In all 57 teams participated in the competition and 9 best teams were selected to make a presentation to the judges.

The team from IMT Ghaziabad consisting of Sambit Pattnaik and Rahul Sharma did well to stand second. SP Jains team comprising of Rajat Chowdhary, Nishant Pradhan and Ganesh Seshadri was adjudged third.
The wining team of IIM-B won Rs 50,000, while the runners up team won Rs. 30,000. Second runners team won Rs 15,000.

Sample another one: In 1999-00 3 HBS graduates with Investment Banking experience in the US, founded an India focused PE Fund, which at present has over $ 1 billion under management.Name the fund. Whats the answer? If you could get these right, you had a chance to have a go at Finnesse, the Private Equity competition at IIM-Bs VISTA. (For answers, read on). Indias leading management portal and official Media sponsor of IIM-B Vista -- MBAUniverse.com is on IIM-B campus to bring alive this congregation of young minds for readers all across the country.

Career Forum is one of the leading MBA test-prep companies. While explaining with an illustration from CAT 2006, the article focuses on solving Critical Reasoning questions.
Ms Sujata Khanna, Chairperson and Director at Career Forum, holds an MBA degree and has had a stint in the corporate world. Ms Khanna started coaching with just seven students for MBA entrance exams in 1988.Now, Career Forum incorporated in 1995, has 15,000 students enrolled this year and has strategic alliance with Bennett Coleman & Co.

Mr Kumar had passed out from XLRI in the year 1981. He addressed the gathering on how MindTree had transformed itself from just an idea to a $150 Million dollar public company and the challenges faced by them during its journey.

IIM-B Vista 07 (http://www.iimb-vista.com) will see a host of eminent speakers including Arnab Goswami, Editor-in-chief, Times Now; Jehangir S. Pocha, Editor, BusinessWorld; Surendra Jain, MD, Sequoia Capital India; Shankar Narayanan, MD, Carlyle PE India and Sri Rajan, Partner, Bain & Co. The Theme of Vista 07 is Rediscover, Redefine, Refocus, ReBusiness. MBAUniverse.com is the one of the media sponsors of IIM-B Vista 07.

The coming week at JBIMS would be packed with activity related to summer placements for the junior batch. Institute expects that this years summer stipend to touch an average of Rs 100,000 in comparison to last years highest stipend of Rs 60,000.

This year so far over a hundred companies have already registered for the placement process for the batch of 120 management graduates. In comparison, last year, only 60 companies participated in summer placements at JBIMS.

Based in Lucknow, the institute will aim at bridging the gap between academic teaching and industry requirements. The Flagship programme, aimed at graduates in 15 Tier II cities, is a six-month comprehensive part-time course encompassing Business communication, Managerial effectiveness, Basic IT and other Specialized Domain knowledge in areas of Insurance, Inventory Management, Accounting, Payables etc. On successful completion of the course, the students will receive certificates endorsed by K J Somaiya Business School.

This years conference will feature over 400 business plans, six new tracks, 50 VCs and business leaders like Dr. Anji Reddy, Chairman, Dr. Reddys labs, N Prasad, Mylan Labs, Verne Harnish, Gazelles Inc, Dr. C. Rangarajan, Chairman, Twelfth Finance Commission and former Governor, Government of Andhra Pradesh and Reserve Bank of India, Raghu Pillai, President and Chief Executive, Retail Operations and Strategy, Reliance Stores and Tom Campbell, Dean, Haas School of Business, UC Berkley and Dr. Jayaprakash Narayan.

According to well known author and management guru Dr Jagdish Sheth, Most Indian airlines will make money on non-airline services. He offers the example of Ryan Airways: Ryan Airways of UK is offering $20 return trip to USA from London. They can do it as they have a captive audience for 8-10 hours to sell their products and services, which is more lucrative compared to air ticket.

Published by Oxford University Press, the book sees Retailing as part of a value-delivery process of a company, and also addresses Retailing as an emerging business in itself. The book draws on over a decade of research by Prof Sinha and his co-author. Prof Sinha, who is the Chairperson of Center of Retailing at IIM-A, has written several important cases on the subject. Some of these cases like FoodWorld and Planet Health form part of the book.