Mr Gurucharan Das, Former CEO, Procter & Gamble was the chief guest on the occasion and delivered an inspiring convocation address to the students.
After a traditional Convocation Procession, awards were presented to 24 students for their exceptional performance. 402 students of various Management Programmes such as the Post Graduate Diploma in Business Management (full-time and part-time) and Executive Programmes were conferred with certificates for successfully completing their degrees.
Delivering the key note address the chief guest Mr Gurucharan Das, Former CEO, Procter & Gamble said "The fast economic progress is due to three factors. States are getting out of the way. Even Slow reforms since 1991 add up. India's competitive advantage is its knowledge economy. Lastly, the mind of this generation is liberated. I am happy to see that institutions such as the Loyola Institute of Business Administration are cultivating such liberated minds."
He urged the graduates to exercise their right to vote, to be honest and uphold value systems and to be passionate about their work.
Speaking at the convocation ceremony Fr. P. Christie, Director, LIBA said "The rapidly changing environment appears to portend, in both covert and overt dimensions, significant negative news for the economy. Not much appear to be in control; neither the rupee, nor the inflation. Adding fuel to the instability is the state of government. In such times, I happy to note that LIBA continues to provide to the industry competent managers, ingrained with value systems, that are so important in such troubled times."
For the PGDM (Full-time) programme, Maria Mathew, Tomson D. Robert, Augustus Daniel, Chrishelle Noreen Ann David and Anupama Gupta received the first, second, third, fourth and fifth rank respectively. Divya Ravichandran was honoured as the "outstanding student of batch" for her contributions towards the placement record at LIBA for the year 2008 while August Daniel was awarded for the best Summer Project submitted. Specialization prizes were given to Augustus Daniel, Tomson D. Robert and Chrishelle Noreen Ann David for their performance in subjects of Marketing, Finance and HR respectively.
For the PGDM (Part-time) programme Batch (2005 – 2008), Sanson Thomas Koleth and V. Subha secured the first and second rank respectively. V. Shuba, Shobana Rajan and P. Karthik were recognized for the best dissertations. Specialization prizes for subjects of Marketing, Finance and HR were awarded to V. Shuba, Md. Tabrez Galaria and G. Sujatha respectively.
Students from the one-year diploma programme were also conferred with diplomas for successful completion of the course.
