Guest Talk by Mr. Amit Agnihotri, Chairman MBAuniverse.com

Topic: Life is a marathon, not a 100 meter sprint, goes his motto!!
Venue: IFIM Auditorium
Time: 12:00 PM
Date: 15 SEP 2011

IFIM had the pleasure of meeting and hearing Mr. Amit Agnihotri toady during his visit to the campus.

Mr. Amit spoke on entrepreneurship and was successful in encouraging, engaging everyone while sharing his real life experiences on how he reached the pinnacle in online marketing in such a short period. And yes IFIM also has many students who wish to become great entrepreneurs in times to come.

Mr. Amit introduced himself as a serial entrepreneur, academician and marketing expert all rolled into one and said that his lifelong passions are education and media. His vision is to see India as No 1 global destination for management talents and skills, and Triumph MediaTech & MBAUniverse.com as a catalyst in the process.

He said that he is perusing a doctorate in marketing strategy area and has lectured at several top tier B-school including IIM Ahmedabad, MDI Gurgaon, IIT Delhi (DMS), FMS Delhi.

He spoke about how after completing his MBA from MDI Gurgaon, he served the corporate sector working at World’s leading companies.

And , later 2000, he co-founded 100 people strong exchange4media Group which today owns many media brands including exchange4media.com, Pitch Magazine and Impact, Reality Plus, and Franchise Plus.

It was really a great experience for all IFIM students, faculties and staff to have Mr. Amit on the campus today.


Guest Lecture by Mr. Kannan Ramesh, Director & Strategist of Vikram hospital , Bangalore

Date : September 09, 2011 Place: IFIM Auditorium Time : 8:30 am

Guest Lecture by Rakesh Godhwani

Topic: “Career Guidance to Budding Executives” Date : September 07, 2011 Place: IFIM Auditorium Time : 2.15 to 4.15 Target audience: Final year PGDM students and alumni coordinators / placement officers

Guest Lecture by Mr. Jayanth on 25th- Aug, 2011 Topic: Importance of VM and real time challenges Mr. jayanth shared his enriched experience in the area of visual merchandising and its importance to the growing organized retailers in India has to shared among IFIM student fraternity. He spoke on Importance of VM and real time challenges that the retailers have to face in improving and implementing VM in retailing. Also the challenges that the retailers will face in understanding the measuring problems and linkages between the profits / sales to investment made on VM was found interesting by all IFIM students. Guest Lecture by Dr.Gowri Shankar Dr. Gowri Shankar, finance professor from university of Washington, Bothell addressed PGDM students in the auditorium on 3rd August, 2011 on “Should managers focus solely on maximizing share holders wealth, lessons from the US experience”. He started his lecture with a brief history of corporate focus in 1950’s and 60’s and increase in complexity, competition and social pressures faced by companies in 1970’s , US stock market boom of 1980’s and 1990’s to recession in the last 3 to 4 years in the US. He shared the Chicago school view on managerial objective with reference to Milton Friedman’s paper on social responsibility of business and Jensen & Meckling categorized agency problems and potential solutions. He also shared his views on consequences of share holder’s wealth maximization. It was concluded that though there are advantages and drawbacks to this maxim, stake holder’s interest may come back in the US, Europe and Japan and promoters will continue to play the balancing role. Post lecture, Prof. Gowri Shankar interacted with the students. Guest Lecture by Mr. Vijay Chavan- 01, Aug, 2011 Mr. Vijay Chavan, Co-founder & executive Director, C2LBIZ, shared his three decades of rich work experience of doing business in Asia-pacific region with the students. The major focus of the lecture was on the importance of the micro aspects of cultural and business etiquettes in cracking a good business deal or negotiation in Asian countries. Mr. Vijay Chavan made it very interesting and light for the students by comparing these across Western countries , Asian countries and India. Message to the students: “be punctual in any thing you do and say”. Guest Lecture by Dr. P Muthukumar from CII-IL Dr. P Muthukumar spoke about the career opportunities for Management graduates in the streams of supply chain management and Logistics. He also stressed on the additional level of this subject knowledge required for a management student, irrespective of whatever sector they pick up for their career.