The annual international business summit at the Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad (IIM-A), Confluence, concluded on December 2. Centered on the theme of changing winds, new paradigms of leadership, the three-day event tried to address questions regarding the future role of leaders in shaping the society amid an increasingly challenging and changing environment that is still recovering from after effects of the global slowdown.

In an example of staying focussed on current issues, IIM Kashipur held its second annual finance summit on economic reforms. The event, christened as Manthan 12, was organized on December 1. Experts on finance and economic issues and top industry captains discussed and shared their vision with students of IIM Kashipur.

Inaugurating the summit, Dr Gautam Sinha, director, IIM Kashipur, emphasized the fact that India still faces many barriers in competition and works are required to be done for financial inclusion.

Union finance minister Mr P Chidambaram and Punjab chief minister Prakash Singh Badal inaugurated ISBs new campus in Mohali on December 2. The event was attended by ISB chairman Adi Godrej and founding board members of the Mohali campus, Analjit Singh, Rakesh Bharti Mittal, Sunil Kant Munjal and Atul Punj.

The world of business is changing dramatically, and to lead organizations successfully in this volatile, uncertain, complex and ambiguous (VUCA) world, leaders need to have a clear vision and pursue it with passion, courage & innovation. That was the message conveyed by former President Dr APJ Abdul Kalam at his keynote address at the National HRD Conference, held in Hyderabad from November 29 to December 1. MBAUniverse.com was the online portal partner of this prestigious conference.

Raghav Bahl is the founder, controlling shareholder and managing director of Network 18, Indias largest media house, Network 18 (formerly TV18), and one of the countrys most admired media professionals. He is highly respected as a deal maker and the partnerships he has created include popular TV channels, websites, and magazines such as CNN-IBN, CNBC-TV18, Viacom-Studio18, Forbes India, etc. He founded TV18 in 1993. Now, it has grown into a company with market capitalization of $1 billion.

The major MBA entrance exams are underway and the results will be declared by end of January or in February 2013. The next series of events will be the selection round at B schools that would shortlist you. The selection round includes GD, PI and essay writing or the Written Ability Test (WAT). This article of MBAUniverse.com shares with you the significance of these rounds and the preparation strategy for each of these components.

Over a considerable period of time, agriculture has evolved into agribusiness and has become a vast and complex system that reaches beyond the farm to include all those who are involved in bringing food and fibre to consumers.An overview

Agribusiness includes not only those who cultivate the land but also the people and firms that provide inputs (seed, chemicals, credit, etc), process the output (milk, grain, meat, etc.), manufacture the food products, and transport and sell food products to consumers (restaurants, supermarkets).

Two teams from S P Jain Institute of Management & Research (SPJIMR), Mumbai, and Goa Institute of Management have bagged the first and third places, respectively, at the Fall 2012 Capstone Challenge, a global online competition, organized by Capsim Management Simulations, a global leader in developing and delivering business simulations, based in Chicago. Approximately, 1,800 students from more than 280 universities around the globe took part in the competition with 12 teams qualifying for the 48-hour, high-pressure business simulation play-offs.

Just two days are left for the IIFT 2012 exam to be held on November 25 across 20 cities in India from 10 am to 12 noon.

Without resorting to hardcore preparation, the best way to spend the last two days is to revise the General Awareness section along with the others. This article of MBAUniverse.com shares with you the last-minute tips for the General Awareness section.

In the run up to the final placement season when students gear up to put their best feet forward to grab a job offer and assume the profile of their choice, there are worries that the economic slowdown may keep certain regular and active sectors at bay. Concerned placement officials at major B-schools, however, feel that new and emerging sectors such as health, education, media and e-commerce will fill in the void which might have been created as fallout of the regular sectors going slow in hiring this year.