The competition is meant for MBA, engineering and other postgraduate students in India, with a focus on bringing new sustainable technologies to market through entrepreneurship.
A large number of entries have been received from Engineering and Management Institutes across India. Shortlisted teams will present their business plans to a panel of distinguished judges including industrialists and venture capitalists on 4th December at IIFT, New Delhi.

Writing for MBAUniverse.com, Mumbai based management writer Sandeep Singh argues that perhaps there are some management and leadership lessons from this gruesome incident.
26/11 Mumbai Attack: Leadership Lessons from the gloom

Ottawa Citizens first page headline screamed It was sheer chaos referring to Mumbai 26/11 Terror attack. Yes on first glance it looks like chaos. But if one looks beneath the surface then one will see lot of Wisdom for Managerial and Leadership lessons.

Leadership

Prof Bhushan was honored at the 10th Annual Convention of Leadership-2008 organized by Dr. P N Singh Foundation. The Leaders of Tomorrow project has been conducting one year leadership course for slum children studying in schools in Mumbai.

The Convention aims at learning leadership models from various successful organizations. It was addressed by renowned leaders from the field of education and industry from India and abroad, including Prof Bhushan who spoke on What makes a young professional tick?

They succeeded against a field of 914 competitors running 702 simulated companies from campuses around the globe. The final was however won by Tom Kung of National Cheng Chi University, Taiwan. Six teams, including the IIM B team contested the finals.

The guest of honour for the day was Mr. Fehmi Hussain, Business Head, UP, Hindustan Times Media. He emphasized on practical learning acquired by students in organizing such events. Ms. Amita Mital, Chairperson Student Affairs, IIM Lucknow also shared the stage.

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Harvard Business School, Kellogg School of Management (Northwestern University), Wharton Business School and University of Michigans Ross School of Business are ranked at #2, #3, #4 and #5 respectively. Queens School of Business, Canada is ranked at #1 non-US MBA, followed by Spanish B-school IE Business School.

No Indian B-school has managed to feature in the list of top non-US B-schools.

More than 110 organisations participated in Summer Placements 2008 at IIM Lucknow.

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:

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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.