March 2009 appointments

March 2009
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1 - *Dr Mullasari Ajit Sankardas - 12.30 pm
2 - *Anand Sampathkumar and Praveena Anand - 1 pm; *T. K. Pandian - 5.30 pm
3 - *Phani Nagarjuna - 1 pm; Mukesh Butani - 5.30 pm (ph)
4 - *A. Suryanarayan - 12 noon; *Manish Sharma - 1 pm;
5 - *Amit Maheshwari - 4 pm
6 - *Ganesh Kumar Murugan, *Malabika Mitra - 1 pm; *P. R. Loganathan - 4 pm
7 - *Sulata Ajit, Lakshmi Krishnakumar - 1 pm
8 Sun -
9 - *Annie Jacob Verghese - 1 pm
10 - *Jayshree Suresh - 11.30 am; *Sridharan Mani - 4 pm
11 - *Sajan Poovayya - 11 am; *Pattikattar - 5 pm
12 - Krishna Kumar - 1 pm (?); *Rathish Babu - 1 pm
13 - *Institute of Internal Auditors (IIA) Event - 10 am; *L. Ravi Sankar, *R. Vittal Raj - 11 am; *D. B. Saxena - 1 pm; *S. Jai Kumar, and A. P. Ravi - 4 pm
14 - Odyssey Raja - 1 pm (Resch)
15 Sun - *B. Robert Raja - 1 pm, Amit ?
16 - TNM?
17 - *Ram Yeleswarapu - 1 pm
18 - Ramco (Resch); *T. Shivaraman - 1 pm
19 - VDSI - 1 pm (?); *Kala Vijayakumar - 1 pm; Penguin - 7 pm (?)
20 - *Indian School of Business - 10.30 am (Taj Cor); *AVR Venkatesa (AVR), and Prema Ramalingam- 1 pm; *N. Meera Raghavendra Rao - 4.30 pm
21 - *A. Praveen Kumar - 1 pm
22 Sun -
23 - *Ranjit Narasimhan - 1 pm
24 - *Rahul N. Saxena - 11 am; *Bhamy V. Shenoy - 1 pm
25 - *K. B. Srinivasan - 1 pm; Ranjith - 1 pm (Resch to 23)
26 - *V. Yurek Raaj 10 am; *V. Yuvaraj - 10.30 am; *Kamesh Ramamoorthy - 1 pm; *Pradeep Nevatia, *S. Gurumurthy - 7 pm
27 - *Palanivel Kuppusamy, *Pravin Shekar - 1 pm; *K. Muthu Selvam- 5 pm
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29 Sun - *G. Srinivasan, *M. Ramadoss, *R. Sekar, *B. Ravi - 10 am
30 - *Bala Chakravarthy - 9 am
31 - *Narasingarao Dataram - 1 pm; *S. Ramesh - 4 pm
(* means 'met/'spoke'; $$ Awaiting confirmation)

S. Ramesh - Videos

Auditors of Satyam have been betrayed by the management

What is the law under which the auditors have been taken into custody

Is the auditor eligible for bail

Officials from the ICAI will be meeting the auditors soon

Entire audit team of about 25 people, including articled clerks, asked not to leave the city

All auditors are scared today, the profession is demoralised

Fraud committed by top management is difficult to unearth

The CA Institute should have taken up this issue, in the larger interest of the profession

What the Supreme Court has said about bail

Onus of proof is on the prosecution

What does the Auditing and Assurance Standard 4 say about the responsibility to detect fraud

Any precedent involving auditors in a criminal offence relating to companies

Bombay High Court verdict on auditor's responsibility

Auditor does not conduct the audit with the object of discovering all frauds

ICAI should educate the public on auditors' responsibilities and role

Has the attraction of the profession diminished in the eyes of students

On the mark-to-market debate and what the ICAI's stand should be

Are the existing standards on accounting and auditing enough

Narasingarao Dataram

Narasingarao Dataram, President, e4e India
March 31, 2009, 1 pm

D. V. Narasingarao - Videos

Entrepreneur's passion needs to be balanced by a contrarian who is a realist

My journey - 1 - Graduating from REC, Trichy, and deciding to stay in India, took a job in Wipro

My journey - 2 - The RDBMS story, where we wanted to do development but began with training

My journey - 3 - SSI expansion, going public, largest acquisition, listing on the London Stock Exchange, Nasdaq tie-up

My journey - 4 - Then came the downturn in 2001 which hit development and training, lessons learnt, and I decided to take a break and go back to school

My journey - 5 - Why I chose to study in Great Lakes, Chennai

Did I advise the younger generation in the campus, forget it

Engineering curriculum should have at least two semesters on core accounting, and HR

B-school admission should be after at least 5 years of work experience

My journey - 6 - What next after one year in the campus, start a company or join a start-up or retire

What is e4e - Entrepreneurs for Entrepreneurs, then Enterprises

Investors, acquisitions, business services verticals, rightshoring model

Why do conflicts arise and how to resolve email wars

Conflicts are typically at peer level, and what is missing in companies today is candour

What is integrity - it is just doing what I say I will, and that has to happen again and again and again

Integrity and the ability to say no are meshed with each other

Difference between the previous slowdowns and the present one

Fall in attrition rates is accompanied by fall in the intake of fresh talent

How can freshers who are on bench utilise the opportunity to learn within organisation

Today there is a greater acceptance of entrepreneurship, unlike the cynicism earlier

The promise of the domestic market for IT industry

Retrofitting a Western business model may not work in India, you need to understand the ground dynamics of the Indian consumer

Gaming is the silent revolution that is happening

Functionality testing, a major area of growth in gaming industry which can tap part-time employees

Today's business model thinks that there is better control over employees working full-time

Can work-places in smaller companies attract people who would be willing to pay to work, for the experience to know what they are good at

How SSI acted as a bridge between fresh engineers and industry

S. Ramesh

S. Ramesh, Ramesh Subramaniam & Co, Chartered Accountants, Chennai
March 31, 2009, 4 pm

Bala Chakravarthy

Bala Chakravarthy, Shell Chair Professor of Sustainable Business Growth, IMD, Switzerland (http://www.imd.ch/), and author 'Profit or growth? Why you don't have to choose' (Wharton)
March 30, 2009, 9 am

Bala Chakravarthy - Videos

Companies with a long-term vision know exactly what capabilities they are missing

Smart companies know how to position themselves

Build and leverage is the story for economies as well, but they can be busy with knee-jerk reactions

Restructuring in Europe is difficult, and the UK may need the next wave of Thatcherism

On comparisons with the Great Depression and post-war days, and the boiling-frog syndrome

Economists seem to be lost after having hit every button

Paradox is that India is difficult to enter, but once you enter you can find a lot of breathing room

There is limitless, unending corruption in Indian politics

We got rid of monarchs, but we have the newly-minted kings in the form of political leaders

Capabilities are not being brought in to address problems, both in the political and industrial spheres

Three-way collaboration between academia, bureaucrats and politicians, and industrialists

What are the ingredients of a top business school

If the research tradition is strong in Indian business schools, media will benefit from academia's opinion

On the quality of research in management

Academia's involvement with corporates can be in many forms, including directorships

Remembering my teacher…

One most valuable work lesson is that you need to be loyal to your organisation

Loyalty is about aligning with a cause, it is not about the length of employment

A story about customer focus - in a Brazilian airline

What's good about the young, and what's worrying

Self-renewal is the indicator of performance, at the individual and organisational levels, as an indicator of adaptability

Essence of Indian philosophy is to continuously seek wisdom

You can be spiritual without being religious, and that applies to organisations too

My next book will be on leadership dilemmas

Author reading the book - a snatch

Does 'Slumdog Millionaire' have lessons for Indian enterprises