One of the projects undertaken for International Cricket Council (ICC) by MBA students was analyzing the growth and future of Twenty20 cricket.

This was a student driven initiative to get a broader view of the industry, economy and business education of Singapore and Malaysia.

To help CAT takers, MBAUniverse.com Aspirant Zone is publishing a series on expert guidance by Indias leading test prep companies. In this series, MBAUniverse.com Aspirant zone brings expert advice by Career Launcher, one of Indias leading MBA test prep company, on strategy to crack CAT 08. Next parts of this series will focus on key test areas like: Reading Comprehension, Verbal Ability, Data Interpretation and Qualitative Ability.

How to crack CAT 2008
By Shiva Kumar, Director (R&D), Career Launcher India Ltd.

The daylong symposium witnessed experts from the industry and the government share their views on the Private Equity sector. The Key note address was delivered by Mr Gopal Nair, Director, Capital Markets, Ministry of Finance. He said that the role of the regulator in these challenging times should be that of an innovator. One should respond to the crisis in a well planned manner. He said that India has had a relatively limited impact of the turmoil affecting rest of the world as we have adopted a policy of moving cautiously.

Application to the programme can be made till November 24, 2008 and programme commences in January 2009, informs Pearl.

PSB-AIT DBA is a doctoral-level programme designed for senior executives. On completion of the programme, successful students would be awarded DBA degree of Asian Institute of Technology.

The portal was launched by Mr Vijay Thadani, Chairman, CII Education Committee & Chief Executive Officer, NIIT Limited. The portal was appreciated by several policy makers and industry leaders like Mr Oscar Fernandes, Minister of State (Labour & Employment) Independent Charge Government of India, Mr Thadani and Mr Manish Sabharwal, Chairman, TeamLease.

The portal carries trends, latest news, interview, industry speak and institute directory of fast growing sectors include Retail, Banking, Finance, Insurance, Media, Healthcare, Aviation, Hospitality and Soft skills.

Through this platformexpertsinteract and find solutions to the challenges faced by the higher education field in the country. On the backdrop of the success of EDGE 2008, the next edition of EDGE 2009 will be held in the Delhi in February 2009. The theme of EDGE 2009 will be Transforming Educational Institutions for Global Opportunities.

Thats the point highlighted by Mr Manish Sabharwal, Chairman, TeamLease Services. Mr Sabharwal was speaking on Employment to Employability, at the CII Global Summit on Skills Development, being held in New Delhi on September 17-18, 2008.
While talking about three Es of success, Mr Sabharwal said, Success comes from three Es, they are Education, Employability and Employment.

At the discussion, panelists will include Mr.Girish G Vaidya - Sr.Vice President & Head, Infosys Leadership Institute; Mr.Pranesh Anthapur - Chief Operating Officer, Yahoo! India R&D; Mr.Vijay Ratnaparkhe - Senior Vice President & COO, Robert Bosch India Ltd. and Ms.Sandhya Vasudevan - Managing Director, India Operations, Thomson Reuters. The panel will be moderated by Prof. Vasanthi Srinivasan, OB & HR, IIM B.

The seminar session was part of the course on Globalising and Resurgent India through Innovative Transformation (GRIT) with Prof Anil K Gupta of IIM-A as co-faculty.

Addressing the class, Dr Kalam said, I will be with you for over 40 hours and an integrated way; you will be contributing around 2000 intellectual hours. We will work together in the class for evolving the management system required for societal transformation of the billion people of multi-culture, multi-religion, multi-language in a democratic setup.