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.

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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.

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Prem Chand Gupta, the Union Minister for Corporate Affairs, announced the signing of the agreement at an event on 9 January in New Delhi, India. The MoU (Memorandum of Understanding) was signed by Kunal Banerjee, President, ICWAI, Sanjay Bhargave, Chairman, Training Education Facilities & IT Committee, ICWAI, CIMAs President Glynn Lowth, CIMAs Chief Executive Charles Tilley and Robert Jelly, CIMAs Director of Education.

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.