MBAUniverse.com, Indias leading management portal, is presenting a series of authoritative features and interviews on the upcoming GD PI round. For this series, we spoke to Indian Institute of Management Lucknow, Faculty of Management Studies New Delhi and Xavier Institute of Management Bhubaneswar seeking advice to MBA aspirants on the What, Why and How of GP PI round.

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However, industry alliances, differentiation and marketing will play a key role in success of education venture. These are the highlights from Ernst & Young report on Higher Education sector, released at the Edge Forum in New Delhi on February 9, 2009. Amitabh Jhingan, Partner Ernst & Yong India and author of the report, notes, The private sector is a key constituent of the higher education segment in India, accounting for more than a third of all higher education institutions and more than two third of all professional higher education institutions.

According to NIT-CMS, The core need of offering of CMSs MBA programme was to mould engineers into managerial professionals competent to meet national as well international challenges and to promote value based growth.The MBA Programme at CMS is a 2-Year, full time residential programme. The course curriculum is spread over 8 quarters of about 2 months each. The core curriculum is covered in the first 4 quarters.

IICA, a research-based think-tank and capacity building centre, has been set up to serve the interests of several stakeholders in entrepreneurship development while focusing on corporate governance and business growth.

Finance experts Mr.A.K.Rajwade and Mr. Krishna Majithia addressed the students.

Avneet Sethi asked a question on how to prepare for Sensex and state of online & mobile banking in India. Mr Manish Saraf, COO, PT Education answers the query by offering rich internet resources on these topics.Q: Hello sir, I got a call from ICFAI Hyderabad and my interview to be held on 22th February. I had to prepare micro presentation for it but topics given to me are difficult and I am unable to find them. Plz suggest some links related to topics.

Thanks in advance. Avneet Sethi

JBIMS outshines teams from Institute for Financial Management and Research (IFMR) - Chennai, Indian Institute of Foreign Trade (IIFT) Kolkata, and Indian Institute of Management (IIM) - Lucknow to take the crown.Sponsored by CFA Institute, the competition is organized by its member society The India Association of Investment Professionals (IAIP).

Following are the highlights from the text of the speech of HRD Minister Arjun Singh, delivered on his behalf:

The ideas address important issues like economic crisis, strategic decision making, tapping new markets, finding and keeping top talent, harnessing network effects, dealing with disruptive technologies and business models.
Says Harvard Business Review, Caught between two elemental forces one called Calamity and the other called Change we launch our latest edition of breakthrough articles into the teeth of a gale. This years HBR List includes ideas that we think are more useful than fanciful, more immediately practicable than speculative.