Commenting on the objective behind the launch of Duke MBA - Cross Continent, Mr Vinoo Urs, South Asia Regional Director, says, The program is designed to help working professionals earn a world-class MBA and at the same time build a culturally diverse peer network across the globe as you live and work anywhere you choose while studying in the most important economic regions in the world. The university will run the program through six international locations like London, New Delhi, Dubai, St. Petersburg, Shanghai and Durham.

The committee invites the public to gain insights from some of the worlds top business leaders including keynote speakers: Mr. Jim Rogers, Co-Founder of the Quantum Fund; Mr. Dominic Barton, named the next Global Managing Director, McKinsey & Co.; Ms. Chanda Kochhar, named the next CEO and Managing Director, ICICI Bank; Dr. Montek Singh Ahluwalia, Deputy Chairman of Indias Planning Commission; and Mr.

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