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6th february 2010 - Blood Donation Drive

Realizing its corporate social responsibility, “Spirit”- a student run E- Cell of CBS- in association with M.Y. hospital (a government run hospital) organized a Blood Donation Camp on the 6th of Feb 2010.

Despite a jam-packed day with presentations and end-term examinations lined up, most of the students and the entire faculty team at CBS participated in the social cause. The camp helped clarify certain facts about blood donation and also busted out myths about the same. The camp was a huge success and also an opportunity to feel proud of being a part of a social cause.

Association with an NGO- Lending a Helping Hand

Spirit- the Entrepreneurship committee in association with NEEV- the social initiative at CORE extended a helping hand to the needy ladies at Barli Institute of Development. This was the first instance when the students reached out to such an organization working towards the upliftment and self reliance of the ladies from rural areas.

26st Janaury 2010 : Republic Day

Even before the independence of India, the Indian National Congress unfurled the Tri Colour Flag on 1st Jan 1930 and a pledge of was taken that every year 26th January would be celebrated as the “Independence Day“ , so it was the day selected by us as the independence day. Later on India declared herself as Sovereign Democratic Republic on 26th January 1950. The act of framing the constitution puts Mr Bhim Rao Ambedkar into the spotlight, whose extravagance and sharp insights helped in drawing the document. Being true Indians we at CBS were very much enthusiastic to celebrate this patriotic day as a tribute to our Nation.

To commence with the ceremony, our Dean Mr Sunil Chaturvedi hoisted the flag which was followed by the words of our fellow mates. They shared with us how India has evolved in the period of 60 years, how the problems like poverty, corruption, unemployment, terrorism has stunned India, and how we can change our faulty system and strive for a better future. A patriotic song sung by a team of 5 students, gave each one present there Goosebumps on thinking of how our ancestors laid down their lives to give us a free today. It also forced us to think that how fortunate we are to be born in this country.

Republic Day celebration also had a lot of fun element involving in house competitions between the faculty and students. It involved three competitions: Tug of war , a Volleyball match and eating hot ( OVER SPICEY) Kachauries. Tug of War had students as winners while the faculty had a breathtaking victory in the volley ball match. Rahul Shukla topped the list of the number of Kachauries eaten and was declared a clear winner.

31st December 2009 : Management Games

The management games played on 31/December/2009 at CORE B-School throttled young souls towards understanding epilogue of being an MBA. Building tower using straws was one game based on the role of leader in bringing out productivity from a diversified workforce. It very well brought out autocratic and democratic leadership styles present in each individual and their implications for the future.

Another eye-opener was to show vitality of effective communication i.e. communicating with clarity in ideas and better perception. An image was displayed in front of the class with few students kept aloof. How components were dictated from mouth to mouth and how whole set was transformed.

GRAPE WINE networking was thus shown much practically and thereby made clear impression and educating the students at the same time.

24th December 2009 : Mr. Ish Mohan Garg ( RSM – West ) – TATA STEEL

Mr. Ish Mohan Garg from TATA STEEL was the Corporate Guest at CORE on the 24th of December to share his knowledge and experience with the students. After passing out from Aligarh Muslim University as an Electrical Engineer he worked for companies like EXIDE and Siemens before joining TATA STEEL.

He started his session by saying that “No question is Foolish only answers can be stupid”. Mr Garg interpreted the abbreviation CEO as follows:

C - Competency
E - Experience
O - Opportunity

Mr. Garg adviced the students to focus on building their competencies because that is what any organization looks for during placements in a management graduate. Competencies according to him are built only when a person has a willingness/ desire to keep building on his capabilities. He even asked the students to EAT, DRINK, DREAM the company/sector they wish to join so that they are well prepared with any and every information pertaining to that sector. Mr Garg emphasised that even if one gets the Opportunity but without the right mix of competency and experience, the person would not be able to succeed. According to him FOCUS is essential and one should have a very clear goal in mind. What one carries in his brain is the most important thing- more than a degree on a paper. He also stressed on doing HARD WORK in a SMART WAY.

12th December 2009 : Mr. Akhilesh Tilotia – Alumnus, IIM Ahmadabad

Mr. Akhilesh Tilotia graced Core Business School with his presence amongst the students to discuss career options in Finance. Mr. Tilotia did his MBA from IIM, Ahmadabad. He worked as a director at PARK Financial advisors Pvt. Ltd. He also worked as a financial analyst at Kotak Securities and was a Senior associate at the Boston Consultancy Group. Currently he is working as the Head of Family Office Practice at leading share broking firm in India.

During his interaction with the students Mr. Tilotia asked the students to be open to all career options and to be creative in whichever job they land up with after 2 years. He advised them not to take too much of stress with regarding their career options. While describing his life at IIM Ahmadabad he explained how they used to be hungry for doing small projects for practical learning. He asked the students to do the same as it would develop and strengthen their learning during the scheduled lectures. He explained how students can make wise choices of subjects during their second year so that they are open to a wide array of job opportunities as cross functionality makes one more desirable during the placement week.

Mr. Tilotia explained the careers in Private equity, Investment Banking, Fund management, Equity research, Project Finance, Risk Management, Corporate banking, Wealth Management and Retail Banking. While explaining the concept of diversification of companies he quoted Warren Buffet saying, “You make wealth by concentration and you preserve it by diversification”.

Towards the end of the session he emphasised on the importance of networking and also highlighted the important role that an Alumnus can play.

5th December 2009 : Alumnus XLRI

Mr. Mukund Madhav (Consultant, Accenture) – Alumnus XLRI
Mr Mukund Madhav shared his knowledge on Human Resource Management at CORE B-School. With a full diversity of how to manage Human Employment and employee engagement he bestowed the students giving examples from his workplace Accenture. Accenture has 38K-42K employees in India. He shared the vitality of managing employees and terms like Job Rotation and Recruitment and Selection afterwards. He helped the students understand the design of the organization structure for delivery of Talent Management. He explained from his experience of being the HR Consultant and Project Manager, about how to build the team’s capability for client delivery and bringing out the group dynamism within every individual. There’s a leader within every one of us, just the recognition of one’s calibre and hence acting as an arbiter at working levels is required. He came up with the evolving HR Manager practically quite instrumental in Corporate during various crisis, especially when attrition rate exceeding due to Recession.

Different levels of Organisational Management were discussed at extensive levels.

Mr. Amit Kejriwal (Assistant Manager, Indus Towers) – Alumnus XLRI
Mr. Amit Kejriwal explained about understanding emotions for smooth working amidst group, coming up biologically, he made an awareness of brain being divided into 2 parts wherein the left acts for emotional touch points while second responds to physical stimulus. Now people segregate on the basis of emotions form, counted as Emotional Quotient. Aristotle said: “To be angry with right person, right time, right place and right way is emotional intelligence”.

At last there were Management Games conducted for practical implementation of the classroom-oriented seminar by the guests. This is the longest guest lecture held at Core Business School so far which lasted for around 8 hours.

There had been immense knowledge sharing from the guests on the CORE premises.

The Plantation Day

Go green and take the initiative from your door is the need realized by our youth and planted at small arena of CORE campus, small baby plants with beautiful magenta, yellow and red flowers. With such self-satiating ideology the students at CORE B-School extended their approach towards making the environment greener in remembrance of Pt. Jawaharlal Nehru and Mr. Lal Bahadur Shastri who would have anchored the generation next to nurturing the environment when situations are worsening due to global warming and Antarctic snow melting away flaring signals of nature’s upcoming disaster. Our forefathers gave us a healthy world to dwell in and now it becomes our responsibility to hand over the same to young ones who would like these small plants would make up to big and binding trees with strong moral foundation. In the words of Jyoti, student “These plants would be our memoirs too after we receive our MBA degree and age equivalent to our college”. The idea was introduced and brought into action by the Marketing Management Faculty and Student Consultant Mrs. Rekha Attri. “This would be a memorable handout for students and worth learning from. We should grow at each stage of life and always open to learning from each blade of the grass. ”, she says.

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