The Management Programme for Entrepreneurs & Family Businesses (MPEFB 3), starting February 9, 2009.

To help the FMS admission test takers, MBAUniverse.com presents expert advice and tips on FMS 09. The exam will test the Quantitative Aptitude, Data Interpretation, Analytical Reasoning, Verbal Ability and Reading Comprehension.
The FMS admission test last year consisted of 175 questions to be attempted in 120 minutes, with four sections-- Verbal Ability with 35 questions, Reading Comprehension with 40 questions, Analytical & Logical Reasoning with 50 questions and Quantitative Aptitude with 50 questions.

MBAUniverse.com presents an article by Career Launcher on how to prepare for a unique testing area of XAT: Essay Writing.
Last years 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.

Essay Writing for XAT
By Career Launcher

The three-year agreement provides students of the two institutes to study at each of the schools leading to award of an additional management degree.

Professor Hans Wiesmeth, Dean and Mr. Frank Hoffmann, Director International Relations from HHL and Professor C.V.Baxi, Acting Director and Mr. V.K.Nangia, Registrar & Secretary from MDI signed the agreement.

IIM A faculty member Prof N Ravichandran has joined IIM I as Director on November 27, 2008. IIM I has confirmed the development with MBAUniverse.com.

Prof Ravichandran has been appointed for the year of five years. His immediate focus is on how to raise the stature of IIM Is flagship PGP programme.

It was time to go under the skin of the issue and study the anatomy of the crisis. In this context, JBIMS hosted on campus Mr. Ashwini Kumar of HDFC for a session on Financial Crisis An Inside View. Mr. Kumar is also an alumnus of the institute.

Boasting of prize money worth INR 2 lakhs, GIC is clearly one of the most closely awaited events of the year in the B-School calendar. Finalists in GIC will get a chance to work closely with Intaglios knowledge partners, comprising of Indias leading Companies from sectors like IT, FMCG and Social Ventures, to solve real life problems from the companies, devise strategies of market expansion and protect market niches, all of this live inside company premises.
IIM C says that this is for the first time, Intaglio has taken the B-School competition to the corporate boardrooms.

The event is scheduled for January 6, 2009 in New Delhi.

At the event, Dr Parasuraman will address ways to leverage intangible assets such as customer service, human capital, information capital, service quality, brand, operations and processes, organization capital, etc and create sustained value.

According to Siddhartha Gupta, Head Media Relations, Megabucks @IIT-Kanpur, these cases are real life problems faced by these MNCs and the finalists would give their presentations to company executives at the festival.
The deadline for the submission of abstracts for Xerox, Technopak and IBM cases is December 7, and prize money is INR 1.5 lakh.

Battlefields knowledge partners are Xerox, Technopak, Price Waterhouse Coopers, IBM and Avaya Labs.

The event was arranged in order to facilitate better interaction between students and the industry and was aimed at giving the students an introduction to the corporate life.

Four prominent speakers had been invited for the event; Mr. Rajive Kaul Chairman, Nicco Group of Companies, Mr. G. N. S. Reddy Vice-President, BAIF, Mr. B. J. Panda MP, Rajya Sabha, and Mr. Anand Rengachary, MD Frost and Sullivan. Each speaker was joined by a panel of four students, from various B-schools in the region. Mr. S. K. Swamy CMD, AIMA moderated the discussions.