to offer a specialized course in retail management titled Postgraduate Program in Retail Management (PGPRM).It has announced Common Admission Retail Test (CART), to be held for gaining entry into these programmes, on January 27, 2008. The exam will be conducted on a national basis for admission for the batch of 2008.

The aspirants have lots of confusions in their mind on GD & PI rounds. MBAUniverse.com Aspirant Zone offers a timely series on how to make the best use of days ahead. In this series, we brings article from Delhi based Career Launcher(CL), Indias one of the leading MBA test prep institute to present their strategies for GD & PI. In this article, Career Launcher offers their tips.

And there has been a rise in the number of pre placement offers with more than 13% of the batch getting Pre Placement offers (PPOs) and Pre Placement Interview offers. According to IMI, the formal placement season starts in January 2008. IMI students who will graduate in the year 2008 have starts getting Pre placement offers (PPOs) and Pre Placement Interview Offers .

Says IMI, Currently, the batch as got 24 offers from leading MNCs.

Now it is the turn of Group Discussion and Personal Interview (GD & PI). GD & PI is only few weeks away. Focusing on the next stage for CAT takers, MBAUniverse.com Aspirant Zone presents a series of articles offering guidance for aspirants. We invited experts from leading test prep institutes to share their advice with MBAUniverse.com for mastering GD & PI round.

The magazine titled Verve was released by eminent author and journalist Mrs. Nandita Puri.

With this objective, FICCI organized a two-day technical conference titled Winning with Intelligent Supply Chain in New Delhi on Dec 17-18. Key speakers at the conference included Mr. Rajan Bharti Mittal, Managing Director, Bharti Enterprises; Mr. Sanjeev Asthana, President & Chief Executive, Agri Business, Reliance Retail; Mr. Vikram Bakshi, Managing Director, McDonald, India and several others.

On the occasion, he highlighted the scientific approach to face the management challenges.

Dr. Goldratt recalled the era when Management Science was still a soft science and not a hard science. That was the time when he decided to approach management challenges with a scientific approach like any other research based hard science. The problems in Operations management have to be systematically approached so that the unpredictability of outputs can be contained, he said.

The article offers tips for getting success in GD & PI round and has important topics including what the moderators look for during a GD; topics for preparation for GD; what the MBA interview assesses and tips on answering the questions asked at the interview.

According to Mr Naneria, During GD, some of the things that moderator looks in the candidates are: command over spoken English; communication, interpersonal, problem-solving and conceptualising skills; knowledge and convincing ability.

The BW survey, published in issue dated December 24 - 2007, puts Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad at the top of the league tables. Apart from IIM-A, there are three other IIMs that make it to the Top 10 table.

Central Institute of Business Management Research & Development (CIBMRD) is organizing its Central India Management Conclave 08 to highlight the Winning Strategies for SME sector. The conclave will be held on January 24 & 25 08 at Nagpur. It will be focused on the theme Winning Strategies for Small & Medium Enterprises.