Mr. Valecha is currently the Country Head of Alcatel-TCL Communication Technology Holdings Ltd., a Chinese Telecommunication Company, and was visiting FMS on August 20. Mr Valecha brought with himself earlier experiences from his stints as COO of Haier Telecom, Group Head of LG Mobile and also at Samsung, HCL and Philips. He spoke about work environment and ethics at companies which are often influenced by the socio-cultural phenomena and practices in their parent countries like Korea (LG and Samsung) and Europe (Philips and Nokia).

Admission into ESSEC B-school will then allow Indian students to apply for French government scholarship programme.

The Eiffel Excellence Programme, funded by the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs offers grants to outstanding International students that French higher education institutions have identified as especially deserving of a place on their courses. The Eiffel programme provides students with a monthly allowance of EURO 1031 for year 2007, and covers various additional expenses including travel, health insurance and cultural activities.

The Summit will be held on August 30 and 31 in Delhi. The Summit will host eminent speakers from IBM Daksh, ITC Hotels, Dell BPO HCL Comnet, Indian Airlines, Genpact, Max New York Life Insurance, North Delhi Power Limited and Asian Paints.

The program, one of the first initiatives by an Indian B-school in the highly competitive North American market, is being held in India between 20 and 27 August and in the US between 17 and 24 September. The current batch of participants includes CEOs, Directors, and Chiefs of Functional Areas representing large organizations.

These are the findings of the latest international B-school ranking conducted by Forbes magazine, which released its fifth bi-annual survey on August 17, 2007. The survey results are based on return on investments (ROI) of graduating students, and show a marked preference for the one-year MBA program.

Addressing this issue, Mr. R Gopalakrishnan, Executive Director, Tata Sons and author of The case of the Bonsai Manager provided his insights on The Managers Dilemma: Analysis Vs Intuition at FICCI on August 21. It is felt that the more you think about the subject the better is the decision, but reality is that it is not quite true. Intuition is what you dont know you know. Logic and analysis are important to reduce the leadership mistakes, but they have their limitations where intuition plays a great role.

Speakers on the occasion included Sree Kumar Krishnan, Head, F&A Horizontal, Cognizant; Narayanan Srinivasan, Head-Wholesale Banking Operations, Standard Chartered; Vikram Mahidhar, Head- R&D, Deloitte India Operations; Venkata Reddy, VP-Supply Chain, PepsiCo; and Pinaki Banerjee, Managing Director, Pilkington, etc.

IIBF is a professional body of banks and financial institutions in India which has launched this programme in association with Manipal Universal Learning.
According to IIBF, The course will give knowledge inputs to the candidates and expose them to the operational processes and modern banking environment so that they can man the counters at the bank from the first day of their joining the bank.

This one-year diploma programme will commence from January 2008. RAI will provide scholarships and internships to the students while IGNOU will develop the course curriculum, conduct the exam and provide diploma.
Speaking to MBAUniverse.com Mr N V Narsimham, Director, School of Management Studies of IGNOU said, Retail sector is growing at faster rate but we lack trained manpower for this sector. This new course will help the industry by producing retail-ready professionals.

Speculation is a waste, prepare in depth
CAT 07 is going to be a two and a half hour (150 minutes) test. Will the number of questions increase? Will there be more sections? Will the difficulty level remain the same? What is to be expected -- and what not? For the serious student, speculation is a waste of time. CAT will definitely focus on testing the core aptitude areas of verbal ability, reading comprehension, quantitative ability, reasoning and data interpretation. The best strategy would be to prepare in-depth and maximize your potential to score.