Yale-Great Lakes Research Conference

Yale-Great Lakes Center for Management Research and Great Lakes Institute of Management will be jointly holding the 3rd International Research Seminar on Winning Management on Sunday, December 21, 2008 in Chennai .

The agreement was signed on Thursday, 18 December 2008 by Dr. Atmanand, Dean, School of Energy Management, MDI, Gurgaon and Ms Sumita Misra, IAS, Director, Haryana Renewable Energy Development Agency (HAREDA).

Haryana Power and Public Health Minister Mr. Randeep Singh Surjewala was present during the signing ceremony. Mr. N.K.Singh, MP, Chairman, MDI Board of Governors, also attended the function.

Thats the message coming from Professor Jean-Pierre Lehmann, Professor of International Political Economy, IMD Lausanne, Switzerland & Founding Director of the Evian Group while he addressed a group of business executives gathered at the seminar organized by NIIT Imperia.

Government of India, along with the All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) is organizing a National Conference on Technical Vocational Education, Training and Skills Development: A Roadmap for Empowerment on 1718 December, 2008 in New Delhi. Indias first portal on Employability Development for youth EmployabilityUniverse.com presents the highlights from the conference.

The lecture will be held at Ravi J Matthai Auditorium, IIMA Campus, Ahmedabad.

The Indian Institute of Management,Ahmedabad and SAGE Publications have come together to institute the IIMA-SAGE ENDOWMENT LECTURES, a series of annual lectures by distinguished personalities from the world of business, economics and noteworthy individuals involved in public issues to give a talk on a topic of current interest.

In this Part 2 of the XAT special, we share the advice from experts at Indore based PT Education.

As shared earlier, last years XAT paper had 120 questions in total, split into three sections: Data Interpretation & Quantitative Ability (DI/ QA), Verbal Ability & Logical Reasoning (VA/ LR) and Analytical Reasoning & Decision Making (AR/ DM). While DI/VA had 44 questions, other two sections had 38 questions each. In addition, there was an essay topic that aspirants had to attempt.

Mr. Lakshmi Narayanan, VC and CEO of Cognizant inaugurated the one day conference. Dr. T.V. Somanathan, Secretary to the Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu was also present.The conference brought together thought leaders from academia and real entrepreneurial ecosystem providing a platform to exchange andshare the knowledge among the various players like entrepreneurs, aspiring entrepreneurs, academic researchers, angels, VCs & others.

The conference will be inaugurated by Chief Minister of Karnataka, Sri B S Yediyurappa, and the keynote address on Education for Social Development will be delivered by Dr. H Sudarshan of Karuna Trust & VGKK. Former President of India, Professor APJ Abdul Kalam will give the valedictory address.

The theme of this years seminar was Challenges in the Emerging Markets with specific focus on India, China, other South East Asian countries and the Middle East.
The speakers for Crucible included Mr. Thomas Kuruvilla, the Managing Director Asia Pac of Arthur D Little, Mr. Harish HV, Partner National Management of Grant Thornton, and Mr. Amit Kumar, Country Head (India) of Grail Research (a member of Monitor Group).

Mr S Ramadorai, CEO & Managing Director Tata Consultancy Services at the HR Summit on Leadership Challenges for a secure future organizedby the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) in Mumbai on December 15.
Mr Ramadorai, in his keynote address recommended a strategic plan including the following elements to meet the challenge of ensuring a secured future:

Preventive mechanism: This includes investment in intelligence mechanism to secure Indias shores, airports and land boundaries which are currently highly porous;