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It was the best of times, it was the work and perseverance, conquer the ALUMNI COMMITTEE LOGO worst of times. It was the age of world. Our prestigious Alumni form wisdom, it was the age of foolishness. It a global fraternity that functions just is the glory of our past, it is the hope for like a local community. our future. As a mark of our strength in unity, our An artist may travel the world to find network unbreakable and our bond inspiration. But a masterpiece always everlasting, the Alumni Committee at sets the artist homebound. And the SIMSR launches its new logo. seeds of art sown at home grow into the With the globe at its heart, our logo artists of tomorrow. stands to resolute as a community of SIMSR has always been home for its SIMSR Alumni - the world their canvas, Alumni. Our institute cultivates while they, the artists. professionals who, through their hard
TEAM ALCOM SPEAKS
CONVOCATION CEREMONY
Team ALCOM wishes you a very happy and a prosperous New Year.
The convocation ceremony of PGDM batch 2014-16 and PGDM Executive batch 2014-15 was held on 3rd December, 2016
The Alumni Committee proudly presents Imprints – January Edition. This edition, we are delighted to present an exclusive interview with our Alumnus Ms. Lata Pillai.
The esteemed chief guest for the occasion was Dr. Raman Ramachandran, Chairman and Managing Director of BASF India ltd.
We thank our alumni for their valuable time that helps us bring their vast treasure of knowledge back to campus.
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We welcome the newest batch of alum to our alumni family.
ALUMNI ACHIEVEMENT SIMSR alumnus, Ms. Avipsha Banerjee Thakur (Gold Medallist of the PGDM Batch 2007-09) is the Executive Director, Roshni, a Delhi based NGO for women. She has led the organization to triple its reach and empower over 24,000 girls from socially disadvantaged backgrounds. Ms. Thakur has made SIMSR proud for the noble work that she is doing for the society. Recently she gave an excellent TEDx talk on Empowering Women, Escalating Economies, Enriching the World. Click the below link for the entire video. Video
SIMSR BIGWIGS Mr. Sanjay Shah is currently the Managing Director of Morgan Stanley. Mr. Shah has worked as the Executive Director, JM Morgan Securities Pvt ltd. Mr. Shah has played a key role in marketing and distribution of local and international issuances like Wipro, ICICI Bank and HDFC Bank. He has also been voted as the Best Mr. Sanjay Shah, Indian Salesperson for two years by Asiamoney. Alum of batch 1990-92, We are proud of our Alum for Managing Director, Morgan Stanley achieving stupendous success in this competitive field.
Exclusive Interview With Ms. Lata Pillai
Director, Deutsche Bank SIMSR Alumni 1986-88 batch Ms. Lata Pillai is the Director at Deutsche Bank, and specializes in real estate sector. In her career of almost three decades, she has had a diverse experience including market analysis, stressed assets, capital markets and structured finance. Ms. Pillai is also a part of governing council of SIMSR. We met her to gain insight on her times at SIMSR and her learning from life and career. Q. What was the most significant learning you gained But in such times, they need a great support system, during your time at SIMSR? either their parents, or husband or kids, and also the A. The program and the curriculum helped to gain a different ability to decide which things have to let go off when.
worldview. The projects, industrial experiences, working with Q. You have worked closely with both Mr. KV people, helped develop an attitude for the real world. The Kamath and Ms. Chanda Kochhar. How would you peer learning is an essential part, and helped exploring describe their working styles? the vast set of possibilities we have in life. It actually does not teach much but hones us to look differently at the world A. Mr. Kamath was a visionary. He foresaw what around us. many could not. Ms. Chanda is a great manager. Q. In your career of over three decades, what have been She is a great delegator, listener, debater, quick in her decisions and a wonderful implementer. Conversations some important turning points? are always to the point. Both complemented each other A. I started working with ICICI in 1988 in the market analysis division and then moved to the Stressed Assets division, and then Real and were present at the right time to take Estate. So, within ICICI itself, it was the organization forward. like working with 3-4 organizations. The next turning point was to move Q. Recently PepsiCo's CEO Indra to Deutsche bank after 18 years in Nooyi said that today’s MBA ICICI. Here, I looked after capital programs are “outdated”. What is markets and structured finances, your opinion on the same? mainly, in real estate. Being an altogether different culture than A. MBA programs prepare us for the ICICI, Deutsche bank taught me to real world mentally but they cannot unlearn and incorporate new teach everything.Job aspects are changes. realized once a person starts working.I feel Indian MBA programs Q. What are your most memorable must have more case studies as it will moments at SIMSR? A. We are a pretty close batch, we keep in touch even after almost 30 yrs. We remember all the workshops and the picnics, treks and trips to Khandala we had. Lectures by Prof. Gondlekar, who taught us productivity management, were great learning. Then, I also met my future husband in SIMSR, so it was all in all a very memorable journey.
help the students understand not only the concepts but also their practical implementation. Q. How do you handle stress? A. Listening to music, meditating, spending time with
my son and husband, who always gives me a very
different and detached view of things. Since he is not from Q. We see Ms. Chanda Kochhar, Ms. Arundhati finance background, it helps me to understand the situation Bhattacharya, Ms. Shikha Sharma, you. What is your from another point of view. opinion about working women? Q. Any advice you would like to give the students of A. I would say that women definitely have to put a lot SIMSR? more work in their stride to the top. They have to make several trade-offs and at times fail at one front or the A. Don’t spoil your today thinking too much about other. Organizations today are also helping with their tomorrow. Life is a great equalizer in the long run. If you policies and the mentality of the people is also changing. are sincere and hardworking, you will get justice at the right time. Today, things around us are changing very rapidly, so But women certainly persevere more. always be receptive and ready to adapt, keep yourself abreast and develop your competency. Be focused,
Be patient, Be adaptive.
MILAAP 2016 The Alumni committee felicitated SIMSR batches of 1983-85, 1985-87, 1986-88, 1987-89, 1988-90 and 1994-96 at Milaap the official batch-wise reunion of Alumni belonging to various courses at SIMSR. Milaap 2016 was a great success. The alumni went back with happy memories and a further strengthened bond amongst themselves as well as with their Alma Mater.
Batch of 1987
Back to College
Alumni reliving their memories
Batch of 1990
Campus tour at Takshashila Auditorium
Batch of 1996
The event started with Dr. Rajan Welukar, Provost — Somaiya Vidyavihar, Ms. Monica Khanna, Acting Director — SIMSR and other faculty members welcoming the alumni. Batch specific videos were played from the times they were in college. A presentation on how SIMSR has evolved over the years was also screened. The alumni reminisced their days at SIMSR, met their friends with whom they had lost contact, and relived life at SIMSR by taking a campus tour with the same energy and enthusiasm that they shared as students of SIMSR. The alumni who couldn’t make it to Milaap sent video clips for their friends attending the event. This year we organised Milaap for 6 batches as a part of regularising the batch reunions. The 30th year reunion of the 1986 batch will take place on 21st January, 2017. Next year, batches of 1992 and 1997 will be invited for Milaap. View more photos
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HER SECOND OPPORTUNITY– H2O Centre for Diversity Management and Inclusion (CDMI) and Humanist – the HR Club of SIMSR, organized a panel discussion, H2O - Her Second Opportunity, on 2nd December, 2016. The topic for the panel discussion was ‘Second innings of women’s corporate career’. The panellists for the occasion were
Ms. Nabomita Mazumdar - Evangelist at SHEROES
Ms. Uma Lal - VP, Tata Medical Centre
Mrs. Keyuri Singh - VP-HR, Infogain Pvt Ltd
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LECTURE BY PROF. VINEET SWAROOP Prof. Vineet Swaroop, a visiting faculty at SIMSR, expressed his thoughts on D e m o n et i z at i on and its impact on the Indian economy on 2nd December, 2016. In an open forum discussion, he opined that there could have been better ways of solving black money problem in India. The session which was live telecasted by the Public Relations Team on the Facebook page of Guest Lecture Committee garnered around 6000 view. Video Link
COMSTRAT– 2016
NATIONAL RETAIL SUMMIT
PGDM - Retail Management presented the National Interface-The Marketing Retail Summit 2016-17, a two-day retail extravaganza, Committee of SIM SR 14th and 15th December, 2016. o r g a n i s e d t h e o n l y The symposium included a national level case study Communications Strategy competition, a event in the country retail flea market, Comstrat in association and a very with FCB-ULKA . engrossing The case for the year, judged by FCB Ulka executives, was panel discussion to plan a communication strategy for Titan-Raga. The team by the stalwarts of from SIMSR were the runner’s up with SP Jain Institute of the retail industry. Management & Research (SPJIMR) as the winners. Read More Read More
METAMORPH MFM, MHRDM, MMM & MIM students hosted their flagship event Metamorph 7.0 on 10th and 11th December, 2016. With the theme of ‘Love U ZindagiCelebrate life’ it was a t h o u g h t f u l amalgamation of the theme and activities like sports, dance, fun management events and music including Coke Studio Pronite featuring Vinod B.
GLOBAL SUPPLY CHAIN MANAGMENT CONFERENCE– 2016 SIMSR along with the its Operations club - For s e hos ted Global Supply Chain m a n a g e m e n t Conference-2016 under guidance of our Faculty Mentor Dr. J.S. Lamba and Operations Management Department. Few of the keynote speakers who graced the conference were: Mr. Howard James Scott (Supply Chain Management Academy, Flipskool/Flipkart University) Mr. Santanu Guha (DGM - L&T Construction) Mr. Surendra Deodhar (Head Materials Management-Reliance Life Sciences) Read More
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SOMAIYA ALUMNI PORTAL In an initiative to promote the alumni to alumni connect, Somaiya Alumni Relations team has launched an alumni portal. This portal finds over 89,000+ Somaiyaites world-wide. Walk down memory lane at our archives, browse photos, know about both past & upcoming events, sign up for reunions, reconnect with batch-mates, ex-students and seniors, rebuild relationships and leverage on all the lateral placements and networking opportunities! You can sign in using Facebook, LinkedIn or your e-mail ID.
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KEY FEATURES
JOB OPPORTUNITY Top Recruiting Companies (in January)
Total No. of recruiting Companies
Total No. of vacancies
6
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MAQ Software, Morgan Stanley, Vodafone, Deloitte USI, Faber Infinite Creative Solutions, Somaiya Vidyavihar
The Alumni Committee has created a SIMSR Jobs Google Group which serves as a platform for Alumni to share lateral job opportunities with each other directly. To share a job opportunity at your organisation write to us at simsrjobs@googlegroups.com
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Priyanka Mirajkar and Parul Pathak
Alumni Relations
Vidhya Sharma (Head - Alumni Relations, SVV)
Dr. Radha Iyer (Advisor, Alumni Relations, SIMSR)
Dr. Bharati VW (Chairperson, Alumni Relations, SIMSR)
Arvind Pandi Dorai (Manager, Alumni Relations, SIMSR)
Shriya Pawar (Officer, Alumni Relations, SIMSR)
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Suryani Sinha Ray, Vatsala Rajvanshi, Kushal
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