The Asia Pacific International Conference

6 participating countries, hosted at SIMSREE

Saturday, July 30, 2011

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...

Wednesday, July 27, 2011

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...

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...

Wednesday, July 20, 2011

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...

Thursday, July 14, 2011

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...

Thursday, July 7, 2011

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! ...

Wednesday, July 6, 2011

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...

Saturday, July 2, 2011

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....