They were addressing in Dehradun on March 8, 2009 on the topic My MBA Experience & How MBA aspirants should plan to enter a top B-school.
While sharing his learning at Indias leading B-schools, Pankaj said, The management education has taught me structured thinking, teamwork, handling pressure and managing deadlines, and understanding the financial language.

Dr Devi Singh confirmed this development with MBAUniverse.com and said, Yes, I am taking over the responsibilities as the Director of IIM L from today.
After serving the institute for five years as the Director of IIM-L, Dr Devi Singh had handed over the charge in August, 2008 to his colleagues Prof Sukumar Nandi, Dean, Planning and Development and Prof Yogesh Agarwal, Dean, Academic Affairs.

With the announcement of this comprehensive survey results, MBA aspirants across the country will now be guided by credible data and ranking when they hunt for selecting their institutes for MBA test preparations.

To address the seminar, Welingkar invited two keynote speakers: Prof. Kanu H Doshi, Dean Finance at Welingkar & a Chartered Accountant; and Dr. Ulhas Vairagkar, Director of T.I.M.E.
While speaking on the theme Is recession the right time to pursue an MBA, Dr. Ulhas Vairagkar said, The best time to go for an MBA is when alternate opportunities are less attractive. So, in the time of recession when opportunities are limited, students must pursue the course in which they are most interested irrespective of the economic slowdown.

The objective behind the seminar is to present a platform for global business leaders, academicians, policy-makers and industry specialists to debate the pertinent issues affecting environment and health sector in India.The Forum will be inaugurated by the welcome speech of Mr S Ramadorai, CEO and MD of Tata Consultancy Services Ltd.

According to CII, senior Government functionaries, political leaders and CEOs will participate in the programme.
The conference and annual session will discuss following issues during the two-day conference:

Turning Crisis into Opportunity

This programme is an intensive one-year residential programme exemplifying the academic rigour and progressive thinking. It is specially designed to enhance skills, knowledge and capabilities essential for senior management position. According to IIM I, the programme electives provide opportunities to specialize in Strategy, Leadership and International Business in addition to the functional areas. An international module provides an opportunity to develop an understanding of the global business environment and the ability to operate in a multicultural environment.

IIM A says that highlight for this year has been the diversity of recruiters and roles offered by them. Presence of heavy weight private as well as public players in the campus recruitment arena has been the focal point. For a batch of 20 students, 25 companies participated in the placement process. For a relatively young batch, the roles offered varied between business planning & strategy to marketing and finance.

While all PGP students sitting for placements at IIM Ahmedabad have been placed, there is a dip in the average salary of the batch. The placement process saw participation from 109 firms across sectors, out of which 95 firms recruited in the final placements process. PSUs made a comeback this year, recruiting over 40 IIM A graduates.

The average salary for domestic offers was Rs. 12.17 lakhs while that of international offers was USD 83,000 (exclusive of bonus). The placement process this year was conducted over a nine day period from February 25 to March 05, 2009.

Prof Saurav Mukherjee, Placement Chairperson at IIM B told MBAUniverse.com, IIM B is having rolling placements this year. The Final Placement Process at IIM B commenced on February 27, which is expected to go on till early next week.

When asked about the overall placements scenario, Prof Mukherjee commented, Yes, the placements this year are not good as last year. There is a cut in Investment Bank recruiters and IT sectors.