Continuing with the series, the next Live Expert Chat will be held on Friday, January 28, 2011 with Ishan Mahajan of IIM Calcutta from 5 pm onwards. MBAUniverse.com has started its special series of Live Expert Chat on GD, PI and Essay Writing. Students from top B-schools, including IIMs, are replying to all the queries of candidates who have received GD-PI calls. The first Live Expert Chat was held on Monday, January 24, 2011 with IIM Lucknow student mentor Ashwin Gurunathan.

Narsee Monjee Institute of Management Studies (NMIMS), Mumbai, recently held a grand function to celebrate its 8th University Day on completing 8 years as a Deemed-to-be University. The theme for this years celebration was Open Minds & Innovative Communities.

According to the release issue by the B-school, the shortlisting has been done on the basis of the CAT 2010 score. IIM Calcutta has considered both overall as well as sectional scores for shortlisting the candidates. More details are given below:

Shortlisting Criteria for PGDM
For a General category candidate, the overall CAT 2010 cut off considered was 99.59 percentile.
For clearing the sectional cut offs, a candidates scores considered was as follows:
-- 80 out of 150 or 93.38 percentile for Quantitative Ability

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.