Mr. Valecha is currently the Country Head of Alcatel-TCL Communication Technology Holdings Ltd., a Chinese Telecommunication Company and brought onto the dais with himself invaluable experience from his stints as COO of Haier Telecom, Group Head of LG Mobile and also a healthy work experience in product launch earlier at Samsung, HCL and Philips. He […]

Also the Vice President of the Internet and Mobile Association of India (IAMAI), Mr. Bindra spoke extensively on the need of traditional advertisers to focus on the digital media; giving examples of projects that Microsoft themselves had been involved with around the world. As part of a campaign across institutes and organizations all over the […]

Mr Talekar, the wordsmith Dabbawala that he is, gave an overview of his organization and how it is what it is today. “Hum chota mota kaam karte hain, bas apni roti kamaate hain(We do small work to earn our bread and butter). Started in 1890, our success story is all about being disciplined, ensuring participation […]

Throughout the course of his session he stressed on the fact that the HR function has to assume the role of a business partner and to achieve that goal it has to be in a position to measure its deliverables quantitatively. The audience was enlightened on the various perspectives to measure HR success i.e. the […]

In association with a network of academics, thought leaders and stakeholders, would submit a whitepaper on the proposed institute by this year-end. This would include proposals on the institute’s organisational structure, governance, curriculum among others. According to a government release, the institute would require Rs 211.00 crore of investment. The government has allocated Rs 47 […]

Mr. Banerjee, an alumnus of IIT-KGP and IIM-Calcutta worked with Berger Paints and Marico before joining Ceat in 2005. Teeing off with a brief discussion of the key concepts of sales and distribution, Mr. Banerjee stressed on the fact that Customer Centricity is in fact the cornerstone of any S&D; model. The primary objective of […]

An alumnus of the prestigious IIT Roorkee with a Masters degree in Seismology, Mr. Vishvanathan has a luminous 24 year career in the IT Industry spanning across big companies like IBM and is currently heading the IT and Innovation Division at Bharti Airtel. Mr. Vishvanathan spoke about the requirement of defining the project – how […]

Castalia ’07 invited the top business personalities from the leading companies to examine the implications of the most relevant HR issue affecting industries, that is, “attrition”. It acted as the platform for people from all industry sectors to discuss the causes and possible solutions on “How to retain and engage talent” in their companies. Participants […]

Growing disgruntlement with IT jobs could be one of the greatest factors for people to use MBA as a bridge towards more interesting job profiles, given that the IT industry contributes a large quantum to the Common Admission Test (CAT) every year. We asked our users in the PaGaLGuY Online Poll-of-the-Month what they expected most […]

This guest lecture was organized with the intention of giving the future HR managers a taste of distributing financial products. Akhilesh began with establishing the differences in distribution of financial products vis-à-vis the other sectors. He listed down various financial products such as Provident Fund, Mutual Fund, ULIP, Insurance etc and how the distribution channel […]