Interestingly, the number of management institutes participating in May MAT is higher than the last MAT exam held on December 2, 2007. Every year, lakhs of students avail of this test. The test is conducted 4 times in a year in the months of February, May, September and December.

The three day event will have eminent speakers including researchers, policy makers and academicians. Some of the speakers at the conference are Dr D N Rao, All India Management Association, New Delhi; Dr Atul Sarma, Member of 13th Financial Commission; Prof Rajeev Kumra, Indian Institute of Management, Indore; Dr S Sriram, Executive Director, Great Lakes Institute of Management, Chennai and Dr B B Bhattacharya, Vice Chancellor, JNU, New Delhi.

The India Research Center was established by HBS in 2006 to provide formal support for their efforts India. The facility is part of a global network of centers located in Asia-Pacific, Europe, Japan, Latin America, and Californias Silicon Valley. Through these centers, HBS faculty work with industry leaders, government, and academia worldwide.

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The companies sponsoring the awards include GlaxoSmithKline Ltd, Piramal Healthcare Ltd, Johnson & Johnson Medical India Ltd, Alembic Ltd, Cadila Healthcare Ltd, Glenmark Pharmaceuticals Ltd, and Abbott Limited.

The GlaxoSmithKline Award for Academic Excellence will be given to the two best students in the 1st and 2nd year of MBA, Pharmaceuticals Management as a Gold Medal and a Silver Medal along with Merit Certificates for each student.

The convocation will be held on April 18, at institutes campus in Delhi. Industrialist and Chairman of the IMI Board of Governors Mr R.P. Goenka will also be present on the occasion.

Dr. C. S. Venkata Ratnam, Director, IMI, will deliver the Directors address on the occasion.

IIMs were expected to release their final list this week. IIMs have decided to go through the Judgement, and understand its implications for their admission process.

The delay in the admission process at IIMs will have a strong trickle-down impact on admissions at other private B-schools since IIMs are the first choice of majority of candidates.

This will launch the first of its kind conservation based certificate in India. The Green Thumb Certificate will recognize and acknowledge the conservation efforts of a company.
SP Jain students Rahul Ramchandani, Ravish Ralhen and Siddharth Natarajan have been working with AERF for more than a month to further the cause of conservation, increase awareness and most importantly, bring corporate participation.

Blackboard is a patented programme providing virtual learning environment. It provides access to library resources, journals, study materials, papers, lectures, and updates from ICRIs partner University in UK, Cranfield University, to its students in India.

To facilitate Virtual Learning Environment (VLE), all the students will be provided with a laptop. Also, all the campuses have been made Wi-Fi enabled with LCD panels in all classrooms.

At the two day national conference, thinkers from the world of academia and business presented their thoughts.

Prof K K Aggrawal, Vice Chancellor, Guru Govind Singh Indraprashtha University, Delhi; Prof Prem Vat, Vice Chancellor, UP Technical University, Lucknow; Prof Vijay V Mandke, Research Leader, Center for Information Integrity Research, Pune Mr S Vinod, Business Analyst, Cognizant, Chennai and Prof T K Sabharwal, Management Consultant, Ghaziabad were some of the key speakers at the conference.