Prof. Ishwar Dayal, former founder director of IIM Lucknow and keynote followed by Dr. Roger Stough from the School of Public Policy, George Mason University addressed the event. During the next few hours the dais saw the likes of Mr. John Walsh from Shinawatra University, Bangkok discussing ICICI Bank’s business policy. Ms. Sudha Rani Ravindran & Ms. Geeta S. Hegde from PSG College of Technology, Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu presented their views on ‘Dealing with the Dealers: The Finolex Cables Way’.
The HR vertical saw a number of cases being presented such as ‘Control vs. Flexibility – A Case Study of UNITAR’ by Mr. Kamal Kishore Jain from UNITAR, Malaysia (presently IIM, Indore). The cases on service operations too were numerous and were chaired by world renowned expert, Mr. Iijima Masaki from Aichi-Gakuin University, Nagoya, Japan and Mr. A.D. Kodwani. Entrepreneurship found a representation too, with one of the cases being discussed being ‘Cupola: Empowering Women Artisans’ by Ms. Tapati Bandopadhyay from ICFAI Business School Bangalore and Mr. Pradeep Kumar Garg.
The evening ended with Dr. Stough delivering a closing address but the event was far from over yet. It began on a fresh note on the 4 th morning. This time the focus of attention was corporate social responsibility and quite a few voices were raised in this context. Ms. Sonu Goyal & Mr. N. Linthoingambi from IMT Ghaziabad portrayed how Coca-Cola India was losing its fizz while other cases were also brought to the forefront.
This was followed by a valedictory session wherein all the delegates were felicitated. Dr. G.D.Sardana , Dean (Academics) of IMT Ghaziabad, then requested them to share their observations about the event and the words of Mr. Ari Happonen from Lapeenranta University of Technology, Finland summed up everybody’s feelings. “It was a most enjoyable experience and an enlightening one at the same time. It was truly great to know [you] all, and I hope we can meet more often.”