Top companies are beginning to understand that sustaining peak performance requires a firm-wide commitment to developing leaders that is tightly aligned to organizational objectives. Dr Goldsmith was speaking at a session organized by Confederation of Indian Industry in New Delhi.

Senior Scientist and Strategist Dr. Jayant Sathaye, who contributed to the 2007 Nobel Prize-winning reports of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), spoke on the topic Understanding Climate Change to Limit Atmospheric Temperature Increase and Impact on Utilities at Amrita School of Business, Coimbatore on June 11, 2016.

The fest has seen the participants from over 400 colleges. There were 750 participants from outside the city and plus over 2000 from the city itself.

While University of Pennsylvanias Wharton Business School has topped the table, its the Hyderabad based Indian School of Business (ISB) that has made India proud with its inclusion in global top 20 ranking. ISB is ranked at # 20, ahead of more fancied B-schools like Kellogg School of management (#24) and UCLA Anderson (#25).

FT 08 rankings putLondon Business School at #2, Columbia Business School at #3, Stanford University GSB at # 4 and Harvard Business School at # 5.

The Vice-Chancellor of the University of Oxford, Dr John Hood and Mr Ajit Gulabchand, Chairman of Lavasa Corporation signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) on the sidelines of World Economic Forum in Davos. The MOU was signed for the establishment of the Oxford University India Business Centre (OUIBC).

Mr Vilasrao Deshmukh, Chief Minister of Maharashtra (India) was the Chief Guest for the signing ceremony. Mr Kamal Nath, Union Minister Commerce and Industry, Government of India was the Guest of Honour at the occasion.

CET is conducted for the students looking for admission to any Management Institute affiliated to Universities in Maharashtra.

The exam will be conducted at 28 cities include Mumbai, Delhi, Bangalore, Ahmedabad, Pune, Bhubaneshwar, Chennai, Kolkata and others.

Indias leading management portal MBAUniverse.com has officially tied-up with UK based Thinkers 50, to present this global ranking. Our readers will remember the first article in this series was on none other than CK Prahalad who was ranked as the # 1 Business Guru on this ranking. Second article explored Bill Gates business wisdom. What makes Michael Porter the Strategy Guru? Michael E. Porter is the Bishop William Laurence University Professor at the Harvard Business School. He has an almost living legend status in the world of management thinking.

The courses have been launched to address the Retail industrys consistent demand for skilled professionals. According to a recent study, the Retail market is set to double in 3 years to $30 billion; with organised retail occupying 30% of the retail market size in the next 10 years. With 2 million jobs expected to be created by 2010, the industry needs a workforce that is market-ready, skilled and groomed.

Mr. Seshan shall be teaching a course on Leadership at Great Lakes called Leadership, Influence and Managing power from February.

Close on the heels of IIM-A, Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta announced that their PGPEX participants are being lapped up by blue chip companies. Levis, PWC and Accenture were among the companies that made 60 offers, including overseas assignments at $200,000 a year, to the first batch of IIM Calcuttas PGPEX programme. Six students accepted international offers that averaged $121,000, while domestic assignments, fetching as high as INR 43 Lakh, averaged INR 20 Lakh. The PGPEX programme completed its placement process in December 2007.