The theme of this yearas corporate sessions was ‘Thriving through uncertainty, leveraging Human Capital’. The event was flagged off by a key note address from Capt Gopinath of Air Deccan. On the occasion he also inaugurated HRM-LRas quarterly publication THINK. The inauguration was followed by the ‘Leadership roundtable’, where executives debated on a ‘Perceptions and Expectations from the HR Function’. The speakers included Mr Anand Kripalu (MD, Cadbury India); Dr Pawan Goenka (President – Automotive Sector, Mahindra & Mahindra Ltd); Mr Rakesh Pandey (CEO Kaya Skin Clinic Ltd); Mr S Sivakumar (Chief Executive Agri Business Division, ITC); Mr Stephen McElfresh (Co-Founder & Managing Partner, IG Partners); Ms Vedika Bhandarkar (MD & Head – Investment Banking J P Morgan India).

The session was followed by a corporate workshop by Mr. Sanjay Jha, Executive Director, Dale Carnegie Training, India on the theme of the Corporate sessions.

Then, the event ‘HR roundtable’ was flagged off. The speakers of the event were: Mr Ashfaq Ahad (Head HR, Syntel KPO); Mr S Mohan (Director, Human Resources, BPCL); Mr SK Dutt (Head, Group HR & Admin, ABG Group); Mr V Viziya Saradhi (Director, Human Resources, HPCL); Mr Larry OaDonnel (President HR, JP Morgan Financial Services, India); Mr G Ravindran (MD SHRM – India) a Moderator of the discussion.

There were various events for students, which included:
a Udghosh comprising of 4 sub-events: Vikalp (HR event), Vitt-Shastra (Finance), Vikray (Marketing), Vidhan (Operations) was won by FMS, Delhi.
a Ankur, the entrepreneurship event was won by participants from XLRI, Jamshedpur and the runners-up were from IIT-D.
a Jigyasa, the corporate quiz was hosted by Avinash Mudaliar. It was won by aThe Mercenariesa, Govind Grewal and Souvik Basu from Tata Capital bagging INR 25, 000 prize money.
a Anveshan, the assessment center had 10 B-school students assessed by certified assessors from leadership development consulting firm LBW.
a Trishna, the treasure hunt was sponsored by Syntel & Barista Lavazza, and won by Wellingker.
a Dayitva was a CSR Plan contest. Two teams were declared joint winners a TISS (Social Work) and NITIE. The joint winners were awarded a prize of INR 25, 000/- and an opportunity to work jointly on a project with UTV-I.
a Paripreksha, the role model talk was given by Boman Irani.

Cultural events, ‘Abeer’, were sponsored by Coke India and included Kalrav (Singing competition), Abhivyakti (choreography competition), Dhrishti (the Ad mad show), Claim to fame (the talent hunt show), Star nite and Kaifiyat (Talat Aziz nite). The last evening of Manthan held ‘Dharohar’, the alumni meet at Royal Le Meridian in Vile Parle, Mumbai.

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