Vinay Rai, an engineering graduate from MIT, is a businessman turned academician turned philanthropist and philosopher. He has been a part of Indian industry for thirty years, becoming at one time among the top two hundred wealthiest people in the world. William L. Simon is the author or coauthor of more than twenty books, including international bestsellers on subjects ranging from the art of composer hacking, to the building of an interplanetary spacecraft, to iCon, a New York Times bestselling biography of Steve Jobs.

The Parliamentarians were addressing the session on Indias Demographics: Challenges & Opportunities at the CII National Conference and Annual Session 2008 on Building People: Building India being held on 29 and 30 April 2008 at New Delhi.

The programme is launchedwith support from leading travel company Thomas Cook. Agreement was signed between Thomas Cook (India) Ltd. and NMIMS Centre of Learning on April 24, 2008.

Participants have an opportunity to meet face to face and interact with leading Venture Capitalists and Business Leaders for finding capital and strike business alliance. The competition will be held on November 5-7, 2008.
According to organizers, over the last 3 years, the event has attracted over 1000 business plans and over 50 Venture Capitalists. TiE-ISB Connect has also held several rounds of mentoring sessions helping many entrepreneurs to refine their strategies and business approaches.

Addressing a marketing forum in New Delhi, he stated, India has terrific opportunity of jumping from 19th to 22nd century question is how to do it and how to do it right.

Underhill was speaking at Technopaks 2nd Indian Consumer Mindscapes 2008: Powering Business through Foresight conference in the capital on April 29, 2008.As per Underhill, organised retail provides better product at a better price. And there is no reason why organised retail cannot coexist with mom n pops stores. It does not kill family businesses. It gives them opportunity to reinvent themselves.

Today with 58 Local Management Associations, it has linkages with over 3000 institutions and over 30,000 individual professionals. Its key activities include Distance Management Education, Management Development Programmes & National Events, and Testing Services.

Today, the 24x7 Learning is entrenched into employability training, executive education, implementation of corporate universities infrastructure and several other domains.
Mr Karthik K S, Founder and CEO of 24x7 Learning, in an interview with MBAUniverse.com, talks about developments in eLearning, employability, training industry, and also about the companys future plans.
Mr Karthik, a trained engineer, also holds a Masters in Business Management.

We are living in a very exciting era. With economic boom, comes great opportunities. There wasnt a better time to be born and working in India! Young managers have so many new opportunities that they can avail, said Mr K V Kamath, MD and CEO, ICICI Bank while delivering the Convocation address at New Delhi based International Management Institute (IMI) on April 18.

Mr K V Kamath, Managing Director & Chief Executive Officer of ICICI Bank was the chief guest on the occasion. Mr R P Goenka, Chairman, IMI awarded the diplomas to over 200 graduating students of its four management programmestwo year full time Post Graduate Diploma in Management (PGDM), three year part time PGDM, one year Post Graduate Diploma in Human Resource Management (PGDMHR) and one year Post Graduate Diploma in International Business (PGDM-IB).

The book is co-authored with Prof M S Krishnan. The launch took place in New Delhi on 17 April 2008.Prof Prahalads previous book, The Fortune at the Bottom of the Pyramid transformed Indian industrys view of the poor as consumers.

The book was released by Mr. Kapil Sibal, Minister of Science and Technology and Earth Sciences, at a session organised by the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) and the Aspen Institute India.