Leading online management education provider U21 Global believes that more working executives will get attracted to education and training in these troubled times.

IIM Calcutta team became the winner by winning Merit Certificates and rupees one lakh cash prize. In addition they have also been offered a rupees four lakhs worth of educational facilities such as short term course at LIBA at Chennai. Each participant was awarded free Associate Membership at TIE, Chennai for one year.

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The paper was scheduled for 120 minutes and had a total of 150 questions. This year the sections have increased to 6 where there were 4 sections in IIFT 07. The sections were Reading Comprehension, Verbal Ability, General knowledge, Reasoning Ability, Quantitative Ability and Data Interpretation.

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The runners-up were Kaushik Ramakrishnan, Prashant Purushottam and Sarang Malik from Indian School of Business (ISB), Hyderabad. The winning team from XIMB, which called itself The Alexandrian Warriors, received a cash prize of Rs. 250,000, while the runners-up Project O3 team from ISB received Rs 150,000.

Prof. Joachim Schwass, Professor of Family Business at IMD, was in India to attend the summit held in New Delhi, India.

Prof. Joachim Schwass said 70% of all businesses, whether in North America, Europe, Middle East or China, are family owned. In India, around 95% of all registered companies are family businesses or founded by entrepreneurial families. Therefore it becomes imperative that the nuances of relationships be understood and worked upon so that family run businesses run from strength to strength and expand in the global arena.

The central theme for this years summit is Wealth: Legacy, Dimensions, Frontiers.

Confluence 2008 will take a closer look at the phenomenon of wealth creation and its various aspects. With the world submerged in a near crisis situation, the conclave will look at the learning from the past and conceptualize how it can be applied in todays scenario.

Over 200 internship offers were made for a batch of 180 students with 15% of the profiles being offered internationally in North America, Europe, South East Asia, and the Middle East by over 70 prospective recruiters. The average stipend for the internship period stood at over Rs. 85,000 for the duration of the internship, a quantum jump of 60% from the figure recorded last year.Over 45 students will draw a package well in excess of Rs One Lac for the internship period this year.

The 5 of them are among 50 others from all over the world that have made it to the finals. The Final will take place from January 11-14, 2009.

The game is played at in 3 levels.In the first level, players were challenged to develop a small provider of express services into a national champion through sound management decisions.The interactive application asks for strategic and operational decisions and simulates their effects on the business in a realistic manner.The 5 finalist Great Lakers were amongst 500 others that made it past the first round.

The one week seminar focused on Indian business practices, features of the industrial structure, economic policies being implemented at the national level, understanding of cultural issues and the nuances of doing business in India. It included a series of interactive sessions with leaders from business and industry and visits to selected organisations to facilitate participants in gaining a practical understanding and appreciation of Indian business practices, CSR initiatives and sensitivity to cultural issues in the changing global context.

It is now a mlange of case studies, business plan contests, paper presentations and strategy games.