CEOs harp on religion | ||
Jamshedpur, Dec. 28: The inaugural session of the first conference of Indian Academy of Management at Tata Auditorium today saw corporate honchos sharing their knowledge of religion, mythology and Bhagvad Gita which they have used for better management. XLRI hosted the first conference of Indian Academy of Management — an autonomous body founded along the lines of the US-based Academy of Management with the idea of promoting research work and studies in management and also to serve as a platform for all B-schools to share ideas. The theme of the three-day conference that began was Indian Management: Past, Present and Future. The conference saw the likes of vice-chairman of Tata Steel B. Muthuraman, O.P. Bhatt, the chairman of State Bank of India and Venugopal Dhoot, the chairman of Videocon, as speakers. All of them explained the theme by citing examples from Bhagvad Gita, Kautilya Arthashashtra and Rig Veda. “Good management can be learnt not just in B-school but in everyday life, ancient traditions, religion, art, culture and sports. What we teach in business schools today have been found in the country’s culture that dates back to 5,000 years,” said Muthuraman. He pointed out that one could find examples of leadership, motivation and performance in Gita and examples of decision making in Rig Veda. “These religious books also speaks about vasudeva kutumbakam, which means universe is one family and that is globalisation that we talk about now,” said a speaker. Dhoot quoted Bhagvad Gita and explained how management saw a heavy presence of Indian culture. At this conference, about 150 research papers and 34 concurrent sessions on various management topics will be presented. “The motto is to provide researchers and doctoral students a platform to present their papers. This platform is for sharing and encouraging ideas,” said E.S. Srinivas, the conference chairperson. |
Friday, January 1, 2010
First Conference of Indian Academy of Management
Monday, December 28, 2009
Corporate Honchos to attend Conference at XLRI
JAMSHEDPUR (The Times of India, Dec 27): Perhaps for the first time, the XLRI, a premier business school of the country, has got the opportunity to host the conference of the
Indian Academy of Management (IAoM), the apex body of the management institutes pursuing the agenda of narrowing the gap between academia and practitioners in India, in the Steel city from Monday.
The three-day conference will witness the congregation of big and famous corporate honchos with several alumni of the IIMs, ISB, MDI and host XLRI chairing the boards of different divisions.
The IAoM is committed to promoting India-centric collaborative research efforts among scholars across the globe, and to try and bridge the gap between the academia and practitioners in India.
"This conference will bring together academics and practitioners from around the globe. We are happy to announce that Professor Angelo DeNisi (Immediate past president, Academy of Management, USA) and Professor Pradip Khandwalla (former director and professor, IIM Ahmedabad) have agreed to be the main speakers at the inaugural conference," informed Prof. Madhukar Shukla, a member of the organizing committee.
O P Bhatt, chairman, SBI, Venugopal Dhoot, chairman, Videocon and B Muthuraman, vice-chairman, Tata Steel, are among others who have confirmed their participation in the inaugural conference the theme of which is "Indian Management: Past, Present and Future". "Mr Bhatt, Mr Dhoot and Mr Muthuraman will be on the CEO panel that will deliberate on wide-ranging issues fundamentally related to the theme Wisdom perspectives, principles and practices in Indian businesses," informed Prof. Shukla.
The session will be moderated by Dr Prasad Kaipa, executive director, Center for Leadership, Innovation and Change (CLIC), Indian School of Business (ISB), Hyderabad.
Dr Pradip Khandwalla, former director and professor, IIMA, and Dr S Ramnarayan, former professor IIMA and currently professor at ISB Hyderabad, are making presentations on December 29. And, on the same day, Dr Angelo DeNisi, the immediate past president of AoM and dean, School of Business, Tulane University, will deliver the keynote address "Management of Corporate Greatness".
"India is now again emerging as an economic power, and business schools are focusing on the BRIC (Brazil, Russia, India, and China) nations instead of the Triadian market of the US, Europe, and Japan. Thus, it is important to further focus our research energy on Indian management and reveal about what is unique about Indian management good or bad, effective or inefficient, beautiful or ugly. This conference will be useful for researchers and practitioners who are interested in India in general and management practices related to India in particular," Prof. Shukla said.
In the light of the overwhelming response to the Academy of Management meeting held in Chicago in August last, it is expected that delegates (faculty, doctoral students and practitioners) representing several institutes from India and abroad are expected to participate in good numbers in the proposed conference.
Wednesday, November 11, 2009
XLRI gets SAQS Accreditation
Monday, September 14, 2009
Campus Update - August 09
Here is a quick re-cap of the month of August, 2009.
`JOY OF GIVING' LAUNCH AT XLRI
XLRI launched the `Joy of Giving Week', a nation-wide initiative to create a festival of philanthropy, on August 21, 09. XLRI is spearheading this movement in Jamshedpur from September 27 to October 3, 2009. The idea behind such a launch is to create public awareness and seek partnerships in humanitarian endeavours. To support the nationwide initiative, XLRI has planned various activities across the city to promote the acts of giving for a cause that include mobilizing donations and distribution of 400,000 pieces of clothes. The moving spirit behind this venture is Prof. Madhukar Shukla and SIGMA the student Association.
ENTREPRENEURSHIP DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMME
XLRI will be launching an Entrepreneurship Development Programme beginning October 12, 2009. This is an initiative of the Entrepreneurship Development Centre set up at XLRI.
SIX-MONTH CERTIFICATE PROGRAMME IN BUSINESS MANAGEMENT
Responding to a specific and emerging need XLRI Jamshedpur in collaboration with Ikisan Hyderabad (a comprehensive Agri Portal promoted by Nagarjuna Group, Hyderabad) initiated a Six-month Certificate Programme in Agri Business Management. This course aims at preparing agricultural graduates for undertaking marketing and sales jobs in the agri-business industry. This unique programme was launched in Hyderabad on July 29, 09 by the Director, Fr. Abraham.
STUDENT NEWS AND ACTIVITIES
Kshitij: CII YI invited 300 under-privileged school students from over 30 schools across Jamshedpur. The idea was to give these students a platform to showcase their talent. The response to the programme was overwhelming with wonderful performances in singing, dancing, painting and Quiz competitions.
New York University's Social Entrepreneurship Conference: An abstract (for a case on NEEV Herbal Soaps) submitted by two of our PMIR 10 batch students, Rashmi Kamath and Mahima, has been selected in the NYU Stern's "6th Annual Satter Conference on Social Entrepreneurship, Nov 4-6, '09.
SPORTSCOM & MAXI organized the first ever Colloseum, a unique concept in which team owners bid for players. The teams and the players would keep on accumulating points throughout the year in various sports events. The four teams Olympians, Spartans, Titans and Vulcans have already declared the war against each other with the first battle being tug-of-war.
FIR@X organized Bullseye, an Industrial Relations quiz on 6th August, which attracted huge participation from both PM&IR junior and senior batches. There were attractive cash prizes to be won. FIR@X also organized a Live Project and speaker session for the students by Mr. Shekhar Arora, ED (HR) of Ashok Leyland.
DRACULA came up with various events during the month which included a Parliamentary Debate club which kicked off its first Debate Contest `Babel'. Apart from that, the Lits League organized Popourri, a combination of games like 20 questions, Dumb Charades etc. and the Quiz League was active with its own event.
CRESCENT presented XPLORE, a treasure hunt which invited enthusiastic performance from students across courses and batches.
SAPPHIRE presented Chaos, an innovative event which was a quiz as well as involved bidding of top quizzers of each team at the end of every round. As the event progressed, it turned out to be more and more chaotic with team sizes and even the composition of teams varying after each round. The event was very well received and appreciated by the students.
ALUMNI NEWS
Asitava Sen (93 BMD): In Mumbai, Nielsen has launched a specialist Business Consulting Services group, which will combine qualitative consulting with fact-based analytic-driven recommendations. The group will be led by Asitava Sen, who joined Nielsen as Director, Retail Consulting last year.
Monisha Tambay (96 pm & IR) has joined Subex Ltd, a leading global provider of Operations and Business Support Systems (OSS/BSS) as Vice President - Human Resources.
Jayanthi Rajagopalan (95PMIR) featured in Femina, August 12, 2009 for her entrepreneurship initiatives in the area of Tourism.
SAD NEWS
PK Roy: One of our former faculty at XL - Prof PK Roy passed away on July 15th in Kolkata succumbing to a heart-attack.
Preeti Vinayak (01PMIR) passed away on July 31 succumbing to Crohn's disease. Both Prof. Roy and Preeti will be warmly remembered by the XLfamily. May their souls rest in peace!
HOMECOMING REMINDER
We hope you are in the process of finalizing your plans for the annual Homecoming at XLRI scheduled for November 21 and 22, 2009. We eagerly look forward to your participation at this annual event.
Once your travel plans are finalized, please do send a mail to Roshan Dastur
Friday, August 28, 2009
US conclave beckons students - XLRI study on rural women
Jamshedpur, Aug. 27: Students of XLRI are all set to take issues related to rural women and environment to a global platform.
Two students of personnel management and industrial relations — Rashmi Kamath and Mahima — have got a chance to present a case study on the topic “Challenges of scaling and measuring social impact” at the 6th Annual Satter Conference of Social Entrepreneurs organised by Stern School of Business of New York University.
This year’s conference is dedicated to ongoing research on social entrepreneurship.
The abstract of the case study is based on scalability issues of social entrepreneurship. In mid-August, XLRI sent the abstract to the organisers and within a week they received a response. The subject of the study is New Education and Environment Visions (NEEV), a city-based unit that specialises in herbal soap making. NEEV, which started its operation in 2007 as a herbal soap making unit under Khadi and Village Industries Commission, trains rural women of Hurlung village and helps them to be self-sufficient.
“The presentation of the study in the US will bring in more business for us as well as directly help 200 women associated with us,” said Shikha Jain, the director of NEEV.
“We have social entrepreneurship as a paper in our course, so when we came to know about the conclave, we decided to participate. We will focus on the problems faced of a new social venture,” said Mahima.
The conference is scheduled to be held in the first week of November in New York and over 80 entries have poured in from across the globe. The students are looking for sponsors to fund their trip to the US.
Tuesday, August 18, 2009
Invitation: XLRI's Intiative for "Joy of Giving Week"...21st Aug - Unveiling Ceremony
Besides the CEOs of local companies, Principals of schools and colleges, NGO bodies, our own students and faculty, etc., two people who will be participating in this ceremony are:
1. Film director, Mr Imtiaz Ali (of Jab We Met and Love Aaj Kal fame), and who is also one of the Brand Ambassadors for the Joy of Giving Week)
2. Ashoka Fellow Mr Anshu Gupta (Founder Director of Goonj - http://www.goonj.info/). Anshu was also one of the winners of CNN--IBN Real Heros Award earlier this year - and as you may perhaps know, XLRI has a partnership with Goonj to run a Cothes Bank at XLRI.
It would be great to have you with us, when we launch/unveil this initiative - as our minor contribution to this event/movement from XLRI. Needless to say, we will need all the help from XL alumni to "make it happen"!!
ciao
madhukar
Sunday, August 9, 2009
XLRI grads getting pre-placement offers despite economic downturn
XLRI Jamshedpur’s 2008-10 batch is already witnessing good pre-placement offers (PPOs) and pre-placement interviews (PPIs) despite the
The leading organisations that have made these offers include Hindustan Unilever, TAS, Aditya Birla group, L&T and The Times Group.
XLRI School of Business and Human Resources director Fr E Abraham, S J, said: "We are expecting more offers to come in from the financial and consulting sectors apart from the other ones during August and September 2009 as hiring decisions are finalised by most of the companies during the second quarter. With improved signs of recovery in the economy, after good Q1 results, students are hopeful of better placements and internships in the year ahead."
This year, XLRI’s Personnel Management and Industrial Relations (PMIR) has seen the size of the batch doubling as against 60 last year. The batch size of XLRI has gone up to 240 this year including 120 students from the Business Management (BM) programme.
Thursday, August 6, 2009
Xl News - July 2009
Dear Friends,
It is a privilege to reach out to you once again through the Newsletter of July 2009.
INDUCTING THE YOUNG XLers:
With the objective of welcoming new members to the XL family, a number of induction activities like sports festival, informal get together, formal sessions etc. were organized. Two events that deserve special mentioning are: The village exposure programme of life in rural India and the Adventure Programme. The objective of the village exposure programme was to sensitise students to conditions prevailing in villages and highlight their future role as managers of corporate India towards corporate social responsibility. The freshers were also part of the Adventure Programme which is aimed at enhancing team building and leadership skills.
GRADUATION CEREMONY OF DEFENCE OFFICERS :
Warriors donned the XLRI graduating gown instead of the service uniform for the fifth graduation ceremony of the executive management programme for defence officers on July 18, 2009. This year, 49 officers from armed forces graduated, 43 from the army, four from Air Force and two from the Navy. Saroj Vinayak, the Director-general of ordnance factories and chairman of Ordnance Factory Board, Calcutta, was the chief guest at the function. XLRI launched the Certificate Programme in Business Management for Defence Personnel on January 14, 2007. The programme for defence officers was launched at the request of the Ministry of HRD, Govt. of India, who perceived the need for "resettlement" of the officers.
XLRI LEADERSHIP MEET FOR MEDICAL OFFICERS:
XLRI conducted a ten-day Leadership Development Programme on Reproductive Health starting from June 22. Participants in this programme were Doctors and officers from Jharkhand and Bihar working in the health sector. The objective of the programme was to build the capacity to lead and meet the millennium goal of development in the reproductive and health sector. This programme was conducted by XLRI in collaboration with The David and Lucille Packard Foundation.
XLRI VENTURES IN NEWS:
Parichay - a social venture supported by The XLRI Social Entrepreneurship Trust, put up its first Product Exhibition just 9 months after the inauguration of the Parichay Learning & Design Center in October 2008. Parichay was started by students from the 2007-09 batch and is an initiative aimed at bringing a sustainable change in the lives of the rural and tribal artisans by contemporizing their design, training them and connecting them to the market.
XLRI IKISAN PROGRAM: XLRI along with Ikisan Hyderabad (a comprehensive Agri Portal promoted by Nagarjuna Group, Hyderabad) is strengthening its commitment to its vision by extending management education to the agricultural sector through a unique "Six-month Certificate Programme in Agri Business Management" to prepare agricultural graduates and agri-business field assistants for undertaking marketing and sales jobs in the agri-business industry.
STUDENT'S ACTIVITIES
Ratanjee 2009-10: Ratanjee 2009-10 brought out the sporting best in the current student batches. A keenly contested contest thus ensued on campus for a period of three days and the whole campus was immersed in the sporting spirit.
Consulting Club-C3: Crescent Consulting Club or C3 was launched with an aim to develop and increase the understanding of consulting works. The inauguration of the club was held on July 9th with a session by Mr. Joe Simon, CIO Viacom International (New York) on "Life as a Consultant". Mr. Simon provided the students with valuable insights by sharing his experiences as a consultant with Booz Allen Hamilton. Mr. Joe Simon, a 1983 batch alumnus of XLRI, is the Chief Information Officer for Viacom International.
SAPPHIRE Blog: Sapphire launched its blog at xlrisapphire.wordpress.com and has started off on a great note with posts by Gautam Ghosh , Abhijit Bhaduri , Dr. Mathai Fenn and Prof Madhukar Shukla along with students on campus. There are lots more planned for the blog with new pages and online contests!
ALUMNI IN NEWS:
Cyclone Aila: Alumni of XLRI and ISB joined hands to support those ravaged by Cyclone Aila recently in the world's largest mangrove forests of the Sundarbans. Tushar Dutta (BMD 07) took the initiative along with several other alumni of both B-schools to help out to villages devastated in one of the worst affected areas of Gosaba block of the Rangabelia panchayat in South 24 Parganas district in West Bengal. Tushar, XLRI is proud of you!
Social entrepreneurship: XLRI Alumni along with Samekti Jan Vikas Kendra (SJVK) to provide sustainable source of income to the tribal women artisans of Kolhan region. The alumni, through their social entrepreneurship venture, Parichay, would be using services of designers to train the rural women in terra-cotta, bamboo and handloom items using natural products. They will also assist the artisans in marketing the products.
They make us proud: Preeti Reddy (82BMD) was appointed the head of the Kantar-owned Lanka Market Research Bureau (LMRB). Surojit Shome (86 BMD) joins Rabo India Finance Limited as Managing Director & Chief Executive Officer. Suman Bose was appointed as Vice-President and Managing Director by Siemens PLM Software for its Indian operations. Asitava Sen (93 BMD) will join Nielsen Consulting's specialist Business Consulting Services group.
REUNION REMINDERS
Homecoming: We eagerly await your participation in the Homecoming 2009 scheduled for November 21st and 22nd. Institute has started the preparations in earnest.
Silver Jubilee Celebrations (December 21-23): The 1984 batch meets regularly on line and are charting out the plans to makes the event a memorable one.
Tuesday, June 9, 2009
ITC Chairman, YC Deveshwar inaugurates IAJBS 15th World Forum @XLRI
Stressing on sustainable development, he cited examples from the company’s rural initiatives under corporate social responsibility while delivering the keynote address at the 15th World Forum of the International Jesuits Business Schools. About 80 delegates from the Jesuits Business Schools across the globe - USA, Europe, Asian countries - are participating in the forum held at the XLRI campus.
“Sustainable development is about the triple bottomline across three dimensions — economic, social and ecological, which means creating social and ecological wealth. However, there are some challenges of development that arise from growing income inequities and secondly there’s a threat from global and climate change,” said Deveshwar.
Stressing on the role of management institutions, he said that the institutions needed to spread awareness and education. He suggested areas in which institutes could carry out meaningful research in collaboration with the industry to find solutions.Citing e-Choupal — a model designed by the ITC to tackle the challenges posed by the unique features of Indian agriculture — as an example, Deveshwar said that the common man has to be involved in order to achieve the sustainability. “People are not society’s burden. If they are utilised in a proper way, they can be created as resources. Education helps in innovation. With creative business models we can convert threats into opportunities. This begins with a realisation of compelling challenges.”
Sunday, May 24, 2009
Latest Campus Update from Prof M G Jomon
May like to catch-up with the happenings at XLRI since the XL News April-2009.
Alumni Meet 2009: Many of you may have seen the communication on Alumni meet 2009 providing specific details of the meet and also the XLRI invitation for the event along with the family. Incase you may have missed out here is a brief indicating the city, date, venue time and contact persons with their mobile numbers:
Delhi: 23rd May, Tivoli Gardens, 7.30 pm, Richa Malik,Nakul Jain;
Mumbai: 23rd May, Mayfair Banquets Worli, 7.30 pm, Gaurava Sahi:, Gayathri Krishnan: ;
Hyderabad: 23rd May, Taj Deccan , 7.30 pm, Siddharth Chatterjee: ;
Chennai: 23rd May, Hotel Abu Palace-P.H. Road, 7.30 pm, Krishnan S: ;
Bangalore: 30th May, Jayamahal Palace Hotel (on Miller's Road), 7.30 pm, Sumit Singla:
Calcutta: 13th June, Vishal Agarwal: ).
Home Coming 2009 Announcement: The home coming 2009 will be organized during the third week end of November (November 21-22, Saturday and Sunday) as per our convention. Let us plan ahead and make it this years Home coming. Kindly pass on your suggestions to making this event successful.
Graduations of XLers: April 4, 2009 witnessed the graduation ceremony for the Satellite Program students of XLRI. Mr B K Jhawar, Chairman Usha Martin Group, was the Chief Guest. 409 students received certificates in this ceremony in the streams of Business Management and Human Resource Management, Logistics and Supply Chain Management, Sales and Marketing Management, and Retail Management.
The Graduation Ceremony of the One-Year General Management Programme was held at XLRI on May 9, 2009. Mr. Shubhendu Amitabh, Senior President (Corporate Affairs and Business Development), Aditya Birla Group was the Chief Guest. May 9, 2009 also witnessed the Graduation Ceremony of the Executive Diploma in HRM Program. This was the first batch of the Dubai Program and the second batch of the program in India.
Diamond Jubilee Celebrations: Two significant events, among others, are being planned as part of the XLRI Diamond Jubilee Celebration. The first is the 15th World Forum of International Association of Jesuit Business Schools being hosted at XLRI from June 7 to 10, 2009. Theme for the event is "Taking the Lead Towards Sustainable Development". About 75 delegates from various parts of the world (Latin America, North America, Europe, Asia Pacific, and South Asia) will be participating in this Forum. Dr. J. Singh (70 BMD) is the Coordinator (jittusingh@xlri.ac.in) of the event.
The second event is a Conference of Indian Academy of Management (IAoM) to be held at XLRI in December 2009. Prof. E.S. Srinivas is the Coordinator (srinivas@xlri.ac.in).
XL at Top: The Special Issue of Business World dated 25 May 2009 on India's Best B-Schools 2009 has ranked XLRI Jamshedpur as No. 3.
Alumni on News: Sandeep Bakshi (83 BMD) is the new Dy. Managing Director of ICICI Bank. Shatrunjay Krishna (PMIR 05) has been appointed as Senior Advisor, Ministry of Education, UAE Government. Shankar Sundaram (78 BMD) has enrolled himself for the Executive FPM Programme of our institute.
Faculty on News: Dr Ashis K Pani and Dr Supriya K De received the "Best Paper Award" on "Digital Strategies in Managing Knowledge and Collaboration in Health Care" at the International Academy of e-Business [IAEB] 9th Annual Conference held in Hawaii, USA during April 9-12, 2009.
Friday, April 3, 2009
Prof Jomon - the new Alumni Chairperson
The Bearded one will still continue all his "unofficial" alumni networking activities and insists that he will remain "Casper - the friendly ghost" :)A little brief about Prof Jomon from the Faculty Profile on the XLRI site:
Dr. Jomon, currently Associate Professor at XLRI, Jameshedpur earlier worked in XIMB Bhubaneswar, Corporates and consulting firms in HR and OD areas. A gold medalist in masters from Loyola, M.Phil from Delhi University and Fellow from XLRI-AHRD has authored four books and over 20 articles.
His expertise are in the areas of competency interventions, performance management , 360 degree feedback/appraisal, HRD Audit, Induction, Mentoring, Training, Career planning & development, Potential appraisal, Succession planning & development. His client organizations include both Indian and multinational companies.
Sharanya dispenses some useful advice
You can read her blog : http://brouhaharevisited.blogspot.com/ and the specific post I am talking about here
Saturday, March 28, 2009
XLRI achieves 100% placement
XLRI School of Business & Human Resources, Jamshedpur (XLRI Jamshedpur), has completed its final placement procedure with all its 180 students getting placed.
The highest salary offered this year was Rs 22 lakh, while the highest international offer this year was $110,000. Around 76 companies visited the campus this year and made 193 offers to a batch of 180 students. The average domestic salary package offered this year was Rs 12.12 lakh per annum.
This year companies were conservative in terms of pre-placement offers (PPOs), with 30 PPOs being offered. Around eight students ventured with their own niche business plans.
Last year, 57 companies came to campus and made 298 offers to a batch of 180 students. The average domestic offer last year was Rs 14.75 lakh and the highest domestic offer was Rs 28 lakh. Around 12 international offers were made with an average of $90,000, while the highest was $100,000.
Despite news about job cuts, recruitments in human resources continued in the consulting, FMCG and finance sector for international banks and group companies alike. Various specialised roles were offered, such as the one by global pharmaceuticals major, Novartis, offering its HR leadership role at Basel, Switzerland, exclusively to XLRI, making the highest international offer of $110,000.
XLRI’s commitment to promoting and fostering entrepreneurship received a boost this year. With the introduction of deferred placements for students starting out on their own, XLRI established a new legacy in promoting nation builders. This year saw the launch of three startups. Also, one student signed out with deferred placements.
XLRI recently raised close to Rs 14 lakh from its alumni network and other donations towards its XLRI Social Entrepreneurship Trust. The Singapore chapter has also generated close to SGD 5,000. This would go towards the seed fund reserved for student entrepreneurs.
Notwithstanding the financial crisis, XLRI maintained its stand as a premier finance destination with 30 per cent of the total offers coming from the financial sector. Offers were received in investment banking, treasury, corporate finance, commercial banking and insurance. The domestic investment banks were led by Centrum and SBI Capital. Banks such as Citibank, HSBC, Standard Chartered, ICICI, Axis Bank and Bank of Baroda offered roles in their treasury and foreign exchange desks as well as their corporate and retail banking functions.
The Securities & Exchange Board of India (Sebi) recruited from XLRI for the first time, while roles in trading were offered by Futures First. The insurance sector recruited in their product development and distribution functions. Firms such as Bharti AXA, HDFC Ergo, ICICI Lombard and ICICI Prudential offered product structuring roles to students. Corporate finance roles were offered by the likes of Pepsi, L&T, Tata Steel, among others.
Wednesday, January 14, 2009
XLRI Social Entrepreneurship Conference
Panel Discussions:
The discussions would explore the various social sectors for entrepreneurial opportunities and would focus on 6 themes, each highlighting a different dimension of 'providing access' viz,
• Access to Credit & Financial Services
• Access to Education
• Access to Healthcare & Hygiene
• Access to Livelihood Opportunities
• Access to Market, and
• Rural Access to Societal Resources
Entrepreneurs, academicians, corporates, government representatives and members from leading NGOs are expected to be part of the discussions on building access to various resources for building a social enterprise
Interactive Sessions:
More information can be viewed on Madhukar's blog.
And here is the Prof himself giving an interview on the conference.
Part 1:
Part 2:
Sunday, January 4, 2009
83 batch reunion on campus
I just got back this week from the 25th Year Reunion of my Batch of 1983 at XLRI. About 33 of us met at Jamshedpur, some of us after a full 25 years. Was great fun to re-connect and also see how much XL had grown in this period. The physical infrastructure alone is more than three times of what it used to be in our time. Another noteworthy development is the much more favourable boys to girls ratio!
Among other things we had a very good discussion with the Director and management of XLRI about starting a XLRI Endowment Fund (XEF) which can help the Alumni and others contribute to the growth and development of XL and its community. We presented a plan which was received enthusiastically and we hope it will take firm shape in the next few weeks. Will share more details once it is in existence.
Narinder Singh
Wednesday, December 3, 2008
Social Entrepreneurship Conference @ XLRI: need help for leads for funding/sponsorship
Tuesday, November 25, 2008
More Details on the MBA Summer Placements at XLRI
| STATISTICS - SIP 2009 | |||
| Particular | 2007 | 2008 | 2009 |
| | | | |
| Number of Companies | 48 | 58 | 74 |
| Number of Offers | 192 | 202 | 214 |
| Number of International Offers | 2 | 5 | 22 |
| Average Stipend* | 27000/- | 48000/- | 85000/- |
| One Lac + Stipends* | 5 | 14 | 45 |
| Number of New Recruiters | 7 | 12 | 32 |
| *(For internship period of 8 weeks) | |||
2.0 Some of the major companies which participated in the process are:
a) J P Morgan Chase, Lazard, Carlyle Group, Edelweiss Capital, Allegro Advisors and SBI Capital (Investment Bankimg/Equity)
b) Citibank, HSBC, Standard Chartered, ICICI and Axis Bank , Larsen & Toubro, MCX,and Clearing Corporation of India Ltd (CCIL), WNS and Wipro (Finance, Banking, Treasury etc)
c) Hindustan Unilever, Procter & Gamble, Coca Cola, ITC, Nestle, Colgate Palmolive, Cadbury, Johnson & Johnson, Reebok, Marico and GSK (Marketing/Sales/Operations and SupplyChain)
d) Alia Group and Vertebrand (Brand Consulting a new sector for XLRI)
e) TAS and The Aditya Birla Group , Mahindra & Mahindra, Punj Lloyd, Apollo Group and Atul (HR, General Management, Operations, Strategy roles etc)
f) Novartis, Al Ghanim , Ernst & Young, Hewitt & Associates, KPMG, Mercer, Reach Potential, Cummins, Microsoft and Deloitte (mainly HR but some made other roles for BM)
3.0 The breakup of the offers is as below:
Sector Percentage Number Consult 15.7 18 Finance 35.7 41 GM 21.7 25 Marketing 27.0 31 TOTAL 100.0 115
4.0 A new initiative this year
An initaitive for social and Enterpreneurship (ISEL) was launched this year (CRESENT and SIGMA student bodies contributed). Organizations in this sector offered Internships. 5 students took these offers
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ciao
madhukar
Monday, November 17, 2008
The Day XL Jamshedpur Ran
The event happened on the 16th and was hugely successful with 300+ runners.
Prof Shukla has taken some awesome pictures to capture the spirit of the run which can be viewed as a slide show on http://lifeatxl.blogspot.com/
More pictures are visible on The Official - XLRI Dream Run Website
Note & Clarification from Prof:
Thanks for the support...
...and hope that funds keep coming in for the XLRI Social Entrepreneurship Trust
1. XLRI Social Entrepreneurship Trust does not support "charity"... we know that those will be non-sustainable in the long-run
2. We support and nurture "Entrepreneurs with a Social Cause" - ventures which are potentially sustainable, and can make a difference to the society - and these, at present, are ventures promoted by the current-batch (09) students/entrepreneurs, who have formed/registered partnership companies to take-off (Paricha, Swavalamban, & Dream4Others
3.- What we do try to do from the Trust is (before starting to support them) to vet their plans, give them some ideas, connect them to people who may help... and give them some funds (VCs would call it "incubation fund") to start with their ideas...
4. So far, I guess, our judgement has been right - At least not "wrong"
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The two projects were selected from among 103 entries from across the B-Schools, and were judged by executives from Aavishkaar India Micro Venture Capital Fund, IndianNGO.com and India Development Gateway
Besides the prize money, along with other finalists they will also receive mentorship by executives from IndianNGO.com and India Development Gateway, a capital market place for social ventures in India. They will also be able to put up their ideas on India Development Gateway.
As the winner of the event, Parichay will get a direct semi-final entry into the Global Social Entrepreneurship Competition (GSEC) to be held at Foster School of Business in Seattle, USA (Feb 23-27, 2009)
ciao
madhukar
Sunday, November 9, 2008
XLRI's Social Projects sweep "Kalpavriksha"
Two Projects supported by XLRI Social Entrepreneurship Trust (*), Parichay and Swavalamban were judged 1st and 2nd respectively in the IIM Indore's Social Business Plan contest "Kalpavriksha" - a forum for self sustainable business plans with the potential to make a difference to society.
The two projects were selected from among 103 entries from across the B-Schools, and were judged by executives from Aavishkaar India Micro Venture Capital Fund, IndianNGO.com and India Development Gateway
Besides the prize money, along with other finalists they will also receive mentorship by executives from IndianNGO.com and India Development Gateway, a capital market place for social ventures in India. They will also be able to put up their ideas on India Development Gateway.
As the winner of the event, Parichay will get a direct semi-final entry into the Global Social Entrepreneurship Competition (GSEC) to be held at Foster School of Business in Seattle, USA (Feb 23-27, 2009)
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(*) On Nov 16th, more than 300 students and faculty will participate in XL Dream Run, to generate funds for the XLRI Social Entrepreneurship Trust, which supports such projects.
Monday, November 3, 2008
AACSB accepts XLRI's Membership
The membership is the first step towards the accreditation process.
555 institutes have been accredited by AACSB worldwide. No Indian business-school has been awarded accreditation so far.
