Vignana Jyothi Institute of Management (VJIM), a premier B-school, held Business Conclave 2015 at Hotel Radisson, Gachibowli. The Conclave, a student driven annual event, has become a popular and regular platform for professionals from reputed organizations and academic institutions to deliberate on contemporary business management themes and make suggestions.

IIM-A has received accreditation by EQUIS (European Quality Improvement System), the leading international accreditation body for International business schools, thus becoming the first Indian B-school to receive this honor.

Prof J K Mitra, Dean, Faculty of Management Studies, Delhi; Dr C S Venkata Ratnam, Director, IMI, Delhi; Mr Rajiv Khurana, CEO, The Personnel Lab; Mr Chetan Mahajan, Country Manager, Apollo Group; Ms Celine George, Vice President-HR, Technopak Advisors; Mr Murdhidhar S, Co-founder and COO, MeritTrac were some of the eminent speakers who shared their invaluable thoughts to the large number of students and academia present at the conference. The conference was supported by Confederation of Indian Industry (CII).

Thats the wisdom coming from Carlos Ghosn, President and CEO of Nissan and Renault as he spoke for CNNs third Boardroom Master Class, an interview forum filmed in front of 250 students at the prestigious London Business School. The programme will be aired on CNN on Saturday, June 14, 2008.

One of the most closely watched CEOs in the business world today, Ghosn talks frankly about the responsibility he holds and challenges he faces in running such prestigious global brands.

Arun Varma has two decades of senior general management and business development experience including last 11 years with NIIT. In his most recent roles as General Manager- Emerging Businesses and Head Marketing and Sales for NIIT Imperia.

At NIIT, he was involved in structuring and starting up two new businesses at NIIT: The Institute of Finance Banking and Insurance (IFBI) in partnership with ICICI Bank, and NIIT Imperia in alliance with IIM Ahmedabad, IIM Calcutta and IIM Indore.

The discussion on ICRIERs report Impact of Organised Retailing on the Unorganised Sector will be held on June 13, 2008 at New Delhi.

ICRIER has released much talked about report titled Impact of Organised Retailing on the Unorganised Sector which claims to be largest survey done in the retail sector to study the impact of unorganized retailers due to entry of large corporate in the retail business.

The programmes are: one year Post Graduate program in Management (PGPM) and two years Post Graduate Program in Asian Management (PGPAM). According to AGSB, AGSBs Post Graduate Programmes will be certified by AGSB, USA based Fisher School of Business (FCOB) and China based Tianjin Polytechnic University (TJPU).

Both of the programmes will commence from August 2008.

Sharing information with MBAUniverse.com, an IIM official said, The inauguration of the programme will be held on July 4th. We are admitting sixty students this year.

MBAUniverse.com has learnt that Prof Ashok Kumar Dutta, formerly associated with Calcutta based Indian Institute of Social Welfare and Business Management (IISWBM) has been appointed as the director of the RG-IIM Shillong.

Commenting on the M NOW magazines 4-steps roadmap for college students, which stresses on Employability, Mr Vijay Thadani, CEO, NIIT Ltd, said, I find the 4-steps roadmap developed by M NOW magazine as a very good framework for guiding Indian youth. Congratulations to M NOW.