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Issue November 2014

FEATURED STORY Marketing Conclave Operational Excellence Conclave (OPEX 2014)

THROUGH THE CORRIDORS

INDUSTRY VISIT Students visited Adidas and National Stock Exchange

FROM FIIB COMMUNITY In talk with Prof. Partha Pratim Saikia

We are sure that you will enjoying reading this issue.

Swati Sharma- Editor Fortune Cookies

PLACEMENT UPDATE (Batch 2013-15)

As rightly said by Thomas A. Edison, “ There is no substitute for hard work.”

Congratulating to following students for their bright career ahead.

• Geetanksha Chawla- F1F9 • Manya Lamba- Ken Research • Aakriti Sachdeva- Crisil What number is underneath the car?

• Mitika Nangia- Stellar Search • Aayushi Rathore- Stellar Search • Vaishali Dhawan- Zomato

Want to write for Fortune Cookies and be a part of the Editorial Board? Write to us at newsdesk@fiib.edu.in by 20th December 2014

FIIB’s Career Management Centre (CMC) received Job Description from 18 distinguished companies like Lloyd Ventures, Vodafone, Whirplpool, Ernst & Young in the month of November

FROM OUR TEAM

FIIBians ran in Airtel Delhi Half Marathon Students gearing up for Meraki 2015

November’14 was certainly a busy month for FIIB community as they hosted major events like Marketing Conclave and Operational Excellence Conclave. In addition, FIIBians were seen spreading buzz for Meraki 2015- An International Level B-Plan Competition. Faculty, staff and students proudly ran for “Road Safety” at Airtel Delhi Half Marathon. With all these events and activities, FIIB’s Corporate Communication Department thoroughly enjoyed compiling Fortune Cookies for the month of November. Also, Industry Visits and other activities kept the entire FIIB Community busy in November.

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Issue November 2014

Straight from Achievers!!

Featuring “Success Mantra” of students who got placed in Nov’14

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Believe in yourself, have determination and passion to work continuously towards your goals.

Vaishali Dhawan, Sales Manager, Zomato Media Pvt. Ltd.

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Never Give Up. Failure is the stepping stone to success. Work strongly on your failures and weaker areas and you will gradually emerge as an overall winner.

Mitika Nangia, Research Associate, Stellar Search

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Know who you are and what your skills are.

Decide and have intent focus on your goals.

Work towards it step by step with patience and confidence.

Manya Lamba, Market Research Associate, Ken Research

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Qualitative study is of high significance.

One should give due importance to holistic development of skills in the domain one has to foray his/her career in.

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Geetanksha Chawla, Junior Financial Modller, F1F9

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Grab every difficulty as an opportunity.

It gives different dimensions to learning and growth.

Aayushi Rathore, Research Associate, Stellar Search

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FIIB hosted 2 major events i.e. Marketing Conclave and Operational Excellence Conclave (OPEX) where distinguished speakers deliberated on various topics.

MARKETING CONCLAVE Students got an opportunity to explore Big Data and Social Media and unravel the magic in Analytics and Creativity as industry experts shared their thoughts on “ANALYTICS & SOCIAL MEDIA: Today’s Business Game Changers.”

2nd year students Anuradha Apan and Manya Lamba gave presentation on “Introduction to Analytics” Key note address was given by Mr. Saurabh Mittal, Senior VP, Fractal Analytics Ms. Radhika Shrivastava Executive Director, FIIB during her inaugural address

Special Session: Success Story of deobazaar.com by Ms. Mohika Rao

Session 1. Analytics in Business: Opportunities & Challenges The Panel Speakers were: Mr. Punit Chahar: Director- Digital Marketing at Jabong Ms. Kunal Jain: Founder & CEO of Analytics Vidhya Mr. Abhishek Agrawal: Executive Director at MDRA

Session 2. Social Media – Exploration to Exploitation The Panel Speakers were: Mr. Kishore Chakravorty: Vice President (Consumer Insights) at McCann Erikson Mr. Kapil Gupta: Founder & CEO of OmLogic Mr. Rohit Khandelwal: Co-Founder of Inventra Technologies Mr. Sunny Jaiswal: Manager (Online Marketing) at SnapDeal

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OPERATIONAL EXCELLENCE CONCLAVE (OPEX 2014) FIIB’s SIGMA Club hosted Operational Excellence Conclave (OPEX 2014) and invited distinguished speakers to deliberate on “Operational Excellence - Strategy for Sustainable Businesses.”

Keynote address was given by Mr. Shuktij Singh Rao, Chief (Infrastructure), TATA Power SED

Mr. Singh said organizations should strive for continuous improvement in their process, as processes are the lifeblood of an organization Mr. Sanjay Singh, President (Strategic Planning & Projects), Hero Motors Ltd. was Plenary Speaker

Session 1. Enhancing Corporate Competitiveness: Supply Chain & Logistics Management

According to Mr. Rao, getting “Repeat Orders” is the key to sustainable business, so companies should strive to keep customers excited

The Panel Speakers were: • Mr. Mansingh Jaswal, Director & Chief Executive Officer, GenEx Logistics India • Mr. Hitendra Mankani, General Manager (Corporate Sales), DSV Air and Sea and FIIB Alumnus- Class of 2003 • Mr. Mihir Mohanta: General Manager, Mother Dairy Fruit & Vegetable Pvt. Ltd. • Mr. Ajay Kashyap: AGM SCM, Sona Koyo Steering Systems Ltd.

Session 2. Service Operations: Opportunities & Challenges The Panel Speakers were: • Mr Deepak Kumbhat, AVP (Operation - Financial Shared Service), Xchanging • Mr Abhiram Mishra, Head Operations, North & East Reliance Digital Retail Ltd. • Ms Ananya Roy Sen Sr. Partner & Co-Founder - Digital Academy • Mr Arun Behal, AVP,Delhi International Airport (P) Ltd. During session 3, students got an opportunity to discuss their career plans with FIIB alumni, Mr. Arvind Kishore Gupta from Class of 1999, working as GM (Sales) with ILS- Integral Logistics Services and Dr. Rashi Gupta from Class of 2000, working as Head- Trade Execution (Grains and Oilseeds, Sugar, Cotton)with Cargill

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THROUGH THE CORRIDORS FIIBians gears up for the 4th Edition of Meraki Meraki- An annual mega event organized by FIIB’s E-Cell – Udaan; is a pan –India B-Plan competition for student entrepreneurs who get an opportunity to present their B-Plan on a larger platform. Meraki 2015 promises prize money worth Rs 3 Lakh and an opportunity to secure angel funding and incubation facilities.

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Volunteers were seen inviting students from different colleges and spreading abuzz around college Regular brainstorming sessions are done for this annual mega event

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Registration – 15 Dec’14 Submission of Executive Summary – 20th Dec’14 Submission of final B-Plan – 10th Jan’15 Announcement of Top10 Teams – 20th Jan’15 Submission of Final B-Plan PPT – 24th Jan’15 Presentation of B-Plan by Finalists – 30th Jan’15 Entrepreneurship Conference – 31st Jan’15 Final Prize Distribution – 31st Jan’15

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I volunteered for inviting colleges to participate in Meraki. It was great learning experience for me, as talking to Directors , Deans gave me a confidence to talk to higher management.

Sanchita Agarwal, 1st year student

And an opportunity to secure angel funding, incubation facilities and continuous mentoring from experts I visited many colleges in Delhi/NCR and met Student Activity Coordinators, Directors and Deans regarding Meraki.

This has certainly helped me improving on my inter-personal skills.

Mayank Sarawgi, 1st year student

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FIIB conquered Airtel Delhi Half Marathon FIIB community participated in Great Delhi Run and covered a distance of 6 Kms spreading a message on “Road Safety.” Wearing T-shirts with road safety slogans and holding a banner demonstrating “The 10 Commandments of Road Safety” FIIBians did their bit to save innocent lives.

Runners were awarded with FINISHER Certificates

Samiksha Singla, 1st year student “ Though it is my exam tomorrow, but the initiative I ran for was worth keeping my studies aside for some time. Thank you FIIB for giving me this opportunity”

Prof. Monica Mor “While I shed some calories, I hope people shed some of their careless attitude towards traffic rules. I saw the lackadaisical attitude that people had towards their fellow runners (not giving way, sauntering & talking while blocking the road, taking shortcuts even for a 6 kms run!).

I am sure they carry the same while driving. Hoping there's more agility we view on our roads, for I am sure the runners also drive.”-

Second year students with Finance specialization visited National Stock Exchange (NSE) and got an insight on stock market functioning

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First year students visited Adidas shoe factory ,Haridwar and learned about shoe industry structure and different process units in shoe manufacturing like cutting, stitching and assembly

Industry visit to Adidas helped me in get ting clarity on how the concepts that we learn in classrooms are put into action Navneet Kaur Oberoi, 1st year student

First year students seen here with Prof. Nimit Gupta at Adidas

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SIGMA Club conducted “E- Commerce Quiz” which laid emphasis on the awareness of the students in the ecommerce industry

Seen here winning team getting felicitated by Prof. Nimit Gupta

Proud FIIBians Volunteered @ BRICS CCI for E-Commerce Conclave

BRICS CCI organized its first edition of E-Commerce Conclave’14, wherein representatives from various Embassies, Ministries, Government Officials, Members of Chambers, Corporate houses, Media, Educational Institutes and students from Business and Law schools were invited to share their thoughts on E-Commerce now & its future in India

5 volunteers from FIIB were selected to be a part of this conclave and help BRICS CCI for the smooth functioning of the event.

Students got volunteering certificate from BRICS CCI

Volunteers from FIIB capturing a moment during ECommerce Conclave @ BRICS CCI

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Brand Rovers- Marketing Club of FIIB conducted AD-MAD event wherein students were asked to make an ad poster, come with creative Tag-line, draft POD and present final presentation on the given product.

It was an amazing experience in volunteering for the BRICS E-Commerce Conclave, we all got to learn a great deal from it. We were assigned various tasks and responsibilities, which we were successfully able to accomplish as team. Thankyou FIIB Gaurav Malhotra, 1st year student

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“Ad Mad event was an eye opener for me, as I exeprienced the live application of theoritcal concepts.” Shreya GuptaMember of First Runner Up Team

It was a wonderful experience working with BRICS. My duty was at Registration Desk and I was helping the attendees with registration process. I am grateful to FIIB. Saurabh Raichandani, 1st year student

Issue November 2014

From FIIB Community In conversation with Prof. Partha Pratim Saikia If you weren’t a professor you would have been If I were not a Professor, I would have become a Bureaucrat!

Appearing and clearing the Civil Services was always a dream during my student days.

A film you liked the most and why?

I love watching movies; the last movie which appealed the most to me was "Haider", an Indian adaptation of the Shakespeare's novel "Hamlet“. Roles played by Shadid Kapoor, Tabu & K K Menon and Irfan Khan's cameo were phenomena. It’s a cinematic piece of Bollywood brilliance.

Letters to Editor “Reading Fortune cookies is always a fun as it brings beautiful insights on what all activities happened the previous month, especially when you know that you contributed and others applauded.

I specially liked sustainability initiatives and it was good too see that not only Jaagriti Club but faculty and staff also stood up whole heatedly for sustainability.”

Pratik Seth, 1st Year Student

Any interesting read you will suggest to everyone and why?

One interesting read that I would suggest is "The Dum Dum Bullet: Real life lessons in Marketing & Advertising", by Sandeep Goyal (an avid Advertising professional who was instrumental in bringing the Japanese advertising major Denstu to India). The readers, particularly our students, can get insights into the corporate career of Advertising. Another book "Go Kiss the World-Life lessons for the Young Professionals", by Subroto Bagchi , Co founder of MindTree Ltd. portrays the journey of author from a small town in Patnagarh, Odisha to the Corporate World. Readers can reap couple of inputs from his success story.

A piece of advice you would like to give to students I wish the students develop capacity in building a sustainable career. In their two years of study at FIIB, they should not restrict themselves to any single domain. Rather, they should try to integrate the concepts of Management and have clarity in thoughts & expressions.

Describe FIIB in one word (In Assamese) Khub bhal jega", meaning a good/ideal place

Watch Out!- Our Next Issue The next edition of Fortune Cookies will be focused on activities in December which have kept the desks of Faculty and Staff busy and students’ schedule exciting!

Clothes Drive Cricket Sangram Placement Updates And a lot more from the Campus, students, staff and faculty!

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