top-notch leaders representing various businesses and the different sections of the community in Hyderabad converged at the Indian School of Business (ISB) campus to join the felicitation ceremony initiated by TiE Hyderabad to congratulate.

The report was release on February 21. The final version of the report follows the August 2007 release of the Draft for Comments, which resulted in feedback from nearly 1,000 business deans, directors, and professors.

The AACSB International Board of Directors acceptance of the report indicates that the Task Force has completed its charge. Over time, the Board intends to prioritize and address all of the recommendations with the guidance of an appointed champion and an implementation task force representative of AACSB membership and other stakeholders.

As per the agreement, Microsoft Learning will provide rights of its licensed educational content to NIIT, for assisting IT professionals, software developers, businesses, and others, to gain skills on Microsoft technologies and products. With the integration of Microsoft Authorized Curriculum into its flagship career program-GNIIT, NIIT will enable career aspirants and IT professionals to earn Microsoft Certification.

The conclave was kicked off by the workshops on February 19. Workshops include topics like Understanding and Implementing Consumer Behaviour in a Retail Environment; Effective People Management for Retail; Developing & Implementing a Competitive Sourcing Strategy and others.

Inspired by his thought, MDI has laid the foundation stone of the S.P Kapur Centre for Innovation and Entrepreneurship on February 19. The foundation stone of the center was laid by Mr. Azim Premji, Chairman, WIPRO.
According to MDI, The idea of creation of the center was germinated when Dr Kalam told the MDI faculty that today the institutes is producing only job seekers the time has come when premier institutes of the country should also think and act for producing job givers.

India can generate more and more entrepreneurs by encouraging innovation and creative ideas, said Mr Premji. Defining innovation and creativity Mr Premji said, Creativity is all about thinking, while innovation is about doing and implementing.

Both education system and organizations need to play their role towards this move. According to Mr Premji, We need to encourage innovation right from primary education.

Saluting the spirit of entrepreneurship, Indias leading management portal MBAUniverse.com will host entrepreneurship expert on its Ask MBAUniverse.com panel. Ms Laura Parkin, executive director of National Entrepreneurship Network (NEN) & Wadhwani Foundation joins our online panel to answer MBAUniverse.com readers queries on Entrepreneurship.

has announced admissions for its two year Post Graduate Programme in Management - Business Entrepreneurship. According to EDI, using the experience of running successfully its ten batches of 1-year post graduate diploma in Business Entrepreneurship and Management, the course would now be offered as a two year PGDM-BE after the approval of All India Council of Technical Education.

Team 3G from NITIE, Mumbai was declared winner of the Business Idea contest out of the twelve short listed teams who presented their business plans in front of the jury comprising of Mr. Sanjeev Malhotra, Associate Vice President, Marcomm, Tata Teleservices Ltd. and Mr. Shekhar Agarwal, Vice President, Enterprise Business Group, Alcatel Lucient (India and SAARC).

These offers being made across a variety of sectors including consulting, commercial banking, private equity, wholesale banking, IT Management, General Management, Real Estate and Hospitality. Average annual package offered was Rs 14.15 Lakh with a highest domestic offer of Rs 21 Lakh.