Amrita
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of Business

COLLOQUIA

ASB Student

Industry Interface

Over the years, Amrita School of Business has undertaken an extensive continuum of Industry Interface activities like Management Colloquia, Management Development Programmes, Consultancy and Customized In-Company Programmes. We have industry experts coming to ASB every year not only from India, but also from the world bringing with them immense valuable information in the form of their experience from the industry they worked in, the culture of their country and the learning's which give our students an edge over those from most other reputed institutions.

Management Colloquia

Industry professionals over the years have been visiting Amrita School of Business and sharing their valuable knowledge which they have gained over the years. They act as a colossal source of knowledge. This way the students get an industry exposure through the speaker's experience. The industry experts who have visited the campus in the past few years include:

Name of the person
Topic
Date

2009

Mr. PNSV Narasimham
Executive Head HR, UBS
Changing the Downturn
April 5
Mr. Biju Dominick
CEO, Final Mile Consultancy
Learning Marketing from Politicians and Beggars
April 4
Mr. R. S. Rajan, Director,
Sr. VP, Ion-Exchange
Meeting Challenges in Today's Environment
February 24

2008

Prof. Jay Mishra, Professor,
Harvard Business School
Rest In Peace - Good Times
December 12
Mr. Sarath Babu, Founder CEO, FoodKing Catering Services Pvt. Ltd. Food King - The Journey So Far
November 8
Dr. Kezevino Aram, Director,
Shanti Ashram and Distinguished Alumni of Harvard School of Public Health
Is a healthy start to life possible for children in India today?
November 5
Mr. Arjun Prakash , Co-Chair,
Young Indians, Coimbatore Chapter
Mr. Omkar Vikram Shankar
CEO, Shankar Foundations
CII Yi - We Can, We Will
October 23
Mr. E. R. Sainath, General Manager, Reliance Communications Getting Acquainted to Telecom
October 21
Mr. Binoay, Assistant Vice-President, Marketing, IDEA Branding Communication
September 24
Swami Someshwarananda, Chairman, Vivekananda Centre for Indian Management Indian System of Management
September 17
Dr. Vijay Ramakrishnan
Founder & CEO, Pikamab Inc,
California Entrepreneurship
Entrepreneurship
July 22
Mr. Premchand Palety, Director, Cfore Elections and Exit Polls
July 17
Mr. Venkatesh Nagan
Director (Sourcing), Sprandi International Ltd, Shanghai
Taking the China Challenge in Apparel Sourcing
July 16
Mr. Sekar Raju, Assistant Professor, Iowa State University Working in Global Environments
July 11
Mr. Anand Sen, Vice President,
Flat Products & TQM, TATA Steel
Commodity to a Brand - A Journey of TATA Steel
March 21
Mr. Unni Nair, Managing Director, Ezxcel Adventure & Entertainment Maximizing Potential through Fun
March 20
Mr. N. Sundararajan
Executive Director & Company Secretary, Ashok Leyland
Transition from Student Life to a Working Professional
March 16
Mr. R. Shyam Sunder
HR Advisor, KG Group of Companies
Workforce Ratonalisation and Employee Engagement
March 8
Prof. K.Subramanian
DDG(NIC), Ministry of C & IT, India
Retailing and Retail Management : People, Process and Technology
March 1
Mr. N. Sundararajan
Executive Director & Company Secretary, Ashok Leyland
Indian Financing Market & Sub-prime Crisis
February 28
Swami Prahaladananda Saraswati, Bihar School of Yoga Stress Management in Corporate Life
February 13
Mr. C. S. Anand, Managing Director, Hapag Lloyd Global Services Being Successful in the Corporate World
February 11
Mr. N. Sundararajan
Executive Director & Company Secretary, Ashok Leyland
Mergers and Acquisitions
February 28
Mr. C. S. Baskar
COO, Royal Classic Group
Marketing and Brand Building Initiatives
January 30
Ms. Hema Hattangady
VC & CEO, Conzerv
Running a Multi-million Dollar Company in India Ethically - A Real Life Account of Corporate Social Responsibility
January 23
Dr. Sunitha Krishnan
Gen. Secretary, Prajwala
Fighting for Innocence - The Bane of Child Trafficking
January 25
Mr. Rajesh Rai
Co-founder and Principal of New Markets Growth Fund (NMGF)
Role of Venture Capital in Entrepreneurial Growth
January 10

2007

Mr. Omkar V. Sankar, Chief Executive, Sankar Foundation, Coimbatore How to Create Successful Brands?
October 31
Mrs. Kalpana Vishwanathan Trends in the Banking Sector
October 29
Mr. L. N. Krishnan
VP - Outsourcing, Thomas Cook
Strategic Outsourcing
October 27
Dr. Arvind Bhatnagar Raksha - Palliative Care
October 17
Mr. Rajamani Overview of the Functioning of TATA Steel
October 10
Mr. Pravin Shekar
Chief Executive, Dexterity KPO Services
Anonymity of KPO - Mumbo Jumbo
August 31
Dr. N. Gopalakrishnan
Senior Scientist, Council of Scientific & Industrial Research, India
Management from Traditional Perspective
August 17
Mr. Shivram V
Managing Partner, The Hit Factory
The Mind of an Entrepreneur
March 30
Ms. Madhuri Menon
CEO, Amaya Consultants
Corporate Social Responsibility
March 29
Mr. Ramesh K
General Manager, Media Direction
Media in India - The Big Picture
March 23
Mr. Padmanabhan
CEO - Telematics Business Unit,
Ashok Leyland
To Learn the Customer
March 17
Mr. Vijay Aithreye, AVP &
National Head Rural & Social, Tata AIG
Micro Insurance
March 15
Mr. Pradeep Menon
Executive Vice President and Director - Operations for Quadrant Risk Management International
Careers and Challenges in the Field of IT Consultancy
March 13
Dr. Eric Brewer
Co-founder of Inktomi and Professor of Computer Science at UC Berkeley
Two Encounters with Dr. Eric Brewer
January 31
Mr. Praveen V. S. Journey of an Inventor
January 11

2006

Mr. Kishore Kumar
Sr. Vice President, Corporate Banking, HDFC Bank India Ltd.
Micro Finance
Mr. Krishnankutty, GM,
Sales and Marketing, Chandra Hyundai
On Branding
November 24
Mr. Sudhakar Jayaram
Director& CEO, Amrita TV
Role of Media in Society
November 14
Ms. Madhuri Menon
CEO, Amaya Consultants
Be Like a Functional Parachute ...
November 9
Dr. K. Kasturirangan, Former Chairman - ISRO, Director-NIAS, MP On Leadership
November 1
Dr. Sriram Devanathan
Professor, Department of Polymer Engineering, Amrita
Six Sigma
September 11
Dr. Maresi Nerad, Associate Graduate Dean, University of Washington "Pride in Nation, Passion For Education"
September 6
Dr. Jose Schutte Aine
Professor, University of Illinois at Urbana Champagne
Entrepreneurship - Personal Experience
August 17
Mr. Ranjith Nambiar
VP, ARMS Pvt Limited
Challenge is to ... "Stay Ahead of Opportunities"
August 11
Mr. Yoshiro Ito, Executive Director, Morgan Stanley, Japan An Extraordinary Visit by an Unassuming Man
August 10
K. Manivannan Team Building and Leadership
July 26
Mr. Antti Juhani Wihuri
Management Consultant, Finland
Two Encounters with Dr. Eric Brewer
July 24
Br. Nijamrita Chaitanya Dharma, Happiness and Spirituality
July 22
Dr. Vish Krishnan, Sheryl and Harvey White Endowed Chair in Management Leadership, Rady School of Management Moving from a Knowledge Driven Economy to an Innovation Driven Economy
July 20
Mr. Guru Ganeshan
MD, ARM Embedded Tech. Pvt Ltd
(Inauguration of Batch 2006-08)
July 3
Prof S. Sriram, Executive Director, Great Lakes Institute of Management Careers in Management
June 30
Dr. Sameer Kamat
Wachovia Corporation, USA
January 9

2005

Mr. Prasad Chandran, Chairman
and Managing Director, BASF India Ltd, Head of BASF South Asia
Matrix Management
Revathy, Film Actress & Director Dreams and Passion
Mr. Jairam Vardaraj
MD, ELGI Eqipments
Business Basics
Mr. H. P. Kripesh , General Manager, Human Resource Pantaloons, Mumbai Future of Indian Retailing
Mr. K. B. Chandrasekhar
Co-founder, CEO and Chairman of the Board of Jamcracker
The Hungry Entrepreneur
Mr. Narasimham, HR Head, Global Solutions Center, Hewlett Packard Is BPO a BAD Word? Issues of a Growing Industry
Mr. Subramaniam
Maveric Info Systems, Chennai
Service Offerings from Software Industry
Dr. Eric Brewer, MD, Oracle Oracle Experiences
Mr. Chandar Sundaram
Academic Lead, Microsoft
IT Industry