CAMPUS BUZZ ...

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.

 

21st October Mr. Avinash Oza – Ogilvy & Mather

Mr. Avinash Oza from Ogilvy & Mather interacted with the students and made them aware of the careers in the field of advertising. He is a part of the Ogilvy Outreach (A wing of Ogilvy Action) which concentrates into the rural market survey and advertising. He emphasized how important it is to gather the right information from the people and also design communication activities which are simple and the message is conveyed across clearly. Mr. Oza showed audio visuals to sensitize the students on how creative advertisements are conceived and thereafter produced.

He also made this point clear that in changing times the role of Ad. Agencies have also undergone a change from being mere producers of mass advertising campaigns to giving 3600 Advertising solutions to their clients. He elaborated how ground activation of certain products is done in the rural market and the importance of identifying the congregation points in each such activation.

The students got to interact with Mr. Oza on two separate occasions where in one session he covered the importance of communication and in the second session he elaborated on how they are working in the rural market  towards building a particular Brand. He emphasised that Rural area is the key concern form almost all big organizations and there is a huge career potential in this segment.

 

7th, 8th, and 9th October - MANTHAN 09

CORE Students flying the flag high at MANTHAN 09 in the ramparts of PIMR Indore

Success can never be parameterized ; however a marvellous effort has been made by our students who carved a niche for the school. Core as an entrant emerged a glory at Manthan ’09 (annual fest at Prestige Institute of Management and Research) which led to  celebration and joy. Of the total of 14 events held at Prestige and more than 20 colleges participating for the same, Core Business School students  won accolades in 6 events by participating in 10 separate categories.

The students were judged winners in the Ad mad Show, Role Playing, Creative Writing and Business Model Presentation which became the ruling domain. The group dance became the reeling shore where the team CBS bagged the second prize and  the second runners up position in the  Antakshari  contest cosmetizing the success epilogue.

 

Details of CBS Laureates

Antakshari	:	Pallavi & Purva	-	2nd runners up
Group Dance	:	Alok Pandey, Prerana, Ravi Ajmera, Vijay Dabar, Chitranshi Tomar and  Nikhil Kumar	-	1st runners up
Ad Mad Show ( Sell Ice to Eskimos) “ Black and Ugly Cream”	:	Ravi Ajmera, Savi Bhandari, Priyank Jain and Himanshu Sadhwani	-	Winners
Role Play ( Scene at Shop Floor)	:	Deep Tharani, Ashutosh Laddha, Priyank Jain, Abhishek Jaiswal, Apoorv Jain, Savi Bhandari, Rahul Shukla and Manit Kaur	-	Winners
Creative Writing ( A Stitch in time saves nine)	:	Pallavi	-	Winners
Business Model Presentation ( Max-i- fresh)	:	Vijyeshwari Singh Deo, Manit Kaur Tuteja, Jyoti Lilani and Deep tharani

 

This success of the students reiterated the very famous saying which goes as:

Life’s battles don’t always go to the stronger or faster man. But sooner or later, the man who wins is the man who thinks he can. You don’t give it a try you strive and conquer.

 

25th september - Garba Nite

 

 

19th September- Corporate Interaction with Mr. C.M. Attri- Tata Steel

12th September- Corporate Interaction- Sandeep Neema- Impetus

Mr Sandeep  Neema  from Impetus had a fruitful interaction with the students wherein he emphasized the importance of decision making. According to him there is no right or wrong decision .  In the practical world it is all about judgements based on situational context. He brought to light that Innovation is the field where there are higher chances of making big money and that is the sole reason why America has attained the enviable position today.

He advised the students to start differentiating themselves by acquiring skills and specialization. If that is not done they would be just another MBA and be treated like herd. Mr. Neema explained to the students the Bull Whip effect while discussing the reasons for the Recession. He sensitised the class by involving the students in discussing strategies for selling Match Sticks and children comics like “Champak/Nandan”. It was an engrossing exercise where students could get a flavour of how difficult it is to make implementable strategies.

Apart from these activities he even discussed a case which the students were provided before his visit. The students were made to understand that if you can do something then the competition can also imitate. The biggest challenge for anyone in the industry today is how to maintain a lead and differentiate.

 

Sept 1 2009

The students of Core Business School had an opportunity to interact with Mr. Nikhil Chaturvedi, Chairman and Managing Director of Provogue India Ltd. He is the person who took his company from 60 lakhs to 36 crores. During his interaction with the students, he told that often good ideas are shot down by old school of thoughts.

Mr. Nikhil Chaturvedi also shared his learning with the student and one of those learning’s was never to oversell and also avoid selling to the person who does not need it. at times smartest and wisest don’t accept new ideas. The future business managers should not get disturbed by failures as each failure teaches something new. Recession according to him is an opportunity as bigger companies are created in downturns rather than upturns.  His interaction with the student was followed by a Press conference.

 

Management Games

The students participated in the “FEAR DRAG” game wherein they learnt that it is better to drag the fear behind and not let the fear overpower you and in turn drag you behind. It was a fun filled game of thrill, suspense and lot of excitement. It  was also an ice breaking activity which gave an opportunity to the students to interact and know their fellow classmates.

 

 

Another game conducted was “WORD POWER” game. Through this game it was emphasized how team work helps in accomplishment of the goals. It was highlighted how difficult it is to work in a team when one has to think about the inputs of each team member and also work keeping in mind the ultimate objectives and goals.

 

 

 

Collage Making Contest

The class participated in the Collage making contest on the 27th of August. They were required to exhibit any business topic through their creativity.

 

 

 

 

The winners were the group comprising of Savi Bhandari, Sonal Lodha, Priyank Jain, Abhishek Jaiswal, Ravi Ajmera and Ankur Mundra. Their collage was on the topic of Recession which scored high on concept and creativity

 

 

 

 

Management Quiz

Four exciting rounds of management quiz was conducted on the 27th Aug 2009 to provide  an exercise  to the business minds of the students. 

The winning teams were as follows:

I prize : Samar, Jyoti and Ankita
II prize : Jayesh and Ashutosh
III prize : Savi, Ravi and Abhishek