Aspirants are busy burning the proverbial mid-night oil to ace the CAT, and have a lot of questions. MBAUniverse.com Aspirant Zone, the dedicated platform for MBA-Aspirants, will organize Live Expert Chat on October 18, 2008 with CAT experts from Indias leading test prep companies.

The portal was launched by the Director of the institute Dr. C V Baxi, in the presence of Dean Prof. Metri, Chairman (PGPM), Prof. Subir Verma, Chairperson (PGPHR), Prof. Bhatnagar, other senior faculty members and students.

The Portal: www.ManDevIan.com is an initiative of the Students Council of MDI and has been developed by a team of 3 students of the second year Rohit Khanna, Vanita and Ram Sharma with the help of the student community. As the domain name itself suggests the Portal is aimed at ManDevIans past, present and ManDevIans of the future too.

This years theme of Manfest is Sustainable Development: Fuelling the Future.

Says IIM Lucknow, Manfest 2009 aims to be bigger, better and more responsive to the ever changing corporate scenario, which is reflected in over 25 thought provoking events. With budgets soaring higher, this edition of Manfest aims to maintain and strengthen its position as one of the best management events in the country.

Further, it named a board to advise the university on strategies for expanding and enhancing Dukes presence in India. Dukes Fuqua School of Business is ranked amongst the top 10 business schools in the US by Business Week magazine.

The event hadtop notch speakers like management guru Gurucharan Das and media newsmaker Rajat Sharma and Shekhar Gupta, and series of exciting management games.
Indias leading management portal MBAUniverse.com is the Official Management Portal of the fest. Click here for pictures from IIM B Vista 2008. http://mbauniverse.com/newsInPictures.php?catId=36

The programme will commence in November 2008 in Mumbai.

Says Welingkar, Today, there is a dearth of tax professionals in the country. To help you capitalise on these opportunities Welingkar and KPMG in India have designed a unique programme to attract the best and the brightest people and train them to build a career as tax and regulatory management professionals.

In this second installment of the column on MBAUniverse.com -- Indian School of Management - in Practice by Sandeep Singh, the author traces the practice of Franchising to its Indian roots.

Column:
Indian and Western Franchise Model

Entrepreneurship development body TiE Delhi is getting ready to host its annual flagship event TiEcon Delhi 2008, which will be held on October 22-24 in New Delhi. The theme of this years conference is Entrepreneurship Comes of Age.
Budding entrepreneurs can expect to get advice from some of the best known resources including Greg Chappell, Head Coach, Cricket Australias, Centre of Excellence (COE); Tarun Khanna, Professor, Harvard University; and Sanjeev Bikhchandani, Founder, Naukri.com.

In this article for MBAUniverse.com Aspirant Zone, Mr Gautam Puri, Vice Chairman, Career Launcher, offers advice to CAT takers on what they should be doing on the day the CAT exam is held.

Expert Advice by Mr Gautam Puri -- For D-Day:

One of the biggest pitfalls is that as students we always search for short cuts, asking which is the easiest way out and which are the easiest questions? A critical issue here is the tremendous urge to skip questions.

The conference will be hosted jointly by PSB, GHS-IMR-Kanpur and GBMF, USA. The theme of the conference is Emerging Paradigms of Global Entrepreneurship and Management: Issues and Challenges.