Twinkling Stars–The ASER Experience

By,  JINS JOSE,  MBA 09–11,

SIBM – Bangalore,

It was the cool morning of last Sunday, 1^st November. One call woke me up from the deep sleep (I was too tired doing nothing the previous day). It was Abhishek, to remind me about the SRC event (ASER) I had volunteered for, few days before. While waking up I was calculating the opportunity cost – the first Sunday at SIBM Bangalore as an official holiday!!!! My roomie was still sleeping. But it was my pleasure to wake up someone in deep sleep. He was also there for the event. After the quick breakfast,  me, Ankit and Sumit left for Bagaluru village in shivajinagar. We reached at Bagaluru at around 10 am, met with the ASER volunteers and the delegate from Deutsche bank.

Bagaluru is a small village, around 70 km far from our college. Our aim was to take part in the ASER (Assessment Survey Evaluation Research) to evaluate the learning level of students between age 6–14 in the village. We had to cover a total of 20 households having school going children. The ASER volunteers were planning to cover the 20 houses with the whole team together. But we applied our managerial skills, came up with the suggestion of ‘Division of Labour’ and divided ourselves in to 2 teams so as to finish the work soon.

COLLOQUIUM ON THE CHANGED WORLD AND RISK IMPLICATIONS

SIBM Bangalore organised ‘Colloquium-09’, a symposium on The Changed World and Risk Implications on the 10^th September 2009. The event was marked by speakers of eminence viz.,

• Dr. Jyoti Navare, Head of Dept. (Marketing & Enterprise), Middlesex University Business School
• Mr. Sambasivan, COO, Deutsche Bank
• Mrs. Kalpana Balasubramaniam, Director, KPMG
• Dr. Harkant Mankad, Dean Emeritus, Russell Square International College, Mumbai

Mr. Satendra Singh, Operations Director(India) of Nokia Siemens Networks @ SIBM-B

Mr. Satendra Singh, Operations Director(India) of Nokia Siemens Networks visited the SIBM-B campus for a brief interactive session with the students of the first year batch.

Guest Lecture by Mr JITEN SANDU on SUPPLY CHAIN MANAGEMENT

Mr. Jiten Sandu, Business Unit Head, Global Supply Chain Management, i2 Technologies Inc., had an interactive session with the students of SIBM-B on the 4^th of August. The discussion centred around supply chain management and associated concepts. He talked about the importance of supply chain management and effective logistics management with respect to companies both big and small.

INDEPENDENCE DAY CELEBRATIONS IN SIBM

SIBM Bangalore celebrated the 62^nd independence day at its campus here. The celebration started with a flag-hoisting ceremony at 7 30 AM. Prof.N.S.Ramaswamy, a Padma Bhushan receiver and National Professor for Management for the Government of India hoisted the flag and marked the event with his esteemed presence. Prof. Pankaj Gupta and Prof.N.S.Ramaswamy then gave inspiring speeches to the students gathered for  the occasion.

Biking Event Organized By Team Daayitva,SRC@SIBM Bangalore

The Social Responsibility Committee of Symbiosis Institute of Business Management, Bangalore,

conducted a Biking Awareness Camp at their campus today, in association with Ride A Cycle
Foundation, Bangalore Bicycling Club, Bums On The Saddle & Decathlon B-Twin. The event was

a continuation of the Go Green Campaign conducted by SRC, SIBM-B.

SIBM-B ORGANISES BLOOD DONATION CAMP

The students of SIBM Bangalore, on 31^st July, organised a Blood Donation camp to commemorate the birthday of their founder father Padmashree Dr.S.B.Mujumdar. The social responsibility team of SIBM B organised the event in collaboration with  the Indian Red Cross .

Rotaract- Team Daayitva

SIBM-B’s team Daayitva showed its unflinching zeal to reach out to the community by organising an interactive session between the members of the Rotary Club of Bangalore, Indiranagar(RCBI) and the students of the college, on the 18^th of July, in an attempt to help the students understand the importance of having a Rotaract Club on campus .

Guest Lecture by Mr MVS Prasad

Mr.MVS Prasad, CFO of Concorde Motors, a TATA Motors subsidiary, presented a guest lecture to the students of SIBM 2009-11 batch today. Concorde Motors is a fully owned subsidiary of TATA motors with operations in five major cities in India. Mr. Prasad had previously been associated with TATA motors for 10 years and before that with Hindustan Lever.

MARKET WATCHERS

MARKET WATCHERS, a unique initiative taken by the students of SIBM-B, was an informal discussion between the newly inducted junior batch and the more seasoned senior batch about the present financial market scenario, current share market variations and many other related topics.

Great Depression: Apocalypse Again??

It all started with the fall of “Northern Rock” in UK. Then came the “Countrywide” and “Bear Stearns” – which caught the eye of the world. “Could this be for real?” was what everybody thought. But worst was still to come. Among the fallen giants was Lehman Brothers – a company whose balance sheet was bigger than most of the developing countries. If Credit Suisse is to be believed the situation is going to worsen in 2009.But what are we talking about here – well for starters we are talking about the financial crisis that has engulfed the United States and is now spreading across the world. Many are even comparing it to the Great Depression! Is it really that bad? To answer that question let’s first see what was the “Great Depression”.

THE PEGASUS EXPERIENCE

Management is 20% learnt from classrooms and 80% from experiences. We, the SIBM B 2009-11 batch students got a chance to grab a bite of that 80% experience at the Pegasus Institute of Excellence, situated nearly 100 km from the campus. Pegasus, a concept ideated by Capt. Ravi who had been a part of the Indian Army’s parachute wing, before moving to the corporate sector, combines military methods and corporate expectations to provide a fresh learning experience. The whole idea of the exercise is to draw people out of their comfort zones and to make them learn the art of management of men and resources by themselves through first hand experiences.

Apart from learning, the element of fun and adventure was always there. There is no better way to express this than the fact that we were greeted at the Pegasus campus by a sedate scorpion and a curious Great Indian rock python just within an hour of our arrival! Apart from members of the animal kingdom, there were humans too – the facilitators and staff of Pegasus whom we befriended over the next two days.

Rail Budget 2009-10

Key Highlights of Rail Budget 2009

1. Budget support to railways increased from Rs. 10,000 cr to Rs. 15,000 cr.
2. Tatkal revamped, advance period cut from 5 to 2 days, minimum premium reduced from Rs 150 to Rs 100.
3. 50 Railway stations, including CST Mumbai, Nagpur, Pune, Howrah, Sealdah, Varanasi, New Delhi, Lucknow, Jaipur, Kanpur, Chennai Central, Thiruvananthapuram Central, Secunderabad, Bangalore, Byappanahalli, Ahmedabad, Bhopal, Habibganj, Agra Central, Chandigarh, Kolkata, New Jalpaiguri, Puri and Kochi will be developed to have world-class facilities.
4. Railways to develop 50 multi-functional complexes with shopping malls, food stalls, medicines and variety stores in different parts of the country.
5. Railways to introduce 57 new trains, 27 extended, 13 made more frequent, 53 new lines being considered. Infotainment services to be provided in major long-distance trains.
6. One doctor to be posted on long distance trains.
7. 375 stations to be turned into “Adarsh stations” with drinking water, toilet.
8. Unreserved ticketing terminals to be expanded from 5000 to 8000. Automatic ticket vending machines to be increased. Arrangement with Department of Posts for issuance of tickets.

SIBM Bangalore Presents : “Budgetonomics – The economics behind Budget 2009”

Finally the budget has been announced! Is it really as gloomy as the markets suggest or is there some hidden boon in it? Let’s find out!

After the much acclaimed success of the Newsletter titled “Pre Budget Analysis” by the Research Committee of Symbiosis Institute of Business Management (Bangalore), under the valuable guidance of our esteemed Director- Prof. Pankaj Gupta,  we now proudly present “Budgetonomics” – a round table conference on Post Budget Analysis – and its effect on the Indian Economy. Panelists include eminent speakers and financial heads from RBI, ICAI, BEML, etc who will sit, discuss and analyse the budget and what it brings with it. The budget disappointed many investors and the markets slumped sharply the day budget was announced. We hope to find out the answers to this and many other questions and benefit from the industry viewpoint through this discussion.

Venue:  Auditorium, Symbiosis Campus,

Electronic City, Bangalore

Date :       10/07/2009

Time:       5:00 pm – 7:00 pm

For further queries and admission details, please contact:

Bikash Sahoo – 09742480073

Jt. Co-ordinator

Corporate Relations Committee

corporate.relations@sibm.edu.in

SIBM Bangalore

“Budgetonomics”

The Finance Bill, or the Union Budget as we popularly know it, is one of corporate India’s most awaited annual events. Each year after the budget is announced, it triggers widespread debate amongst the masses and the intelligentsia alike. This year after the resounding re-election of the UPA government, the entire nation was looking up in anticipation as to what the budget would hold for us. A week after the budget was announced, SIBM Bangalore took the initiative to decipher the true meaning of the budget for the common man and what it meant for its current batch of students who’d go on to leadership positions in corporate India in the years to come. SIBM Bangalore invited eminent personalities from the corporate world and academia, in an interactive panel discussion to share their invaluable insights on Budget 2009 and its implications on our economy.

SIBM Bangalore @ PagalGuy

SIBM Bangalore’s Inaugural function

Symbiosis Institute of Business Management (SIBM) Bangalore, welcomed their junior batch in an opening ceremony presided over by the chief guest, ex- Chief Election Commissioner of India, Mr. T.N.Seshan, followed by Padmashree Dr. S.B.Mujumdar, Chancellor, Symbiosis International University, Dr. Vidya Yeravdekar, Principal Director, Symbiosis Society & Mr. Jagdish Kini, CEO, Enterprise 5C, an alumnus of SIBM. Mr. T.N.Seshan, graced the launch of Symbiosis Institute of Media and Communication, Bengaluru alongside the orientation of the Second Batch of Symbiosis Institute of Business Management, Bengaluru, on 1^st July.

Guest Lecture By Prof Armoogum Swamy

Prof Armoogum Sway – Professor – Culture and Technology, France interacted with students of SIBM, Bangalore on 7^th July 2009 on the topic, Intercultural Management Practices: Dealing with multicultural teams, understanding differences in team projects.

Guest lecture by Mr Ram Mohan Roy

Mr. Ram Mohan J Rao, Exec. Director at TNS India, Bangalore; visited SIBM on 11^th July 2009. He spoke to the marketing batch regarding the importance of marketing research. He strongly felt that marketing research reduces the risk of failure. It does so by uncovering information which might have Ram overlooked by a company.