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 11^th 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 6^th 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.