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.

2011 - 2012 Academic Year

Name of the person Topic Date

Colloquia

Mr. M.K. Chandrasekharan
CEO,
Thought Works India Pvt. Ltd
Chennai

 Ideas Vs Implementation March 10

Mr. R.V. Balasubramanian Iyer
Head,
Learning Training & Education (LTE),
Reliance Retail Ltd.

 Kal Aaj Aur Kal : Transforming Customer Experience in the Reliance Way March 08

Mr. James Golsen,
Principal Commercial Officer
U.S. Consulate General
Chennai

 Indo-US Business Relations March 02

Mr. Varadharajan
HR-Infosys

 Career opportunities at Infosys February 23

Ms. Maria L. Welbourne

 Cross-Cultural Adaptability February 14

Ms. Megha Agarwal
Asst Brand Manager, Hindustan Unilever Ltd,
Chennai

 A Brand Manager’s Experience January 28

Dr. M.C. Madhavan
Professor,
IIT Madras

 How IITs special in Management January 19

Mr. Amaresh Pujari,
Commissioner of Police
Coimbatore

 Cyber Security and its relevance today
December 14

Mrs.Tanuja Nair
Senior Procurement Specialist
Rio Tinto, Australia

 Outsourcing December 9

Mr. Krishnan Unni
Director
JW Marriott, China

 Cultural, Industrial aspects in dealing with China November 11

Mr. LRK Krishnan
Sr. Vice President
HR, R.Com

 Career Opportunities in Telecom Sector October 11

Mr. Shanmuga Ganesh
Vice President-Sales
Payoda Technologies

 Human Sigma September 16

Mr. Sunil K. Joy
Product Manager
E-Vision, Dubai

 Integration of Telco Products with TV August 19

Mr. Sunil Biyani
Director
Future Group

 Retail in India August 16

Mr. Prasad V.R.
AGM, Marketing Division
Dalmia Cements

 Emotional Connect with Customer August 16

Dr. Gurumurthy Kalyanaraman
Dean
ASB

 The Euro Zone Crisis August 2

Dr. Madhusudhan Atre
President & MD
Applied Materials (India)

 Management & Leadership Corporate Perspective August 2

Dr. Sivakumar Venkataramany
Associate Professor
Ashland University

 Emerging Financial Markets July 26

Mr. Vivek Ramakrishnan
Global Director, Sales & Service (Power)
General Electric (GE)

 How to Sell a Power Plant: My Experiences in B2B Selling and Global Business Development July 21

Mr. M. K. Chandrashekar
Managing Director
Thoughtworks India Ltd

 An Introduction to Below the Line Promotions July 9

Dr. Kumar S. Nochur
President
Vidya Technologies

 Sustainable Innovation July 5

2010 - 2011 Academic Year

Name of the person Topic Date

Colloquia

G.R Venkatesh
Chief Strategy Officer
Future Group

 Back to the Future March 18

Dr. David Ford
Professor, Consultant
Kazakistan Institute of Management

 "Organisational Change Management, Leadership and Behavior" March 18

Mr. Thimmiah & Mr. Bhanumurthy
Economists
Planning Commission

 Union Budget discussion March 7

Mr. Porus Munshi
Consultant, Author
Independent

 Making Breakthrough Innovation Happen March 5

Mr. Subir Ghosh
President
Aegis Global

 Customer Experience Management March 3

Dr.Kezevino Aram
Director
Shanti Ashram

 Social Entreneurship and Healthcare February 28

Mr. Govind Mukundan
Communications Specialist
Accenture

 Marketing to marketers of one February 15

Mr. Parathasarathy
Chief Technology Officer
Mindtree

 The Entrepreneurial Journey December 18

Dr. Deepak Bhat Nagar
Head, Center for International Trade in Technology (CITT)
Indian Institute of Foreign Trade

 International Trade and Culture December 14

Dr. Deepak Bhat Nagar
Head, Center for International Trade in Technology (CITT)
Indian Institute of Foreign Trade

 Nurturing Innovation December 13

Prof. Jay Mishra, Professor,
Harvard Business School

Rest In Peace - Good Times

 December 12

Mr. R. V. Rajan
CMD, Anugrah Madison Advertising Pvt. Ltd.
President, Rural Marketing Agencies Association of India

 Brand Building in Rural Markets December 8

Mr. Madhu Ganesh
Former GM, Technology Develeopment in ELGI Equipments

 A Tryst With Triz December 8

Mr.Paulo Colini
Dean, Faculty of Economics
University of Trento, Italy

 Economic History of Europe December 7

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. Kurien
Head HR and Design
Future Innoversity

 Career and Planning in HR November 3

Mr. Arjun Prakash , Co-Chair,
Young Indians, Coimbatore Chapter
 

 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

Mr. Prasannavadhanan
Vice President, Oracle Financial Services
Oracle

 Career in Systems - A Management Perspective September 16

Mr. Madhuri Menon
CEO, Amaya Consultants
Amaya Consultants

 Self Preparation in View of Upcoming Interview September 16

Mr. Radha Nandakumar
Director, International Affiliations and Campus Relations
National Center for Supercomputing Applications

 How High Computing can Add Value to Business? September 16

Mr. Kurien Kurien
Dean, Futureversity
Future Group

 Interactive Session September 16

Mr. Madhu Ganesh
General Manager, Technology Development
Elgi

 "Innovation - Why and How?" September 14

Mr. Sivadasaprabhu
Lecturer
Symbiosis

 SPSS August 29

Mr. Sivadasaprabhu
Lecturer
Symbiosis

 SPSS
August 28

Mr. John Scade
Director
MAS Business

 Financial Sustainability
August 28

Mr. John Scade
Director
MAS Business

 Business Sustainability
August 27

Mr. John Scade
Director
MAS Business

 Entrepreneurship
August 26

Mr. Kandasamy Muniasamy
Sr. Director
Symantec

 IT Consulting
August 13

Mr. R. V. Rajan
Managing Director
Anugrah Marketing and Advertising Services

 Branding in Rural Markets
August 12

Dr. Vijay Ramakrishnan
Founder & CEO, Pikamab Inc,
California Entrepreneurship

 Entrepreneurship
July 22

Mr. Pravin Shekhar
Founder, CEO and Country representative for ESOMAR
KREA

 Internet Marketing
July 19

Mr. Pravin Shekhar
Founder,CEO,country representative for ESOMAR
KREA

 The Law of Attraction - and what it means for Entrepreneurship and Research
July 19

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. Paulo Colini
Director, School of International Studies
University of Trento, Italy

 Euro Crisis
July 12

Mr. Sekar Raju, Assistant Professor, Iowa State University

 Working in Global Environments
July 11

Workshop

Seshadri Venkatesan
Director Operations
National Adventure & Leadership School

 The Marketing of Adventure Ser March 1

Mr. Leepesh Parat
CEO
Zeisty Beans

 Interactive Session January 24

Mr. Prasannavadhanan
Vice President, Oracle Financial Services
Oracle

 Career in Systems - A management perspective September 18

Ms. Madhuri Menon
CEO, Amaya Consultants
Amaya Consultants

 Self Preparation in view of upcoming interview September 16

Mr. Sivadasaprabhu
Lecturer
Symbiosis

 SPSS August 29

Mr. John Scade
Director
MAS Business

 Financial Sustainability August 28

Mr. John Scade
Director
MAS Business

 Entrepreneurship August 26

Mr. Kandasamy Muniasamy
Director
Symantec

 IT Consulting August 13

Mr. Pravin Shekhar
Founder,CEO,country representative for ESOMAR
KREA

 Internet Marketing July 19

2009 - 2010 Academic Year

Name of the person Topic Date

Colloquia

Mr. Gurcharan Das
Management Guru and Writer

 Difficulty of Being Good: On the Subtle Art of Dharma
April 2

Ms. Hema Hattangady
Managing Director
Conzerv

 Doing Business Ethically
April 1

Mr. Sudhir Goel
Ex VP HR
UB Group

 Leadership
March 30

Mr. Anand Sen, Vice President,
Flat Products & TQM, TATA Steel

 Commodity to a Brand - A Journey of TATA Steel
March 21

Mr. Pratyush Prasanna
Open Innovation Manager
Xerox

 Product Management
March 20

Mr. Parthasarathy N. S.
Co-founder and CEO
MindTree

 10 Values of an Eminient Manager
March 20

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. Vijay Menon
Management Academician & Competency Enabler; HOD
Suntec India

 Indian Contemporary Values
February 9

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

Dr. Ella Salome Roininen
Business Manager, Global Technology Services
IBM, Switzerland

 Organization Equality
January 11

Mr. Rajesh Rai
Co-founder and Principal of New Markets Growth Fund (NMGF)

 Role of Venture Capital in Entrepreneurial Growth
January 10

Mr. A. Krishnan
Vice President
Bosch India

 Business Values and Ethics: A Core Value or Strategic Move
December 28

Mr. V. P. Sajeevan
Divisional Head
Canon India

 Brand Activation
December 4

Mr. Kannan. P. Sreenivasan
International Business Consultant

 Technology and Entrepreneurship
October 28

Mr. Purushottam
Head-Youth Affairs
Young India

 Importance of Being a Young Indian (Yi)
September 30

Prof. Karameshu
Former Dean
J.Nehru University

 Mathematical Model of Product Life cycle
September 19

Mr. T. R. Vasu
Regional Manager, South
Wrigleys India

 Distribution Network of Wrigleys
September 9

Ms. Krishnan Hemamala
Assistant Dean
Bharathiya School of Management

 Being a Part of Intelligent Organizations
August 7

Mr. Naveen Kulkarni
Director-Business Development
Philips Research Asia

 The Entrepreneur Gene
August 5

Mr. P. N. S. V. 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

2005 - 2008 Academic Years

Name of the person Topic Date

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  
Dr. Sameer Kamat
Wachovia Corporation, USA		    

Visitors during the Academic Years  2005 - 2008

Dr. A. P. J. Abdul Kalam, The Ex - President of INDIA
Dr. Padma Rao Sahib, Professor, Department of Economics, Groningen University, The Netherlands
Yoshiro Ito, Executive Director, Morgan Stanley, Japan
Dr. Satish Tripathi, Provost & Executive Vice President, University at Buffalo, New York
Dr. Venkatesh Narayanamurti, Dean of Engineering and Applied Sciences, and Dean of Physical Sciences at Harvard University, USA
Dr. Vish Krishnan, Sheryl and Harvey White Endowed Chair in Management Leadership, Rady School of Management
Dr. Ram Ramesh, Professor, Department of Management Science & Systems, School of Management, SUNY at Buffalo
K. B. Chandrasekhar, CEO, JamCracker
Mr. Jose Schutte Aine, Professor, University of Illinois at Urbana Champagne
Shri Kris Gopalakrishnan, Chief Operating Officer, Infosys Technologies, Bangalore
Padma Bhushan Dr. G. Madhavan Nair, Chairman, Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO)