And Lalu Yadav believes that the best is yet to come! Not content with turning around a perennially sick PSU in last five years, Mr Yadav is confident that Indian Railways will not only remain profitable, but play a vital role in infrastructure building of the nation. Thats the message that Mr Yadav offered at AIMAs Foundation Day in New Delhi on February 21, 2009.

Honorable Union Minister of Indian Railways was the Chief Guest on the occasion.

The group has now started the G D Goenka World Institute (GDGWI) for higher education in tie-up with the Lancaster University, UK for undergraduate and postgraduate courses.
At undergraduate level, the institute is offing courses like BSc in Business Computing and Information Systems; BA in Economic (Hons); BBA in Business Studies and BA in Business Economics. At the post graduate level, it is offering course like 2-yr PGDBM; 1-yr MSc in Management and Law, 1-yr MSc in Management. The institute will also offer a Global MBA programme starting January 2010.

E Week India 2009, a weeklong public awareness campaign, which ran from February 7-14, aimed at encouraging students to think creatively and explore alternative business models, sustainable technologies and ideas in the backdrop of the enormous environmental challenges that were faced with today.

MBAUniverse.com was the official media partner of this initiative.

IDEA BAZAAR 3.0 an E-Cell (SIOM) initiative, aimed at providing potential entrepreneurs a platform to showcase their business ideas and raise funds from potential investors was held on 16th June, 2016. Through this event, E-Cell reignited entrepreneurial fervour and spread awareness of crowd-funding concept among SIOMites.

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.