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A top management expert and authority on "Bottom of the Pyramid", C K Prahalad has been a source of inspiration and education for management students around the world. His demise on April 17,2010 will leave a void in the management world. He held position of the Paul and Ruth McCracken Distinguished University Professor of Corporate Strategy at the Stephen M. Ross School of Business in the University of Michigan. We pray that - May his soul rest in peace.

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How many times do you wish to go back to the good old carefree days of your college going years??? It is the truth of life that once you leave those gates and enter the cut throat world,you have to work hard to achieve that, what you had dreamt of. In this milieu,often, you lose sight of those that were once your best buddies. However it isprecisely for this reason that we exist. We are here to ensure that the bond between friends always remains unbroken. With this in mind we present to you Reminiscence.

Since its inception in 1971, PUMBA boasts of 4000+ Alumni Base all over the world.
Recently it started new center in Ras-Al-Khiamah UAE.
PUMBA Chapter Meet is an Annual Alumni Meet held in 5 cities viz, Pune, Mumbai, Delhi, Hyderabad, Bangalore.

Who sells the largest number of cameras in India?

Your guess is likely to be Sony, Canon or Nikon. Answer is none of the above. The winner is Nokia whose main line of business in India is not cameras but cell phones.

Reason being cameras bundled with cellphones are outselling stand alone cameras. Now, what prevents the cellphone from replacing the camera outright? Nothing at all. One can only hope the Sonys and Canons are taking note.

Try this. Who is the biggest in music business in India? You think it is HMV Sa-Re-Ga-Ma? Sorry. The answer is Airtel. By selling caller tunes (that play for 30 seconds) Airtel makes more than what music companies make by selling music albums (that run for hours).

I just finished compiling a list of Videos & Blogs expalining "What is Social Media? and How to use it for Business?". So thought of sharing this list with fellow Pumbaites.
You can read the complete blog here: Social Media - Deciphered
What is Social Media? A question every marketeer is asking every other marketeer. Not many have the right answer.

And when you try to answer many marketeers (actually almost all) will give you the same old "Explain this to a monkey look!" Cause there is a feeling inbuilt in marketing from ages that all consumers are monkeys. So keep your campaign simple so that a Monkey would understand it.

Meet Shrikant Harne, a real life 'Idiot' whose patent-pending research on 'Oily Spot' disease in pomegranate farming may well end up preventing losses of Rs.1,300 crores ($325 million) for farmers in India.

One day I got a call from my father and I picked it up hoping that it would be just another enquiry call about how I was and what I am doing. Usually I am ready with the answers to these type of questions (different every time) but this time around the question was such that I had no clue what to say. No, he wasn’t asking me whether I would like get married. He told me that some association of industrialists are organizing a trade fair in the city and asked if it would be a good idea to set up a stall there to promote our business. Thinking being one of my favourite hobbies and having no immediate answer for the question, I decided to waste a few minutes of my father’s precious time and went into the ‘mull’ state.

Natural Path (Sahaj Marg) meditation is a simplified form of Raja Yoga meditation. Unique among Indian yogic practices, the Sahaj Marg system offers us

As a fact of matter there are more that 90 management institutes in the city of Pune. No matter what status they have in the country rankings or population wise, they cannot beat the enormity of Dhruv, the annual event of PUMBA. When you get 1600+ registrations from 100+ colleges all across the state, you know that people respect you. Such is the might of Dhurv, the biggest B-school event in the city and probably in the state.