Based on the central theme of Sustainable Development: Fuelling the Future, Manfest 2009 aims to be bigger, better and more responsive to the ever-changing corporate scenario.
Eminent personalities such as Wilfried Aulbur, CEO and MD, Mercedes, Benz India; Dr. R.K Pachauri, Director General, TERI; Dr. Venu Srinivasan, Chairman and MD, TVS Motor Co. Ltd.; Mr. Shailesh Gandhi, Information Commissioner, GOI; Mr. Sudhanshu Sarronwala, CEO, Soundbuzz will address the conclave.

Pavneet has scored an amazing score of 215 out of 356, thus making him a CAT 100 percentiler. As a result, he has got Group Discussion and Personal Interview (GD/PIs) calls from six Indian Institute of Management (IIMs) -- IIM Ahmedabad, Bangalore, Calcutta, Indore, Lucknow and Kozhikode.

Pavneet hails from a middle class family from Mohali, where his father is a retail shopkeeper. He has been a student of PT Education in Chandigarh.
MBAUniverse.com spoke to Pavneet to know the success mantras behind this big achievement.

Q&A with Pavneet Singh:

Dean Rao was on the Board of Satyam Computers, from which he subsequently resigned after the news broke out questioning the corporate governance at Satyam.

While the official website CATIIM.in is not accessible, owing to the huge surge in the traffic this morning, an IIM official and leading test prep companies have confirmed to MBAUniverse.com that the results have indeed been announced.
IIM Officials and representatives of leading test prep companies like TIME and PT Education confirmed the development with MBAUniverse.com around 10.30 am on Friday morning.

PT Education founder Sandeep Manudhane told MBAUniverse.com that this target will be achieved by offering programmes upto 50 centers in North India alone.

Founder Chairman of PT Education, Sandeep Manudhane said, It will be our target for this year to prepare 20,000 MBA aspirants to achieve their goals in the northern part of India and this we will do through our 50 centers in this part of country. He further added Roma Sannmukhani and Juhi Niba have topped in recent MBA exams and we hope more and more PTians would get success this year.

Inthis seriesexperts from Dalal Street will answer questions from students in the top B- Schools in India on investment sectors, stocks, and the future of Indian Stock Market through a series of interactive sessions. The series, to start from January 10, will be hosted by Mr. Ramesh Damani, a well-known name in the market.

The major push, says FICCI, will come from retail industry that is likely to grow by 30 per cent in the next five years and become Rs 110 billion industry by 2010.

According to FICCI, fruits and vegetables, dairy products, marine and fish, meat and poultry, edible oils, staples, alcoholic and non alcoholic beverages, breads and bakery, confectionary and packaged foods are the key industry segments which offer tremendous growth potential and investment opportunities.

In fact they should increase the focus and spends on customer services, so that when the economic upturn comes, their brands are the favorites of customers. Thats the message coming from one of the global leading marking gurus and an authority on Services marketing area -- Dr A Parasuraman. Dr Parasuraman was in Delhi to deliver a talk on strategies to create value in bad times and good on January 6, 2009.

The conference aims to bring together researchers and academicians from across the world and provides a unique opportunity to the marketing professors in India and abroad to share their ideas with some of the best in the world.

Sadly, India has slipped its last years ranking of 23 to the 41st position this year. The GII that has studied 130 countries has ranked Germany in the second position, followed by Sweden, the United Kingdom and Singapore.
The European economies including the Nordic ones continued to do well in 2008. Switzerland, Denmark and the Netherlands figured in the top 10 apart from Germany, Sweden and UK that figure in the top 5. However France was the biggest loser slipping from the 5th to 19th position.