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;

These programmes will be offered in conjunction with leading management institutes like Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta (IIM-C), Indian Institute of Management, Lucknow (IIM-L) and Indian Institute of Management, Indore (IIM-I). The programmes will cover a wide spectrum of areas like General Management, Quantitative analysis and modeling, and Marketing Management.

NIIT Imperia is offering two programmes with IIM Calcutta: Senior Management Programme and Advanced Program in Quantititative Analysis and Modelling.

The JMET had already been declared to be of 120 questions length and of 3 hours duration a deviation from the previous years when the paper was of 150 questions and 2 hours duration. There were 4 sections each of Verbal Ability, Quantitative Ability, Logical Reasoning and Data Interpretation having 30 question each. Considering, that the paper was of 180 minutes that meant that one could allocate 45 minutes per section.

The conference, with the theme Emerging India: Strategic Innovation in a Flat World, was led by Professor C.K. Prahalad, Paul and Ruth McCracken Distinguished University Professor of Strategy, Ross School of Business, University of Michigan. Professor M B Sarkar, Associate Professor & Stauffer Research Fellow, Fox School of Business, Temple University and Professor Charles Dhanaraj, Associate Professor, Richard Ivey School of Business, University of Western Ohio are the Co-Chairs for this conference.

MBAUniverse.com spoke to some of Indias leading MBA Exam Experts to present an analysis on what to expect from XAT 09. In this Part 1 of the XAT special, we share the advice from experts at Mumbai based IMS Learning.

All India Management Association (AIMA) is getting ready to host its annual National Students Management Quiz 2009 (NSMQ-2009) in January-February 2009. NSMQ will be held in Pune, Coimbatore, Patna, Bhubneshwar & Delhi. MBAUniverse.com is the Official Management Portal of this initiative.

Two other research studies were also released at the conference Milagrow Knowledge Efficacy of Govt. Backed Initiatives study and the Milagrow Knowledge Women Entrepreneurs in Hyderabad Cluster study.

Some of the best minds in the country from corporate, government and academia will converge on this occasion in a showcase of brain power. With an array of Finance, Strategy, Marketing & Human Resource competitions, LAttitude aims to bring out the latest developments in management concepts.

The Summit focused on Collaborative Retail: The New Engine of Growth.