Campus News

International Symposium 2017

 
A batch of 23 from Texas A&M University, Texas visited the Institute as a part of the Symposium on January 9, 2017. Of the 23, 22 were students who were guided by Dr. Julian Gaspar. ‘Samprati’, the event organization club of the college arranged a warm welcome for the Texas students. As a first step towards providing them the comfort, in new environs each of the Texas students were assigned a buddy from SDMIMD. The team also arranged a lot of games and fun events for the Texas students. The ‘Kalanubhav’ club of SDMIMD put together a wonderful evening complete with dance and music. It was a whole new experience for the students from Texas. They thoroughly enjoyed the whole show and even tried to step into the Indian culture, when they danced to the tunes of Indian music. When they parted, the satisfaction was clearly visible in each of their faces. Altogether, it was a learning experience for them as well as us. Different SDMIMD students who got a chance to interact with them were amazed by their perspective of life. 

SDMites bagged the first prize in the Concord 2017

8 students in 2 teams from the 1st year PGDM had participated in the 3 day annual management Olympics organized by IMT Nagpur – Concord 2017 (6-8th of January). Mr.Pratik Ghosh and Mr Pranav Gumaste of Team Matrix bagged the first prize in the marketing event – Marquetix. Whereas Mr Ramachandran R and Ms Poojashree of Team Madcaps bagged the second prize in the systems event- StrategIT. The team also stood 3rd runners up in various other events. There was neck to neck competition with  top B-schools across the country like IIM Ahmedabad, IIM Indore, KJ Somaiya, SIBM Pune, Welingkar Mumbai etc. competiting with each other.

National Conference on Operations Management, Analytics and Statistical Methods

  
SDMIMD had organized a National Conference on Operations Management, Analytics and Statistical Methods on 6th January, 2017 with a theme “Moving Towards Excellence”. 
 
Academicians, research scholars, corporate executives, consultants, and management students from all the three areas had participated and presented papers during the conference. 
 
Mr.R.C.Jagadesh, Director-Global Competence Center-Cement Industry Kluber Lubrication India Private Limited, had delivered the keynote address. Dr. Julian Gaspar, Clinical Professor of Finance & Executive Director Center for International Business Studies, Mays Business School Texas A&M University and Prof.Vasudeva, UGC Emeritus Professor were the distinguished guests for the session.
 
The valedictory function was held in the evening and Mr.Umesh K.Shenoy delivered the valedictory speech. Dr.Srilakshminarayana, Conference chair proposed the vote of thanks. Dr.R.Jagadeesh-Dean Academics, SDMIMD was the distinguished guest for the session. Dr. N. R. Parasuraman, Director – SDMIMD, Dr.H.Gayathri, Deputy Director-SDMIMD, Prof. Rajendra Todalbagi, Conference Co-Chair, and other faculty members of the Institute were present.

Course by Dr. Julian Gaspar, Texas A&M University

Dr. Julian Gaspar, Clinical Professor of Finance and Executive Director, Center for International Business Studies, Mays Business School @ Texas A&M University has delivered an elective course to the SDMIMD Finance students of second year on Contemporary Issues in International Business and Finance. The lecture covered different aspects of globalization, international business, regional economic integration, balance of international payments and exchange rate systems.

CPBM for Skanray Concludes

SDMIMD concluded the 10-month Certificate Program in Business Management (CPBM) for the employee/participants of Skanray Technologies Pvt Ltd., recently. The Program culminated with a simple yet, elegant Certificate awarding ceremony on the December 23, 2016 at Hotel Sandesh The Prince.
 
Participants were awarded the Certificates by the Director of SDMIMD, Dr. N.R Parasuraman. Mr. Vishwa Prasad Alva, Managing Director, Skanray Technologies Pvt. Ltd., was the Guest of Honour.
 
The faculty members at SDMIMD took the Participants through all the streams of Management such as Finance, HR, General Management, Marketing, Operations and Systems during the course of the Program, which closed with a Project Work at their workplace.

Alumnus on Campus - Mr. Rajanikanth Urs M.C
'Organization strategy should be taken forward with a focus on using technology as enabler. This should be the core in all aspects of management. We should explore ways as to how Internet of Things (IoT), Social Media, to put it succinctly, the concept of 'Digital Marketing' can help us in product management, product marketing, customer feedback, and  research & innovation' thus said Rajanikanth Urs M.C., SDMite of PGDM 1998-2000; and, Regional Category Manager, Asia Pacific & Japan, HPE FlexNetwork and Aruba Switching, Aruba, a Hewlett Packard Enterprise Company. 
 
The talk that focused on 'Product Marketing and Management' was scheduled on December 20, 2016 at our Institute Auditorium.

Library to Young Minds by SDMites

 
The Library Initiative For Education at School in short 'LIFE @ School' Team of SDMIMD extended a library to Government Adarsha Vidhyalaya School at Jockey Quarters Mysore. The library was inaugurated by Deepthi and Pranav the students of the School on December 15, 2016.
 
Dr. H Gayathri, Deputy Director, Dr. R. Jagadeesh, Dean-Academics; Prof. Rajendra Todalbagi, Dr. M.V. Sunil of SDMIMD; Mr. Sathish, Head Master of the school; teachers, students from SDMIMD, were present during this inaugural event. 
 

Guest talk by Mr. Manjunath C.S

Mr. Manjunath C.S., an alumnus of SDMIMD and currently working as a Regional manager at L&T Australia addressed the first year PGDM students and shared his experiences. He adviced to students based on his 17 years of rich experience as a business leader. He spoke about how working in Australia amidst different cross cultures, helped him to have a global perspective and he also emphasised students to explore and carefully evaluate the opportunities that they come across before making a decision.

5th International HR conference at SDMIMD

SDMIMD had organized the 5th International Conference on “Managing Human Resources at the workplace” on December 9 & 10, 2016. 
 
More than 150 papers were presented on both the days. Eminent speakers were invited for the technical sessions held during the conference. Around 250 academicians, research scholars, corporate executives, consultants, and management students from India and abroad participated in the conference.
 
The valedictory function of the conference was held on December 10, 2016. Mr. C. Mahalingam was the Chief Guest for the valedictory function. He spoke about the business imperatives like globalization, technology, intellectual capital. He addressed the gathering on measuring HR architecture, Human Capital Maturity, Drivers for measurement and emphasized on the fact that HR managers are the future leaders.
 
Dr. H. Gayathri, Deputy Director-SDMIMD, gave the valedictory speech. Dr. Mousumi Sengupta, Conference Chair, proposed the vote of thanks. Dr. N. R. Parasuraman, Director – SDMIMD, Dr. Nilanjan Sengupta, Conference Co-Chair, and other faculty members of the institute were present.
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