Great Lakes Institute of Management concluded International Research Conference in Chennai on December 23 under the Yale-Great Lakes Center for Management Research. Also, Great Lakes Institute of Management and the North American Society for Marketing Education in India (NASMEI) concluded an international marketing conference on the overall theme of Creating, Communicating, and Delivering Value in growing markets on December 21-22, 2007.

The official announcement on CAT website (www.catiim.in) says that results of CAT 2017 will be available on CAT website on January 8, 2018 (In the second week of January). CAT exam was held on November 26, 2017. The IIMs that have short listed the candidate for group discussion and interviews will also be displayed automatically, informs announcement on CAT website.

Day 2 saw plenty of action with management games on strategy, operations, marketing and more. MBAUniverse.com, theOfficial Management Portal of IIM C Intaglio,presents a run down on Day 2.
Olympus (Quest for the Best Leader) Final Round

Olympus, the flagship event of Intaglio, was the longest drawn out event of Intaglio, spanning across the 3 days of Intaglio 4-6 January 2008. It was an interesting battlefield of leadership where the six candidates (one from each IIM) battled it out for the highest honour, and handsome prize money of Rs. 150,000.

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?