Faculty of Management Sciences (FMS), Delhi University arranged a special session of guest lecturers for its students on Saturday, July 24, 2010.

In this special session, students of FMS got a taste of finance, globalization and leadership from the words of some eminent business personalities namely Anish Shah, CEO, GE Capital India,Rathindra Basu Director, Business Development and Corporate Communication (South Asian),ESPN Star Sports India and Jitin Goyal, CEO and founder, Elpis Inc.

In his address to FMS students, Anish Shah, CEO, GE Capital India talked about GE Capital, The world of finance, lessons from the financial crisis and the qualities of a leader.

Shah discussed the reasons for the Financial Crisis and its possible impacts, but said that the important point for the students who are going to be tomorrow’s leaders is to “Understand the possible themes across the various crises we’ve witness over the past century and in future when you’re in leadership position, learn lessons from these and take steps to mitigate at least those risks.”

Talking about the importance of Leadership he said, “A leader should not be afraid of failure and should learn to take the responsibility for his action.” He further added, “A good leader has to love working with people. It doesn’t matter if a person is an introvert or an extrovert, a leader should be able to have a good working relationship with people.”

He concluded the session by saying: “The current students are at a unique juncture in the history, India is growing and this presents you a plethora of new opportunities and possibilities” Rathindra Basu led an interactive and insightful presentation on the media industry of India, particularly the television market. His session highlighted the history of television viewership in India and examined the distribution channel made up of cable operators and the Direct to Home (DTH) platform. Basu threw light on the future trends for the television market and also shared his own experience as a business school graduate working in the sports media industry.

Jitin Goyal spoke about Social Networking & Collaboration Platforms for Promoting Carbon Neutrality & Sustainability Issues. He said, “Elpis is a new online social networking platform designed for individuals, communities & corporations to convert good ideas into pragmatic action to eliminate carbon emissions and to deal with other pressing environmental and sustainability issues.”

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