The summit was organized in New Delhi on May 16, 2008. Mr Sharda Prasad, Director General Employment & Training, Government of India was the Chief Guest at the occasion.

The first session of the summit was addressed by Mr Shivinder Mohan Singh, Director, Ranbaxy Laboratories Limited, Mr Amit Bhatia, Founder and CEO of Aspire (Human Capital Management Firm), Dr Peter Cappelli, George W Taylor Professor of Management, Wharton School of Pennsylvania, Mr Sharda Prasad and Col Harmit Singh Sethi, Head - Skills Development, CII.

This is what Dr Peter Cappelli, George W. Taylor Professor of Management at Wharton School of University of Pennsylvania observed while addressing Skills World 2008 seminar, organized by Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) and Aspire on May 16, 2008. There is a huge problem of skilled manpower in India. Indian corporate sector is not able to find adequate employable workforce to meet their requirements, said Dr Cappelli.

The speakers included Dr J J Irani, Director, Tata Sons, Ms Naina Lal Kidwai, CEO, HSBC India, Mr Manish Tripathi, Honorary Director, Dabbawallahs and Mr Raghunath Dondhiba Medge, President, Dabbawallahs. Speakers shared their thoughts on the topic of Leadership and the New World Economy.

Industry leaders like Nandan Nilekani and Kishore Biyani are sharing wise words on campuses. Convocations is also a good time to review the progress that leading B-schools are making.

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Mr Karthik KS, CEO of 24x7 Learning and Mr Chetan Mahajan, Country Manager, Apollo Group were the key speakers at the event.Mr Vivek Agarwal, CEO, Liqvid, was the chairperson at the event.

Speaking at the Retail Conference in New Delhi, Mr Vinod Sawhny, President & Chief Operating Officer, Bharti Retail Pvt Ltd said, India will emerge the sixth largest market by 2012 because of income and population growth and saving behaviour. He stressed that the sector will grow on the strength of the rising purchasing power of the consumer, which will mainly come from the services sector. Rising population of working women, rising services sector, growing middle-class and easier access to credit are some of the factors that will fuel the growth of retail industry in India.

SRCChas alsostrategic partnership with Nottingham Trent University (NTU), UKto offer this programme. The BBA programme is due to commence in mid-July, 2008. The course fees for the three-year programme is Rs 1.90 lakhs per year.

MDI has appointed a search committee to headhunt for the new director. Prof C V Baxi, who has long been associated with MDI, has been named as the acting Director in the interim period.

The reasons for this sudden change at the helm of affairs at this premier management institute could not be ascertained. MDI had made this announcement via a one-line press note stating Prof C V Baxi takes over as Acting Director of MDI w.e.f May 1 2008.

But its leaving no stones unturned in its bid to establish itself as a premium institute of management training. To foster strong ties and to facilitate networking, the first ever Great Lakes Alumni Meet - Delhi Chapter was held on May 9, in New Delhi.
The meet was attended by many Great Lakes alumni including two Assistant Vice Presidents of one of the biggest BPO, Consultants from Indias top 4 IT cos., Investment Bankers, Marketing & Product Managers from manufacturing industry & Sales People from IT.

Invention becomes innovation when a new technology leads to successful commercial concept, said Mr Adi Godrej, Chairman, Godrej Group while speaking on Innovation in Science & technology at the 2nd Symposium of University-Industry Council organized by Confederation of Indian Industry with IIT - Bombay in Mumbai on May 9, 2008.