Articles in TISS

Alumni wasted no time in establishing new connections over the dinner, while at the same time, strengthening the old ones. The evening also provided the present batch, the organizers, to pick up a tip or two from their seniors. Overall, alumni and students of TISS had a wonderful time at ALTIBA ’08 and went back […]

A total of ten students participated in the event conducted by Certified Assessors Mr Shankar Subramanium (TISS Alumnus) and Mr Bilol Bose (XLRI Alumnus) who now own Changeworks. They sought to identify the areas of weakness and strengths for each of the participants. This was achieved through three activities followed by objective feedback at the […]

He enumerated the steps involved in executing a deal and from there on to the completion of the merger. He explained how the process of due diligence before the merger requires extensive role of HR, and how it can significantly alter the course that the prospective deal would take, by influencing valuations through human capital […]

The inaugural ceremony of the SHRM chapter of TISS was held at TISS itself. Ms Nina Woodard, Executive Director, SHRM, pointed out that American industries didn’t yet understand how to do business in India and SHRM would be the platform that would bring about a transfer of knowledge, both to and from India and the […]

The trend this time leaned towards consulting again, with the crème de la crème of the industry visiting the campus. The KPMG, Ernst & Young, PriceWaterHouseCoopers, Hewitt Associates and Accentures of the world jostled with each for the small batch of 41. The fact that 16 students of the batch had already accepted Pre-Placement Offers […]

Mr. David began the session with the poem – The Piped Piper of Hamlin. He read the entire poem and invited discussion on the metaphors that the story, the characters and the community held for us in today’s life. As he questioned the audience over the roles and actions of the actors in the story, […]

Mr Rao and Mr Khandagle spend some time explaining the idea of (better called cornerstones) Learning Organization. They explained why some organizations due to lack of collective aspiration, internal core commitment and group vision fail to see the current reality and thus fade into oblivion due to changing times and cutting competition. On the other […]

The Guest Lecture was another major event in the list of numerous such academia-industry interactions organized by the HRM&LR; forum (the industry relation cell of Human Resource Management course at TISS). Mr Mariwala began with the times which saw the Marico stemming out his desire to make out of his own. With a core team […]

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 […]

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 […]