The institute invited eminent speakers like Mr Mahesh Murthy, founder of Pinstorm and Passion Fund; Mr. Kedar Apte, brand manager, Hindustan Unilever Ltd (HUL); and Mr. Anup Maheshwari, senior fund manager, DSP Merrill Lynch.

The program, titled Building a Global Enterprise in India, will be taught by senior HBS faculty including Prof Krishna G. Palepu and Prof Tarun Khanna in Hyderabad. The program is targetedat senior executives from India and the region. The course fee for this six day program is pegged at Rs 180,000.

This program was designed to address emerging challenges in the Indian business landscape as companies seek to manage and sustain growth in India, said Professor David Yoffie, Senior Associate Dean and Chair of Harvard Business School Executive Education programs.

IIM-L and IIM-I are stacked at no 5 and no 6 slots. While this may sound predictable, the surprise comes from the strong showing from Mumbai based NMIMS and Hyderabad based ICFAI Business School. NMIMS has moved up the rankings rapidly to get 10th slot. It was pegged at no 17 in last survey. ICFAI Business School moved up by 4 ranks to be pegged at no 9 this year.

The survey is conducted by market research agency AC Nielsen. MBAUniverse.com compared the rankings released this year (Business Today, September 23, 2007) with last years rankings (Business Today, July 16, 2006). Analysis of these rankings over two years offers some interesting patterns.

While the top ranking B-schools, especially IIMs, seem quite settled in their positions (5 IIMs occupy top 6 positions), there is a lot of churn lower down the order. (See table below)

There are four new entrants in the Ranking 2007:

Mr Srinivasan offered his Leadership mantras at the talk. Leadership builds culture in an organization and culture builds next generation leaders. This ensures that there are quality leaders in pipeline, which is the concept of sustainable leadership, said Mr Srinivasan.

The campaign was organized for ayurvedic soap Medimix & fertilizers of Paradeep Phosphates Limited (PPL) at Khurda and Cuttack districts of the Orissa. The institute plans to launch similar promotional campaigns for Hindustan Unilever Limited, Britannia Industries Limited, Lotte India Corporations Limited and ICICI Lombard in the next few weeks.

They organized an auction recently which saw students big for interesting items like coffee dates, gyaan sessions by the toppers, and even bike lessons. Students were able to collect Rs 21,000 in the auction. This auctions was organized by newly formed social service cell Vihaan at FMS.

Not only have the older siblings IIM-A, IIM-B, IIM-C and IIM-L bagged the coveted top four rankings, younger IIMs too have moved up.

For the first time, the survey has classified B-Schools into four categories: Government/ PSU B-Schools, Private B-Schools, University Departments and Sectoral B-Schools. The Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad (IIM-A); XLRI Jamshedpur; Delhi Universitys Faculty of Management Studies (FMS); and the Indian Institute of Rural Management (IRMA) have topped respective league tables. The survey notes that while IIMs are still on top, many aggressive private B-schools are fast catching up.

On the occasion, various HR leaders would be speaking on HR ChallengesThe Changing Spectrum.