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.

The award was given by the Vice President of India, Shri Mohd. Hamid Ansari on February 3 in New Delhi.

Says SPJIMR, How do you get the most from your people when resources are scarce and the future uncertain? Can this downturn be used as an opportunity for a take off during good times? Or can managing the softer issues like building relationship, communication process etc. make a difference in these times? During such times the best employers and great companies adopt a different approach and take actions to support the Human Resource Value.

Professor Drache focused mainly on the importance of Web 2.0 and Facebook in the path to Obamas success. He spoke about the growth of managerialism in Politics and how people across the world want a leader like Obama for change. Speaking about the importance of discussion groups, chat rooms and virtual organizations on Facebook, he explained how Obamas campaign allowed people to get involved actively and how they became the generators of ideas and suggestions. These virtual modes of communicating with the public, helped create a clear choice for the Americans.

To understand more about this phenomenon and also their charismatic new leader, the US embassy in India organized a talk on Barack Obama & Indo- US relations on the 21st January, 2009 at the Faculty of Management Studies, New Delhi. Mr. John Davison, Economic Minister Counselor at the U.S. Embassy in New Delhi came down to the FMS campus to share his insights on the topic.

In his inaugural address, Mr Kamal Nath, said, With greater global competitiveness, we have challenges not only of growth but also of finding space in Global economy and therefore there is a compelling need for India to have interest rates that are globally competitive. Once liquidity turns into borrowings, Indias intellectual and entrepreneurial skills will drive up growth significantly.

The new MBA program has been established through an arrangement between two leading schools -- S.P. Jain Institute of Management & Research (SPJIMR) in Mumbai, India and the Schulich School of Business, Canada. The program is expected to begin in January 2010.

According to information shared by Schulich School of Business with MBAUniverse.com, students enrolled in the program will complete the first year of the Schulich India MBA at SPJIMR in Mumbai. Students will then complete the second year of the program at the Schulich School of Business, located in Toronto, Canada.

Planning Commission Deputy Chairman, Dr Montek Singh Ahluwalia said this at the launch of the book Indias Strategic Interests in Southeast Asia and Singapore by Ambassador See Chak Mun in New Delhi on February 11.

Pointing out that the book has come at a very significant time when the world is going through a financial crisis and Asia is likely to play a major part in the global revival, Dr Ahluwalia said, Global crisis is likely to strengthen ties between Asian nations.