The Asia Pacific International Conference

6 participating countries, hosted at SIMSREE

Sunday, August 28, 2011

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...

Monday, August 22, 2011

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...

Sunday, August 21, 2011

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...

Friday, August 19, 2011

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...

Thursday, August 18, 2011

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....

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...

Wednesday, August 17, 2011

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...

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...

Wednesday, August 3, 2011

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...

Tuesday, August 2, 2011

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...