Hegave them insights on the role of treasury in a company especially with regards to an FMCG company and the diverse functions it looks after in order for a business to run profitably.

The Convention was inaugurated on September 30 in presence of senior management honchos. The convention theme is The New Manager.

The inaugural session was addressed by Mr. R Gopalakrishnan, ED, Tata Sons & Convention, Chairman; John Karr, Managing Partner, Deloitte; Kewal Handa, President AIMA & MD Pfizer; Dr. Indu Shahani, Sherrif Mumbai; S K Swamy, President Elect, AIMA; Rekha Sethi DG AIMA & S Mohan President BMA.

Said Kewal Handa, We are planning to make AIMA as the Knowledge Body. We are starting a series of road-shows, starting with Mumbai.

The three hour long session on Challenges involved in the launch and development of a new product provided the students at IIM Lucknow an opportunity to learn the key insights in the field of marketing.

HBS has introduced a new deferred MBA admission program, called HBS 2+2, where college students can apply straight from their college. Once selected, they will work for 2 years at select companies like Google and McKinsey and will then be admitted to HBS MBA class.

According to HBS, one of the main reasons for HBS launching this programme was the misconception in US that HBS and premier B-schools admit students only with 5-6 years of work experience.

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Tips for Quantitative Analysis (QA):
By Shiva Kumar, Director (R&D), Career Launcher India Ltd.

Thats the message from the latest book by former dean of Indian School of Business Prof Vijay Mahajan. Titled Profit from the Worlds Largest Untapped Market: Africas MORE THAN 900 MILLION Consumers! the book was released recently by Wharton Business School Publishing.

One of the largest event of its kind, Intaglio has been a pioneer among B-school meets and was the first of its kind to meet the ISO 9001:2000 quality standards. This year Intaglio is set to get even bigger with the introduction of The Great Innovation Challenge (GIC), the biggest ever B school event in the country, with prize for the single event to be well over INR 2 lakhs.

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Tips for Verbal Ability & Logical Reasoning (LR) & Data Interpretation (DI):
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Verbal Ability (VA):

On the occasion, Dr. Anwar Ali welcomed the alumni and congratulated them for their excellent performance in the corporate world. He also added, The fact cant be ignored that within a short span of four years of establishment of this institute, whatever it has achieved ranging from its high ranking among various b-schools to its placements, the alumni has played a great role.

Thats the strong message given by Mr Vijay Thadani, Chairman, CII Education Committee & Chief Executive Offer, NIIT Limited. Mr Thadani was speaking on the theme of Skills Development Linkages with Education at CII Global on Skills Development on September 17, 2008.

Addressing the skills shortage problem in India, Mr Thadani said, In India, we have many educated people but they are very less skilled people. The main concern is how do we create lot of skills and increase range of skills in unskilled people.