Announcements Archive - Page 21

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Chief Guest: Mr. C. K. Ranganathan,
                      Chairman & Managing Director,
                      CavinKare Pvt. Ltd.,
                      Chennai.

Batch : 2006 - 08

Date : 23-05-2009

Time : 6.00 PM

Venue : Padmam Auditorium

Jansons School of Business was very proud and doubly happy to have Mr C K Ranganathan, Chairman & Managing Director, CavinKare Private Limited, Chennai as the Chief Guest of its 5th Graduation Day, on 23.05.2009 @ 6.00 PM.  Addressing 120 students of the graduating batch of 2006-08 and guests at the Padmam Auditorium, Mr Ranganathan recounted his early days as a youth, and how many considered him unfit for business.  But, today the CavinKare group has a tu over of over Rs.500 crores.  It all began with his father's simple, yet timeless, philosophy: What a rich man uses, even a poor man must be able to use it.  Thus was bo the sachet revolution, and the rest is history.  As pioneers in producing and selling shampoos in sachets, CavinKare has a plethora of brands in its repertorie.  It was the daringness to make a mark in the field of business, coupled with his inquisitive mind, that made him break away from his family-run business and start off on his own, earlier christened "Chik India".  This soon metamorhped into the giant Indian multinational, CavinKare, and is a nightmare for many foreign consumer goods companies.  Taking in hand the specific needs of the graduating batch, Mr. Ranganathan advised many aspiring and would-be entrepreneurs to always be brave enough to try out new things in business.  It was certain that they would, at some point of time, come face-to-face with failure, and it is during such trying times that they must not lose heart, and must muster enough courage to lea from the failures and set them right as soon as possible.  This was the true hallmark of a successful business person, he said.

In his own pleasant way, Mr. Ranganathan wished the graduates the very best, and hoped that the life-lessons he had recounted would help them to see business and life in true colours.  He wished them all well, and looked forward to see many a successful entrepreneur come into sight.

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February 21 - 23, 2009.

Jointly organized by Jansons School of Business and the Karl Kubel Institute for Development Education (KKID), Pravesh 2009 was designed to be a two-day off-campus endeavour to enhance the spirit of camaraderie among the MBA students of 2010 batch.  The workshop was conducted in the sylvan settings of KKID's campus housed in the bills of Anakatty.

This novel venture for the students began on the evening of February 21st.  There were four trainers for the workshop, and students were randomly chosen for the four groups, each division under a trainer.

Once the splitting up of students into groups was accomplished, they retired to their allotted rooms, with the delightful expectation of what would be in the offering the next day.

On February 22nd, the day began early with a Yoga session.  During the first half of the day, students interacted with the trainers on a variety of issues like understanding self and others, and why environment was a deciding factor in modifying behaviour.  The second half of the day was interspersed with team games.  Late evening witnessed a cultural show by each group of students.

On February 23rd, after the mo ing Yoga session, the groups were given direction to visit one tribal hamlet near Anakatty, with the instruction that they are to present their experiences in the afte oon session.  All the groups were ready with the presentations, and detailed discussion on the issues confronted by the groups was carried out.

The penultimate session for the day was a brief meeting of the four groups separately, where issues of self-gove ance and self-regulation were debated.

There was an informal valedictory function in the evening, and all the students bid adieu to the KKID staff, and retu ed to their much-loved JSB campus.

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On the evening of 04-04-2009, the first year MBA students bid farewell to the 2009 outgoing batch of MBA graduates in a grand ceremony that culminated with an extravagant and sumptuous dinner.

Titled NOSTALGIA '09, the farewell began with the Chairman's speech, wherein he invoked the outgoing batch to cherish and warmly remember the days they spent in this college, lea ing and assimilating the intricacies of MBA education.

This was followed by a cultural extravaganza, performed by the first year students.  Intermittently, the entire faculty showered their blessings on the 2009 batch students, presented them with mementos.

The programme started at 4.30 pm and went on till 7.00 pm.

Nostalgia '09 was a very memorable evening, and we all wish the 2009 outgoing batch the very best in their career and their lives.

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Topic : "HR Selection and Recruitment Process"

Guest Speaker : Mr. Rajagopalan Duraiswamy,
                           Location Head - TN Circle, Chennai.
                           Mr. Sanjay,
                           Recruitment Manager,
                           Reliance HR Services Pvt. Ltd.,
                           Chennai.

Batch : 2009 (HR Students)

Date : 29-03-2009

Time : 9.30 AM

Venue : Lecture Hall 6

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Title : "Sales Process"

Resource Person : Mr. Shrikant Kulka i,
                              Professor - Marketing,
                              Amirta School of Business,
                              Coimbatore.

Batch : 2010 (A & B)

Date : 29-03-2009

Time : 10.00 AM - 5.00 PM

Venue : Lecture Hall 1

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Title : "Brandkey-Unlocking Brands' Potential"

Resource Person : Mr. Satheesh Krishnamurthy,
                               Brand Consultant, Chennai.

Batch : 2009 (A & B)

Date : 22-03-2009

Time : 9.15 AM to 5.15 PM

Venue : Lecture Hall 3

Description: Each team should have a minimum of 3 and 2 members from the first and second year batches respectively.  The rationale behind the exercise was to assume that you are one of the advertising ageniceis competing for acquiring the account of Mahindra Ocean Blue, a venture of Mahindra & Mahindra in the leisure boating industry for the manufacture of power boats, cabin cruisers and catamarans.  The participants were required to make a presentation for selling the proposed Marketing Communication Plan to the officials of the potential client.  The Marketing Communication Plan should aim at promoting the brand, Mahindra Odyssea initially to the individual and institutional corporate clients in Cochin, Mumbai and Goa.

Description: The idea behind this exercise was to encourage students to come up with innovative themes for products or services.  Each team had a maximum of 6 members and should have a joint participation from first & second year students.

Description: The Business Quiz had the following rules: Each quiz team must have 6 members and have joint participation of first and second year students.  Five teams were short listed and were accommodated in the finals.

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Topic : "Online Marketing for Building Brands"

Resource Person: Mr. K. Satyanarayanan
                              Director & Co-Founder
                              New Horizon Media Private Ltd.
                              Chennai

Batch : 2009 A & B (Brand Management Students)

Date : 18-03-2009

Time : 9.15 AM - 5.15 PM

Venue : Lecture Hall - 6

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A team of 14, comprising of Anand.A, Aswathy R, Balachandar R, Kumar Gaurav, Logesh Kumar, Nandini A, Santhosh Kumar, Seena P G, Sowmya Cicily George, Srinivas D, Suraj Menon, Venkatesh V, Vinoth Kumar S and Yaagneshwaran G left for the two day management meet, Pragati'09 (13 & 14 February, 2009) at Amrita School of Business, Coimbatore.

The team participated in the HR, Finance, Systems, Operations and Marketing forums.  The team reached the final rounds in the Marketing, HR, Systems and Operations forum.

In the HR and Finance, two prizes were won.  A team comprising of Anand.A and Venkatesh.V won the third prize in Finance Event - Imploriii Peirol.  Srinivas.D won the second prize in HR Individual Event - La Unico.

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There was a debate competition which took place on 31st January 2009.  The subject of discussion was "Are CEOs highl paid?".  There was two teams comprising of four members each, who argued for and against the said topic.  There was a healthy argument throughout the event and was definitely thought provoking.  In the end, the team which argued that CEOs were highly paid won the show.

Following the debate there was a presentation on "The Investing Strategies of Warren Buffet".  Towards the end of the program printed material published by The Bombay Stock Exchange were distributed to the members of the club.

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The first event for the year 2009 was a quiz competition which was thrown open for participation to the students of all branches.  There were eleven teams, comprising of three members each.  A total of which five teams were short listed after a preliminary round.  These five teams showed an enthusiastic participation in the final round.  There were also questions posed to the audience in between the rounds, and active participation was witnessed.

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Topic : 1. Future Trends in Performance Appraisal
            2. How HR Professionals should perform during Recession.
            3. OD Interventions

Guest Speaker: Mr. Ragunandhanan,
                          Senior Deputy General Manager,
                          L & T - Coimbatore Campus.

Batch : 2009 - 'OD' Students
              2010 - 'HR' Students

Date : 14.02.2009

Time : 10.15 AM to 12.30 PM

Venue : Lecture Hall 6

Jansons School of Business as visited by Mr. K. Raghunandanan, Senior DGM, Coimbatore Central Management, on 14th February, 2009 for an Executive Interaction Programme for 2010 and 2009 batch of students, on three important and interesting issues:

• "What is Recession?": The various causes of recession were (1) the growth & the decline in the economy, (2) the demand & the supply, followed by overcoming it through appropriate management strategies like variance in products, low pricing of products, offering discount to the product, among others.  It was interesting to note how well one can manage Recession with appropriate use of marketing strategy, despite constratints on the existing market condition throughout the world.
• "Recent trends in Human Resource Management": A gist about areas like Human Resource Information System, Human Resource Web-Based Applications, Human Resource Service Centers, Employee Self Service System, and Human Resource Data Marts, were presented.  Stress was laid on the importance of the role of a HR manager in the current business world.
• "Performance Appraisal System in L&T": Informative presentations on the rating scale system, supervisory leadership program, managerial leadership program, corporate management committee existing in L&T were shown.  He also emphasized on the type of Open culture prevailing in L&T, which directly equates to their success.

There was a questions & answers session in which the students and the faculty actively participated with their queries and suggestions.

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Topic : "Appreciating Law"

Guest Speakers : Mr. Giridharan &
                             Mrs. Swapna
                             P V S Giridharan Legal & Allied Service Associates
                             Chennai

Batch : 2010

Date : 14.02.2009

Time : 10.00 AM to 12.00 PM

Venue : Lecture Hall 1

EIP on 'Appreciating Law' by Mr. PVS Giridhar and Mrs. Swapna.

There were four presentations by the resource persons - two each.

In the presentation by Mr. Giridhar, the core issues of what law was and why it was important to business was discussed and deliberated.  Light was thrown on the various components of law, and it was surmised that any legislation, for that matter, would have to have political and social dimensions.  Moreover, law, by its inherent nature, interacted with three players: the state, society and the market.  And, during such intermingling, it was only natural that the market has to contend with the state for its survival, and it was their particular aspect of law that makes it of great import in the business environment.  There was also an interesting detour on the difference between law on one side, and social / moral codes on the other.

There were the roles of Legislature, Judiciary and Executives one had to be conversant with while doing business.  Besides, a general awareness and appreciation of law comes only when a thorough understanding of the relationships between and among gove ment and people, and the relationship between gove ment and other institutions is guaranteed.  The presentation also opened up issues relating to five significant pieces of legislation relevant to business:

• Constitution of India.
• Company's Law
• Contract Law
• Employment Law, and
• Law of Property.

The remedies available for civil and criminal judgements were briefly dealt with, and newer forms of remedies like arbitration and mediation were explained in brief.

Mrs. Swapna's presentation centred on Intellectual Property (IP) laws and their usefulness to the business environment.  There was a quick perusal of the types of IPs.  The economic and social logic behind patents, copyrights and trademarks were enumerated.  Special attention was given to the issue of IP strategy and business, especially with regard to questions of value extraction and profitability (often translating into competitive edge).  Why an IP strategy will help in easing market turbulence was also dealt with.  Interspersed with examples from the IP field, the presentation focused on the importance of leveraging on the so-called IP Waste.  Concomitant factors like value translation, value transportation and licensing were taken up and discussed.  We, in India, are like to the old man sitting atop a hill that has huge reserves of gold - neither exploiting the gold, nor allowing others to do it.  Such is the case of IP in India, and it was time for us to leverage the value of IP we hold, and also give the discipline of IP strategy prime importance in regular business courses.

The EIP ended with a Q&A session, where the following three issues were taken up, and delineated for better comprehension:

• Why judgments differ at different levels of jurisdiction?
• Why do political parties keeping changing laws when they come to power?
• Can an Indian patent be used abroad?

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The art of persuading is a sine quo non for every management graduate.  A person or student lea s to use the library and the inte et to find the right information in a shorter time in order prepare for the contest of words.

Harmony club conducted two debates:

• Hiring - Should be skill based or competency mapped?
• Should Exit Interviews be Outsourced?

We had 8 participants for each of the debate, with 4 of them for Skill based and 4 for Competency Mapped and similarly with 4 for outsourcing Exit Interviews and 4 of hem agianst outsourcing.

The participants needed to think under pressure and use their heads at the right time.  That is participants had to convince the listener what he/she is saying is right.  Participants were prepared with the facts, evidences, logical reasoning and so on.  The stage was set on heat with their wonderful way of arguing and convincing.

Judges decided based on the participant's views and arguments that, Hiring should be competency mapped and Exit interviews should not be outsourced.

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We study management mostly using this technique; it is an intensive study of a single group or incident.  Getting into the facts of the case given and going beyond what is in the case helps analyse the case.

Harmony Club conducted a Case Study discussion on "Why we are losing all our good people?" (HBR Case Study and Commentary, June 2008).  We had 6 teams of 3 members each who analysed the case in the time given and came up with innovative ways of presenting it in front of the judges and the audience.

Well, these were some possible solutions provided by the teams participating in the discussion.

• People need to be hired based on needs and competitiveness of the company.
• Top management needs to investigate and understand the situtation of attrition.
• Pruning should be done to uncover unnecessary positions or managerial ranking.
• A mission and culture which employees can easily connect must be in place.

There was lot to grab from the discussion of the case.  A very helpful discussion at the right time.

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We all have a personal responsibility to each other and the world around us.  Everything we do affects the world in which we live.  It is the same in business.  We all have a mission.  Harmony Club believes in educating the people who wouldn't be in a position to lea on their own.  We call it 'College Social Responsibility'.

As a first step, members of HR Club went to a Juvenile home in Pondicherry, where the idea was to motivate the children to look foward to a better future.

This helped the members of HR club gain first hand experience on Social Responsibility.

The children were made aware of:

• Time Management
• Memory Techniques
• Creativity
• Personality Development
• Self Motivation

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Let us say that there is a puzzle formed of white and black squares.  The intention is to fill the white squares with letters from A to Z.  Simple, isn't it?  Well, it's not that simple as one is supposed to fill in HR and OB concepts in this puzzle.  Yes, that's the real test to crack the puzzle in filling terms and jargons of Human Resource Management.

HR Quiz? That's sounds great...!  Yes, concepts, jargons, picture, find the picture and connect...!  HR Quiz comprises of all these.....!

Well, Harmony Club is always on the move in creating something which would make the students think and apply what they have lea t.

On 10th Sept 08, Harmony Club conducted a Crossword and HR Quiz for he students of he 2009 and 2010 batch.  Students of 2009 and 2010 batch formed teams of 2.

First Round was Crossword and then 3 rounds of Quiz.  There was stiff competition in each, as every round had eliminations.  It was a nail biting finish in the end.  Not to forget the audience, there were questions for them as well.

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The team from Jansons left for the one day annual management competition held at AIMS, Karaikudi.  The team of 9 won three events of a total tally of five.  Yaagneshwaran and Meenakshi Sundaram won third prize for the business quiz.  A team comprising of Balachandar, Yaagneshwaran, Tharani, Suraj and Vinoth Kumar S won the third prize for the Ad-zap event.  Also Arjun.R.Nair won the Best Manager event to complete a great day for Jansons.  This is the third consecutive year that JSB is retu ing with the Overall Championship Trophy.