A host of top Indian Bschools including the Indian Institutes of Management, Management Development Institute, Gurgaon, Faculty of Management Studies, Delhi, and many others are participating in the festival. Indias leading management portal MBAUniverse.com is a media partner of XLRI Ensemble 2008.

Here are the highlights from the festival:

Day 1 Coverage:

The aim of University-Industry Council is to facilitate a fruitful cooperation between Industry and Institute for building and strengthening the human capital of India in all aspects ranging from training to joint R&D besides addressing humanities as well.
Mr Aravind Sitaraman, Vice-President & Managing Director, Cisco Development Organization will deliver the Keynote Address at the Inaugural Session on 21 November 2008.

The Prof. Dharni Sinha Memorial Award for Excellence in Management Education was sponsored by Grid Consultants P Ltd., and has been conferred with six other Leadership Awards by Dr. P N Singh, Prof Y K Bhushan and Prof.G Nanayakkara.

On coming Sunday i.e. November 23, 2008, Delhi based Indian Institute of Foreign Trade (IIFT), is holding its entrance exam known as IIFT. According to the official information shared by IIFT, This year closer to 42,000 students have applied for IIFT exam.

While sharing the total seats for MBA (International Business) for Delhi and Kolkata campuses, IIFT said, There are total 180 seats for our MBA program which are divided into 120 and 60 seat for Delhi and Kolkata campuses respectively.

AIMA Center for Management Services (AIMA-CMS) informed MBAUniverse.com that close to 50 management institutes from Western Region will be accepting the MAT scores. Some of the prominent institutes include IILM Academy of Higher Learning, Jaipur; Institute of Health Management Research, Jaipur; Mohan Lal Sukhadia University, Udaipur and Kohinoor Business School, Khandala.

Here is a list for ready reference by MBA-aspirants:
AIMA MAT December 2008 Participating Institutes from Western Region

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AICAR Business School

Speaking on the occasion, Deputy Chairman of Planning Commission, Mr Montek Singh Ahluwalia, said, There is no doubt that education sector is poised for reform. Today, the education sector is like the industrial sector in the license-raj of pre-liberalization era. We need to invite private sector to participate more vigorously.

That is the central premise of Infosys Co-founder Nandan Nilekanis book Imagining India: Ideas for the New Century, which was released on November 24.

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.

The Summit will be addressed by senior policy makers, senior executives and noted academicians. Dr Jagdish Sheth and Dr Anil Gupta of IIM-A will address the Summit. Mr. V Vaidyanathan, Executive Director, ICICI Bank will address the conference on the theme of Winning in difficult times.

Hottest Startup was an online contest where people can nominate companies & vote for them both on internet & through SMS.
Says NEN, The shortlisted companies mirror the wide range of opportunities in todays India. Some of the Finalists are poised to take Indias leading IT industry to the next level; others are tackling some of the most critical problems in India today: education, employability, agricultural distribution; still other startups are bringing entertainment to peoples lives, or easing travel to remote corners of the country.