Induction Program for the 7th Batch @Chennai Business School
The induction
program for the batch of 2013 was kick started by Mr. Amrolia, CEO, Chennai Business
School
The start of the
Induction Programme saw a spirited discussion between the students and Mr.
Amrolia on the current facets of the Indian Economy and the relationship and
implication on the students. The
discussion witnessed a fair amount of numbers and statistics which were being
related to actual scenarios, Mr. Amrolia tactfully conducted the
discussion and emphasized on the fact that students must be aware of the
current business scenario on a global scale.
Mr
Satish Kumar, ex MD Henkel
It
was 11th of July 2012 when Mr.Satish Kumar, MD Henkel India
shared with us his Success story through his failures. His enriching and
thought-provoking speech led the students to admire his career path. As a
supporter of primary education to illiterate girl children, he took us through
many facets of his life journey. His work experience states that he had created
many market strategies for brands which in turn were lost as the competitors
had grabbed his strategies before they implemented.
The
discussion leads 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.
Mr
Sadasivam, Governing Council Member,CBS
Mr.Sadasivam,
a chartered accountant with over 25 years of experience and also a member of
Governing Council of Chennai Business School, addressed the gathering on 6th day
of our induction program. He emphasized that newspapers are an important tool which
aids in the learning process for students and advised us to read newspapers to
enhance their knowledge and keep abreast of the on-going developments in
various fields like politics, economics, science, sports or art and culture.
In
addition, he spoke on various issues causing global concerns like sub-prime
crisis, European Union and the unfolding Euro zone debt crisis and their impact
on Global and Indian economy. He also focused on stability of market and the
issues arising out of programs like NREGS and freebies and subsidiaries from
the Government to the common man due to problems in implementation.
He
made us realize that we should be constantly updating ourselves on issues of Global
and domestic importance as many nations today are going through economic and
political turbulence.
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 start-ups
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.
Alok Singh
talks about cloud computing
Mr
Alok Singh is the Chief executive Officer and Managing Director at Novatium
Solutions Pvt ltd. His lecture focused on the various opportunities in the field
of Information Technology and related emerging issues. He immediately struck a
chord with the audience. He gave detailed insights on cloud computing. He told
us about how the gadget world will simplify itself and most machines would
depend on cloud. The various issues covered in the discussion were Decision
Making, Emergence of new Business Models and people participating in masses. He
shared his experiences as to how cloud had already made a small but significant
inroads in our lives. Above all the session was intellectually enlightening.
The middle of
induction program had a session with Mr Ramakrishnan, MARG properties, leading
the students into the chasm of balance.The session was a discussion for
following the essential way in balancing work and personal life often stressing
on truth and visibility both in terms with work teams and with family teams.
The session also
saw some brilliant splitting of prefixes and suffixes by Mr Ramakrishnan in the
process of explaining the states that ought to be achieved if one were to focus
on attaining balance in their lives.
The end of the
session saw Mr Ramakrishnan giving out a meditation exercise complete, with a
background soundtrack, which refreshed the students and pushed them into a
promising mood for their time in CBS.
Pradipto
Mohapatro, Chairman CBS
Pradipta Mohapatra,
Chairman & Co-founder of Coaching Foundation India, addressed the students
by kickstarting the session by comparing us with totems. Every individual’s
characteristic can be related to an animal or a totem, wherein our potentials,
self-analysis, intellectual personality were noticed. Through his experiences
in mentoring an coaching CEOs he enriched us to know “where we are and where we
want to go”. He also shared his high school memories which lead our way to
perseverance. It was a knowledge-based interesting session which lasted to 120 minutes.
