All the 59 students of PG Diploma in Rural Management have been placed in various organizations. The highest salary offered was Rs.8 lakh per annum while the average salary was Rs. 4.46 lakh per annum. More than 30 organizations participated in the process.

Companies like Delloite, Monsanto, Tata Teleservices, Shriram Group, Devgen, Mother Dairy, Amul, IMRB, Indian Immunologicals were the major corporations which came to campus for recruiting rural managers.

The meeting got underway on January 28 in Davos, Switzerland with addresses by world leaders like Russian Premier.
The World Economic Forums report The Future of the Global Financial System; A Near-Term Outlook and Long-Term Scenarios explores a near-term industry outlook characterized by an expanded scope for regulatory oversight, back to basics in the banking sector, some restructuring by alternative investment firms and the emergence of a new set of winners and losers.

Walsh was on a visit to the School and spoke to the students on Bold Moves in Tough Times.

Walsh joined British Airways as Chief Executive Officer (CEO) designate in the year 2005. Under his leadership, British Airways delivered record profits and an operating margin of 10 percent. He has been in the airline industry since the late 70s, and thus his insights into the complexity of the industry proved very helpful to the students here at the ISB.

The theme for this years conclave is The Spirit of Entrepreneurship, and is scheduled on February 17, 2009 in New Delhi. Dr Dilip K Bandyopadhyay, Vice Chancellor, Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University, will deliver the Inaugural address and noted entrepreneur Mr Sanjeev Bikhchandani, Co-Founder & CEO of Naukri.com will deliver the keynote address. MBAUniverse.com, Indias leading management portal, is the Official Management Portal of the Conclave.

The conference will be addressed by many distinguished speakers including Prof Robert J Aumann, Nobel Laureate in Economics and Spiritual leader Swami (Dr) Parthasarathy.

Other prominent speakers at the conference are Prof BB Bhattacharya, Vice-Chancellor, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi; Prof N Ravichandran, Director, Indian Institute of Management, Indore; Ankit Faida, World-Renowned Cyber Security Expert and Subir Gokarn, Chief Economist Standard & Poors Asia-Pacific.

According to IGNOU, The admission to Management Programmes of IGNOU is done through OPENMAT Entrance Examinations, held twice a year.

The management programmes that IGNOU offers are Programs Master of Business Administration (MBA) Diploma in Management (DIM) Post Graduate Diploma in Management (PGDIM) Post Graduate Diploma in Human Resource Management (PGDHRM) Post Graduate Diploma in Financial Management (PGDFM) Post Graduate Diploma in Operations Management (PGDOM) Post Graduate Diploma in Marketing Management (PGDMM).

Yet for some Harvard Business School (HBS) students, this years break involved stimulating field work in locations such as Israel, Mexico, and New Orleans. In March 2009 another group of MBA students will take part in the India Immersion Experience Programme.

Anand Mahindra, Vice-Chairman and Managing Director, Mahindra & Mahindra is a Co-Chair of the annual meeting 2009. MBAUniverse.com presents highlights from this important global summit.
Government, business and civil society leaders are at the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting 2009 in record numbers to discuss ways out of the worst financial crisis in eight decades. The meeting got underway on January 28 in Davos, Switzerland with addresses by world leaders like Russian Premier .

An 85-member strong CII delegation from India will participate in the World Economic Forums Annual Meeting in Davos-Klosters, Switzerland, from 28 January-1 February 2009.

ISB has also moved higher than FTs last years ranking, where it was placed at # 20. However, none of the IIMs have managed to find a place on this important global ranking.

To know more on this important development, MBAUniverse.com, which was infact the first media from India to report on this development, interviewed London based Business Education editor Ms Della Bradshaw.