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Alumnus appointed as Asia CEO, Cushman & Wakefield |
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It brings us immense pleasure to inform you all that Sanjay Verma, an
esteemed Alumnus of our college (PGPM 95-97) has been appointed as the Asia CEO of Cushman & Wakefield. He has become the first Asian to hold the position of regional CEO in Cushman & Wakefield. He was previously holding the position of Executive Managing Director-South Asia, Australia and New Zealand.
Please read the following article for further details.
http://www.business-standard.com/india/news/cushmanwakefield-appoints-sanjay-verma-as-asia-ceo/84726/on
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Coverage of MDI Gurgaon @ India Today Aspire |
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 Our esteemed institute is in news again. MDI was covered in India Today for following initiatives:
- 1) India Today Aspire - Cover Story on ‘The Whiz Brigade – Young entrepreneurs share their success mantras’. The story has a quote from Prof. Harsh W. Mishra, where he talks about what it takes for a business idea to succeed.
- 2) India Today Aspire - Cover Story on ‘The Whiz Brigade – Young entrepreneurs share their success mantras’. This story has a full page feature on Nitin Agarwal and his initiative Chakh Le India.
- 3) India Today Aspire – Psychobabble column – This column features a full page article written by Prof. Jyotsna Bhatnagar on her views on professionals taking a sabbatical from work.
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MDI ANNOUNCES NATIONAL ALUMNI MEET 2010 |
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MDI is all set to add another leaf to its Alumni relations chapter with the forthcoming National Alumni Meet 2010!!
Our Alumni have been consistently contributing in building the brand MDI. Their accomplishments are, in large measure, responsible for the ever-growing reputation of the institute. As noted by Dr. B.S. Sahay, Director, MDI, “Alumni are the face of MDI in the industry”. The wealth of experience and expertise that they bring along is immensely valuable to the entire MDI Community!
In an endeavour to further strengthen the ties with the alumni, the MDI Alumni Committee is hosting its biggest event - the National Alumni Meet on the campus. It is time to reconnect our alumni with their alma mater, the institute that shaped their future. It would be an opportunity for everyone who is a part of MDI Community to invoke that nostalgia and rediscover the lifelong relationship with MDI.
We cordially invite MDI fraternity – our distinguished alumni, esteemed faculty and staff members and the students of MDI on the occasion. We would like to extend the invitation to the family members of alumni and faculty and staff to give them a glimpse of MDI Culture and the finest of the times they spent at their alma mater!
The details of the event are:
Date: 13th Feb, 2010
Venue: MDI Gurgaon
Time: 6 PM Onwards
PS. Kindly confirm your participation at
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Last Updated ( Sunday, 31 January 2010 )
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MDI Rocks at IIML fest - Manfest! |
ManDevIan's have continued their winning streak in inter b-school fests by acing some of the biggest competitions @ Manfest - the annual inter-B school fest of IIM-Lucknow. (http://iimlmanfest.com/) held from 22-24th Jan 2009.
Gaurav Tripathi, Ankit Nahata, Arun Singhal and Puneet Mehrotra won the flagship event 'Call for Arms'
which involved application of all the major domains of management. They were awarded with a huge shield that proclaims MDI as the "Best B-School of the year" besides a cool Rs.
1,50,000/- in prize too!
Sagar Thakur won the marketing event 'Marksmen',
bagging Rs. 40,000/- as the prize for his brilliant work. Marksmen involved evaluating problem scenarios,
enumerating alternatives and then envisioning a roadmap to overcome
very real business issues.
Sidharth Maheshwari added another feather to the ManDevIan cap by bagging the runner up position in an exciting and challenging event aimed at unearthing the Next CEO among the b-schoolers.
In another event 'Opstrix', Taufiq and Piyush stood runner-up while Shefali Omer, Ritambara Vasudeva and Jaideep Singh stood second-runner up in the M 'n' A Wars competition.
So, all in all ManDevIan's continues to rock @ the inter b-school competitions.
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Last Updated ( Sunday, 31 January 2010 )
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Delphique '09 comes to an end with Dr. Pachauri as one of the chief guest |
MDI is one of the few B Schools that are talking about the increasing relevance of climate change in the business environment, and Dr R K Pachauri, Nobel Laureate and Director, TERI, resonated that thought in his valedictory address during Delphique ’09, the annual national management convention of MDI Gurgaon.
Delphique’09, the student research initiative spanning over three months, culminated in the two-day national management convention on the 28th and 29th November, 2009. The panels for Delphique ’09 were based on the theme "Resurgence of Industries in the backdrop of Global meltdown". The event was inaugurated by Mr Arun Goyal, Director, Financial Intelligence Unit, India (FIU-IND) and attended by 40 eminent personalities from the industry. Nobel laureate and Director TERI, Dr R K Pachauri, and Executive Managing Director, Cushman Wakefield, Mr Sanjay Verma, gave the valedictory address on November 29, 2009.
During the two day event, the topics for discussion included Climate Change: Challenges and Opportunities, E-Entrepreneurship - The way forward, Impact of Social Cause Marketing campaigns on branding, Competing for Analytics, Youth drifting away from traditional media: How should FMCG companies respond?, Saplings of the Next Economy – The role of HR in the upturn and To survive or thrive? Gaining competitive advantage in the current economic scenario.
Some of the eminent personalities who addressed the MDI community included Dr Ravi Ajmera, CAO – Deutche Bank, Mr Manoj Piplani, MD and Site President, Citigroup, Mr Tarun Bhagat, Marketing manager, PepsiCo, Mr Aquil Busrai, ED-HR, IBM India Pvt Ltd, Mr Oscar DeMello, Country Head – Hay Group, Mr Gaurav Gupta, Director – Deloitte, Mr Prashant Agnihotri, Head – GSM/EDGE Business, Global Nokia Siemens Network and Mr Manish Mittal, VP – Professional Services, Cognizant, to name a few.
The panel on Climate Change complemented Dr Pachauri’s views on the definite need for policy changes towards environmental protection and the existence of viable business opportunities in the realm of sustainable development. While the Marketing panel focused on the changing marketing climate due to the growth of new age media vehicles, the Communications panel dealt with social cause marketing and the need for Corporates to keep it on a long term perspective rather than a short term one-off activity. While the HR panel cautioned the students that the economic resurgence is yet to take place, leaving much to be done, the Entrepreneurship panel stressed on the need for business schools to nurture job creators rather than job seekers.
In his valedictory address, Dr Pachauri urged the corporates to shift from thinking about financial debt to thinking about ‘natural debt’. He felt that no business could survive in a dying society. He cited various international leaders he often spoke to and expressed the satisfaction on the importance in the realisation that has come across the world on the issue of climate change. In his view, Politics, Science and Society should work together to ensure swift and affirmative action. The success of political leaders in Australia, Japan and the US who won elections based on their stand on environmental policies indicates coming together of these three forces. In response to a question, Dr Pachauri responded that even if government enforces regulation, ‘corporates will always innovate’.
MDI alumnus Mr Sanjay Verma, Executive Managing Director, Cushman Wakefield spoke to the students about ‘Industrial Resurgence’ and what it meant to various stakeholders, most important of them being society. Decision-makers are unaware, negligent or unable to correlate the impact of their decisions on climate change and this impedes the implementation roadmap. He encouraged the students to be more aware and stay connected with the world around them. In this, his words echoed Dr Pachauri who felt we must all take our blinkers off. Mr Verma wanted the students to feel a sense of belongingness to the institute as well as society and urged them to speak up and act. Like the Agravashi he asked the students to ‘realize the difference they can make’.
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Last Updated ( Saturday, 05 December 2009 )
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ADVENT'09 - the adverstising and marketin summit organised at MDI |
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The world of advertising and marketing has witnessed a sea change over the past few years. The onset of new-age media and the internet revolution has changed the way marketers look at the art and business of marketing, advertising and all its related functions. Today,t raditional marketing concepts are being challenged, and marketers are being pushed to the limit to keep pace with rapidly fading boundaries, and a cynical, well-educated customer.
It was against this backdrop that MarQuity, the Marketing Club of Management Development Institute (Gurgaon), organised ‘Advent’, a two-day advertising and marketing summit. As one of India’s only Marketing- and Advertising-dedicated summits, Advent attracted some of the best marketing talent from across India. With its plethora of seminars, advertising contests, quizzes and other events, Advent predominantly aimed to generate interest in advertising and marketing among B-School students.
As has been the tradition over the years, Advent 2009 boasted of a unique advertising workshop, ADRENA, conducted by experts from Lowe Lintas. The workshop was followed by an inter-B-school ad-designing contest, which pitted the best teams from each business school in a fiercely contested battle of creativity and insight.
Advent was also host to ADAGE a corporate interaction series, graced by some of the most prominent professionals from the area of advertising and marketing. The Chief Guest of the inaugural session on the first day was Shri S.K. Swamy, CMD, R.K. Swamy BBDO, who spoke about ‘Connecting Minds’. Mr. Swamy enlightened the audience on issues such as brand leadership and differentiation. Emphasising on the continuous evolution of advertising, Mr. Swamy spoke also about co-create of products, advertisements and involvement of consumers in the message and communication. Mr. Rajiv Bakshi, Director (Marketing, Asia Pacific), Discovery Channel detailed the nuances of media planning and buying. He also dwelled upon the current television media sprawl and the possibilities it holds for future. The final day was graced by Mr. Rahul Kansal, the CMO of BCCL, who spoke to students on the topic ‘Social responsibility and ethics in marketing’. Mr.Kansal spoke about how unique events such as globalisation helped the Indian mindset evolve to a state where the guilt about doing business no longer exists;CSR has moved from mere tokenism to consciousness towards societal and economic issues, and a strong degree of respect for the environment. The final speaker on the second day of ADAGE the Corporate Interaction Series at Advent ’09, was Mr. Prasanna Singh, the COO of Afaqs!, who spoke to students about ‘Growth through Innovation – the Media story’. The session focussed on the various innovations in the different forms of media targeted towards capturing the mind of the consumer.
Q’riosity, the Picture Quiz, was another hit among the plethora of events at the summit. Participation in Q’riosity reached overwhelming proportions, with over 300 teams from 27 business schools across the country trying their luck at the jackpot. In addition, on-the-spot audio-based ad identification contests, brand tagline-related dumb charades and impromptu speech contests added to the flavour of the event.
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Last Updated ( Wednesday, 18 November 2009 )
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Sreedhar Prasad, Associate Director, KPMG reminisces about MDI Gurgaon |
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Thursday, 29th October2009: MDI alumnus Mr Sreedhar Prasad, Associate Director, KPMG Consulting addressed students of MDI in an informal session today. He gave the students an insight into consulting as a career,placements and the recruiter viewpoint. Nostalgic at times, he also talked about his experiences at MDI and gave students valuable advice on what they must take away from MDI.
Mr Prasad began by retracing his career and listing all the mistakes he made a la Chetan Bhagat’s novel. He was very candid about all the do’s and dont’s of an MBA and a career thereafter. In response to a question, he highlighted the key variables that defined a consulting career by describing his typical day at work. He also briefly discussed the Indian consulting industry. He was of the opinion that ‘sales needed flair’ and ‘ultimately operations were at the core of everything’. The students found this perspective quite unique. Quoting from his own experiences at MDI and at KPMG, he talked about being pro-active in everything and being aware of all the fields of management irrespective of a major and a minor. He also gave the students an insight into the recruitment process and held that ‘differentiation was the key element for a good placement’. He maintained that besides a decent GPA, good articulation and a personal connect were essentially what an interviewer typically looked for. He urged the students to dig beneath the ‘jazzy sounding designation’ and unearth what the work profile on offer actually entailed, and thereby make informed decisions about placements. Mr Prasad felt that ‘one must evaluate one’s CV at the end of every year and see what value-add has occurred’. Towards the end, he aired his views on MDI. A strong brand, the network of peers, the freedom and flexibility for personal development were, in his opinion, the biggest take-away MDI offered. The entire session proceeded more like a general discussion than a lecture or a Q&A.
About Sreedhar Prasad: Sreedhar Prasad, batch of 2004, MDI Gurgaon, started his management career with Wipro Technologies as a Consultant, post which he joined KPMG as a Senior consultant. He has risen quickly through the ranks and is currently the Associate Director.He has over 7 years of professional experience in Consulting -Operations/Process advisory and Information technology and has worked with national and multinational clients representing diverse industry segments.
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Last Updated ( Sunday, 01 November 2009 )
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ADVENT'09 – the National Advertising and Marketing Summit! |
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 MarQuity, the marketing club of MDI Gurgaon presents ADVENT 09 – the National Advertising and Marketing Summit.Advent'09 (31st Oct – 1st Nov) aims to bring together marketing enthusiasts from premier B-Schools across India to share ideas and compete with each other. Advertising workshops, Corporate Interaction series and fun filled events also intend to provide an awesome learning experience at Advent!
Highlights of Advent'09:
- Adrena - The Advertising Workshop by Lowe-Lintas group followed by a National Level competition on Ad-formulation!
- Adage – The Corporate Interaction Series with eminent speakers from the world of Media and Advertising
- CMD, R K Swamy BBDO
- CMO, Economic Times
- Director, Marketing, Discovery Channel (Asia Pacific)
- COO, Agency Faqs
- Qriosity – A 3 day online event starting 27th October (Tuesday)
And much more... with Cash prizes worth Rs. 65,000 /- to be won!
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Last Updated ( Tuesday, 27 October 2009 )
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