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.

With top notch speakers like management guru Gurucharan Das and media newsmaker Rajat Sharma and Shekhar Gupta, and series of exciting management games, Vista proved yet again why it is one of the top management fests in the country. Official Management Portal of festival, MBAUniverse.com presents highlights from IIM Vista 2008.

Day 1 Highlights:
The day was packed with events that thronged with over participation from Business School students across the country.

As the first MBA from a premiere institute to be hired by the family owned business, he knows that every step of his attracts undue attention. It doesnt help that hes an HR man whose business its is to meet and get to know people across the ranks, which means theres hardly anybody in the company who doesnt have a view of who Abbey is and what Abbey doesor should do.

This years theme is Indian Banking: The Road Ahead. The symposium will have speakers from across the industry- banks, credit rating agencies, financial services firms and the media.

Over the years, it has been leading the management education sector -- it started satellite-based education in 2000, and then expanded into two international centers Dubai and Singapore.
MBAUniverse.com interviewed Fr E Abraham, S.J., director of XLRI Jamshedpur to share journey of XLRI, and some recent trends in management education domain. Prior to XLRI, Fr Abraham was the Director of XIM-B. He also worked as Joint Director of the Academy of HRD, and the President of the Association of Indian Management Schools.
Excerpts from the interview:

This international festival will be a major milestone event to be featured in Golden Jubilee Celebrations of IIT Bombay, informs SJM SOM.