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.

Thulasiraj Ravilla, Executive Director - Lions Aravind Institute of Community Ophthalmology, Aravind Eye Care System is an IIM-C alumnus who belongs to 8th batch of IIM-C. As an IIM-C graduate he takes pride in having joined the hospital as its first administrator in 1985 and is growing with the organization.

This Gates award recognizes an organization that has made a major and lasting contribution to the field of global health.

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.

The institute will offer 4 months programs for the graduates and undergraduates who want to make career in IT industry. The first offering will be in Gurgaon from the month of September this year. There will be 50 intakes for this year.
The announcement was made during a press meet held on June 11 in New Delhi by Mr Promod Bhasin, Vice Chairman, NASSCOM and President & CEO, Genpact, Mr Rajendra S Panwar, Chairman, NIIT and Mr Vijay K Thadani, CEO, NIIT.

Four groups of students participated in this intensive two-week global program. One group travelled to Greater China (Taipei, Hong Kong, Shenzhen, and Shanghai), one to East Asia (Tokyo, Beijing, Shanghai); one to Europe (Frankfurt, Madrid, London), and one to India (Bangalore, Delhi, and Mumbai).

V B Hemant of Faculty of Management Studies, Delhi, was adjudged the winner of the B-school summer project competition held as part of Bhive, an innovative event organized by IT and BPO major Cognizant on May 30 for its B-school summer interns.

According to information shared by Cognizant with MBAUniverse.com,Hemanths project on Strategy for identifying functional areas in Logisticsto be offered as SaaS won the top honor from a total of 50 entries, eight of which made it to the final round.