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1. Mr Dinesh S. Thakur

Profile
Dinesh is a seasoned executive from the pharmaceutical industry and has the unique combination of leading organizations within innovative pharmacy and generic manufacturer. He is the Founder & CEO of Sciformix Corporation.

A biochemical engineer and a computer engineer by training, he spent over 10 years at Bristol-Myers Squibb Company in various roles beginning with an engineer automating analytical laboratories to leading Drug Discovery Informatics as a Director. Subsequent to BMS, he relocated to India to head the Informatics & Portfolio Management functions at Ranbaxy Laboratories Limited in his role as the R&D CIO and Head of Project Management in 2003. He was instrumental in helping United States Pharmacopeias setup and commission their India operations at the ICICI Knowledge Park in Hyderabad in 2004 before joining Infosys BPO (formerly Progeon) as the head of their healthcare and life sciences business.

He led Informatics strategy in his role as the Director at BMS, and the business strategy at Ranbaxy in his role as the head of portfolio management for a product portfolio exceeding US $1 billion in sales. He managed two global alliances for Ranbaxy, a drug discovery alliance with GSK for two discovery programs in the Metabolic Diseases therapeutic area and a drug development alliance with Medicines for Malaria Ventures for a synthetic artemesenin. He has represented his previous employers in inspections/audits conducted by world health authorities (US FDA, MHRA, ANVISA) and has good understanding of regulatory compliance required by these agencies.

Dinesh was recognized as a Pioneer in Laboratory Automation at the 15th Annual International Symposium on Laboratory Automation & Robotics in 1998.

Lecture
Dinesh shared his valuable experience and knowledge with our students and guided them on the expectations of the industry from young management graduates.

2. Mr Simarjeet S. Baweja

Profile
Simarjeet S. Baweja is the Regional Manager (North) in CRISIL (Ratings), a premium rating agency of India. He is an engineering graduate from REC (Nagpur) and a MBA from Nursee Munjee Institute of Management, Mumbai.

Before joining CRISIL, Mr. Baweja was working in a financial information Company – Reuters for 9 years. His core competence lies in the area of Interest Rates and Derivatives. He has published a working paper in World Bank on ‘Credit Derivatives for Infrastructure Funding’. He has also written a paper on ‘Reforms in Investment guidelines for Pension Funds’. It was published in the Economic Gazette of the Ministry of Finance, Government of India.

Lecture
Simarjeet addressed the students on the topic ‘Intelligent Financial Conversations’ and ‘Currency Fluctuations’. In the lecture on ‘Intelligent Financial Conversations’, Mr. Simarjeet explained to the students the interconnectivity between macro economics and finance. Various financial terminologies used in modern day conversations were also explained. He gave an overview of the Indian Financial System and the factors influencing the same. Some of the points that he covered were:

Money- In a legal sovereign entity the measured value of an asset
Rate of Return- The increase in the value of an asset by value addition
Understanding fixed income money Markets
Understanding Equity / Cash and Derivatives
Understanding Commodity Cash Futures
Understanding Foreign Exchange Spot and Forward
Why Do Interest Rates Vary
What Drives Interest Rate Cycles
Credit Vs Investment
Types of Debt Instruments

The students had an interactive session with the lecturer later.

Guest Speakers 21st September, 07

3. Sandeep Puthal

Profile
The lecturer has 15 years of experience with the industry and he has excelled in the field of HR and employee relations Being an MBA in human resource management and with 5 years of additional experience in lectures and workshops he was able to guide our students and also help them understand the concept clearly Currently he is heading the HR department with The Oxford University Press located at connaught place .

Lecture
The topic was based on the relationships with the employees and the staff it recruits ,trains and maintains . The highlight was organisations which have trade unions and organisations which function without them . The main aim of the lecture was to throw light upon the macro micro relationship between the various organisations . The session comprised of information about labour laws and other policies for labourers safe health and other issues relating to the human resource department of every organization. The aim of the guest lecture is to help the students interact with the worthy people from the industry help them share their personal experiences and also sight examples for them to get a feel of the real industrial world . The lecturer was able to give valuable inputs to the students by relating real life examples coupled with his experience .

4. Mr Soumya Acharya

Profile
Business Director
Group M Media (I) Pvt. Ltd.
WPP Group

Lecture
His lecture proposed that the study of consumers helps firms and organizations improve their marketing strategies by understanding issues such as how

The psychology of how consumers think, feel, reason, and select between different alternatives (e.g., brands, products);
The psychology of how the consumer is influenced by his or her environment (e.g., culture, family, signs, media);
The behavior of consumers while shopping or making other marketing decisions;
Limitations in consumer knowledge or information processing abilities influence decisions and marketing outcome;
How consumer motivation and decision strategies differ between products that differ in their level of importance or interest that they entail for the consumer; and
How marketers can adapt and improve their marketing campaigns and marketing strategies to more effectively reach the consumer.

Understanding the above issues help us adapt our strategies by taking the consumer into consideration. For example, by understanding that a number of different messages compete for our potential customers’ attention, we learn that to be effective, advertisements must usually be repeated extensively. We also learn that consumers will sometimes be persuaded more by logical arguments, but at other times will be persuaded more by emotional or symbolic appeals. By understanding the consumer, we will be able to make a more informed decision as to which strategy to employ.

He also highlighted the role of consumer behavior study and its implication on Advertising with special focus on Mobile and online Media.

5. Guest lecture by Mr. Sanjeev Kehar

Guest lectures were conducted for UG III and UG II in the discipline of International human resource management and marketing communications respectively. The speaker was Mr Sanjay Kehar he has credible experience of 16 years in the field sales and marketing, for FMCG and consumer durable products. His profile also entails training at various corporate and guest lectures at the leading management institutions. His knowledge reflects the leading organizations he has been associated with, to name a few Johnson & Johnson, GE, Mahindra & Mahindra as well as proctor and gamble.

The lecture in International Human Resource Management covered the insights into Globalisation in context to Human Resource. It highlighted the aspects of global trading blocks and agreements. Expatriates, ethnocentric and geocentric approaches. He also brought out important aspects of cultural difference and diversity in a comparison with Japan, China and the US. He showed the students a small audio visual clipping relating the effect of diversity in culture. His humorous ways appealed to the students and they
participated reasonably well.

The lecture on Marketing Communications was started by a PR campaign on Motorola. The students related very well to the audio visual campaign as they have already covered a case on Motorola University in their previous semester and one PR campaign on v3688 was also covered before. The visual was followed by a surf excel visual highlighting
the negative connotation for advertising." daag ache hain " , This campaign itself won over the hearts of million viewers and the student could relate to it as well . He also covered a few topics like creative strategy in advertising through power point presentations.

The positive outcomes of eminent speakers interacting with our students, enthuses the young minds with curiosity about the industry they are gearing up to face. They identify and relate with them and of course open the plethora of interaction on a formal and informal
setting.

The guest speaker was impressed with our students and really appreciated our infrastructure as compared to alot of other prestigious management institutions. These guest lectures create good platform for industry interface.

6. Mr. Vishal Goyal

Subject – International Management
Batch – UG II (2006 – 2009)
Topic - Managing across cultures
Speaker – Mr. Vishal Goyal

Mr. Vishal Goyal is working at National Housing Bank (NHB) as a regional manager. The office is located at India Habitat Centre, New Delhi. He has done his MBA from Faculty of Management Studies (FMS) in Human Resource.

Content

The lecture was on managing across cultures which gave the students an insight of the various countries and the type of cultural differences that exists in these countries. There were examples given that were country specific to give a detailed analysis of the differences. The cultural dimensions were covered along with their impact and the types of relationships shared in each country. The students were also introduced to the term Kinesics and how it varies across cultures. Once they understood the cultural diversity and the various dimensions to culture, they were given information on how this diversity is managed. The gender issues that prevail in organizations and the barriers that women face in managerial roles. Students were also told about the expectations of women managers.

Notification

The University of Bradford awards offered in collaboration with IILM are of an equivalent standard to UK based awards as evidenced by both Internal Quality Assured processes of the University, and externally by the UK Quality Assurance Agency. The awards, therefore, are deemed ‘equivalent'. The University of Bradford 's origins date back to 1860, when it was founded as The Bradford Technical College. The University received its Royal Charter in 1966.

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IILM has applied for approval of the collaboration with the University of Bradford, UK to the University Grants Commission vide our application dated November 29, 2005. A copy of the application and the interim response from the University Grants Commission is available on our website, www.ubs.iilm.edu. Similarly, we have also applied to the All India Council for Technical Education on March 7, 2006 for approval. A copy of our application to the AICTE is available on our website.