With this, the institute has also made industrial visits compulsory, with an emphasis on socially-oriented projects. The classes for the two-year full time Post Graduate Program in Management (PGDM) 2007-09 batch of 120 students commenced on June 11.

To 340 budding managers of the Greater Noida-based Birla Institute of Management and Technology (BIMTECHs) 20th batch during its Business Academic Leadership Orientation program on June 14.

Dr Pritam Singh advised students to pursue excellence. You need to decide whether your journey is just to become a general manager or become a leader like Krishna and Gandhi by following excellence, he said.

Speaking to MBAUniverse.com, Sajja Praveen Chowdhary, a PGDBM (International Marketing) student of IMT, interning with in DTZ, says, Summer trainings are a good time to know the ins and outs of the corporate world. Hitesh Malhotra, whos pursuing PGDBM (International Business) at IMT, and interning at Dabur Pharma adds, My summer project is a practical application of what we studied in college.

The institute will also organize a three-week preparatory program before the commencement of the new session. Explaining the structure of the preparatory classes to MBAUniverse.com, Prof Ajay Pandey, Chairman, PGP program at IIM-A, said, These classes will be held for those students, who in the Admissions Committees perception, require strengthening of mathematical, computing and/or communications skills which are considered to be prerequisites for the program.

These initiatives are in the area of course curriculum redesign, introduction of new electives, examination and marking system, and international faculty. The new session for MBA students begins on July 2.

IIFT director K T Chacko told MBAUniverse.com: This year we have introduced new compulsory courses like Small Enterprise System, Indian Economy and new electives like Infrastructure Financing.

The books primarily talk about leadership, survival, strategy, success (and failures) and so on. Qualities that affect business as much as they affect life. The US News & World Report, in a recently published special report on Best Business books, spoke with 14 leaders -- from academics to entrepreneurs to corporate executives and asked them to pick five books of their choice, which they consider indispensable reading for managers.

Seven members of HBSs MBA Class of 2007 -- Sachin Jain, Anthony DAvella, Jos Antonio Morn, Jean-Philippe (JP) Odunlami, John Serafini, Heather Thompson, and Arturo Weiss Pick -- have been selected as winners of the Schools prestigious Deans Award. This annual award, established in 1997, recognizes the extraordinary non-academic achievements of graduating students.

The topic Careers in Management had aspirants and executives posed classic dilemmas Part-time vs full-time programme, relevance of Distance-learning programmes, One-year vs Two-year programmes, Sectoral MBA vs a General MBA and many more. Dr Venkata Ratnam, enjoying this Live interaction from IMI campus, addressed these questions with clarity, and wit. If you are interested in a management career, read this edited transcript to get a clearer vision of your future.

This will be inaddition to its two-year full-time Post Graduate Diploma in Business Management (PGDM) and part-time PGDM. The new academic session for the two-year full-time PGDM program is starting on 15th June 2007 while the PGDM (IBM) course and the part-time PGDM program will start from July.

The institute will also organize preparatory courses during the orientation program to enable students to acquire essential knowledge in different management areas, before the actual start of the regular courses.

The lawyer for some of the students who were accused of cheating says that Asian students were unfairly singled out for harsh punishment.