The students - Supreet Kaur, Anand Trivedi and Anand Mohan Sharma, part of the team called Midas of Management Development Institute (MDI) - won the contest entitled Taste the Success - Become Indras Advisors.
As part of the competition, PepsiCo India invited business strategies for unlocking the latent demand for beverages in India from the leading management schools. Winners

Kaur, Trivedi and Sharma would be flown to PepsiCo headquarters in New York in April, where they will present and discuss their case solution with the chairman and CEO of PepsiCo Inc Indira Nooyi.

A plethora of offers were received in varied profiles such as Finance, Consultancy, Operations, Marketing, Human Resources among many others. According to XLRI, in total, over a 100 offers were made during the lateral season to 90 eligible lateral candidates for senior level management roles. The average salary package offered was Rs. 15 lacs. The highest salary offered too, reached the Rupees 22 lacs mark this season.

The Education for Employment (EfE) initiative has been implemented in 12 Engineering Colleges in Andhra Pradesh, Rajasthan, Punjab, Chandigarh and Maharashtra. The EfE initiative will provide Industry-oriented supplemental education to pre-graduate students in all streams of engineering.

The chair was set up by TVS Capital Funds, which is part of the TVS group. Initially, Rs 1.2 crore has been earmarked by TVS Capital Funds, founded by Mr Gopal Srinivasan. According to Mr Srinivasan, The funds are primarily for research and targeted at role model entrepreneurs.According to the information shared by Great lakes, The entrepreneurship chair is to drive focused research on formulation of strategies. It will help, enable and further strengthen the ecosystem for entrepreneurship in India.

Thirteen MBA students,who had qualified in the first round of Essay Presentation Competitionheld earlier on Feb 18, had come to take part in the final round. These students were from Jaipuria Institute of Management, I.M.S. Noida, Birla Institute of Management Technology, & Accurate Insitute of Management Technology,Greater Noida, and each of them made their individual presentations.

The event was organized to celebrate Management Day, by Noida Management Association, Noida, an affiliated body under All India Management Association.

The Institute will commence its academic operations by admitting students from the academic year 2008-09.

To begin with, the institute will offer an MBA course in Petroleum Management and two undergraduate courses namely B. Tech. in Petroleum Production & Reservoir and B. Tech. in Petroleum Refining.

The occasion was presided over by Mr Rahul Gandhi, Member of Parliament, Mr Murli Deora, Minister of Petroleum and Natural Gas and Mr Dinsha Patel, Minister of State for Petroleum and Natural Gas were also present with senior officers of the Ministry and oil PSUs.

On the occasion, AIMA presented four prestigious awards including Dr Ram Taneja Award for Best Article in Indian Management; the JRD Tata Corporate Leadership Award; J S Juneja Award for Creativity & Innovation for Small & Medium Enterprises; Public Service Excellence Award and JRD Tata Corporate Leadership Award. Ms Roopa Purushothaman, Chief Economist & Strategist, Future Group, M/s Indian Herbs Research & Supply Co. Ltd, Dr Sam Pitroda and Mr Sunil Bharti Mittal received these awards respectively.

Talking about the objective of this workshop, NMIMS says, With over 1500 B-schools in the country, each school tries to create strong competitive differences to attract the best of talents in students, faculty and corporate. Accreditation is one such benchmarking measure that has helped several schools in competing on a level playing field.

This years conference will be held on March 22, 2008 in Philadelphia, US. The conference will feature as keynote speakers former President of India, Dr. APJ Abdul Kalam, and prominent venture capitalist Mr. Vinod Dham.

The organisations involved are drawn from the public sector, conglomerates, new businesses, and a range of industrial sectors including heavy industry, IT, professional services and automotive. The organisations are located in Bangalore, Chennai, Delhi, Hyderabad, Kolkata and Mumbai.Dr Lalit Johri, who visited companies in Delhi and Kolkata last week to conduct some of the interviews with executives, commented: We are greatly looking forward to meeting senior executives from a wide range of organisations in India.