XLRI's Entrepreneurship Development Institute becomes a reality

From : The Telegraph

Ranchi, Sept. 28 (The Telegraph): The state government and Jamshedpur-based XLRI today inked an MoU to establish the state’s maiden entrepreneurship development institute.

The institute would come up on about five acres beside the XLRI campus in Jam- shedpur.

The state government has provided the land to the B-school for setting up the institution.

The Centre and the state government have agreed to pay Rs 1 crore each to establish the centre.

XLRI, too, has agreed to invest on the centre. The total project cost would amount to Rs 3.91 crore.

The recurring cost for running the institute would be about Rs 62 lakh a year.

The secretary of the industries department, S.K. Satpathy, and the director of the premier B-school, Father N. Casimir Raj signed the agreement in presence of deputy chief minister and in-charge of industries department, Sudhir Mahto, here today.

The industries depart-ment director and special secretary Sunil Kumar and Dhirendra Kumar were also present.

The institute “in making” would offer a one-year diploma course on entrepreneur development.

Its capacity would be 60 seats.

Fifty per cent of the seats would be reserved for the students of the state. The cen- tre would also conduct short-term management development programmes for young entrepreneurs.

The classes for the one-year diploma course would start in October 2008 and XLRI would conduct the entrance examination.

The state government would provide scholarships to the deserving students who hail from economically weak family backgrounds.

“The institute is a big boon in the industry sector. The B-school would gift new entrepreneurs to our state. Our government is committed to promote trade and industry,” said the deputy chief minister, after the signing of the MoU.

The XLRI director assured that the B-school management would try its best to shape up aspiring entrepreneurs of the state.

XLRI Documentary

Rajesh (Ciggy - xl 99 - Singapore) says :
Karthik is a student @ XLRI Singapore Chapter
We had this at our Alumni meet on 22 September in Singapore.

Prof. Sarin was there and this was shown first there. There are about 30+ students here and they were all bubbling with enthusiasm.

We alumni shared our experiences and Karthik was kind enough to compile this from Madhukar's photo's on the web and then posted this on YouTube.


Message from Karthik : I am enrolled in PGDBM and a full time student here in Singapore, it was a pleasure to see that XLers all over the Globe liked the Documentary. The purpose of the documentary was to show how XL has grown over the years that are why 1 can see pics taken from the year 1949 till date.

My email address is: kar8752[at]gmail[dot]com

Kartik

XLRI to roll out new courses for managers

From Business Standard

Pradipta Mukherjee / Kolkata September 26, 2007
XLRI Jamshedpur, the school of business and human resources, plans to offer a number of courses this fiscal for senior and middle-level managers.

The B-school, for instance, has designed a course for executives and owners of large- and medium-sized enterprises that are in the process of expanding their operations overseas.

According to XLRI officials, there are many instances that led to the designing of the course — the recent ones being the takeovers of Arcelor and Corus by Mittal and Tata Steel, respectively.

Christened “Challenges of Internationalisation: Risks and Strategies”, the course has been designed to meet the HR and management challenges faced by companies planning overseas expansion.

The programme will focus on understanding the challenges of globalisation that Indian businesses face when venturing abroad. This will involve risk assessments of the economic, political, technological and cultural factors to draw up appropriate winning strategies.

According to XLRI, strategies which make a business successful at home are, many a time, redundant in the new environment.

After assessing the environment, the participants would be better equipped to devise strategies for globalisation of their businesses, tailoring the capabilities and resources of their organisations to meet the challenges that may lie ahead. The focus will be on China, India’s primary competitor in Asia.

XLRI has also lined up courses for analysts, traders, fund managers from corporate treasuries, banks, funds, and executives in brokerage houses.

In its introductory course this December on derivatives, the focus will be on understanding the design, pricing and usage of derivatives in general and futures, options and swaps in particular.

According to XLRI, this course would also look at the characteristics of the markets in which these instruments trade and the nature of the players in the market.

The fees of the courses will range between Rs 15,000 and Rs 30,000. The duration of these programmes will be between two days and one month, depending upon the variety, magnitude and complexity of topics covered.

26 Sep : Invite for the Ma Foi Foundation Anniversary Function

The following is the invitation from K Pandiarajan (84BMD),

...the Founder MD of Ma Foi Management Consulting, Director of Madras Stock Exchange, recipient of Eisenhower Fellowship for Leadership...

...among his many other achievements....

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Dear XLers

I have pleasure in enclosing a cordial invitation to attend the first Anniversary of our Ma Foi Foundation (MFF) in Chennai on the 26th Sept 2007. We presently have adopted 1130 poor children from the Sivakasi and Chennai areas from 46 schools – they get scholarship, mentorship and career education from 5th standard to college completion ( Rs 1200 pa upto 10th std, Rs 1500 pa during higher secondary and Rs 5000 pa during college). All our Corporate Social Responsibility efforts have been integrated under MFF since last Sept. We run a School for the underprivileged in Chennai with about 650 children. We have taken micro-finance to about 8000 women through Self-Help Group and fostered about 450 tiny enterprises. We also run a network of about 172 NGO’s under the CIOSA (Confederation of Indian Organisations for Service and Advocacy) banner. We have also recognized 10 Young Achievers (unmined gems) every year during this function. You can get more details about this in www.themafoifoundation.org

The function will start at 6.30 pm and will see a creative expression by some of our Disha Scholars, recognition of achievements, performance by young artists led by Abhaswaram Ramji/Venky (Venky Monkey fame) and networking. I look forward to your support and wishes,

Regards,
K Pandiarajan (84BMD)
Ma Foi Management Consultants Ltd
First Floor, No.49,Cathedral Road,
Chennai - 600 086

Reel route to real world for XLRI kids

From : The Telegraph

XLRI students are a happy lot.

For, film-watching at college has now become a part of their time-tables.

In an effort to make the students aware of life beyond their immediate corporate surroundings, XLRI authorities have decided in a first-of-its-kind initiative to screen movies to “educate” students.

And the students are certainly not complaining about such an education.

This evening, Bafta award-winning film-maker Brian Wood’s film The World Without Water was screened for the students and faculty members.

Wood’s compelling movie tells the intimate and revealing story of the dramatic impact of the battle for water ownership on the lives of four disparate groups of people across the developing world.

It studies the fates of families in Bolivia, India, Tanzania and the USA.

The other films on the watch-list will also mainly be award-winning documentaries and films.

“Be it the industrial sector or the corporate world, there are always two sides to an issue. Mostly managers are only aware of what is going on within the boardrooms but are completely oblivious of what takes place in the real world. So we thought, why not use film as a medium to make aspiring managers aware of real situations?” said Madhukar Shukla, senior faculty at the B-school and the brain behind such exclusive film shows.

So, from films on the Narmada water issue to films about children in brothels and even a speech by Magsaysay award winner P. Sainath, students here have already seen almost five award-winning movies in the past month.

Introduced in the last semester, the films are generally based on some current social issue and explores topics through which students can get a clear picture of how multinationals work beyond the confines of their office space. They will also be exposed to the kind of problems that common people are facing in the name of globalisation.

Earlier, the films shown comprised a lecture by Mohammad Yunus, Drowned Out on the Narmada Issue, Born Without Brothels and next in line would be the BBC special documentary on the 60th year of Indian Independence.

“Right now we are concentrating on general and contemporary issues but later we will take up more relevant issues like environment, rural business and social entrepreneurship,” said Shukla.

The B-school is also planning to screen some international documentaries in the coming days.

Leena (Menon) Nair 92PMIR: among "25 Most Powerful...

http://www.business-today.com/btoday/20071007/cover2.html

HR High Priestess
FMCG giant Hindustan Unilever's first and youngest, woman Executive Director is an HR ace.

Leena Nair
37/ Executive Director (HR), Hindustan Unilever
Education: BE Electronics and MBA from XLRI
Work Experience: 15 years
Career High: First woman ED at HUL
Hobbies: Bollywood movies, reading, outdoor sports and traveling
Success Mantra: Look for a win-win in every situation



It's a hat trick, in some sense. Leena Nair isn't just the first woman to make it to Hindustan Unilever's Management Committee (mc), but also the youngest Executive Director (ED) and that too one in charge of not a profit centre, but human resources. As the HR boss, Nair heads a team of 250 people who look into the well-being of about 15,000 employees across 70 different locations in the country, including 45 factories and four regional offices.

The 37-year-old Nair joined Hindustan Lever (as it was known until recently) straight out of XLRI, Jamshedpur, 15 years ago, and has risen quickly through the ranks. From being a factory personnel manager to management development planning manager to hr manager for the detergents business, Nair has been there, done that....

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Posted By Madhukar to XLRI Alumni: Making News at 9/24/2007 04:19:00 AM

Prof attending the Oxford Leverhulme Programme on the Changing Character of War

Rear Admiral Rakesh Chopra , IN, VSM, (RETD), will be attending the Oxford Leverhulme Programme on the Changing Character of War as a Visiting Research fellow in Michaelmas, Term 2007.

After serving in the Indian Navy for 38 years, on retirement he took up appointment on the faculty of XLRI Jamshedpur, one amongst the top five B-schools in India, as Professor of Strategy and was subsequently appointed as Chairperson of the Strategy Area.

He studied at Bishop Cotton School, Simla. An alumnus of the National Defence Academy and the Defence Services Staff College, he was a founding member and Chief Instructor of the College of Naval Warfare at Karanja, Mumbai. He has also been one of the guiding members on the Directing Staff of the Staff College and Chief Instructor of the Navigation & Direction School.

A specialist in Navigation & Direction and diving, he has navigated several ships, controlled aircraft from the carrier and commanded three major Indian Ships. He has been moving perfectly between multiple roles assigned to him, as part of his four decade long career with the Navy including National Cadet Corps, Flag Officer Sea Training, Joint Ops, Information Warfare and Weapon systems etc.

He commanded a ship in the 1971 Indo Pak war in the Eastern Theatre and was a member of the Indian Peace Keeping Force (IPKF) in Sri Lanka in 1988. Subsequent to this service, he was awarded the Vishisht Seva Medal for exemplary service by the President.

He is an MSc from Madras University and an MBA from a prestigious B school in Mumbai. After doing an MPhil from Mumbai University on “Energy Security”, he was awarded PhD for his thesis on ‘The Strategic Significance of Oil and Gas for the Security of India’.

He is a member of two prestigious institutions dealing with strategic and security matters, the USI, New Delhi, and the Institute of Defence Studies and Analyses, New Delhi. He regularly contributes articles on national security and strategy to professional journals and reads papers at national and international seminars. He is also on the Board of Directors of a think tank ‘Peace Operations Institute’ in Washington DC.

More here http://ccw.politics.ox.ac.uk/people/bios/chopra.asp