As part of this agreement, Dr. Arup Varma, Indo-U.S. Professor of Management Studies at Loyola, and an XLRI alumnus of the 1984 PM& IR batch, is spending a term at XLRI, teaching a course in International Human Resource Management.

The marking pattern put a premium on accuracy. Close to 89,000 management hopefuls took the exam across the country.
First, a bit about the overall construct of the paper. XAT 08 had 120 questions in total, split into three sections: Data Interpretation & Quantitative Ability (DI/ QA), Verbal Ability & Logical Reasoning (VA/ LR) and Analytical Reasoning & Decision Making (AR/ DM). While DI/VA had 44 questions, other two sections had 38 questions each. In addition, there was an essay topic that aspirants had to attempt.

To us at MBAUniverse.com, books mean a lot no other medium is as mobile, easy-to-handle, has such great reference value, and packs so many perspectives. Of course, you have to pick the right books! Here, we present a selection of best international books, published in 2007, where authors have explored topics like financial markets, management studies and social phenomenon.

Make sure you know about these titles, because these books are on the reading list of CEOs and business tycoons world over.

Day one saw plenty of action with contest, workshops and even some theatrics at the end of the say. MBAUniverse.com presents a run down on Day 1.

Consulting Knights

Noticing this trend, Consultancy Development Centre (CDC) and Delhi University, Faculty of Management Studies (FMS) is organizing its tenth Consultancy Congress with focus on the theme Outsourcing: Role of Consultants. This annul event of CDC will be held on January 15-16, 2008 in Delhi.

The Congress would have thoughts from eminent speakers including Mr. Thomas Kuruvilla, MD (Middle East), Arthur D. Little; Mr. Mahbub Haque, President TCDPAP & President, Bangladesh Association of Consulting Engineers and Padma Bhushan Prof. P.V. Indiresan, Former Director, IIT Chennai.

Indias leading management portal MBAUniverse.com will hold a live expert chat on January 6 and 7 to answer all your XAT 08 queries. Experts from leading MBA test prep institutes including Mumbai based IMS Learning Resources Ltd, Delhi based Career Launcher, and Indore based PT Education will participate in MBAUniverse.com chat.

Find out what MBA test prep expert from IMS Learning Mr Gejo Srinivasan, MBA Product Head, IMS Learning and expert from Career Launcher had to say to aspirants on MBAUniverse.com chat on January 06.
Edited excerpts from Chat with IMS Learning expert
(January 6, 2008)

Renu: Hello sir, I am Renu from Delhi. How did you find the overall XAT 08 paper?

According to the official information shared by XLRI with MBAUniverse, XAT 08 has received 89,000 filled application forms this year. This is 19 per cent higher than last years number of applicants.

Says XLRI, Last year we have received 75,000 application forms where 72,000 students took the exam.

When asked how many XAT 08 application forms were sold this year, XLRI informs that this year total 90,000 application forms were sold out of which 89,000 filled application forms were received by XLRI.
The submissions of the forms were closed on November 30, 2007.

Snyder will present his speech on January 9, 2008, at XLRI School of Business and Human Resources in Jamshedpur. Snyder will deliver a speech titled, Triple Bottom Line: Pathway to a 21st Century Business Paradigm. Triple-bottom-line business accountability, which is also gaining global recognition as sustainability reporting, is the practice of expanding traditional business reporting to take into account environmental and social performance in addition to financial results.

While ruling out any sea-change in this years paper, Career Launcher recommends proper question selection and accuracy.

Says Career Launcher, What we have noticed over the past two years is that, in XAT its only the packaging that changes; the paper inherently remains the same. This years paper, too, should not be an exception.