In this roundup:

• TIE meet held at MICA


• IIM Lucknows campaign starts off Earth Hour Week in Lucknow


• NITIE wins Lessons in Marketing Excellence


• IIM Indore students participate in Innovative Executive Leadership Certificate Program


• Convocation ceremonies held at IIM Lucknow and XIMB

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• IIM Calcutta to introduce 'Citi Woman Leader Award'


• ISBs initiative for Indian B School Faculty


• SP Jain's students selected for 40th St. Gallen Symposium


• Rajdeep Sardesai Addresses TAPMI Fraternity


• Finale of Unleash the CEO within you held at EASB, Pune

In a press release issued by Prometric, the testing agency has notified that in view of the growing concern of candidates regarding their evaluation and CAT scores, it has released the process and development of scoring of CAT 2009. The process in detail can be viewed online here. It is also available online and as a pdf on the CAT website: catiim.in

Soumitra Roy, Managing director, Prometric-India said,"We have reviewed the test scoring and we are completely confident that the results are appropriately distributed across the population, and that the test performed well within international standards. We are absolutely confident that the scores and rankings are accurate."

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• IIM Ahmedabad, Kozhikode students to help out shortlisted aspirants


• Jyotiraditya Scindia addresses students at IIM Indore


• Dr Farooq Abdullah delivers IILM's founder's day lecture


• B Cube 2010 held at NITIE


• Brahmakumari Shivani ji addresses students at IIM Indore

IIMs have finally come up with a specific time for the announcement of CAT 2009 results. According to IIM Admissions department, the results will be declared at around 3:00 PM today. It is in the testing phase right now and will be uploaded on the website catiim.in by 3:00 PM.

The third cluster of the new cohort system of placements 2010 at IIM Ahmedabad started in the evening of February 26. The cluster had companies in cohorts like Indian banking services, financial advisory services and credit rating agencies. According to the press release issued by the institute today, companies like ICRA, KPMG, Essar Group and Phillips offered the students, roles in finance, consulting and sales and marketing.

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• O P Jindal Global University launches Jindal Global B-school


• Apeejay Dwarka Campus organized Synergy 2010


• NMIMS, Mumbai wins Dainik Bhaskar B-School Leadership Awards

We all have been mildly aware of the fact that an increasing number of MBA graduates are choosing to work for the non-profit sector, either as entrepreneurs or employees of organizations driven more by the need for social good rather than commercial profit. We came across one such rather unique and refreshing instance of a venture that has been employing graduates from some of the better-known business schools as primary school teachers at government schools in low-income group areas. At Teach For India, watching MBA graduates apply their management skills to teach a class of third-graders can make you question stereotypical notions about products of business schools.

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• IMT-Ghaziabad wins Dainik Bhaskar b-school leadership awards


• MICA wins Dainik Bhaskar b-school leadership awards


• NITIE: Annual convocation ceremony held


• MDI and NIIT Imperia sign MoU to deliver Executive Management Programs

In this roundup:

• Leadership Development Program at IIM Indore for Senior IAS Officers


• Young Managers Think 'Green' at SDMIMD's Naissance'10


• Padmashri Deep Joshi visits IFMR, Chennai


• School of inspired leadership hosts inspired leadership conference 2010


• JIM Lucknow hosts HR Summit 2010