Vol 3 | Issue 3 | July 2016

CAMPUS BUZZ
Orientation Classes
The orientation classes for the students of
Class of 2018 started from 2nd June, 2016. It was
a 3 day program. During these three days, Prof.
S.C. Sharma, Director, IBS Gurgaon addressed the
students giving them the future vision and how IBS
will play a major role in shaping their personality
and career in upcoming two years; Dr. Anupama
Raina, Dean, Placements made the students aware
about the placement process and gave them
guidelines for effective performance; Dr. Renu Verma, Academic Coordinator shared the details and
guidelines about the academic functioning of PGPM program; Dr. Shalini Khandelwal, Associate
Dean conducted Personality Development sessions and talked to students about the impact of
different personality dimensions on managerial effectiveness; Dr. Vikas Gautam, Advisor - Student
Council, Prof. Ekta Chauhan and Dr. Nidhi Tak, Joint Coordinators, Student Council exposed the
students to the outside classroom activities at IBS which play a major role in overall development of
students at the campus. Prof. Sangeeta Shahane, Area Coordinator, Soft Skills briefed students about
the importance of Soft skills and how it helps in developing the personality and improving career
opportunities for students.
Talk by Director, Prof. S. C. Sharma on “Exit of Raghuram Rajan as the Governor
of RBI”
Prof. S. C. Sharma, Director, IBS Gurgaon, delivered a lecture
on “Exit of Raghuram Rajan as the Governor of RBI” on 21st
June, 2016 in the campus auditorium. Prof. Sharma highlighted
the initiatives taken by Mr. Raghuram Rajan as the Governor of
RBI and the past and current situation of Indian economy. As the
news of Mr. Rajan’s exit made people fear about the crashing of
the economy, Prof. S.C. Sharma shared the other side of the story
stating the loopholes in the system while emphasizing on the
leadership qualities a person should have to take everybody along.
In-house Excel Workshop
During 2-3 May, 2016, Prof. Shweta Sharma, Prof. Shweta
Agarwal, Prof. Sudarshan Burari and Prof. Vandana Jangid
conducted Excel Workshop for ACC, Library & Admin staff
members of IBS Gurgaon. Key deliverables were lookup functions,
conditional formatting, pivot tables, go to function, text functions
like concatenate, data validation google forms, google sheets,
google drive, Mail merge, labels and email messages, twitter
account and social media, followed by problem solving.
From 10th May to 13th May 2016 an in-house excel workshop
for all the faculty members was conducted. Key deliverables were conditional formatting, sorting
&filtering; custom sort, advance filtering, cell referencing, dashboard, power pivot, pivot tables, data
validation, Installation of data analysis tool pack and its practical implementation, Advance Excel tools
likegoal seek, scenario, solver, etc.
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