Vritaanta Volume 2 Issue 1 August 2015

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4White CollarITC InterrobangInterrobang literally means a cool non-standard punctuationmark '?!' – intended to express both the interrogative(?) and the exclamatory (!). ITC Interrobang isan annual case study competition open to final-yearHR students. It is an initiative through which ITC engageswith students on campus as students learn howto critically analyse real world scenarios.Interrobang?! aims to provide students precisely thisexperience with ITC on campus — one where they canask/interrogate our leaders to seek insights into ourworld class business practices and be assured of the‘aha!’ moments through stories of challenges and successes.As a run-up to the event, ‘Interroquiz’, a dailyonline quiz is hosted on ITC's talent page on Facebook.Saraogi and Vrinda Khanna did the research and execution,while Saurabh Kumar was our Creative Head,”said Tarun Girdhar, our alumnus. (All four members ofthe team belong to MBA 2013-15, HR).“There is no reward that is, so to speak, tangible,” saysJayati Narula (MBA II HR), “of the extracurricular andno-academic-credit competition. The intrinsic rewardyou get from knowing you did a job well done can beso much more powerful – that is the Number 1 thing Ihave learned.”Is there a Formula for Success?It is not one ingredient. It’s a combination of havingdedicated students who are willing to make sacrificesand have the discipline to train, work as a team and tohelp each other and ultimately to care about winning.“We have collaborated with industry and governmentto understand the types of skills they are seeking whenstudents graduate,” said Dr. R. Raman, Director –SIBM Pune, “with programmes designed to cover allaspects of industry, including increasingly importantissues such as working with multiple stakeholders.”But the real value of such competitions is face-timewith experts. We have extremely well-educated, wellpositionedindividuals in communities who are nowspeaking out about what they believe their neighbourhoodshould look like, bringing the value of their MBAto full use in the real world.An institution that prides itself on encouragingstudents to participate in various such corporate competitions,SIBM’s students have proven their mettletime and again. Last year, Interrobang?! was won bystudents from SIBM Pune. The members of TeamSparx, with their excellent presentation skills and evidentknowledge of the ins and outs of the measuresthey had proposed. “We had divided the work early on,which ensured that we each had certain tasks to accomplish.I took on the role of facilitator, ShilpaTake the Risk; Make The Most Of Your TimeLet it be said that in the end: They made the most of theirtime at SIBM Pune – and they helped their peers do thesame. They transformed themselves, gained life-longfriends, and landed their dream jobs.Now it’s OUR turn to prove our mettle.And it can be summed like this: Be someone; before someoneelse becomes you.August 2015
White CollarWhite CollarWhite Collar5An Evolving MBASIBM Pune has a tradition of updating its curriculum to meet the ever-changing needs of thecorporate world.Dynamic is a word that defines the moderncorporate world. What is trending to business or industrial enterprises but to all organitivemanagement is not limited in its application onlytoday maybe usurped in an instant tomorrow.Thus it has been SIBM Pune’s a Chief Executive or a Manager with the help of asations where the aim is to reach a given goal throughcredo to provide in depth insights into this con-group of workers.stantly trans-morphing world by readjusting its curriculumever so often.The ‘Management Lessons from the Gita’ course isan attempt to bring new perspectives using the BhagavadGita as the main reference frame for drawingout ideas from ancient Indian wisdom. The electiveswere chosen by keeping the broad vision of growthof Indian economy and future scope of globalisationin India in mind.If we look closely, the wisdom of the Bhagavad Gitacontains many leadership lessons that are similar tocontemporary leadership theories and practices. Itprovides, ‘all that is needed to raise the consciousnessof man to the highest possible level.’ Most ofthe management concepts like vision, leadership,motivation, excellence in work, goal seeking, workethics, nature of individual, decision making, planningetc., are discussed in the Bhagavad Gita. Effec-The elective, ‘Doing Business in India’ has been introducedin order to give an overview of key sectors ofbusiness in India and economic as well as environmentchallenges faced in them. The course syllabus alsocovers topics like employment law framework, socioculturaldynamics of corruption and cronyism, entrymodes and dynamics of Indian Markets.‘Indian Film industry: A Business Perspective’, is anelective which describes the current scenario of Mediaand Entertainment Industry in India. The key opportunitiesand challenges faced in Indian film industryneed to be studied with business oriented approach.There are a few threats like piracy in the Indian filmindustry, issues regarding copyright and cultural consonancewhich need be resolved with modern holisticstrategies. This elective comprises all such strategies,taught through a case study method.Apart from this, SIBM Pune has also adopted dual specialisationsystem from this academic year, where studentscan choose their major and minor specialisationsbased on their interest. It is SIBM Pune’s firmbelief that a dual specialisation provides students witha more customised opportunity to learn and imbibeaspects of management that they are interested in.August 2015
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