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.

To help MAT takers, MBAUniverse.com spoke to AIMA to know what does MAT actually tests and how to do score well in this exam.
Q&As with AIMA Official on MAT December 08

Q: Please give us an overview of management exams and MAT?

Today with 58 Local Management Associations, it has linkages with over 3000 institutions and over 30,000 individual professionals. Its key activities include Distance Management Education, Management Development Programmes & National Events, and Testing Services.

Tips for the last 10 days to CAT
By Career Launcher experts

Age of experimentation? There should be no fiddling with your Test-taking strategy at this stage. The time for Experimentation is over now. As long as you know that the strategy you are using is giving you rewards, dont change it For example, you would know if your best bet is to scan a passage and then move onto to the questions, while another person could be more at ease scanning questions before going onto the passage. So just stick to whatever works best for you.

Mr Wilson is a respected thought-leader and has been associated with GMAC for more than decade. He is an MBA from the University of California (Berkeley), and a Ph.D. from the University of Illinois. He has served as a faculty member in a number of institutions including Harvard Universitys Graduate School of Business. Prior to joining GMAC, Dr. Wilson was with Ernst & Young in various senior capacities.

Mr Wilson writes a column titled A Global Perspective on Graduate Management Education for Indias leading management portal MBAUniverse.com.

The Triple Bottom Line Approach under its MBE Expert Lecture Series which continuously bring eminent personalities from industry, academia and politics to interact with MBE students.

The speaker for the seminar was Mr Nazeeb Arif, Vice President and Cheif of Corporate Communications, ITC Group. He pressed on the fact that high GDP growth rates were not sustainable in the long run if businesses keep exploiting the natural resources and not replenish them.