The Asia Pacific International Conference

6 participating countries, hosted at SIMSREE

Friday, March 29, 2013

Guest Lecture by Mr. Naresh Katara

The students of SIMSREE had an opportunity on the 25th of March 2013 to have with them Mr. Naresh Katara, Director, Selling Excellence & SFE ,GSK Asia at GSK. He benefited the students by informing them about the Pharma market, India and abroad; and about the company GlaxoSmithKline Pharmaceuticals. The pharma scenario of the country is changing; people are now ready to spend on quality. 900 BILLION USD is the global pharma market. Sir...

Guest Lecture by Mr. Tushar Murdeshwar

Johnson & Johnson, manufacturer of household brands like – Johnson’s Baby products, BandAid, Savlon, Benadryl, Listerine, Stayfree and many more, is a 126 year old American company specialised in medical devices, pharmaceutical and consumer products.  On March 25, 2013, SIMSREE students welcomed their alumnus (’93 batch) Mr. Tushar Murdeshwar - General Manager (Head of Marketing), Johnson & Johnson - to share valuable insights on...

Guest Lecture by Mr. Anil Joshi

SIMSREE was privileged to have on campus Mr. Anil Joshi, President at Mumbai Angels, for a guest lecture to throw light on the topics of Venture capitalist, Private equity and future career opportunities. Mr. Joshi started the lecture by narrating his journey of his days of engineering to the president of Mumbai Angels. He described how in spite of getting good jobs he was not satisfied with what he was doing and how he made up his mind to be...

Tuesday, March 26, 2013

SIM'ergence 13 : Shifting Focus Rural India

In a country where approximately 70% of India's population resides in rural areas and 56% of the overall consumption comes from there, it is inevitable that the corporate world has started focusing more on Rural India. Keeping this in mind, the Corporate Relations Committee at SIMSREE organised its annual business conclave SIM'ergence 13 based on the theme ‘Shifting Focus: Rural India’ with the objective of capturing the views and ideas of industry...

Wednesday, March 20, 2013

Guest Lecture by Mr.Shanoj Subramanian

Every business involved in international trade is exposed to some form of risk. An exporter needs to be ensured that he is paid for the goods that he provides. An importer, on the other hand, needs to be paid only for the goods that he agreed to purchase. There are a number of factors that can jeopardize the success of dealings. Hence banking has a huge role in managing risks and helping international trade. Thus, to throw some more light on the...

Sankalp 2013: An SSR Event

“We are the angry and the desperate, the hungry, and the cold, we are the ones that kept quiet and always did what we were told”. Women in our country are given the status of “Laxmi”, “Saraswati”, “Durga”  and even that of “Sita” but do we practice the value of the epic Ramayana that we worship and emphasize so excessively, so profusely, is the question that needs to be answered. When Raavana abducted Sita and kept her in confinement for...

Friday, March 15, 2013

Runbhoomi

SIMSREE’s first-ever Inter-Collegiate Cricket Tournament – RunBhoomi was held at Oval Maidan, Churchgate. The tourney, spanning 4 days from 18th to 25th February 2013, was organised by the Student’s Events Committee of SIMSREE and it included teams from the best management & engineering colleges from Mumbai. The event was sponsored by Royal Arya Motors (Mulund) with style partner Spykar, food partner Markiv’s and merchandise partner Tucks &...

Literathon 2013

The 'Sydenham Management Review' (SMR) committee of Sydenham Institute of management Studies, Research and Entrepreneurship Education has successfully organised and completed Literathon 2013 on 19th Feb. Literathon is an intercollegiate literature event. The SMR committee's objective behind organizing such event was to encourage future managers to improve their reading and writing skills. The event had two competitions Bibliophilia...

Thursday, March 14, 2013

E Week 2013

There was a lot of hustle & bustle on campus at SIMSREE as the Entrepreneurship Cell celebrated its annual flagship event, E-week 2013. The spirit of entrepreneurship could be smelled throughout the course of the 2 days – the 16th and 17th of February. We had the pleasure of having distinguished personalities from the industry who graced the occasion. As our Chief Guest and Keynote speaker we had Mr. Arvind Jolly, the founder and chairman of...