It was 11^th of July 2012 when Mr.Satish Kumar, MD Henkel India shared with us his Success story through his failures.  Enriching and thought-provoking speech led the students to admire his career path. As a supporter of primary education to illiterate girl children, he had taken us through many facets of his life journey. His work experience states that he had created many market strategies for Brand developing which in turn lost as the competitors had grabbed his strategies before they implemented.

The discussion lead us into some forms of management including :

a)    The speed of decision making

b)    The difference in the culture of markets

c)     Effects of differences in the internal structure of the company.

Shekar Arora, Executive Director, HR Stratefy, Ashok Leyland

On 16^th July we had the privilege of listening to Mr. Shekar Arora, Executive Director Hr strategy at Ashok Leyland.

Armed with a Post Graduate in Personnel Management with specialization in Personnel Management and Industrial Relations, Mr. Arora joined Ashok Leyland in 1981. He has had considerable exposure to international academics and practices with more than 30 years of executive experience spanning a spectrum of industries: textile, chemical, steel and automobile. He has been contributing in areas of enhancing capabilities at both the organizational and individual levels and has introduced best practices in the area of industrial relations. He was awarded scholarship by George Warren Brown School of Social work, Washington University.

He also attended an Advanced Program in HRM at University of California, USA in the year 1996.

The session was very interactive with Mr. Shekar jotting down views expressed by students which formed the crux of his session.

He gave us an insight on how the various functions (HR, Marketing, Finance, IT) work and what impact each function has on business and emphasized on the USP of various functions.

He gave us a very detailed explanation on how a (automobile) company is started and what are the various factors and contingencies that need to be taken into account to start and later expand it. This was a very enlightening experience for us, since it gave us a look into startups from a very experienced person.

In short his session gave us in-depth knowledge about starting a business and the impact each function has on the success of it.