2012 | SDMIMD

SDMIMD Students present research paper

Aseem A Kabir and Sree Gowri Rao of PGDM 2011-13 participated in National Conference on "Emerging Challenges for Sustainable Business”, at IIT, Roorkee, June 01 & 02, 2012. The students presented a research paper on “Advertising Tactics for Sustenance in Business”. The paper was well appreciated by the session chairs of the conference.

Workshop on Social Media Management

The institute had organised a one-day workshop on Social Media on 2nd June 2012. The workshop which had participation from both Industry and academia was facilitated by Prof. Malathi Sriram, Dr. Neetu Ganapathy and Prof. Mohamed Minhaj. During the workshop, Mr. Danny G Sam, Director-Operations of Adroitte, Bangalore discussed various aspects related to building social media presence for companies and Mr. Vinay, Founder, RoyalMysoreWalks explained how he leveraged social media for his entrepreneurial advantage.

Workshop on R-Excel

The Hands-on Workshop on R-Excel was held during June 01 & 02, 2012 at SDMIMD Mysore. Dr S Ravi from Department of Statistics, University of Mysore, inaugurated the workshop and delivered the Keynote address on “The Cult of Statistical Significance”. Dr Ravi called on Researchers to give adequate importance while understanding a problem, defining objectives and connect themselves deeply with the dynamics of Society, while collecting the research data. Earlier, Dr N.R. Parasurman, Director of the Institute welcomed the participants. The researchers are expected to be benefited with a wide variety of advanced statistical techniques in Microsoft Excel and to move further by using freeware add-in. Prof. Malathi Sriram, Professor-Systems; Prof. J. Balaji, Professor - Quantitative Methods, and Dr. Srilakshminarayana, Professor - Statistics, of SDMIMD, Mysore were the resource persons.

SDMites Won Prize in Anti-Drug Ad Making Competition

Mr. Syed Mamoon Hasan and Mr. Sagar R. Chimurkar of PGDM 2011-13 Batch, have won 2nd prize for their video in Anti-Drug Ad Making Competition – Parivartan organized by Sydenham (SIMSREE), Mumbai. They won the prize by beating many teams including IIM Kozhikode, MICA, IMT Nagpur, SIMC, ITM and several others.

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MDP on “Finance for non-Finance Executives”

with a view to survive and grow steadily in domestic and international business. Non Finance Executives need to know the basic nuances of Finance and its Management. To cater information on this very important area, a short Management Development Program was conducted on 11th and 12th 2012 at SDMIMD. Dr Ullas Rao, Asst Professor – Finance coordinated the Program.

Workshop on e-Learning with MOODLE

SDMIMD conducted a two day workshop on E Learning with MOODLE Installation, Customization, Course and content upload, Online Quiz and Result Analysis, commencing May 4, 2012. Dr N.R. Parasuraman Director inaugurated with formal welcome and stressed upon need of eLearning. Dr. Sunil M.V, the workshop coordinator shared the design of this hands-on workshop. Prof. Malathi Sriram, Prof. M. Minhaj and Dr. Sunil M.V. were the resource persons of the workshop.

Faculty Development Program 2012

With a view to hone teaching skills and keep pace with changing trends in management education, SDMIMD started off with Faculty Development Program on May 10, 2012. The week long program scheduled from May 10 to 16 2012, attracted Faculty Members from number of Colleges within the State of Karnataka. Dr N.R. Parasuraman Director SDMIMD, while speaking on the occasion of inauguration said – “in order to keep up the learning interests of the students, faculty members need to continuously exercise innovations in teaching and demonstrate contemporary business cases. Students must get acquainted with analyzing techniques”.

SDMites won Overall Championship @ Kurukshetra 2012

SDMites won an OVERALL Championship at Kurukshetra 2012 – the B-School Management Event organized by Manipal Institute of Management, Manipal on February 13 and 14, 2012. The success achieved by PGDM 11-13 Batch in the several events in Kuruskshetra 2012 has contributed to the overall championship for SDMIMD. The events included the Off Rodies won by Elizabeth Betsy Joy;Finance Event by Mayank Jindal & Soumya M V; the runners-up of the HR Event Riteshsingh Rathore & Shashank Pote and IT Event Ashiq Nk & Rahul M K. and also extraordinary efforts of participants Marketing by Binit Kumar Jha, Nirnay Prakhar, Priyanka Prashad & Vijeth Anburmath: Best CEO by Jacob Thomas; B-Plan by Aseem A Kabir, Jayakrishnan Nair, Kaushik S & Vinay Kalal; B-Quiz by Sahil Sinha & Pankaj Naik; HR: Brunda M & Shwetha K B. All these awards culminated into the Overall Championship.

SDMites won Impressa and Dwandwa competition at IFMR, Chennai

Students from SDMIMD participated in the Debate competition - Dwandwa and B Plan Event - Impressa organized by IFMR, Chennai on 4th Feb 2012. Manu Govind and Nikita Ajwani of PGDM 11-13 won the second place in Dwandwa – which included series of elimination round. Another team from PGDM Batch 10-12 comprising of Vikram Arora and Aroon Sheshadri participated in Dwandwa and Vikram Arora won 'Best Interjector' Award. SDMites also won a consolation prize in the ‘Impressa’ event. The team consisted of - Vinay Bothra, P. N. Rameez, Parth Poddar, Rohit Roy and Siddhi Agrawal of PGDM 11-13.