The conference was featured by distinguished speakers including Prof Robert J Aumann, Nobel Laureate in Economics, Mr Kamal Nath, Honorable Minister of Commerce and Industry, Government of India and Spiritual leader Swami (Dr) Parthasarathy. While delivering the inaugural address, Dr AM Sherry, Academic Dean, IMT-CDL said, The conference is designed to discuss how to manage turbulences in an organization in rise of global economic slowdown and to look for opportunities for organizational growth amidst global meltdown.

The strategic alliance is expected to impart advanced behavioral skills to professionals in order to meet up with the new demand of international work culture.

With this initiative IMI has become one of the first few institutions that have taken strong steps of addressing the core behavioral challenges faced by its students.

Dr. C.S. Venkata Ratnam, Director, IMI said: We believe that this training will groom our students with core behavioral competency that makes them better team players and instinctive leaders. It stresses on attitude training at an individual level.

Speaking on the occasion, Mr. Ramesh Venkateswaran, Director, SDM-IMD said, The institute has always aimed to offer the best education to its students. Our associations with such globally recognized institutes will give our students a wider perspective to the world of business management. We already have exchange programs with Texas A&M University and Shanghai University. With these new relationships formed, SDMIMD is now truly a global management education provider.

And Indian economy is on track to emerge as one of the biggest players on a global scale in near future. And Indian institutions like Banks and top corporates have shown maturity and resilience.

Thats the optimistic note struck by Mr Kamal Nath, Minister for Commerce & Industry at the conference on Economic Slowdown, organized by Institute of Management Technology (IMT) in New Delhi on February 19, 2009.

SIMSREE is getting ready to hold its annual corporate conclave SIMergence on February 25, 2009. The event will covers panel discussions by eminent industry leaders on contemporary issues of relevance to students as well as practitioners of business management.

MBAUniverse.com is the Official Management Portal of SIMSREE SIMergence.

According to information shared by Said Business School with MBAUniverse.com, the Programme has now been redesigned and renamed The Oxford Advanced Management and Leadership Programme.

The portal www.innovationcommons.org was launched today by Mr. Joe Hartley, VP of Global Education, Government, and Healthcare, Sun Microsystems and Prof S. S. Yadav, Head of Department, Department of Management Studies, IIT Delhi in presence of other dignitaries which included Mr.

Lakhs of students appear in the MAT exam which is held four times in a year in the months of February, May, September and December.

Click below to read Test highlights and expert advices on MAT May 2009

Mr. Sam G Pitroda, Chairman, National Knowledge Commission said these lines in his keynote address, on Video Conference, at the Education Summit 2009 organized by the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) in Chennai on February 17.

Today there has been a paradigm shift in the way knowledge is being delivered through a lot of other mediums like television, internet, mobiles etc apart from classroom learning, Mr. Pitroda added. The key challenge in the 21st century is on the innovation in the education system, said Mr Pitroda.

This objective received wider attention in the millennium summit held on 6th September 2000 at the United Nations headquarters in New York. During this summit 189 world leaders committed to, free all men, women and children from abject and dehumanizing conditions of extreme poverty by the year 2015. To achieve this, 8 Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) were formulated.