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Silver Jubilee 2012

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Silver Jubilee 2012 5th National Conference on Social Entrepreneurship XLRI launches Global MBA program Genius HR Excellence Award Books by XLers 6th National HR Conference Mahasangram 2013 1 2

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The batch of 1987 celebrated their silver jubilee during December 14th-17th (Friday Monday) 2012. More than 60 alumni turned up to connect with their friends, professors and relived the XL experience.It was a nostalgic experience for the Alumni who made it for the event from all over the globe; and a wonderful experience for the students, the faculty and the staff to interact with them. They had number of memorable events like common meals and student performances etc.

Launching Xperiences

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5th National Conference on Social Entrepreneurship

'XLRI is all set to host the 5th National Conference on Social Entrepreneurship from January 25 to 27. The theme for this years conference is Innovations in Livelihood Promotion and Skill Development. The conference aims to bring together about 150 social entrepreneurs, development sector professionals, policy makers and academicians on the same platform to discuss and share their experiences. Jointly organised by Fr Arrupe Centre for Ecology and Sustainability and XLRIs students committee for social initiatives, SIGMA, the conference will showcase various social ventures that made significant impact in creating livelihoods for deprived women and physically challenged people in the rural areas; in providing vocational skill training and placement to urban poor and numerous other initiatives that have provided support in ecosystem to this sector. The speakers and panelists would include several experienced professionals and well-known social entrepreneurs such asYale World Fellow Chetna Gala Sinha (Mann Deshi Mahila Sahakari Bank), Skoll Fellow Joe Madiath (Gram Vikas), Schwab Social Entrepreneur awardees Arbind Singh (Nidan) and Rajendra Joshi (Saath) to name a few and also senior functionaries from government and multi-lateral agencies, such as T Vijay Kumar (Mission Director of National Rural Livelihood Mission), Arvind Chaudhary (CEO of Bihar Rural Livelihood Project), Sitaramachandra M (Sr Rural Development Specialist, World Bank). Explaining the theme of the conference, Madhukar Shukla, Chairperson of Fr Arrupe Center for Ecology & Sustainability, XLRI and the coordinator for the conference, said During last few years, livelihood promotion, skill development and vocational training have opened up immense possibilities for entrepreneurship, and have sprouted many innovative social entrepreneurial models. Moreover, these goals are also emerging a significant national priority, as envisaged in National Skill Development Mission, National Rural Livelihood Mission and National Urban Livelihood Mission. Through this conference, we aim to provide an opportunity to explore and discuss the opportunities and challenges for initiatives and social ventures in this sector.

XLRI launches a Global MBA Program

The institute has announced the launch of a global MBA programme in partnership with Weatherhead School of Management of Case Western University, Cleveland, USA and School of Economics & Management of Tongji University, Shanghai, China. The full-time two-year residential programme will commence from August this year. Each of the partner schools will now begin the process of admitting its quota of 20 students from its home country. The programme is a first of its kind, claim the three schools. The programme will be held in four parts with three of the parts being taught in Shanghai, China; Jamshedpur, India and Cleveland, USA respectively, and will be taught by faculty of all these three B Schools. For the 4th term, each nationality group will go back to its home school to complete local graduation requirements. In addition to in-class coursework, students will be involved in company projects during each of the first three terms. The students will work on these projects in mixed-nationality teams. The programme fees will be around Rs 25 lakh for two years. On completing the programme, students of each nationality group will earn their home school's degree or diploma-and also a joint certification from the 3schools' consortium.

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Genius HR Excellence Award 2012

The Lifetime Achievement award was awarded to Sujit Sen, the former vice-chairman of Bengal Chamber of Commerce &Industry for his valuable contribution in the field of HR. Genius Consultants Ltd, in association with The Times of India, had organized the Human Resource Excellence Award to recognize the efforts of HR community. The initiative was aimed at honouring companies and institutions for their training initiatives, employment engagement practices, innovative retention strategies, recruitment policies and leadership in the field of human resource development. The awards were given to firms in two categories one to companies with a turnover of Rs 100-1,000 crore and the other those with a turnover of over Rs 1,000 crore. . Mr. Sujit Sen graduated from the 1972 batch of PMIR.

Books by XLers- How to get Rich and Retire Early

Raja Sekharan, 89 BMD batch is among the increasing number of alumni who have written books . His book titled How to Get Rich and Retire Early, shows you a way to retire early and do things that which one truly cares about. Filled with practical tips, this book will change the way one thinks about money. Raja Sekharan retired from corporate life in his 40's and is following his dreams - he now spends 10 hours a week teaching in a top MBA institute in Bangalore.

He teaches Wealth Management to aspiring wealth managers in the institute. Prior to retiring from active corporate life, Raj was Senior Vice President (HR) in a large US based IT multinational. Raj is an MBA from XLRI and a B.Tech in Chemical Engineering from CIT, Coimbatore.

Come, join the bandwagon...

Send in your valuable feedback, articles and anything else you would like to share with your fellow XLers to -

alumni@xlri.ac.in

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6th National HR Conference

XLRI organized the 6th Edition of HR National Conference on the 19th and 20th of January, 2013 at XLRI School of business Jamshedpur. The Main theme of the conference was "Emerging Trends in Talent Management". It was graced by eminent personalities from the industry and academics and from International HR professional bodies. Mr. Abhijit Bhaduri, Chief Learning Officer, Wipro Group, Mr. Nihar Ranjan Ghosh, ED, Spencer's Retail, Mr. N. S Rajan, Partner and Global Leader - People and Organization , E&Y, mr, S V Nathan, Director(Talent), Deloitte Consulting India Pvt. Ltd. were few of the personalities that graced the occasion. Issues of emerging trends and challenges in the domain of talent management such as talent mobility, global talent management, women in the workforce, skill gap in the industry and contractualization of employment were discussed in the conference. The audience of the conference were delegates from the industry, HR professionals, academic researchers and students. The first ever national talent management survey was launched at the conference. Responses from over 50 organizations will be taken to find out the key best practices followed by the best organizations.Apart from that, the conference focused on the "inportance of happiness at the workplace. "For the band of people who spend most of their time at the workplace, managing happiness while juggling responsibilities can be a tough task," Mr. NS Rajan quoted during his inaugural speech on happiness at the workplace.The Event concluded with the note that emotions are the most powerful factor which influences happiness at the workplace and elsewhere and called for the persuit of happiness at the workplace.

Mahasangram 2013 Battle of Champions

It was that time of the year in XL, where the combination of brawn and skill is necessary with brains to triumph. The time for the battle for supremacy between the Dabbangs, the Bahubalis and the Dhurandhars had arrived. Mahasangram, an event hosted by the Sports Committee on campus, divides the whole college into three teams which battle in out in the field. To raise the stakes and competitiveness of the event, the owners of the various teams had to pool in their own money for the event. The three teams were bought at INR 13,750, INR 7,500 and INR 11,500 respectively. The winning jackpot was increased even higher this time to INR 30,000 while there were prizes for top performers. The player auction was held on the 9th of January with each team been given a purse of INR 2 lakhs. . A few students from the GMP batch were also involved with the sports. The matches began soon after as the campus was witness to one week of action-packed sports arenas. The event was closely fought, with each sport turning the tables in the points ranking. Ultimately, the Bahubalis conquered all by finishing first with 69 points. They were followed by the Dabbangs at 60 points and the Dhurandhars at 54 points. It was a memorable event for all the participants and spectators as it was the perfect appetizer with the XL-IIMC meet just weeks away.

We are listening : - Share you story or Photos!

Dear XLers! Greetings from XLRI Alumni Committee(ALCOMM). ALCOM is pleased to announce its new initiatives aimed at enhancing alumni participation and providing a platform for alumni's to share their XL experiences. In this endeavor we are introducing two new sections in the Alumni Newsletter. 1) XPERIENCES (Article Section): In this section we invite you to share articles related to your XL experiences. These articles shall be published in this newsletter which is floated to all the XLRI alumni, faculty and students. The articles are primarily aimed at bringing back the good old memories and strengthening XL bonds. This is a monthly newsletter and the articles will be published on a rolling basis. Indicative word limit for the articles is 500 words. Please mail in your experiences in a word format along with a short bio and your picture. 2) XLENS (Photos Section): This section is dedicated to publishing alumni's photos. Typical photos would be the ones related to your XLRI experiences which you would like to share with the alumni community. These may include your photos with batchmates, photos at Dadu's or at Bishuda or with any faculty. Photos clicked outside XLRI with XL friends are also invited. Please attach a short description of the photos along with them. We are looking forward to your articles and photos so that the same can shared with the XLRI family. Please mail your articles/photos to any of these ID's : alumni@xlri.ac.in, arnav@astra.xlri.ac.in

Introducing: XPERIENCES! - Revisiting your XL days

The Homecoming
When the auto had turned the bend, you had tried to peep out and take a look at the tree-lined campus that had been your home for the past two years. Blame it on the three others who crammed into the same auto and their embarrassingly large backpacks, you couldnt do it. Oh, whats the big deal, you thought. You will be coming back every once in a while. Every time you come home to Calcutta for a holiday, you can squeeze in a day trip to Jamshedpur. The Bombay-Delhi guys will not be able to do this. But you can easily You were not alone among the alumni who made these highly optimistic return plans and failed miserably. Even the guilt gave way after the first three-four years. Every once in a while on a business trip to Bombay (or Bangalore or Delhi), you postponed the evening flight out and landed up at a batchmates place. He would always have the dregs of an Old Monk bottle left. Chatting animatedly with the couple of other friends, you would again make elaborate plans. Hey, did you know Kingfisher flies to Ranchi now? It is even easier now. Just fly and drive down in three hours. All objections about the bad Jharkhand roads would get lost in the nostalgic high. For the Jubilee Batch (or Jalebi, as you call yourselves unselfconsciously), the campus had changed the maximum since our departure. It would be so cool to go back, you thought as you downed the Old Monk. These plans became more and more difficult to make as we grew older. Many of you have moved abroad. Many had multi-locational teams reporting into them. Some had started their own business. It was bloody difficult to get away from work for 4-5 days. On top of that, this recession was not making anybodys work-life easier. (Yaar, yeh recession ko postpone karao koi. You postponed project submissions with impunity. How difficult can this be?) Then you had children and their schools, class tests to contend with. As you grow even older, too many of your earlier generation seemed to be going in and out of hospitals. Planning with friends became nearly impossible. Instead of shacking up with a friend in a different, it felt right that you came back hoping to catch your daughter about to fall asleep. So, you must plan again right from scratch. You now want to take your son along. He knows what colleges are. He has heard of these good colleges called IIM. He has to be shown the difference between the good and the best. He has to be shown those tree-lined paths. He has to be shown where the computer centre used to be (You used desktops, dad?). You had to tell him about Jesu, Gango and Sarin. You also need to prepare an answer for when he asks, Dad, what are they shouting? Whats the next line after Ek do teen chaar? He has seen your wifes and your ancestral homes. It is time to show him this one as well. Diptakirti Chaudhuri (BM-99) hasnt been able to attend a Homecoming yet. But he plans to. Next year, pakka.