Guest Lecture by Rajnish Borah

The junior batch of SIMSREE had the opportunity of attending a session by Mr. Rajnish Borah on “Careers in HR”. Mr. Borah has close to 15 years of experience in Human Resource Management and has handled diverse HR roles. He is currently working as Head, HR, L & T General Insurance. He insisted that the session should be interactive and started by asking the batch what they know about the various HR functions. Following which,...

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Finance Summit - FISCUS 2011

SIMSREE Finance Forum, the Finance cell of Sydenham Institute of Management Studies Research & Entrepreneurship Education (SIMSREE) organized the Finance Summit “FISCUS ‘11” on 1st October at Indian Merchants Chambers (IMC), Mumbai. FISCUS ’11 brought together students and finance stalwarts on a common platform to discuss a vital issue in the field of finance. The list of speakers included eminent personalities from the world of finance. Mr....

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Foundation Day Celebrations

The auditorium at Sydenham College played host to a talented display of performances by the students of Sydenham Institute of Management, Research And Entrepreneurship Education (SIMSREE). In keeping with the SIMSREE tradition, Foundation Day saw students dressed in traditional attire. The evening began with a Saraswati Vandana and the lighting of the ceremonial lamp. The proceedings were attended by the SIMSREE Director Dr. M. A. Khan along...

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Guest Lecture by Mr. Sujan Roy

SIMSREE was proud to welcome Mr. Sujan Roy, Head - Marketing Services & Product Planning at Tata Motors on campus for a guest lecture on Marketing Communications for the Automobile Industry. Also, our Alumnus from the 2004 batch, Mr. Rahul Pansare, Head, Marketing Communications at Volkswagen Group, India was present for the lecture.  Mr. Sujan Roy Mr. Roy told us how love and passion for cars led him to work in various...

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MBAuniverse Report on SIMSREE

A leading MBA portal MBAUniverse has published a detailed report on our very own SIMSREE. The report is extremely positive and covers every aspect of life at SIMSREE-starting with the admission process right up to the time one graduates from here. It also includes quotes from the 2010-12 batch and gives a glimpse of a typical day in the life of a SIMSREEite. The report ends with a note from the present batch to all future SIMSREE aspirants. The complete report is available at:  http://www.mbauniverse.com/article/id/4940/Life-at-...

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Guest Lecture by Mr. Niranjan Hiranandani

SIMSREE was privileged to have Mr. Niranjan Hiranandani on campus on 20th August, 2011. Mr. Hiranandani spoke to the 2011-13 batch on success, how to measure it and what it means to an individual as well as to society at large. Mr. Hiranandani is an Alumnus of Sydenham College of Commerce and Economics. He is also a chartered accountant. He is currently the Managing Director of the Hiranandani Group (a very well known name in India, especially in the real estate sector).  The session began with Mr. Hiranandani describing the real estate...

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Guest Lecture by Mr. Sudhir Khot

The SIMSREE batch of 2011-2013 had the good fortune of getting an insight into the mind of an entrepreneur. Mr. Sudhir Khot, an alumnus of the 1993 batch visited campus to address the newly inducted batch on entrepreneurship. Mr. Sudhir Khot is the owner of Kaijing Agro Services Pvt. Ltd. He currently runs three other ventures viz. Rural Reach, Kaijing Financial Planning and Sahyadri Agricultural Producer Company Ltd. He has been successfully running his entrepreneurial ventures for more than 10 years now.  He insisted that the session...

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Guest Lecture by Mr. Vasant Sanzgiri

SIMSREE was honoured to have Mr. Vasant Sanzgiri, alumnus of the 1986 batch on campus to address the batch of 2011-2013. Mr. Sanzgiri is currently the Group Head HR for Shapoorji Pallonji & Co. Ltd and has worked for organizations like Taj Mahal Hotel, Modi Xerox, DCW Home Products Ltd., Owens Corning India Ltd and ICICI Prudential AMC Ltd. He has diverse experience of 25 years in the HR industry to his credit.  He interacted with the newly inducted batch of students and urged them to make use of their two years at SIMSREE to identify...

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Guest Lecture by Dr. Kalim Khan

“Insightful”, “Eye opening”, “Reality check” were some of the responses from the 2011-13 batch of SIMSREE after an hour long session with Dr. Kalim Khan, Director, Rizvi Institute of Management on 18th August 2011. The very unusual session started with Dr. Khan setting the agenda for the day. The session was intended to give the junior batch a realistic view of the MMS/PGDBM courses to which they have newly enrolled.  With his polished oratory skills and thoughtful choice of words, he engaged the audience with ease and also ensured...

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Reminiscence 2011 - Annual Alumni Day

‘Reminiscence -2011’ – our Annual Alumni Day will be held in Mumbai on Saturday, the 17th of September 2011 from 6:00 P.M. onwards. Further details shall be communicated shortly. Thank you....

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Guest Lecture by Mr. Ishmeet Singh

SIMSREE was honoured to have on campus Mr. Ishmeet Singh, Business Head, Vodafone India- Haryana Circle on the 15th of August 2011. Mr. Singh was there to speak about the advent of the Indian telecom industry, its growth path and challenges faced along the way and likely to be faced in future.  Mr. Singh started off by describing the early days of the telecom sector in India. Telephonic conversations were a rarity, considering the...

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Guest Lecture by Mr. Ramesh Mitragotri

A wonderful insight into the HR domain was provided by Mr. Ramesh Mitragotri, an alumnus of the batch of 1986 and currently serving as the Chief People Officer at Aditya Birla Retail Limited. He has an experience of more than 18 years in the HR domain in various industries like Philips India, Hindustan Construction Company Limited, India, Owens Corning India Ltd and Aditya Birla Group Cement Marketing Division. One of the points highlighted by Sir was that ’Resources make business possible but People make business happen’. Resources...

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Guest Lecture by Mr. Sachin Khandelwal

SIMSREE was honoured to have its illustrious Alumnus Mr. Sachin Khandelwal as the guest lecturer for SIMSREE 2011-13 batch. Mr Khandelwal was from the batch of 1992. He is presently the CEO and MD of ICICI Home Finance. The newly inducted batch from diversified fields was lucky to be guided by a person of his caliber. He shared many of his personal experiences of his MBA like why MBA?, his passions, dos and don'ts in MBA. He also threw some light on the present economic scenario, e-commerce, TSP (Technological Service providers) and Entrepreneurship...

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Guest Lecture by Mr. Sidharth Singh

On the 29th July 2011, SIMSREE was proud and honoured to welcome our illustrious alumni, Mr Sidharth Singh, on campus. Mr Singh was a part of the 1994 batch and has, since then, been a part of the corporate world. Currently he is working as the General Manager Foods at Hindustan Unilever. It was an amazingly interactive session wherein Mr Singh enlightened the students with his...

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Guest Lecture by Mr. Vikram Bahl

Mr. Vikram Bahl, Marketing Head, Kellogg’s India, took a guest lecture at SIMSREE on revolutionary positioning ideas. Mr. Bahl started out by defining a brand. He said a brand is an idea that should make people talk about it. Positioning on the other hand is the space occupied by a product in the mind of a consumer relative to competing products. The next question which arises is, how do you go about positioning? There are 4 points...

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Guest Lecture by Mr. Hemant Malik

SIMSREE was honoured to welcome Mr. Hemant Malik, COO- Trade Marketing and Distribution, ITC Limited on campus. Mr. Malik took a guest lecture with the students in which he covered the basics of marketing and distribution. Mr. Malik started out by asking students why people buy particular products, what is the meaning of brand loyalty, and how availability of products affects loyalty. Using ITC’s operations as an example, Mr. Malik explained...

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Asia’s Best B-School Awards

SIMSREE is proud to announce that we have won the award for the Business School with the Best Industry Interface and our professor, Mr. Ashish Pawaskar, won the Best Professor in Advertising and Communications Management at the Asia’s Best B-Schools Awards. Prof. Ashish Pawaskar is also an Alumnus of our college from the 1994 MMS batch and an active SIMAA Director. The CMO Asia Advisory Board and the Advisory Council of the World Bank Congress took the task of identifying Asia's Best Business Schools. Participating countries...

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Guest Lecture by Mr. Munjal Kamdar

SIMSREE welcomed yet another dignitary on campus. This time it was Mr. Munjal Kamdar, Enterprise Risk Solutions, Deloitte and also an alumnus of SIMSREE from the 1996  batch. The topic for the day was ‘Succeeding In Your First Job’. Mr. Kamdar started off by telling us about himself. He described what life was like for him immediately after he left SIMSREE. With graphic examples and personal anecdotes, Mr. Kamdar explained some of the common mistakes made by most management trainees. These mistakes covered a range of areas from etiquette...

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Guest Lecture by Mr. Tushar Murdeshwar, Johnson & Johnson

SIMSREE was proud to have on campus yet another distinguished personage, Mr. Tushar Murdeshwar, alumnus of the 1993 batch of SIMSREE and now Head of Marketing, Johnson & Johnson Consumer Products Division-India. The topic for the day was ‘Integrated Marketing Communication.’ The lecture started with a note on how different media channels have sprung up and grown in India in a relatively short period of time. Just two decades ago, television used to be the main mode of communicating with the masses, via short commercials on just a handful...

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Nissan Student Brand Manager Program 2011- SIMSREE Student Wins

Nissan Motor India recently launched the second edition of their Nissan Student Brand Manager Program wherein entries were invited from over 150 institutes around India. The aim was to choose 20 bright youngsters to spend six months interning with Nissan as Brand Managers to learn the job. We are extremely proud to announce that one of the winners is Subir Pinto, a SIMSREE student of the PGDBM 2010-12 batch. Other winners included students...

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AICTE Approval for PGDBM

We are extremely proud to announce that the Post Graduate Diploma in Business Management (PGDBM) offered by SIMSREE has been approved by the All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE).  This is the result of sustained efforts by our esteemed director, Dr. M.A. Khan, his predecessors and successive batches of SIMSREE students. Congratulations and a big thank you to all involved in making this happen! ...

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SIMSREE Orientation Programme

In keeping with SIMSREE tradition, an orientation session for future SIMSREE aspirants of 2011 was held on Saturday, 2nd July 2011. The session was intended to be an introductory session for those who expect to join SIMSREE as part of the 2011-13 batch. It is also an opportunity for the prospective juniors to interact with the senior batch and get a preview of what their life will be like for the next two years. Attendees were given a snapshot of life at SIMSREE and were also given an opportunity to get all their doubts clarified. They...

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Guest Lecture on Capital Markets by Mr. Sunit Joshi

SIMSREE was honoured to have Mr. Sunit Joshi (EVP, Head - Capital Markets, SBI Capital Markets Ltd) with us on campus for an interactive session on the Capital Markets. The agenda for the session was to give the batch an overview of the Indian Capital markets as well as clarifying students’ perceptions. The lecture was organised by the SIMSREE Finance Forum, and it was very good of Mr. Joshi to take time out from his busy schedule to spend a couple of hours with us. The session was a very good learning experience for all the students present....

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SIM’ergence 2011

We came, we saw, we conquered...these were the thoughts that were uppermost in the minds of all the SIM’ergence 2011 attendees. As promised, SIM’ergence 2011, the flagship corporate event of SIMSREE, was a grand show-with eminent panelists, a great lineup of Corporate and Knowledge speakers and not to mention our illustrious Chief Guest. The theme this year was ‘India-New Decade, New Horizon, New Challenges’. The event kicked off with an inaugural ceremony, which included an address by the Director of SIMSREE, Dr. M.A. Khan. This was followed...

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SIMSREE Students Win Dandekar Trophy 2011

It is with great pride that we announce that two students of our very own SIMSREE, Michelle Rodrigues and Clitus Fernandes, have won the prestigious Dandekar Trophy 2011 presented by the Bombay Management Association. The Dandekar Trophy was awarded to the best paper in a paper presentation competition. The topic for the same was ‘Managing Well in Uncertain Times’. Twenty B-schools from across the city participated in the competition and SIMSREE...

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Guest Lecture by Mr. Dharmendra Rai

We were honoured to have on campus an extremely distinguished guest-Mr. Dharmendra Rai, National Sales Head and Vice President at Benchmark Asset Management Company Pvt Ltd, Assistant Vice President at J M Morgan Stanley and Mumbai’s first and only Licensed Mind Map Trainer. Mr. Rai conducted a session on Mind Maps- a technique used by many of the world’s most intelligent and successful people for idea generation. Stalwarts such as Walt Disney have found this technique effective for brainstorming and innovation. It is also useful for enhancing...

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Banking Workshop by Mr. Nitesh Gawade, a SIMSREE Alumnus

We at SIMSREE were privileged to host a workshop on Banking conducted by Mr. Nitesh Gawade, a 2008 alumnus of SIMSREE. Mr. Gawade is the founder of Edify Solutions. The workshop was conducted in two sessions of four hours each and was intended to apprise students of the various profiles available in the banking domain and the skill set required for each such profile as well as the expectations of employers. This was applicable to five specializations, namely, Finance, Marketing, Human Resources, Operations and Systems. Day 1 of the workshop...

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Guest Lecture By Mr. Samir Gupte

The junior batch of SIMSREE was privileged to have a guest lecture with Mr. Samir Gupte, President and Country Head at O&M on the 11th of February. Mr. Gupte took a lecture on Rural Marketing, with a focus on the strategies used by HUL. It was a very informative session as Mr. Gupte started out by explaining what the rural market is like, what the difficulties in communication are etc. Many innovative ideas were discussed, like the...

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