Mr Daljit Mirchandani spoke about addressing the needs of the proverbial abottom of the pyramida in India. Mr Aquil Busrai commented upon connecting business and HR. Mr Srinivasan Iyer, CEO of MPower Business Facilitators emphasised on restructuring and expressed hope for India and Indian industry even in the current gloomy picture that global business presents in sectors like infrastructure, manufacturing and services. Prof Allan Cohen, former Harvard professor and co-founder of IIM-A spoke about leadership. According to him, Western philosophy and principles of management are relevant to Indian business conditions.

On the second day of the Conference, Dr Santrupt Misra, Director, Aditya Birla Management Corporation Ltd. appealed to the budding managers to think beyond a job and a monthly pay cheque to take a leap into the exciting and challenging world of entrepreneurship. Prof TV Rao, Chairman, T V Rao Learning Systems quoted findings from a 360A HR study and said that there were no difference between star performers and non star performers. Miss Hema Ravichandar, with experience with companies like Micobosch and Infosys, while speaking at the Nirma International Conference on Management said aHR has moved from ante room to board room. CEOs across industries turn to HR to make strategies’.

The morning session of the last day saw a panel discussion between Dr Jay Desai, Prof Pradip Khandwalla, former director, IIM A and Dr Mallika Sarabhai, member, governing council of Darpana Academy. The subject of discussion was aCreativity and Entrepreneurshipa. Dr Ganesh Natarajan, Chairman a NASSCOM, Global CEO – Zensar and Dr C Gray, Professor, Open University, UK, were the honorable guests present at the valedictory session. Dr Ganesh Natarajan told the audience about the Indian IT story and urged everyone to leverage the power of thinking among markets and customers. Dr C Gray addressed the audience on enterprise culture and policies in current entrepreneurial environment.