News@ibmrnewsletter

News @ IBMR – The Official Newsletter of IBMR B-School, Bangalore

Editors: Adhiraj Mitra, Syam Sasidharan, Abhilash V. & Evelyn Monica (2012-14 Batch Students)

FIND OUT INSIDE:

Yojana & Research Paper

Guests at IBMR

Industry Visits

CSR Activities

International Study Tour

News @ IBMR Issue I: Aug-Sep 2013

IBMR Bangalore

Patron: Mr. Manish Kothari (Managing Director)

Editor-in-Chief: Dr. Chandra Niranjan (Dean)

Senior Editor: Dr. Sabina Zacharias (Faculty – Communications)

Consulting Editor: Prof. Partho Ganguly (Corporate Relations)

Executive Editor: Prof. Amlan Bhattacharya (Faculty – Marketing)


Editorial Dr. Chandra Niranjan

Dean, IBMR

“High achievement always takes place in the framework of high

expectation” said Jack Kinder.

The Editorial team of IBMR brings to you the official newsletter

News@IBMR, a record of the year’s events and activities. Flipping

through the pages, you will find the sincere attempt of the students to

chronicle their life and times at IBMR.

Excellence comes from striving, maintaining the highest standards,

looking after the smallest detail and going the extra mile beyond the call

of duty. As you glance through the pages of News@IBMR you will

realize that, this is exactly what we've tried to follow at IBMR.

Yojana & Research Paper

The Winning Team (above) &

1st Runners-Up (below) with

the judge Mr. Diwakar Kaiwar

Yojana marks a significant milestone in the academic journey of

IBMR. Yojana is a much awaited event and is IBMR’s pride - the

annual business plan and research paper presentation competitions.

Fondly called as ‘the battle of ideas’, it is a prestigious inter college

event where teams compete for the coveted prizes sponsored by

corporate in the categories of ‘best business plan’, ‘the winning idea’

and the ‘most creative presentation’. This year the prizes were

sponsored by Mr. Sreedhar of Asha Health Care, Mr. R.P Shetty of

Centrum, Ms. Manju Bhatia of Manjusha Infotech, Federal Bank.

AVIVA Insurance and MINT sponsored the rolling trophy for the

event.

Yojana is a platform which provides immense learning experience to

the participants, provided by industry experts who grace the eminent

judging panel. This year, we had Chief Guests Mr. Diwakar Kaiwar,

Founder & Director, Pravaa Info System and Mr. Ravindra

Krinshnappa, Angel Investor and Product Startup.

A significant part of Yojana is the research paper presentations by

the IBMR students. The best papers are chosen after stages of

screening and tough competition in which the students take part

diligently and enthusiastically at every stage. This year saw some

noteworthy papers covering a wide spectrum from strategic

management to real estate and exploring ideas like ‘Can the Mumbai

Taxiwallahs learn best practices from its dabbawallahs ?’ to ‘ How

can Mass Customization be used to promote inexpensive brands?’.

My gratitude to my colleagues and my students for their contributions towards bringing out a newsletter with a

difference. Garnering the resources, compiling them and presenting it to you in its present form needs a lot of effort.

We congratulate our editorial team of faculty and students for their tireless effort. While accepting it with all its

strengths, do let us know where we lack, so that next time we come back bigger and stronger.

Happy reading and reminiscing! Good luck to News@IBMR!


Guests at IBMR

IBMR MD Mr. Manish Kothari in

conversation with Mr. Ravindra Krishnappa

IBMR strives to bridge the gap between the industry and

academics through its industry interface programmes.

Industry experts, corporate leaders, successful

entrepreneurs, eminent personalities from various walks

of life are invited to deliver guest lectures and share

their valued experience with our management students.

The list of our esteemed guests who honoured us with

their presence at our events and functions were:

Major Bhargava ,HR and Administrative, Valdel

Ms. Manju Bhatia, Manjusha Infotech,

Mr. Parvinder Grewal, South Business Head, HDFC

Ms. Suni A.S, Madhukar, IITD

Mr. Diavspati Bhatt, Cushman and Wakefield

Ms. Rakshan Muneer, Onmobile Global Ltd

Ms. Uravashi Malhotra, Director, L&D CCD

Mr. B.S.Murthy, Leadership Capital , CEO

Mr. Vikas Saxena, CEO, Professional Expertise Group

Mr. Roshan M.R., ING Vysya Bank, Area Manager

Mr. B.Mehta , Zodiac Co Ltd, Manager

Mr. Prashanth Hebaar, Senior Editor, Cyber Media

Ms. Meer Palassery, Assistant Manager, CCD

Ms. Sundeep Shenova, Leela Group, GM - HR

Mr. Sampath Kumar, Anexas Consulting services

Dr. Ganasoundari, MD, Anexas Consulting Services

Mr. Shripati Acharya, Co-founder - Snap Fish

Mr. R.P.Shetty, Vice President, Centrum Group

Mr. Ravindra Krishnappa, Active Investor - IAN

Mr. Diwakar Kaiwar, Founder, Pravaa Infosystems

Ms. Deepti Kamath, Manager - BD, Centrum

Mr. Sampath Kumar, Director – HR India Operations,

B Aratti Software AG

Mr. R.Sriram, Associate Director, J.M.Financials

Mr. Tapan Kumar Das, Strategy Recruitment Manager,

Aviva Life Insurance

Mr. T.E.Manikandan, Manager Circulation, HT Media

Mr. Atul Bengeri, Industry Manager, Intel Technology

Mr. Ranjan Ghoshal, Mareech Advertising

Mr. Krishna Byre Gowda, MLA

Mr. Bhanu Potta , Nokia, Global Product Manager

Mr. Sanjay Handu, Director, Tyco Electronics

Mr. Abraham , Cybermedia

Mr. Nihar Ameen, Swimming Coach

Mr. Arjun Goutam, Director, Tennis Excellence

Ms. Povamma, Athlete

Mr. Rehan Poncha, Aquatics

Dr. R.Gandhi , Sports Authority of India

Dr. M Stalin Nagarajan, Sports Authority of India

Mr. Arjun Devaiah , Director, Abhimanyu Academy

Ms. Manuja Veerapa, Deccan Chronicle

Mr. B.Mohan Kumar, Tristed Techonolgy Soultions

Mr. Rajaram Pai Head HR , Pantaloon Retail India

Dr. G.V.Guruprasad , Commandant General , Home Guards

Mr. Omprakash.S, Technology Consultant ,UIDAI,

Planning Commission , Govt of India

Ms. Madhura Chatrapathy , Social & Business Entrepreneur

Mr. Shankar Bidari, Former Director General & Inspector

General of Police, Karnataka

Mr. Krishna Kumar, CEO and MD, Mindtree Consulting

Mr. Vasudev Murthy, GM, Wipro Consulting

Ms.Kavita Iyer, Mingle Box

Mr. R.M.Sudhakar, Net Soft


IBMR organizes real life learning through the regular industry visits. In the last year, we had several visits to

industries which play a major role in putting the theories learnt in the classroom in the right perspective, through the

hands-on experience that these visits provide. Some of the noteworthy industry visits were:

Visit to Hindustan Coca-Cola Bottling Plant, Bidadi: This visit gave the students ample opportunity to see how

the plant manages the processing, packaging, & bottling of its products - Coca Cola, Maaza and Thums Up. The

students were taken through a complete channel of stations on the filling station with the supervisor explaining each

of the processes.

Visit to Infosys: The full-day visit at Infosys took students to a new world of ‘services sector’, taking a break from

usual factory visits with manufacturing sector companies. Students were shown the history of Infosys, how it

expanded globally and gave a world-class organization to India in the IT industry.

Visit to BPL Technovision Pvt. Ltd: The Visit to BPL, Bangalore gave an opportunity to the IBMR students to

understand the various stages of production involved, from procuring raw materials to quality control. Students also

got an insight into the various aspects of production especially, the factory layout, product demarcation and safety

measures.

Industry Visits

IBMR students at Coca-Cola (left) & at Infosys (right)

Sports Day Students at IBMR will definitely agree

that sports are an integral part of IBMR.

Indoor games like Table tennis, Carom

& Chess are a permanent fixture in our

cafeteria and they are ideal stress busters

for our students. IBMR also organizes

intra-college events & we had a gala

sports meet in April with a day of sports

events like football, cricket & athletics.

Staff & students enthusiastically took

part and cheered the participants.

‘Ready, Steady, ...’


International Study Tour

Students (above) & IBMR Dean

Dr. Chandra Niranjan (below)

To meet the dynamic and diverse demands on business and

industry in the age of globalization, our MBA students need to

be prepared and equipped to lead in a global, cross cultural

world.

IBMR gears up to these real world demands through the

international study tours. We have had batches of our students

visiting countries like Singapore, Malaysia and the UAE. The

students got immense opportunity to observe first-hand global

business by meeting the business leaders and learn how to

develop and execute their strategy and manage international

business.

The students also experienced and understood the culture and

lifestyle of these countries which are valuable lessons in future

cross- cultural communication that their jobs would demand.

The noteworthy places visited in the UAE, Singapore and

Malaysia were:

Dubai-Skyline University College (SUC)

Sharjah-CONMIX Ltd.

Ajman Free Trade Zone

China Mall

Singapore New Water Treatment Plant

Sentosa Island

Hi-Fi Bread factory

University of Malaya

Genting Island

Experiential Learning

The workshop on Experiential Learning was meant to give

students the experience of real life crisis scenarios and ways to

deal with it. The dynamic facilitator Edward Lawrence gave a

CRISIS situation of an earthquake and asked to optimally

allocate the resources. Three simple rules were to be practiced:

(1) Whatever happens in CRISIS stays in CRISIS, (2) In order

to make learning happen, everybody has to participate & (3)

Create a whole lot of experience, break it and discuss it so that

others can also learn. The students enjoyed stepping out of

their comfort zones and learning the elements of conflict

management, time management & effective communication.

Mr. Edward Lawrence’s session

in full swing


CSR Activities IBMR believes strongly in the need to integrate academics

with social outreach and awareness activities which will

mould our students into responsible citizens. IBMR

students participated in the activities of the not-for-profit

organization Janaagraha’s campaigns to enable citizen

participation in public governance. The ‘I paid a bribe

campaign’ was meant to convey the message of not paying

bribes to the general public and the IBMR students took

part, spreading the message verbally and through posters in

the areas of Koramangala, Jaya Nagar, JP Nagar etc.

The IBMR students’ group, during the visit to National

Association of the Blind, was acquainted with the training

centres for imparting mobility and vocational training to

the visually challenged. The students handed over the

supply of grocery to the Association and some sweet

packets as a token of their appreciation for the NGO. They

also promised to visit again and extend any volunteer

service in future.

IBMR also arranged a Blood-Donation Camp and large

number of students became a part of this noble act.

Faculty Meet The IBMR Faculty met for a detailed

exchange of ideas, presided by

Dr. Chandra Niranjan, Dean – IBMR, on

the upcoming events and newer

methodologies of delivering various

subjects in the coming academic session.

Each faculty shared his/her professional

achievements, research accomplishments

and the faculty were applauded for their

contribution towards shaping IBMR.


Cultural Events IBMR, as is the tradition, is always enthusiastic in celebrating

festivals like Navratri, Dusshera and Ganesh Puja with the gaiety

and fervour befitting the occasion. Navratri and Dusshera began with

the traditional ceremony where the staff and students invoked the

blessings of Goddess Durga. The auditorium then transformed into a

dandiya floor, with the IBMR family dancing away to the rhythm of

traditional music and songs. On the auspicious occasion of Ganesh

Chaturthi, we sought the blessings of Ganesha in all our endeavours.

The ensemble for the occasion was ethnic and everybody had

refreshments which included traditional cuisines. We had an early

Christmas celebration to usher in the spirit and good cheer of the

season and the joy of the New Year.

IBMR always thinks ‘out of the box’ and one such event was the

‘Cook without Fire’ which brought out the creative and culinary

skills of our students.

IBMR had a gala Annual Day function at Unnati Hall which saw a

dazzling display of talent, fun and frolic. Students mesmerized the

audience with a fashion show and a wide array of dances from retro to

fusion. The grand finale was the alluring performance by a popular

fusion band ‘Aghor’.

Snippets from IBMR’s

vibrant Cultural Events


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