In this third installment of the column on MBAUniverse.com -- Indian School of Management - in Practice by Sandeep Singh, the author traces the cutting-edge HR practices of Indian businesses.

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HR Practices: Evolving or Just New Terminology
To tide over the shortage of employees, certain corporate offered incentive to their employees for referring and convincing their friends to come and join them in their current organization. Some also offer incentive to husband and wife if they work in the same organization.

Says IIM Indore, IIM Indore is leaving no stone unturned in hosting a show that will in every way be bigger and better than ever before. It is already bigger and better than last year. The scale and variety of events has increased. We have been overwhelmed by thousands of registrations. We have more interaction with the industry. We would be having more interaction with CAT aspirants and students from IIM Indore, the participating 30 B-schools, and local colleges.

The summit is organizingwith the support of Ministry of Human Resource Development, Government of India. The summit will feature Conference, Exhibition, One-to-One Meetings and Master Classes on various aspects of higher education in India. MBAUniverse.com is the official Online Media partner of this initiative.

The week saw a gamut of events and initiatives by JBIMS students that not only brought to the forefront the institutes close corporate ties, but also showcased the all round development at JBIMS. The events included Strategym 2008, Samanvay, and Prayaag. MBAUniverse.com was the Official Management Portal of the initiatives. Here is a round-up of the Knowledge Week @ JBIMS.

Strategym 2008 (October 20-21)

Well, expert guidance is now just aclick away. In this CAT series on MBAUniverse.com, expert from Mumbai based IMS Learning offers advice on how to preparekey sections: Quantative, Data Interpretation & Logical Reasoning, and Test taking skills. After advice on Quantitative section & DI LR sections, this third and final article looks at how to finally do well in CAT by improving your test-taking skills.

Test Taking Skills While preparing for the test

By IMS Learning

John Doerr, a partner in the venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers; Jeffrey R. Immelt, chairman & CEO of General Electric; Anand G. Mahindra, vice chairman and managing director of the Indian multinational Mahindra & Mahindra; Meg Whitman, former president & CEO of eBay; and James D. Wolfensohn, former president of the World Bank. The awards were conferred on October 13, 2008. Mr Mahindra graduated from the Class of 1981 of Harvard Business School.

The event will host case studies, business plan contests, paper presentations and strategy games. The previous years edition of Ensemble saw over 300 participants from the best b-schools in India battle for top honours, informs XLRI.
The Aditya Birla Group is the principal corporate partner for Ensemble 2008. Apart from the Aditya Birla Group, the other big names from the corporate sector that are partnering the events of Ensemble 2008 include Nokia, Cognizant, L&T, Nestle, Tata Tinplate and Telcon.

Business leaders deliberated on a series of topical issues. Here are the highlights from the 3 day extravaganza. MBAUniverse.com was the official Management Portal of this festival.

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In this CAT series on MBAUniverse.com, expert from Mumbai based IMS Learning offers advice on how to prepare key sections: Quantative, Data Interpretation & Logical Reasoning, and Test taking skills.After advice on Data Interpretation and Logocal Reasoning, this second section looks at how to go well in Quant section.Offering important advice to MBA aspirants, Mr Srinivasan says, Understand that CAT does not want to test your mathematical skills; if it wanted to do that, wed have only M.Sc. Mathematics & PhD guys sitting in the IIMs!

MBAUniverse.com Aspirant Zone is publishing a seriesof articlesby CAT experts fromleading test prep companies like IMS Learning, TIME, Career Launcher and others.
In this three-part series, expert from Mumbai based IMS Learning offers advice on how to preparekey sections: Data Interpretation & Logical Reasoning, Quantative and Test taking skills. We kick off this series with first article titled Data Interpretation and Logical Reasoning by Mr Gejo Srinivasan of IMS Learning.

Next article in this series will focus on Quantitative Section.