I am sending with this
the summed up details of the 10 days programme - which had the following
business leaders visiting the Institute and talk to the students from 7th
November to 16th November.
· Mr. Ashish Kumar Chauhan – MD & CEO of
Bombay Stock Exchange,
· Mr Challa Rajendra Prasad –MD of Continental
Coffee,
· Mr. R Sridhar – MD & CEO
of Shriram Capital,
· Mr. Sanjeev Agarwal – CEO
of Helion Adviso Pvt Ltd,
· Mr Ramana Prasad Alam – CEO of
Amara Raja Electronics,
· Dr. Debasis Chatterjee – CEO
of Netxell LImitede,
· Mr. Sudip Bandopadhyay – MD & CEO
of DestimoneySecurities,
· Dr Badri Shshadri – MD of
Ne Horixon Media,
· Mr Rahul Chowdhary – Founder
of DenuOsource,
· Ms Saundarya Rajesh – Founder CEO
of Avtar Career Creators,
·
Institute
of Management Technology (IMT) Hyderabad held third edition of its cutting-edge
Business Orientation Program (BOP)
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Understanding the significance and value
of holistic learning, practical discussions, and encouraging enthusiastic
curiosity, Institute of Management Technology (IMT) Hyderabad is organising an
exclusive program, which provides students of the institute an opportunity to
enquire and learn from India’s most relevant business leaders through
discussions and lectures.
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Called the Business Orientation Program
(BOP), the enriching 11-day long programme is designed for the first year
students and involves lectures by the Indian corporate giants from BFSI, FMCG,
manufacturing, consulting, infrastructure, digital and social media,
automotive, agri-business, commodity services, telecom and business analytics
sectors among others.
·
The 3rd edition of BOP was
launched at IMT, Hyderabad this week, helping outline the dynamics pertaining
to a particular sector with leaders sharing their experiences in building a
successful and sustainable business. The event started with Mr. Challa Rajendra
Prasad, MD of CCL Products (India) Ltd talking about his journey in making his
company the largest exporter of instant coffee from India. In his advice to the students he mentioned that dedication is the key to success. His
entrepreneurial spirit surely motivated all the students.
·
Mr. Sanjeev Aggarwal,
Senior MD of Helion Advisors Pvt. Ltd spoke about the initial
days of struggle during the 80s and 90s when starting a business in India
required working closely with the Government, how he persevered in these efforts
and started a venture capital business in the late nineties. He later started
Daksh, which in four years became the fastest growing BPO Services Company in
the country. Mr. Aggarwal stressed on
the need for cross-functional knowledge and the value of investing in companies
one wants to see grow. He spoke about the need for innovative businesses
requiring young, fresh ideas and execution intensive businesses requiring
cross-functional experience.
·
Mr. Ramana Prasad Alam, CEO of Amara
Raja Electronics was present to share his keen insights and extensive industry
experience with the students of the institution. Amara Raja is one of India's
leading conglomerates and offers a wide range of products from batteries, power
solutions to electronics and fruit juices. Prasad’s interactive session took
the students through the successful three decades of Amara Raja Group. The crux
of his session was on the need for companies to adapt to changing market
realities and to be prepared to face disruptive scenarios when industries are
morphing, boundaries merging. Capturing the growth of his company through the
years, he lucidly highlighted how a company could turn its future around by
always staying connected with the customers.
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Mr. Ramesh Iyer, MD & CEO of
Mahindra Finance also visited the campus. The audience were held captive by his
charming personality and intellectual thoughts. He highlighted the need to
improve strengths rather than focus on weaknesses. As a key take away from the
session, students mentioned that they learnt “Greed should never overtake judgement”. More insights such as
“Always respect what you get and the most of it” enthralled and inspired the
students.
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Another speaker, Mr. Rahul Chowdhury,
Co-founder & Board Member of Reboot Systems India Pvt. Ltd. spoke about
‘Analytics and Entrepreneurship’, an area he is most passionate about. A
visionary and a first generation entrepreneur, Mr. Chowdhury began his address
to the students by mentioning that education is about laying a foundation to
figure out what needs to be done for the future and it is not just about books.
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To the young budding entrepreneurs, he
said, “Entrepreneurs don’t have everything figured out; that there are hundred
choices – all imperfect; the challenge is to make that one choice that is most
perfect of those imperfect choices.” His vivid account of the journey as a
student, a corporate employee and later as a business graduate at the
prestigious Kellogg School of Management, Illinois, USA inspired the students.
·
Ms. Saundarya Rajesh, Founder &
President, AVTAR Career Creators & Flexi Careers India, visited the campus
to address the institute’s students today. Described as a maverick
entrepreneur, she made the students cognizant about the absence of the concept
of a sustainable career for women in the early 90s. The impediments faced by
her at that time made her lay the foundation for AVTAR Career Creators. The
organization believes in gender diversity and inclusion of women in corporate
India.
·
Ms. Rajesh took the students through her
inspiring journey as a woman entrepreneur in a particularly novel sector and
the successful creation of a niche market. AVTAR Career Creators stands for
recruitment, talent strategy and talent acquisition and most importantly,
giving women a second chance to enjoy a career.
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Mr.
Ashish Kumar Chauhan – Managing Director and CEO of Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE)
addresed students at the IMT Campus in Hyderabad on Saturday, 16th November. Chauhan
felt, “If you want to be on the top
always, start doing new things every day, keep adding value to yourself every
day”. This faith has taken Chauhan to where he stands today. The humblest
of people are never afraid to accept their deficiencies.
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Chauhan, in shifting
from a Gujarati medium to English, faced problems, acknowledged them and
eventually overcame them. There was no stopping him then.
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From setting up NSE to working towards
financial inclusion, he has always been sincere to his job. Spot, forward and
options trade can explain everything in life, according to him. He explained
the concept of agreement to exchange and settlements – giving students a new
insight that were unaware of. Chauhan is of the view that not just various
stock markets, but also any technologically intensive industry was a
competition to BSE. He strongly believes that we have to learn as a society to
bring to an end what is not relevant in order to evolve and progress.
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During the BOP, a student team called
‘anchor team’ is assigned to each business leader. This team undertakes
extensive research on the sector, analyzing the characteristics as well as the
challenges in the sector. The anchor team helps in enhancing the session
learning by raising current issues as well as posing questions of relevance
which would be beneficial to every prospective employee in that sector. At the
end of the program, the students are evaluated on any two sectors of their
choice thus helping reinforce and crystallize key learning. The faculty evaluates
students after taking inputs from the respective business leader.
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Dr. Debasis Chatterjee – CEO of Netxcell
Ltd, Sudip Bandopadhyay – MD & CEO
of Destimoney Securities Pvt. Ltd, Dr. Badri Shashadri – MD of New Horizon
Media were among the other speakers who
visited the campus this year. Mr. Rampraveen Swaminathan – CEO of AP Paper Ltd
will address the students of the institute during the coming days of the
programme.
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IMT Hyderabad offers a number of
innovative and well-recognized management programs that include PGDM, Executive
PGDM, Fellowship Program, and Executive Education Programs. In a little over
two years since its inception, the institute has built strong industry goodwill
and engages with members of the corporate world at several levels that include
course and curriculum development, delivering courses alongside faculty
members, consulting projects and research opportunities, guiding students on
projects, and through networking.
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The Institute has a state of the art
30-acre campus situated near the Rajiv Gandhi International Airport in
Hyderabad. Its PGDM program has an innovative and industry relevant curriculum
with integrated courses that provide a holistic picture and learning about real
life business situations and problems. The pedagogic approach followed by the
institute is student centric, participative, experiential and team-based. As a
part of its efforts to prepare the students for the industry, 30% of the
sessions in the regular courses are conducted by practitioners from different sectors
of business.
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