| Delphique '09 comes to an end with Dr. Pachauri as one of the chief guest |
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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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