While commenting on the motive behind the launch of the seminar, XLRI says, There seems to be an immense need for new laws to tackle the current corporate scenario by promoting and enabling Indian businesses to run in a more efficient manner. The tampering of financial statements at Satyam Computer Services demonstrates the need for new Bill ensuring corporate governance.

System Continuum will have the theme IT: Driving the next generation business processes and Consulting Continuum will have the theme Hard Times Come Hand in Hand with Opportunities: A Consultants Perspective According to SJMSOM, the objective behind the launch of the seminar is to continue efforts towards fostering interaction between the industry and B-school students.

The city-wise ranking evaluates individual centers of each Institute, and ranks the best centers in each city. The announcement of the all-India MBAUniverse.com MBA Test-Prep Institutes Ranking received wide acceptance from all quarters of management fraternity: MBA aspirants, current MBA students, and management experts. With the announcement of this city-wise ranking, MBA aspirants can choose the best MBA coaching institutes in their choice of cities.

How do Indias Top 4 institutes TIME, PT Education, Career Launcher, IMS Learning compare? The ranking offers a clear picture for MBA aspirants.

Before we look at the head-to-head comparison amongst top 4 Institutes, a recap of five critical parameters on which the ranking is based on:
1) Quality of students admitted
2) Quality of faculty imparting training to students
3) Academic inputs available in these institutes,
4) Physical infrastructure and 5) MBA results of students.

In this feature, Indias leading management portal MBAUniverse.com highlights some of the newly launched B-Schools and their upcoming MBA programs in 2009 or 2010 academic session. Welingkar starts PGDM E-Biz program at newly launched Bengaluru campusAfter strengthening its reputation at Mumbai campus, now Welingkar Education has launched a new We School campus in Bengaluru, the IT capital of India.

The placement process for the 10th graduating batch of the institute with 175 students saw offers across traditional sectors like financial services, consulting, FMCG etc. as well as sunshine sectors like power and energy, media, pharmaceuticals, education, telecom etc.

Regular recruiters such as Deutsche Bank, HSBC Global Research, Standard Chartered Bank, Axis Bank, Yes Bank, FuturesFirst, Johnson & Johnson, ITC, Deloitte Innovation, Knightfrank, Larsen & Toubro, Jindal Steel & Power Corporation, Infosys, CTS etc. continued their relationship with the institute.

At the end of Slot 3 of the process, despite tough market conditions and the fear that the global meltdown would affect it adversely, IIM B managed to place its students in leading global and Indian companies. Leading global Consulting firms flocked down to IIMB along with some of the biggest Marketing firms. The consulting recruiters who visited the IIMB campus were Boston Consulting Group, McKinsey & Co, Bain & Co, Arthur D Little, Deloitte, Accenture, and Diamond.

Prof Prafulla Agnihotri, Placement Chairperson of IIM C confirmed this development with MBAUniverse.com and said, The successful placement of 265 students has completed on March 7, 2009. This was the second phase of final placement process, which started on March 2.

IIM Calcutta held the Phase I of its Final Placements Process 2009 from February 21 to February 24, 2009.
Prof Agnihotri added, Certainly this year the placement scene is not as good as last year due to economy meltdown. Overall, there is 23% fall in salary packages

The honour, bestowed each year by the Forum recognizes and acknowledges outstanding young leaders from around the world for their professional accomplishments, commitment to society and potential to contribute to shaping the future of the world. Prof. Reuben Abraham is a professor at the Indian School of Business (ISB) in Hyderabad.

Convergenz is a one day business fest that has been conducted annually by Post Graduate Program in Software Enterprise Management (PGSEM) since 2004. This year, the fest features four exciting events on the theme of Innovation - leading the way. The business plan has been named Alchemy and is aimed at providing technology entrepreneurs a platform to showcase their innovative ideas. This event is being conducted in association with the N S Raghavan Centre for Entrepreneurial Learning, IIMB.