The Keynote Speaker for this meet is Innovation pioneer Mr Harsh C. Mariwala, Chairman, Marico Ltd. Special addresses will be delivered by Dr Jagdish Sheth, Thought-leader & Co-author of The Business School in the Twenty-First Century, Mr. K. Ramkumar, Executive Director, ICICI Bank Limited & Dr Rajan Saxena, Vice Chancellor, NMIMS University, Mumbai. The program will see many other thought-leaders from corporate India address the theme.
The Mumbai Roundtable shall be attended by 100+ Directors, Deans & Faculty members from more than 50 institutions in the Western Region. Harvard Business Publishing, Emerald, GMAC & McGraw Hill are supporting this program as program partners.
Registration session at Mumbai Round Table will be from 9 AM to 9.30 AM on October 18, 2014. Those who have not registered for the conference may register at the venue.
Inaugural session will begin with the Welcome address by Mr Amit Agnihoti, Convener Mumbai Round table and founder Chairman MBAUniverse.com.
Pioneer in innovations and Marico Chairman Mr Harsh C. Mariwala will deliver the keynote address in the conference. Mr Mariwala, a pioneer of innovations started Marico in 1990 with an idea of providing hair, skin and health care quality products. Today Marico is the synonym to success with leading brands such as parachute Oil, Saffola, Mediker, Revive, Setwet, Zatak, Livon, Hair & Care, Nihar, Shanti, Kaya among others. Today one out of every 4 Indians is Marico consumer and Marico is a house hold name now.
Dr Jagdish Sheth, the thought leader and co-author of ‘The Business School in the Twenty-First century’ will deliver the special address in the conference. Prof Sheth is the Charles H. Kellstadt Professor of Marketing at Emory University Goizueta Business School. Prof Sheth sits on the Board of Directors of several public companies including Norstan, Cryo Cell International, Wipro Limited. Prof Seth was selected as the Distinguished Fellow of the Academy of marketing Science.
Dr Rajan Saxena, Vice Chancellor NMIMS University, Mumbai will deliver special address at the conference. Dr Rajan is the former Director of IIM Indore and SPJIMR, Mumbai. He has over 40 years of academic and professional experience to his credit in Management education, Research, consulting and institution building. Dr Rajan Saxena has taught at XLRI Jamshedpur, SPJIMR Mumbai, IIM Calcutta, IIM Indore and NMIMS. Dr Saxena is widely respected in the country as a marketing educator and consultant.
Session after the break will begin at 11.15 AM and will have the Presentations on latest Trends in Research, Publishing & Marketing byMr. Michael J Cruz, Vice-President & Managing Director, Emerald Group Publishing (India); Mr. Santosh Joshi, Regional Manager-Higher Education, McGraw Hill Education (India); Mr. Gaurav Srivastava, Director -Market Development , South Asia, Graduate Management Admission Council (GMAC).
Next session on Director's Addresses on Program Theme will be chaired by Mr. Amit Agnihotri, Chairman, MBAUniverse.com and will see active participation of Dr. Atish Chattopadhyay, Dy. Director, S. P. Jain Institute of Management & Research (SPJIMR), Mumbai; Prof Pratima Sheorey, Director, Symbiosis Centre for Management and Human Resource Development (SCMHRD), Pune. The session will invite audience comments of Programme theme.
Closing address will be delivered by Mr. K. Ramkumar, Executive Director on the Board of ICICI Bank and the President of ICICI Foundation at the Mumbai Round Table. Leadership Development, Succession Management, building a supply chain for the Bank’s human resources requirements, leveraging technology to innovate, and driving operational excellence for world class service quality, are Mr Ramkumar’s passion.
The Mumbai Round Table aims to extend the rich deliberations at the recently held 5th edition of India's biggest MBA education conference - Indian Management Conclave (IMC) 2014 on Aug 8-9 in New Delhi. IMC was addressed by 35 leading management thought-leaders including Mr Sunil Kant Munjal, Jt Managing Director, Hero Motocorp; Dr Pankaj Ghemawat, IESE Spain; Dr Howard Thomas, Dean, Singapore Management University; Dr Ashish Nanda, Director, IIM Ahmedabad and many others.
