Internships concluded in the third week of November with a host of blue-chip companies like Coke, Britannia, ITC, Citibank, UBS, Microsoft and Bharti visiting the campus this year.

The companies where students interned were from diverse industries. FMCG companies like Britannia, Dabur, Coke, Henkel, Cavin Kare, ITC, GlaxoSmithkline etc. gave interesting marketing and logistics profiles, while manufacturing companies like TVS Motors, L&T, Tata Steel, Volvo India, Voltas etc. offered projects in the field of supply chain management.

Mr. Pelle is the Vice President of Perfetti Van Melle Group Worldwide, COO of the Business Unit - Russia and South Asia and Chairman of the companys Indian Operations.

Perfetti is one of the worlds largest confectionary groups with sales of close to $ 1.5 billion and its products are sold in more than 130 countries. Perfetti has a strong presence in India and its one of the fastest growing FMCG brands. Center fresh, Alpenlibe, Happy Dent and Chlormint are some of the popular brands.

The speakers inlude Prof C K Prahalad, Industry Minister Kamal Nath, TiE founder Kanwal Rekhi, Finance Minister P Chidambaram and several entrepreneurs talk about the importance of entrepreneurship in Indias growth story. The three day event, to be held in New Delhi on Dec 11-13, will hold series of addresses, panel discussions, workshops and mentoring sessions on themes covering investment trends, entrepreneurship development and building better ecosystem for entrepreneurship to thrive in India.

Demand for education, of course, is good. No doubt there are many levels of need for education as India wrestles with everything from leveraging its growing influence in the global marketplace to its front-lines skills crunch, both by-products of its extended economic success.
So how could the exploding demand for management education and training in India be a threat to established MBA programs? The MBA, long held to be the most sophisticated form of management educationthe place where future captains of industry are incubatedis vulnerable to devaluation from a variety of angles.

This programme is aimed at creating skilled resources for the high growth sectors of Retail, Operations and Financial Services. The courses will be offered through Zensar Center for Business Innovation (ZCBI) in Pune. The course will commence from next year.

The One Year Post Graduate Programme (PGP) in Business Transformation aims at combining technology and architecture skills with business analysis concepts in chosen industries. Zensar Technologies is the founder and key partner to this Centre for Business Innovation.

Lets what leading institutes like Mumbai based IMS Learning, Hyderabad based Triumphant Institute of Management Education (TIME), Delhi based Career Launcher and Pune based Career Forum have to say.

Says NMIMS, The Department of Human Resources and Behavioural Sciences is launching a Post Graduate Diploma in Human Resources (PGDHR) for working executives interested in the area of Human Resources. This forum will enable executives and managers from various industries to share their perspectives and enhance their knowledge on contemporary HR issues and challenges.

On the occasion eminent leaders including Mr Montek Singh Ahluwalia, Mr Arun Maira, Dr. Kiran Karnik, former President of NASSCOM; Mr Vijay Thadani, CEO, NIIT Technologies and many more corporate leaders from telecom and banking sector offered their insights on the issue of inclusive growth of India. Indias leading management portal MBAUniverse.com as the official online partner of FMS annual convention 2007 brings pictures from the convention(Click Hereto see the pictures).

But what is the formula to this success? Mr Harit Nagpal, Marketing and New Business Director, Vodafone Essar believes there is a mantra to the brands that succeed in Indian marketplace, which he shared at FMS annual convention, held in New Delhi on December 2.

Said Mr Nagpal, I believe there are four steps to building a great brand in India. First is Presence, then Relevance, then Performance and then Bonding. Brands have to go through these four steps sequentially.

Chairman, Boston Consulting Group, while addressing FMS students and corporate executives at FMS annual convention on December 2.

Encouraged by a full house support to his questions, Mr Maira said, Future of Indian business is in sustainable growth that creates a new paradigm. Young management students should lead this new quest.

To explain his thrust on profitable yet sustainable and inclusive growth, Mr Maira gave several examples. One such example was of Gurgaon based Kegg Farms.