CAT is the gateway to getting admission to IIMs and other leading B-schools. The announcement was made on the IIMs official CAT website www.catiim.in on Saturday evening, July 12. MBAUniverse.com is the first to publish this exclusive report.

The CAT Bulletins, which contains application form can be purchased from July 14, 2008 till August 8, 2008 from select Axis bank branches, and in special cases from IIMs directly by August 13, 2008. The last date of submission of CAT forms is September 5.

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Infrastructure expert and Indian Railways Chair Professor at Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad (IIM-A) Prof G Raghuram is part of the panel.

The Committee, to be headed by Cabinet Secretary, would have Secretaries of the Ministries of Finance, Civil Aviation, Revenue, Petroleum and Natural Gas and the Planning Commission, IDFC Chairman Deepak Parekh and Dr Raghuram.

The summit will be held on July 18-19, 2008 in New Delhi with the theme of Death of CSR and Birth of Responsible Business. Leading management thinker Dr CK Prahlad will be the Keynote Speaker at the summit. Mr Arun Maira, Chairman, Boston Consulting Group is the Summit Director.

Some of the other high profile speakers at the summit include Ms Anu Aga, Chairperson, Thermax; Mr Kishore Chaukar, Managing Director, Tata Industries; Mr Anand Nayak, Executive VP, Corporate HR ITC Ltd and Prof PD Jose, Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore.

ICRI HEALTH will offer 2 year full time MBA in Healthcare Management (HCM). Apart from the full time programmes, ICRI Health will also offer part-time programmes for working professionals in healthcare sector.

The MBA (HCM) will commence from August 2008 and will be offered in ICRIs six campuses located in Delhi, Mumbai, Ahmedabad, Kochi, Hyderabad and Bangalore. In total, ICRI Health is expecting 250 to 300 candidates to enrol for the programme. The fees for two year full time programme will be Rs 3 lakh. Graduates from science background are eligible for two year MBA (HCM).

The interaction was organized for the participants of International Programme in Management for Executives (IPMX). As part of the series, Dr. Yashovardhan Verma, Director - HR, LG Electronics India addressed the participants. Dr. Verma provided key insights and ring side view of the challenges and drivers of the senior management in a global organization.

The theme of the evening was Innovate or Die Strategies in a rapidly changing environment.

He succeeds Prof. Ahindra Chakrabarti. Prof Puri, in his long academic career, has been associated with many B-schools including Institute of Management Technology (IMT) and FORE School of Management.

Established in 1995, Fortune Institute of International Business has been accredited by National Board of Accreditation (NBA). Post Graduate Diploma in Management (International Business), awarded by FIIB, is recognised by AICTE as equivalent to MBA.

This channel will be targeted at B-school students and young executives who wish to take the road less traveled.

To kick-off this initiative, MBAUniverse.com tied-up with National Entrepreneurship Network (NEN), a not-for-profit initiative of the Wadhwani Foundation working to inspire, educate and support the younger generation of entrepreneurs. MBAUniverse.com will partner experts and institutions to present tools, guides, faqs and success-stories on Entrepreneurship.

If India has become the center of global attention, thanks to its market power, passionate entreprenures and bright managers have payed a big role. And Indian Institute of Managements have been for decades the mecca for producing these globally admired managers, and now entreprenures too.

Lets begin this edutour by remembering the genesis of the Indian Institutes of Management.