6363rd Annual Convocation 23rd March | 2019 VISION Mission To be an institution of excellence • To disseminate knowledge in management nurturing responsible global through a portfolio of educational programs leaders for the greater common and publications good and a sustainable future • To extend frontiers of knowledge through relevant and contextual research • To nurture responsive ethical leaders sensitive to environment and society • To encourage critical thinking and continuous improvement • To inculcate a culture of innovation and entrepreneurship

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• Ethical Conduct • Inclusiveness and Tolerance • Integrity and Trust • Creativity and Innovation • Passion for Excellence • Global Mindset • Sensitive Social Conscience | 63rd Annual Convocation

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24 Highlights of the Year

38 Reports on XLRI Offices 74 Management Overview

62 Centres of Excellence 32 82 Group Pictures Student of Graduating Activities Batches

Contents 3 Chairman’s Message

XLRI is a business school with a difference. It is not just the varied courses that are offered here but the emphasis that this Jesuit B-school places on vital issues such as values and character formation.

Dear Friends, and character formation. It is this I am delighted to be here in this emphasis that sets XLRI apart from important event of XLRI, the Annual other business schools in the country. Convocation. As Chairman, XLRI Board To the graduating batch this year: The of Governors, it is always a pleasure road ahead will be challenging. There for me to be in the midst of graduating will be tough decisions to make, ethical students each year. dilemmas to confront. Remember that Jamshedpur is truly fortunate to have no matter what the outcome, you will such an excellent business school choose the righteous path. Remember located right here in the Steel City. also that it is you who can make a XLRI was established in 1949, soon difference to those around you, the less after India gained Independence, and in fortunate in the country. This is what a small way joined in spirit and action XLRI strives to be. Let us pledge to the selfless patriots and great leaders of bring a little sunshine in the lives of the India in helping build our great nation. marginalised. After seven decades, XLRI continues I wish each of you the very best in your to uphold the same vision — to train future endeavors. leaders who will excel in competence, personal values and social concern. XLRI is a business school with a difference. It is not just the varied TV Narendran courses that are offered here but the emphasis that this Jesuit B-school places on vital issues such as values

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Director’s Message

It is also humbling to recall that we have completed seven eventful decades in helping shape future business leaders

Dear Friends, To the graduating batch of 2019: I am delighted to present to you the Congratulations to our newest Alumni 63rd Convocation Brochure for the year members! It must truly be a very 2018-19. This academic year has once gratifying moment for all of you. You again brought laurels to XLRI in different have accomplished a lot and you have spheres, thereby doing all of us proud. It the potential to do much more. We hope is also humbling to recall that we have you have grown not only intellectually completed seven eventful decades in and emotionally but also as conscientious helping shape future business leaders. citizens. An ethical and empathetic outlook will serve you throughout your life and will We cannot be content on our past glory always be your core strength. Always listen to alone. As a forward-looking institution XLRI your inner voice as you face the challenges in is putting in place a strategic blue-print your work-life journey. for new campuses across the country. The foundation stone for the upcoming XLRI Your journey this far has not been yours Campus in Amaravati, the new capital alone. It was a team effort of your close ones of Andhra Pradesh was laid on 17th of – friends and family. Be it success or any January 2019 and the Chief Minister challenge they have stood by you either by of Andhra Pradesh, Shri Chandrababu holding your hand or praying for you silently. Naidu was the Chief Guest. This year we Convey your gratitude to them. successfully conducted the XAT online Always remember your classmates and the examination for the second time without fond memories of XLRI will make your work- any glitch. Besides being consistently life journey easier and more meaningful. ranked as the No. 1 Private B-School in India, XLRI’s infrastructural facilities, leadership and governance, campus life With Prayers and Blessings, and alumni connect have also been rated E. Abraham, S.J. as No. 1 in India by various well-respected publications.

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• Programme • 63rd Annual Convocation Speaker: Ms Anu Aga • Covocation Speakers from 1959-2018 • Sir Jehangir Ghandy Medal Recipients from 1965-2018 Convocation 2019 Convocation 2019

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Prayer Song

01 XLRI Choir

Director’s Report

Fr E Abraham, SJ 02

Presidential Address

03 Mr T V Narendran Chairman, Board of Governors, Presentation of the XLRI and CEO & MD, Tata Steel Medals for Academic Excellence 04 Dr Ashis K Pani Presentation of the Medals for Long Service by Fr Jerome Cutinha, SJ 05 25 years Ms Prabha Verma Mr Sanjay Saha Presentation of the Mr Fredrick D’Souza Sir Jehangir Ghandy Medal 06 15 years Mr T V Narendran Dr Gourav Vallabh Mr Bhaskar Balmuchu

07 Convocation Address Ms Anu Aga

Presentation of the Diplomas

Dr Ashis K Pani 08

National Anthem By XLRI Choir 09 Recession

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Convocation speaker and recipient of Jehangir Ghandy Medal

Ms Anu Aga Recently she retired as the Director on the Former Chairperson Board of Thermax and Chairperson of the Thermax Ltd Thermax Foundation. Anu Aga, former Chairperson and Director A dedicated philanthropist and a restless of Thermax Ltd, exemplifies courage and advocate of children’s causes, she is deeply resolute leadership. She took over the reins involved with Teach for India and Akanksha of Thermax as the Executive Chairperson Foundation—both working for the spread of soon after the demise of her husband education. She was awarded the Padma Shri Rohinton Aga and at a time when the in 2010 for her exemplary work in helping company was amid arduous challenges. educate underprivileged children. As Chairperson, Ms Aga shepherded the She was also a member of the National turnaround of Thermax through some major Advisory Council and was nominated to initiatives— reconstitution of the board, the Rajya Sabha as member of the Indian shedding of non-core activities, rightsizing Parliament in 2012. of operations and increased customer The Growth Innovation and Leadership Award focus. It was her sound decision making in 2016 from Frost and Sullivan put Anu Aga and progressive business strategies that in the elite roster of leaders such as Ratan wrote the incredible story of one of the Tata, Richard Branson, and other visionaries. biggest corporate makeovers in India.

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CONVOCATION SPEAKERS

Year Speaker Year Speaker Year Speaker 1959 Sir Jehangir Ghandy 1986 R H Mody 2011 Vineet Nayar 1960 Sudhir Ghosh 1987 Ashok S Ganguly 2012 Jaspal Bindra 1961 Michael John 1988 D N Ghosh 2013 Pratip Chaudhuri 1962 V V Giri 1989 Abid Hussain 2014 Arundhati Bhattacharya 1963 S N Sinha 1990 R H Mody 2015 Mallika Srinivasan 1964 R G DeCosta 1991 M N Goiporia 2016 Sunil Kant Munjal 1965 M C Chagla 1992 K L Chugh 2017 Adi Godrej 1966 P M Menon 1993 J J Irani 2018 TV Mohandas Pai 1967 K S Basu 1994 Montek Singh Ahluwalia 1968 Naval H Tata 1995 P Chidambaram 1969 B P Gajendragadkar 1996 C Rangarajan 1970 S K Nanavati 1997 Susim M Data 1971 R D Chokshi 1998 C R Irani 1972 P L Tandon 1999 Alyque Padamsee 1973 Mohan Kumaramangalam 2000 Subir Choudhury 1974 D P Dhar 2001 Deepak Parekh 1975 N A Palkhivala 2002 A P J Abdul Kalam 1977 Hiten Bhaya 2003 Raghunath Anant Mashelkar 1978 Kanti Mehta 2004 J J Irani 1979 George Fernandes 2005 Kandeh Yumkella 1980 N A Palhivala 2006 A M Naik 1981 L K Jha 2007 R Gopalakrishnan 1982 A Mudaliar 2006 A M Naik 1983 A N Haksar 2008 Subodh Bhargava 1984 V Krishnamurthy 2009 O P Bhatt 1985 K L Puri 2010 Kumar Mangalam Birla

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SIR JEHANGIR GHANDY MEDAL RECIPIENTS The medal for outstanding contribution to industrial and social peace is named in honor of the late Sir Jehangir Ghandy, Kt. C.I.E., the first Chairman of the Board of Governors of XLRI and Director, Tata Iron & Steel Co. Ltd., and presented annually by XLRI.

Year Medal Recipients Year Medal Recipients 1965 S R Vasavada 1989 V G Gopal 1966 P N Krishna Pillai 1990 v R Deenadayalu 1967 K S Basu 1991 Suresh Krishna 1968 Naval H Tata 1992 V Kurien 1969 B P Gajendragadkar 1993 a N Buch 1970 - 1994 Kesub Mahindra 1971 Khandubai Desai 1995 n Vaghul 1972 P L Tandon 1996 P A Sangma 1973 R P Billimoria 1997 Jyoti Basu 1974 G Ramanujam 1998 N A Palkhivala 1975 J R D Tata 1999 J N Godrej 1977 Hiten Bhaya 2000 Brijmohan Lal Munjal 1978 Kanti Mehta 2001 Michael Windey, S.J. 1979 Arvind Mafatlal 2002 M S Banga 1980 H Holck Larsen 2003 Marian Zelazek, S.V.D. 1981 Rajmohan Gandhi 2004 Missionaries of Charity 1982 V R Krishna Iyer 2005 Azim Premji 1983 R H Mody 2006 Subir Raha 1984 S Moolgaonkar 2007 K V Kamath 1985 Gopeswar 2008 R Seshasayee 1986 G L Tandon 2009 Ratan N Tata 1987 P N Bhagwati 2010 E Sreedharan 1988 V Krishnamurthy 2011 Nitish Kumar 2012 N R Narayana Murthy 2013 Shiv Nadar 2014 arundhati Bhattacharya 2015 Mallika Srinivasan 2016 Sunil Kant Munjal 2017 adi Godrej 2018 TV Mohandas Pai

13 Medals for Academic Excellence 14 Medals for Academic Excellence

• Medals for Academic Excellence • Fellow Programme in Management • Postgraduate Diploma in HRM • Postgraduate Diploma in BM • Postgraduate Diploma in General Management • Business Management (Evening)

15 Medals for Academic Excellence & List of Graduates

Medals for Academic Excellence 2018 – 19

XLRI Medal: Best All-round Student XLRI Medal: XLRI Medal: Highest CQPI – BM [Evening] in Memory of Parineet Reddy Second Highest CQPI – HRM [2016 – 19] [Sponsored by Reddys] Gunika Bahal [Sponsored by Jagans] Gunika Bahal Zia Ahmad

XLRI Medal: Best All-round Woman XLRI Medal: Highest CQPI – BM XLRI Medal for Social Initiatives Student in memory of Geeta Saxena in Memory of Ram Awtar Chachra [Sponsored by State Bank of India] [Sponsored by Madhukar Shukla] [Sponsored by Krishna Lal Chachra] Abhishek Vasanth Poojari Parishmita Basu Varsha Bondada Pravesh Jain Rohit Paul XLRI Medal: Outstanding FPM XLRI Medal: Second Highest CQPI -BM Anshita Agarwal Student In Memory of K V K Raju [Sponsored by Janardhan Pyda] [Sponsored by Nagarjuna Foundation] Himanshi Gaba Pratik Agarwal C Shabana Janani Siddharth Karthikeyan

XLRI Medal: Highest CQPI – HRM XLRI Medal: Highest CQPI – GMP in Memory of John P D’Costa in Memory of R S Pande [Sponsored by Ronald D’Costa] [Sponsored by K G Pande] Parishmita Basu V Ravi

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FELLOW IN MANAGEMENT

(Total : 11)

Sl. Name Batch Sl. Name Batch 1 Balamurugan A : 2015 - 2019 7 Arbuda Sharma : 2011 - 2019 2 C Shabana Janani : 2014 - 2019 8 Mahendra Singh Rao : 2013 - 2019 3 Praveen Kumar : 2011 - 2019 9 Needhi Dharman : 2008 - 2019 4 Raja Ratna Reddy Singareddy : 2014 - 2019 10 Sai Ranjani Bharathkumar : 2010 - 2019 5 Suprabha Pradhan : 2014 - 2019 11 Shabbirhusain R V : 2015 - 2019 6 Anand Bipinchandra Shah : 2012 - 2019

TWO-YEAR POSTGRADUATE DIPLOMA IN HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT

BATCH : 2017 - 19 (Total : 179)

The names of the first five rank holders are in the order of merit (Both ‘A’, ‘B’ & ‘C’)

Shashank Jasdeep Parishmita Gunika Prakhar Pathak Singh Basu [Ms] Bahal [Ms]

17 Medals for Academic Excellence

HRM [Section - ‘A’]

• Akshay Gupta • Diksha Rakwal [Ms] • Nikhil Milind Ajgaonkar • Siddhant Shekhar • Akshay Singh • Eshita Gupta [Ms] • Nisarg Ramesh Shah • Siddharth Srivastava • Amrit Anshuman • Garima Sinha [Ms] • Nitin Agarwal • Smit Kiritbhai Mehta • Amy Teresa Joseph [Ms] • Gopikrishnan G • Pooja Singhal [Ms] • Sonali Agarwal [Ms] • Animesh Anand • Gunjan Rajput [Ms] • Pragya Paramita Sahoo • Sonia Bhaskar Chandan [Ms] • Ankit Bhattacharjee • Harjeev Singh [Ms] • Souvik Maity • Anmol Singhal [Ms] Ahluwalia • Pragya Sharma [Ms] • Srikrishna B • Apoorva Jain [Ms] • Harshit Samirbhai • Raagavi N [Ms] • Srushti Shishir Bhattad [Ms] Shah • Ashutosh Tripathi • Rishabh Sethi • Suhani Sunil Koshti [Ms] • Inder Chopra • Atisha Sharma [Ms] • Ritesh Maggo • Tannista Roy Chowdhury [Ms] • Kiran Kumar K V • Ayush Raj • Rohan Agarwalla • Utkarsh Aren • Krishna Dhanuka • Chaitanya Arun Bapat • Roneet Mohanty • Vinit Vishwanath Shetty • Lohith Reddy Kaliki • Chakshu Ishan Kaplas • Sakshi Tyagi [Ms] • Vishal Thota • Meenakshi • Shivam Juneja • Deepak Wali Sundaram [Ms] • Yash Agrawal • Shreya Chopra [Ms] • Dev Anand Behera • Mugdha Sahakari [Ms] • Shreya Shukla [Ms]

HRM [Section - ‘B’]

• A S V S Bhagirath • Deepanshi Sirohi • Neha Jagannath [Ms] • Snigdha Baghel [Ms] • Aadharsh M [Ms] • Niranjan Manikanta • Soumik Hore • Abhishek A • Dinesh Kumar R Chandra • Subik Kumar • Aditya Nagpal • Harshendu Hela I • Nishant Koshy Roy • Sumeet Larzoo [Ms] • Akanksha Dangi [Ms] • Nrupen Uday Karnik • Sumitkumar Atulkumar • Himanshi Gaba [Ms] • Anshita Agarwal [Ms] • Paritosh Srivastava Sahai • Ishan Kamboj • Anushree Rai [Ms] • Paul G Wilson • Supratik Ghosh • Ishita Acharya [Ms] • Anushruti Priya [Ms] • Rachit Gupta • Surbhi Jain [Ms] • Jaishil • Ashish Kumar • Rahul Narang • Suyesh Chaturvedi • Jeffin Jose • Ashish Kumar Aggarwal • Rangeet Bhattacharya • Swapnil Sharma • Karanpreet Singh • Ronit Girish Bagga • Swati Sharma [Ms] • Ashutosh Panda Sachdeva • Rutvij Nitin Shah • Trisha [Ms] • Atiba Husain [Ms] • Kavya A S [Ms] • Sakshi Gupta [Ms] • Varun Vashisht • Debayan Mitra • Kriti Bhasin [Ms] • Saurabh Goyal • Vishnu Mohan • Debdatta Chatterjee • Krutika Joshi [Ms] • Shikha Singh [Ms] • Vriti Agarwal [Ms] • Deepam Meghnath • Mohit Garg Kashyap • Siddharth Karthikeyan • Vrunda Vikram Sampat [Ms] • Neha Deshmukh [Ms]

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HRM [Section - ‘C’]

• Abhishek Mangar • Geetika Kwatra [Ms] • Parthkumar Rakeshbhai • Saurabh Khanna • Aishwarya A Nair [Ms] • George Pullippadavil Patel • Sehaj Sethi • Akshay P S John • Pranesh R • Shikhar Agarwal • Aman Nandlal Tanna • Harshita Dhal [Ms] • Prapti Kush [Ms] • Shipra Upadhyay [Ms] • Ankit Sureka • Karan Sharma • Priyadarshi Dasgupta • Shivam • Anuvab Bandyopadhyay • Kushagra Agarwal • Pusharak Dohroo • Shivam Singh • Apoorv Kumar • Kushagra Saxena • Rahul V Nair • Shivani Vaid [Ms] • Aroon Koshy • M Karan • Rakesh Ravikumar • Shreya Sood [Ms] • Avantika Verma [Ms] • Manvi Bhatia [Ms] • Ritisha Mishra [Ms] • Siddesh Shivram Sawant • Ayushi Jain [Ms] • Mathews Thomas • Romil Jaiswal • Sneha Gilada [Ms] Paimpali • Bhavya Desai • Ruchi Sharma [Ms] • Snigdha Singh [Ms] • Meghna Gupta [Ms] • Bhoomika Mansharamani • Samidha Padhi [Ms] • Sudipto Singha • Munira Arif [Ms] [Ms] • Sanchit Agarwal • Surabhi Dwivedi [Ms] • Devraj • Neha Subhash Nelge • Sanjana Chandrakant [Ms] • Utkarsh Shahdeo • Dipankshu Prajapati Deotale [Ms] • Nitin Sharma • Varun Jakkidi • Divij Chopra • Sarthak Mitra • Noor Ur Rahman

TWO-YEAR POSTGRADUATE DIPLOMA IN BUSINESS MANAGEMENT

BATCH : 2017 - 19 (Total : 182)

The names of the first five rank holders are in the order of merit (Both ‘A’, ‘B’ & ‘C’)

Mahesh Aishwarya Hemant Saurabh Varsha Pratik Venkatasubramanian Jain [Ms] Mathur Bondada [Ms] Agarwal 19 Medals for Academic Excellence

BM [Section - ‘A’]

• Aarsh Dharmesh Mehta • Garima Jain [Ms] • Omair Ehsan Azmi • Shiv Sharma • Aastha Sharma [Ms] • Gaurav Begwani • Pawankumar • Shivam Sharma • Abhishek Agrawal • Hargurpal Singh Gangabisan Bhattad • Shobhankar Rajvanshi • Aditya Malhotra • Jasmeet Saluja • Pooja Ravindra Patil • Shreeya Vidyadhar Gore [Ms] [Ms] • Akshat Gupta • Jyoti Tripathi [Ms] • Shubh Vardhan • Pranay Roop Chatterjee • Aman • Kadam Prathamesh • Shubham Singh • Praveen Varma Alluri • Anish Narula Rajaram • Siddhant Ranjan • Rachit Vij • Ankit Agarwal • Kalpit Manish • Sudhanshu Kumar Narvekar • Rahul Pasayat • Anshul Mittal • Swathi Kalyani A [Ms] • Karun Bhogadula • Ratul Kumar Borar • Anshuman Sahoo • Syed Abbas Shaheer • Kunal Shekhar • Rohan Pavankumar • Arpit Taluka • Tarun Sachdeva • Lovish Soien Jain • Atif Raza Akbar • Venkata Nagarjuna Vipparthi • Mamta Deswal [Ms] • Rohit Paul • Avishek Jena • Vivek R • Mary Subhash • Rupansh Deshkar • Bhas Shukla Vetticaden [Ms] • Saee Prasad Diwan • Yadu Aravind Menon • Deepak Panda • Milind Garg [Ms] • Yatin Arora • Deepika Rawal [Ms] • Nandagopal R • Samir Satish Goyal • Ebin Joseph • Nikhil Chavan • Satchit Varma Pachilamuttath

BM [Section - ‘B’]

• Aashit Aggarwal • Dipanjana Basu [Ms] • Mriganka Ghai [Ms] • Sahana H [Ms] • Abhineet Kumar • Faisal Ishaq • Navuduru Ruthvik • Sanjay Suresh • Abhishek Vasanth Poojari • Gowri S [Ms] Priyatham • Shivam Anand • Aditya Goyal • Jitesh Wadhwa • Niteesh Sood • Shivansh Tandon • Akshay Vashistha • Karmarkar Gaurav • Parth Gadage • Shree Krishna Somani • Anant Agarwal Abhay • Prakhar Gupta • Shruti Prasad [Ms] • Ankan Kesh • Karneek Pankaj Patel • Prateek • Shubham Jain • Ankur Bansal • Kiran Ananth • Pravesh Jain • Shubham Kumar • Apurva Goyal [Ms] • Kriti Saxena [Ms] • Priyanka Sadana [Ms] • Sunny Aryan • Arjun M K • Kushagra Jaiswal • Raghava Goel • Tanuj Kumar Kukreti • Ashwin Kumar K S • M Aditya Sharma • Rahul Singla • Tejaswi Agarwal • Atul Singh • Maneesh Sreekar • Rishabh Gupta • Vidit Jain Kurumaddali • Ayan Saha • Rohit Mullapudi • Yash Akhouri • Mehta Sidharth • Rohit Taneja • Brahmendra Chandrapati Mehul • Yash Divyang Parikh • Sagar S Bhat • Dhruv Kushwaha • Mitraputra Ganguli

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BM [Section - ‘C’]

• A L V S Rohit • Deepika [Ms] • Mohammad Faraz Khan • Sanket Deepak Patil • Aayush Parth • Dinesh Sukumar • Nandita Ramesh [Ms] • Saumya Pant [Ms] • Abhinav Anshu • Dipti Mundhra [Ms] • Niket Sushilkumar • Saurav Chandan • Abhishek Kalantri • Gaurav Bansal Jakhotiya • Shivam Kumar Gupta • Abhishek Sarin • Hardik Mahendra Jain • Pathikrit Ghosh • Shloka Jaiswal • Agastya Ramesh • Harsh Vipulkumar • Pranay Mohata • Shrivats Singh • Ali Shaan Haider Shah • Prateek Babu • Shubham Sandeep Jain • Anirudh Venkatesh • Jaini Hitendra Haria • Pratibha Agarwal [Ms] • Shubham Sharan [Ms] • Ankit Gupta • Pratush Das • Sreela Basu Roy [Ms] • Jobanpreet Singh • Ankur Goyal • Puneet Kathuria • Subhadeep Som • Kartik Somani • Anshika Gupta [Ms] • Raghu Vinay • Suraj Amin • Kumar Shobhit Chalamalasetti • Arpit Desai • Tanuj Mittal • Love Kumar Gautam • Rajas Yeotikar • Asish Das • Varshita Fatehpuria [Ms] • Madana Kumar V M • Ritwik Roy • Avinash Agrawal • Varun A Sagar • Maitreyee Prashant • Ritwika Majumdar [Ms] • Bharat Bajaj • Yash Rajendra Shah Kamat [Ms] • Roshan Ramesh Desai • Darshan Varier • Mangesh Vivek • Sahil Gupta Gawankar

POSTGRADUATE DIPLOMA IN GENERAL MANAGEMENT Fifteen Months Programme | Batch: 2017 – 18 (Total: 109)

The names of the first five rank holders are in the order of merit (Both ‘A’ & ‘B’)

Shekhar Arindam Roy V Ravi Mayukh Ananya Nagar Suman Chowdhury Chaudhuri & Vinay Mall

21 Medals for Academic Excellence

GMP [Section - ‘A’]

• Aashray Agarwal • David • Kumar Ambarish • Ranjan Dua • Abhinav Gupta • Debayan Josh Gupta • Kuntal Nandi • Ravi Raushan • Abhishek Choudhury • Deepak Kumar Singh • Mandeep Singh • Ravi Verma • Abhishek Singh • Evan Stephen • Manleen Singh • Rohit Gandhi • Aditya Gupta Balavari • Manu Srivastava • Saumya Borar • Aditya Sagar • Fernandes Steve • Mohd Aadil Siddiqui • Shantanu Rathore Pierre • Amit Dixit • Naman Sharma • Shiladitya Chanda • Gaurav Kumar Arora • Amritpal Kaur [Ms] • Nilesh Kumar • Shray Chawla • Gaurav Singh • Ankit Bhardwaj • Nithin Pradeep • Tuhin Subhra Mondal • Gauttam O S • Anurag Kumar • Ongira Choudhary [Ms] • Varun Pratap Singh • Himanshu Shukla • Aryika Tripathi [Ms] • Pinaki Dalal • Vivek Porwal • Ishaan D Chellani • Ashish Kumar Saxena • Pranay Shaw • Vivek Sekhri • Karan Thakurani • Avik Kumar Podder • Raj Vijay Rai • Yogeswar Sarangi • Kautilya Dagaonkar • Bhaskar Jyoti Choudhury • Rakesh Kumar • Krishna Kant Garimella

GMP [Section - ‘b’]

• A Shravan Kumar • Aurko Dasgupta • Kashish Sehgal • Rajarshi Khasnabis • Abhinav Shukla • Ayush Gupta • Kindam Sethia • Rakesh Panda • Abhiram B • Chandan Pratik • Kumar Vivek • Ravi Pathak • Abhishek Singh • Debal Chakraborty • Madhav Kumar Sarkar • Sanjay Semwal • Achint Mittal • Deepak Saini • Manish Sinha • Saurabh Kumar • Aditya Kaushal • Dewal Gaurav Sanjiv • Mansoor Mohd Khan • Somya Mishra [Ms] • Agnish Ghatak • Dishant Khemani • Nakul Gupta • Sumeet Pushpam • Amit Kumar • Farhan Mohammed Ansari • Nikhil Daniel • V S Pavan Kumar Cheruvu • Anand Shrivastava • Gautam Das • Nithin Livingstone • Vaibhav Bahl • Anirudh Talwar • George Thomas • Nitish Bhasin • Vinayak Vittal Shenoy • Ankit Gulati • Hitendra Jain • Paawan Sinha • Vivek Ranjan • Ashesh Prasad • K Krishna Chaitanya • Pirithivi Raj S • Wadhwani Rishi Mohan • Yashika Kapoor [Ms]

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THREE-YEAR POSTGRADUATE DIPLOMA IN BUSINESS MANAGEMENT - Evening Batch: 2016 - 19 (Total: 37)

The names of the first five rank holders are in the order of merit

Rishi Prasanjit Zia Mohseen Azad Payal Gupta Saha Ahmad Kadarbhai Banerjee[Ms]

The rest of the names are in alphabetical order • A Naveen Kumar • Asis Kumar Gupta • P V R L Pawan Kumar • Santosh Kamal Narayan • Ananya Dash[Ms] • Atul Anand • Pankaj Tiwari • Satish Agarwal • Aniket Kumar • Chandan Kumar Singh • Rahul Kumar • Shailesh Kumar • Anil Kumar Singh • Indrajit Shaw • Raj Nandan • Shyamtanu Dutta • Ankit Kumar • Indranil Biswas • Raj Vivek Gupta • Soumya Dipto Sen • Ankur Anand • Manoj Kumar Pandey • Rajat Kumar Singh • Sumee Sen [Ms] • Anurag Kallakuri • Neha Kumari[Ms] • Rajiv Gaur • Sunil Kumar Korakana • Arunav Kundu • Nitin Kumar Singh • Roshan Kumar • V Rakesh Kumar

23 highlights of the year 24 highlights Of the year

• Dr Verghese Kurien Oration • Best Director of Business School • National IR Summit • 2nd National HR-IR Conference • XLerate • MathSport Asia 2018 • Gnosis 2018 highlights of the year 25 Highlights of the Year Dr. Verghese Kurien Memorial Oration

XLRI organised the Fifth Dr stagnation of everyday technologies Organised under the aegis of Fr Arrupe Verghese Kurien Memorial Oration and correspondingly the existence of Center for Ecology and Sustainability on Sustainable Development on whole range of occupations that may (FACES), XLRI, in memory of the 22 September. This year eminent be described as stagnant occupations Founder of AMUL Dr. Verghese Kurien, development activist and economist, because they are more or less the same otherwise known as “the Milkman of Dr Jean Dreze, delivered the oration on functionality that used to be for many India”, the oration aims to provide a the topic Economic Growth and Social decades. The entire rural sector, for platform to listen to and learn from Development. example in Jharkhand, is lost in that thought leaders, social entrepreneurs, The event was also graced by Fr E kind of stagnant occupation despite development sector professionals Abraham, SJ, Director of XLRI and Dr having so much local resources for and policy makers who have made a Ashis K Pani, Dean (Academics), XLRI example mushrooms, honey, tendu, significant contribution to the idea and Dr Madhukar Shukla, Chairperson, mahua, etc. To improve people’s of an empowered, prosperous and Fr Arrupe Center for Ecology and livelihood and well-being, without sustainable society. Sustainability, XLRI. causing the sort of environmental destruction that we are witnessing In his address, Dr Dreze said, “Over today we need many more Dr Kuriens.” four decades I have observed that XLRI organised India needs many more people’s The second point that Dr Dreze scientists and people’s technicians underscored is the fact that Dr Kurien th like Dr Kurien who take interest in symbolises the critical importance of 5 everyday technology and people’s the non-profit sector in the economy Dr Verghese Kurien Memorial basic needs and not just sophisticated and society. “Dr. Kurien did not act out Oration on Sustainable technology like biometrics and artificial of greed for money, but out of passion Development on intelligence. The consequence of this and public spiritedness. Similarly he disinterest and lack of innovation in did not manage AMUL cooperative as everyday technology is a remarkable a profit maximising enterprise,” he added. 22 Sep

Fr E Abraham,SJ, presents a souvenir to Dr Jean Dreze

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Fr E Abraham, SJ, Director, XLRI was honoured with the Best Director of Business School award by International Sustainable Development Studies Institute (ISDSI) for his outstanding contribution in academic excellence, institution building and leadership. The award was presented to him by Dr GopichandKatragadda, Innovations Head, Tata Sons, during the 12th ISDSI conference at SP Jain Institute of Management and Research, Mumbai.

Fr E Abraham, SJ, Director, XLRI was honoured with the Best Director of Business School award by International Sustainable Development Studies Institute (ISDSI) for his outstanding contribution in academic excellence,

National IR Summit The second National IR Summit, an endeavor by the Forum The Summitsaw the first National Labour Parliament, a for Industrial Relations at XLRI,was held on 24th and 25th simulation of parliamentary proceedings with the objective November to bridge the gap between the predicted and the of formulating a draft bill around the agenda of having a practiced trends in the industrial relations scenario. central law for recognition of trade unions and the necessary Beginning with the release of the national IR journal elements therein.Other events included an IR strategy Dhyuti, the theme for the summit wasThe Changing Labour simulation involving collective bargaining and fact finding, a Landscape: Non-traditional Unionization | NEEM Scheme compliance challenge and the culmination of the traditional | Labour Codes. There was a workshop conducted around year-long management quizzing league. this by AbhijeetKadam, General Manager, IR Transformation Witnessing participation from industry experts, and Raj Kiran Saraswat, Manager, HR of Reliance Industries academicians and student delegates, the summit marked a Ltd. This was followed by a workshop on Participative milestone in inculcating an impassioned dialogue amongst Management and the Impact of Automation on a Changing the stakeholders about the nuances of the national and Workforce by Martin Shah, HR Head, XLRI and Raghunath global labour scenario. Pandey, Former President, Tata Workers Union.

27 Highlights of the Year 2nd National HR-IR Conference The 2nd National HR-IR Conference The theme for IR Panel was introduced more agile and take liquid structures. was hosted in XLRI on 21 and 22 by Dr. P K Padhi of XLRI who also Another panellist Shastri mentioned of January, 2018. The conference, briefed the audience about the theme, the need to ensure business continuity organised by SAPPHIRE (Students Consolidation of Labour Laws. while changing the structures. He Association for Promotion of Personnel The first panel discussion at the considered the open mindedness of Management, Human Resources and conference was on Emerging Workforce the millennials, a plus point since Industrial Relations) in association with and its Impact on Human Resources. experimentation is a welcome shift SBI, centred on the theme Fortifying The panel was chairedby Dr. Raghuram from the existing risk-averse workforce. the Future: Managing the Changing Tata, XLRI,and the other panellists He also pointed out the heavy Workforce and its Needs. included Dr. Shalini Lal, Founder, dependence of the current workforce on Industry stalwarts, academicians, Infinity OD, Inderjeet Sengupta, information and the need to deal with government officials, researchers and CHRO, Johnson and Johnson, Indrajit contingencies. students from top B-Schools of the Gupta,VP-HR SREI Financial Services, SAPPHIRE: SAPPHIRE, Students country were invited to deliberate and Avijit Shastri, XLRI alumnus and Association for Promotion of Personnel on the theme. The session was independent consultant. Management, Human Resources and inaugurated by Inderjeet Sengupta, Dr. Lal focussed on two major trends: Industrial Relations, was incubated CHRO, Johnson and Johnson, who expectations from the emerging in 1989 to promote Human Resource shared anecdotes to highlight the workforce and meeting an era of Management and act as an interface importance of human resource and rapid disruptions. She emphasised between the academia and industry. business. on the need for organisations to be

The 2nd National HR-IR Conference was hosted in XLRI on 21 & 22 of January, 2018

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GNOSIS 2018 The Finance Association of Bank; Sanjeev Lall, Partner, Udvik Upadhyay, MD and CEO, Centrum XLRI (FINAX) hosted the ninth Infrastructure Advisors LLP and K Infrastructure Advisors Ltd.; Anita edition of GNOSIS 2018, XLRI’s Balasubramanian, MD & Head of Belani, Operating Partner, Gaja Annual Finance Symposium, on Corporate Banking, Citibank South Capital; Vinay Razdan, CHRO, 17 November in Mumbai. The Asia.The panellists conducted a HDFC and Santosh Das Kamath, symposium saw Dr. Rajeev Lall very enriching discussion about the MD and CIO, Fixed Income, Non-executive Chairman, IDFC current NPA crisis, mergers and Franklin Templeton receive awards Bank, deliver the keynote address acquisitions that can enhance the for achievements in their respective on Banking and Financial Services capital base and suggested reforms to sectors. Each of them shared their in India: The Expanding Horizon. strengthen the banking industry and experiences and memories of their He gave a rousing speech on SMEs in India. time at XLRI, much to the delight how banks and other financial This panel discussion was followed of the audience. institutions can maintain a balance by a session with Samit Ghosh- Established in 1991, The Finance between social responsibility and Founder, MD & CEO,Ujjivan Small Association at XLRI [FINAX] is commercial viability, by addressing Finance Bank,as the guest speaker. essential to the finance domain all stakeholder needs. He spoke about his journey on how at XLRI. GNOSIS, which is in its The keynote speech was followed by he founded Ujjivan Small Finance ninth year now, continues to get a panel discussion on Consolidation Bank, its current business model, bigger and better, with a terrific of the Banking Industry in the the challenges he faced and Ujjivan speaker line up of top bankers Wake of NPAs by four eminent bank’s future goals. and entrepreneurs and more than panellists including Anshula The GNOSIS Excellence Awards 150 corporate. More than 150 Kant,MD, SBI; Rahul Chawla, MD ceremony saw distinguished corporates and student delegates & Head of Structured Finance XLRI alumni such as Sandeep all over India attended the event Trading and Structuring, Deutsche this year.

2929 Highlights of the Year XLerate 2018 The fifth edition of XLerate, a national- National Institute of Securities Markets level inter-college fest for management Mumbai, Orissa Institute of Interior and students, was enthusiastically hosted Fashion Technology, Xavier Institute by the PGDM-GM batch from 23 to 25 of Social Service Ranchi, Institute of February, 2018. The three-day long Public Enterprise Hyderabad, SP Jain annual event had sports, leadership and Mumbai, IIFT Ranchi etc. cultural extravaganza on offer for the For the first time, XLerate opened participants from premier institutes. several sports events and the General The current edition of XLerate attracted Quiz event for corporate participation, over 140 registrations from institutes attracting registration from corporates like IIM Indore, IIM Ranchi, IIM Raipur, like Tata Steel, Tata Motors, Ashok NIT Jamshedpur, Rajendra Vidyalaya, Leyland and Xoriant Corporation.

The first day of the fest witnessed interesting events like – What’s in the box, a marketing event where students conceptualised a product/service using a set of ingredients and created an advertisement for the same. This was followed by The Outpost , a debate competition where the teams put forth their views for and against various interesting topics like Have Print Advertisements Day#1 Lost Their Relevance in the Digital Age.

The most significant event of the day was Leadership Talk Session by ace director Imtiaz Ali. Mr Ali interacted with the students and answered their questions on various subjects like the film industry, creativity, one’s career choices and awed everyone with his intellect, creativity and humility. The day ended with a performance by Kankana Live from Kolkata. Day#2

The third day of XLerate was kicked off with a Startup Sunday event organised in association with Headstart Jharkhand. As part of the event, 30 aspiring entrepreneurs interacted with the founders of three exciting startups in an informal workshop session. This was followed by a Pitch Fest session where teams of entrepreneurs presented their next big business ideas. Final rounds of various sports events including — Futsal, Cricket, Volleyball, Badminton — were Day#3 hosted on the last day.

Imtiaz Ali during the Leadership Talk Session 30 | 63rd Annual Convocation MathSport Asia 2018 Conclave MathSport Asia 2018 Conclave was organized in XLRI from 10-12 December, 2018

The first ever MathSport Asia 2018 sports analytics like, Prof. Tim Swartz largest and most populous continent Conclave was organized in XLRI from of Simon Fraser University, Canada; on Earth, has a long tradition of sports. 10 to 12 December, 2018. The three- Prof. Steven Stern of Bond University, Traditional Asian Sports like wrestling day long conference held at XLRI Australia; Prof. Dries Goossens of and archery survive even today in Campus, Jamshedpur, showcased Ghent University, Belgium and Prof. forms unchanged over centuries. The research related to mathematical Nobuyoshi Hirotsu of Juntendo globalization of sport has brought modelling in sports is first of its kind to University, Japan and practitioners from new sports, coaching techniques and be held in India. the field of sports analysis like Kokum methods to the continent. MathSport MathSport Asia 2018 is the inaugural Weeratunga from Victoria University/ Asia seeks to play the role of a catalyst conference of a series of biennial Tennis Australia, Ramakrishnan, S in encouraging the use of Mathematical conferences that will be held across from Sportsmechanics India Pvt Ltd, and Statistical Analysis in Sports Asia, under the aegis of MathSport Mr. Gaurav Khilari from Jamshedpur in Asia by organizing Conferences Asia – a group of academicians Football Club, Mr. Amit Kini from and Workshops, by encouraging and practitioners interested in the Sportzinteractive and Mr. Sanjog Gupta research in the area and facilitating promotion and development of the from Star Sports as speakers. its dissemination. MathSport Asia application of mathematics, statistics At the session, explaining the journey will also seek to promote the teaching and computing in sports in Asia. how MathSport was brought to Asia of mathematics and statistics using and directly to XLRI Jamshedpur, Dr. sports. Despite being the first The conference was participated by conference of its type, the response we leading researchers in the field of Uday Damodaran, Professor, XLRI and Conference Chair said, “Asia, the received was overwhelming.”

Kokum Weeratunga (Victoria University, Australia), Nobuyoshi Hirotsu (Juntendo University, Japan), Fr E Abraham, SJ, (XLRI, Jamshedpur) and Dries Goossens (Ghent University, Belgium)

31 Graduating Batches group Pictures of Graduating Batches

• PGDM (BM) • PGDM (HRM) • PGDM (GM) • PGDM (BM-Evening) group Pictures of Graduating Batches

PGDM (BM) programme

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PGDM (HRM) programme

35 group Pictures of Graduating Batches

PGDM (General Management)

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Postgraduate DiploMa in Management (BM), Evening

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• Dean’s Office • Admissions Office • Placement Office • Alumni Office • Career Services & Industry-Institute Interaction • CASH • Corporate Programmes • General Management Programme • Three-Year BM Programme • Sir Jehangir Ghandy Library • International Student Exchange Programme • Virtual Interactive Learning Programme • Information Technology Office • FPM Office

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1. No. of Faculty Area-wise Sl. Area No. of Faculty 1. Economics 06 2. Finance 10 3. General Management 07 4. Human Resource Management 12 5. Information Systems 02 6. Marketing 11 7. Organisational Behaviour 11 8. Production, Operations & Decision Sciences 13 9. Strategic Management 09 Total 81 2. Faculty Recruitment during 2018 - 19 Sl. Name Date of Joining Area / Designation 1. Dr Shreyashi Chakraborty 11.06.2018 Organizational Behaviour

2. Dr Saurav Snehvrat 01.07.2018 Strategic Management

3. Dr Kumar Alok 10.07.2018 Organizational Behaviour

4. Dr Shounak Basak 16.07.2018 Production, Operations and Decision Sciences

5. Prof Alok Raj 17.09.2018 Production, Operations and Decision Sciences

6. Dr Arindam Mondal 16.10.2018 Strategic Management

7. Dr Apratim Guha 18.02.2019 Production, Operations and Decision Sciences

8. Dr Pritha Guha 18.02.2019 Production, Operations and Decision Sciences

3. Faculty who separated during 2018 – 19 Sl. Name Date of Retirement / Resignation Area 1. Dr Trishit Bandyopadhyay 31.03.2018 Production, Operations and Decision Sciences

2. Dr Dilbag Singh Broca 30.04.2018 Production, Operations and Decision Sciences

3. Dr E S Srinivas 30.04.2018 Organizational Behaviour

4. Dr Atul Arun Pathak 31.05.2018 Strategic Management

5. Dr Saroj Kumar Pani 31.05.2018 Strategic Management

Dr Soumyakanti 6. 11.09.2018 Information Systems Chakraborty

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4. New Electives Approved during 2018 - 19

Finance Area: Production, Operations and Decision • Behavioural Finance - 3 Credit for FPM & EFPM Sciences Area: • Advanced Optimization Tools and Techniques - 3 Credit Human Resource Management Area: for FPM & EFPM • Research in International Human Resource • Operations Simulation – 2 credits for BME / GMP Management - 3 Credit for FPM & EFPM • Service Operations Management – 3 Credit for BM • Sustainable Human Resource Management – 2 Credit for HRM Strategic Management Area: IS Area: • Corporate Sustainability in Practice – 3 Credit for BM / HRM • Blockchain Application for Managers – 1.5 Credit for BM / HRM • Doctoral Seminar on Entrepreneurship and Family Business – 3 Credit for FPM & EFPM • Managing Innovation – existing 2 Credit converted to 3 Credit for BM / HRM • Strategic Leadership and Governance – 3 Credit for BM / HRM

5. Electives Re-designed and Re-named Sl Earlier Name New Name Area 1 Marketing Law Legal Aspects of Marketing GM

6. MoUs signed for Student Exchange Programmes: NEOMA Business School, France on January 31, 2019. It was signed by Delphine Manceau [Dean] on behalf of NEOMA Business School and Dr Pingali Venugopal [Chairperson – International Relations] on behalf of XLRI, Jamshedpur. 7. International Exchange Programme a) Faculty Exchange: NIL

b) A total of 51 students — 30 second year students of Business Management and 21 Human Resource Management (Batch: 2017 - 19) — participated in the International Student Exchange Programme during September - December 2018:

Sl. No. College Location Sid Student

H17056 Suhani Sunil Koshti [Ms]

1. Alba Graduate Business School Greece H17135 Dipankshu Prajapati

H17167 Sehaj Sethi

H17046 Shreya Chopra [Ms]

H17096 Paul G Wilson 2. Aston Business School, Birmingham UK H17138 George Pullippadavil John

H17178 Sudipto Singha

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H17021 Gunjan Rajput [Ms]

H17053 Souvik Maity

H17075 Debdatta Chatterjee

H17085 Karanpreet Singh Sachdeva Audencia Nantes School of Management 3. France H17124 Akshay P S

H17154 Prapti Kush [Ms]

H17156 Pusharak Dohroo

H17161 Ruchi Sharma [Ms]

H17166 Saurabh Khanna

B17017 Ebin Joseph Pachilamuttath

B17022 Jyoti Tripathi [Ms]

B17040 Rahul Pasayat EM Lyon Business School France B17078 Dipanjana Basu [Ms] 4. B17118 Tejaswi Agarwal

B17169 Shivam Kumar Gupta

5. ESADE Spain H17132 Bhavya Desai

B17122 Aayush Parth

B17126 Agastya Ramesh

B17159 Raghu Vinay Chalamalasetti

B17165 Sahil Gupta 6. IESEG School of Management France H17025 Jasdeep Singh

H17034 Parishmita Basu [Ms]

H17084 Jeffin Jose

H17163 Sanchit Agarwal

B17008 Ankit Agarwal

B17023 Kalpit Manish Narvekar

B17034 Pawankumar Gangabisan Bhattad

B17085 Kiran Ananth 7. KEDGE Business School, Bordeaux France B17087 Kushagra Jaiswal

B17114 Shubham Kumar

B17135 Bharat Bajaj

B17161 Ritwik Roy

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B17005 Akshat Gupta

B17077 Dhruv Kushwaha

B17086 Kriti Saxena [Ms]

B17099 Priyanka Sadana [Ms] 8. KEDGE Business School, Marsielle France B17104 Rohit Taneja

B17120 Vidit Jain

B17148 Madana Kumar V M

B17166 Sanket Deepak Patil

B17096 Prateek 9. Malardalen University Sweden B17124 Abhishek Kalantri

B17059 Venkata Nagarjuna Vipparthi Weatherhead School of Management 10. USA (Case Western Reserve University) B17102 Rishabh Gupta c) 6 students came from the following institute to XLRI on International Student Exchange Programme to attend courses during September to December, 2018:

SL No School Place Student Name

1. Asian Institute of Management Manila Siddharth Sundara Rajan

Capucine Chaix [Ms]

Hugo Bergeret 2. EM Lyon Business School France Melanie Chaurand [Ms]

Paul Melin

3. Grenoble Ecole de Management France Rosalie Raet [Ms]

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8. Recipients of the Scholarships for the year 2018 – 19 Sl. Name of the Programme Name of the Student Roll No. Amount (₹) No. Scholarship

Gunjan Rajput [Ms] H17021 1,75,000 / Year HRM

Aditya Birla [2017 – 19] 1. Neha Jagannath [Ms] H17091 1,75,000 / Year Scholarship BM Sarthak Kumar B18044 1,75,000 / Year [2018 – 20]

Pratik Agarwal B17097 1,00,000

Priyanka Sadana B17099 1,00,000

Bharat Bajaj B17135 1,00,000

Capital First BM / HRM Akshay Gupta H17002 1,00,000 2. Scholarship [2017 – 19] Atiba Husain [Ms] H17072 1,00,000 Gunika Bahal H17139 1,00,000 Bhoomika Mansharamani [Ms] H17133 1,00,000

Devraj H17134 1,00,000

OP Jindal BM 3. Engineering & Aishwarya Hemant Jain B17066 1,50,000 Management [2017 – 19] BM 4. T Thomas Syed Abbas Shaheer B17057 1,00,000 [2017 – 19]

BM 5. Pirojsha Godrej Bhupesh Kumar B18018 25,000 [2018 – 20]

Joseph M Sciortino 6. No Awardees 25,000 [for ST Students]

Geeta Saxena BM 7. Varsha Bondada [Ms] B17119 20,000 Memorial [2017 – 19]

Kalyan Ganguly BM 8. Rohit Mullapudi B17103 1,00,000 XEF Scholarship [2017 – 19]

Naveen Jain & BM / HRM 9. Distinguished - - 20,000 Alumni Award [2017 – 19]

Vasantha Sankaran BM 10. - - 1,00,000 Scholarship [2017 – 19]

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Tuition Fee XLRI Diamond Rohit Taneja B17104 BM / HRM Upto 2.85 Lakhs 11. Jubilee [2017 – 19] [Seniors] Tuition Fee Akanksha Dangi [Ms] H17065 Upto 2.85 Lakhs

Tuition Fee Srenevasan M N B18052 XLRI Diamond BM / HRM Upto 2.55 Lakhs 12. Jubilee [2018 – 20] [Juniors] Tuition Fee Parnika Singhal [Ms] H18094 Upto 2.55 Lakhs

Anshul Mittal B17009 1,50,000

Mahesh Venkatasubramanian B17027 1,50,000 Pawankumar Gangabisan B17034 1,50,000 Bhattad

BM / HRM Agastya Ramesh B17126 1,50,000 Alumni [2017 – 19] Srushti Shishir Bhattad [Ms] H17055 1,50,000 13. Scholarship GMP Yash Agrawal H17061 1,50,000

[2018 – 19] Bhavya Desai H17132 1,50,000

Prapti Kush [Ms] H17154 1,50,000 Ashish Agarwal G18010 1,50,000

Arijit Kar G18059 1,50,000

9. CEO Forum CEO Forum is a platform to give the students an opportunity to interact with the industry leaders and learn from their experiences. The following CEOs visited the institute during 2018 - 19:

Sl.No. Name of CEO Date of Visit Topic

1. Mr Sanjeev Shantkumar Doshi 19th August, 2018 People Capability Maturity Model 27th September, 2. Mr Narendra Rawal Role of Leadership in IR 2018

29th September, Change Management Challenges In The Age 3. Mr Bobby Chetal 2018 of AI and Robotics and How To Manage Them

Digital Eco System Shaping 4. Mr Mridul Rajdeva Mahan 11th October, 2018 up the Banking Industry

Live your “Startup Dreams” in a large 5. Mr Rajesh Agarwal 10th November, 2018 Corporate!”

Transformations in Professional Career Journey 6. Ms Indrani Deb 11th January, 2019 and Personal Learning from Experience

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7. Mr Gaurav Ahluwalia 15th January, 2019 The Role of HR in a Modern Workplace

8. Swami Atmashraddhananda Ji 2nd February, 2019 Management Lessons from Bhagwad Gita

9. Dr Ashok Kuzhipatt 17th February, 2019 Strategic Imperative for Successful Start-ups

10. Guest Lectures During June 2018 to March 2019 around 36 guest lectures were organized

Sl. No. Full Name Company

1. Mr Abhijit Bhaduri Abhijitbhaduri Associates

2. Dr Anandan Pillai Performics.Resultrix [Publicis Groupe], Bengaluru

3. Dr Anita Gupta Ahaana Communications, Jamshedpur

4. Mr Arjun Mohan Think & Learn Pvt Limited [Byju’s], Bangalore

5. Mr Basudev Prakash Basu Consultant

6. Mr Bhagabati Prasad Padhy Supreme Court of India, New Delhi

7. Mr Bushen L Raina Tinplate Company of India Limited, Jamshedpur

8. Mr Chandradeep Mitra IIM Calcutta Innovation Park

9. Dr Eshan Ahluwalia Nomura, Mumbai

10. Dr Girish Balasubramanian Xavier School of HRM (XaHR), Xavier University, Bhubaneswar

11. Mr Harish Rajagopalan Amazon.in Technology

12. Mr Hitesh Sharma Ricoh India

13. Dr Laksmisree Banerjee Kolhan University, Eastern India

Mr Mahesh Medhekar Mercedes Benz Research and Development, India 14. 15. CA Manoj Ranga Tata Steel, Jamshedpur

16. Mr Mohit Garg Government of Chattisgarh

17. Mr Mrutyunjaya Sandhibigraha ITC Limited, Kolkata

18. Dr N Raju Columbia University, New York

19. Mr Parthasarathi Sinha Reckitt Benckiser (India) Limited, Gurgaon

20. Mr Pratyush Prabhakar Government of India, New Delhi

21. Mr Rajesh Kumar Acha Fortune Financial Services (India) Ltd., Hyderabad

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Happystry [Tamara 22. Dr Rajesh Nair Online Pvt Ltd.,], Bangalore Admissions Intex Technologies 23. Dr Rakshita Sharma [India] Ltd Office RSM GC Advisiory 24. Dr Ram Babu Paravastu Services Pvt. Ltd. XAT 2019 was conducted online on Sunday, 6 January, 25. Mr Ranaveer Sinha XLRI, Jamshedpur 2019. The online exam was conducted all over India 26. Mr Rohit Punnoose Target India, Bangalore in 46 Cities and 167 centres. The online test was conducted by Tata Consultancy Services. 27. Mr Ruchir J ITC Limited, Kolkata This year 93,353 candidates registered for XAT out of Independent Consultant which 36 percent of the applicants were female. Nearly 28. Mr Sanjay Badhe and Advisor 41 percent of candidates were from non-engineering background and 45 percent candidates were with 29. Mr Saroj Kumar Singh Tata Steel, Jamshedpur industry experience. The candidates come from all 30. Mr Saunak Saha Ernst & Young, Kolkata parts of India. It is our endeavor to reach to as many deserving candidates as possible. To achieve this 31. Mr Shreerang Godbole OYO Rooms objective, we tried to reach a wider base by increasing the proportion of digital advertising. This year, there 32. Mr Snigdh Verma Deutsche Bank was an increase of 20 percent in the number of applications. XAT 2019 was very well marketed and 33. Mr Subrata Basak Tata Steel, Jamshedpur was labelled by many as one of the best management Svakarma Finance Pvt entrance tests in the country. 34. Ms Surabhi Nigam Ltd., Mumbai 35. Dr Tridibesh Mukherjee Tata Steel, Jamshedpur Standard & Poor’s The number of 36. Dr Vandana Gaur Global, Mumbai applicants for XAT 2019 Mr Venkatesh Pidilite Industries 37. Chandramouli Limited increased by 20% Harvard Business 38. Mr Vivek Chachra Publishing The total intake for BM and HR programme was 360 RPG Enterprises, 39. Mr Zubin Unwalla and 120 seats for GMP. We had the option for selecting Mumbai multiple programmes, 65000 candidates applied for 11. Number of Graduating the BM programme, 54000 candidates applied for HRM programme and about 900 candidates through Students: XAT and 250 through GMAT for the GMP. Out of these candidates, 1,673 were shortlisted for BM programme, Human Resource Management 179 1,931 for HR programme and 370 candidates for GMP. Business Management 182 Interviews for all the three programmes were held from 17 February to 23 March, 2019. Final shortlist is General Management 109 expected to be released in April. FPM 11 BM – Evening [2016-19] 37

TOTAL 518

47 Reports on XLRI OFFICEs Placement Office XLRI had a very successful placement season in 2018-19 Campus Recruitment Process facilitated by the joint efforts of the placement committee and various support committees and the administration. - BM/HRM This year saw an increase in the number of recruiters and The final recruitment process for the 2017-19 batch the diversity of roles offered to the students. recorded successful placement of all the students. A total of 358 students were offered 362 roles. The batch also claims the highest number of PPOs (Pre-placement offers) Summer Internship Process being made than ever before. The average pay package was Rs 22.35 lakhs per annum, an increase of 11.2 percent - BM/HRM from the previous year. The highest pay package offered The Summer Internship Process for the 362 students was Rs 50 lakhs per annum. of the 2018-20 batch (BM and HRM) took place in Around 104 recruiters including 19 first time recruiters September and saw participation from 95 firms across participated in the process this year and offered roles domains such as consulting, finance, operations, across the corporate spectrum. Recruiters included industry marketing, business development and HR. The stalwarts such as P&G, HUL, ITC, HSBC, Citibank, Aditya participating firms included some big layers like The Birla Group, Reliance Industries, Flipkart, AON, Samsung Boston Consulting Group, AT Kearney, Goldman Sachs, Electronics, Mercer and others. P&G, Mondelez, HUL, ITC, Johnson & Johnson, Nestle, TAS, Uber, Citibank, HSBC, RB, Coca-Cola, General The recruitment process this year also included the Electric, Aditya Birla Group and others. The highest first-ever Consult Day which was held in Delhi and saw stipend offered was Rs. 1,65,000 per month and the participation from McKinsey and Co, The Boston Consulting average saw was Rs 1,07,000. Roles in niche domains Group and Bain & Co. Nearly 21 percent of the batch in finance, product development, brands and analytics received offers in the consulting domain. The Lateral were also offered to the students. Recruitment Process included regular recruiters such as Amazon, Microsoft, PayTM, Lodha Group, RBS, DBS, KPMG, Star and others.

Final Placement - GMP multiple roles were offered to the class of 2018 including (but not limited to) Business Analyst, Consultant, Senior The PGDM General Management Program attracted Manager. The roles were offered in diverse verticals such organisations that ensured over 92 percent placement as IT/ITES, Manufacturing, Banking, and many more. for the graduating Class of 2018. They also extended offers in functions like, Consulting, Employers from the IT sector extended large number Operations, Marketing, Sales/Business Development, of offers followed by Management Consulting domain. Corporate Finance, etc. Response from the industry was overwhelming, with The recruitment process saw participation of 87 the likes of Axis Bank, ZS Associates, Accenture companies out of which 15 participated for the first time Technologies, Dell, Genpact, Cognizant Technology for the PGDM(GM) on XLRI campus. The average salary Services, Infosys, L&T Infotech and many more. The offered was Rs. 17.54 lakhs. rolling placements process started in October 2017 and

New Recruiters The GMP recruitment This year saw quite a few new recruiters like Vikram process saw participation of Solar from energy sector. We also had new organisations representing finance sector like Muthoot Finance, India 87 companies Shelter, Fin Labs along with education startups like Byju’s Learning, ACE Learning. Logistics startup like Ninja Cart out of which 15 and Milk Basket. participated for the first time

4848 | 63rd Annual Convocation Alumni Office XLRI being one of the first business 2018 and concluded in Mumbai on were more than 250 alumni from schools in the country, has its alumni 2 June, 2018. The Director, Alumni across batches and from different graduating from the early 50s. As of Chairperson, Alumni Association corners of the globe attending this now we have over 16,000 Alumni President participated in these meets. year’s Homecoming celebrations held working and serving all over the world. The event witnessed a footfall of over at XLRI Campus, Jamshedpur. The institute strengthens its alumni 1700 guests. The highlight of XLRI Annual network through major events that it Homecoming was the Distinguished organises throughout the year and other Other Meets Alumni Awards Ceremony held on 1 activities which the alumni chapters December, 2018 evening. This year implement across the country. XLRI alumnus is spread across the globe and a large part of the XLRI eight distinguished alumni of the international community is based in institute received the awards in five Summer Meets the US. This year in addition to the categories. Annual Summer Meets uphold the Summer Meets, six other alumni meets tradition of bringing together alumni were held in the US alone. The meets Silver Jubilee of various batches and allow them to were organised from 8 to 15 September appreciate being an XLer. The Alumni in New Jersey, Chicago, Atlanta, Dallas, Reunion Chapters along with the alumni office Seattle and the Bay Area. After bearing the XL flag in the and local summer interns organise academic and corporate world for the summer meets to make them Homecoming 25 years, about 80 alumni from the a memorable experience for all. batch of 1993 flew back to campus to The Summer Meets were held in The institute hosted Annual celebrate their Silver Jubilee Reunion. Bangalore, Chennai, Delhi, Hyderabad, Homecoming 2018 on 1 and 2 Kolkata, Mumbai and Pune. The December. This year we had an XEF: XLRI meets started in Kolkata on 28 April, overwhelming experience and there Endowment Fund Endowment Fund is a platform for the alumni to acknowledge the role played by XLRI in their career and life. The total contribution to the XLRI Endowment Fund till January is over Rs.6.75 crore. Pledges have been made for copious contribution to the fund by the Silver Jubilee and other Alumni visiting the Campus.

16,000 Alumni working and serving all over the world

Fr E Abraham, SJ, presents the Distinguished Alumni Award to Debarati Sen (BM-1992), MD, 3M India Region 4949 Reports on XLRI OFFICEs Career Services Committee & Industry- Against Sexual Institute Harassment Interaction As part of a continuous endeavour to improve our The Committee Against Sexual Harassment (CASH) is pedagogy, XLRI periodically seeks inputs from leading an eight-member committee constituted with the aim industry experts across all domains in India. To further to spread awareness regarding sexual harassment and streamline this process an Industry Advisory Council was to create a safe and gender sensitive work and study constituted for the Operations Area with a view to increase environment at XLRI. With this aim the committee has interaction with the industry. been involved in several activities through-out the year The industry members of the advisory council are: Alok engaging faculty, staff and students. Banerjee, CEO, Zuari; Prabhakar Bisen, Chief Operating In beginning of the academic year the committee Officer, SPi Global; Joy Chakraborty, COO, Hinduja conducted sessions for all the batches of HR, GMP Hospital; Akshay Khullar, Chief, LD2 and Slab Casters, and BM programmes on 13, 14 and 16 of June, 2018 Tata Steel; Vadiraj Kulkarni, COO, Paperboards and respectively. The committee had also organised a four-day Specialty Papers Division, ITC; S Guha, Executive VP, workshop from 24 November, 2018 at XLRI, Jamshedpur. ITC Operations; Abhay Ghate, CTO, Nihilent Technologies This workshop covered 78 faculty members, 118 staff Pune. members, and 845 students and was conducted by XLRI A two-day meeting was held on 12 and 13 May, 2018 in alumni Swati Jena. XLRI Jamshedpur where the faculty interacted with the The students committee namely CEASE which works on council and deliberated on how the course content could sexual harassment awareness among students has also be enhanced. Research and case writing opportunities also conducted year-long programmes. On the occasion of emerged as a result of these deliberations. Women’s Day the committee had asked students to write The Finance Area is in the process of setting up an and hand over appreciative messages to women students Industry Advisory Council this year. of the batch. This time, they also did the same for the men on men’s day and created a touching video in collaboration The Career Services team organised talks by industry with student body Dracula and PixL to appreciate the men experts and alumni, CV preparation workshops and in our lives. The main aim of celebrating these two days interview practice sessions to help students choose career was to encourage gender equality and a sense of unity and paths and prepare for them. respect for everyone in the batch. CEASE also conducted A student mentoring program was initiated for the General a Pandemonium event during Ensemble-Valhalla that Management Programme students. Thirty GMP alumni allowed students to understand social issues prevalent in provided one to one guidance to our students throughout our society. the year.

Committee Against Sexual Harassment (CASH) is an 8-member committee constituted with the aim to spread awareness regarding sexual harassment Industry Advisory Council Meet

50 | 63rd Annual Convocation Corporate Programmes

In alignment with XLRI’s vision of nurturing global leaders, three different types of corporate programmes were offered to practicing managers and business leaders — management development programmes, customised in-company programmes and long-duration programmes.

Management In-company Long-Duration Development programmes Programmes Programmes Customised training programmes XLRI has also been conducting long- were hosted for different companies duration programs for executives and A variety of management development based on their requirements. Some of companies. Currently, XLRI is offering programmes focusing on key these were held at XLRI Jamshedpur a 16-month programme leading to an competencies across all functional campus, while others were carried in Executive Diploma in Human Resource areas were offered at XLRI. These two client specific locations. Nearly 2000 Management at XLRI and a 15-month to five day long programmes attracted executives of different companies and Certificate Programme in Human nominations from firms across sectors. sectors were trained through these Resource Management for Accenture. Around 600 executives, from junior customized programmes in the current Executive Diploma in Human Resource management to senior management year. With some of these companies, levels, participated in such programmes. Management was started in 2005 as we have entered into long-term a joint initiative between L&T, M&M agreements to conduct a series of and BHEL which caters to the needs of customized programmes focusing on a HR managers. Eleven batches of this set of competencies. programme have already graduated and the 12th batch would be graduating this year. About 50 participants get trained in this program every year. In August 2016, in collaboration with Accenture HR Academy, Bengaluru, XLRI started a 15-month Certificate Program in Human Resource Management for the Accenture personnel. First and the last courses are conducted in XLRI and all the other courses are conducted in Accenture premise in Bengaluru over week ends. The first batch has graduated and the second batch would be graduating this year.

51 Reports on XLRI OFFICEs General Management Programme

The Post Graduate Diploma in General Management, a 15-month long residential management program for professionals with The present batch of at least five years of experience, is one of the three flagship programmes of XLRI. 104 students The programme, which aims to prepare mid-level professionals has an average for middle and senior management role is designed for a steep work experience of learning curve where leadership, team building, enterprise and approximately six responsibility are imbibed by peer learning and a rigorous study of managerial aspects. The programme includes 16 core courses and and a half years and 55 electives from seven major functional areas. Through numerous comes from diverse projects, rural outreach programmes, and adventure sports and involvement in social entrepreneurship the students are inculcated backgrounds and with XLRI culture of excellence. functional areas The present batch of 104 students has an average work experience of approximately six and a half years and comes from diverse backgrounds and functional areas. A rigorous selection process was designed to measure their drive, motivation, abilities and achievements and accordingly the curriculum grooms them for leadership roles. With a dedicated Placement Cell working tirelessly, majority of the current batch (2018-19) is already placed in top-ranked firms in middle as well as senior management positions. Over the years our PGDM (GM) students have been well received by reputed global and domestic firms such as Amazon, Goldman Sachs, JP Morgan Chase, KPMG, Accenture, TCS, Infosys, Cognizant, Genpact, OYO Rooms, Tata Hitachi, L&T, Sutherland, Virtusa, Mphasis Ltd to name a few. The CTC offered to 2017-18 batch (95 eligible students) has increased by 15 percent from the previous batch. They were recruited in domains such as consulting, information technology, human resources, finance, automobile, telecom, general management, and e-commerce. Some significant achievements of the students of 2017-18 batch Ankit Gulati was among the Top 25 Rankers in the country in a case study competition organised by ICICI Direct Stockmind 6. Ananya Nagar received a Spotlight Award for contribution to business and driving efficiency gain within six months of joining the organisation. Nilesh Kumar has published articles on Supply Chain Control Tower and Smart Procurement in Company Wide Knowledge Repository. Ankit Bhardwaj received appreciation from the company in Q4 FY18, for contributions made in a critical engagement for US-based retail client and a leading German bank.

52 | 63rd Annual Convocation three-year post graduate diploma in business management Three-Year Post Graduate Diploma in Business Management will be entering into its eighth year from the next academic year. The programme designed for working executives and business owners finally culminates in a Post Graduate Diploma in Management by imparting the rigor of a full-time programme spread over three academic years. So far, around thousand working professionals have benefited from this programme. The programme was revamped to meet the needs of aspiring managers and business owners from nearby cities and towns such as Kolkata, Ranchi and Rourkela and it has been offered through classroom sessions conducted in weekends (only since 2017). The fifth batch (batch: 2016-19) is graduating this year. The sixth batch (batch: 2017-20) is presently undergoing their sixth term, which is the first term of elective courses. Soon, they will graduate to the third year when they would be able to complete their electives and do their dissertations. The seventh batch (batch: 2018-21) is presently undergoing their third term of core courses. The eight batch (batch: 2019-22) is scheduled to start its classes from third week of May 2019. The process of application for the same has already started from January 2019.

The programme was revamped to meet the needs of aspiring managers and business owners from nearby cities and towns such as Kolkata, Ranchi and Rourkela and it has been offered through classroom sessions conducted in weekends

53 REPORTS ON XLRI OFFICES SIR JEHANGIR GHANDY LIBRARY Sir Jehangir Ghandy Library came new resources were added to smoothen • Registered for IIMA cases in into existence in 1949, soon after research work. Some of the significant addition to Harvard Business School the institute was established. It was developments are: Cases. The faculty can now see the named after late Sir Jehangir Ghandy, preview and place the order through • Our Library registered with National the library. the first Chairman of the Board of Digital Library [an MHRD project]. Governors of XLRI in February 1972. This online library provides access to • Senior Library Staff are all promoted It is housed in the ground floor of a books, thesis, audio lectures, video to Deputy Librarian cadre which improved their interest level in duty spacious and centrally air-conditioned lectures annual reports, monographs, to the next level. building overlooking the administrative web courses, technical manuals, law judgements, technical reports, block. The library strives to cater to • New computer systems to all the articles etc. library staff, circulation system and the information needs of PG Students, reprographic section were allotted. Research Scholars, Faculty Members • Launched New Library Knowledge Portal http://acad.xlri.ac.in/library/ on and other members of the institute. • RAM upgradation of all the computer the National Librarian’s Day systems at the eResource Centre It is the heart of the institute and from 2 GB to 6 GB, which increased holds a wide collection of literature • Launched a quarterly Library News Letter and so fare two issues have the performance drastically. predominantly related to all functional already been released. areas of management and its allied • Installed Dr S R Ranganathan’s Photo and a Group Photo of all subjects. It continuously strives to • Designed a Research Information our Staff. Designed & provided Sir develop a comprehensive collection with Management (RIM) with INFLIBNET http://xlri.irins.org/ This helps the JehangirGhandy Library branded well formulated collection development administrators to pull out the required • Removed unused old items strategy of print as well as electronic clean data for NIRF and other ranking (Furniture &eWastes) around 168 resources useful for teaching, learning, organisations/other purposes. nos which made more space. research, and reference purposes. The • Celebrated National Librarian’s Day • Merged the Library Card with library houses a veritable collection of on 12 August, 2018 to commemorate the Institute’s Identity Card by 68,978 Books, 16,806 Back Volumes the birthday of Dr S R Ranganathan, incorporating the library barcode into of Print Journals (some of them Father of Library Science in India. Fr. it to use as Single Card for all dating back to the days of inception), Oswald Mascarenhas, SJ, JRD Tata • New Products added: 2 (CARMA Chair Professor of Business Ethics 65 National and International print Vidoes and AIR Infotech’s Legal at XLRI and the chief guest at the Periodicals, 35 Online Databases, 1,230 Database) , Upgradation of existing function, described the Five Laws Online Journals, 14,200 PG & Doctoral products: 5 (Business Source of Library Science put forth by Dr Dissertations, 1,520 CD-ROMs & DVDs, Complete to Business Source Ranganathan. 590 Video Cassettes and more than Ultimate, Leadership & management 5,000 Publications of Government & • Nearly 20 training sessions, Video Collection (LMVC) , Business demonstrations and workshops were Reserve Bank of India. Book Summaries (BBS), EMIS-India conducted. These sessions are on the to EMIS-Asia, Similarity Check to In the academic year 2018-19 several use of eResources, research writings, Feedback Studio) library facilities were upgraded and new products in the market etc. 68,978 books 1,230 online journals

The Library team 54 | 63rd Annual Convocation International Student Exchange Programme International Student Exchange Programme (ISEP) aims to partner with the best educational institutes across the globe with the objective of providing a platform In the academic for students to experience an international environment while studying, travelling, year 2019-20, we and socialising with students from all over the world. hosted six foreign Six Students from our Partner Universities visited XLRI – students from three 1 Asian Institute of Management, Manila 1 business schools for 2 E M Lyon Business School, France 4 one term of study. In 3 Grenoble Ecole de Management, France 1 exchange, we sent 51 51 (21 HR & 30 BM) XLRI students participated in ISEP to the XLRI students to nine below mentioned universities - business schools in 1 ALBA Graduate Business School, Greece 3 six countries. 2 Aston Business School, UK 4 3 Audencia Nantes School of Management, France 9 4 Case Western Reserve University, USA 2 5 E M Lyon Business School, France 6 6 6 ESADE, Spain 1 foreign 7 IESEG School of Management, France 8 students from three business 8 KEDGE Business School, France 16 schools 9 Malardalen University, Sweden 2

The following faculty from partner universities also visited XLRI to interact with students and faculty. Prof. Kevin Stevens (Dean) and Prof. Arup Verma visited XLRI during 25 to 30 November, 2018. They had a session with the Fellow Programme Students and also interacted with XLRI faculty members. Prof. Philomena Leung (Associate Dean, International), Prof. David Rooney (Department of Management) and Prof. Lorne Cummings (Associate Dean, Higher Degrees Research) from Macquarie University, Sydney visited XLRI during December 2018 for interactions with faculty and Fellow Programme Students. We added another partner to our esteemed list by signing an MoU with NEOMA Business School (Reims – Rouen – Paris, France).

(From Left) Prof. Munish Thakur, Prof. Lorne Cummings and Some of the exchange students with (Second From Left) Dr Ashis K Prof. David Rooney interact with FPM students Pani Dean, Academics, (Second From Right) Dr P Venugopal and ISEP members 55 Reports on XLRI OFFICEs Virtual Interactive Learning Programme

Long-duration Short term Corporate programs - programs: training Postgraduate e-Management programs: Certificate (PGC) Development e-In company Programs (eMDPs) Programs (eICPs) VIL Programs came into being with the With the objective of facilitating To meet the increased demand for objective of upgrading the business continuous lifelong learning, VIL corporate training, XLRI has developed acumen and managerial skills of programs has paved the way for customized programs which offer working executives while they continue specialized, short-duration online corporates the opportunity to train their with their jobs. In the beginning, XLRI course (also known as eMDPs). Many employees virtually and efficiently. successfully rolled out Postgraduate specialized programs have been eICPs are conducted by XLRI with Certificate in Business Management launched during the year via Direct to technical support from Disprz. The first and Postgraduate Certificate in Human Desktop (D2D) mode. So far more than batch in this mode (Finance for Non- Resource Management with many 3,200 participants have been awarded Finance Executives) was successfully successful batches. Recently, VIL certificates under different modules concluded for participants from expanded its horizons by developing of eMDPs. These courses are designed Hindustan Petroleum Ltd (HPCL). Soon specialized long duration programs and delivered by XLRI faculty. after this, another eICP course was such as the Postgraduate Certificate launched for the executives of SANY in Business Analytics and the Heavy Industries Ltd. Postgraduate Certificate in Senior Leadership. Since the inception of the PGC programs, more than 7,000 students have successfully graduated from these courses. The live classes for VIL courses are conducted with the help of technical partners like Hughes Global Education, Unified Collaboration Services, TCLL by Times group, Talentedge, Tech Mahindra and ICFL by ICICI. It has more than 100 locations spread across over 30 cities across the country.

more than Students of PGC(Business Analytics for Management Decision) Programme with faculty 7000 and staff students have successfully graduated from these courses

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The accomplishments of VIL during the academic year: • More than 500 students received their certificates on the 16th Graduation Ceremony. Dr. Ashok Agarwal, Director, Transcorp graced the occasion as the chief guest. • New academic sessions were started with two new batches each of Business Management (PGCBM-33 & PGCBM-34) and Human Resource Management (PGCHRM-25 & PGCHRM-26). • Two inaugural batches of Postgraduate Certificates in Business Analytics and Senior Leadership respectively were well received • Campus component of each active PGC batch was conducted • A new MoU has been signed between Optum and VIL regarding the sponsorship of their employees for VIL courses. VIL has previously signed similar MoUs with Titan, Khadim etc. • Virtual Placement Notice Board portal has been revamped. This is a step towards connecting all VIL alumni for sharing career opportunities. Graduation ceremony 2018 INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY Office There is an on-going need to have an IT infrastructure which offers high reliability, round-the-clock availability, remote manageability and optimal scalability. XLRI did a massive renovation and new deployment in order to leverage information and communication technology for global competitiveness. In continuance with IT infrastructure upgradation, last year saw the following improvements: • Nearly 75 old desktops were replaced/installed to make backbone • The internet leased line of 310 Mbps replaced with the latest Intel Core i5 10Gig ready in order to optimise best raw bandwidth increased to 500 8th Generation desktops possible internet speed Mbps, out of which 50 Mbps of 16 • Around 40 old routers were • All 98 rooms of International Centre ip pool reserved for Direct-to-Desktop replaced with new ones and 45 are equipped with small room routers based distance learning programs additional routers were placed in for hassle-free Wi-Fi access for our • Android app has been launched Learning Centre – II and Fr McGrath guests to help students access Academic Residence • Accounting software, Microsoft Information System [AIS] and other • Around 43 L2 10Gig switches, 4 NAVISION 2013, was upgraded resources on their mobile PoE switches, one L3 switch and to NAVISION 2016 and also Though XLRI has its in-house developed 20 pairs of 10Gig Modules were incorporating procurement and MIS which covers complete Student inventory modules Lifecycle Management, LMS, Admission, HR and few more modules, but we are still on the lookout for a suitable ERP solution because of forthcoming multiple campuses in different locations.

internet leased line of 310 Mbps raw bandwidth increased to 500Mbps

57 Reports on XLRI OFFICEs Fellow Programme in Management (FPM & EXEC-FPM) 2019

The Fellow Programme in Management (FPM) and the Executive Fellow Programme in Management (Exec-FPM) at XLRI are Doctoral level (equivalent to Ph.D.) programmes. a. The full-time FPM is a residential programme that trains prospective scholars to become highly skilled and innovative researchers and teachers in various aspects of management. It primarily aims at preparing participants for careers as faculty members at premier academic institutions. b. The part-time Exec-FPM is partially residential in nature and caters to the need of Working Professionals & B-school faculty to grow into scholars for careers not only in management research and teaching but also in management practice, consulting, training and development 12 Full Time Doctoral students and 28 EFPM Doctoral Students are working under their Thesis Advisory Committee’s and are on the final stage of the Research. During 2018-19 the FPM and Exec-FPM students participated in several National and International conferences. They have published papers in several journals/ proceedings of conferences. The publications are listed in the Research and Publication Brochure.

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The following Thirteen students have successfully completed all the requirements up to Pre-Thesis Defense Seminar.

Sl No Name Faculty Guide Topic 1. Ms. Arbuda Sharma Prof. Sanjay Patro Cultural Influences on Brand Consumption:A Prof. Ravi Shekhar Kumar Qualittaive Enquiry Prof. Saroj Pani 2. Mr. Anand Bipinchandra Shah Prof. H. K Pradhan Pricing and Securitization of Rainfall ​Prof. A. Kanagaraj Insurances (Derivatives) in India Prof. T. A. S Vijayaraghavan 3. Mr. Balamurugan A Prof. Sanjeev Varshney Influence of Sports-club Engagement on Fan Prof. PingaliVenugopal Engagement in Social media Prof. Atul Arun Pathak 4. Ms.C. Shabana Janani Prof. Supriya Kumar De (Chair) Aggregating product reviews using concept- Prof. Ashis Kumar Pani based opinion summarisation Prof. Soumyakanti Chakraborty 5. Ms. Divya Aggarwal Prof. Uday Damodaran Examining the Influence of Ambiguity on Prof. Pitabas Mohanty Preferences: An Experimental Approach Prof. D Isreal 6. Mr. Mahendra Singh Rao Prof. Sanjeev Varshney Role of numerical roundedness and precision Prof. Pingali Venugopal in consumer evaluations and judgements Prof. Munish Thakur 7. Mr. Needhi Dharman Prof. Munish Thakur (Chair) A study on the relationship between Dynamic Prof. Manoj Thomas Capability and Firm Performance: Moderating role of Corporate-link Prof. Indrajit Mukherjee

8. Mr. Praveen Kumar Prof. H. K Pradhan Microfinance Models of Financial Inclusion: Prof. D. Israel A Comparative Analysis of the Prof. Alok Misra Impact in the district of Deoghar, Jharkhand 9. Fr. Raja R. Reddy Prof. Pitabas Mohanty Factors influencing cross-listing choices and Prof. Trilochan Tripathy their valuations Prof. Apalak Khatua 10. Mr. Rajib Sarkar ​Prof. H. K Pradhan Informational Behaviour of Commodity ​Prof. A. Kanagaraj Futures: Empirical Study of Prof. Nilanjan Ghosh Indian Soybean and Refined Soy Oil Futures 11. Ms. Suprabha Pradhan Prof. Trilochan Tripathy Information flows in Asset Markets: An Prof. Gourav Vallabh Empirical examination in India Prof. M S Narasimhan 12. Ms. Sai Ranjani Bharathkumar Prof. Santanu Gupta Profitability and Performance of the Prof. Sumit Sarkar Insurance Sector Prof. Sathya Sai Mudigonda 13 Mr.ShabbirHusain R.V. Prof. Sanjeev Varshney Understanding Green Consumer Value and Prof. Pingali Venugopal Consumers’ bundling versus unbundling preference Prof. Munish Thakur

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Weekly Research Seminars: • Weekly Research Seminars is a platform where doctoral students and faculty share their research work with the academic community of XLRI. It is done with the objective of strengthening the research culture and environment in the Institute. • 12 Fulltime Fellow students have presented their thesis proposal and are working towards the final thesis. • 28 Executive Fellow students have presented their thesis proposal and are working towards the final thesis. • Dr. Philomena Leung, Associate Dean - International and Corporate Engagement - Faculty of Business and Economics, Macquarie Univeristy, Prof. Lorne Cummings, Associate Dean, Higher Degrees Research, Prof. David Rooney, Department of Management and Mr. Abizer Merchant, Director (India & Sri Lanka) had an interactive sessions with the faculty and doctoral students on ongoing research. • Dean Prof. Kevin Stevens and Prof. Arup Varma from Loyola University Chicago had an interactive sessions with the doctoral students on quality research. • A Workshop was organized on Sustainable HRM for the faculty and doctoral students, facilitated by Prof. Sugumar Mariappanadar, Peter Faber Business School, Australian Catholic University, Melbourne, Australia.

FPM & EFPM 2019 Admissions: • More than 1200 candidates appeared for the Xavier Aptitude Test (XAT) 2019 conducted on January 6, 2019. • 59 candidates have applied under non-XAT category – having GMAT/GRE/GATE/UGC JRF (research) results or PGP candidates from XLRI or any IIM or MDI Gurgaon or FMS Delhi or XIM Bhubaneswar/other comparable Institutes with a CQPI of at least 6.00 / 8.00 or equivalent. • 103candidates have applied for admission into our “Executive Fellow Programme in Management” (Exec-FPM). • Interviews for FPM & EFPM will be held during the1st week of April, 2019.

Publications by Faculty and Doctoral Scholars The following table shows the specific publications in terms of articles in journals both national and international, cases, working papers, books, book chapters and papers presented in both national and international conferences.

Number of Publications made by Faculty and Doctoral Students Type 2017-18 2018-19 Articles in Journals (International) 55 62 Articles in Journals (National) 10 8 Books 4 3 Book Chapters 3 5 Cases / Notes 27 4 Research Seminars 53 44 Papers Presented at Conferences (International) 32 32 Papers Presented at Conferences (National) 18 19 Total 202 177 *Data recorded till date

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61 Centres OF Excellence

62 Centres OF Excellence Of Excellence

• Centre for Human Resource Development • Centre for Research and Training in Educational Leadership • Centre for Global Management and Responsible Leadership • Behaviour Research Centre • Centre for Logistics and Supply Chain Management • Financial Market Centre • Management Education Research Centre • Fr Arrupe Centre for Ecology and Sustainability • Tata XLRI Ethics Research Centre • Entrepreneurship Development and Incubation Centre • Centre For Rural Management

63 Centres Of Excellence Centre for Human Resource Development

The objective of the centre is to disseminate knowledge in the field of HR management

Centre for Human Resource Development The need for this conference for the career Centre for HRD also takes up various (CHRD) was established with a vision of researchers was precisely because we need research projects. One of the ongoing being a Centre of Excellence in the area to know more about how work is changing research projects is on Career Development of Human Resource Management in India. and how new forms of work are affecting Practices in Organizations in India. Another The objective of the centre is to create people’s lives and careers. international cross-cultural study was orchestrated to understand the Career and disseminate knowledge in the field of The conference responded to three trends Aspirations of Budding Managers from Human Resource Management. observed in the structure, content and various universities and business Schools processes of work that has expanded the The centre organised an international across the globe. conference on The Changing Nature of scope of international careers. The first Careers: Implications for a Sustainable trend the conference aimed to respond was A longitudinal study on the Dynamics of World on 14 and 15 December, 2018. an increasing focus on exploring how people Career Anchor is also ongoing to understand Speakers from universities like Suffolk adapt to work and build their careers in a the shift in career anchors as well as to University (USA) and KU Leuven(Belgium) shifting global employment arena.A second assess the importance of work experience in attended the conference along with aim of this conference was to explore how understanding one’s true career anchor. these changing employment relationships presenters from countries like Canada, UK, RK Premarajan Georgia, Australia and New Zealand. A total pose challenges to careers. A third aim Co-ordinator of 62 participants attended the conference of the conference was to bridge the gap Centre for HRD including national and international that exists between career research and speakers. itsapplication by bringing both scholars and practitioners together.

Inauguration of the International Conference on Changing Speakers of the Plenary Session at the International Nature of Careers by lighting the lamp Conference on Changing Nature of Careers

64 | 63rd Annual Convocation Centre for Research and Training in Educational Leadership Centre for Research and Training in Educational Leadership organised during the plenary session of the annual (CeRTEL), XLRI’s resurrected reach out programme is happy to conference of English Language Teachers Association share with you some of its significant school-based, learning- of India at Kochi focused activities undertaken during the year under review. • Workshop on Schooling for Learning was attended by • Training the Trainer workshop for teachers of 55 school principals at Toshali Sands, Konark communication department at engineering colleges was • A four-day workshop, Leading and Managing organised at Residency Towers, Chennai Education, was hosted at XLRI, Jamshedpur campus • An invited talk by WEPRO on Effective Affective Teaching • CeRTEL is putting the finishing touches to the PG and a workshop on Bracing up for the Challenges Ahead executive online course, Executive Certificate in was organised at SSN Engineering College during their Educational Leadership and Management, as well Freshers Orientation Week as extending and streamlining the activities that • Workshop on Becoming Placement Ready for the final Samarthya undertakes year students of SSN School of Management and another Peter Francis, SJ workshop on Employability and Soft skills for the final year engineering students Co-ordinator Centre for Research and Training in Educational • Talk on Eastern Insights Ignored in Western Learning was Leadership

Workshop on Schooling for MDP on Leading and Managing Learning held at XLRI, Jamshedpur Learning was attended by

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65 Centres Of Excellence Centre for Global Management and Responsible Leadership This year Tarapore School, Jamshedpur, and centre for Global Management and Responsible Leadership (CGMRL) launched the Each year Tarapore Young Leaders Fellowship. Each year 15 students from Jamshedpur within the age of 16-18 years would be selected 15 students as Tarapore Fellows to work on social problems in and around from Jamshedpur within the age of Jamshedpur. This year 16 students were selected as Tarapore 16-18 years would be selected as Tarapore Fellows. They were divided into three groups and each group was Fellows to work on social problems in and around assigned a school to work with. The groups came up with some Jamshedpur. interesting ideas to make education at Matigodha High School, Kulgodha Middle School and Chapri High School more wholistic. Tarapore Fellows, CGMRL and SIGMA organised a career fair, Pahal, in November, 2018. This fair brought together around 400 students from over 25 government schools in and around Jamshedpur for career guidance sessions. The Centre organised a three-day National Conference on Entrepreneurship, Innovation and Society in collaboration with St Antony’s College, Shillong, during 13-15 December, 2018. The education minister of Meghalaya Sri Lahkmen Rymbui inaugurated the conference. A post conference workshop on case method for faculty and Dr. Venugopal addresses the participants of the career fair, doctoral students of North East was also organised on 15 while Dr. Madhukar Shukla and Shubhra Dwivedi, CEO, December, 2018. The workshop focussed on developing cases SEEDS Foundation look on specific to the North East context. Dr P Venugopal Co-ordinator Centre for Global Management and Responsible Leadership Behaviour Research Centre The Behaviour Research Centre played a crucial role in the 40th MAXI Fair of XLRI. It was the in-house knowledge partner in the conduct of research projects during the fair. This year’s research study focused on the interaction effect of moral violation and celebrity endorsement on consumer choice, which was in continuation of the lab’s practice of commissioning academic research projects. As many as 320 respondents participated in a series of natural field experiments which is expected to throw interesting insights into an area which has remained less explored. Dr Debasis Pradhan Co-ordinator Behaviour Research Centre Dr Ashis Pani inaugurates the MAXI Fair as (From Left) Dr Sharad Sarin, Dr Debasis Pradhan, an XLRI student and Fr E Abraham look on

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Dr TAS Vijayaraghavan addresses the Annual India Supply Chain Conference 2018 in Mumbai Centre for Logistics and Supply Chain Management The Centre for Logistics and Supply Chain Management in XLRI, Jamshedpur was set up to cater to the growing needs of the areas of Logistics/Supply Chain Management and Transportation Management. The centre has the following vision. The Vision The Centre for Logistics and Supply Chain Management will provide leadership for evolving logistics/supply chain profession through the development, dissemination, and advancement of logistics and supply chain knowledge

Activities The centre as part of its activities designed a Postgraduate Certificate Programme in Logistics and Supply Chain Management for working executives for India and Dubai. It was launched on 20 November, 2005 in India with five batches having graduated and was launched in Dubai on 21 February, 2007 with four batches having graduated.

The centre collaborated with some • The centre has professional ties • The centre recently involved professors from the US to study the with major professional bodies actively with other eminent SCM Indian Supply Chains and Technology like Council of Supply Chain professionals in India in launching adoptions in these organisations. Two Management Professionals, US, the India’s first professional body Indian Institute of Materials for supply chain professionals- papers have been published one in the Management and CII Eastern Region Association of Supply Chain Journal of Supply Chain Management and Association of Supply Chain Professionals (ASCP) and actively and another in Transportation Journal. Professionals, India. involved in it as its Academic Chair. • As part of the prestigious annual • The centre launched its first e-MDP Recently it encouraged the students publication on Global Perspectives on Logistics and Supply Chain of XLRI to start the first Students’ of the Council of Supply Chain Management in November 2016 Chapter of ASCP in XLRI. Management Professionals (CSCMP) collaborating with Tech-Mahindra Dr TAS Vijayaraghavan on a country, the centre was with two batches already graduated. Co-ordinator, requested to prepare the Report on The third batch commenced in Centre for Logistics and Supply Chain India about its Economic Growth, February, 2019 with about 60 Management Transportation Infrastructure and participants and will be delivered Issues and Supply Chain Trends and through the VIL platform with Issues. The report was published by collaboration with TalentEdge. the CSCMP and is available at www. cscmp.org.

6767 Centres Of Excellence Financial Market Centre Financial Market Centre (FMC) of the institute continued to engage in several MERC intends to become activities during the year. Bloomberg training sessions were conducted to make XLRI a centre of students aware of the online database. Guest lectures on Credit Risks and Operational excellence Risks were conducted by Prof. K Vaidya for studies Nathan of Indian School of Business, Mohali into all aspects of and Dr Malcolm Ahaide, Chief Risk Officer management education of Yes Bank, Mumbai. XLRI continued to be authorised by the Reserve Bank of India as an institution for promoting depositor education and awareness activities. A Management workshop on digital payments was organised by Reserve Bank of India in August 2018, Education with quizzes and demonstrations of various digital payment mechanisms to students. The centre is preparing to organise a finance Research Centre conference in 2019. The Management Education Research Centre (MERC) was launched in 2016. Currently the centre comprises eight faculty members. MERC HK Pradhan intends to become a centre of excellence for studies into all aspects Co-ordinator, of management education — macro aspects like policies, regulation Financial Market Centre and structure of the sector and micro aspects like input processes, throughput processes and impact-outcomes of players in the sector. Towards this end, the centre intends to build up a repository of literature and database, conduct research, organise conferences, run surveys, provide training and consultancy, develop case studies, and disseminate knowledge. Significant activities of the centre: • The data collected from a and Praxis Business School) longitudinal study of values was conducted to arrive at a from BM 2016-18 and sentiment score for the incoming HRM 2016-18 who were batch of 2018. This survey will administered a survey on be extended over more students values at the time of their across more business schools joining the programme in the next year, finally leading in 2016 and exiting the to the creation of a sentiment programme in February 2018 index. is being reported in an article • Partial data collection has authored by Prof. Venkat R been completed for a study Krishnan on the predictors of academic • The second edition of the performance in the first year of sentiment survey — initiated the MBA programme in 2017— was conducted covering 791 students across Uday Damodaran five programmes of three Co-ordinator business schools (XLRI, Goa Management Education Institute of Management Research Centre

68 | 63rd Annual Convocation Fr Arrupe Centre for Ecology and Sustainability Parivartan – Students’ Rural Immersion Program: DaanUtsav - Jamshedpur JoyFest 2018: FACES along with the This year again FACES organised and co-ordinated students’ team SIGMA (Social Initiative Group for Managerial the Students’ Rural Immersion Program, which is a Assistance) organised DaanUtsav — Jamshedpur JoyFest from 2 compulsory component for all the first year students. to 8 October, 2018. FACES partnered with schools, corporates To facilitate the visit and make it a meaningful learning housing societies, etc. to mobilise collection of clothes, dry experience, FACES partnered with eight NGOs (SEEDS, ration, school bags, and books. These were then distributed Jharkhand State Livelihood Promotion Society (JSLPS), in the villages and slums with the help of our partner NGOs, Samiket Jan Vikas Kendra (SJVK), Tagore Society for SEEDs and People for Change. XLRI students also visited and Rural Developmenent-Patamda, Kalamandir and TRTC- distributed food and utility items to Nirmal Hruday, Cheshire Chaibasa) to organise the week-end visit of nearly 460 Home and schools in slum area. students. The groups shared their reports with the Second Social Entrepreneurship Conclave: The second Social partnering NGOs, who found them a useful input to their Entrepreneurship Conclave on Entrepreneurship for Urban ongoing activities. Sustainability was organised by SIGMA team under the aegis of Fifth Dr Verghese Kurien Memorial Oration on FACES on 9 and 10 February, 2019. The conclave featured 16 Sustainable Development: The fifth oration to social entrepreneurs and sector professionals who shared their commemorate the memory and legacy of Dr Verghese work and views on environmental sustainability as well as social Kurien was held on 22 September, 2018. The oration sustainability. It was attended by more than 100 delegates from was delivered by well-known development economist educational institutions, civil society organisations and corporate and social activist, Dr Jean Dreze. Dr Dreze spoke on the institutions. topic — Economic Growth and Social Development. Dr Madhukar Shukla Co-ordinator FACES

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Dr Madhukar Shukla addresses the gathering at the Social Entrepreneurship Conclave

69 Centres Of Excellence Tata-XLRI Ethics Research centre In December 2018 the Tata XLRI Ethics Research Centre (TXLERC) recorded four and a half years and the JRD Tata Chair of Business Ethics completed five years. The centre is proud to report the following scholarly activities:

• This is perhaps the only B-School • June-September 2017-2018, Thinking for MSc students of Data in India that has a sponsored chair Semester IV for HRM and BM Analytics of St. Joseph’s College of for Business Ethics (thanks to Tata students, TXLERC floated a brand Commerce in Bangalore. Steel); this is named after JRD Tata. new elective titled: Ethics of Business Turnaround Management • August 20-22, 2018: TXLERC • This Chair has enabled XLRI to offered for the first time at XLRI a make Business Ethics a core course that was taken by 35 students. Bushen Raina, who successfully MDP for senior executives titled: taught for all its students in the Putting People First: LEMS Spaces HRM, BM, GMP, Business Weekend turned around Tinplate in the last decade, was a much appreciated of Corporate Decision Making, Program and VIL programs, as also with Fr. Ozzie Mascarenhas and design and conduct several MDPs guest speaker. The same elective was offered in 2018 and registered Prof. Paramjyot Singh as program at XLRI, and in-company Ethics directors. Programs in cities the companies are 102 students from BM and HRM, headquartered and was handled in two batches. • November 22-December 4, 2018: Among guest lecturers were Rana TXLERC once again offered for FPM • Having completed research on Sinha who shared turnaround and EFPM students, a doctoral- Unfolding Organizational Ethics experiences from ITC and Tata level course in Qualitative Research Culture (UOEC) at Tata Hitachi by Hitachi, and Mr Raina Methods and Methodologies. April of 2016, since May 2016, TXLERC has been engaged in • Fr. Mascarenhas was a program • February 18-20, 2019, a three-day a similar project with Tinplate director in an In-Company Program MDP in Resolving Business Moral Company of India Ltd (TCIL). Data on Building Ethical and Moral Dilemma: Mapping Executive Ethical collection and data analysis over, Leadership Skills for Tata Power and Moral Competencies, was held report writing is about to be over executives in Bangalore in March at XLRI with major representatives by 31 March, 2019. Meanwhile 2018 from Bank of India and other TXLERC has written a concept paper • August 16-17, 2018: Fr. corporations. The program was for another more comprehensive Mascarenhas was a program director conducted by Fr Mascarenhas, SJ UOEC research study at Tata Steel, in an In-Company program on Value and Sr Doris Dsouza, AC as co- which is under discussion. directors.

MDP for Senior Executives at XLRI, Jamshedpur on August 20-22, 2018

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After a six-month long triple blinded review process, Fr. Mascarenhas won a contract with Emerald Publishing, London, for a two volume professional book titled Corporate Ethics for Turbulent Markets Today. MSS for Volume I was delivered by March 31, 2018, and for Volume II by July 31, 2018. Volume I was ready for international markets by October 30, 2018 and Volume II is scheduled for publication by March 27, 2019. Under the able leadership of Sr. Doris D’Souza, and assisted by Neha TXLERC Team Upadhyay and Jay Rupani, research associates, TXLERC has completed A more detailed timeline of some 74 scholarly activities of TXLERC during compiling and editing the first twenty- April 2016-March 2019 is available on request. five JRD Tata Ethics Orations in one We are grateful to Tata Steel for sponsoring the JRD Tata Chair in Business volume which was released on Ethics Ethics since December 2013. Fr. Abraham SJ, director XLRI, has been our Oration Evening, November 29, 2017. towering strength and support. We are indebted to other XLRI faculty and A hardcover trade publication of the staff members for enriching our MDP and in-company programs. same volume is undertaken by Rupa Publishers for early 2019. Fr (Dr) Oswald Mascarenhas, SJ Co-ordinator Tata XLRI Ethics Research Centre

71 Centres Of Excellence Entrepreneurship Development and Incubation Centre

National Entrepreneurship Award 2018 A total of Team with Dr KP Krishnan, Secretary, Ms Jyotsna Sitling, Joint Secretary, Ministry of Skill Development and Entrepreneurship at 43 awards Dr Ambedkar International Centre in New under NEA 2018 were given Delhi to young entrepreneurs

The Entrepreneurship Development The Ministry of Skill Development The centre also provides support and Incubation Centre (EDIC) was and Entrepreneurship of Government to interested students from established in 2007 to promote of India collaborated with 12 XLRI’s flagship programmes in entrepreneurship through education leading institutions of the country designing and conceptualising and research. to mobilise, support and encourage their entrepreneurial ventures. A six-month Post Graduate participation in the awards. Being The centre assists students in Programme for Certificate in the Lead Partner for the National obtaining institutional support from Entrepreneurship Management Entrepreneurship Award (NEA) the government, other regulatory (PGP-CEM) was launched during the 2018, XLRI Jamshedpur worked agencies and banks etc. A formal academic year 2009-10. So far eight with 11 other reputed partner Entrepreneurship Cell (E-Cell) of batches have graduated. In order to institutes (IITD, IITM, IITB, IITK, students has been set up in July further strengthen the programme IIMA, NABARD, NIF, RSETI, IRMA, 2012 as a part of EDIC, with a the EDIC committee has decided MANAGE, TISS) to implement the view to generating a conducive to review and redesign the existing award process. ecosystem for development and PGP-CEM programme. The revamped A total of 43 awards under promotion of entrepreneurial spirit version will be launched in the next NEA 2018 were given to young among the students. academic year. entrepreneurs below the age of 40 Entrepreneurship Development and years and institutions contributing Prof. Vishwa Ballabh Incubation Centre, XLRI hosted the to build an ecosystem conducive Chairperson 3rd National Entrepreneurship Awards for entrepreneurs. The total award Entrepreneurship Development and Scheme 2018 as a Lead Partner money was Rs 2.3 crore. The Incubation Centre institution. awards aim to create an encouraging environment for entrepreneurship in India.

72 | 63rd Annual Convocation CENTRE FOR RURAL MANAGEMENT

Prof. Vishwa Ballabh (Centre in Blue Shirt) at the inaugural ceremony of the leadership training programme

The prime objectives of Centre for Rural Management (CRM) — to build new rural management knowledge; to provide creative instruments of intervention particularly in the areas of education, health, rural enterprises and infrastructure; to strengthen microfinance, natural resources management, institutions supporting rural livelihoods; to identify critical constraints and impediments of rural development; and to create responsible leaders/managers who can make Indian Rural Society vibrant. Activities conducted by the centre during the academic year 2018-19: 1. Workshop on Appreciative Assessment • Provide skills for self-assessment and Reinforcement for Public Health and self-awareness, interpersonal leadership like team building, cultural Professionals was conducted from 4 to Workshop for public 6 October, 2018. Participants — from awareness and overcoming cynicism in the organisation health professionals across different designations in the health department, like hospital manager, civil • Build and sustain a critical core of was conducted from surgeon, medical officer-in-charge, district well-trained emerging and established leaders to improve the delivery of program manager, state program manager TH th reproductive health services in Uttar 4 -6 — came from Bihar, Jharkhand, Uttar Pradesh Pradesh and Odisha. Prof. Vishwa Ballabh, Coordinator, CRM OCT, 2018 2. Training on Leadership development presented a paper on the topic Innovative and Hospital Management for Improving Practices for Sustainable Development: Child and Maternal Health was conducted Catering to the Needs of the Neglected from 18 to 23 February, 2019. Chief Segments of the Society at the 24th Medical Officers from Uttar Pradesh were Annual IAJBS World Forum held from invited for the training. The objectives of 22 to 25 July, 2018. The international the leadership development training were: conference was hosted by Seattle • To learn and practice leadership skills, University Albers School of Business and positive attitude and to motivate people Economics Seattle, WA, USA. around you Prof. Vishwa Ballabh, • To identify and enhance the role Co-ordinator, of leaders specifically in public health sectors with an emphasis on Centre for Rural Management Reproductive Health

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• Administration • Faculty • Visiting Faculty • Non-Teaching Staff • Maintenance Staff Management Overview ADMINISTRATION

Fr E Abraham, S.J. Director

Dr Ashis K Pani Fr Jerome Cutinha, S.J. Dean [Academics] Dean [Administration & Finance]

Fr Nelson D’Silva, S.J. Dr Santanu Sarkar Dr Manoj Thomas Associate Dean - Student Affairs Associate Dean - Executive Programs Associate Dean - Corporate Programs & Administration

Dr Munish Thakur Dr Santoshkumar Sangem Fr Antony Uvari, S.J. Associate Dean - FPM, Research Associate Dean - VIL Programs Chairperson, Admissions

Dr Pranabesh Ray Dr Pingali Venugopal Dr Ashis Pani Chairperson, Alumni Relations Chairperson, International Relations Chairperson, Information Technology

Dr Uday Damodaran Prof. Sabyasachi Sengupta Fr E Abraham, S.J. Chairperson, Placement [BM & HRM] Chairperson, Placement [GMP] Chairperson, PF Trust

Dr. Vishwa Ballabh Dr Tina Stephen Dr Madhukar Shukla Chairperson, Entrepreneur Development Chairperson, Committee Against Sexual Chairperson - Fr Arrupe Centre for & Incubation Centre Harassment [CASH] at the workplace Ecology & Sustainability [FACES]

Fr Oswald Mascarenhas, S.J. Prof. Rajiv Misra Mr Sunil Varughese JRD Tata Chair Professor of Business Career Services & Industry- Chief Brand & Sustainability Officer Ethics and Student Counselor Institute Interaction

Mr Martin Shah Mr N Mohan Mr DT Edwin Head-HR Head - IT Services Head - Library

Mr N Rammurty Mr T Madhu Swamy/ Mr Arijit Bose/ Mr Om Shankar Head - Purchase and Store Mr Anshuman Neil Basu Chief Security Officer Consultants - Placement Mr Kamlesh Thakkar Mr Debashish Kumar Mr James Tirkey Finance & Accounts Manager IT Services Manager Administrative Officer - Administration

Mr Andrew Fernandes Mr Tarit Mondal and Mr Mark Reid Mr Surendra Sharma Maintenance Incharge MDP / International Centre and Mr Prashant Kumar Residences Incharge Physical Trainers

Mr Pranab Kumar Shaw Ms Shanta Toppo Civil Engineer Infirmary - Staff Nurse

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1 Dr A Kanagaraj 21 Fr (Dr) Jerome Cutinha, SJ 41 Prof Prantik Ray 61 Dr Sumit Sarkar

2 Dr Abhishek Chakraborty 22 Dr Joseph Jerome 42 Dr Purna Chandra 62 Prof Sunil Sarangi Padhan

3 Dr Ajit Kumar J 23 Dr Kalyan Bhaskar 43 Dr R K Premarajan 63 Dr Supriya Kumar De

4 Dr Amitava Mukherjee 24 Dr KR Shyam Sundar 44 Dr Rahul Sheel 64 Dr T A S Vijayaraghavan

5 Dr Anita Sarkar 25 Dr L Gurunathan 45 Dr Rahul Shukla 65 Dr T Gangopadhyay

6 Dr Apalak Khatua 26 Dr M G Jomon 46 Dr Rajeev Sharma 66 Dr Tata L Raghu Ram

7 Dr Arpita Srivastava 27 Dr M Srimannarayana 47 Prof Rajiv Misra 67 Dr TeidorlangLyngdoh

8 Dr Arundhati Sarkar Bose 28 Dr Madhukar Shukla 48 Dr Ram Kumar Kakani 68 Dr Tina Stephen

9 Dr Ashis K Pani 29 Dr Manish Singhal 49 Dr Ravi Shekhar Kumar 69 Fr(Dr) Antony Uvari

10 Dr Basant Purohit 30 Dr Manoj Thomas 50 Prof Sabyasachi 70 Dr TrilochanTripathi Sengupta

11 Dr Bijaya K Mangaraj 31 Dr Munish Thakur 51 Dr Sanjay Kumar Patro 71 Dr Uday Damodaran

12 Dr D Israel 32 Dr Narasimhan Rajkumar 52 Dr Sanjeev Varshney 72 Dr Vishwa Ballabh

13 Dr Debasis Pradhan 33 Fr (Dr) Nelson Ashok 53 Dr Santanu Gupta 73 Dr Shounak Basak D'Silva, S J

14 Dr Dipankar Bose 34 Fr (Dr) Oswald 54 Dr Santanu Sarkar 74 Dr Shreyashi Mascarenhas, S.J. Chakraborty

15 Fr (Dr) E Abraham, S J 35 Dr P K Padhi 55 Dr Santoshkumar 75 Dr Kumar Alok Sangem

16 Dr Gloryson R B Chalil 36 Dr Paramjyot Singh 56 Dr Saurabh Pandya 76 Dr Saurav Snehvrat

17 Dr Gourav Vallabh 37 Fr Peter Francis, S.J. 57 Sister (Dr) Doris D’Souza 77 Dr Kanchan Mukherjee

18 Dr H K Pradhan 38 Dr Pingali Venugopal 58 Dr Smitu Malhotra 78 Prof Alok Raj

19 Dr Indrajit Mukherjee 39 Dr Pitabas Mohanty 59 Dr Soumendra N Bagchi 79 Dr Arindam Mondal

20 Dr Jatinder Kumar Jha 40 Dr Pranabesh Ray 60 Dr Suma Damodaran 80 Dr Pritha Guha

81 Dr Apratim Guha

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Sl. No. Name Sl. No. Name Sl. No. Name

1 Adline Oreya 22 Itika Ganguly 43 Pushpa Meena Lakra 2 Ajit Kumar Sardar 23 James P Tirkey 44 Rashmi Prasad 3 Alok Kumar Mahato 24 John B Aind 45 Rumpi Saha 4 Amit Kumar Bose 25 K Govind Rao 46 Sangeeta Gupta 5 Andrew Fernandes 26 Kamlesh Thakkar 47 Sanjay Saha 6 Ashish Kumar Sharma 27 Kochurani Abraham 48 Santosh Andrews 7 Bhaskar Balmuchu 28 Kumudini Aind 49 Sarah Thomas 8 Bincy Vinod 29 Lawrence Lazarus 50 Sarala Devi Dubey 9 Caroline Theresa Daniels 30 Lazerus Athaide 51 Shankar Prasad Gupta 10 Constantius Ekka 31 Manima Sengupta 52 Shibapada Roy 11 Debashish Kumar 32 Manisha S Beck 53 Shipra Das 12 Deepa Verma 33 Manjula Siby 54 Suman Kumar 13 Dhiraj Shahi 34 N Krishnamurthy 55 SumiRaka Balmuchu 14 Dibiya Suchita Ekka 35 Nirupama Haripal 56 Sunil Varughese 15 Dilip Kumar Deshmukh 36 Om Shankar 57 Sunita Gabriel 16 Dulcie Margaret Young 37 Padmini Singh 58 Surendra Sharma 17 Fabian Peters 38 Prabha Verma 59 Susanta Mandal 18 Fredrick D`Souza 39 Prabir Haldar 60 Suyas Kumar Tiwary 19 G Geetha Madhuri 40 Pradeep Karak 61 Tapash Nandi 20 Gracy Sebastine 41 Pravin K Shandilya 62 Tarit Mondal 21 Hardeep Singh Sidhu 42 Priya Minz 63 Vikash Chandra Chaudhary 64 Vinay Kumar Srivastava

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Dr Andrew Dutta Dr Apurva Dahyabhai Sanaria Associate Dean – Academics Assistant Professor Xavier University Institute of Management Technology Bhubaneswar Hyderabad Dr Aradhana Gandhi Mr Arif Ahmed Associate Professor - Marketing and Retail Professor and Director Symbiosis Centre for Management & HRD South Asian Management Technologies Foundation Kolkata Pune Dr Arup Roy Chowdhury Dr Ashis Mishra Assistant Professor Associate Professor Xavier University Indian Institute of Management Bhubaneswar Bangalore Mr Atanu Ghosh Dr Bharat Bhushan Founder Vice- President / Chief Digital Officer Salt n Soap Vedanta Limited Kolkata Kharagpur Dr Bhaskar Bhowmick Dr Biswajita Parida Professor System Engineer Rajendra Mishra School of Engineering Entrepreneurship Tata Consultancy Services Kharagpur Kolkata Mr Chandradeep Mitra Mr D P Ghosh Advisor & Mentor Consultant IIM Calcutta Innovation Park Kolkata Kolkata Dr E M Rao Mr Goutam Mukherjee Ex-Faculty Proprietor Xavier School of Management Creative Information Systems Jamshedpur Kolkata Dr Jitendra Singh Dr K Rajeshwari Ex-Faculty Consultant Xavier School of Management Chennai Jamshedpur Prof M N Tripathi Prof M V S Kameshwar Rao Professor – Marketing Associate Professor Xavier Institute of Management Xavier Institute of Management & Research Bhubaneswar Mumbai Dr Manimay Ghosh Mr Milan Chakravarti Professor General Manager - Corporate Taxation Xavier Institute of Management ITC Limited Bhubaneswar Kolkata

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Mr Munish Sudan Dr Padmalatha Suresh Senior Manager, IP Cell, R&D and SS Independent Consultant and Advisor Tata Steel DMS Financial Services Company Limited Jamshedpur Chennai Dr Pallab Bandyopadhyay Dr Pankaj Kumar Agarwal Consultant Professor Bangalore Institute of Management Studies Ghaziabad Dr Richard Dehner Sibbernsen Mr Satya Chaitanya Retired Executive Vice President Consultant AT&T Jamshedpur Illinois, USA Dr Sharad Sarin Dr Shounak Roy Chowdhury Ex-Faculty President Xavier School of Management Banyan Foundation Jamshedpur Delhi Dr Soumyakanti Chakraborty Mr Subhasish Mukherjee Associate Professor Assistant Vice President Indian Institute of Management Tecpro Systems Limited Kolkata Kolkata Mr Subrata Basak Mr Sudipto Sarkar Head, Logistics System, Customer Service Division Chief Quality Assurance, Flat Products Tata Steel Tata Steel Jamshedpur Jamshedpur Dr Sujoy Bhattacharya Dr Suresh Paul Antony Associate Professor Associate Professor Vinod Gupta School of Management Indian Institute of Management Kharagpur Tiruchirappalli Dr Suryanarayan Gopalakrishnan Iyer Dr Trishit Bandyopadhyay Digital HR & Analytics Strategy & Execution Ex-Faculty Aditya Birla Group Xavier School of Management Mumbai Jamshedpur Ms Vaneeta Patnaik Assistant Professor [Law] The West Bengal National University of Juridical Sciences Kolkata

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Sl. No. Name Sl. No. Name

1 Abdul Touhid 17 Krishna Bahadur 2 Ajay Kumar 18 Kumar Adhikari 3 Amosh Kumar Tandi 19 Madhu Pradhan 4 Appa Rao 20 Mangla Soy 5 Askal Topno 21 Nirmala Kujur 6 Balmiki Prasad 22 Poornima Bagh 7 Bappi Kumar Nath 23 Rashid Ansari 8 Basanti Pingua 24 S Hamid 9 Benjamin Tigga 25 Sitaram Sharma 10 Bijoy Mahato 26 Sona Ram Saran 11 Bom Bahadur 27 Srinath Mukhi 12 Boma Bahadur 28 Surender Sahu 13 Goutam Chhuria 29 Suresh Ray 14 J Kispotta 30 Tarun Mahato 15 James Vincent Malwa 31 Uma Kant Pradhan 16 John Samir Barjo 32 Vishnu

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• Student Achievements • Student Committee Reports Student Activities Student Achievements

Team Name Names of Team Members Name of Company: Level Position Date of Competition competition 3 Bongs in a Ritwika Majumdar (H17162), TBLA Case TAS Campus Runners 09-08-18 Boat Rohit Paul (H17043), Souvik Competition, TAS Up Maity (H17053) AdFinem Gaurav Karmarkar (B17080), Titan Elevate Titan National 1st Runner 01-11-19 Yash Parikh (B17121) Up and Popular Choice award winner Agropreneurs Jishnu Mitra (B18026), Deloitte Campus Deloitte National Winners 12-05-18 Shashikala Nath (B18045), Vasu Connect | Gupta (B18058), Koustav Garai Convergence (B18027) 2018 Alpha Advisors Aditya Malhotra (B17004), MIPC-McGill McGill International Finalist 11-09-18 Shubham Sandip Jain International (Top 25 (B17113), Suraj Amin Portfolio Global) (B17176), Anshul Mittal Management (B17009) Challenge Ashwamedh Abbas Syed Shaheer (B17057), Rivigo Nexus Rivigo National Winners 11-03-18 Aman (B17006), Mamta Deswal (B17028), Anshul Mittal (B17009) Bistupur Nakul Shah (B18093), Urmil Tradecraft National 8th out of 10-01-18 Consulting Vasa (B18179), Rishab Modi 210 Group (B18102) Brain Inc Raghvendra Soni (B18158), ABG Stratos ABG National Runner-up 9/18/2018 Badrinath Bhimaraj (B18138), Prathamesh Amrutkar (B18157) Business As Milind Garg (B17030), ITC Interrobang ITC Campus Campus 8/17/2018 Usual Shobhankar Rajvanshi Season 8 Runner-Up (B17050), Sahana H (B17106), Pranay Roop Chatterjee (B17036) Business As Milind Garg (B17030), RB Global RB Regionals NA 09-04-18 Usual Shobhankar Rajvanshi Challenge (B17050), Sahana H (B17106) Chaupal Syed Abbas Shaher (B17057), Mahindra War Mahindra National Runners 10/22/2018 Anshul Mittal (B17009), Room Up Rupansh Deshkar (B17044), Mamta Deswal (B17028) Common Sense Harjeev Singh Ahluwalia Value Labs ValueLabs National Finalist 11/16/2018 (H17022), Abhishek A Inspire+ (H17063), Akshay Gupta (H17002)

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Team Name Names of Team Members Name of Company: Level Position Date of Competition competition DCG Vaibhav Gupta (B18118), ABG Stratos ABG Campus Finalist 8/20/2018 Avnish Goyal (), Anjali Maharia (B18010) Entropy K R Lakshmi (B18023), L&T OutThink L&T National Finalist 11/28/2018 Swaminathan Iyer (B18091), Ashlesh Mangrulkar (B18014) Entropy Swaminathan Mohan Iyer Titan Elevate 5.0 Titan Campus Finalist 12/27/2018 (B18091), Ashlesh Mangrulkar (B18014) Falcons Deepika Rawal (B17016), ITC Interrobang ITC Campus Runner-Up 8/19/2018 Mamta Deswal (B17028), Tanuj Mittal (B17177), Niket Jakhotiya (B17153) Falcons Niket Jhakotiya (B17153), Nestle 4Ps Nestle Campus Finalists 9/24/2018 Deepika Rawal (B17016), Mamta Deswal (B17028) Fomo Deus Swathikalyani A, Garima Jain HUL IT Reboot HUL National FInalist 11/22/2018 (B17018), Yadu Aravind Menon (B17182) Impacteers Pranav Kachhawah (H18035), HUL LIME HUL Campus Finalist 12-09-18 Vedika Murdia (B18059), Kartik Season 10 Madan (H18024) Lucifers Rohit Mullapudi (B17103), CFA Research Zonal Finalist 01-06-19 Ankur Bansal (B17070), Pratik Challenge Agarwal (B17097), Shree Krishna Somani (B17111), Anshul Mittal (B17009) MAXImum Effort Ruthvik Priyatham (B17092), Asian Paints Asian Campus Runner Up 8/23/2018 Nandita Ramesh (B17152), Canvas Paints Sahil Gupta (B17165) Mind Crusaders Praneeth Reddy (B18036), ABG Stratos ABG Campus Finalist 8/18/2018 X Srenavasan MN (), Aayush Somani (B18002) Satchit Varma (B17047) AB InBev GMT AB InBev National Qualified 7/22/2018 for nationals from campus Anshul Mittal (B17009) FLIP National FLIP National AIR 18 9/25/2018 Challenge Garima Sinha (H17019), Mahindra War Mahindra Campus Finalist 9/21/2018 Meenakshi Sundaram (H17029), Room Season 11 Tannista Roy Chowdhury (H17057), Ankit Bhattacharjee (H17007) Night Crusader Sidharth Mehta (B17115) ICICI Beat The ICICI National Finalist 12/23/2018 Curve Night Crusaders Aishwarya Jain (B17066), ITC Interrobang ITC Final - Winner 8/19/2018 Sidharth Mehta (B17115) Campus 85 Student Activities

Team Name Names of Team Members Name of Company: Level Position Date of Competition competition Night Crusaders Aishwarya Jain (B17066), PwC Campus PwC Campus Winner 11/16/2018 Sidharth Mehta (B17115), Challenge Ashutosh Tripathi (H17010) Phoenix Shivangana Gupta (H18109), ABG Headstart ABG National National 8/31/2018 Nitish Khanna (H18092), Finalist Satyaki Chakraborty (H18167) Phoenix Saee Diwan (B17045), Roshan Asian Paints Asian Campus Winner 8/23/2018 Desai (B17164), Pooja Patil Canvas Paints (B17035) Pieces Ratul Borar (B17041), Rachit Asian Paints Asian Campus Finalist 8/23/2018 Vij (B17039), Arpit Taluka Canvas Paints (B17011) Point Blank Jaishil (H17083), Vishnu Mohan ValueLabs ValueLabs Campus Runner-up 11-12-18 (H17119), Ashutosh Panda Inspire+ (H17071) Post breakup Garima Maheshwari (H18018), Mahindra War Mahindra Campus One of 9/21/2018 adrenaline rush Shristi (H18051), Palash Room Finals the top 6 Agarwal (H18033), Kavin S teams of (H18084) campus round Rampage Shreya Chopra (H17046), Asian Paints Asian Campus Runner-up 8/20/2018 Ayush Raj (H17012), Akshay Paathshala Paints PS (H17124), Apoorva Jain (H17009), Sneha Gilada (H17176) Roaring Jaguar Arjun MK (B17072), Suhani RB Global RB Regional Qualified to 09-04-18 Koshti (H17056), Satchit Varma Challenge Regionals (B17047) from campus Stratgems Nishant Chafle (B18153), Philip Blueprint Philips Campus Finalist 09-06-18 janhavi bapat (B18087), Varun Ganesh (B18178) Team 149 Rohit Mullapudi (B17103), Credit Research National First 03-03-19 Shree Krishna Somani Challenge Runners (B17111), Pratik Agarwal Up (B17097), Anshul Mittal (B17009) Team 4PA Ruthvik Priyatham (B17092), LTI Infinity LTI National Finalist 12/14/2018 Nandita Ramesh (B17152), Niteesh Sood (B17093) Team B2B Shloka Jaiswal (B17170), Everest Group Everest National Finalist 8/23/2018 Niteesh Sood (B17093) National Case Group Competition Team Akshay Gupta (H17002), ITC Interrobang ITC Campus Winner 8/20/2018 CommonSense Snigdha Singh (H17177), Sonali HR Agarwal (H17051)

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Team Name Names of Team Members Name of Company: Level Position Date of Competition competition Team Tenace Shree Krishna Somani HUL Finace HUL National Campus 10/25/2018 (B17111), Ankur Bansal Winner (B17070), Pratik Agarwal (B17097) Team XLRI Prakhar Gupta (B17095), M Motilal Oswal Motilal National Finalist 10-10-18 Aditya Sharma (B17088), QGLP Anshul Mittal (B17009)

That's So Abhishek A (H17063), Harjeev ITC Interrobang ITC Campus 2nd 8/14/2018 Ravenclaw Singh Ahluwalia (H17022), Runner Up Siddhant Shekhar (H17048), Ankit Bhattacharjee (H17007) The Shield Ayan Saha (B17075), Rohit Everest National Everest Campus Finalist 8/23/2018 Mullapudi (B17103) Case Study Group The Shield Rohit Mullapudi (B17103), TAS Invictas TAS Campus Runner-up 7/18/2018 Abhineet Kumar (B17063), Ayan Saha (B17075) Three Bongs in Ritwika Majumdar (H17162), TAS TBLA 2018 TAS Campus Runner Up 09-07-18 a Boat Souvik Maity (H17053), Rohit Paul (H17043) Three Leaf Aman (B17006), Avishek Accenture Accenture Campus Finalist 9/25/2018 Clover Jena (B17013), Anshul Mittal B-School (B17009) Competition Three Leaf Anish Narula (B17007), Aman Capgemini Capgemini Campus Finalist 11-05-19 Clover (B17006), Anshul Mittal L'innovateur Finals (B17009) Three Leaf Aman (B17006), Aarsh Mehta HUL IT Reboot HUL Campus Campus 11/18/2018 Clover (B17001), Anshul Mittal Finalist (B17009) XL Bulls Milan Singh (B18030), Md P&G CEO P&G Nationals Campus 8/15/2018 Javed (B18090), Shubham Challenge Winner Bhutada (B18170) XLMJ Parag Saxena (H18093), Satyaki HRridhan National Finalist 1/19/2019 Chakraborty (H18167) XLRI Ashwin Kumar K S (B17073), Tata Crucible Tata Regional Runner up 3/28/2018 Jamshedpur Sahil Gupta (B17165) Campus Quiz XLsior Ratul Borar (B17041), Rachit TBLA TAS Campus Finalist 09-06-18 Vij (B17039), Arpit Taluka (B17011) Yachtsmen Shail Pillay (B18166), sumit ABG Stratos ABG Campus Finalist 8/28/2018 rawat (B18174), Varun Ganesh (B18178)

87 Student Activities STUDENT COMMITTEE REPORTS Alcom Since its inception, Alumni Committee has been building and maintaining alumni and student relations, working with a database of more than 12000 alumni all over the world. Over the year the committee organised several alumni events, collaborated with the administration for portal and database maintenance and introduced new initiatives for social media and student engagements. The year began with Summer Meets held in April, May and June. Organised in 7 cities across the country, they saw participation from more than 1500 alumni. The committee also played an active role in promoting international alumni meets, enabling chapters to gather Placement more audience. Homecoming and Silver Jubilee reunion were held in December on campus and were attended Preparation by many industry stalwarts. The committee introduced the Alumni Mentorship Committee - CRISP Series to provide students a chance to interact with CRISP is a committee at XLRI that undertakes the entire process alumni from different fields. More than 300 students of preparation of students for their placement processes, namely and 140 alumni signed up for the first series and the summer internship process for first-year students and the have already been mapped. The committee also lateral and final placement processes for second-year students. organised virtual leadership talks, providing a platform The activities of the committee are as follows: for students to discuss career paths and industry experience. • Aiding students in the preparation of their CVs. This is done by mapping candidates to students from the senior batch (and The committee has also been working on maintaining vice versa) with similar profiles so as to increase inter-batch a continuous connection with the alumni community interaction, as well as obtaining relevant information such as through its social media activities. It has presence and review of CV content ensuring that an ideal impression of the reach on major platforms like Facebook and LinkedIn. student is presented to recruiters. CRISP carries out multiple CV review sessions to assist in this regard. • Ensuring the authenticity of information provided on the CVs more than through a meticulous data verification process. 300 • Organising academic and soft skills preparation workshops students and 140 alumni signed up for by professional consultants, professors and students Alumni Mentorship Series and have with relevant experience in those fields, arranging group already been mapped discussions and interviews (tailored to relevant fields of interest such as HR, marketing, finance and operations). Feedback is provided at regular intervals and benchmarking is done to note improvements made and identification of flaws. • Preparation of comprehensive company and sector reports, with interview experiences of previous placement processes documented to assist students in their preparation. • Collection of feedback from students post the placement processes so as to identify avenues for improvement and new trends in campus recruitment. • Collaboration with the XLRI Placement committee and other support committees to facilitate a hassle free recruitment cycle.

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AXIOM- Association at XLRI for Industrial and Operations Management

AXIOM- Association at XLRI for Industrial and Operations The committee work this year ended on a peak note with Management had its inception in 2004. Since then, the Breakthrough- Simulation Game challenge held over a span committee has grown leaps and bounds to become one of of three days and a session by Dr. T Bhaskar, Senior Vice the foremost B-school operations committee in the country. President, Usha Martin Ltd. Team Axiom has hosted a plethora of activities this year With the onus of carrying the legacy of Operations on its garnering participation not just from XLRI, but across shoulders, the team AXIOM will continue its journey of B-schools in the country. The team prides itself in organizing innovative events on Operations and Supply conducting workshops for one of the most coveted industrial Chain Management and help students hone their operations certifications prevalent- Six Sigma Green Belt. Along with acumen. this, AXIOM organized sessions on Excel and Analytics for the students to whet their analytical skills. The team also conducted quizzes on Operations and Supply Chain Cygnus 2018 saw over Management to test the acumen of Operation enthusiasts. The team organized two industrial visits in its stint this year- one to TATA Steel and other to Usha Martin Plant in 250 Jamshedpur which enabled the students gain a pragmatic registrations from over 10 know-how of the industry operations. B-schools in the country. The Committee also held simulation events like Helios during Asia’s biggest techno-management fest, Ensemble- Valhalla. Subsequently, the committee held simulation games like Cartel Wars and Live Case Discussion with Chief Procurement Officer, Tata Steel. One of the biggest milestones achieved by AXIOM was the successful conduction of its inaugural flagship event, CYGNUS 2018, XLRI’s Operations and IT conclave, in collaboration with SOCRATES. Cygnus was a National Level Two Day Symposium with insightful sessions by Industry Experts, simulation Games and the case study competition called Optimus. The event saw over 250 registrations from over 10 B-schools in the country. Cygnus 2018

89 Student Activities CII YI Some of the significant events organised by the CII-Yi team: Silent Auction was conducted by CII-Yi events —quiz, painting, play, picture Jamshedpur Run: in the Diamond Jubilee Park of XLRI on story, talent show, and group dance. The 10th edition of Jamshedpur Run the occasion of Diwali. We successfully started with the theme “Run | Sweat | generated a collection of Rs 1.4 Lakh TEDx: Reach for Glory” and saw huge footfall that went to Tata Medical Hospital, of more than 1300 runners which Jamshedpur for the treatment of lung In the fifth edition of TEDx with the was more than the previous editions. cancer patients. theme For the greater common good, People from different backgrounds six eminent speakers from different and age groups took to the streets to walks of life shared their views over it. celebrate fitness. Children from various Kshitij: The speakers were: Ms Kirti Bhoutika schools of Jamshedpur also actively Kshitij, the flagship event for CII-YI, is - Master Chef India Season 5; Col. participated in the run. aimed at providing students from the Prabir Sengupta - Vishisht Seva lower strata of Jamshedpur a stage to Medal holder; Nitin Sisodia - CEO showcase their talents. Also, the major of Sohum Innovation Lab, among Silent Auction: objective behind Kshitij is to provide Top 20 Innovator under 35 by MIT Silent Auction is a unique initiative scholarship to the needy students of Tech Review; Manish Advani - The aimed at contributing in the treatment Jamshedpur. Coconut Man of India, winner of Green of people suffering from serious The event in its 11th edition was a Apple Award; Arun Krishnamurthy - ailments like cancer, asthma etc. The grand success with a footfall of 850 Recipient of Rolex Award, founder of idea is to bring together the entire XL students from 21 schools. Kshitij was Environmentalist Foundation of India; community including students, faculty held on 20 January, 2019 in XLRI Ms. Pavithra Chandra - International and staff to raise a modest amount that campus. It was a daylong inter-school Basketball player & CEO of B7 Sports can be donated to the Tata Medical cultural competition comprising six Management. Hospital.

People from Children from different backgrounds and age groups various schools of took to the streets to celebrate fitness. Jamshedpur also actively participated in the run.

90 | 63rd Annual Convocation Public Policy Research (CPPR)

In its second year now since its conducted during MAXI Fair 2018. topics of politics draws live discussion inception, CPPR (Committee for Public We have also published two editions and debate especially in light of the Policy Research), is a platform for of our magazine ‘Abhijnah’ which general elections. Going ahead, CPPR research and knowledge dissemination included articles from different aims to establish itself as a public in the field of public policy and related public policy domains like defence, policy think-tank to reckon with. With areas. international relations, trade and the 2019 general elections round In 2018, we collaborated with a business from students in campus. the corner, CPPR aims to dole out national daily and carried out a 2 CPPR also conducted a research research on a host of policy issues month long project to bring out a project during the 40th MAXI Fair and also scrutinise the manifestoes comparative analysis on the state of 2019 to study the behaviour of of major parties, while keeping an development in the three new states people with regard to ease of sharing eye out for major policy decisions and formed in 2000 and their parent states personal information. The project was commenting on the same, to empower on the basis of various parameters. The disguised in the form of Bollywood our campus-dwellers, and the country research spanned across many sectors themed games where incremental at large, to make a more informed like agriculture, education, forest, cash rewards for every data point decision while exercising their transport and industries to name a shared. The insights from the universal adult franchise. few and concentrated specifically on experiment has been compiled into We extend our sincere gratitude to all employment, law & order, industry a detailed report and is all set to be the students on and off campus, staff attractiveness, power distribution published. and faculty for their wholehearted etc. Specific stories were covered An informal forum is provided by us support and encouragement for all of by journalists on field as per to discuss the political scenario both our activities. recommendations from the team. within the country and abroad. The The study was published as a series of articles in 20 editions of the newspaper. Apart from this, we have collaborated with I-PAC for the launch of National Agenda Forum (NAF) in XLRI and spreading the word about it in and CPPR also conducted around Jamshedpur. We have also a research project during the conducted open sessions at regular intervals, for both the students and th faculty in the campus, to discuss 40 relevant and current ongoing public MAXI Fair 2019 policy topics. We facilitated the Jamsehdpur chapter of All India Management Association (AIMA) for their panel discussions on ‘Shaping Young Minds Program’ which saw a strong youth crowd of over 1000. We also worked in tandem with faculty working directly in the public policy domain to identify and cover issues of relevance during the assembly elections of MP, Rajasthan and Chhattisgarh. Furthering our research focus, we have also released a paper on the e-waste awareness based on our research

91 Student Activities CRUX

Out-of-the-Box Orion 2019 In keeping with the tradition, CRUX welcomed the junior With 3 varied rounds and over 1200 participants, Orion batch of 2018-20 to Mba Life with this event. Spread over 2019 sponsored by ICICI Bank iSmart Education Loans 3 rounds, the event introduced the juniors to guesstimates created plenty of buzz and witnessed participation from based on their life in XL in the first few weeks. Shortlisted several of the country’s top B-schools like the IIMs, SP Jain, teams were then asked to deliver a crisp elevator pitch, FMS, MDI to name a few. Following the initial elimination again based on a shop on campus. The final round saw the round hosted on Dare2Compete, further rounds became teams solving a business case as consultants to a company. progressively more challenging with the second being a simulation hosted in partnership with TopSim. The third Three Wise Men round was a time bound case study which sieved out the top 3 teams. Traditionally marking the induction of the Junior CRUX Team, this event hosted by the juniors saw enthusiastic participation from both the junior and the senior batch. The The CRUX Casebook and Case event consisted of 2 rounds, the first being an online quiz Prep Sessions checking the consulting knowledge and strategic inclination In keeping with their mission to develop long-term mutually of teams. Finalists then racked their brains over to solutions beneficial relationships between XLRI and the consulting of mini-case lets provided to them on the spot. The solutions world, CRUX strives to hone and channel the diverse were judged for their originality pf thought and precision to capabilities of the talented student base to help them reality. develop the needed core competencies. In addition to procurement of study material and dispensing of industry A Day in the Life of a insights, CRUX also develops the annual Consulting Consultant Casebook, a detailed compilation of actual excerpts from the experiences of students who faced consulting interviews. With the introduction of this event in 2018, CRUX This manuscript was extremely well received and became wanted to provide the students the experience of working the most used consulting knowledge base during preparation as a consultant through this innovative competition. for consulting firm interviews during the summer internship CRUX collated live business problems from partners and placement process. participants were expected to brainstorm and come up with Apart from this, CRUX also hosted a couple of Case scalable and implementable solutions for them. The partners Preparation Sessions by the PPO Holders in the Consulting included Keventers, Louis Philippe, GravyCart and Arrow. firms. This helped the junior batch immensely in their The participants were judged on the uniqueness of their preparation for the Summer Internship placement process. solution and the feasibility to apply them to the real-time business model of the partner.

CRUX also develops the annual Consulting Casebook a detailed compilation of actual excerpts from the experiences of students

92 DRACULA The only cultural committee on Valhalla, MAXI Fair, Independence Day campus, the Dramatics and Cultural and a solo-performance during Alumni The committee has been Association of XLRI, fondly known Homecoming. divided into 5 distinct as DRACULA has long been known DRACULA also made its presence verticals – Dance, Drama, to add some flavor into the ever- felt in the Dramatics vertical with the Quizzing, Literature and present monotony of any b-school Drama team winning at IIM Ranchi. Debate and Fine Arts. life. Catering to the needs of the The team was also responsible for diverse skill set present on campus. the street play they wrote, directed Ken Robinson The committee has been divided into and performed at MAXI Fair, their Day. This was followed up by a novel 5 distinct verticals – Dance, Drama, tremendous performance in Nukkad Mock Press event and a one-of-a-kind Quizzing, Literature and Debate and Natak and Stage Play during Ensemble- creative writing event which garnered Fine Arts. Throughout the year, the Valhalla and the Alumni Homecoming due attention at Ensemble-Valhalla. committee is responsible for not only and last but not the least, another They made their presence felt at the performing at various events but also splendid performance on Independence Weekender with a mega-event, clubbing organizing a myriad of interactive Day. events to infuse the campus with key elements of pop-culture and debate some much needed entertainment. The Quizzing vertical ensured the resulting in a fun-filled engaging inquisitive minds of XLRI did not have contest. The main event organized by the to remain idle for long. Throughout With the ever-increasing stress levels committee, the DRAC weekender, is the year, a quizzing league was held and perpetual deadlines haunting one of the most anticipated events of with quizzes being held on different B-School students, every B-School the year. Spanning over 2 days, the topics ranging from Bollywood and requires a committee to bring a little weekender included quizzes, a literary Friends quiz to the more serious Travel bit of fun into all the madness. This and debate bonanza, an Open-Mike and General quizzes. Furthermore, the was precisely the intent and vision of with a mixture of performances by vertical also organized 2 quizzes during the committee going into the 2018- both batches and Prom. Other than Ensemble – Valhalla by calling in one of 2019 academic year, and we are this, each vertical was involved in a the nation’s most coveted Quizmasters, proud to say that this vision stands mixture of activities throughout the Major Chandrakant Nair. year. accomplished. As the year looms to a The Literary and Debate vertical were close with convocations at the horizon, The Dance vertical enthralled the involved in a variety of activities, the committee promises to be back audiences of XLRI and Jamshedpur starting off with a ‘Last Man Standing’, with more mischief and fun and until with a various performances in the a debate competition held as part then, In perpetuum ave atque vale Group Performance at Ensemble - of the festivities on Independence (Farewell).

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Entrepreneurship Cell

Established in 2012, E-Cell is gradually expanding and developing keeping in mind its aim to establish an ecosystem for entrepreneurship in XLRI. The following activities were conducted in the academic year 2018-19:

Entrepreneur Café version 1: Innovation conclave with CII: Co- to Mr. Venkatesh Iyer, CEO and Founder In order to put forward shining ordinated with the Confederation of of Goli Vadapav. The event was held examples of entrepreneurship success, Indian Industries and Young Indians on 18th of November 2018 and saw the team invited one of our own alumni in conducting the East India’s largest participation from various Management Ms Malvika Sharma, founder of The Innovation Conclave in Adityapur Auto and Technical institutes of Jamshedpur. Butterfly Project and Mr Raghuvir Cluster, Jamshedpur. The conclave Intern Fair: Krishnan on 15th July 2018 to share consisted of three events Innova Conducted intern fair on 18th of their inspiring stories. Exhibit, Innova Poster and Innova App. November 2018 for the students Dainik Jagran Start up City pitch: E-Cell, XLRI was also a part of the jury of XLRI Jamshedpur and other E-Cell in collaboration with Dainik for the conclave. Management and Technical institutes Jagran conducted the city pitch round Entrepreneur Café version 2: of Jamshedpur. The event saw of Janhit Jagran on 21st September Continuing with the series, the team participation from over 15 startups 2018. The event saw enthusiastic invited Mr. Venkatesh Iyer, CEO and and over 25+ offers were rolled to the participation and one team of XLRI was Founder of Goli Vadapav to share his participants. selected for the state level pitch. success story. The event was held Launch of Wrongside Rentals: Startup van in the campus: on 18th of November 2018 and saw Acted as Liaison between Wrongside Co-ordinated for the visit of the startup participation from various Management and the administration in developing van under Start Up India Jharkhand and Technical institutes of Jamshedpur. and successful implementation of Yatra on 22nd August 2018 Power Play case competition: Wrongside in XLRI Campus. Conducted a Live case competition Incubator Xceed launch preparations- from Goli Vadapav. Top 3 finalist got logo and website: the opportunity to pitch their solutions Developed a full-fledged plan of setting up the incubator in XLRI campus. E-Cell in collaboration with Dainik Jagran Got on-board a team Alumni’s in conducted the city pitch round of Janhit Jagran on implementation of the incubator. Presently the team is working upon st creating a base of Alumni’s for 21 September, mentorship and investors as well as 2018 developing the website for the Xceed.

94 Ensemble Valhalla Core Team

Ensemble Valhalla Core Team (EVCT) is the fest committee of XLRI. This year, marked the second edition of Ensemble-Valhalla, an amalgamation of cultural, management and sports events. This year the joint Ensemble-Valhalla fest saw participation from 13 B-schools across the nation in 18 sporting events, and 17 management and cultural events, the aggregate participation numbers were above 5000. EV’18 featured comedian VipulGoyal on Day 1, enigmatic performances by Bodhi Tree on Day 2, and the Amit Trivedi Live concert on Day 3. The theme for this year was Rewind. Repeat. Relive. The EVCT also hosted Ignito’18, which is the theme launch of the fest. The launch was held at Fr. McGrath Residence, and saw all the committees coming together to host a treasure hunt at the event. The event also featured flash-mobs, various food stalls, and at the end, as the theme was unfurling, releasing a hundred sky lanterns.

17 management and cultural events, the aggregate participation numbers were above 5000

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FINAX

Founded in 1991, FINAX - the Finance Association GNOSIS’18 at XLRI, aims to promote finance related activities & careers for the students of XLRI and bring the finance On 17th November, FINAX organized the 9th edition of XLRI’s enthusiasts together with the best in the industry Annual Finance Symposium and its flagship event - GNOSIS through myriad activities ranging from workshops, ’18 at the ITC Maratha, Mumbai. The theme for this year’s competitions and symposiums. FINAX also has under its event was ‘Banking and Financial Services in India – The ambit – the Student Investment Fund, our own in-house Expanding Horizon’ with panel discussions and guess sessions equity fund, which gives students the experience of on concurrent topics such as consolidation of banks in the managing an investment portfolio. wake of rising NPAs, rise of Small Finance Banks, Alternative Investments and valuation of unconventional businesses. The event witnessed Dr. Rajiv Lall, Founder & CEO of IDFC Bank WORKSHOPS as the keynote speaker along with Mr. Samit Ghosh, Founder The year 2018 started on a high note with FINAX & CEO of Ujjivan Small Finance Bank and Mrs. Anshula Kant, conducting workshops on new and emerging areas such Managing Director at SBI among 14 eminent MD and CXO as Fintech, Digital Payments, REITS through eminent ranked speakers from Private Equity, VC and financial services and recognized speakers & professors such as Mr. firms. Six of XLRI’s distinguished alumni were felicitated Abhishant Pant, one of Top 100 Fintech Professionals with the GNOSIS Excellence Award, to celebrate and honour in Asia and Mr. Chinmoy Ghosh, Head - Dept. of their achievements in the domain of Finance which also have Finance, University of Connecticut, USA. brought pride to XLRI. CERTIFICATIONS STOCK SIMULATION FINAX conducted one of the most coveted certifications For the junior batch of 2018-20, Finax organised ‘King of the viz. The CFA Research Challenge, FLIP National Pit’, a stock market simulation to give them a feel of what it’s Challenge S09 and NCFM certifications among others like to be out there in the real world. on campus, helping the finance aspirants power The latter half of the year saw multiple workshops on their careers in various fields of finance from risk Risk Management and Fintech through partnerships with management to banking and Financial services. organisations such as ICICI, along with stock simulations and case study competitions. RBI SESSION NS Vishwanathan, Deputy Governor, RBI was invited FINALOGUE to give a talk on Banking and Supervision - Policy FINAX released two editions of its magazine “Finalogue” , Concerns and Expectations. Facilitated by FINAX containing relevant articles and crisp summaries with a focus through the support of Prof. Santosh Sangem on recent happenings in the world of finance and economics. (Chairperson, Finance), the session provided It was particularly aimed at catering the students preparing for valuable insights on current regulatory forces, credit final placements. environment, and the changing laws in public interest to an audience of students and faculty. DEALBOOK As the year comes to an end, Dealbook’19 – the national M&A case study competition is underway. Discussion on the Interim Budget, leadership talks by faculty and industry relevant sessions are in the pipeline to better equip the students as they step into their careers and internships.

96 | 63rd Annual Convocation Fire@x Fire@x, Forum for Industrial Relations at XLRI, conducts various events, industry visit and summit throughout the year. One of the initiatives taken by us is our post on Facebook under called ‘Humans of IR’, it shares the internship experience of the students in the field Our Flagship of Industrial Relations and helps them to know more about the corporate world. event, the XL-IR Trial by Fire, which is a management quizzing league, has been successful in terms of attracting participants from across all major B-schools in India. Our Flagship event, the Summit, has XL-IR Summit, has continued to carry forward the committee’s legacy. The event included continued workshop on Labour-Management relations & marked the launch of our annual journal, ‘Dhyuti’. This year, a new event in line with the International Labour Organization (ILO) to carry format was introduced, called the ‘Labour Parliament’. forward the Our Industry-Academia tie-up with ITC has been taken up to an all-new level with the introduction of various case-writing & scale-development initiatives from ITC to the committee’s students of XLRI. legacy

INFRACOM

INFRACOM, the Infrastructure students taking up a Hogathon each year with over 140 students Committee handles multiple roles challenge and followed by a fun filled participating in 2018. The event is one from maintaining the splendid treasure hunt event. of the biggest attractions during the infrastructure of the XLRI campus to The committee has a four round festival and witnesses a huge footfall. supervising the food and the mess rigorous process for the Junior MasterChef encourages students to management. This one student Executive Member Selection from both display their culinary skills and gives body is committed to ensuring HR and BM junior batches. them an opportunity to don their convenience for all the students chef hats. INFRACOM also assists while they are at the campus. Nothing wins hearts of millions like Placement Support Committees during good food and INFRACOM proves it all placement sessions and supports INFRACOM’s motto of ‘Standing every year with the grand Welcome together to serve you better’ is a Ensemble and Valhalla teams during Dinner it organizes to mark the official their events. true reflection of the committee’s entry of the XLRI junior batch to the efforts towards serving one and all XL Mafia. The event makes the juniors for the greater good. The committee get the first feel of XL being their acts as an interface between the home away from home. students and the administration and INFRACOM’s motto of makes sure that everyone’s needs The committee also organizes the XL are catered to the best of institute’s Family Dinner, which invites every “Standing capabilities. member of the XL Family, be it PGDM students, GMP students, professors or together to While abiding by its duties, the the Deans. committee organizes several events serve you better”’ during the year: INFRACOM’s Flagship event that has made a huge brand for itself, is a true reflection of the ELIXIR, the ice breaker event of MasterChef, is held during the committee’s efforts towards INFRACOM, saw the enthusiastic Ensemble-Valhalla and the event serving one and all for the participation from the batch with records enthusiastic participation greater good

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Marketing Association of XLRI (MAXI)

MAXI BAZAAR- The juniors’ MARKETING POCKETBOOK- In displayed their talent in Kids’ Dance, first encounter with MAXI as the keeping with tradition, MAXI Kids’ Fashion Show and Art Attack. seniors help them conceptualize an also published an updated The line-up also included Ms. & Mrs. unconventional product right from Marketing Pocketbook containing Jamshedpur and a cooking event with the imagined attributes to a bizarrely marketing strategies, small cases and the executive chef of Golden Leaf creative social media campaign. interview tips for quick reference. The Resort. Youngsters brought their friends Popularly remembered as a disguised previous format was modernized and to enjoy the gaming arena, food court icebreaker and an introduction to out- widely appreciated for its readability and KTM bike riding zone. One of the of-the-box marketing, the competition and usefulness. main highlights of the grand two-day event was Neeraj Shridhar’s much is intense and the bonding is instant! CIRCUS MAXIMUS – MAXI’s national awaited Bollywood performance. The SECTION LEAGUE- The sections made level competition CIRCUS MAXIMUS Fair also hosted on-ground research mannequins out of villains and logos is organized during Ensemble Valhalla, projects for well-known brands such as out of scrap. They hunted the hints and XLRI’s annual inter B-school fest. The Havells, ITC, Coca-Cola & Nestle and showed their mettle in a relentless race event is designed to test how teams successfully conducted its first-ever to the finish line when they stood tall can apply classroom concepts to real- digital research project in collaboration with the MAXI standee and amplified world marketing challenges. This year’s with HUL. their brands. Gangster Circus or MAXI’s case study was based on marketing Section League 2018 was a series of rural football leagues in Jamshedpur. APOGAEUM- In addition to the exciting events with The Mannequin fairground activities, MAXI also invited Challenge, Logotomy and The Final eminent alumni and speakers to Hunt. MAXI FAIR – MAXI celebrated 40 address Apogaeum, XLRI’s Inaugural years of its flagship event with a host Marketing Conclave, held on the 12th ADTWIST- One of MAXI’s most eagerly of colourful competitions, attracting of January. The Conclave commenced awaited events, the official icebreaker a footfall of over 10,000 people with a key note speech by Mr. CVL brings out the avant-garde in every from Jamshedpur. Families flocked Srinivas, Country Manager of WPP, the junior with a contest that links one’s to the fairground to participate parent company of GroupM, Ogilvy & favourite tv shows and movies with enthusiastically in events such Mather, on The Connected Marketing brand taglines. The ads were shared on as Healthy Jamshedpur Happy Value Chain. This was followed by Facebook and the ones with maximum Jamshedpur and Jamshedpur’s a panel discussion and round table likes emerged triumphant. Favourite Family. Children of all ages conference based on ‘Emerging Trends in Digital Marketing’. The panel discussion was moderated by Dr. Ramendra Singh, Associate Professor, IIM Calcutta. The other panellists were Mr. Puneet Krishna, Writer of Amazon Prime series Mirzapur, Founder Golden Wheat Consultants; Sagar Khetiya, Digital Marketing and Sales, Tata Steel; Sujith Sudhakaran Nair, Senior Director, Brand Marketing, Myntra and CVL Srinivas.

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PiXL, the official photography club handles a Facebook page called the was hosted by Anuroop Krishnan, of XLRI, ensures that every important humans of XL (HoXL), which publishes an XL alum and professional wildlife student event is captured. It comprises stories of various people associated photographer. The event saw of nine of the best photographers from with XLRI. enthusiastic participation by a sizeable the senior batch, and 10 budding number of attendants, who thoroughly photographers from the junior batch. Official Photographs enjoyed the workshop. The workshop PiXL covers all the events that take PiXL has been responsible for providing covered basics of photography, photo place on the campus and has also live photographs for various formal editing & technicalities of a DSLR. The streamed some of the marquee events purposes of the institute. Various highlights of the workshop were the on XLRI’s official social media pages. committees also approach PiXL for night photography session and the early Some of its major contributions were: their team photos for official magazines morning photo-walk, which were very and communications. enjoyable as well as enriching. Coverage: PiXL covered more than 70 events on Campus Video 2020 Yearbook Photos for all campus. Some of the major events PiXL assisted a professional external committees and sections were: Ensemble Valhalla fest, Alumni agency to create an official video for PiXL also clicked the group pictures Homecoming, MAXI Fair. the institute. The committee helped of all the committees and class with picking out the various locations, sections of the graduating batch Social Media Platforms scenes and technicalities of the video for the yearbook. This initiative was PiXL runs platforms on Facebook shoot. The video is expected to be used appreciated by all the students, since andInstagram, where photos of various for official purposes. it let them record a final memory with events, festivals, the students and of their beloved committee members and the campus in general are regularly Photography Workshop classmates, with whom they spent two uploaded. It captures the campus in PiXL ended the academic year by of the best years of their lives. its various colours; be it the beautiful hosting a photography workshop for lights during Christmas, or the the student and faculty bodies. It magnificent winter flowers. PiXL also

99 Student Activities STUDENT AFFAIRS COUNCIL The Students Affairs Council is the apex body and the representative council of the students of XLRI. SAC consists of a General Secretary and four elected representatives from the senior batch. SAC supervises various student activities on campus and is the interface between the students and the administration. It plays an active role in issues such as restructuring academic content, enhancement of infrastructure and facilities, and coordinating extra- curricular, co-curricular and placement activities on campus. Various new initiatives were taken up by SAC in the academic year 2018-19 with some of the key accomplishments as follows:

Medical Facilities: Public Relations: Miscellaneous: • A Mental Health Counselor has • Spearheaded the creation • Change in SAC structure: been made available in college of a campus introduction The structure of the Student premises video after 5 years in Council was changed • A physician for the first year and association with ExLink from the existing domain- GMP students and Pixl based structure to a more • Got a budget sanctioned responsibility entailed and • Students now have 24X7 role-based structure available ambulance on campus for paid promotions of the activities on campus • Opt Out Mess: • Multiple first-aid boxes have Conceptualized and handled been installed at convenient an opt out option for locations the compulsory mess by IT: providing the 724 students Academic Affairs: • Made arrangements to a weekly opt in and opt out • Worked with the Dean’s office to ensure the student email in association with infracom. do away with the negative CQPI IDs are retained as legacy Potentially saving up to Rs. criteria of detaining students accounts even after they 30,000/head in an academic graduate year. Moving towards a fully • Ensured that elective-based paid mess. section division is not limited to division of only one section and • Cashless Campus: All 12 vendors in XLRI now accept the three sections are divided on Sports: a term basis BHIM and PayTM • Coaches:Got funds of • Infrastructure Improvements: nearly Rs 3 lakhto hire Budget and Renovation of all classrooms professional coaches for in Learning Centre Transparency: various sports teams of XLRI. • Future Leaders Program: • SAC has ensured transparency in Annual two-day flagship all committee’s transactions by • Infrastructure: Cricket program is conducted by mandating PORs Pitch and new volleyball Junior SAC for students from court construction was • We have also conceptualized and class 11 all the way to final initiated in association implemented a flexible budget year of graduation. with SportsCom system • First time allocation of budget of purchase of capital equipment for students interested in pursuing photography and music on campus

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schools. The event was a perfect amalgamation of fun and learning. It aimed at testing the general awareness as well as aptitude of school children. The event was appreciated by several parents and teachers who accompanied the students. Reflections, one of a kind initiative, is an annual colloquium of students, teachers, and parents from Jamshedpur. This year, Reflections was based on the theme of EduStress and was conducted in the form of an Appreciative Inquiry Workshop. Appreciative Enquiry is an organizational transformational tool that places learning from success as the cornerstone. What works well and why it works well forms the lynchpin of Samarthya the tool. Samarthya akin to its name strives to The Civic Learning Program is a English Fair conducted at the aid students by helping them realize new initiative taken by Samarthya beginning of the year is also based on their potential by creating a propitious in collaboration with Janaagraha, the theme of ‘education for all’. The environment to excel. This is the a Bangalore based non-profit purpose of the event is to increase seventh year for Samarthya since its organization. This program work awareness and instill fluency and inception in 2012. towards improving the quality of life appreciation for the English language. Throughout the year, Samarthya in urban India by sparking the fire English fair targets at a school undertakes various initiatives to of active citizenship in the young where the vernacular is the means of fulfill its pledge to help the students. minds of the country. The Civic communication. The activities of the Pragyaan is one such initiative which Learning Program, at its nucleus, is fair are designed in such a way that is based on our endeavor of ‘education driven by systematic change through it not only captures the interests of for all’. Charity begins at home and civic participation induced from the the students but also provides a great following this axiom, Pragyaan is grassroots level. Samarthya drives the learning opportunity. The third edition aimed at helping the wards of XLRI program in Jamshedpur with volunteers of the English Fair will be conducted staff. With the limited resources at from XLRI contributing for the on 25th January, 2019. deliverance of civic learning modules in their disposal, these sessions aim to Disha was initiated with the intention partner schools. 45+ volunteers helped provide superior quality education to spread awareness about different in the successful execution of the to the kids and help them towards careers available, among students program which has touched the lives of a better future. Pragyaan sessions and their parents considering their almost 1100 students in Jamshedpur. are conducted on Saturday of every interests. The event aims at bridging week throughout the year. Almost 50 Back to the Roots, is a quiz organized the gap that a lack of information has non-Samarthya volunteers helped in by Samarthya as part of the XLRI created and helped students in taking a completion of the sessions and ensured annual festival, Ensemble Valhalla. The wise decision and making an informed their continuity. event witnessed participation in great choice related to their career. Disha numbers from students of different saw participation of 350+ stakeholders from 10 schools across Jamshedpur. The students and the parents left the event satisfied, having exhausted their 45+ volunteers plethora of questions. A parent even asked Samarthya to conduct more helped in the successful execution of the sessions throughout the year. Some program which has touched the lives of even wondered what their lives would almost 1100 students in Jamshedpur. have looked like had they experienced such a session in their youth.

101 Student Activities SAPPHIRE

SAPPHIRE has evolved as a platform for research and discussions on contemporary HR concepts, trends and best practices

SAPPHIRE was primarily established from across the country. The event and 20th January, 2019. It was themed as a student committee on Employee consisted of 2 rounds. The first was ‘Building an Agile Future: Curating Relations in 1989. Over the last two an online qualifier to select 8 campus the new business landscape’. The decades, SAPPHIRE has evolved as a finalists. The finale consisted of 4 conference witnessed participation platform for research and discussions HR simulations, including Domestic from Industry stalwarts, Academicians, on contemporary HR concepts, trends Enquiry, Employee Value Proposition, Government officials, Researchers and and best practices in the field of Bridge the Gap, and Casenomics, Students from the top B-Schools of the Human Resource Development across This year, we also launched the country. industry. magazine: HR Xpress. The December The two panel discussions planned We started the academic session issue of the quarterly magazine was as a part of the 2-day event were on with Chaos, an ice breaker event based on the theme “HR and the 4th “Tailoring HR Strategy according to which resulted with overwhelming Industrial Revolution”. It contained the changing times & technology” and participation from the Junior Batch who articles from students and industry “Breaking the glass ceiling- workforce upped the ante for the next edition to representatives. diversity amidst changing professional achieve. Live projects provide an opportunity climate”. Looking at our major events, Battle for students to get hands-on industry HRoyale has been seeing an amazing experience while being on the campus. participation from the students across This year, we brought amazing learning established as B-Schools. The competition received opportunities in the form of live a student amazing participation across the projects from reputed organizations country with 500+ teams registering for such as Orgro Solutions, Enable India, committee the event. Airtel and HONO. on Employee Next event was HR Colosseum 3.0. We The 8th National HR Conference, our Relations received participation from 120+ teams flagship event was conducted on 19th 1989

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Student Investment Fund The academic year began with an one account and several other legal exhilarating ice-breaker event where issues sorted out, the fund is gearing the incoming batch got a flavour of the up for one of its most critical moments art of stock selection. This event was since its inception. SIF is now ready to soon followed by an insightful session accept deposits from the entire student on valuation. The fresher community community at XLRI. This is an ambitious was introduced to the basics of equity attempt from the committee to promote research which played a pivotal role in the knowledge of financial markets. the Summer Internship Process (SIP) SIF would periodically share the fund’s and selection for the committee. performance and positions. With most Student Investment Fund (SIF) does of the documentation ready for this most of the work behind the scenes. purpose, the committee is in the process Post the induction of the junior batch, of adding finishing touches. the committee conducted extensive SIF began the calendar year 2019 with and in depth research spanning diverse a quest to discover attractive investment sectors such as Banking, Capital Goods, opportunities. The team members put in IT Services, Power, Auto Ancillary, etc. countless hours and actively participated The sector reports have been shared in frequent brainstorming sessions that SIF is now with the entire student community at stretched late into the night. After an XLRI. During the later half of 2018, the in depth review by the entire team, the ready to break out of the IL&FS crisis shook the fund entered into long positions on accept entire financial system. Nevertheless, the multiple stocks keeping the sound risk plunge in the financial markets did not management practices in mind. deposits from materially hamper the performance of Looking forward, the committee would the entire SIF. With the assets under management conduct an informative session with the (AUM) amounting to Rs. 3lakh, the fund student batch detailing the operational student ended the calendar year 2018 on a high aspects of the fund opening before the community note by outperforming the benchmark culmination of the current academic NIFTY index by 600 basis points. year. SIF plans to begin next academic at XLRI. On the operational front, the year year with a similar session for the junior 2018-2019 was monumental for SIF. batch detailing the participation in the With the consolidation of stocks into fund.

103 Student Activities SIGMA - SOCIAL INITIATIVE GROUP FOR MANAGERIAL ASSISTANCE

The committee has taken up various socially responsible causes over time, resulting in the reputation that is now associated with it. From the smallest acts of help to the larger efforts in conducting city-level donation drives, the team works towards the social causes covering varying segments of society. Some of these initiatives are:

Spot Fixing Campaign This initiative was started in November 2015 with the idea of making the streets of Jamshedpur cleaner while beautifying them with socially responsible messages. Many spots have been cleaned and painted across Jamshedpur, and more such spot-fixing campaigns are conducted year on year by the team.

Basic Computer Literacy Program (BCLP) BCLP is a 15-module course, designed and delivered by the students to a group of 40-50 young people, who come from less- privileged backgrounds, but have an urge to learn. The program uses the Computer Lab facilities of XLRI and is delivered over weekends – and Daan-Utsav: Joy of Blood Donation Camps received enthusiastic participation Giving Week Blood-donation camps are organized by from the students. During the last 10 years, by involving SIGMA at XLRI in association with the and mobilizing support from the local Red Cross Society of Jamshedpur, the Legal Literacy community (corporate, schools, civil Government Hospital of Jamshedpur Program society organizations, etc.), SIGMA and HDFC. has anchored and facilitated the Joy This initiative aims at providing the Social necessary basic legal information of Giving festival in Jamshedpur. that the local rural people should During the week, the XLRI students are Entrepreneurship have in order to understand their engaged in a variety of events involving Conclave volunteerism and giving. The events legal rights. It was conducted across Under the aegis of Fr Arrupe Center organised during the week were Vastra villages in Jharkhand. for Ecology & Sustainability, SIGMA Samman & Ann Daan (Donation of organized the first edition of the Social clothes and dry ration); Gift of Time Entrepreneurship Conclave in 2018. (Visit to Nirmal Hryuday old age home; The conference was attended by Serving Those Who Serve Us (students 150-170 participants which included serve the workers of XLRI); Wish Tree development sector professionals, (fulfilling some of the elementary social entrepreneurs, academicians and necessities of children from orphanage students. and old age home)

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SIGMA has anchored and facilitated the Joy of Giving festival in Jamshedpur

Societas Udaan candle stall River cleaning Under the aegis of Ensemble-Valhalla On the eve of Diwali, stalls were put awareness drive 2018, SIGMA, organized the Flagship up for the sale of candles and diyas The event was done in collaboration sustainability event- Societas. While by the Udaan foundation, which works with Jampot Greens as a part of the exploring real life industrial issues, the towards providing livelihood to the ‘Clean India Green Festivals’ initiative. event provided the participant teams visually impaired. the hands-on opportunity to design solutions for a sustainable and greener Kerala flood relief future. collection drive Waste Food The floods in Kerala in August 2018 caused by unusually high rainfall Management affected millions of lives and caused SIGMA started an initiative for damages worth billions of crores. The managing the huge amount of prepared entire nation came forward to provide food that gets wasted in the college relief and monetary aid to the people every day through collaboration of Kerala. Team SIGMA, with the with Helping Hearts, an NGO that support of the administration and the coordinates with multiple institutions college students, collected over one in Jamshedpur and collects food lakh rupees for the cause. making it available for people who face shortage of food.

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SOCRATES

SOCRTATES is responsible for of Rs 20,000. The overall reach of publishing newsletters and conducting the conclave was 4000 students who events that keep students abreast enthusiastically took part in all the of emerging trends in the field of events. technology and management practices. Socrates also organised ‘Bid It Like Socrates teamed up with AXIOM and Beckham’ a Player bidding game during hosted XLRI’s first IT & Operations ‘Ensemble-Valhalla 2018’-the flagship Conclave-‘Cygnus’.The conclave sport and cultural festival of XLRI was an amalgamation of workshops, Jamshedpur. The event involved two seminars and national level case rounds which started with an online competitions designed to impart quiz for shortlisting 10 teams out of 70 practical knowledge in the field followed by an auction round of players of Operation and IT Information. which was a knock out tournament. Kiss The symposium aimed to redefine of Death emerged as the winning team the traditional form of academic and Myth Busters as the runner up.It seminars via interactive workshops on was an outstanding moment for the Business Analytics, Design Thinking team to win a major event at one of the and Project Managemnet .The largest B-School fests in the country. speakers of the same were Johanan Socrates has also continued taking up A Daniel-Managing Director of Juran website development for the committees Academy Pvt Limited ,Venkatesan on the campus and brought up the Somanathan-assistance Vice President websites of all the committees on a of Genpact India and Deepak Chopra single hosting platform via common –The Global Vice President of the cloud hosting.In order to streamline Lead Digital Transformation Team- student IT/Infra complaints and Socrates teamed GenPact.’Optimus’ the national level provide real time status tracking of all up with AXIOM to case competition was also held during reported issues,Socrates has developed the event and after three rounds of ‘Complaints Handling And Resolution host IT & Operations intense competition team Abhikalp Monitoring System-C.H.A.R.M.S’ the of Prin. L. N. Welingkar Institute of complaint ticket system.Upgrading Conclave, Cygnus Management Development & Research existing and introducing new features (WE School), Mumbai emerged as in the XLerate App are the ongoing winners who received a cash price activities happening throughout the year.

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SPICMACAY The second performance was a poem, displaying the emotion of coming back to XL. The third performance was a classical song on famous rendition of SPICMACAY also organised Rafi Sahab, ‘Madhuban Mai Radhika’. performances by Payika & Sikari Hobby Classes: Amidst all the quizzes and submissions deadline, SPICMACAY folk dancers took the initiative to make students To keep the culture alive throughout an auspicious note, SPICMACAY in relive their hobby. We arranged the XLRI campus, SPICMACAY XLRI had collaboration with Theplaxi, organised hobby classes for classical singing, organized number of events throughout DANDIYA NIGHT. The event begins western dance, keyboard, guitar and the year 2018-19. These events with a small Puja ceremony, followed tabla in campus. Classes were organized were a great success because of the by Gujarati songs being played in for around 10 weeks and more than 50 enthusiastic participation of students the background, and more than 200 students availed benefit of that. from all programs as well as faculties. XLITE channeled his/her garba and Rangoli Event: To give the feeling of Here are some events mentioned: dandiya moves. The clanking of the home, SPICMACAY, in collaboration International Yoga Day: On June 21, dandiyas and the merry laughs, fill the with Cowbaxi, organized Rangoli Making 2018 we conducted the Yoga Session atmosphere with happiness. Competition on the auspicious occasion in JLT lawn with the help of Art of Raagalaya: The solo singing of Diwali. Lighted diyas on the pattern Living members. Dean along with competition was organised by us during of colours increased the charm of the other professors and students from all Ensemble Valhalla, the annual fest festival. batches were the part of session. ‘108 of XLRI. The event saw participation Art Extravaganza: SPICMACAY organized Surya Namaskar Challenge’ was the from colleges across Jamshedpur, Kalakriti, XLRI’s Art Extravaganza that main attraction of the event. Ranchi and Bhubaneswar. The soulful saw artists from across the state coming Talent Night: Hunar-e-XL 2018 also performances by the participants left for art exhibitions, pottery making known as Talent Night was organized everyone in the audience mesmerized. workshop besides painting, sketching by SPICMACAY, which gave a platform Events like these help us to realise & painting competitions. The one- to the Xlers to showcase their talent. that our country is a goldmine of talent day event saw a huge and enthused It may be drama, dance, singing or and we hope to continue to provide a participation from the BM, HR as well photography, people came in loads and platform (and rewards, of course!!) to as FPM, GMP students. SPICMACAY made the event a huge success. The these gems. looks forward to a grander Kalakriti 2.0 experts from senior batch judged the Alumni Homecoming Performances: next year. performances on various parameters SPICMACAY entertained the alumni, XL Utsav Performance: SPICMACAY also and also interacted with the juniors and the faculty and the students alike conducted Payika & Sikari folk dance guided them. with three performances in Alumni performances of local artists at the XL Dandiya Night: Every year, to mark Homecoming. The performances Utsav that saw mesmerized viewers in the beginning of the festive season on included Punjabi folk dance, ‘Bhangra’. the student and faculty community.

107 Student Activities SportsCom Events

Sports, an integral part of the To prepare the teams for Athlos ’18, CricBlitz, the most awaited Cricketing XL Culture, is a force that binds the Inter Collegiate Sports Meet of Extravaganza of XLRI, was organised the illustrious XL Mafia together. XIMB Bhubaneshwar, SportsCom, in December 2018. The good old SportsCom, the guardian of the under the guidance of the XLRI gully cricket reinvigorated with some sporting tradition at XL, ensured that Administration, took the initiative of fun rules gave XLers the perfect the Sports Enthusiasts of XL had plenty inviting coaches to train the institute’s opportunity to take a walk down to look forward to in the academic year teams. Not only did the initiative add memory lane. The event saw a huge 2018-19. to the repertoire of the teams’ technical turnout with 42 teams vying for not The Sporting Season began with a skills, it also helped to improve the just the winner’s trophy but also bang with Ratanjee (16th to 18th July) mental toughness and stamina of the exciting prizes for the best dressed , a tournament held across 18 sports, sports contingent. The improvement team, best team name and best which saw teams from the Junior Year in the players’ games was evident as sledging team. An enthralling final battle it out with the Senior Teams. XL’s teams lifted the Athlos Cup by saw ‘GM Stars’ win the first position While the Junior Teams left no stone emerging champions in 7 out of the 10 with ‘A Team has No Name’ finishing unturned to prove their mettle, the events they participated in. Runners Up in the tournament. senior teams, with a year of teamwork Buoyed by the victory at XIMB, it With winter setting in, it was now behind them, clearly dominated the was XL’s turn to host teams on its time to battle it out in the indoor tournament. The message was loud home soil. SportsCom in collaboration sporting events. SportsCom organised and clear. Not individual brilliance but with EVCT, organised Valhalla Sporting Week 2018 that saw a team spirit and co-ordination would ’18 – XLRI’s very own Sports Fest heartening participation from both prove decisive on the path to victory. from 2nd November 2018 to 4th the junior and senior batches. The Nevertheless, outstanding performers November 2018. The tournament saw players came out all guns blazing in from the junior batch were felicitated participation from reputed institutes Table Tennis, Badminton, Chess, Pool with the MVP (Most Valuable Player) like IIFT – Kolkata, IIM Ranchi, Xavier and Carrom. While this tournament award. University Bhubaneshwar (XUB) and was the perfect way to bid adieu to On Independence Day, as India payed XIMB, Bhubhaneshwar. SportsCom 2018, it brought upon the Sporting tribute to the nation’s heroes, XLRI worked tirelessly through the logistics Scene, several new players who will saw the rise of sporting heroes of and the scheduling of the event to ensure that the Sporting Legacy will its own. The Independence Cup was ensure that the participating players be carried well into 2019. had a seamless experience. The spirit the first time this season that XLRI The first ever Xavier Sports Meet took of the Sports Contingent triumphed yet participated in an inter university place over 3 days in Xavier University, again, as XLRI emerged victorious in sports tournament. The XL teams were Bhubaneswar. It saw participation Valhalla ‘18 by winning 12 out of the pitted against NIT Jamshedpur and from 3 distinguished Jesuit society 18 events. XISS Ranchi, two teams with great colleges, namely, XLRI, XIM-B sporting legacies of their own. But Any Sporting Season is incomplete and XUB. It was conceptualized the month long hard work paid off as without paying tribute to the sport by SportsCom, and implemented XLRI emerged overall champion in the adored by the Indian masses. beautifully by XUB, who organized the Independence Cup. same between 18th of January, 2019 to the 20th of January, 2019. XLRI ran out as the overall winners of the intensely fought for Xaviers’ Meet Championship and lifted the overall trophy on 20th January, 2019. With the conclusion of this meet, the XLRI Sports Contingent has finished as champions in all the tournaments it competed for in this academic year, namely, The Independence Cup 2018, Athlos-2018, Valhalla-2018 and Xaviers’ Meet 2019.

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The academic year witnessed the transformation of XLRI to find the gifted speakers and leaders, in the Junior batch, Toastmasters from a nascent club to a fully grown popular with whom they can pull together the club to even greater speaking body in the campus. The membership of the club heights. Throughout the year there were plethora of regular swelled to 83 with active events planned throughout the bi-weekly meetings, Speakathons and EV events. XL junta year. The club is known across BM, HRM and GMP batch participated like crazy in them to showcase their Public for developing the leadership and public speaking skills of Speaking skills as well as win some great rewards. In the its members. last one year, the XLRI Toastmasters club had been a critical The Senior committee members comprises- Mahesh part of the countless number of journeys of budding public Venkatasubramanian (President), Praveen Alluri (VP- speakers and future leaders. But amongst all, we all shall Membership), Gowri Sapna (VP-Education), Varsha cherish the wonderful stories, the laughter and the pleasant Bondada (VP-Education), Darshan Varier (Secretary), experiences we all shared with the senior committee Prateek Babu (Treasurer) and Siddhesh Sawant (Sergeant- members of XLRI Toastmasters. The entire XLRI community at-Arms). The First event of the year- “You see me” expresses their gratitude towards the senior committee (icebreaker sessions)- witnessed some great participation members (2018-19) of XLRI Toastmasters for their tireless from the junior batch. After the grand success of the ice efforts and contribution in creating a conducive learning breaker event, the senior team embarked upon the journey experience for all of us. Thank you XL TM senior committee 2018-19!!!.

The membership of the club swelled to with active events planned 83 throughout the year

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The XLRI Adventure and Nature Club (XLANC) organizes events throughout the year to break the monotonous academic schedule. Significant events organised during academic year 2018-19: • Body zorbing football as ice breaker • It organised Go-Karting in • Its flagship event, Maelstrom 2.0, event for the junior batch collaboration with RPG as part of was organised in January and had • Trekking to Dalma hills was campus engagement event called a variety of events like Rodeo Bull, organised for the senior batch RPG Carnival Rifle shooting, All Terrain Vehicles, under the guidance of experienced • It collaborated with TSAF to conduct Meltdown, Rifle Shooting, Inflated professionals certificate courses in horse riding sumo wrestling and Paintball • Junior Xlancmembers of 2018-20 and rifle shooting • For the graduating batches of XLRI and batch organised Laser Tag event in • Xlanc organised Paintball, Zorbing other B-schools, seniorXlancpioneered the new Fr McGrath hostel Football, Meltdown, Automatic car Everest Base Camp (EBC) Leadership Expedition for students of leading • The term ended with students of all bumping etc during the Ensemble Valhalla Fest B-schools of India. More than 200 courses trying their hands at archery enthusiasts from XLRI, IIMs, MDI, competition NITIE, IMT etc. undertook this adventurous expedition

ISEP (International Student Exchange Program) ISEP is the student-run committee that administers the International Student Exchange Program at XLRI. ISEP is responsible for managing tie- ups of XLRI with foreign universities. Currently, it has associations with universities across Europe (France, Germany, Spain, Greece, and UK), USA, and Southeast Asia. It also facilitates the alliances of XLRI with new foreign universities. ISEP is responsible for the cultural integration of students who come ISEP also manages the application the best deals for students traveling to XLRI for student exchange process of the XLRI students abroad. going to foreign universities. It has program. The committee ensures Apart from this, ISEP also conducts collaborations with banks and travel that the students have a pleasant Model United Nations during agencies to aid the outgoing exchange and comfortable stay at XLRI. ISEP Ensemble-Valhalla which provides students with flight bookings, organizes various ice-breaker events for a platform for MUNers across the travel cards, Euro-rail passes, travel the foreign exchange students and XLRI country to discuss international issues insurance etc. The committee students. It also organizes cultural of paramount importance and envision collaborates with the student exchange activities to acquaint them with the new perspectives to understand the committees of all the IIMs to negotiate Indian culture. changing world we live in.

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External Linkages (ExLink)

Exlink covered the major events of XLRI on social media like Facebook, Linkedin, Instagram and Twitter

External Linkages (ExLink) is a student The XL Experience, Time Turner, EV 2018: team that coordinates with multiple Article Writing Exlink organized an online creative stakeholders such as media, alumni, writing event during Ensemble Valhalla, corporate speakers and student Competition: XLRI’s annual management and sports aspirants to propagate news about XLRI One month into the MBA life, the fest. As the name suggests, Time through various portals. students were given an opportunity Turner allowed the participants to go to pen down their emotions and The committee guides the XLRI back in time, spread their wings of experiences at XL; be it about the applicants through the preparation imagination and create an alternative first lectures or the 2 AM breakfast process — right from getting a call world of their own, altering and twisting discussions. Students busy with their for GDPI process to answering and events and rewriting history. resolving their queries to onboarding first encounters with assignments, them onto the XL life. This year, Exlink quizzes, submissions, CV preparation Secret Santa: released a series of XAT preparation and what not, enthusiastically In keeping up with the festive spirit of videos where students from the campus participated in the article writing Christmas, Exlink offered the students shared their preparation experiences competition. The best two entries with an opportunity to be the Secret which would help the aspirants ace the were shared with the batch and on the Santa for someone in the XL family entrance test. online platforms. and brighten up their day amidst the Exlink covered the major events of Paparazzi 2018: deluge of deadlines, assignments and XLRI on social media like Facebook, PPTs. Never have the students been so Though the ice was already broken Linkedin, Instagram and Twitter. enthusiastic about spreading love, joy over the queries and discussions on The committee also co-ordinated and happiness, running around, getting the social media platform, Exlink with PiXL to create videos about the to know their friends and dropping by members officially welcomed the junior campus which would give the incoming the perfect Christmas gift stealthily. students a better insight into the XL batch to the XL campus through the life. icebreaker event Paparazzi which saw overwhelming participation. From identifying quirky details about the members to posting boomerangs on social media platform to creating news report videos in the campus, the event popularized the social media pages and initiatives taken by XLers. 111 THE BOARD OF GOVERNORS OF XLRI

Chairman T V Narendran CEO & Managing Director Tata Steel Ltd. Jamshedpur

Secretary Vice Chairman Treasurer Ashis K Pani E Abraham, SJ Jerome Cutinha, SJ Dean [Academics] Director Dean (Administration & Finance) XLRI XLRI XLRI Jamshedpur Jamshedpur Jamshedpur Members

P S Amalraj, SJ Subodh Bhargava Jaspal Bindra President Former Chairman Chairman Andhra Jesuit Society Tata Communications Ltd. & Centrum Group Secunderabad Former President - CII Mumbai New Delhi Arun de Souza, SJ George Fernandes, SJ Paul Fernandes, SJ President President Vice Chancellor, Xavier University Bombay Jesuit Society Jamshedpur Jesuit Society Director, XIM Mumbai Jamshedpur Bhubaneswar

Sebastian Jeerakassery, SJ Ajay Kaul Rajive Kaul President Senior Director Chairman Delhi Jesuit Society Everstone Capital Asia Pvt Ltd NICCO Engineering Services Ltd Delhi Singapore Former President - CII Kolkata Sumit Mazumder Rekha M Menon Jose Parayanken Chairman & MD Chairman & Senior MD Chairman TIL Ltd. & Accenture Services Pvt Ltd Mozambique Holdings, Maputo Former President, CII Bangalore Mozambique Kolkata N S Rajan D Shivakumar Madhukar Shukla CEO Group Executive President Professor of OB & Chairperson IDFC Foundation Corporate Strategy & Business of FACES IDFC Bank Development XLRI Mumbai Aditya Birla Management Corp Jamshedpur Pvt Ltd Mumbai

Ranaveer Sinha Antony Uvari, SJ President Chairperson - Admissions XLRI Alumni Association XLRI Jamshedpur Jamshedpur

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