AIMA Center for Management Services (AIMA-CMS) informed MBAUniverse.com that as many as 124 management institutes from Northern Region will be accepting the MAT scores. Here is a list for ready reference by MBA-aspirants.
AIMA MAT December 2008 Participating Institutes from Northern Region

NAME OF THE INSTITUTE
CITY
WEBSITE

Academy of Management Studies
Dehradun
www.amsdoon.com

Accurate Institute of Management & Technology
Greater Noida
www.accurate.in

AIMA-Centre for Management Education (PGDM)
Multi-location

But which are the non-IIMs B-schools that are high on academic excellence and perceptions of MBA community and Recruiters. Here is a report on the non-IIMs B-schools that stand for excellence in management education in India.
Xaviers Labour Relations Institute, Jampshedpur (XLRI); Management Development Institute, Gurgaon (MDI); Faculty of Management Studies, Delhi (FMS); and Indian School of Business, Hyderabad (ISB) dominate the non-IIMs B-school rankings.

Mr. Manoj Kohli shared his optimism about India being a country with high potential to grow and become a giant economy in the near future.

According to the Rankings released on CNBC TV18, Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad (IIM A) has been crowned as Indias # 1 B-school.

The detailed finding of this survey will be available in form a special 200 page MBA Rankings & Guide Book. According to CNBC TV18, the rankings guide book will hit the stands by mid-November. MBAUniverse.com is the Knowledge Partner of this MBA Rankings & Guide Book.

We presents theanswers from experts from IMS Learning, T.I.M.E., Career Launcherand PT Education. The experts on Ask the Experts include Mr Gejo Srinivasan, General Manager, IMS Learning, Mr Dhruba Jyoti and Mr Ajay Nayar, T.I.M.E., Mr R Shiva Kumar, Director, R&D, Career Launcherand Mr Subhashish Mitra, VP (Academics),PT Education.

They discussed about Human Values, Learning and Innovating. According to them Creativity is generating new, original ideas while innovation is putting those ideas to work and getting results. They took the discussion from Inhaling = Learning and Exhaling = Innovating, to overview the 4 innovation styles.

They defined 4 innovation styles as:

Visioning: To envision the ideal future
Modifying: To refine and optimize what has come before
Experimenting: To combine and test different factors
Exploring: To discover the radically new and novel

This is thelargest gift to any business school in the world, the school announced on Thursday, November 6.

The donor is David G. Booth, founder and chief executive of Dimensional Fund Advisors, an investment firm, his wife Suzanne Booth and their family. David Booth received an M.B.A. from the school in 1971. The combination of an up-front payment, the income stream, and the equity interest provided by the Booth gift is valued at $300 million. In recognition of the gift, the school will be renamed the University of Chicago Booth School of Business.

According to official information shared by AIMA with MBAUniverse.com, A total of 293 B-Schools are accepting MAT Score of December 2008 test for admission to their programmes.
Every year, lakhs of students avail of this test. The test is conducted 4 times in a year in the months of February, May, September and December.