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.

According to a survey conducted by staffing company TeamLease and management portal MBAUniverse.com, whopping 60% of second year MBA students at Indias top B-schools like IIMs, XLRI, MDI and JBIMS fear that Wall Street meltdown will have some impact on this years final placements. In fact, 37% percent of the students polled said there will be a lot of impact on placements. Only 3% believed there will be no impact at all.

To deliberate on the current global turmoil and the role India Inc can play, Department of Management Studies, IIT Delhi will be holding its annual national business summit titled Building India Inc 2008 on November 1-2, 2008. The theme of the Summit is Super Brand India.

The summit is an attempt to bring together the corporate and the academia to deliberate on issues and challenges facing the nation and share their experiences and views with the larger audience, says IIT DMS.

Chiefly Business School finds the Indian economy and market very attractive, and increasing its focus on India market.

Mr John Vines Former Chief Executive, Association of Professional Engineers, Scientists and Managers Australia (APESMA) visited Delhi to deliver seminar on international education trends and interact with prospective MBA applicants. MBAUniverse.com spoke to Mr Vines to know more about the Chifley Business School and its India plans.

This is being jointly organized by the Wadhwani Centre for Entrepreneurship Development (WCED) and The Indus Entrepreneurs(Tie), Hyderabad chapter.

TiE-ISB Connect 2008 inaugural keynote will be addressed by Deepak Parekh, Chairman HDFC who is also the chief guest for the event on the topic Wealth Creation & Inclusive Growth. Other eminent keynote speakers during the 3day event are David Kayle, Acumen Fund, Y C Deveshwar, ITC and Bijou Kurien, Reliance Retail.

According to the agreement, up to four students from SDM-IMD would get an opportunity to spend a semester and attend courses at Mays Business School. An equal number of MBA students from Mays would be invited to study a semester in SDM-IMDs campus in Mysore.