According to the press release, a panel discussion will focus on questions like, aWould we in the near future see a drastic shift from the closed innovation paradigm to an open one? How would intellectual property rights and quality issues be resolved in such a model? Would open innovation actually...
Read MoreThe students collected clothes at the Delhi campus and handed them over to a volunteer from AID India, who will hand over the clothes to Goonj, an NGO which has been working with the flood victims who have been bearing the brunt of the Kosi River in Bihar. Also, a...
Read MoreLITMUS comprises of two events: 1) Sync Quest: Case study competition for B-school students.This year, Proctor & Gamble and the IT Management Batch (PGDITM) at NITIE are organizing SYNC-QUEST, a platform to put forth your ideas and come up with solutions for existing industry problems.First Prize: INR 25,000/- Second Prize:...
Read MoreYojna 2008 invites service innovations that have the potential to be successful business plans. The plan should fall under one of the following: a A brand new service that will satisfy currently unmet customer needs a An innovation in an existing service that provides a significantly higher service value proposition...
Read MoreThe event will be conducted in two parts. The first part involves a panel discussion on aManaging Inorganic Growtha and the second part will feature a moot parliament on aInorganic growth is the latest mantra for the short-cut to success.a The chief guest for the event is Dr Sanjay Paswan,...
Read MoreAs always, the event was judged by Prof Sydney Prabhu, alumnus of theJBIMS batch of 1967. The Strategym finals will take place in the thirdweek of October. The papers which will be presented at Strategym 2008Finals are as follows: 1. Diagnosing corporate sickness 2. Weather Derivatives 3. Social Security in...
Read MoreA total of 16 sessions on different aspects of managerial and leadership were organized by the experts with diverse background and experience. In order to impart practical based learning, group projects on different issues related to managerial and leadership skills were also done by the participants. Agriculture sector in India...
Read MoreKamlesh Gandhi, ex-Country Head of the Investment banking division of Religare, delivered the inaugural address covering topics including the NSG deal and the Singur deadlock. He observed that compared to the global IB scenario, the deal sizes in India are much smaller and hence felt there was a lot of...
Read MoreThe word KathaKali is derived from the Malayalam word Katha (story) and Kali (dance), which means that a story or play is enacted in the form of a dance. The name of the play enacted at XIMB was aLord Dakshayagaa and it was based on the Hindu mythological story of...
Read More1. Career Launcher, headquartered in New Delhi aThere will be dedicated computer laboratories at our coaching centers and on an average 15 hours of online preparation would be provided for every 100 hours of classes at the centers. Computer based learning will become an integral part of teaching methodology and...
Read MoreHow do you see placements at ISB getting affected this season with the economic scenario and accompanying doomsday prophecies?The way I see it, we have 400 odd students and the whole world is our market. Over the last 3 years, our focus has been international as well as within India....
Read MoreFour months after his convocation from IIM Calcutta, Ankur put together a team with Maninder Gulati, a senior from IIT Bombay who quit his job at ITC to join Lifeinlines.com. Nirjhareswar Bannerjee and Nilesh Pancholi, both into technology, also joined the team. Explaining in detail about Lifeinlines, Ankur said, aItas...
Read MoreDr Bala gave the welcome address in which he mentioned that aIndia is standing tall because of its HR practicesa. Dr Bala said that the times are changing very rapidly and talked about the changes in the next 3 to five years. Some of the changes he mentioned were aThe...
Read MoreThe event started with a satirical play titled aThe Wedding Storya. The play opens with a storyteller who is telling a story of a gorgeous bride and a handsome groom. Throughout the play, the couple rudely interrupts the storyteller and contradicts every detail of the wedding. The storyteller lashes out...
Read MoreThe session began with Mr Mariwala narrating the story of how Bombay Oil Industries Ltd. (BOIL) began as a small family owned unit engaged in producing and selling branded vegetable oil. Mr. Harsh joined BOIL after his graduation in 1971 and eventually took over its consumer products division in 1980....
Read MoreDr Harsh Vardhan Verma, Faculty of Marketing at FMS Delhi, in his keynote address talked at length about the crumbling boundaries and the compulsion that corporates essentially face to go global in order to stave off competition. He also spoke about the DNA of brands and how certain brands do...
Read MoreThe first batch of the programme was started last year and has justconcluded the placement process. The average salary offer was Rs 15lakhs and the highest offer was Rs 25 lakhs. The companies where thestudents have been placed include Procewaterhouse Cooper, CenturyPlywood, Cummins, Infosys, Jindal Steel, Reliance ADA, Satyam, Ranbaxy,Tata...
Read MoreFirst in line was the panel discussion on Innovation in Sales and Distribution. Participants included Mr Apoorv Varma, Corporate advisor, CEEZAY Trade Mart; Mr Rahul Goel, National Sales Head, Sony Ericsson and Mr Samik Dasgupta, VP, Yes Bank. The post lunch session began with the studentsa presentation contest on the...
Read MoreDr Vikas Amte, a man who calls himself the jailor of the prison called Anandwan, told the students about his father and family, their journey till date, the obstacles they faced, the initiatives they have undertaken and how successful they have been in their endeavours. He displayed various products made...
Read MoreIdeas that involve or leverage technology in any sphere of humanactivity – be it services, agriculture, manufacturing, construction oreducation stand a good possibility of qualifying. The competition isalso open to ventures that are in early stages of planning andexecution. Winners of the competition will be considered eligible forfunding amounting to...
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