Perhaps the campus best known for producing top entrepreneurs is the fabled Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad (IIM-A). Naturally, a book exploring these entrepreneurs was much needed. Thats exactly what a new book by IIM-A alumna Rashmi Bansal titled Stay Hungury, Stay Foolish is all about.

Thirty seven (37) faculty members including international participants from neighboring countries like Nepal and Maldives participated in this 30th FDP.

The 16-week long programme not only covers basic disciplines like economics and statistics and core management areas like marketing, finance, human resource management, operations management and strategy, but also focuses on academic writing, case writing, qualitative and quantitative research methods and innovative pedagogical techniques.

The session was addressed by Mr Niraj Bajaj, CMD, Mukand Ltd; Mr Prashant Tewari, MD, USV; Mr K Ganesh, CEO & Founder, TutorVista, and Ms Divya Modi, Global Director Finance, Spice Corp.

Mr Niraj Bajaj said, An out of the box thinking, full of energy, thoughts and new ideas with open mind makes an entrepreneur manager. As change is continuity with businesses, an entrepreneur manager needs to embrace change.

Indias leading business news channel CNBC-TV18, along with Indias leading management portal MBAUniverse.com and global research agency TNS, has launched a nationwide survey to rank Indias top B-schools. CNBC-TV18 A of B Ranking will arrive at the A list of B-schools after a comprehensive multi-tier research and survey.

The results of this nationwide survey are expected to be announced in November 2008.

The uniqueness of such a common occurrence lay in the fact that these stalls were run by the students of IIM-C as part of a marketing based event, Mandi.

Keeping in line with IIM-Ks drive to encourage entrepreneurship, The Start-up Fair brings together aspiring and existing entrepreneurs, venture capitalists and industry experts to discuss business ideas and facilitate the process of implementing them. Many aspiring entrepreneurs from the final year batch of IIM-K would also be interacting with the participating firms to understand the proposed business models, the nitty-gritties involved, the challenges faced and the firms working and proposed solutions.

To address the changing marketing paradigm, distinguished speakers like London Business Schools Prof Nirmalya Kumar and Mr Santosh Desai, CEO, Future Brands. The session was chaired by Mr Keki Mistry, Vice Chairman & MD, HDFC Bank.
Leading the discussion, Mr. Mistry said that Marketing always needs to evolve in the dynamic environment. He also stressed on the point that employees of any organization are the best advertisers and the support of word of mouth advertising is the best bet for any advertiser.

The second session of the day one was on the theme: Developing a Global Mindset.

The session was chaired by Mr Sudhir Jalan. The other speakers were Mr Jeffrey Watts, Partner, deloitte Tohmatsu, Japan; Ms Anne Nemer, Asst. dean & ED, Univ of Pittsburgh and Mr D Sivakumar, MD Nokia.
In his opening remarks, Mr. Jalan said that good leaders need to have understanding of Global practices as these practices across the globe are transforming us.

This description is of the Chinaswamy Stadium, Bangalore which was the venue of the first ever Alumni Meet of Vinod Gupta School of Management (VGSoM), IIT Kharagpur on the 27th of September 2008. What better place to be when you meet up with old friends and catch up on all those years gone by, reminiscing about the memories of the campus, the rainy days, the sluggish afternoons, beads of sweat before the exam and of course the hectic schedule of a B Schooler.

Coco-Cola, John Deere, GE Security, PepsiCo, McLarty Associates, Mahyco Monsanto Biotech, Nenko Advisors, Nichani Holdings LLC, Savani Farms, Weston Solutions and Boeing were the companies represented at the mission.
The USIBC is the premier business advocacy group representing Americas top companies with Indian investments and global Indian Companies. The USIBC was established in 1975 with the support of the US Chamber of Commerce, to promote business ties between the two countries. Dr Ian Thomas, President, Boeing India and Ron Somers, President, USIBC led the mission.