Management guru Dr. C.K Prahalad and Prof. Anoop Madhok from the York University, among others, will be part of this initiative.

As part of the initiative, Dr. Prahalad will be travelling to Goa in the second week of January to speak at an event hosted by GIM on the theme Global Restructuring of Industries. Is there an India Advantage? Top notch industrialists, the corporate community, bureaucrats and students are expected to attend the event.

Dr. Kasturirangan, the chief guest on the occasion, while addressing the gathering, cautioned India not to surrender its hard earned knowledge and experience in Space to the dictums of developed world.
Dr. Kasturirangan also released a case study titled Life Line: A Social Initiative Led by B-School Students on this occasion.

On face of the recent economic turmoil and Satyam debacle, ICWAI will launch new programmes and courses during the year to promote stronger enterprise governance and accounting procedures.

During his lecture Prof. Kalam congratulated ICWAI and said, ICWAI has played a crucial role in nurturing the accounting talent and practices in India. It gives me pleasure to be a part of this proud occasion for entire nation. I must congratulate everyone present here on providing the industry with skilled management accountants over the years.

The rate of interest charged on such loans is varies between 11% and 14%, and these loans are payable only after your studies are over and you begin to earn.

Q: What is your percentile in CAT 08 and how does it feel getting call from prestigious IIMs!
A: My percentile in CAT is 97.67 and I am really excited about the opportunity it has given me to be a part of prestigious B-Schools. I have received interview calls from IIM Bangalore and IIM Lucknow.?

Q: In your view, what are the key factors that helped you in doing so well in CAT?
A: I focused on three points:

With the opening of its headquarters in Mumbai, HBPI will establish and enhance the companys partnerships in the region to identify and publish the best sources of local content, extend the India-editions program for Harvard Business Press books, grow the reach of Harvard Business Review South Asia, and place additional focus on partnering with the regions leading business schools and corporations to deliver leadership and management development content and programs.

Prior to this, he worked with Agilent Technologies as software engineer. His hobbies include playing basketball, watching movies and hitting the gym!

MBAUniverse.com spoke to Abhinav on his success, his plans ahead and his advice to Gen-next of MBA aspirants.

Q: What is your percentile in CAT 08 and how does it feel getting call from prestigious IIMs

The programme is positioning it to be the largest ever non-governmental entrepreneurship faculty development program in the country. The foundation course started from January 12 which will continue till January 16 at IIMC campus. The first batch comprises of 60 participants from about 32 colleges across the eastern part of India.

Comibatore based Amrita School of Business (ASB) has announced the commencement of its three new campuses at Amritapuri, Bangalore and Cochin. ASB, part of Amirta Vishwa Vidyapeetham University, has been running its campus in Coimbatore since 1996. The new campuses will be operational from June 2009.

To help MAT takers, MBAUniverse.com Aspirant Zone presents experts advice and tips on how to do well in MAT 09.
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AIMA to hold MAT on February 1; 360 institutes to admit MAT-takers
The All India Management Association (AIMA) is going to conduct its Management Aptitude Test (MAT) on February 1, 2009.