You were a successful software engineer in the USA with Oracle. What made you return to India and start a Wine company? My father is a first-generation entrepreneur, and I too felt the need to start something of my own. There is a special, incomparable pride one takes in a...
Read MoreThe meet starts with a discussion forum that aims to provide a platform for the alumni to share their ideas with the faculty and current students at 5:00 p.m. in the campus itself. Following this is an informal get-together and dinner party at Saffron Spice, Hiranandani Gardens, Powaifrom 7:00 p.m....
Read MoreFrom its modest beginning in 1993 to being counted in one of the best B-Schools in India today, GIM has come a long way in the 14 years of its existence. All this has been possible because of the dedication of its faculty, students, administration and not to forget, the...
Read MoreThis initiative is the brainchild of Dr. Bala. V. Balachandran, Founder Director and Honorary Dean of Great Lakes who in his life was deeply influenced by three important women – his birth Mother, Mother Teresa and Mata Amritanandamayi. He started SWIM last year to pay homage to womanhood and give...
Read MoreWhat makes TAPMI different from other Indian B-schools? TAPMI’s management programme is known for its academic credentials, rigor and high student involvement. The delivery of the programme is considered to be regular and systematic. One can see this through the good number of full time faculty members (25) TAPMI has,...
Read MoreProminent institutes accepting the SNAP score for their postgraduate programmes include Symbiosis Institute of Business Management (SIBM), SymbiosisCentre for Management and Human Resource Development (SCMHRD), Symbiosis Institute of International Business (SIIB) and many more. The registration is on at www.snaptest.org. The two-hour test will be held at 2 pm on...
Read MoreChristened Rajiv Gandhi IIM – Shillong, the institute published its notification announcing admission to the Post Graduate Programme (PGP) in Management in the national media on Sunday. Click here for the notification ‘Candidates appearing for CAT 2007 will be automatically considered for admission to RGIIM Shillong’, reads the notification.
Read MoreMr. 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...
Read MoreAlso 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...
Read MoreMr 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...
Read MoreThroughout 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...
Read MoreIn 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...
Read MoreMr. 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;...
Read MoreAn 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...
Read MoreCastalia ’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...
Read MoreGrowing 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...
Read MoreThis 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...
Read MoreIntroducing the topic, Dean (Academics), Prof. W S Williams pointed out that though this operational innovation issue had come to the forefront only two decade ago, but this concept was there from the beginning of the 20th century. He emphasized how organizations are using this as a tool to stay...
Read MoreThe memorandum includes an exchange not only of students, but also of faculty. Faculty of both schools would go to the other campus and teach various courses. Also in the pipeline is an arrangement whereby AB Freeman faculty will conduct courses as per XLRI’s Management Development Program for working executives....
Read MoreSpeaking on the occasion, M Rammohan Rao, Dean, ISB said, “The ISB lays great emphasis on Thought Leadership, which is the key to effective leadership. To become a thought leader, one must be able to first master the inner thought process. I believe that Inner Management can refine the thought...
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