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The Corporate Communications Department brings to you the latest edition of Fortune Cookies. An initiative of the Student Life Office, Fortune Cookies brings to your highlights of what keeps everyone busy at FIIB! In this issue, we bring to you a recap of Convocation, the academic year gone by and lots more! So sit back and relish a sip of cold coffee and read through a chapter from the busy lives of FIIB-ians. We hope you enjoy this edition. Your feedback and Letter to Editor is most welcome at newsdesk@fiib.edu.in
Some Common Writing Mistakes • • • • • • •
Fewer or less? Affect or Effect? Incorrect Spellings! Its or it’s? Where to put the semicolon? A lot or Alot? Then or Than?
Have these words created confusion in your life? Give it some thought about how to nail these puzzles and view the answers on the last page…
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Akshita Agrawal Chief Editor- Fortune Cookies Want to write for Fortune Cookies and be a part of the Editorial Board? Write to us at newsdesk@fiib.edu.in by 20th July 2014
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The 18th Batch graduates in a solemn ceremony The 18th Convocation at FIIB
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The Spotlight Story Recap of major Conferences organized at FIIB in 2013-2014
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Featured Story FIIB Traditions- Farewell, Meraki and Samavesh make 2013 an exciting year
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The American Ways A brief on Exchange Program with WCoB 1
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18th Convocation at FIIB
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FIIB’s 18th Batch (Class of 2014) seen here with Chief Guest- Mr. Vinay Mittal (Chief Financial Strategist, HT Media); Ms. Radhika Shrivastava (Executive Director, FIIB) and the entire Faculty Group of FIIB FIIB’s 18th annual convocation ceremony was celebrated on 9th May, 2014 as parents admired their wards for reaching the finishing line of a long marathon. A wave of unrestrained optimism and joy filled the air, as students stepped on the stage to collect their PGDM degrees and awards. The hall of PHD Chambers of Commerce was engulfed in energy, enthusiasm and liveliness as Fortune Institute of International Business awarded 169 diplomas to its graduating batch and felicitated 9 students for their academic achievement.
Chief Guest : Mr. Vinay Mittal, Chief Financial Strategist, HT Media was welcomed by FIIB Director, Dr. A.K.Sinha
Students and their families attended the ceremony that was held at PHD Chambers of Commerce
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Excerpts from the Chief Guest
Mr. Mittal’s Convocation Speech Touches on Essence of Hard Work and Optimism Mr. Vinay Mittal, Chief Financial Strategist, HT Media shared a few life changing principles during his Convocation Address at the 18th Convocation Day, FIIB. He encouraged the graduating batch to stand up and live for the moment through smart & hard work. He emphasized that one should embark on the voyage of life with a “never say die” spirit. He helped students to reflect on the principles of innovation and keeping an open mind with examples from history and science. He inspired them to think big and become optimistic individuals, no matter where they stood at that point of life. Speaking about how the human mind works, he reiterated that without an open mind and motivation, there would be no great discoveries or accomplishments! As the class of 2014, FIIB PGDM steps forward to go out into the real world; Mr. Mittal’s words will certainly add more sense into their journey of success.
On the occasion of the Convocation, 9 students were awarded for their academic achievement at FIIB
Gold Medalist: Sugandha Arora
Silver Medalist: Tania Ann Koshi
Operations Area Topper: Bhuwan Chopra
RK Shrivastava All Rounder: Utkarsh Garg
IB Area Topper: Ariba Hussain
High Praise
Marketing Area Topper: Shreeshti Ghosh
Strategy Area Topper: Rakshet Sharma
Finance Area Topper: Dhruv Mahajan
HR Area Topper: Jasmine Kaur Mudhar
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IN THE SPOTLIGHT: The Learning A flashback of the various organised by the Student Clubs on various topics dealing with
The Club organised various drives like E-Waste Collection Drive, Blood Donation Camp and Clothes Collection drive at FIIB Campus.
Jaagriti also organized a day long Sustainability Summit on 21st February 2014 inviting experts to speak on sustainability and hosted thirty underprivileged kids on this occasion an planned a day full of fun activities, health check up scamp and delicious food for them. The kids enjoyed the day as they indulged in drawing games, magic shows and dance.
Dr Prodipto Ghosh Director, TERI
Panel discussions were organized on implementing Sustainability- from Board Room to Shop Floor With the kids who were hosted by FIIB during Founder’s Day Celebrations
Throughout the academic year, FIIB-ians organize various events as a part of the student led clubs. With the new academic year in progress, it is only apt to quickly recap some of the conferences that were organized during 20132014. During the year, over several day long conferences were organized on Marketing Analytics, Operations, HR, Finance, Sustainability and Entrepreneurship. Students worked selflessly and tirelessly during the conferences as they coordinated with the speakers, planned an impeccable speaker line up and asked thought provoking questions. In various inter and intra college competitions, the students participated with zeal and enthusiasm to put their best foot forward and brining laurels to the Institute.
FIIB-ians with Mumbai Dabbawaalas
Sigma organised their first Operations Excellence Conference (OPEX) 2013 on 31st August 2013 where Mumbai Dabbawaalas visited the college to share their secrets of being a six sigma organization of world fame following a panel discussion on Sustainable Supply Chain Strategy
Cynergy organised a day long Innovation in HR : Gearing Towards 2020 where HR Mangers discussed emerging trends and use of social media in employer branding. Through this annual conference, Cynergy brings various trends in HR onto the discussion table and proves to be an enriching experience for all the students. Speakers sharing their thoughts on Role of Social Media in Employer Branding
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Curve at FIIB Conclaves and Summits at FIIB. These events were organised by the students Marketing, Sustainability, Operations, Human Resource etc.
The Sports Committee organised a day long intra college cricket match- Cricket Sangram. FIIB Students, Staff and Faculty warmed up and battled it out on the Cricket field at IIT Grounds and indulged in a weekend of cricket playing exciting matches against each other.
Students enjoy a day of cricket
FIIB Cricket Team stood First Runner up after playing against 36 other teams at the Cricket Tournament organized by Bhartiya Vidya Peeth
Alumni Sports Meet 2013
Held on 17th November 2013, FIIB Alumni Sports Meet was attended by over 200 alumni from across the country and the event was hosted by the FIIB Alumni Cell and Student Committee. Students, Faculty and Alumni at FIIB unwound playing variety of indoor and outdoor games
FIIB organized its first Marketing Analytics Conference (MAC) where speakers from Homestead, Microsoft, Nokia, Fractal Analytics, Healthkart, IIM Ahmedabad, IIM Khozikode and FIIB came together to share their views on the important topics of Big Data Analytics, Marketing Database Analytics and Customer Analytics. Held on 19th October 2013, at Le Meridien Hotel, the conference brought professionals, experts and students under one roof to facilitate important debates and discussions regarding Marketing Analytics. L to R: Mr Saurabh Mittal (Fractal Analytics) during his Keynote Address; Panel Discussions in progress during the Conference and The Core Committee upon successful completion of the Conference
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Featured Story: Meraki and Samavesh FIIB nurtures young entrepreneurial talent through an annual pan India B-Plan competition Meraki. This year Meraki was conducted on 17th-18th January 2014 concluded with an Entrepreneurial Summit The B-plan judging panel included Mr. Alok Mittal (Managing Director, Canaan India), Mr. Manish Kheterpal (Chairman, FIIB; Ex-Director, Providence Equity, Actis Advisors and Rho Ventures), Mr. Amit Khosla (Managing Director, AsiaBridge), Mr. Vishal Dixit (Director, Zephyr Peacock), Mr. Anshoo Sharma (Partner, Lightspeed Ventures) and Mr. Sarbvir Singh (Managing Director, Capital18)
Winners Elixier Biomedical (D J Sanghvi College of Engineering, Mumbai) Weddings R’ Us(Fortune Institute of International Business (FIIB), Delhi) Eccentrics (Goa Institute of Management, Goa)
Meraki received over 100 high-quality Bplans from IIM’s, IIT’s, University of Delhi, JamnaLal Bajaj, IMI, BITS Pilani, IMT, among others and top 10 teams presented their plans to a panel of investors. Thereafter 3 teams were awarded FIIB Meraki Fellowships worth Rs 1,00,000, Rs 75,000 and Rs 50,000 respectively
FIIB-ians organize a two day annual cultural extravaganza- Samavesh through which they demonstrate initative, management acumen and ability to execute. This year, Samavesh was held on 1st and 2nd of March 2014 Over a hundred participants joined Samavesh from Jesus and Mary College (JMC), Hansraj, Sri Venketeswara College, Zakir Husain, Lal Bahadur Shastri College, Jamia Hamdard, Faculty of Management Studies, Amity University, Lady Shri Ram College, Miranda House and others. “Sitting through the Digital Marketing lectures helped me understand the best practices of social media marketing and we implemented those learnings to market Samavesh through Facebook and other popular social media channels. The course on strategy helped my team members to plan and execute better while the course on Data analysis facilitated easy analysis of the large pool of data we gathered for sponsors and partnership!” shares Ariba Hussain, Student Co Head- Cultural Committee (2013-2014) while celebrating the success of Samavesh
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Passing the Light: An FIIB Tradition At FIIB, Leadership is not just about playing the role to perfection, but about creating a legacy and leaders that can follow and carry the torch forward. Also, each year the student life experience changes as new students bring with them their ideas and while change is inevitable, there are some events that have stood the test of time and change, in a culture that values Innovation. These events have thus earned the status of FIIB Traditions. One such FIIB Tradition is the Passing of Light on Farewell, when the new Leaders for the Student Clubs at FIIB are inducted. COHEADS (2014-2015) Jaagriti
Domino
Alumni Committee
Jacob Poochakatil Megha Sinha
Manish Saraswat Sachin Joshi
Nisha Yadav Pratika Gupta
Marketing
Cue
Udaan
Anuradha Apan Sidharth Ranga
Vaibhav Chaudhary Manya Lamba
Sagun Satyendra Kumar
Cultural Committee FSE
Sports
Vaishali Dhawan Janis King
Aakriti Sachdeva Shahbaz Khan
Ritesh Kumar Sahil Sharma
Sigma
CII
Cynergy
Sudhanshu Shekhar Tania Roy
Mitika Nangia Kanika Agarwal
Sakshi Saini Varun Kulshrestha
The USP of farewell night was the performances of seniors and juniors which entertained everyone! Faculty also stayed back to enjoy the night with the students
Sigma Team was appreciated for their efforts in 2013-2014
Cultural Committee was awarded the Best Club 2014 trophy
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FIIB-ians hosted students and faculty from Sam Walton College of Business during the weekend of 17th-18th May 2014. The two days intense learning program proved to be fruitful for the students as well as the guests. ‘In the beginning we thought we are so different from each other but by the end of the program we realized that we are similar in many ways too. It was an eye opening experience’- Nisha Yadav
Some Common Writing Mistakes (Contd) • • • • • • •
Fewer is used for things that can be counted Affect is a verb and Effect is a noun Proofread to remove incorrect spellings It’s means It is or It has Semicolon is used to connect two independent clauses Alot is not a word! Then is to refer a point in time while than is used to compare • Loose is something that doesn’t fit while Lose is a verb
With the students of WCoB during a team game (Above) and at Red Fort (Below)
So start writing and use this words effectively!
Watch Out!- Our Next Issue Communications Department will bring to you lots of stories from the campus in the next edition of Fortune Cookies
The Pre Term- Two weeks of induction and orientation for the 20th Batch Return from the Corporate- What CIP taught us FIIB Debate Series- What FIIB-ians Think? And a lot more from the Campus, students, staff and faculty! Want to write for Fortune Cookies? Send your articles, photos and other submissions to newsdesk@fiib.edu.in ….We’ll make space for everything!