The team faced tough competition, especially from Prashanth Sampath and Sandeep Mathew Olickal from IIT Mumbai, who earned the highest points at the Bourse Game. The closed-door segment required the teams to work in a simulated environment and deal with the forex market and money market instruments. Conducted by Mr Ashish Gupta a Structuring, Citi, […]

Prof Sriram, Executive Director, Great Lakes Institute of Management, Chennai started off by welcoming one and all to the International Marketing Conference. He pointed out that Great Lakes wanted to position itself as a marketing school and ‘customer centricity’ was its theme. Dr Bala Balachandran, Honorary Dean and Founder, Great Lakes Institute of Management, Chennai […]

Himanshu Aggarwal, event coordinator for ‘Call for Arms’ said, aThe major source of information for aspirants aiming to join an MBA are B-school rankings provided by various sources, but more often than not these rankings donat show the true picture. Call for Arms is designed to test the aptitude, skill and application of students from […]

aThe economic slowdown will affect MBA applications for foreign business schools as only candidates with work-experience apply to such programs. If pink slips are handed out then it is natural for people with work-experience to strive to do an MBA at B-schools abroad. In India, the scenario is not the same with fresh graduates constituting […]

As part of the initiative, Dr Prahalad will be travelling to Goa in the second week of January 2009 to speak at an event hosted by GIM on the theme aGlobal Restructuring of Industries. Is there an India Advantage?a. GIM has also invited Mr Anoop Madhok, Professor at the Schulich School of Business, York University […]

The Box allows villagers to make a call by simply pressing a button which will connect them to an operator at Open Mind. He can inquire about anything related to farming, trade, market, society, travelling, current affairs etc. and the operator will provide a suitable answer for the same by searching for relevant information over […]

KK Pai, Chairman TAPMI, Dr Ramdas Pai, Chancellor Manipal University, Dr HS Ballal, Pro Chancellor, Manipal University, Dr Raj Warrier, Vice Chancellor, Manipal University, Dr H Shantaram, Trustee, TAPMI, Ashok Pai, Chairman, Manipal Cooperative Bank, Sathish Pai, MD and Gautam Pai, CEO, Manipal Press, H V Kamath, Secretary, Dr TMA Pai Foundation, MV Kamath, renowned […]

The Jury consisted of the Chief Economist of the Aditya Birla Group (ABG), the Editor of Business Today (BT), Publishing Director Business Today and CEO and Founder of Naukri.com. The competition got off to a start with the first semi final between IIFT- Delhi and IIM-Bangalore. The topic was aCut Prices, not Production in a […]

Mr Gururaj Deshpande, Chairman, Sycamore Networks asked the graduates of today to be part of the resurrection process of the economic engine. Entrepreneurship, he said is the most challenging occupation that one can pursue but the rewards are incomparable. Mr GRK Reddy, MD, MARG and Chairman, CII, Chennai Zone emphasized on the potential of the […]

Inaugural Address was given by Deepak Jain, Dean, Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University. Talking about the Indian education system, he said aIndian parents concentrate on giving their children the best education. He cites this as the differentiating factor that will keep India aheada. Dr Seenu Srinivasan, Professor of Marketing, Stanford University gave the keynote […]