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.

XIMB had the honour of becoming the third such B-school in India to be granted this prestigious recognition.

The South Asian Quality Assurance Systems or SAQS was evolved as a system to provide a quality assurance and accreditation framework for business and management schools in South Asia. It uses a set of criteria developed from business and management schools of high national and international standing.

The current inflationary spate which has resulted in double digit rates of inflation, opined Mr Kar, was growth driven. He observed that Indias average annual GDP growth rate of 9.3% over the past 13 quarters had far exceeded expectations. However, persistent supply constraints, primarily in the form of infrastructural bottlenecks, had led to overheating in some sectors which manifested itself in the form of an upward surge in prices. Also, an unprecedented inflow of foreign capital over the past few years further augmented demand and, thereby, exacerbated the situation.

Future of businesses lies in understanding and executing businesses models at the base-of-pyramid. Thats the message from noted marketing thinker Prof V. Kasturi Rangan, the Malcolm P. McNair Professor of Marketing at the Harvard Business School (HBS) who was the chairman of the Marketing Department (1998-2002), and is now the co-chairman of HBSs Social Enterprise Initiative. Prof Rangan was delivering a lecture titled Business models at the base-of-pyramid at New Delhi based Fostiima Business School on July 27.