Indian School of Business (ISB) Hyderabads team Jackdaws have won the PepsiCo Indias Become Indras Advisors Contest. This was the fourth edition of the campus engagement challenge by PepsiCo. The winner team Jackdaws won a pre placement offer from PepsiCo and an opportunity to present their challenge solution to Indra Nooyi, Chairperson & CEO, PepsiCo in New York. The topic for this years competition was India Heterogeneity The Product Customization Challenge.

IIM Kozhikode has announced the Admissions Criteria for the 2011-13 batch admissions. There will be no GD round at the B-school, and instead Essay Writing test will be given. The following describes in detail the three stage procedure which will be used for short listing and further selection of candidates for the 2011 batch at IIM-K:

IIM Rohtak, which saw its inception in 2010, is currently preparing the ground for selecting the students for its second year journey. The first batch students of the B-school are now eagerly waiting for the 2011 admissions to get finalised at the earliest, and with the declaration of the CAT 2010 results, the desire of the students to be called seniors is soon going to be fulfilled.

The CAT 2010 results are now out and the MBA aspirants now readying themselves for the next round of the admissions process. The next round, which is the GD, PI and Essay Writing, is going to be the most crucial as it will make or break your chances of gaining entry into a top B-school.

Railway minister Lalu Prasad Yadav recently lectured Harvard and Wharton students at the National Rail Museums auditorium: 100 students from Harvard Business School and 30 from Wharton, along with seven professors from both B-schools. The students had come all the way to meet the Indian minister for taking tips on management and sharing the success story of Indian Railways. Lalu, as we all know, has been credited for the financial turnaround of the loss-making Railways into a profit-making venture.

IIM-Ahmadabad will be holding the 4th IIMA Conference on Marketing in Emerging Economies from January 5-7, 2011, as part of its ongoing golden jubilee celebrations. The objective of the conference is to bring together eminent academicians and practitioners worldwide to discuss and share their ideas and research with some of the best in the world. The conference is being supported by Prof. Labdhi R. Bhandhari Memorial Fund, IIMA.

In a bid to rein in all B-schools under its umbrella and provide them with level playing field in the upcoming new academic year, the All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) has released a set of provisions.

Xavier Institute of Management, Bhubaneswar, popularly called XIMB, is amongst the top 10 B-schools of India. The admissions to the B-school are done on the basis of XAT test scores. The XAT 2011 is scheduled to take place on Sunday, 2nd January 2011 at various test centres across India. Thousands of MBA aspirants are going to take XAT for gaining entry to top B-schools like XIMB and XLRI.

What does No Boundaries mean in entrepreneurship? At the second day of TES 2010, this was the question that Mr. Sridar Iyengar, Chair of the TiE Entrepreneurial Steering Committee put to two seasoned entrepreneurs in the keynote panel.