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 a new 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.

While most other B-schools invited corporate honchos to inspire fresh batch of MBA students, Delhi Universitys Faculty of Management Studies (FMS) got none other than the former President of India and a respected thought-leader Dr APJ Abdul Kalam to ignite young minds.

Dr Kalam, while inaugurating the academic session 2008-10, delivered a 90 minute lecture for the FMS students. His address titled The Nation and the Dynamics of Leadership focused on leadership development, importance of integrity and character-building, and Indias challenges and opportunities in next decade.

Participants are getting ready for the international study visit early July where they visit facilities of Japan Honda Saitama Factory, Kao logistics center, Hino Motors, Sharp, Yao factory, Patlite, Kasai Recycling Systems, Toyota, Panasonic House of History, Panasonic HRD College, and Toyota commemorative museum of industry and technology.

IIM-C has also informed MBAUniverse.com that the campus interview for the final placement of the 1st batch of PGPEX-VLM students started with a bang by visits of internationally reputed companies having their operations in India.

The program, which will witness the use of innovative and multi-modal pedagogy, has the objective of catalysing a transformation within each participant.

The event was organized by Centre for Innovation Incubation and Entrepreneurship (CIIE), an incubator at IIMA since 2001. On the occasion, IIM-A alumni who have built successful businesses like Sanjeev Bikchandani, Founder, Naukri.com; Deep Kalra, Founder, Makemytrip.com; Shantanu Prakash, Founder, Educomp spoke on entrepreneurship journey and challenges.

The event was inaugurated by Prof S K Barua, Director IIM, Ahmedabad on June 29, 2008 at the Ravi J Matthai Centre for Education Innovation (RJMCEI) Auditorium at IIMA.

Mid-size companies can now aspire to become the Matsushitas or Sonys of tomorrow in a three year time horizon by signing up to this unique initiative to create Visionary SMEs. This kind of Accelerated growth for Mid-Size companies programmes is an outcome of a strategic partnership between CII, IITK, IITM, IIMC, EDI and NMCC on the Indian side, and Prof. Shoji Shiba and JICA from the Japan side.

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 a new 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.

According to the information shared by MDI with MBAUniverse.com, MDIs 15th Post Graduate Programme in Management (PGPM) was launched on Friday with fanfare along with two other key programs, Post Graduate Programme in Human Resource Management (PGP-HR) and Post Graduate Programme in International Management (PGP-IM).

Mr Arun Maira, Chairman, Boston Consulting Group, Mr Aadesh Goyal, CMD of People Strong Services and Mr. Aquil Busrai, Executive Director (HR), IBM India addressed and inspired the students of the new batch.

Mr Chetan Tolias responsibilities as Director, TMTC will involve building the legacy of forty years and take TMTC to greater heights in Organisational learning, applied research, and group leadership programmes, says TMTC.
As Director, TMTC, Mr Chetan Tolia will report to Mr Satish Pradhan, Executive Vice-President, Group Human Resources.