The workshop was an eye-opener to the most significant aspect of a successful entrepreneur, “Ideas”. Mr. Murthy stimulated student participation by inviting their viewpoints on various facts related to entrepreneurship. He enthralled the audience by emphasizing on facts that contradicted conventional thinking. Through many live examples he clearly highlighted that an idea which can generate […]

Also accompanying him was Mr. Ashutosh Bhatt, part of the IBM HR Team and Programme Management, University Recruitment for India and South Asia region. They spoke extensively about the power of Entertainment and its role in increasing the ‘Brand Experience’ for its customers. The talk mainly centred around IBM’s strategy to innovatively use new media […]

One sees several examples where Mentors at CAT coaching institutes, who are assigned to students for delivering personalised guidance, in fact end up misguiding them for one of several reasons. Be it the large institutes like TIME, Career Forum, IMS or Professional Tutorials, aspirants have large number of complaints about Mentors playing truant in their […]

The conclave comprised two panel discussions focusing on the contemporary human resource challenge of a Talent Shortage which has besieged many industries in recent times. It featured towering industry experts and faculty members who discussed the new paradigms in Human Resources in the industry sectors of Manufacturing and Services. The panelists were Mr. P.K Sinha, […]

He opined that today the major challenge faced by the industry is how to use its supply chain strategy as a competitive advantage rather than just a bottom line enhancer tool. Thus the focus of the session was “Building Competitive Advantage through lean and agile supply chain”. Mr Sukumar initiated with clarifying the basic concepts […]

How has SIBM evolved over the years? We have been around since 1978 and when we started we were affiliated to the Pune University. Everything was controlled by the University back then and we had to abide by the rules and regulations of the Government of Maharashtra. There was no freedom to design courses as […]

The workshop was conducted by Mr.Vinod Kothari, an internationally acclaimed trainer and expert on Securitization, Asset-based finance, Credit derivatives, and author of many books on the same. He guided the students through the basis of Securitization with simple illustrations. He explained in detail how the companies satisfy their liquidity needs by creating a Special Purpose […]

The issue chosen for the evening was “Financial Inclusion: The Why and How in the Indian context”. The relevance of the topic cannot be understated in today’s context where the banking industry despite making significant improvements in all the areas relating to financial viability, profitability and competitiveness has exuded concerns that it has not been […]

Mr. Gopalan, a qualified Chartered Accountant holds an MBA from The Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University, The Netherlands. Prior to joining the IT industry, he has worked with Procter and Gamble in Europe. At Cognizant, he heads the 200 strong Domain Consulting team in Retail and Hospitality and Manufacturing and Logistics verticals. The IT […]

The lecture was a part of the ongoing Leadership Lecture Series organized by Centre for Social and Organizational Leadership (C SOL), an initiative by Mr. P Vijay Kumar (Assistant Professor & Faculty -TISS) in association with the HRM&LR; forum. Karen began acknowledging that though leadership management and technical skills are necessary in any turn of […]