IIPM & Yale has set up joint venture related to confidence index in India

The Investor Behavior Project in India conducted by joint venture of IIPM and Yale University. As part of this study, regular questionnaire investor attitude surveys would be done. The objective of this study is to accumulate information to expand confidence index internationally. The entire study would be divided in three parts:

First Part:
The first part will be identical to accumulate data from investors which will allow us to embark on a number of important cross sectional studies.

Second Part:
The second part will consist of 8-9 questions which will relate mostly to “confidence” of investors to the corporate governance code of the country. These questions will be identical to all the countries that we will operate the surveys. Again, this will allow for cross sectional studies and possibly allow us to understand similarities and differences among institutional and individual investors in different regions of the world.

Third Part:
The last part of the questionnaire will consist of 4-5 questions that will be “region” or “country” specific. Thus, the questionnaire that will be distributed in India will include questions related to the Indian economy. We hope that this part will allow for important county specific studies.

IIPM Mumbai Lords of the Loud

Lords of the Loud
Date: 28th May 2006
Venue: Andheri Sports Complex
Bands: Euphoria & Strings
Supported by: 3 G, Royal Challenge, Kama Sutra, Mid-day, Zee Music, Siemens, Haute Chilli, INOX, Globus, radio Mirchi, Go Air, AFL, B&E

At IIPM Mumbai we strongly believe in voicing out “Loud” our concerns for the sustenance of “Human Life”. With this belief was born the idea of the “Lords of the Loud” concert an event that would create awareness across Mumbai about the deadly disease AIDS that is predominantly spreading rapidly amongst the youth.

The concert brought together two of the greatest bands Euphoria and Strings from India and Pakistan respectively. The bands were especially selected to show solidarity between the two nations against this fight because “AIDS does not discriminate people do”

The gates were only opened at 6:00pm but a staggering crowd awaited patiently almost an hour earlier to enter the venue. As the astounding crowd of more than 8000 people sang, shout and danced to the spell – bounding music of “Strings” who ended their heart rendering performance with the soulful song from the movie “Zinda” and reminded the crowd of the Importance of each person’s Zindagi and to double the effort against eradicating the spread of the HIV Virus.

The stage then played host to the energetic beats of “Euphoria” who pumped up the energy with their playful and vibrant songs. The concert was given a fitting end with the song “Kabhie Ana Tu Meri Gali” but with new lyrics dedicated to the city of “Mumbai – titled Kabhie Ana Tu Mumbai Gali”. The lead singer Palash Sen a doctor by profession in his farewell emphasized to the crowd the significance of spreading AIDS Awareness.

The concert will be etched in the minds of all attendees as being a great evening dedicated to an even greater cause.

Lords of the Loud in NEWS

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Sunday Times - 28th may 2006
DNA - 29th may 2006
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The Times Of India - 4th June 2006
Hindustan Times - 30th may 2006
The Indian Express - 30th may 2006
The Asian Age - 31st may 2006
Andheri West - 2nd June 2006

SEMINARS

• “Take up the challenge… with a positive attitude and a passionate zeal”
  Gurus speak at an E2 Seminar in IIPM Delhi
  
  New Delhi: The E2 (Economy & Entrepreneurship) Club at IIPM Delhi had recently organized a seminar for its students at its Tower I Auditorium on September 27, 2006. The seminar had a distinguished panel of speakers comprising the likes of Mr. Pankaj Munjal, MD, Hero Cycles, Mr. Suhel Seth, Communication and Marketing expert and Mr. Sandy Hooda, a Delhi based venture capitalist. The seminar, titled, “Entrepreneurship: Views and Avenues,” was attended by over 250 students from the PG Programme, apart from various senior faculty members of the likes of Prof. Naveen Chamoli, Prof. Jaydip Dutta Gupta, Prof. Abhishek Bhattacharya, Prof. Neeta Tripathi, Prof. Anuj Ahuja, amongst others.
  
  During the seminar, Mr. Pankaj Munjal elucidated how the Hero Group has reached its peak and has dominated the two wheeler market for over four decades, even when its founders never had any flashy MBA degree against their names. It was the level of sincerity, hard work and focused dedication that has created an iconoclastic organization. The mantra preached by Mr. Munjal was, “Failure is the best feedback that leads to success, hence accept failure first and learn how to overcome it in due course of time.”
  
  Mr. Sandy Hooda, a highly successful, young entrepreneur himself, who has made a mark of himself as an even more successful venture capitalist, by turning his investments into a profitable venture, had lots of practical experience to share with the audience. He pointed out, “Today, India is the most lucrative business destination as the country is the fastest growing free market democracy. The future of India’s entrepreneurial growth lies in its youth.” He stressed on the mechanism of identifying business ideas which are either untapped or businesses which can be run or managed differently. That would give every Indian enterprise an edge over the rest in the world.”
  
  Mr. Suhel Seth was the final speaker of the day. An icon, in his own right, he presented his real life case of how, he along with his dear friend, Late Shunu Sen, started off India’s first Marketing Consulting firm, Quadra. He exemplified how he had to sell off Quadra to the WPP Group, not because he was in short of funds, but how as an entrepreneur, he wanted his brand to grow under a bigger mother organization. This is when he stated, “An entrepreneur needs to take decisions beyond his own emotions. He need not claim his creation to be a baby and hug onto it, just because he created it, but needs to see how it grows further on…” Mr. Seth preached some mantras to the students, which were: “Entrepreneurship is not about ideas it’s about unbridled ambition blended with confidence and values. There should be three dimensions to an entrepreneur’s life - high levels of integrity, power to absorb the challenge of risk and
  ability to forecast the future in a more organic and defined manner”.
  
  Overall, the seminar was a great learning experience for the students, who gained enough confidence and motivation, before they actually planned to venture out in the world to become an entrepreneur themselves.
  
• IMF and World Bank experts address IIPM Students in Washington, DC Viewed live by students across all 7 IIPM centres through videoconferencing
  
  New Delhi, October 06, 2006: An elite group of 60 IIPM students, representing all the seven Indian centres (Delhi, Mumbai, Ahmedabad, Pune, Bangalore, Hyderabad and Chennai) of The Indian Institute of Planning and Management, attended an exclusive seminar on October 5, addressed jointly by a panel of senior economists from the World Bank and International Monetary Fund (IMF), in Washington, DC. This seminar is a part of the institute’s unique international program, the Global Opportunity and Threat Analysis.
  
  The seminar, titled “India’s Growth: Surprises, Idiosyncrasies, Anomalies and Challenges” was addressed by Mr. Arvind Subramanian, Mr. Brian Pinto, Ms. Priya Basu and Mr. Deepak Mishra Also present for the seminar was Mr. Shantayanan Devaranjan, Chief Economist (World Bank’s South Asia Region). The seminar was divided into four sections to cover the following key issues: “Why India’s growth is like nobody else’s?”, “How can India grow so fast with such high fiscal deficit?”, “Will infrastructure and the financial sector constrain India’s future growth?” and “India’s rapidly-growing states: What lessons for lagging states?”
  
  Praising the initiative taken by IIPM, Mr. Devrajan commented, “It is always a wonderful experience to interact with students from India, as they are well versed with the topics that we intend to speak on. It was an equally great session today and I found the IIPM students very interactive and inquisitive.”
  
  According to Prof. Prasoon S Majumdar, Dean Academics (All India), IIPM, “Our uniquely designed GOTA programs intend to give our students an optimal exposure in terms of how global economy works, how corporations run businesses under various economic systems, how world organizations and leading institutions perceive India’s growth in the coming years. Through this visit at the World Bank premises, the students have gained a lot of fresh insights, that would help them in presenting white papers on their return. I thank both the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund for their support in the same.”
  
  Apart from a trip to the World Bank, these students have also received invitations to visit various other institutions and organizations in the United States. This includes a lecture tour to NYMEX - the world's largest physical commodity futures exchange and the Trading Forum for Energy and Precious Metals, UCA Global (New York) an Entrepreneurship development organization in the US, Dow Chemicals and Sanofi-Aventis, two of the world’s leading pharma giants and the Citigroup amongst others.
  
  The seminar at World Bank also served as a massive technological platform for the institute, as arrangements were made to make the seminar come live to all students from the institute’s 7 campuses across India, through videoconferencing. This enabled the remaining students of the institute also to be a part of the seminar, without being physically present in Washington DC, USA.
  
  The students at these campuses also participated during the seminar through questions and feedbacks, sent directly to Washington DC.
  
• ROLE OF ‘IMF’ IN INDIA: Addressed by Mr. James Gordon, Senior Resident Representative (India) IMF.
  Date :- Apr 2002.
  

• WTO & Globalization
  Date :- Dec 2002.

• Knowledge Management: By Dr. Charles Savage, Father of Knowledge Management.
  Date :- Sep2003.
  
• Convergence: Financial consolidation
  Date :- June 2003.
  
• India’s Management Dilemma: by Prof. Arindam Chaudhuri
  Date :- Feb 2003.
  
• Good to Great: In search of Corporate Excellence The Speaker were:
  Dan Sandhu - Vertex Navyog Mohnat QAI
  Sanjay Diwan - Avaya Global Connect
  Ajay Sud - Confluence Integrated Services
  Rajnish Rohtagi – Solutions Integrated Services
  Date :- September 2004.
  
• Competency Mapping: By Mr. G.K.Sinha, EVP (HR), Pepsico.
  Date :- July 2004.
  

• Corporate Governance: By Mr. S. K. Gupta, VP, DCM Ltd.
  Date :- October, 2004.

• ‘Managing Employees Ideas for Performance’
  Date :- May 2005.
  

• “A Paperless World”: By Mr. David Ramsey, O’ Neil Software