Mr Mishra was present as a part of their course on Fixed Income Securities. He made an interesting start by showing a few videos to the students to give them a feel of the importance and competitiveness of a bank treasury. He also spoke on the Day in the life of a person managing a Bank Treasury desk and the kind of pressure he faces.

Who better to answer these questions than the CAT toppers themselves, who are now studying at top B-school!

Indias leading management portal MBAUniverse.com presents its series Road to CAT 2008 which will guide and inspire CAT aspirants at every stage. In this series, begin with a chat with students from top B-schools on their journey, and life at B-school. The B-school students that we interviewed for this series are from institutes like IIM-B, IIM-I, IIM-K, JBIMS, FMS Delhi and IIT Bombays SJMSOM.

The revision comes after a detail review of the changing business environment and the expectations from management graduates. MBAUniverse.com spoke to Dr Prashant Mishra, Chairman, Post Graduate Program (PGP) in Management at IIM-C, to understand the changes and the rationale behind the same.

Then thats the kind of company that TATA-NEN Start-up Awards are looking to recognize.

NEN will recognize five Coolest Startups. NEN is launching TATA-NEN Startup Awards, the community-chosen awards for Indian start-ups. NEN will launch the awards in August, 2008. The shortlist will be declared in October, and winners declared end of November, will be profiled in December 2008. The Selection process includes nominations, shortlist, campaign and voting.

Inspired by the importance of CSR and to better understand principles of management, they will be taking to the streets of Mumbai on the August 1, loaded with toys to sell. Named MANDI, it will be a unique venture by student body in Mumbai, with sales being targeted as Rs. 250,000 in one day.

NITIE is expecting Mr. Shivkumar, MD of Nokia India and Ms. Yukta Mookhey, former Miss World to flag off this event.

The MDP (28 to 31 July 2008) was attended by 25 Principals from the states of Haryana, Rajasthan, Uttar Pradesh, and Uttarakhand.

Having completed his doctoral studies from The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania in 1989, Professor Chandra was the youngest Indian to be appointed as the Director of prestigious IIMs.

Overwhelming percentage of students at IIMs and other top-schools are candidates with some prior work experience.

In the fresh data shared by IIM-L with MBAUniverse.com, a whopping 89% of candidates admitted to the Post Graduate Programme in Management (PGP) have some prior work experience. Significantly, just a year ago, only 50% of the batch admitted to PGP 2007-2009 were candidates with work-experience.

This is a first of its kind tie-up in the Indian life insurance industry to offer a specialized management program focusing on the insurance industry. The MoU was signed between Mr. Judhajit Das, Chief Human Resources, ICICI Prudential Life Insurance Company and Prof. Saibal Chattyopadhyay, Dean, Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta today.

Mr Gurucharan Das, Former CEO, Procter & Gamble was the chief guest on the occasion and delivered an inspiring convocation address to the students.

After a traditional Convocation Procession, awards were presented to 24 students for their exceptional performance. 402 students of various Management Programmes such as the Post Graduate Diploma in Business Management (full-time and part-time) and Executive Programmes were conferred with certificates for successfully completing their degrees.