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TEAM ALCOM SPEAKS
Alumni Achievements
The Alumni Committee is happy to present Imprints - May edition. Team ALCOM
Admission Process for
thrives on the basis of its alumni, and works enthusiastically for Alumni events every
the year 2016-2018
year. With this motto of keeping the SIMSR family closely knit together, we encourage all Alumni to save the date for Nostalgia 2016! Our team is very excited to make
National Retail Summit
Nostalgia 2016 a grand success! Let’s come together to celebrate the cherished bond
Tata Crucible Quiz
between you and your Alma Mater. We also present the success of admissions this
Alumni Relations Report
Job Opportunities
year and thank our prestigious Alumni for being an integral part of it! Our Institute is
seen to move ahead by leaps and bounds due to the positive enthusiasm and cooperation of one and all! We thank our Alumni for their contributions and support.
ALUMNI ACHIEVEMENTS Mr. Ashutosh Khanna, a SIMSR Alum of MMS batch 1988 is currently the Client Partner at Korn Ferry in New Delhi. Mr. Khanna headed the search that led to the selection of the
CEO of BCCI. Korn Ferry is a global leadership and executive search firm headquartered in Los Angeles. The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) had engaged Korn Ferry to recruit its new CEO and CFO. Mr. Piyush Jha, a SIMSR Alum of MMS batch 1990 is an acclaimed Film Director, Screenwriter and Novelist. His suspense thriller novels Mumbaistan, Compass Box Killer and Anti-Social Network have gone on to become bestsellers. Mr. Jha has
Mr. Piyush Jha
recently published his fourth crime-fiction novel titled Raakshas, which is soon going to be adapted into a major motion picture.
Mr. Ashutosh Khanna
ADMISSION PROCESS 2016-2018 The Admissions for PGDM Batch 2016-18 closed at an impressive SIMSR Merit Rank of 1388 on the 3rd day of counselling, as compared to previous year’s closing SIMSR Merit Rank of around 2400. We also have a huge number of waitlisted candidates for each course this time. This was possible due to the relentless passion, commitment and teamwork of the Admissions Committee comprising of SIMSR Faculty, Staff and Students under the leadership of Dr. Shailaja Karve.
The
Admissions
Committee
also
received an appreciation mail from our Acting Director, Dr. Monica Khanna. We thank all Alumni who participated as panellists for the GD-PI rounds during SIMSR’s admission process.
NATIONAL RETAIL SUMIT National Retail Summit was organised by the Retail Management students at SIMSR on 2nd and 3rd of March 2016. The theme of this Summit was Retail Unplugged which focused on exploring the ‘New Vistas in Shoppers’ Experience’.
Main events conducted during the National Retail Summit –
Kurukshetra, a case study competition on Arogya Finance
Price is Right, a quiz on product pricing and retailing
Lecture by Guest Speaker, Mr. Raunak Raheja, Director at ShopClues
Lecture by Key Note Speaker, Mr. Damodar Mall, CEO at Reliance Retail
Retail Mela, some interesting ‘mini-retail’ stores were set up in campus for two days
TATA CRUCIBLE BUSINESS QUIZ The Tata Crucible Business Quiz is an annual competition organized by the Tata Group. Acumen, the quizzing and debating club at SIMSR, partnered with this annual event to encourage our students to participate. The 12th edition of this quiz was held at the Vivanta by Taj on 9th and 10th April 2016. Highlights of the Quiz –
Number of Cities covered: 36
Number of participating teams: 3900+
Prize for National Winners: Rs. 5 lakhs
The quiz ignites young minds to think out of the box and engages them in a highly enriching battle of wits. Team K J SIMSR was the Runner Up at the Regional Final in Mumbai and won a prize worth Rs. 35,000.
ALUMNI RELATIONS REPORT 2015 - 2016
JOB OPPORTUNITIES Top Recruiting Companies (in April)
Total Number of Recruiting Companies
Number of Vacancies
Deloitte, HSBC, ICICI,
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11
Nielsen and Sony
ALUMNI RELATIONS
TEAM IMPRINTS
Chief Editor— Ankita Rajadhyaksha
Designers
and
Content
Managers—
Vidhya Sharma - 98202 48420 (Senior Manager, Somaiya Alumni Relations)
Arvind Pandi Dorai - 90294 08800 (Manager, Alumni Relations, SIMSR)
Shriya Pawar - 97697 00042 (Officer, Alumni Relations, SIMSR)
Vikram Gupte - 72766 86693 (Convenor, Alumni Committee)
Parul Pathak and Abhijith Varma
Contributors— Akshay Kamath, Riya Guin, Sweta Lakhani, Priyanka Mirajkar, Diwansh Garg, Ruchi Sharma, Sanjog Singh Ahuja and Tanvi Vassa
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