The 1 day event was inaugurated by Dr.Bala Balachandran - Founder and Honorary Dean, Great Lakes Institute of Management, Dr.T.V Rao - Chairman, T.V Rao Learning Systems Pvt Ltd and Mr. R. Chandrasekharan - President and MD, Cognizant Technology Solutions India Pvt Ltd.

The HR Conclave, to be held on September 6, will focus on the theme HR Outsourcing: Sustainability in the long run. Kshitij 2008 will focus on Information Technology and Business Strategy and will be held on September 7.

To help CAT takers across the country, MBAUniverse.com Aspirant Zone hosted the Live Expert Chat on the topic Mantras to Crack CAT 08 on September 2. Mr Gejo Srinivasan, MBA Product Head, IMS Learning was one of the experts on the chat where he answer questions from MBA-aspirants who logon to MBAUniverse.com for expert guidance.

Mr Srinivasan answered several important questions on the chat like What would be CAT 2008 pattern, How to improve weak areas, how to prepare for CAT while working and many more.

The questions were wide ranging: from How should I allot time for preparation to How should I improve Quant/English areas.

The entire batch of 164 was placed on the first day of placements, informs SPJIMR.PGDM participants at SPJIMR carry out social projects when the rest of the business schools have summer corporate projects scheduled. It is for this reason that Corporate India offer specially designed projects under Autumns Internship in the months of September and October.

To put the spotlight on the issue, Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) will be holding the Global Summit on Skill Development on September 17-18, 2008 in New Delhi.

This is first-of-its-kind peoples choice awards that invite the Indian public to nominate and vote for the best young startups in the country. The Awards aim to attract visibility for over 800 entrepreneurs & their ventures in India, and engage over 5,00,000 people.

With another IIT-B student Maninder on his team now, the two ex-members of the students entrepreneurship cell on the campus, got their faculty advisor to launch the site by a voice call recorded and played on their site.

The launchat IIM Calcutta campus was held in presence of Consul General of Japan, Fujio Samukawa as chief guest, Sanjay G Dhande, director of IIT Kanpur, JICA advisor professor Shoji Shiba, Deputy Director General, CII, Smt Sarita Nagpal along with IIM Calcutta Director, Professor Shekhar Chaudhury and chairman of the program, professor M N Pal.

Thought leaders and corporate experts from diverse industries debated on how the strategies of the marketers evolve and how brands are transformed to remain relevant across geographies and over time.