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Issue February 2015

FEATURED STORY Founder’s Day Celebration Sustainability Summit 2015

IN THE SPOTLIGHT FIIBians Touch Lives

February , the ‘Green Month’ at FIIB was abuzz with activities and events that kept the entire community on its toes. Turn the Pages to read about Founder’s Day Celebration in the form of Sustainability Summit. Also, view highlights of initiatives taken by Jaagriti Club to serve for social causes. Catch glimpses of Yoga/Meditation session for Students, Faculty and Staff, Gong Celebration and Business Study Tour to Dubai.

We are sure that you will enjoying reading this issue.

- From the Editor’s Desk

THROUGH THE CORRIDORS Yoga / Meditation Student Motivation Session Gong Celebration

From FIIB Community Trip to Dubai – Business Study Tour

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PLACEMENT UPDATE (Batch 2013-15) Placement season as usual was bang on in February 2015. With 16 placements, FIIB certainly has a reason to celebrate this remarkable moment. Kudos to FIIBians!!

Sathi Paul

Shishir Suman

Sunny Pathak Radhika Sethi

Shahbaz Khan Pratika Gupta Tavleen Kaur Duggal

Sushant Bajpai

Megha Sinha

Aditya Kaul Kumkum Mishra Surabhi Shrivastava Yatin Dhall

Aanchal Kapoor

Ritesh Kumar Prashant Gaurav

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FEATURED STORY 21 Years of Sustainable Business Education

Turning Ideas into Projects and Projects into Sustainable Businesses, Sustainability is the key pillar strategy at FIIB and the Institute has a dedicated center of excellence for research and practice in this area. This year we celebrated 21st Founder’s Day on 21st February in the form of Sustainability Summit to honour FIIB's founder Mr. RK Shrivastava. Over 200 representatives from Industry, Not-forprofit Organizations, Academia and Public Authorities participated in the 5th edition of Annual Sustainability Summit.

Event Partners:

Guest of Honor, Mr. Atul Jain (Joint Managing Director, Jain Irrigation) and Shri BV Rao (Director –Technical, Indian Renewable Energy Development Agency) with Ms. Radhika Shrivastava (Executive Director – FIIB)

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Sustainability Summit Highlights 21st February 2015

Mr. Atul Jain (Joint Managing Director – Jain Irrigation), receiving ‘FIIB Leadership in Sustainability Award’ on behalf of Dr. Bhavarlal H Jain (Founder – Jain Irrigation)

by Ms. Radhika Shrivastava (Executive Director – FIIB)

Special Address by Shri BV Rao (Director – Technical, Indian Renewable Energy Development Agency) on Role of Government and Its Regulatory Agencies in Facilitating Sustainable Development

Mr. Atul Jain (Joint Managing Director – Jain Irrigation),Guest of Honour at the Summit, addressing the audience on Sustainability & its Importance in Today’s Evolving Business & Social Communities

Special Session by Roxanna Balderrama (CanSupport Volunteer, Walk for Life ) on Turn Project Ideas into Impactful Realities

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Sustainability Summit Highlights 21st February 2015 Mr. Paresh Tewary (Group President – CSR Times), Ms. Malini Gupta (GM – CSR, JCB India), Mr. Gangacharan Sharma (Head CSR, TUV Rheinland) and Dr. Deepankar Chakrabarti (FIIB) at Panel Discussion on Implementing Sustainability – From Board Room to the Shop Floor

Dr. Jitender Aggarwal (Founder at SARTHAK), Mr. Vijay Pratap Aditya Singh (Founder and CEO of EkGaon), Mr. Vivek Sharma (Director of Kaivalya Education Foundation), Mr. Sudhir Bhatnagar (Founder, SARD) and Prof. Monica Mor (FIIB) at Panel Discussion on Sustainability and Entrepreneurship – the Coming of Age of Social Enterprises

After months of hardwork, Student Volunteers and Organizers were applauded for the grand success of Sustainability Summit.

“This has been a truly enlightening platform to organize and manage institutional events which helped us in learning core ideas for building and running successful sustainable business projects.” – Shreya Gupta, Student Volunteer, Sustainability Summit 2015

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IN THE SPOTLIGHT FIIBians Touch Lives on Founder’s Day Sustainability, a key value that drives FIIB Delhi, is beautifully put to practice by FIIB-ians on Founder's Day by Jaagriti, a student club that stands for social causes. On the occasion of Founder’s Day, young FIIB-ians host underprivileged children in the MBA campus for a day. This year the Institute saw over 50 underprivileged children enjoying the day at FIIB.

Jaagriti Club organized art competition, entertainment show and served savory food items to the kids. It is at this occasion, the students gave back to the society in leaps and bounds by fulfilling their share of Social Responsibility.

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Donating for the Good Jaagriti Club in association with Lions Club organized Blood Donation Camp on 18th February 2015. There were 100 visitors to the camp this year & a total of 72 units of blood were collected. Kudos to the Club Members for the good initiative undertaken!

Jaagriti Club Contribution The Club Volunteers collected 72 units of blood this year; 92 Kgs of E-Waste, and 90 Kgs of Old Clothes the previous year. This year the student club has taken up an ongoing fundraising project for toilet construction in a remote part of India as a part of Swach Bharat mission.

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Through The Corridors

Yoga/ Meditation Session Yoga helps in controlling an individual’s mind, body and soul. It brings together physical and mental disciplines to achieve a peaceful body and mind. It also helps to manage stress and anxiety. With this in mind, FIIB organized Yoga/ Meditation and Stress Management Workshop for the Students, Faculty and Staff on 26th Feb’ 2015.

Building Positive Attitude and Raising Motivation Levels Motivation plays a crucial role in learning. It helps students acquire knowledge, develop social qualities, increase initiation, persist in activities, improve performance, and develop a sense of discipline. At FIIB, a Guest Session by Ms. Shikha Mittal of Be Artsy, to motivate the Students and build Positive Attitude amongst them was organized on 27th Feb’ 2015.

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Gong Rings Again!

A good end to the February month with 20 Achievements of FIIB Community being celebrated in ‘Ring your Success in Gong-O-Style’ tradition. Everyone in the community came forward with full gusto to celebrate the achievements of Faculty, Staff and Students.

Gong sound has turned infectious and every month FIIB witnesses good number of achievements to be acknowledged and celebrated in the Campus.

FIIB celebrated the success of: • 16 Placed Students in the month of February • Jaagriti Club’s Contribution towards society • Finance Quiz Competition winning at Jaipuria Institute of Management by Rohit Babuta and Vansh Dhall, 1st Year Students of FIIB • Prof. Arun Sangwan and Dr. Nimit Gupta’s respective Case Studies being cleared and published by Case Centre (An international Case Clearing House)

The Achievers of February

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Business Study Program – Dubai Trip The month began on a good note with Study Abroad Immersion Program at Dubai for the first year students. Among other things they saw and did, visits to world-class companies like RAK-Ceramics, DUBAL, Nestle & TRAVCO, were the high points of their trip.

Visit to Dubal (Dubai Aluminium Company) Visit to RAK Ceramics

Visit to Travco

Visit to the Nestle Kit Kat Factory

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More from the Dubai Trip

Dubal’s Own Port

Students enjoying Desert Safari

Dhow Cruise

Dubal’s Storage Area

Students having a good time at Dubai

At Sky Deck at Burj Khalifa

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Happiness got a new definition at FIIB. Last month we launched Happiness Series, according to you ‘Happiness Is ……………………………………’

The two best entries are here!

Aakanksha Bhatnagar - “Happiness is FIIB, my friends, favourite teachers and lots of holidays.”

Himanshu Chaudhary - “Happiness at FIIB is a great combo of competition and entertainment with fellow mates.”

Photoshoot Contest!

Be FIIB’s photo journalist and explore college in a creative way.

The contest is open till 20th March 2015 and only 1 entry per student is allowed.

Share your click at newsdesk@fiib.edu.in and lucky winners will get chance to get featured in social media platforms of FIIB. * Please Note – Submission of Picture should be in JPEG format.

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Watch out our Next Issue for the Grand Annual Cultural Extravaganza at FIIB Green Campus -