.

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Punjab University has invited applications from aspirants for six of its management programmes which are MBA (Retail management); MBA (Banking & Insurance management); MBA(Telecommunication & IT); MBA(Infrastructure Management); MBA (Pharmaceutical Management) and MBA (Hospital Management). Application forms have been on sale from February 2 2009 and the last date for submission of forms is February 27 without a late fee. Forms will also be accepted after that and up to March 9, 2009 with a late fee of Rs 1000/-.

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The Indian Institute of Tourism and Travel Management (IITTM), Govindpuri, Gwalior has invited applications for its Post Graduate diploma programmes for the academic year 2009-11. The programmes offered are P G Diploma in Management (Tourism and Travel) at Gwalior and Bhubaneshwar; PGDM (Tourism and Leisure) at New Delhi; PGDM (Services) at Gwalior; PGDM (International Business)-at Gwalior and Bhubaneshwar.

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The Department of Polytechnics of the Delhi government will offer degree courses in affiliation with Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University (GGSIPU). Beginning this academic year students can choose to pursue Bachelors programmes such as B Sc (Interior designing), BBA (Office management) and BBA (Sports management) at select government polytechnic colleges. The joint registrar (Affiliations) at GGSIPU stated that the upgradation of a few of the diploma courses to degree courses offered at these colleges has been facilitated due to the availability of infrastructure.

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