He was the first full time Director of IIM Lucknow (1984) and has been a faculty of IIM Calcutta in 1963, and later in IIM Ahmedabad.
Prof Dayal has also held several positions including the Founder Dean of International Management Institute, New Delhi and Director, Indian Institute of Public Administration, New Delhi. He also served several business organizations for about 15 years in companies like Philips India and Metal Box.

In an exclusive conversation with MBAUniverse.com, Rajendra Pawar, the Pro-Chancellor of NIIT University, shared that NIIT University will also house a cutting edge B-school.

The University will kick-off with graduate, masters and doctoral programmes in engineering disciplines. As a run-up to the academic year, NIIT University organized a seminar titled ENGINEERING: Building Great Careers in Turbulent Times in the IIT Delhi campus on May 11, 2009.

They were presentto address and interact with the International Programme in Management for Executives 2009-10 batch students.

As Mr. S Maitra, Executive Officer, Supply Chain, Maruti Suzuki India, said, Without a cost reduction, you cannot ask for a price reduction. Maruti rolled out its one component, one gram programme, getting each vendor to make its component or sub-component one gram lighter without compromising functionality. Maruti expects to save Rs 10 crore on annual sales and hopes to share it with vendors.

The new campus was inaugurated by HH Sheikh Maktoum bin Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Deputy Ruler of Dubai at Dubai International Academic City. HE Sheikh Nahayan Mabarak Al Nahayan, Minister of Higher Education and Scientific Research, UAE and Mr Kamal Nath, Minister of Commerce and Industry, India were also present on the occasion.IMT Dubai is the first overseas campus of IMT and the first Indian B-school to be recognized by the Minister of Higher Education, Government of UAE. IMT Dubai started functioning in year 2006. Dr. Farhad Rad-Serecht is the Director of IMT Dubai.

Confirming this development with MBAUniverse.com, officials at IIM K Director said, Prof Chatterjee appointed as a director of IIM K on April 17, 2009. He accepts the role with humility and knows there are challenges ahead. He represents the aspiration of young India that is seeking to express its immense potential on the world stage.

The ceremony held last month in the Thtre des Varits in Paris saw 265 students representing 45 nationalities. The largest group formed students from Germany, followed by their fellow students from France and Italy.
The academic director of the MDB program, Prof. Dr. Stefan Schmid, ESCP-EAP Berlin, congratulated the graduates on their acquiring the double qualification that is important particularly against the background of the current economic crisis.

The Leadership Series is already underway for the new batch, which began its classes less than a month ago.
The leadership series focuses on peer interaction with leading luminaries and specialists in the sector and emphasizes on the importance of leadership as a skill in guiding a company to success. Prof. Punam Sahgal, Dean, IIM Lucknow Noida Campus also attended the session.

A record 93 teams entered the contest when it officially began in January.

The total number of questions was 200 which the students had to finish within 150 minutes.

Like the last two years, MAT 2009 stuck to its basic pattern. Though the paper was lengthy, it was of average difficulty level where the candidates can score marks if they perform well in the sections of Logical reasoning, Data Interpretation and Verbal Ability. Thus, according to CAT experts, except Quantitative analysis section, which was a bit difficult, each section had few questions which were easily manageable, thus making the paper scoring.