The contesthas drawn a good response with 175 entries coming from 38 B-schools. Empezar team has selected 33 teams from the executive summaries of Business Plans to move to the second round where teams will have to submit details business plans.

The final round of Empezar will be held on November 24 where selected teams will make final presentations to a panel of bankers, VC and industry experts. The winning business plan will receive a prize of Rs 40,000 while the runners up will get a prize of Rs 25,000.

The total participants in summer placements were 193 students, including participants of the Fellow Program in Management (FPM).

IIM-K informed MBAUniverse.com that summer placements saw participation from 66 top recruiters from India and abroad. There were 22 new recruiting partners at IIM-K this year. Some of the new recruiters include Google, Freudenberg, Accenture Business Consulting, Citibank, Bank of America, KPMG, Coca Cola, PepsiCo and Hewitt Associates, amongst others.

According to the MoU, faculty and academicians from both institutions will partner on joint research projects and publish their research in internationally reputed academic journals.

The collaboration was jointly signed by Professor M Rammohan Rao, Dean ISB and Professor M S Ananth, Director, IIT Madras, at a ceremony in IIT.

IMS Ghaziabad organized PGDM (AICTE Approved, NBA Accredited and Equiv. to MBA by AIU) Induction Programme during July 20-22, 2016 on the occasion of commencement of its 27th batch. The Induction programme revolved around the theme: Corporate Expectations from Young Managers. The main objective of this programme is to sensitize the young budding managers with the pragmatic experiences of the corporate world and its expectations from them in the challenging and changing Global scenario.

Selected students of IFBI would join HDFC Bank as Trainees immediately upon completion of the institutes 6-month Post-Graduate Diploma in Banking Operations (PGDBO) program.
Under the terms of the partnership, HDFC Bank would make an offer of employment to identified students of IFBI at the time of their admission to the PGDBO program. Such students would complete the Internship component of their PGDBO program at HDFC Bank, and get employed, post successful completion of the requirements. The tie-up was announced last month.

The one day workshop on Wealth Management: The Emerging Scenario was organized at Hotel Hyatt Regency, Bhikaiji Cama Place, New Delhi on November 3, 2007.

Sources close to the development have confirmed to MBAUniverse.com that IIM-A will be headed by Dr S K Barua, who is currently a faculty at IIM-A and member of the IIM-A governing board. Dr Pankaj Chandra, also a faculty at IIM-A, will head to Bangalore to be the director of IIM-B. Said a source at IIM-A, Yes it is true that IIM-A will be headed by Dr S K Barua and IIM-B will be headed by Dr Pankaj Chandra. However, we are yet to get official documents from Ministry of HRD.

UPES holds 14th convocation ceremony to confer degrees to its students on June 18, 2016. The ceremony was held at Universitys Bidholi, Dehradun campus and was presided over by Honourable Dr. K K Paul, Governor, Uttarakhand, who also delivered the convocation address. Shri KD Tripathi, Secretary, Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas was the Chief Guest of the event.

Introducing the topic- Grow & merge or merge & grow, Fr E Abraham, Director of Xavier Institute of Management, Bhubaneswar said, The recent spurt in the M & A deals by the business leaders has led to increased activities on this front. This topic is extremely relevant in the current scenario and for the Xpressions, which is a celebration of XIMBs spirit of excellence, competition and desire to strive for perfection in everything we do.

Ironically whilst, India is an IT giant, there is still a great reluctance towards online education in this country; there is tendency to look down upon distance education as the second best. Noticing this trend and offering solutions, eminent speakers from the field of online education discussed the issue of Leveraging Technology in Higher Education: Distance Education & e-Learning; Quality Assurance Mechanisms during the Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce & Industry (FICCI) Higher Education Summit 2007 on November 2.