December 2008 appointments

December
========
1 - *Raj Majumder - 1 pm
2- Upinder Zutshi - 1 pm (?); Munisamy Gopinath - (?)
3 - Manish Sharma - 11 am (?); Geoff Magee - 1 pm; Valarie Pinto - 3.30 pm; BMR-MCCI Executive Briefing on Transfer Pricing - 6 pm
4 - *Rita Chakravarti - 9.15 am; *Nagaraja Prakasham - 3.30 pm (?)
5 - *J. Sethuraman – 1 pm
6 - *Rajiv Krishnan - 1 pm
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8 - *Vijayalakshmi- 1 pm
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10 - *G. Sundaram - 12.30 pm
11 - *C. Venkat Subramanyam, *Priya Mohan - 1 pm
12 - *Chandran Sankaranarayanan - 1 pm; *Bharathan Prahalad, *P. S. Saranathan - 4.30 pm
13 - *A.K.G. Nair, *Rashmi Vasu - 1 pm
14 - *N. M. Habibullah, H. Noor Mohamed - 9.15 am;
15 - Great Lakes Entrepreneurship Conference (?); *Ram Krishnaswamy (Rambo) - 5.30 pm
16 - *S. Periyaswamy - 3 pm
17 - *Kanoo Sahajwala - 2.30 pm
18 - K. Thiagarajan - 1 pm (?); *Sam Easaw - 1 pm
19 - Naren Gupta - 1 pm (?); *P. N. Veda Narayanan - 4.30 pm
20 - *Jaishree Gopal - 9.15 am; *Samir Kelekar and *Sanjay Jadhav - 11 am; *Anand - 1 pm; *G. Ranga Prabu - 4 pm
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23 - *Srini Nageshwar - 3 pm
24 - *R. Shekar - 10 am; *Kanniks Kannikeswaran - 6 pm
25 - *Mathrubootham A - 1 pm
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27 - *Siva Nathan - 4 pm
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29 - *Ranjith Ramakrishnan - 1 pm
30 - Sathish Rajagopalan - 1 pm; C. Devarajan - 4 pm
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(* means 'met/'spoke')

C. Devarajan

Service to humanity is the most important thought I have right now. My father used to say, 'Limit your comforts and be a role model.' Through our group of institutions, we are trying to achieve inclusive growth and also create development for those associated with our work. What we aspire for is that our organisation lives on beyond hundred years.
C. Devarajan, Executive Director, URC Constructions P Ltd (http://www.urcindia.com/)
December 30, 4 pm

C. Devarajan - Videos

Inclusive growth is necessary

Challenges we faced in nurturing our campus

Communication skill a major hurdle for rural students

Our organisational values

Inculcating dignity of labour

Lessons that students from city colleges can learn by visiting rural campuses

The child has ample opportunity for growth in villages

Positives that rural people bring into cities

We want to be known as an Erode-based company

A reunion to rejuvenate the village through a temple project

Wish agricultural graduates created model farms

Successful people look for opportunities to give back to their villages

Media can be a bridge between the rural and urban India

Rural India will not be affected by the current economic meltdown

Indian IT industry must now focus on the domestic institutional demand

Is village life rightly projected by movies

Satish Rajagopalan

We see the market growing in India, despite the global meltdown. However, there will be re-sizing and re-formulating of the offerings. For example, there may be a reduction of the pulp/fruit content in the beverage. Also, manufacturers may consider having packs at lower SKU sizes.

Satish Rajagopalan, Head - Sales and Marketing, Galla Foods Pvt Ltd (http://www.gallafoods.com/)

December 30, 1 pm

Satish Rajagopalan - Videos

Impact of slowdown on food-processing industry

Challenges in the Indian market

On the company and the recent diversification

Does India have a good demand for organic products

Are there sugar-free products for diabetics

Advantages of fruit beverages compared to colas

How we are targeting the young consumer through Facebook (Sreelakshmi Menon, Sr Marketing Manager)

Per capita fruit beverage consumption in India vs other countries

Unhealthy practices in agri-biz

Regulatory mechanism for food marketing

On imported packaged food items

Quality measures and best practices in manufacture

Direct procurement from farmers, and transfer to them of farm methods

How information flow results in better price for the farmers

Plans for the future

On spreading geographically

Remembering my school, Chinmaya Vidyalaya in Rajapalayam

Collaborative innovation needs the right partners

Farmers can be very innovative

Waste-disposal methods

We have numerous varieties of mangoes but in small quantities

Retaining the identity of a variety in a product

How corporates can assist agriculture

R. Shekar - Videos

On the origin of Shekarsan

Any company is like a 'wet towel'

Four identities at workplace you may have to grow beyond

You can choose what you want to be

The current slowing down may be seen as slimming down

We need Business Commandoes, the Corporate Gladiators

Are we picking up signals of technical bankruptcy

Businesses need to discover how self-sustaining they are

Corporate governance is 'maintenance activity'

A fundamental flaw with CSR

On the business communication effectiveness course for IIT

Coach is like a gardener

Remembering my teacher

Let's stop celebrating cheap victories

Can India produce its due share of CXOs

Bid for the impossible - an anecdote

The 80-20 rule for time management

THR or targeted heart rate explained

Irresponsibility is the number one sin

How 'sweat portfolio' is important

Do students get to interact with the achievers

It's a sacrilege not to respect nature

Functionality vs fashion

On the business communication effectiveness course for IIT

Coach is like a gardener

Remembering my teacher

Let's stop celebrating cheap victories

Can India produce its due share of CXOs

Bid for the impossible - an anecdote

The 80-20 rule for time management

THR or targeted heart rate explained

Irresponsibility is the number one sin

How 'sweat portfolio' is important

Do students get to interact with the achievers

It's a sacrilege not to respect nature

Functionality vs fashion

Whole families sustain themselves at less than Rs 200 a month