IIM Kashipur Convocation 2014: 40 students received their PGDM degree

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April 3, 2014
The 2nd convocation of Indian Institute of Management Kashipur was held on 29th March, 2014. 40 students received their Post Graduate Diplomas in Management by the chief guest Mr. Subroto Bagchi, co-founder and current CEO of Mindtree Ltd.
It is important to not just be brilliant but an ethical manager too

The 2nd convocation of Indian Institute of Management Kashipur was held on 29th March, 2014. The 2nd batch comprising 40 students received their Post Graduate Diplomas in Management.

 

The event started with the robing and welcoming of the chief guest Mr. Subroto Bagchi, who is the co-founder and current CEO of Mindtree Ltd. Mr. Bagchi is widely renowned in business circles for his supreme role in rebuilding Mindtree and taking it to unprecedented heights after the hit in September 2001.

 

After a welcome speech by the Chairman of the Board of Directors Mr. Dhruv Sawhney, in which he stressed on the importance of being not just brilliant but ethical managers, the Director of IIM Kashipur, Dr. Gautam Sinha gave a report of all the illustrious activities that took place in the academic year 2013-14. These included the faculty strength rising from 2 in May 2012 to 19, among them Prof. Nakul Gupta who has 3 Ivey Publishing cases to his name as also Prof Kunal Ganguly who won the best paper award in the 9th International Business and Social Research Conference in Dubai.

 

He also talked about IIM Kashipur’s agreement with two Conference des Grandes Ecoles (CGE) member institutes EM-Normandie and ESDES-Lyon for an exchange program for teachers and students. He mentioned the huge strides that the institute had taken in terms of infrastructure as well as industry interactions. Along with the current Post Graduate Programme and Executive Post Graduate Programme, IIM Kashipur is also set to launch the Executive Fellow Programme in Management in June 2014.

 

He informed the audience that IIM Kashipur Community Radio Station is scheduled to start in 3 months’ time and the construction of the new campus is going strong with the 2015-17 batch scheduled to be admitted there. He also congratulated both the batches for having bagged 100% summer and final placements respectively with a great rise in the number of employers as well as the remunerations.

 

The students were then presented their diplomas by Mr. Sawhney. Vivek Goyal bagged the Gold Medal for his superior academic performance over the two years with Vikas Tulsiyan getting the Silver Medal. Shashank Jareth achieved the All Round Performance Medal.

 

Mr. Bagchi then shared his thoughts with the eager students of both the current batches at IIM Kashipur Convocation. He recounted the success stories of two businesses that started from scratch. One was of Mr. Venkataswamy, the founder of Aravind Eye Hospital and the other was of the brothers B Soundararajan and GB Sundararajan who started Suguna Foods. He explained the importance of hard work and perseverance in building any enterprise and gave the budding entrepreneurs some valuable tips. The event concluded with Mr. Bagchi’s encouraging words and with him signing the Visitor’s Book.

 

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