Around 237 students graduated from the University from batch 2004-07. Mr T S Vijayan, Chairman, Life Insurance Corporation of India was the Chief Guest for this occasion.

The entire batch has been placed on first day itself. Over a 100 companies registered for Summer Placements 2007 to select students from the batch size of 120 students.

This years highest domestic stipend at JBIMS was Rs. 100,000 and the average domestic stipend touched Rs. 47,000 (Rs 23,500 per month). Comparing this years summer placements trends, JBIMS said, There is whopping 67% rise over last years highest domestic stipend and the average domestic stipend also touched an all time high.

As part of Prayaag07,Symposium called Samanvay will be held on 27th October 2007, and will be followed by an action packed day of management events at JBIMS.Samanvay will host industry stalwarts and eminent business personalities like Mr. J.J.Irani, Director, Tata Sons; Mr Keval Handa, Managing Director, Pfizer India; Mr Sanjay Nayar, CEO, CitiBank India to share their views on Indian Global Take over.

The fest came to a close with Harsha Bhogle hosting Bizarre. During the day, many events held their final rounds.

The flagship event Numero Uno - Hunt for the next CEO came to a thrilling end after three grueling and testing days of competitions. The final was a test of presence of mind of the 5 students as they were grilled on various issues by a panel of judges. They were evaluated based on their answers by both the panel and the audience. The final winner was Eva Gasprowicz, an international participant at IIM-B from Poland.

Speaking to MBAUniverse.com, a euphoric Sarvy Sport team comprising of Ratnakar V, Rahul Yadav and Saurabh Agarwal from VGSOM said, We are very excited to win this contest. It brings our business idea to reality. Explaining the idea, they said, We will be organizing various sports events including a T20 type multi-city tournament for schools.

during the Social Entrepreneurship Fair recently held at the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad. The entry from XLRI was made in the community health category and addressed the need of a healthy India.

This business plan proposed the idea of distribution of packaged health food delivered to corporates in cities like Mumbai, Delhi, Bangalore, etc. Impressed by its innovativeness and feasibility the judges awarded the trio from XLRI the first prize, which included a cash award of Rs. 25000.

The paper presentations across verticals six verticals: Finance, Marketing, Telecommunications, Strategy, Operations, Economics and Social Sciences. At the time of publishing this news, results across all verticals accept telecom was announced. Indian School of Business (ISB) Hyderabad dominated the list of winners with top prizes in Economics and Operations verticals and runners up in Strategy. Winners & Runners up were:

In what IIM-B folks call L-cluster, many CAT hopefuls (or Junta as IIMs like to call them!) have gathered here to listen from the horses mouth people who have got the maximum 100 percentiles in CAT 2006, and made it to IIMs. MBAUniverse.com, the media sponsor of IIM-B Vista 07, sat through the CAT Workshop and later spoke to these 100 percentilers.

Udayan Sarkar and Adithya MR, both 100 percentilers who are pursuing their MBA at IIM-B, started off by saying that there is no one formula for cracking CAT. Candidates should assess their strengths and weaknesses and have a go.

Thats the message from T. V. Mohandas Pai, Member of the Board and Head Administration, Human Resources and Education & Research at Infosys. Mr Pai was delivering the keynote address at IIM-Bs management conclave Vista 07.

Said Mr Pai, Mahatma Gandhi, Nelson Mandela and Abraham Lincon prove that principles are timeless and are vital for aspiring leaders to follow. The teachings and life of Gandhi is a very important lesson for businesses today. He led by example.

Mr Pais presentation was on the theme Re-changing through leadership.

Student participation increase significantly with new registrations throughout the day. The highlight of the day was Media Conclave which brought togahter eminent media professionals like Arnab Goswami of Times Now, Jehangir Pocha of Business World, Priya Ramani of Mint, Suhel Seth of Counselage India to discuss the increasing significance of media in business.