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excellence
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for
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greater
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good
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a
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future.

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disseminate
knowledge
in
management
through
a
portfolio
of
educational
programs
and
publications To
extend
frontiers
of
knowledge
through
relevant
and
contextual
research
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nurture
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leaders
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to
environment
and
society To
encourage
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thinking
and
continuous
improvement
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of
innovation
and
entrepreneurship

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by
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of
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be
guided
by
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following
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Creativity
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BOARD OF GOVERNORS

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

Secretary Vice Chairman Treasurer Ashis K Pani Paul Fernandes, S.J. Donald D'Silva, S.J. Dean [Academics] Director Dean [Administration & Finance] XLRI XLRI XLRI Jamshedpu Jamshedpur Jamshedpur

MEMBERS

Jerome Cutinha, S.J. Ranaveer Sinha Jaspal Bindra President President Chairman XLRI Alumni Association Jamshedpur Jesuit Society Centrum Group Jamshedpur Jamshedpur Mumbai

Rekha M Menon Sumit Mazumder Ajay Kaul Chairman & Senior MD Chairman & Managing Director Senior Director Accenture Services Pvt. Ltd. TIL Limited & Everstone Capital Asia Pvt. Ltd. Bengaluru Former President, CII Singapore Kolkata

E Abraham, S.J. Rajive Kaul Jose Parayanken Adviser to Vice Chancellor Chairman Chairman Xavier University NICCO Engineering Services Ltd. Mozambique Holdings, Maputo Xavier Institute of Management Former President - CII Mozambique Bhubaneswar Kolkata

Antony Uvari, S.J. Vice Chancellor T A S Vijayaraghavan Arun de Souza, S.J. Xavier University-XUB Professor of PODS & President Bhubaneswar Chairperson of the Centre for Bombay Jesuit Society Logistics & Supply Chain Mgmt. Mumbai XLRI, Jamshedpur

D Shivakumar N S Rajan Soosai Mani, S.J. Group Executive President CEO President Corporate Strategy & Business IDFC Foundation Delhi Jesuit Society Development, IDFC Bank Delhi Aditya Birla Management Corp. Mumbai Pvt Ltd, Mumbai

Sandeep Kataria S George, S.J. Global CEO (Permanent Invitee) Bata Corporation Director XLRI, Delhi-NCR Delhi

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CHAIRMAN’S MESSAGE

It’s indeed a privilege for me to witness the 65th Convocation ceremony as the Chairman of the Governing Board of XLRI. XLRI was established in 1949, soon after India gained Independence, and for over seven decades has consistently striven to uphold its mission – to help shape business leaders who are competent yet upholding high personal values and societal concern. The industrial township of Jamshedpur is indeed fortunate to have such a progressive management school that of f ers much more than management-centric education programs. XLRI has always placed high importance on its students adopting ethical conduct, cultivating a values-driven culture, and shaping an integral character formation of its students. To the Class of 2021: It is rare that we come across multiple large challenges in a short period - a life-threatening pandemic, climate weirding as a consequence of climate change and economic downturn. As aspiring business leaders of tomorrow, these unprecedented challenges of f er valuable learnings as we have all suddenly moved into a scenario where the managerial acronym VUCA (short for volatility, uncertainty, complexity, and ambiguity) has acquired totally dif f erent meanings. This new VUCA world challenges you to build your resilience quotient, take care of your own health and those of your loved ones and friends and also beckons you to support to the extent possible all the marginalized people who live life on a day-to-day basis. In these trying times I wish each of you all the very best in all your future endeavors and urge you to remember “these times shall also pass,” and we shall overcome these challenges as a business school, as a nation, and as a global family.

T. V. Narendran

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DIRECTOR’S MESSAGE

Dear Friends,

I am delighted to present to you the 65th Annual Convocation Brochure. My cordial thanks to the Members of the Governing Body, Faculty, Staff, Students, and Alumni for making it a successful year though it was a challenging period for all of us due to Covid Pandemic. Our sincere thanks to Fr P Christie, S.J., for leading the Institute for the past two years. We wish him well for the future and all he does. I am thankful to God for His continued presence with us in our journey.

To the graduating batch of 2021: Congratulations to our newest Alumni members! You have been privileged to pass through the portals of XLRI, the oldest business school in the country. It must truly be a very gratifying moment for you. You have accomplished a lot through the challenges that have impacted all of us globally. You have grown tremendously during your stay at XLRI. Wherever you are, be the ambassadors of XLRI and live the values that XLRI stands for. I wish you the best in your future life and career.

God bless.

Fr Paul Fernandes, SJ

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Invocation

Fr Paul Fernandes, SJ

Mr Sandeep Kataria

Fr Donald D’Silva, SJ

Dr T A S Vijayaraghavan Dr H K Pradhan Mr Bijoy Mahato

Dr Soumendra N Bagchi Dr Rajiv Misra Dr Smitu Malhotra Mr Hardeep Singh Sidhu Mr Pravin K Shandilya Ms Bincy Vinod Mr Debashish Kumar

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CONVOCATION SPEAKER & RECIPIENT OF THE SIR JEHANGIR GHANDY MEDAL

Mr. Sandeep Kataria is a business and marketing leader with over 25 years of experience in the consumer products and retail industry across different geographies in developed and developing markets. In December 2020 Sandeep has been appointed CEO of the Bata Shoe Organization. Sandeep joined Bata in 2017, as the CEO of Bata India Ltd. with the main task of transforming the footwear giant into a modern and contemporary brand for generations to come. During his tenure, Bata India has seen a significant upswing in brand equity, sales and profits. Sandeep's strategy to force reappraisal of the Iconic Brand with new look stores, contemporary new designs and cut-through insight driven advertising has being positively noticed by consumers across the country. Prior to taking over the charge at Bata India Ltd, Sandeep was the Chief Commercial Officer at Vodafone, leading the Marketing and Services function for the telecom giant in India and responsible for some of the most iconic marketing campaigns in India. Before Vodafone, he held CMO and General Manager roles at Yum! Brands (the owners of KFC, Pizza Hut & Taco Bell) in India and the UK. He was involved in the rapid growth of KFC & PH as well as the launch of Taco Bell in India! He joined Hindustan Unilever from XLRI and worked there for almost 2 decades in several marketing & strategy roles across India and at the global headquarters at the UK. Sandeep is an engineer from IIT-Delhi and finished his PGDBM from XLRI in 1993 as the gold medalist of the batch. While IIT gave him the analytical skills, he believes XLRI was responsible for sparking the interest in Leadership & Marketing making him a life-long student of consumer behavior and insight! Sandeep is married to Anuranjita Kumar, another alumni of XLRI from the 1994 batch who runs a startup Women In Technology (WIT.in) focusing on diversity & inclusion. Prior to that she spent over 2 decades as head of HR with Citibank & RBS. They have 2 children – daughter Avni who studies Politics & Economics at University of Pennsylvania and son Siddharth who studies at British School Delhi.

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XLRI – Xavier School of Management, Jamshedpur proudly presents, Shri. Sandeep Kataria THE SIR JEHANGIR GHANDY MEDAL FOR INDUSTRIAL AND SOCIAL PEACE

CITATION

An iconic business leader whose commitment and dedication earned him the distinction of being the first Indian in Bata's 126 years history to be made its global CEO. A creative visionary acclaimed for over 25 years for his discerning insight and leadership, across top businesses and powerhouse brands. An innovative and transformational leader who contemporized brand image, strategy, and technology in a volatile and disruptive environment, Shri Sandeep Kataria · Spurred growth with daring initiatives (Taco Bell) and engineered brand transformation (HUL and Bata) · Reached out to the unreached and spurred inclusive growth with pocket friendly products and customized digitally assisted made-to-order footwear · Created new benchmark for competition with insight driven advertising and ingenious marketing campaigns (Vodafone, “Surprisingly Bata”) · Introduced efficient and innovative channels of distribution (store on wheels, sector markets, multibrand outlets) · Created runaway success through caring and inclusive enterprise and reimaging client engagement. In appreciation of his exceptional leadership and drive, his sound market perception and strategic finesse, as well as to champion our gold medallist of 1993 batch, XLRI is privileged to present the Sir Jehangir Ghandy Medal for Industrial & Social Peace to Shri. Sandeep Kataria.

Given at the 65th Convocation, the seventy second year of the founding of XLRI, Jamshedpur.

Fr. P Christie, S.J. T. V. Narendran Director Chairman, Board of Governors

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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 &

Sir Jehangir Ghandy Steel Co. Ltd., and presented annually by XLRI.

Sir Jehangir Ghandy Medal Recipients

Year Medal Recipients Year Medal Recipients Year Medal Recipients 1965 S R Vasavada 1989 V G Gopal 2012 N R Narayana Murthy 1966 P N Krishna Pillai 1990 V R Deenadayalu 2013 Shiv Nadar 1967 K S Basu 1991 Suresh Krishna 2014 Arundhati Bhattacharya 1968 Naval H Tata 1992 V Kurien 2015 Mallika Srinivasan 1969 B P Gajendragadkar 1993 A N Buch 2016 Sunil Kant Munjal 1970 - 1994 Kesub Mahindra 2017 Adi Godrej 1971 Khandubai Desai 1995 N Vaghul 2018 TV Mohandas Pai 1972 P L Tandon 1996 P A Sangma 2019 Anu Aga 1973 R P Billimoria 1997 Jyoti Basu 2020 Sanjiv Mehta 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, SJ 1979 Arvind Mafatlal 2002 M S Banga 1980 H Holck Larsen 2003 Marian Zelazek, SVD 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

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CONVOCATION SPEAKERS

Year Speaker Year Speaker Year Speaker 1959 Sir Jehangir Ghandy 1986 R H Mody 2012 Jaspal Bindra 1960 Sudhir Ghosh 1987 Ashok S Ganguly 2013 Pratip Chaudhuri 1961 Michael John 1988 D N Ghosh 2014 Arundhati Bhattacharya 1962 V V Giri 1989 Abid Hussain 2015 Mallika Srinivasan 1963 S N Sinha 1990 R H Mody 2016 Sunil Kant Munjal 1964 R G DeCosta 1991 M N Goiporia 2017 Adi Godrej 1965 M C Chagla 1992 K L Chugh 2018 TV Mohandas Pai 1966 P M Menon 1993 J J Irani 2019 Anu Aga 1967 K S Basu 1994 Montek Singh Ahluwalia 2020 Sanjiv Mehta 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 2008 Subodh Bhargava 1983 A N Haksar 2009 O P Bhatt 1984 V Krishnamurthy 2010 Kumar Mangalam

1985 K L Puri 2011 Vineet Nayar

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MEDALS
FOR
ACADEMIC
EXCELLENCE

Rajat Paliwal Pranali Batra XLRI Medal : Best All-round Student XLRI Medal : Best All-round Woman Student in Memory of Parineet Reddy in Memory of Geeta Saxena [Sponsored by Reddys] [Sponsored by Madhukar Shukla]

Rajeev Ranjan Kumar Rajat Paliwal XLRI Medal : Outstanding FPM Student XLRI Medal : Highest CQPI - HRM in Memory of K V K Raju in Memory of John P D’Costa [Sponsored by Nagarjuna Foundation] [Sponsored by Ronald D’Costa]

Rahul Dube Raj Gopal Tripathi XLRI Medal : Second Highest CQPI - HRM XLRI Medal : Second Highest CQPI - BM [Sponsored by Janardhan Pyda]

Abhishek Chawla Henna Handa XLRI Medal : Highest CQPI - BM XLRI Medal : Highest CQPI - GMP in Memory of Ram Awtar Chachra in Memory of R S Pande [Sponsored by Krishna Lal Chachra] [Sponsored by K G Pande]

Ashish Chandra Gupta Diptisikha Dash XLRI Medal : Highest CQPI - BM [Evening] Kalyani Prakash Deshmukh [2018-21] [Sponsored by Jagans] Subham Sinha Shrivastav Akash Vijay Kanak Ramkrishna Kulkarni Shreya Agarwal XLRI Medal for Social Initiatives [Sponsored by State Bank of India]

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FELLOW PROGRAM IN MANAGEMENT (Total : 06)

Arindra Nath Mishra : 2016 - 2021

Kshamta Sharma [Ms] : 2014 - 2021

Arindam Saha : 2009 - 2021

Birjendu Gupta : 2007 - 2021

Praveen Kumar Choudhary : 2011 - 2021

Rajeev Ranjan Kumar : 2017 - 2021

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TWO-YEAR POSTGRADUATE DIPLOMA IN HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT 2019-21 Batch (Total : 181)

The names of the first five rank holders are in the order of merit. (for Section A, B & C)

Rajat Paliwal Rahul Dube Pranjal Goyal [Ms]

Shivam Khandelwal Vaibhav Bhandari

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Rest of the names are in alphabetical order HRM - Section (A) HRM - Section (B) HRM - Section (C)

A Anusha [Ms] Aartika Dhamija [Ms] Abhinaba Chakraborty Aakash Jaiswal Abhijeet Kesarwani Aditya Kulkarni R Adarsh Agrawal Aditya Juneja Aishwarya Batra [Ms] Aditya Merchant Akash Sharma Aman Sanjay Aishwarya Jain [Ms] Akshay Patni Amoolya Huilgol [Ms] Akram Tariq Khan Akshita Mahesh Jain [Ms] Ankit Thakur Amanpreet Singh Ananya Bhav Abrol [Ms] Anushka Jewrajka [Ms] Ananya Lodha [Ms] Anshuman Mishra Anvita Anand [Ms] Ankush Bansal Anushka Jain [Ms] Aravind N Anushree Narhari Warade [Ms] Anvela Chevuru [Ms] Aravinda Chavali [Ms] Anwesha Chakraborty [Ms] Aparna Harikumar [Ms] Aritra Kumar Dutta Archit Garg Arghyadeep Mandal Atshara Sri Nelson [Ms] Ayan Bandyopadhyay Archita Bhattacharya [Ms] Astha [Ms] Deepankar Pareek Arpit Gupta Atmuri Datta Sai Hareesh Divya Gautam [Ms] BNS Sai Kartik Barkha [Ms] Debayan Das Harishankar P Bulusu Ashish Kumar Jayasimha Raghavan Ekta Roy [Ms] Debopam Bandyopadhyay Eshan Varma K Pranab Naidu Diksha Sharma [Ms] Kanak Ramkrishna Kulkarni [Ms] Harshit Chaturvedi Ereka Susan Cyril [Ms] Ishita Saxena [Ms] Kirtan Ramesh Doshi Gangeshwar Tripathi Kratika Doshi [Ms] Jasleen Madan [Ms] J Abhinavaram Marineedi Sri Harsha KSK Chythanya Jaanvi Singh [Ms] Maya Nagasunder [Ms] Kalyani Prakash Deshmukh [Ms] Joel Varghese George Minna Gupta [Ms] Kavya Gupta [Ms] Jyotsna Jagan [Ms] Molugu Swetha [Ms] Kumar Abhishek K Vivek Varkey Naman Gupta Maleka Hossain [Ms] Komal Prasad [Ms] Prabhakar Mani Tripathi Mehak Garg [Ms] Likhita Y [Ms] Pragyan Singh [Ms] Mishita [Ms] Maaz Sohrab Pranjal Gupta Mohit Singh Chandel Mansi Singh [Ms] Prateek Singh Nisha Sharma [Ms] Mehek Chandna [Ms] Rampay Lakshmi Sai Sanjana [Ms] Noel Saji Paul Mohini Bindal [Ms] Rashi Purushottam Gandhi [Ms] Pooja Sinha [Ms] Mrigank Shekhar Parashar Rishabh Sharma Pradan Jain Nomula Akhil Reddy Riya Santhosh [Ms] Pranali Batra [Ms] Pallavi Ajay [Ms] Rudra Mandal Prateek Patwari Poorva Kishor Tendulkar [Ms] Rupam Sinha [Ms] Pratyaksh Jain Pragati Jain [Ms] Rutva Nayank Dave Rajarshi Sengupta Prakamya Joshi Saket Shrivastava Rhea Sharma [Ms] Prateek Pramod Sarvesh Sharma Rohit Shubham Praveen Agarwal Sayantan Ghosh Shama Ilyas Patel [Ms] Ruchika Pathak [Ms] Rishika Ranjan [Ms] Shantanu Mahanty S S Ezhil [Ms] Rupal Rawat [Ms] Shivam Chandra Sahil Singla Sajal Saxena Saksham Solanki Shivani Dipak Chougule [Ms] Sanket Shreya Agarwal [Ms] Satyam Roy Saurav Kumar Ganguly Shashwat Kishore Shreyansh Tyagi Shashwat Luthra Shrivastav Akash Vijay Shrinath Kanha Diwan Shivani Singh [Ms] Shweta Sanjay Jain [Ms] Shriya Srivastava [Ms] Shreyans Dugar Shweta Sonal Mishra [Ms] Shubham Vijaykumar Jeswani Shruti Biswajit Mukherjee [Ms] Somesh Tiwari Smriti Garg [Ms] Shubham Agrawal Souvik Atha Soumyajit Sengupta Sonal Gandhi [Ms] Srija Chakrabarti [Ms] Sravya Avula [Ms] Sourav Kumar Nayak Srishti Sharma [Ms] Subham Sinha Subashree P [Ms] Sujith Sukumaran Nair Sujoy Mondal Sudipto Bhattacharjee Swetha Seshadri [Ms] Thunuguntla Sai Srivastava Mani Rohit Suraj Mahajan Tanmoy Ayon Nandi Utkarsh Agarwal Tuhin Ranjan Dasgupta Ujjwal Sinha Vishnu Nair Utkarsh Mehrotra Vyom Aggarwal Yash Gandhi Visnu Sasindran Yash Jayant Naiknavare Yogesh Sharma Yash Murarka Yashica Garg [Ms]

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TWO-YEAR POSTGRADUATE DIPLOMA IN BUSINESS MANAGEMENT 2019-21 Batch (Total : 178)

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TWO-YEAR POSTGRADUATE DIPLOMA IN BUSINESS MANAGEMENT 2019-21 Batch (Total : 178)

The names of the first five rank holders are in the order of merit. (for Section A, B & C)

Raj Gopal Tripathi Sagar Sahni

Nikita Gambhir [Ms] Kshitij Gupta

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Rest of the names are in alphabetical order BM - Section (A) BM - Section (B) BM - Section (C) Aayush Gulati Abhinav Prusty Abhijith A Abhishek Bhat Abhishek Pal Aditya S Kashyap Abhishek Rathour Aditya Sanket Akshat Khandelwal Akash Khatri Akshay Amandeep Singh Kalsi Akshay Joshi Ambar Laad Anand Sunil Deshpande Amit Kumar Garg Ankit Kumar Singh Angshuman Pal Ankit Mallick Ankush Kumar Ankur Goyal Antony J Sankoorikal Anuja Rai [Ms] Anushree Ghosh [Ms] Anusha Sinha [Ms] Arpit Apoorva Rastogi [Ms] Apurva Jain [Ms] Aston Leo Arindam Sain Ashish Gangal Avinash Bhat J Ashok George Atharva Kedar Bhave Chinmay Mundhra Athul Krishna A Ayush Rawat D V S Sudhama Battula Chandrashekar TR Chirantan Samantaray Devagya Jha D Harish Debmalya Banik Chowdhury Diksha Singh [Ms] Deepthisree Chunduri [Ms] Devesh Agarawal Divya Mani Tripathi Dhairya Amit Desai Diptisikha Dash [Ms] Gaurav Vijay Nair Furqan Eshan Tyagi Hari Sankar S Gayathri S [Ms] Gunjan Kumar Verma Harsh Parasrampuria Happy Kukreja Harshit Jain Ishaan Arora Jadhav Nitish Prakash Jadhav Chetan Bharat Ivy Maji [Ms] K Sai Chandra Jubin Sharma Jayant Jain Keesara Nagadeep Reddy Kapil Sachar Kondapuram Vamsi Krishna Krishna Agarwal Kashish Gupta [Ms] Kriti Chandra [Ms] Kriti Ahuja [Ms] Kushagra Agarwal Lalit Tiwari Lakshay Mehndiratta Lay Amrutbhai Solanki Munugoti Anurag Sharma Mallika Jain [Ms] Mohammad Saad Nidhi Dwivedy [Ms] Marichetty Venkata Teja Vaibhav N Nikhil Jain Nikhil Jindal Mohit Marhatta Niharika Nath [Ms] Nikita Gulgule [Ms] Nallamilli Sandeep Reddy Nivedita Singh [Ms] Parikshit Garg Palav Dewang Dinanath Padmanabh Pandit Pranav J Pranav Bhatt Praphull Kabtiyal Puja Shankar [Ms] Preksha Gupta [Ms] Radhika Garg [Ms] Raghav Bhatia Raghav Aggarwal Raghav Grover Ramapriyan SV Randhir Singh Ragini Manoranjan Mahapatra [Ms] Ravi Shankar Reshmi Sriram [Ms] Rana Anshuman Ritika Deshwal [Ms] Rishabh Lohia Revuluri Dilip Chandra Santhosh Ritwick Rohan Paliwal Rohan Jude Coelho Ronit Ray Samar Singh Chouhan Roshan Ashokbhai Shah Sahil Gupta Samriddhi Vashishtha [Ms] Rucha Shailesh Kalekar [Ms] Samyuktaa Dhandapani [Ms] Sarthak Harnathka Sai Phanindra Mula Saransh Kejriwal Sayan Sen Sajal Garg Sarthak Jalali Shagun Mathur [Ms] Sanchari Das [Ms] Sharmishta R Somayaji [Ms] Shashwat Jha Sarjan Sheth Shashwat Nandan Shekhar Singh Sayan Chatterjee Shobhit Sharma Shourya Sardana Shashwat Dharmadhikari Shrey Bhala Shshank Pandey Shaurya Sharma Shubham Bhardwaj Siddhanth S Nair Shounak Ghosh Sneha Bahety [Ms] Simran Kathuria [Ms] Shrish Garg Soham Ghosh Sourav Raha Shubham Kapoor Sourabh Shumbham Sudhanshu Kumar Tetarbe Silpa P S [Ms] Sugandh Suhasini Sharma [Ms] Srinkhala Maheshwari [Ms] Tiwari Snehal Manish Suyash Saklecha Sriranga Bharath Kota Trivedi Tosha Niraj [Ms] Utkarsh Jain Sukul Bagai Utsav Mehul Shah Vanshika Sharma [Ms] Umang Tharad Vaasu Sehgal Virag Sanjay Shah V Sandhya [Ms] Veni Gupta [Ms] Vishishtha Upul [Ms] Vatsalya Patel Vishal Manmadharao Medida Vineet Singh Rawat Vivitsa Upasti [Ms] Vishakha Gautam [Ms]

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POSTGRADUATE DIPLOMA IN GENERAL MANAGEMENT 2019-20 Batch (Total : 101) Fifteen Months Programme

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

Henna Handa [Ms] Surbhi [Ms] Shiny Panigrahi [Ms]

Tanmoy Chatterjee Richa Agrawal [Ms]

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Rest of the names are in alphabetical order

PGDM - GM : Section (A) PGDM - GM : Section (B)

Aayush Agarwal Aayush Garg Abhirup Bose Abhishek Gupta Aditee Sharma [Ms} Abhishek Kumar Ambudheesh Parasar Aditya Prakash Amit Nayak Amit Kr Jash Ankur Singh Anju Srivastava [Ms] Anupam Dutt Shukla Anubhav Srivastava Aravind M Konanur Anurag Pan Astha Jain[Ms] Arumugaselvan D Ayush Jalan Asutosh Mishra Deepti Sharma [Ms] Ayush Gupta Dipak Kumar Gupta Balabhadrapatruni Srikanth Dipta Bhanu Bakshi Debanu Mahapatra Gaurav Gopal Pandey Deokaransingh Kailashsingh Rajput Harsha Devinani [Ms] Dipanwita Kundu [Ms] Hemanth Subramanian Ervin George Himanshu R Shrivastava Gaurav Kumar Josyula Vani Samyukta [Ms] Harshit Nayal K Parth Prakash Joginder Sangwan Kuldeep Sharma Kinshuk Shekhar Kumar Utkrist Kshitij Srivastava Manisha Bhatia [Ms] Kumar Kamlesh Mayuresh Dilip Pradhan M Manish Nair Naina Rustagi [Ms] Mahak Kapoor {Ms} Naman Taneja Nabeen Khandeep Naveen Thoppil Naman Kohli Nikhil Khurana Nikhil Kumar Sahu Nishant Kumar Nivin P Panackal Pallavi [Ms} Pranay Tripathy Pratapan K Prathamesh Dalvi Prithviraj Pyne Purandar Aditya Rahul Kumar Rahul Mishra Rajat Ranjan Rahul Udainia Rishi Shekhar Jha Rajdeep Gupta Sameeksha Sinha [Ms] Richa Kaur [Ms] Saritha T {Ms] Roy Niharika [Ms] Sashidharan Chandershekar Sakshi Mishra [Ms] Saurav Drolia Saquib Raza Shahid Akhtar Saumya Rastogi [Ms] Shilpi Sikha Sarangi [Ms] Shah Rushal Mayur Silky Mukherjee [Ms] Shashank Bhatnagar Sri Giri Raghavendra R Shilpika Shukla [Ms] Sudhanshu Shekhar Shruthi P Rao [Ms] Surabhi Jha {Ms] Sreya De [Ms] Suvankar Das Gupta Sumit kashyap Tanya Sood [Ms] Syed Mohammad Haider Abbas Zaidi Vinod Kumar K V Pranay Chowdary Vellala Pramod Vivek Kumar

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THREE - YEAR POSTGRADUATE DIPLOMA IN BUSINESS MANAGEMENT (Evening) 2018-21 Batch (Total : 40)

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THREE - YEAR POSTGRADUATE DIPLOMA IN BUSINESS MANAGEMENT (Evening) 2018-21 Batch (Total : 40)

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

Ashish Chandra Gupta Rohit Kumar Sameer Sagar Mishra

Deep Thakur Md Azim Ashraf

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Xavier School of Management EXCELLENCE & INTEGRITY For the greater good Rest of the names are in alphabetical order

BM [Evening]

Abhishek Ranjan Mukesh Pandit Alok Kumar Nihar Ranjan Mandal Anirban Basu Nitesh Kumar Singh Ankit Kumar Vivek P Yogesh Kumar Anurupa Samaiyar [Ms] Pranab Kumar Mishra Chandan Kumar Rahul Kumar Chandrima Das [Ms] Ranbeer Singh Debanjan Ghosh Rishi Raj Gajendra Kumar Mahto Samit Kumar Nandi Ghanshyam Krishna Sandip Kumar Saha Indraneel Dutta Sanjeet Kumar Jagjeet Singh Sanjeev Kumar Mishra Kunal Mehta Sanjeevendra Bharadwaj Kunal Narayan Khirade Saptarshi Shome Manish Singh Subhajit Roy Manoj Kumar Jha Tuhin Choudhury Markendey Sahoo Urvashi Kumari Chaudhary [Ms] Vikash Goel

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Reports on XLRI OFFICE 2020 - 2021

Dean’s Office Admission Office Placement Office International Relation Office BM (Evening) Program Sir Jehangir Ghandy Library Virtual Interactive Learning Program MDPs & In-company Program Office Executive Postgraduate Diploma in Management Committee Against Sexual Harassment Alumni Office FPM Office

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DEAN’S OFFICE

1. No. of Faculty Area-wise Sl. Area No. of Faculty 1. Economics 06 2. Finance 11 3. General Management 07 4. Human Resource Management 12 5. Information Systems 02 6. Marketing 12 7. Organisational Behaviour 08 8. Production, Operations & Decision Sciences 13 9. Strategic Management 08 Total 79

2. Faculty Recruitment during 2020 - 21 Sl. Name Date of Joining Area / Designation No New Recruitment was done

3. Faculty who separated during 2020 – 21 Date of Sl. Name Retirement / Area Resignation 1. Dr Kanchan Mukherjee 31.03.2020 OB 2. Dr Sourabh Arora 23.05.2020 Marketing 3. Dr Saurabh Kaushik Pandya 18.06.2020 Strategic Management 4. Fr Jerome Cutinha, S J 30.06.2020 General Management

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4. New Electives Approved during 2020 – 21

Production Operations and Decision Sciences and IS Area: Ø Digital Product Management: Concept to Commercialization - 3 Credit for BM and HRM

5. Electives Re-designed and Re-named

Sl. No. Earlier Name e New Name Area Advanced Financial Modeling 1 Advanced Financial Analytics using R Finance using R 2 Marketing Management – I Principles of Marketing Marketing 3 Marketing Management – II Marketing Planning and Implementation Marketing

6. MoUs signed for Student Exchange Programmes:

We have recently signed MOU's with 2 new Institutes. The details are as follows:

New Partnerships:

We added two more partners to our esteemed list of partners:

1. Magis Exchange Memorandum of Agreement with International Association of Jesuit Universities signed in September 2020

2. West Virginia University, West Virginia, USA signed in November 2020

7. International Exchange Programme

a) Faculty Exchange: NIL [Due to COVID-19]

b) No second-year students of Business Management and Human Resource Management (Batch: 2019 - 21) went on Internationa l Student Exchange during September - December 2020 due to COVID-19

Sl. College Location Sid Student No.

NIL

c) 05 students from the following Institutes registered to XLRI on International Student Exchange Programme to attend courses during September to December 2020 online:

Sl. School Place Student Name No.

1 Aston Business School UK Hemanth Reddy Kakarla

Gatien Michon

Margaux David Reims, NEOMA Business School 2. France Pierre De Herre

Bencheikh Aymen

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8. Recipients of the Scholarships for the year 2020 - 21

Sl. Name of the Programme Name of the Student Roll No. Amount No. Scholarship Deepthisree Chunduri [Ms] B19133 1,75,000 / Year Aditya Birla BM / HRM 1. Scholarship [2019 – 21] Aravind N H19130 1,75,000 / Year HRM 1,00,000 each / Vipul Kapoor H20179 [2020 – 22] Year BM 1,00,000 each / Ravi Shankar B19037 [2019 – 21] Year 2. IDFC First Bank 1,00,000 each / Gangeshwar Tripathi H19079 HRM Year [2019 – 21] 1,00,000 each / Pragyan Singh (Ms) H19151 Year OP Jindal HRM 3. Engineering & Mansi Pradhan (Ms) H20154 80,000 [2020 – 22] Management BMJ 4. T Thomas Harshit Sejra BJ20140 1,00,000 [2020 – 22] HRM 5 . Pirojsha Godrej Aeshani Garg H20005 25,000 [2020 – 22] Joseph M Sciortino 6. - No Awardees - 25,000 [for ST Students]

Kalyan Ganguly XEF BM 7. Suyash Saklecha B19176 1,00,000 Scholarship [2019 – 21] Naveen Jain & BM / HRM 8. Distinguished Alumni No Awardees - 20,000 [2019 – 21] Award Vasantha Sankaran BM 9. Roshan Ashokbhai Shah B19100 1,00,000 Scholarship [2019 – 21] Tuition Fee XLRI Diamond Sagar Sahni B19160 BM / HRM Upto 2.85 Lakhs Jubilee 10. . [201 9 – 21] Tuition Fee [Seniors] Rajat Paliwal H19098 Upto 2.85 Lakhs

Tuition Fee XLRI Diamond Aakash Girish Vaswani BJ20058 BM / HRM Upto 2.55 Lakhs 11. Jubilee [2020 – 22] Tuition Fee [Juniors] Jay Manak Bohra H20086 Upto 2.55 Lakhs

Apurva Jain B19069 1,50,000 BM / HRM Gunjan Kumar Verma B19078 1,50,000 [2019 – 21] Roshan Ashokbhai Shah B19100 1,50,000 Simran Kathuria B19171 1,50,000

12. Alumni Scholarship Archit Garg H19012 1,50,000

Kalyani Prakash Deshmukh H19025 1,50,000

GMP Poorva Kishor Tendulkar H19115 1,50,000 Arijit Dutta G20009 1,50,000 [20 – 21] Abhijit Banerjee G20049 1,50,000 Mirae Asset BM / HRM Neha Jain H20156 5,00,000 13. Foundation [2020 – 22] Scholarship Dinesh Kumar Kaliki BD20025 5,00,000

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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 2020 - 21: Sl. Name of CEO Designation Company Date of Visit Topic No.

Head of Learning, Mr Jaswanth Human resource 1 Talent & CavinKare 24.09.20 Sharanarthy management in FMCGs Organizational Design

PVSM, AVSM, VSM, Vice Admiral Leadership and 2 Retd Indian Navy Logistics of Indian Navy 06.10.20 Jaywant Korde Negotiation Skills Veteran

Handling Challenging 3 Mr Anil Bhasin President Havell's India Limited 10.10.20 Times

Top 5 Skills Product Ramprasad Vice President - Managers Need To Be 4 Publicis SAPIENT 13.10.20 Padmanabha Product Management Successful In Today’s VUCA World New Age Design thinking and Business Excellence Innovation Management 5 Sumant Sood Head - Innovation Titan Company Limited 13.10.20 and Design Thinking Sustainability and Client Management/Customer Experience Some sizes fit all >> Fundamentals of business irrespective of the line of 6 Akhil Gupta Vice Chairman Bharti Group 16.10.20 business, geography or scale are universally applicable. • Importance of failures - a secret no one tells you about • Workplace politics - Way to use it positively Vice President - • How to curb 7 Gautam Khanna Infosys Limited 17.10.20 Global Head counterproductive work

behaviour • Being in a single Org for a long duration - Switching helps to grow: Myth or reality? Building Personal Value 8 Ms Zulekha Head HR Times Internet 18.10.20 Proposition

Climate change and role in Mr Sandeep PricewaterhouseCoopers 9 Director 18.10.20 consulting. What to expect Kumar Mohanty Limited and How to prepare for it?

Co-Founder and CEO, Workforce 10 Mr Pankaj Bansal People Strong 23.10.20 PeopleStrong Entrepreneurship

1. How is IT transforming HomeTown (Praxis the retail scenario? 11 Mr Sujoy Mitra Head-Technology 24.10.20 Home Retail Limited) 2. IT innovations in the retail space

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Sl. Name of CEO Designation Company Date of Visit Topic No.

Mr Sanjay Leadership issues faced 12 Chairman Our HeathMate 30.10.20 Banerjee by the current managers

The Race to Forty: 13 Mr Hetal Sonpal Speaker Angel Investor 16.11.20 Insights on Career Planning Tete-A-Tete on Scaling Mr Amey Head of JioGenNext, Reliance Industries 14 24.11.20 Sustainably: Creating a Mashelkar RIL Limited Successful Startup Senior Vice President, Chief Human Leadership Lessons- an 15 Mr Raj Narayan Titan Industries Limited 24.11.20 Resources Office Interacti ve Session

(CHRO) Creative Leadership - 16 Dr Kiran Bedi Lieutenant Governor Government of India 21.01.21 Collaborative Governance New Era of Innovation - Associate Vice 17 Vartul Mittal Wipro Limited 21.02.21 Intelligent Automation & President Advanced Analytics

10. Guest Lectures

During June 2020 to March 2021 around 57 guest lectures were organized.

Sl. Full Name Company No.

1. Mr Abhishek Sharma Skybags India

2. Mr Akaash Chatterjee PwC Limited

3. Mr Amit Mehta Hindustan Unilever Limited

4. Mr Angshuman Ghosh Sony Research India | Forbes Technology Council 5. Mr Anirban Ghosh Mahindra & Mahindra Group

6. Prof Atanu Ghosh Salt n Soap and Bluebeaks Solutions, Kolkata

7. Mr Avinash Misra Skan

8. Mr Basudev Prakash Basu Consultant

9. Mr Brajesh Bajpai Vodafone, London

10. Mr Chetan Dikshit Yellow Giraffe Capital 11. Prof D P Ghosh Consultant

12. Dr Dev Narayan Sarkar PepsiCo India

13. Mr Devraj Basu Satchi & Satchi

14. Mr Dhaval Jain Howrah Municipal Corporation

15. Dr Eshan Ahluwalia MSCI Services

16. Mr Giridhar Seetharam Pidilite Industries Limited 17. Prof Gurjeet Kaur University of Jammu

18. Mr Harinder Singh Relianace Brands

19. Ms Karishma Pais IT Sector

20. Mr Koushik B Chennai Petroleum Coporation Limited

21. Mr Mahesh Medhekar Mercedez-Benz Research & Development India Pvt. Ltd

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Sl. Full Name Company No.

22. Mr Manjot Singh L&T Infotech

23. Mr Manoj Kohli Bharti Airtel Limited 24. Mr Martin Shah XLRI

25. Ms Mitali Biswas C K Birla Hospitals 26. Mr Munish Sudan Tata Steel

27. Mr N S Muthukumaran Nielsen Company 28. Mr Nikhil Gidra Bansal Altran India 29. Mr Nikhil Vanakamamidi Erst & Young LLP

30. Prof Nikunk Kumar Jain IMT, Ghaziabad

31. Mr Peter Jan SP FIG Advisory 32. Ms Poornima Dore Tata Trusts 33. Mr Pratyush Prabhakar Governement of India, New Delhi

34. Mr Raghavshyam Ramamurthy Wilson Consulting Private Limited

35. Prof Ratan K K GutsGo eMarketing 36. Mr Rishi Mohan Sanwal ISB, IIM Kashipur, IIM Lucknow, IRMA 37. Mr Ronak Moondra Option Financial Research Pvt. Ltd

38. Mr Rupesh Gandhi Amazon Internet Services Private Limited 39. Mr Samar Sheikhavat Consultant 40. Mr Sandeep Gautam M & A

41. Mr Sandeep Tanwani Hindustan Unilever Limited

42. Ms Sangeetha S TurnExpert.com 43. Mr Sanjay Bhandarkar HDFC Asset Management Company 44. Mr Sanjay Panigrahi Consultant

45. Mr Saunak Saha EY in the Climate Change and Sustainability Practice

46. Ms Shamita Chatterjee Infosys 47. Ms Shirin Salis Trane Technologies 48. Mr Shriram Sanjeevi Levista Coffee

49. Mr Shubham Kochar PwC Limited

50. Mr Sreerang Godbole Oyo Rooms

51. Mr Stephen Leavy M & A 52. Prof Subhas C Kundu Haryana Business School 53. Mr Sujit Sudhakaran Freshworks 54. Mr Sumit Sadana FMCG Distributor in Jamshedpur 55. Mr Varun Gupta RP-Sanjiv Goenka Group|Ex- unilever, Pepsico

56. Mr Vishram Deshpande Government of Maharashtra

57. Mr Yoshovardhan Azad Civil Services

11. Number of Graduating Students:

FPM 6

Human Res ource Management 181 B usiness Management 178 Ex-PGDM Programme 101

BM – Evening [2018 – 21] 40 ______TOTAL 506

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ADMISSION OFFICE

XAT 2021 was conducted online on Sunday, 3 January, 2021. The online exam was held all over India in 79 Cities. We had 329 centres. Tata Consultancy Services conducted the online test. This year more than 80,000 candidates registered for XAT; 35 percent of candidates were female, and 40 percent of candidates were from a non-engineering background. 38 percent of candidates had industry experience. The candidates came from all parts of India. We endeavored to reach as many deserving candidates as possible. To achieve this objective, we tried to get a broader base by increasing the digital advertising proportion. XAT 2021 was very well marketed and labeled by many as one of the best management entrance tests in the country. On 20 January, 2021, XAT results were declared, and XLRI on 27 January, 2021, for BM, HRM, and GMP on 21 January, 2021. BM and HRM intake for Jamshedpur campus is 360 and GMP it is 120 [Jamshedpur Campus] and BM, Delhi-NCR campus is 120. The students had the option to select multiple programs, 4,982 applied for the FPM program, 56,189 candidates applied for the BM program, 46,754 candidates applied for the HRM program, and about 1,258 candidates through XAT and 230 through GMAT/GRE for GMP. We have shortlisted 2,063 for the BM program, 1,894 for the HRM program and 686 candidates for the GMP program. During 1-11 February 2021, GMP Interviews were held, and from 15 February till 26 March 2021, BM and HRM programs interviews were conducted. XLRI will announce the final shortlist in April 2021.

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PLACEMENTS OFFICE

XLRI successfully achieved 100 percent placements Amazon, P&G, Aditya Birla Group, ITC, Nestle, for the outgoing batch of 2019-21 of its flagship Standard Chartered, Capgemini ELITE, Hindustan Unilever, and others. programme PGDM(HRM) and PGDM(BM). Despite New recruiters included companies such as the pandemic crisis a total of 358 students secured Mastercard, DE Shaw, Airbnb, DBS Bank, Nykaa, offers through the final recruitment process in record Freshworks, ZS Associates, Ganit Inc amongst others. Consulting was the biggest draw this year with firms two days. Around 108 recruiters, including 23 new such as Bain & Company, The Boston Consulting recruiters, participated in the final recruitment and Group, AT Kearney, Accenture Strategy, Deloitte, made 370 domestic and international offers. PwC, EY, KPMG, Everest Group, Infosys Consulting Key Highlights of Final Recruitment (2020): and others participating in the process. ● The median salary offered to the batch stood at Rs 23 XLRI has established itself as a campus preferred by lakhs per annum with the top 10th and 25th percentile FMCGs and the trend continued this year with top firms average being Rs 37.49 and Rs 34.80 lakhs per annum such as P&G, Hindustan Unilever, ITC, Colgate respectively Palmolive, Asian Paints, Samsung, Marico and others ● The average salary saw an increase to Rs 25.08 lakhs participating. per annum in 2020 from last year's Rs 24.30 lakhs per From finance segment we had the big players like annum Goldman Sachs, JP Morgan Chase, NIIF, Citibank. ● Highest domestic offers came from the BFSI sector Standard Chartered, Kotak Mahindra Bank, ICICI, ● A total of 23 new recruiters participated in the process Edelweiss and others participating in the recruitment. ● The top segments based on roles offered were Roles in General Management were offered by Consulting, Sales & Marketing and BFSI conglomerates such as TAS, Aditya Birla Group, ● Boston Consulting Group, Bain and Co., Mahindra, Capgemini ELITE, Reliance Industries, PricewaterhouseCoopers, Accenture Strategy, Xiaomi, RPG, ACT and others. From ITES, E- Amazon, ITC, PayTM made the highest number of commerce and online services segment we had firms offers among the regular recruiters like Microsoft, Amazon, PayTM, PhonePe, Myntra, ● New finals recruiters included prestigious companies Ola, Media.net, Flipkart, Udaan, AirBnB, HCL, TCS, such as Mastercard, DE Shaw, Airbnb, DBS Bank, EXL and others making lucrative offers. Nykaa, Freshworks, ZS Associates, Tata Electronics, This year saw an increased participation from EdTech ProgCap, Rebel Foods, IDFC Bank amongst others firms, with Byju's, Unacademy and VMock visiting ● Legacy recruiters like PwC, Goldman Sachs, campus for final placements. The diverse set of roles PayTM, Airtel opened new roles for the students of offered were product manager, program manager, XLRI business development and financial planning. ● Enthusiastic participation from PSUs like Power HR roles were offered by firms spanning the spectrum Finance Corporation and GAIL was also seen in the of domains such as P&G, HUL, ITC, Colgate final recruitment process Palmolive, Marico, JP Morgan and Chase, Myntra, Sector-wise Turnout: Consulting firms extended Ola, Power Finance Corporation, Samsung and others. offers to 29 percent of the candidates. Sales & Marketing and BFSI constituted 16 percent and 14 percent of the roles offered to the students respectively. BCG, PwC, Accenture Strategy and PayTM made the highest number of offers amongst other regular recruiters such as TAS, Microsoft,

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PGDM (GM) PLACEMENT OFFICE

PGDM(GM) class of 2019-20 graduates accepted New Recruiters 22% positions across a wide range of career paths – from early- Fortune 500 Corporates 39% stage startups to large, established companies. Despite the challenging market scenario batch of 2020 secured over Average Increase in Pay Post PGDM (GM) 137.45% 92 percent placements. Top sectors were Information Median Increase in Pay Post PGDM (GM) 150% Technology (offering 54 percent roles) followed by Secured Offer within the Course Duration 92% Consulting, Banking, Financial Services and Insurance, E-Commerce, and others. Top 5 Recruiters :

Ÿ Accenture Batch Statistics : Ÿ Axis Bank Ÿ Genpact Total Participants 101 Ÿ Infosys No. of Male Participant 73 Ÿ Virtusa No. of Female Participants 28

Average Age 29 years

Average Work Exp. 6.2 years A representative sample of the roles offered is as follows:

Participants opting for campus placements 95 Ÿ Assistant Vice President - HR Ÿ Operations Manager Placement Highlights : Ÿ Assistant Vice President

Details Amount (in Rs Lakhs) Ÿ Gold Grad Ÿ Highest Salary 30 Project Manager Ÿ Median Salary 18 Product Manager Ÿ Average Salary of Top 10% 23.5 Senior Consultant Ÿ Average Salary of Top 25% 21.3 Account Manager Ÿ Business Development Manager Average Salary of Top 50% 20 Ÿ Business Analyst Ÿ Operations Manger Employment Statistics: Ÿ Associate Manager

The unwavering trust shown by the recruiters on the dynamic group of PGDM(GM) students proved to be a major reason behind successful placements. The batch received offers from corporate giants like Accenture, ADP, Axis Bank, CGI, Cognizant, EY, Genpact, IBM, Infosys Consulting, Infosys DCG, L & T Infotech, Mphasis, Novartis, Publicis Sapient, Schindler, Vikram Solar, Virtusa and many more.

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INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS

This year the international exchange programmes were impacted due to the pandemic. While none of our postgraduate students or faculty could go on exchange to the partner universities, six postgraduate students (2 from Aston and 4 from NEOMA) attended online classes with our students.

The first student who went to Macquarie University as part of the dual doctoral programme completed his curriculum at Macquarie and returned to XLRI.

The institute is planning to offer joint degree programmes in Health Care Management, Analytics and Sports Management. The institute is also looking at a possibility of offering international certificate programmes for students who are undergoing their postgraduate programme. Here the institute is looking at having a tie up with partner institutes so that the students can spend a semester or a year in an international university to earn a certificate in a particular discipline. As in the case of student exchange the credits earned in the partner university will be credited to their postgraduate programme. So a student would earn an additional certificate along with their postgraduate diploma. Like the student exchange this will be a two way arrangement.

In addition, the institute is having a discussion with Deakin University to jointly offer a programme for the Indian Defence personnel as part of their Resettlement Programme for serving and retired officers under the Ministry of Defence.

XLRI signed the multilateral mobility agreement for students, faculty and staff with the Jesuit Higher Education Network (MAGIS EXCHANGE). Currently there are 29 participating universities. In this connection, the International Education of Jesuit Higher Education Institutions is organizing a meeting in Seville, Spain, from 23 to 25 March 2021 to work out the modalities.

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POSTGRADUATE DIPLOMA IN BUSINESS MANAGEMENT

(Three-year Program) for Working Executives, Business Owners and Entrepreneurs

XLRI has redesigned its highly successful and Associate Dean says: acclaimed three-year Post-Graduate Diploma for We take pride in continuing this program while Business Management for working executives and maintaining the reputation of the school and the entrepreneurs from 2017. This AICTE-approved offering. We have always ensured high quality program was revamped to meet the needs of education for our students, through our world-class aspiring managers and entrepreneurs from nearby faculty and state-of- the-art infrastructure. We have cities and towns such as Kolkata, Ranchi, designed the Post-Graduate Program in Business Management to provide the working executives and Rourkela, and Bhubaneswar for the past three entrepreneurs the essential toolkit that would help them years. The program structure and curriculum is achieve their potential and put them in a high-growth being reviewed currently, in the wake of the trajectory. We hope this program will help the pandemic situation and there is an increased need numerous family businesses catapult into global for an online education/blended learning. This th businesses. I wish the very best to our alumni, who are Program, entering its 10 year, would be uniquely now holding leadership positions in global corporation designed to enable working professionals and as well as invite the prospective students we want to business owners to develop the requisite skills and have in the program. competence for a managerial/ownership role. The PGDM Program in the past has become a catalyst in providing the working executives with the opportunity for formal learning at a convenient time schedule without disrupting their profession for enhancement of their knowledge, skills, and competencies in their respective professions. The response of working professionals has been very encouraging. So far, around thousand working professionals have benefited from this program. The program in its new form would incorporate several changes made based on feedback from industry, academia, alumni, as well as potential applicant pool. We are happy to report that the seventh batch of the re- launched program (batch: 2018-21) is graduating this year.

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SIR JEHANGIR GHANDY LIBRARY

· Launched several digital initiatives during the ProQuest and Statista delivered the sessions. pandemic crisis. Library extended the offsite · All FPM, Executive FPM, staff and faculty access on all the subscribed eDatabases, eJournals members were given training on Classroom and eBooks to all library users. It also provided Workflow using Feedback Studio and Similarity offsite access to CMIE and Bloomberg using their (Plagiarism) Check Tool proprietary technologies. · Training on Grammarly was organised for all · Library Knowledge Portal, Offsite Access, BM,HRM and PGDM (General Management) Library Management System (Liberty), Online students. Public Access Catalogue (OPAC), Liberty Link · Mr DT Edwin, Head- Library, conducted a Mobile App, are synchronised with the institute's national webinar on Library and its Services – branding and accessible offsites. Post – Covid-19 as a part of the Big Talk series · Started facilitating e-text books during lockdown organised by M/s. Knimbus, New Delhi. and then let students to buy and get it reimbursed. · Statista and Sage Handbooks are newly procured. Designed a dynamic portal in collaboration with · A BM and Economic Collection of 1606 Emerald IT Helpdesk to take care of bill submission, eBooks was subscribed for XLRI Delhi-NCR approvals and payment. Later, despatching the campus and the BM and Economic Collection of textbooks to students' addresses. 38 Oxford Journals upgraded for XLRI, · Launched a new Library Knowledge Portal on Jamshedpur and licensed for both XLRI National Librarian's day on 12 August 2020. This campuses. An upgraded version of Grammarly portal features all the sources and services of the was procured to XLRI, Jamshedpur and shall be library. https://acad.xlri.ac.in/library/ used by both XLRI campuses. · Full access to Feedback Studio is extended to all · A special task library team was formed to execute the FPM and Executive FPM students. processes including procuring of new books, · Researcher App is integrated with our subscribed accessioning, cataloging and other technical journals to facilitate full text access. The access to processing of the books at Jamshedpur campus subscribed full-text PDF is direct and faster now. and later the books were transported to Delhi- · The library arranged for free certifications NCR campus. Also, the team along with the Head- through Coursera and edX for all students and Library visited the Delhi-NCR campus to set up researchers and XLRI staff and faculty members. and launch the operations. · Arranged Harvard Manage Mentor (HMM) Launched A-Z of the eJournals and eBooks in complimentary to PGDM(BM) (including BM coordination with M/s Eclat Engineering Pvt. Ltd. offered in Delhi-NCR campus), PGDM(HRM) (Provider of Remote Access Tool) at M/s and PGDM(General Management). These Informatics Publishing Lmited (Provider of modules are rapidly replacing (or JGATE). complementing) some of the teaching hours across the schools globally. · Conducted orientation on library and its services for the incoming batches. · Organised online training sessions for students going for summer internship. Experts from eDatabase portals like CMIE,

Euromonitor, CRISIL, EBSCO, Gartner, EMIS,

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VIRTUAL INTERACTIVE LEARNING Long duration Programs - Postgraduate Certificate (PGC)

VIL Programs were launched to assist working 4. We have also introduced a new Learning executives upgrade theirbusiness acumen and Management System called “Brightspace” managerial skills, while continuing their wherein added advantages of “learning on professional responsibilities. XLRI has rolled out the go from any device” responsive designs , many successful batches of Postgraduate intuitive interface, built in templates and less Certificate in Business Management and programming experience can be availed. Postgraduate Certificate in Human Resource Management. Recently, VIL expanded its horizons 5. For admissions we have come up “No paper” by developing specialized long duration programs that addresses multiple processes in one such as the Postgraduate Certificate in Business solutions, right from the process of enquiry Analytics and the Postgraduate Certificate in to enrollment all managed on one single Senior Leadership. Since the inception of the PGC platform . programs around 7,358 students have successfully graduated from these courses. Over the years VIL Programs have earned a reputation of being one of the finest online The live classes for VIL courses are conducted with management education programs in India. With the help of various technical partners such as teamwork, perseverance and continued support Unified Collaboration Services (UCS), TCLL by from the institute, we hope to achieve greater Times group, Talentedge, Tech Mahindra , Eruditus heights in the coming year. . With over a hundred locations spread across more than 30 cities across the country, the VIL wing of XLRI has taken management education to the masses virtually and made online learning the new norm, thus exploring multiplicities for the greater good .

The accomplishments of VIL during the academic year:

1. In year 2020 Courses like Executive Diploma in Advanced Management for Senior Executives was launched 2. Another specific course viz. Postgraduate Certificate in Finance was also started 3. This time we have enrolled “Mercer Mettle” to conduct exams for all of our VIL programs . By doing so we have outsourced the online examination management process to a system that is dedicated in terms of a scalable platform and proctoring technology.

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MDPs & INCOMPANY PROGRAMME

Corporate Programmes Certificate Programmes XLRI has been leveraging its expertise in Over the past few years, XLRI has been offering management in offering corporate programmes over long-term certificate programmes that are more than five decades with specific objective of delivered over a time frame of six months to one developing management strategies, system and year. The longer period of engagement enables practices in India and abroad. These have been in the sustained human resource development and form of standardized and customized offerings in a enables organizations to develop a steady pipeline single window platform. The major offerings of the of individuals who would be part of a professional Corporate Programs include: leadership cadre. These certificate programmes Management Development Programmes (MDP/e- also provide an alternative to organizations in MDP) terms of developing managers with customized Short term open management development program with flexible mode of delivery known as MDP (face to skill sets as compared to the standardized pool of face residential programme) and e-MDP (virtual management professionals. classroom programme). These are standardized offerings that we understand as being of relevance to most firms. MDPs provide a unique opportunity for participants In the year 2020-21 following batch completed to interact with peers in their own and other sectors. With their certificate programs: the world having undergone tremendous change in the last No. of Program description one year, businesses in today’s world are going to be driven Sl.No. Participants by methods that are far more refined and agile in nature. 1. Executive Diploma in Human Resource Management (EDHRM) 39 This year because of Covid-19 restrictions, we had to Postgraduate Certificate Program in Human Resource cancel all e MDPs, however we conducted 15 e-MDPs 2. Management (PGCHRM) for Accenture. 25 with around 2800 participants. Apart from regular e- Six-month Certificate Program in General Management for NEC 24 3. MDPs, two new e-MDPs were launched by the Delhi- Technologies India Pvt. Ltd. One year Postgraduate Certificate Program in General 30 NCR campus. 4. Management for TATA Steel The programs are offered in collaboration with partners like, Talent Edge, Eruditus, UCS and Times. Consultancy Services (Institute-industry- The institute signed bulk nomination agreements with interface) IOCL, HPCL, HAL, Titan & many others to sponsor their employees for pursing e-MDPs. XLRI offers consulting services for organizations to solve the specific problems of organizations In-company Programmes (ICP/e-ICP) across different domains of management. The institute may appoint a faculty or a group of XLRI conducts short term customized training faculty members with the appropriate expertise to programs based on the required area of competency analyse and understand the problem in its context improvement of the specific organisation. In the past, and offer a holistic solution. This year we have XLRI has been successful in co-creating several programs completed five consultancy projects. which have been delivered online over the virtual platform as well as at different venues including the XLRI campus, the organizational premises or in a neutral venue. Nearly 1500 executives of different companies and sectors were trained over the virtual platform through these customized executive training programs in the current year. With some of these companies, we have entered into long term agreements to conduct a series of customized programs focusing on a set of competencies.

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POSTGRADUATE DIPLOMA IN GENERAL MANAGEMENT

The Postgraduate Diploma in General Achiements of the students of 2019-20 batch: Management, a fifteen-month residential program for professionals with at least five years of 1) Abhirup Bose, Manisha Bhatia, Sashidharan experience, is one of the flagship programs of XLRI Chandershekar were first runners up Ultimate approved by AICTE. This program is specially Marketing Challenge competition organized by the curated to prepare mid-level professionals for Academy of Indian Marketing(AIM). middle and senior management roles. It takes the participants through a steep learning curve where 2) Pallavi [G19029] was a winner on all 4 days in the leadership, team building, enterprise, and Online Operations Quiz - CHRONOS conducted by responsibility are inculcated by peer learning and AXIOM. employing various pedagogical tools. The program complements and builds upon the past professional 3) Gourav Gopal Pandey was adjudged first runner-up experiences of the students and consolidates their in the Business Maestro Decision Making Quiz existing functional skills to provide a better organised by Business Prodigys. appreciation of general management, strategy, and other functional areas. Through numerous projects, 4) Gourav Gopal Pandey secured third position in rural outreach program, and adventure sports and Marketing and Strategy Hunt conducted by Digidose involvement in social entrepreneurship the on Dare2Compete Platform. students are nurtured to efficiently deliver 5) Prithviraj Payne was a National Finalist in the responsible and strategic leadership roles. Accenture Business Innovation Challenge The graduating batch of 101 students admitted through XAT or GMAT, with average work experience of 6.2 years, come from diverse functional domains, backgrounds and verticals in organizations from both old and new economy sectors. Executive PGDM has been well received by reputed organizations like Accenture, AXIS Bank, Cognizant, ITC, IBM, Infosys, JP Morgan Chase Mphasis, L&T, OYO Rooms, PWC, Publicis Sapient, Schindler, TCS, Vikram Solar among others.

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CASH

Committee Against Sexual Harassment at the Workplace

The objective of CASH is to prevent the occurance of sexual harassment of women at XLRI. The committee’s role also includes redressal of complaints of sexual harassment and for matters connected therewith or incidental thereto. The committee also takes upon itself to sensitize all the stakeholders including students, faculty and staff members. For this purpose the committee conducts events such as workshops awareness programmes, competitions etc. The committee will have three main functions: a. Sensitization and awareness generation b. Crisis mediation c. Formal redressal and inquiry This year the committee had organised a workshop for students, faculty, and staff of XLRI on issues of sexual harassment and gender sensitisation. This workshop was conducted online by an organisation named SHLC (Sexual Harassment Law Compliance Advisory from 7–13 January 2021. Students of both Jamshedpur and Delhi campus participated in the workshop. As per the feedback provided by the XLRI community, the workshop was well received. Other activities that were planned, for example, a technical training for CASH members and a workshop for maintenance workers of XLRI, could not be held due to the COVID-19 lockdown.

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ALUMNI OFFICE

Owing to pandemic and the subsequent lock out, most of the Making the most of the remote platform Zoom, a series of Alumni events of 2020 like the Summer Meets and interactive webinars were conducted by the Students Alumni Distinguished Alumni Awards, Homecoming and Golden and Committee. The sessions were conducted by ALCOM and Silver Jubilee meets were called off. were moderated by Gayatri Krishnamurthy, Coach and Consultant, an XL-1985 alumnus and an active member of But the gloom and doom of the pandemic did not dampen the XLBang indomitable spirits of the Xler’s. Adversity brought out the best in Xler’s and the strong sense of community took over. 1. The New Normal Alumni were quick to respond to supporting Dadu’s, Bishu Da Panel of experienced hands, who lived through 1984 and Bala and those who were affected by the sudden lock riots, 1992 Babri Masjid disturbance, Mumbai down. Despite the lockdown restrictions the XLRI Alumni blasts, 2008 meltdown, etc. Association and its chapters across country and globe took the initiative vulnerable and under privileged. 2. A masterclass on Compensation & Benefits The Bengaluru Chapter began with the Supply Chain Model Speakers: developed by few XLers to carry out relief work. The Suvro Raychaudhuri, Director HR, CGI effectiveness of the supply chain model lead to it being Rajiv Krishnan, MD, Korn Ferry Advisory adopted by the Local Administration and NGOs. The scale of 3. Applying a Growth Mindset in Times of Crises the operations accounted for 1.5 crore meals and ration kits being distributed. They also raised funds worth Rs 5 crore. Speakers: An alumni task force worked with multiple NGOs at the Dr. Vasanthi Srinivasan, Professor of Organizational national and grassroots level in volunteering safe distribution Behavior & Human Resources Management, IIM of essential requirements to migrant and daily wage workers Bangalore and their families. They catered to about 80,000 families. The Gayatri Krishnamurthy, Coach & Consultant Chief Minister of Karnataka acknowledged and thanked the XLRI Alumni Association for their excellent contribution to 4. A Masterclass on Job Evaluation (25th April 2020) the society. Speakers: Chennai Chapter focused on the homes of those affected. Navraj Makkar, Client Partner, Korn Ferry Advisory About Rs. 40 lakhs were raised to provide dry rations. The Aditya Gupta, Principal, Korn Ferry Advisory chapter increased their efforts by helping migrant workers by providing financial assistance and insurance 5. Joys and Miseries of Working from Home - Can The Pune Chapter donated 7 Lakh masks in and around Pune. One Stay Engaged? The chapter also fed the migrant labour population in the Speakers: industrial area of Chakkan till they returned to their respective villages. Abhijit Bhaduri, XL 1984 alumnus, Coach & Advisor, bestselling author The Kolkata Chapter with the assistance of local NGOs had Munira Asif, XL 2019 alumnus, Management the herculean task of helping those affected. by the pandemic Consulting Analyst, Accenture Strategy and contributing in the ongoing relief work for the cylone Amphan affected areas. 6. Engaging Customers with Empathy During XLRI Alumni Association, Jamshedpur Chapter, in collaboration with XLRI faculty and staff and Loyola Alumni Tough Times Association started Adarsh – an initiative to provide dry Speakers: rations, masks and gloves to 1000 families every week. This Vishwas Agarwal, XL 2004 alumnus, Business Head - initiative was focused on those who do not have ration cards Telangana with Hindustan Coca-Cola Beverages and have children below the age of three. Stress Management Help Line, another initiative by the chapter, co-ordinated with Sudakshina Ghosh, XL 2006 alumnus, Industry Director, SAP counsellors to provide emotional support to those suffering from coronavirus and those whose lives were adversely affected by the pandemic.

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Collaboration with student of alumni committees of Virtual Alumni Meet other top B schools A virtual Alumni Meet was hosted in association with The students alumni committee of the top B-Schools (IIM Bangalore chapter. Over 400 alumni across batches A B, C & L, XLRI and FMS) collaborated to start an Inter and from around the country came together online to Collegiate Leadership Series six months ago. The share memories of their time at XLRI. objective was to establish a strong student connect with The iconic Bodhi Tree of 2004-06 reunited to perform external stakeholders, help students build an external after 15 years to their classic tunes including ‘GMD’, network and promote inter college collaboration among ‘Sabka Katega’ and ‘XL Meri jaan’, that still students. Five sessions have been held till date and XLRI reverberates in the heart of every XLer. This hugely ALCOM organized the 6th edition featuring Mr. Rakesh popular show was followed by an enthralling Kapoor. performance by Sufi Kalaam vocalist and '94 alumnus, Radhika Sood Nayak. Next was a performance by Radhika Sood Nayak, a Sufi Kalam novelist and a 1994 alumnus.

XL Hai Meri Jaan XLRI welcomed another batch of dynamic students into its growing fraternity. A total of 500 students Bay Area Summer Trivia Meet (August) joined various programs at the Jamshedpur and Delhi- Since meeting in person was not an option in COVID NCR campuses. Fr. P Christie , S.J. (Director, times, the annual US, Bay Area XLRI Alumni Summer Jamshedpur campus), Fr. Sebastian George, S.J. Meet gave way to the first Bay Area summer trivia event. (Director, Delhi-NCR campus) & Prof. Ashis K Pani, This informal meetup saw the enthusiastic participation of Dean (Academics) addressed the welcome session, nine teams of alumni and their families competing in an which was conducted online. The students got to online quiz covering various fun themes. interact with an esteemed panel of alumni, moderated by Avik Chattopadhyay, alumnus from the XL batch of 1991. The panel comprised of the following: SV Nathan (NRI-1983), Partner & Chief Talent Officer, Deloitte South Asia; Chaitanya Peddi (XLRI-2012), Co-founder, DarwinBox; Lakshmi C (XLRI-1996), Managing Director, HR, Accenture India; Poornima Dore (XLRI-2006), Head- Data Driven Governance, Tata Trusts; Amitav Mukherji (XLRI-1995), Head Corporate HR, ITC Ltd. The theme of discussion was XL Hai Meri Jaan.

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Outgoing Sector : The Seed Song

Outgoing Sector % of students The Hyderabad Chapter curated a webinar for IT / ITES 54 startups and entrepreneurs the panel comprised of

Consulting 14 the following alumni: Anup Kuruvilla (1981) and Chaitanya Peddi (2012) BFSI 12

Operation / Supply Chain Management 7

Data Analytics 4

Sales and Marketing 4

Core Services 3

E - Commerce 2

The COVID-19 challenges brought new opportunities for innovation and partnership in the campus recruitment process. Market uncertainty in March 2020 has slightly impacted full-time opportunities, with an unprecedented number of rescinded or cancelled offers. The XLRI community, including our leadership, faculty members, centers and initiatives, and alumni came together to source new opportunities for our students. It has been a year of partnership and resilience, and we would like to thank the recruiters, faculty, alumni, and students who discovered new recruiting paths with us in the year 2020 and supported our PGDM(GM) graduates with various opportunities.

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FELLOW PROGRAMMES IN MANAGEMENT The Fellow Programme in Management (FPM) and Weekly Research Seminars: the Executive Fellow Programme in Management Weekly Research Seminars is a platform where (Exec-FPM) at XLRI are doctoral level (equivalent doctoral students and faculty share their research to Ph.D.) programmes. work with the academic community of XLRI. It is A. The full-time FPM is a residential programme done with the objective of strengthening the that trains prospective scholars to become research culture and environment in the institute. A highly skilled and innovative researchers and total of 27 seminars were presented by doctoral teachers in various aspects of management. It students and faculty in the academic year 2020-21. primarily aims at preparing participants for careers as faculty members at premier FPM &Exec-FPM 2020 Admissions: academic institutions. B. The part-time, Exec-FPM is partially 3,952 candidates applied through Xavier residential in nature and caters to the need of AptitudeTest (XAT) 2021 for FPM. working professionals and B-school faculty to 345 candidates applied under non-XAT category – having GMAT/GRE/GATE/UGC JRF (research) grow into scholars for careers not only in results or PGP candidates from XLRI or any IIM or management research and teaching but also in MDI Gurgaon or FMS Delhi or XIM management practice, consulting, training Bhubaneswar/other comparable institutes with a and development. CQPI of at least 6.00 / 8.00 or equivalent. 117 candidates applied for Executive Fellow Programme in Management. The following six students will be presenting their thesis defense and have completed all the requirements up to Interviews for FPM & EFPM will be held in April pre-thesis defense seminar. 2021.

Online Sessions Sl.No. Name Faculty Guide Topic In 2020-21 we started online sessions to facilitate the FPM/Exec-FPM students, due to the pandemic. The Dr E S Srinivas Mindfulness and leadership: understand the relational 1. Ms Kshamta Sharma Dr Jochen Reb online sessions helped the students stay in touch with Dr T A S Vijayaraghavan consequences of leaders’ mindfulness the institute and attend all the seminars virtually. Dr Ashis K Pani Three essays on modeling 2. Mr Arindra Mishra Dr Alok Raj sustainable information Dr Anol Bhattacherjee technology adoption and use Publications by faculty and doctoral scholars An empirical study of the Dr R K Premarajan interrelationship among the Mr Birjendu Gupta Dr P Venugopal 3. people and process characteristics Dr I S F Irudayaraj The following table shows the specific publications in executive coaching in terms of articles in journals both national and Dr Abhishek Chakraborty Electric vehicle development Mr Rajeev Ranjan Dr Ajith Kumar J policies, strategies, and the international, cases, working papers, books , book 4. Kumar Dr Alok Raj likelihood of adoption Dr Kalyan Bhaskar chapters and papers presented in both national and Impact of regulatory intervention international conferences. Dr H K Pradhan on interlinked market microstructure: Mr Arindam Saha Dr Trilochan Tripathy 5. evidence from the Indian Dr Diganta Mukherjee commodity market Number of Publications made by Faculty and Doctoral Students Enterprise mobile system & Mr Praveen Kumar Dr Ashis K Pani mobile device management in Type 2020-21 6. Choudhary Dr Rajeev Sharma context of consumerization of Articles in Journals (International) 46 Dr Ravi Shekhar it four essays on antecedents and outcome Articles in Journals (National) 9 Books 3 Book Chapters 2 Cases / Notes 2 Working Papers / Research Seminar 27 Papers Presented at Conferences (International) 4 Papers Presented at Conferences (National) 3 44 th

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CENTRE FOR LOGISTICS AND SUPPLY CHAIN MANAGEMENT

The Centre for Logistics and Supply Chain Centre for HRD, in collaboration with Shenomics, Management in XLRI, Jamshedpur was set up to cater a Mindful leadership platform helping women live to the growing needs of the areas of Logistics/Supply and lead boldly is workint on a report on career Chain Management and Transportation Management. aspirations and challenges for women employees The Centre has the following Vision. around to be release Prof. Shreyashi Chakraborty from OB area collaborated on this project, which The Vision involved both qualitative and quantitative data. The Centre for Logistics and Supply Chain Management will provide leadership for evolving The Centre has initiated a large scale study in logistics/supply chain profession through the collaboration with one of the largest private sector development, dissemination, and advancement of banks on the subject of employee attitude towards logistics and supply chain knowledge virtual work and the associated individual and organizational antecedents and outcomes Activities Discussions are in progress to have MoUs with The book titled Career Dynamics in a Global Word Rutgers University, US for a joint collaboration to –India and Western Perspectives, initiated by Prof. offer Supply Chain Analytics Program and other short Premarajan along with Prof. Michael Arthur and duration programs and Malaysia Institute for Supply Prof. Anneleen Forrier was published by Edward Chain Innovation (MISI) for joint Programs on Elegar Publishers, UK, during the year Supply Chain Management. The survey study initiated on the Career Development Activities in Indian organizations Centre for Human Resource Development with the support of SHRM India was also (CHRD), XLRI undertaken by the centre.

Centre for Human Resource Development (Centre for A longitudinal study on the Dynamics of Career HRD) was established with the vision of being Anchor is also ongoing to understand the shift in acentre of Excellence in the area of Human Resource career anchors as well as to assess the importance Management in India. The objective of the Centre is of work experience in understanding one’s true to create and disseminate knowledge in the field of career anchor. Human Resource Management. As part of its mandate of facilitating the quality enhancement of Centre for HRD has also decided to disseminate HR profession in the country, the centre undertakes news on significant research and other activities as research projects, conducts conferences, publishes well as webinars by alumni using social media case studies and newsletter, and holds webinars and platforms. other executive development programs. Members of its advisory board include Prof. George Thornton, Colorado State University, Prof. Ans De Vos, Antwerp Management School, and Mr Krish Shankar, CHRO, Infosys.

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CENTRE FOR FINANCIAL MARKET

Financial Market Centre of the institute to undertake the review of risk models in the undertook several activities during the year. The Indian financial markets during 2020-21. He also training exercise on data analytics using acted as a member of the Regulations and Bloomberg was conducted for the students Syllabus review committee of the MBA majoring in finance, arrangements for logging Programme at Kolhan University, Jharkhand. into Bloomberg from outside campus were made. XLRI contiuned to be authorized by the Reserve Special lectures by practitioners were conducted Bank of India as an institution for promoting for finance students of the Institute such as (I) depositor education, and financial literacy Active Fund Management by Mr. Saibal Ghosh, activities were undertaken. The Centre is Chief Investments Officer, Aegon Life Insurance preparing to organize a finance conference for the Company Ltd; (ii) Trading in Equity Market by year 2021. Mr. Ronak Moondra, Founder, Trading Campus and (iii) Market Risks by Mr. Piyush Chamrya, Chief Risk Officer, Global Markets Edelcap Securities Limited. Dr HK Pradhan delivered special lectures via webinar on following topics: (I) Imagining Transnational Mobility of Students in the Post- Coronavirus World at HSS, IIT Patna; (ii) Corporate Bonds and Credit Risk at the NISM -The Indian Econometric Society joint research seminar on Current issues and policy options for financial Markets , 27th August, 2020; (iii) Global and Indian Economy Emerging Challenges, at the NIIS Institute of Business Administration, 4th January 2021; (iv) Emerging Credit Risk in the Financial Markets at the 7th Management Doctoral Colloquium and VGSOM Research Scholars' Day, Vinod Gupta School of Management, IIT Kharagpur February 3, 2021. Dr HK Pradhan moderated sessions on Emerging Indian Economy Post-COVID at the 11th Edition of XLRI's Annual Finance Symposium - Gnosis'20 on 11 December 2020. He shared his views on Union Budget at the campus events conducted by FINAX and GMP-FIN Committee. He published a chapter on MSME Financing in India: Key to the 5 Trillion Economy in the book Inclusive Finance India Report 2020, edited by Tamal Bandyopadhyay, ACCESS ASSIST, New Delhi, 2021. Dr HK Pradhan has been appointed as a consultant as required by the apex regulator

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JRD TATA - XLRI ETHICS RESEARCH CENTRE (TXLERC) XLRI, in association with a few select Tata Group Abdul Rehman, with Fr. Mascarenhas as the Companies, established in 1991 the JRD Tata chair, is working on thesis “A study on Ethical Foundation in Business Ethics, to espouse their long- Leadership and Employee Citizenship Behaviour: standing commitment and contribution to business Role of Perceived Justice, well-being and Employee ethics in India. The foundation seeks to address itself Engagement: A conceptual model development and its empirical testing” as a part of his doctoral by publicly affirming the urgent need for upholding research and dissertation, for FPM (doctoral) ethics in all spheres of business and the need to bring degree. Ready for defense by December 2020. about a suitably favorable culture in which it can Fr Mascarenhas submitted a chapter on Jet thrive. JRD Tata, himself a role model par excellence, Airways Insolvency: Was it a Black Swan Event or a delivered the first oration in 1991. Failure in Strategic Corporate Social Choices? in a Part of this foundation is the JRD Tata Chair in book on CSR, Sustainability, Ethics & Governance Business Ethics at XLRI for the advancement of (Springer publication) by Prof Ananda Dasgupta. research in this field. In December 2020 the JRD Tata Fr Mascarenhas submitted an article on Natural Chair of Business Ethics completed its nine years. Sustainability Ethics for resolving Current Outer JRD Tata Foundation in Business Ethics has the Space Challenges in Journal of Business, Ethics and following objectives: Society. Establish an ethics research-based knowledge centre Fr Mascarenhas, along with two professors, is where both industry and academia will be able to find working on an article on A Post Covid-19 and reflect on resources in business ethics and allied Management Science Challenge of Natural issues. Dissemination through Management Sustainability, targeted for A/A* ranking journal Development Programs (MDPs), Management (preferably Journal of Business Ethics/Management Training Programs (MTPs), and Faculty Science). Development Programs (FDPs) on business ethics, Discussing Jesuit Educational Values, ethics research and teaching ethics at organizations Pedagogy, and Ignatian Perspectives: VIL batch and educational institutions. (2018-19) Conducting theory-building and theory testing ethics Having completed research on Unfolding research in collaboration with corporate India, and Organizational Ethics Culture (OEC) at Tata Hitachi global centres of advanced ethics learning. by April of 2016, since May 2016, TXLERC was Organizing Ethics Research Conferences periodically in engaged in a similar project with Tinplate Company metropolitan cities of India and abroad, in active of India Ltd (TCIL). Data collection and data collaboration with XLRI Alumni Chapters of those cities. analysis over, report writing was submitted by 31 The foundation’ scholarly activities for 2020-21: March, 2020. Meanwhile TXLERC has written a This is perhaps the only B-School in India that has a concept paper for another more comprehensive sponsored chair for Business Ethics (thanks to Tata OEC research study at Tata Steel, which will be Steel); this is named after JRD Tata. This Chair has under discussion after the Covid-19 pandemic curbs. enabled XLRI to make Business Ethics a “core course” taught for all its students in the HRM, BM, GMP, GMP Tata Steel, and Business Weekend (a total of 13 full-length courses), as also design and conduct several MDPs at XLRI, and in-company Ethics Programs in cities the companies are headquartered.

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CENTRE FOR PEACE AND JUSTICE

Inspired by the Jesuit spirit of Magis, the Centre for Peace and Justice was established at XLRI in 2019 for promoting peace and harmony amongst fellow human beings, withou any discrimination. The centre was the brainchild of Fr. E. Abraham and Fr. P. Christie, former and incumbent director of XLRI Jamshedpur. The centre collaborates with state and non-state stakeholders having similar objectives and values to set up and support academic programmes, advocacy, research centres and training for the advancement of education and knowledge in the field of peace studies, justice, conflict resolution and communal harmony, thereby aiming to achieve greater It integrates field research and requires writing a common good. dissertation. The centre in collaboration with Loyola Institute As part of the process, scholars and artists of of Peace and International Relations, Kochi, international repute are invited for collaborative launched a Certificate Program in Peace Studies. efforts. American theatre artist Dan Allen Kelin Till date three batches, comprising a total of 100 II, conducted a two-day workshop at XLRI students from different parts of India, have Jamshedpur on the theme Theatre and completed the certificate course. An e-magazine, Storytelling for Teachers. The centre also PAX LUMINA, was launched to augment the undertakes training sessions for NGO workers spread of peace initiatives in South Asia. The and civil society members. During the pandemic, efforts of the centre and its partners has received the centre organised webinars and provided national and international accolades. counselling to people in need. Dr. Diya Dutt, Deputy Director, USIEF, Fulbright It collaborates with the United States India Commission in India, applauding the efforts of Educational Foundation, Indo-American the centre said, “I commend the initiative taken Chamber of Commerce and US Department of by Centre for Peace and Justice, XLRI State to raise the visibility of fulbright program Jamshedpur and its collaborators for this and other educational opportunities available in publication. It highlights important issues, the US for students and professionals of national and international, which is so relevant Jharkhand. The centre is also a facilitator for the and important for building a peaceful civil forthcoming ETA program that will host teachers society.” from the US who are affiliated to schools in The curriculum covers Human Rights and Jharkhand. It also works to train community Justice, Industrial Conflicts and Peacebuilding, workers in legal intervention skills and advocacy. Understanding Peace, Dealing with Conflicts and The centre is open to collaborations with willing Communal Harmony, Science and Technology partners sharing similar objectives. for Peace, Art and Peace and Inner life and Peace.

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XCEED XLRI Council for Entrepreneurship Malhotra, Founder, The Hard Copy, Mr. Excellence and Development Chaitanya Ramalingagegowda,

Activities organised by XCEED:

Incubation: Given the situation around COVID, physical space in the incubation centre could not be used by the students. A virtual programme of incubation and pre-incubation was organised. A total of 43 students in 31 student ventures were put through the incubation and pre-incubation programmes. Alumni participated as mentors to some of the enterprises, tech interns were provided to startups to help them develop their products, credits from our partners like Hubspot Founder, Wakefit, Mr. Chaitanya Peddi, Founder, and Amazon web services were also provided. Darwinbox and Shashank Randev, Founder VC, 100x.vc). Alumni: Through our partnership with Inflection Point Ventures (IPV) alumni were given a free six- Disrupt: This B-Plan competition helps investors month membership of the angel funding platform and mentors find and invest in the top business operated by IPV. One of the alumni was also able ideas and startups. Disrupt 2021 saw over 1000 to raise angel funding through the platform. participants, of which the top five were mentored by Mr. Pritesh Mittal, COO and Co-founder, Workshops: Some established corporates from Growisto, Mr. Sreejith Moolayil, COO and Co- Google, S&P Global along with the founder of founder, True Elements, Mr. Hari Ganapathy, Co- edu4sure participated in the online workshops and Founder, Pick Your Trail, and Mr. Srinivas shared their thoughts on topics like Startup Rowjee, Co-founder, Sportskeeda and Mr. Manoj Valuation and Investor Pitch, Startup Ideation, Sanker, Founder, Nemocare. The final round was Validation & Testing and Essentials for Building judged by Mr. Anil Joshi, CEO, Unicorn Ventures, and Running a Successful Startup. Mr. Deepak Chandran, CFO, Wipro Consumer Care & lighting and an Angel Investor, and Mr. Vatsal Kanakiya, Principal, 100X.VC. The Live Projects: Startups like Sensio, Finocontrol, winning team was Oxyheal that focused on Spring works, eWards, Hammer, Ras Essentials developing pharmaceutical technology. and Metalmann School International agreed to offer live projects. Over 30 live projects were Emerging Entrepreneurs: The event was a offered and we received several applications from platform for young talents (students from class XLRI students VIII to XII) to get a taste of the corporate world and to express creative solutions. This year over E-Café: This speaker series invited eminent 300 participants from 48 schools across the CXOs to deliberate upon the various stages of a country attended the event along with young startup's life cycle like ideation, setup, growth, mentors from Stanford, Wharton, and other global pivoting, and acquiring funds. Speakers included institutes. Ten finalists received one-on-one Mr. Pavan Kumar, CBO, iD Fresh, Mr. Balaji mentorship from some of the best entrepreneurial Vishwanathan, Invento Robotics, Ms. Meeta minds of XLRI.

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CENTRE FOR GENDER EQUALITY AND INCLUSIVE LEADERSHIP Introduction

XLRI launched the Centre for Gender · Deliver readiness program for Equality and Inclusive Leadership on XLRI women students to prepare International Women's Day on 8 March, them for corporate career 2021. The centre aims to improve gender · Prepare an Annual State of Working equality and workforce participation of Women Report through original women in industry, government and social research done by the centre sectors. It will achieve this through · Develop technology platform promoting research and dissemination of essential for program execution gender-related issues and best practices, developing programs and interventions to promote inclusive leadership across Intended Beneficiaries and Audience of corporate and social segments, and the Centre: building awareness through advocacy to influence and shape policy and practices. · Girl students and youth (school and college girl students including Activities of the Centre XLRI) · Women professionals (at different The centre will work with students, levels in corporates, including women in the industry, corporates and independent professionals) other employers, policymakers and other stakeholders to create momentum for · Women working in informal sector change through a multi-pronged approach. (including micro-entrepreneurs and The centre will focus on short-term home-based workers) deliverables (on-going basis yearly) and · Women in government service, simultaneously focus on long-term goals. policy makers and social sector organizations In the next six months, the centre will be engaged in the following projects: Location · Deliver C-Suite Bootcamp program The centre will be located at XLRI, Delhi- for corporate women managers and NCR campus. However, both the XLRI early talents to enable them and campuses will be involved in supporting accelerate their career path the activities of the centre (e.g., training, seminars, mentoring of women students, etc.).

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MANAGEMENT OVERVIEW

Administration Faculty Visiting Faculty Non-Teaching Staff Maintenance Staff

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LEADERSHIP & ADMINISTRATION

Fr. Paul Fernandes, S.J. Director

Dr Ashis K Pani Fr Donald D’Silva, S.J. Dean - Academics Dean - Administration & Finance

Dr Smitu Malhotra Dr Debasis Pradhan Dr M Srimannarayana Associate Dean - Student Affairs [Women Students] Associate Dean - Executive Programs Associate Dean - Corporate Programs

Dr Ajith Kumar J Dr Trilochan Tripathy Dr L Gurunathan Associate Dean - MLS, Case Research Associate Dean - FPM & Research Chairperson, Admission Centre

Dr Madhukar Shukla Dr Pingali Venugopal Dr Abhishek Chakraborty Chairperson, Alumni Relations Chairperson, International Relations Chairperson, Information Technology

Dr A Kanagaraj Dr Rajeev Roy Dr M G Jomon Chairperson, Placement [BM, HRM and Co Chair, Placement [BM, HRM and Co Chair, Placement [BM, HRM and Ex-PGDM (GMP)] Ex-PGDM (GMP)] Ex-PGDM (GMP)]

Academic Administration

AREA CHAIR

Dr Rahul Shukla Dr Pitabas Mohanty Dr Rahul Chandra Sheel Area Chair (General Management) Area Chair (Finance) Area Chair (OB)

Dr Rajiv Misra Dr D Israel Dr Anita Sarkar Area Chair (PODS) Area Chair (Marketing) Area Chair (HRM)

Dr P C Padhan Dr Rajeev Sharma Dr Apalak Khatua Area Chair (Economics) Area Chair (Systems) Area Chair (Strategy)

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FACULTY

S. No. Name S. No. Name S. No. Name 1 A Kangaraj 25 Indrajit Mukherjee 49 Rajeev Sharma 2 Abdul Quadir 26 Jander Kumar Jha 50 Rajesh Kumar Sinha 3 Abhishek Chakraborty 27 K R Shyam Sundar 51 Rajiv Misra 4 Ajith Kumar J 28 Kalyan Bhaskar 52 Ravi Shekhar Kumar 5 Alok Raj 29 Kumar Alok 53 Sabyasachi Sengupta 6 Amitava Mukherjee 30 L Gurunathan 54 Sanjay Patro 7 Anita Sarkar 31 M G Jomon 55 Sanjeev Varshney 8 Apalak Khatua 32 M Srimannarayana 56 Santanu Gupta 9 Apram Guha 33 Manish Singhal 57 Santanu Sarkar 10 Arindam Mondal 34 Manoj T Thomas 58 Santosh Kumar Sangam 11 Arpita Srivastava 35 Munish Thakur 59 Saurav Snehvrat 12 Arundha Sarkar Bose 36 N Sivasankaran 60 Shounak Basak 13 Ashis K Pani 37 Narasimhan Rajkumar 61 Shreyashi Chakraborty 14 Basant Kumar Purohit 38 Paramjyot Singh 62 Smitu Malhotra 15 Bijaya K Mangaraj 39 Peter Francis, S.J. 63 Soumendra N Bagchi 16 D Israel 40 Pingali Venugopal 64 Sumit Sarkar 17 Debara Basu 41 Pitabas Mohanty 65 Sunil Kumar Sarangi 18 Debasis Pradhan 42 Pramod Kumar Padhi 66 Supriya Kumar De 19 Dipankar Bose 43 Prank Ray 67 TAS vijayraghavan 20 Donald D’Silva 44 Pritha Guha 68 Tata L Raghu Ram 21 Giridhar Ramachandran 45 Purna Chandra Padhan 69 Tina K Stephen 22 Gloryson R B Chalil 46 R K Premarajan 70 Trilochan Tripathy 23 H K Pradhan 47 Rahul Chandra Sheel 71 Vishwa Ballabh 24 Himadri Roy Chaudhuri 48 Rahul K Shukla

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VISITING FACULTY Dr Ameet Kumar Banerjee Dr Aradhana Gandhi Associate Professor Associate Professor - Marketing and Retail Xavier Institute of Management Symbiosis Centre for Management & HRD Bhubaneswar Pune Mr Atanu Ghosh Mr Basudev Prakash Bas u Founder Consultant Salt n Soap Kolkata Kolkata

Dr Bhaskar Bhowmick Mr Chandradeep Mitra

Professor Advisor & Mentor Rajendra Mishra School of Engineering Entrepreneurship IIM Calcutta Innovation Park Kharagpur Kolkata Mr Dheeraj Juneeja Dr E M Rao Founder Ex-Faculty Catch A Cloud Xavier School of Management New Delhi Jamshedpur Mr Goutam Mukherjee Mr Jaydip Sen Proprietor Professor & Head, Computing and Analytics Creative Information Systems NSHM College of Management and Technology Kolkata Kolkata Mr John George Chiramel Dr Dr K Rajeshwari Consultant Consultant Kerala Chennai Dr Kavitha Ranganathan Dr M J Xavier Associate Professor [Finance and Strategy] Professor and Chairperson – MDC T A Pai Management Institute [TAPMI] Loyola Institute of Business Adm inistration [LIBA] Manipal Chennai Dr Manimay Ghosh Mr Munish Sudan Professor Senior Manager, IP Cell, R&D and SS Xavier Institute of Managemen t Tata Steel Bhubaneswar Jamshedpur Dr Pallab Bandyopadhyay Dr Prantosh Banerjee Consultant Consultant - Analytics-based Strategy Domain Bangalore Pune Dr Rachana Baid Dr Ramesh Behl Adjunct Associate Professor Director National Institute of Securities Marke ts IMI, Bhubaneswar Navi Mumbai Bhubaneswar Dr Richard Dehner Sibbernsen Dr Rohit Kapoor Retired Executive Vice President Associate Professor AT&T Indian Institute of Management Illinois, USA Indore Dr Sharad Sarin Dr Shounak Roy Chowdhury

Ex-Faculty President

Xavier School of Management Banyan Foundation

Jamshedpur Delhi

Dr Subrat Sarangi Dr Suchismita Tarafdar

Assistant Professor Assistant Professor

MICA Shiv Nadar University

Ahmedbad, Gujarat Greater Noida

Mr Sudipto Sarkar Dr Suryanarayan Gop alakrishnan Iyer

Chief Quality Assurance, Flat Products Digital HR & Analytics Strategy & Execution

Tata Steel Aditya Birla Group

Jamshedpur Mumbai

Mr Tarun Pratap Singh Prof V N Bhattacharya Strategic Business Partner Independent Consultant Catch A Cloud Bangalore New Delhi 57 th

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NON - TEACHING STAFF

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1 Abhishek Dasgupta 39 Kamlesh Thakkar 79 Sangeeta Gupta 2 Abin T Jose 40 Kirana Kumar Sahu 80 Sanjay Kumar Rai 3 Adline Oreya 41 Kochurani Abraham 81 Sanjay Saha 4 Ajit Kumar Sardar 42 Kumudini Aind 82 Sanjib Kumar Mishra 5 Alok Kumar Mahato 43 Kunal Guha 83 Santosh Andrews 6 Amit Jaywant Kujur 44 Lawrence Lazarus 84 Sarah Thomas 7 Amit Kumar Bose 45 Madhavi Nair 85 Sarala Devi Dubey 46 Manisha S Beck 8 Amit Pra Tigga 86 Saranjeet Kaur 47 Manjula Siby 9 Andrew Fernandes 87 Shabnam Ansari 48 Mark Reid 10 Anjali Kispoa 88 Shalini Beck 49 Marn Shah 11 Anjelina Mundu 89 Shankar Prasad Gupta 50 N Krishnamurthy 12 Anuja Vaidyanathan 90 Shanta Shashi Toppo 51 N. Gurumoorthy 13 Arindam Guha 52 Narayan Rammurthy 91 Shibapada Roy 14 Ashish Dhiraj Manuel 53 Neha Upadhyay 92 Shikha Khamb 15 Ashish Kumar Sharma 54 Nirupama Haripal 93 Shipra Das 16 Bhaskar Balmuchu 55 Om Shankar 94 Shireen Akhtar 17 Bincy Vinod 56 Pinky Kumari 95 Shubhankar Ganguly 18 Caroline Theresa Daniels 57 Pooja Biswas 96 Sneha David 19 Clarance Ujjwal Toppo 58 Pooja Mohanty 97 Sneha Thacker 20 Constanus Ekka 59 Prabir Haldar 98 Suman Kumar 21 Debashish Kumar 60 Pradeep Karak 99 Sumi Raka Balmuchu 22 Deepa Verma 61 Praga . 100 Sunil Varughese 23 Deep Singh 62 Pranab Kumar Shaw 101 Sunita Gabriel 24 Dhiraj Shahi 63 Pranove Chandra Dey 102 Surendra Sharma 25 Dibiya Suchita Ekka 64 Prasanta Biswas 103 Susanta Mandal 65 Prashant Kumar 26 Dilip Kumar Deshmukh 104 Suyas Kumar Tiwary 66 Pravin K Shandilya 27 Dilsha Vyas 105 Swapnil Pingua 67 Pri Sudha Hembrom Lakra 28 Divya Agrawal 106 Swa Vivek Jirnal 68 Priya Minz 29 Edwin D T 107 Tanmaya Paanayak 69 Puja Behera 108 Tapash Nandi 30 Fredrick D`Souza 70 Pushpa Meena Lakra 109 Tarit Mondal 31 G Geetha Madhuri 71 Raju Kumar Rai 32 Gracy Sebasne 72 Rashmi Prasad 110 Uam Toppo 33 Hardeep Singh Sidhu 73 Rishav Anand 111 Veena Laxmi Parasuraman 34 Harry Francis 74 Rumpi Saha 112 Vikash Chandra Chaudhary 35 Ika Ganguly 75 Sandhya Singh 113 Vinay Kumar Srivastava 36 James Prakash Tirkey 76 Sandip Chaerjee 114 Violeena Chachra 37 Jyo Biswal 77 Sandip Kumar 38 K Govind Rao 78 Sandra Rodrigues

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MAINTENANCE STAFF

S.No. Name S.No. Name S.No. Name 1 Abdul Touhid 20 John Samir Barjo 39 Rashid Ansari 2 Ajay Kumar 21 Jyo Soreng 40 Rimu Bahadur Bagdas 3 Amosh Kumar Tandi 22 Krishna Bahadur 41 Rupesh kujur 4 Anil Kumar Singh 23 Krishna Bahadur Gurung 42 S Hamid 5 Askal Topno 24 Kumar Adhikari 43 Sachin Purty 6 Augusna Kindo 25 Madhu Pradhan 44 Sanjeeb Kumar Deep 7 Balmiki Prasad 26 Mahesh Mukhi 45 Santosh 8 Bappi Kumar Nath 27 Mahesh Prasad Rajak 46 Shan Prabha Soreng 9 Baronika Tu 28 Mangla Soy 47 Sitaram Sharma 10 Basan Pingua 29 Manohar Ekka 48 Sona Ram Saran 11 Benjamin Tigga 30 Maya Majhi 49 Sonaram Majhi 12 Bharat Kumar Pradhan 31 Md. Hassan 50 Srinath Mukhi 13 Bijoy Mahato 32 Padam Bahadur Kapri 51 Sudhir Kumar 14 Bom Bahadur 33 Poornima Bagh 52 Surender Sahu 15 Boma Bahadur 34 Prafulla Chandra Jha 53 Suresh Ray 16 Deepak Kumar Ojha 35 Rajiv Ranjan Singh 54 Tarun Mahato 17 Goutam Chhuria 36 Ram Bahadur Thapa 55 Uma Kant Pradhan 18 James Vincent Malwa 37 Ranjit Minj 56 Vinita Francis 19 Johan Murmu 38 Rantu Saha 57 Vishnu

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Sl. No. Name of the Student Roll No. Event/Competition Name Company Level Position 01 Nilanjana Dutta H20098 PM Engage Challenge, 2020 Microsoft National National Finalist 02 Randhir Singh B19156 Colgate Inner Circle Colgate National National Winner Campus Voice The Print National Honorable Mention Research Intern End Now Foundation National Co-Author 03 Vipul Kapoor H20179 IDFC First Bank MBA Scholarship IDFC National IDFC First Bank scholar Guilty or Not Intra-college First Launch 2020 (Live Project Program) Enable Careers Inter-college Selected as one of the 4 top teams Titan Elevate 6.0 Titan Intra-college Campus Finalist 04 Riya Santhosh H19158 Hired Fired National First Runner Up Trial By Fire National First Runner Up AdHRIT National National Finalist 05 Sagar Sahni B19160 InsideIIM Top 30 Most Employable MBA Graduates IIM National Top 30 Most Employable MBA Graduates Colgate Transcend Colgate National National Semi-Finalist ETPrime Intellect The Economic Times National National Finalist 06 Ivy Maji B19021 Asian Paints Chain Reaction Asian Paints Intra-college Campus Runner-Up J&J Quest- Marketing Jhonson & Jhonson Intra-college Campus Runner Up MAXI Fair XLRI Intra-college Top 3 AGS Case Competition AGS National National Winners Tata Imagination Challenge Tata Group National National Finalist 07 Swetha Molugu H19147 Global Management Challenge International National Finalist Athlos Athlos Inter-college Throwball Winners Ensemble Valhalla XLRI Inter-college Throwball Runners Microsoft PM Engage Challenge Microsoft National National Finalists 08 Praveer Satyam H20101 Cloudtail FORTE Cloudtail Inter-college Campus Finalists EV Ignito XLRI Inter-college Runners Up 09 Shrey Bhala B19049 Published Research Paper in Eurpoean Journal of Operations Research (A-star Journal) National Covered in 35+ international/national news Developed and published Bhag Corona 10 Anushree Warade H19010 Capgemini L'Innovateur Competition Capgemini Inter-college National Finalists International Publication in European Journal of Operational Research ` International XL-IIMC Inter-college Winner 11 Shrey Bhala B19049 Highest Economics CQPI Inter-college CQPI of 7.6/8.0 in Economics Case Competition: Brandstorm by L'Oreal L'Oreal National National Finalists E.L.I.T.E Program by Capgemini Capgemini Inter-college Brand Ambassador of XLRI InsideIIM Top 30 MBA Graduates (2021) IIM National Top 30 12 Shashwat Dharmadhikari B19106 Research Publication IEJ, IIIE (2020) Indian Institution of Industrial Engineering National Industrial Engineering Journal

13 Job Joseph BD20031 Biz Re-Viz National National Runners-up 14 Tarun Agrawal BD20066 Advaita' 20 National National Runner up InsideIIM Top 30 Most employable MBA grads IIM National Top 30 15 Abhinaba Chakraborty H19121 CESC knowledge carnival 2020 CESC National National winner 16 Prateek Singh H19153 Myntra Stylbiz HR Challenge Myntra National National winner Colgate Inner Circle Colgate National National winner InsideIIM's 30 most employable graduates of the class of 2019-21 IIM National National winner RaymondNEXT Challenge Raymond National National winner 17 Rohan Paliwal B19159 Colgate Inner Circle Colgate National National winner Amazon ACE Amazon National National Finalist J&J Quest Jhonson & Jhonson National National Finalist

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Sl. No. Name of the Student Roll No. Event/Competition Name Company Level Position McKinsey Next Generation Women Leaders Asia 2020 McKinsey International Participant (2 day workshop - not a competition) 18 Apoorva Rastogi B19127 P&G CEO Challenge 2020 P&G National Top 3 National Finalists Asian Paints Canvas 2020 Asian Paints Intra-college Top 5 Campus Finalists Asian Paints Conundrum - Case Study Competition Asian Paints National National Winners RPSG-CESC Knowledge Carnival CESC National National Winner 19 Aakash Jaiswal H19002 Samsung E.D.G.E Case Competition Season 5 Samsung National National 2nd Runners Up Airtel iCreate Airtel National National Finalists 20 Anushree Ghosh B19126 P&G CEO Challenge 2020 P&G National Top 3 National Finalists amongst 1295 participating teams Myntra Stylbiz’20 Myntra National 1st Runner up Flipkart WiRED Flipkart National Received PPO from 14,728 participants | National Semi-finalist 21 Shivam Khandelwal H19048 Capgemini L'Innovateur 3.0 Capgemini Inter-college Campus Finalist HR Colosseum XLRI Inter-college Campus Finalist 22 Anushka Jain H19068 Flipkart WiRED 4.0 Flipkart National National Winner Paper titled “Cross-Functional approach to tackling covid19” selected for international Biomedical Journal of Scientific & Technical Research (BJSTR) International publication from entries across the globe. Novartis India Leadership Bio-technology Camp Novartis National National Winner of Novartis India BioCamp 2020-21 23 Dr Nadeem Ahmed N BJ20090 Global Management Challenge National National Finalist Healthcare Executive National Invited as Guest writer to write on Business Aspect of Health The Science Serve International Executive member of Editorial Board Myntra Stylbiz 2020 Myntra National National semi-finalist 24 Subham Sinha H19053 Goodera Global Student Challenge 2020 International Semi Finalist Advaita IRIS 2020 Inter-college National Runners-Up 25 Sonal Gupta BJ20053 P&G Emerging Leaders Program P&G National P&G Emerging Leader 26 Shashank Shekhar H20169 JMA Management Olympiad 2020 JMA National Winner 27 Ritika Deshwal B19038 Global Management Challenge National National Finalist The Nutrcracker 2020 (HUL) HUL National Winner 28 Varun Bharadwaj Karthikeyan H20059 GMC - Global Management challenge National Qualified to National level Round 2 and among top 90 teams Asian Paints- the Conundrum Asian Paints National Winner 29 Nisha Sharma H19032 Samsung E.D.G.E. Samsung National National 2nd Runner-up Airtel iCreate Airtel National National FInalist Ensemble Valhalla, Athlos, Independence Cup, XL-IIMC Inter-college Winners in Women's Volleyball and Throwball 30 Reshmi Sriram B19157 Airtel iCreate 2020 Airtel National National Finalists 31 Abhijith Andhoor B19119 EV, Athlos, XL-IIMC Inter-college Winner 32 Praveen Agarwal H19097 Hero Campus Challenge Hero National Campus Winner | National Semifinalis 33 Shitij Manojkumar Agarwal BJ20108 Scientific Research Paper Publication International McKinsey Next Generation Women Leader Asia Event McKinsey International Elected as the McKinsey Next Gen Women Leader National HR Colosseum Event National First runner up 34 Pranjal Goyal H19095 Amazon Customer Excellence Challenge Amazon Intra-college First runner up and PPO Winner Dean’s Merit List Intra-college Secured a position in Dean’s merit list InvicTAS, business simulation by TAS Intra-college First runner up Global Case Challenge International Second Runner Up Global Management Challenge National National Finalist 35 Pradan Jain H19035 The Hindu BusinessLine Case Competition National 2nd Position Chaturang -Chess Competition Intra-college Winner Visionaries by CRUX Intra-college Article Published

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Artha Bhedam 2.0 National First 36 Saloni Agarwal BJ20183 EQT - Riscon XII National First Flipkart Wired Flipkart National National Winner 37 Gangeshwar Tripathi H19079 Reliance TUP Conquest Reliance National National Runner-Up 38 Isha Gupta BJ20021 Colgate Inner Circle Colgate National 1 out of 2 from XLRI RPSG-CESC National Knowledge Carnival CESC National National 2nd Runners Up Everest Group's National Case Study Competition Everest National National Finalist 39 Preksha Gupta B19153 J&J Quest Season 8 (Operations and Supply Chain) Jhonson & Jhonson National National Finalist Accenture's Bschool Challenge Accenture Intra-college Campus 2nd Runners Up Capgemini's case cpmpetition Capgemini Intra-college Campus Finalist H19104 Research Paper Publication International 40 Saurav Kumar Ganguly Capgemini L'innovateur 3.0 Capgemini Intra-college Runners up

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STUDENT AFFAIRS COUNCIL

NCR Campus toensure the same level of holistic development of students through activities, competitions and events round the year. Made a comprehensive SOP for re-opening XLRI campus in NCR and Jamshedpur, keeping in mind the government directives and challenges posed by COVID-19. In this pursuit, the council members in association with the administration, conceptualized and formulated a Covid Action Team for ensuring The Students Affairs Council is the apex body and the adherence of protocols and taking care of logistics representative council of the students of XLRI. SAC consists of a General Secretary and four Principal Secretaries (Academic Affairs, Internal Affairs, External Affairs, & Placement Affairs) from the senior batch who are elected by 720 students of the flagship PGDM program. For the academic year 2020-21, there were three and two Junior Student Affairs Council members for XLRI Jamshedpur and NCR campus respectively who took initiatives for student well-being. SAC supervises various student and functioning of critical tasks for campus activities on campus and is the interface between the operations during COVID. students and the administration. It plays an active Faced with an unprecedented situation of virtual role in issues such as restructuring academic content, learning, to facilitate interaction and bonding enhancement of infrastructure and facilities, and between seniors and juniors, the junior council coordinating extracurricular, co-curricular and members conducted events like Let's Talk 3.0 and placement activities on campus. Currently, the SAC Virtual Bollywood Night to ensure knowledge coordinates activities of 22+ Formal Committees, 7 transfer in a virtual mode along with increasing informal Committees and 3 interest groups on the familiarity and connect amongst the cohort who campus. Various new initiatives were taken up by never got the chance to meet in person. Continuous SAC in the academic year 2020-21 with some of the initiatives were taken to help students adapt to the key accomplishments are as follows: virtual learning scenario, these ranged from taking Designed the First Buddy Program for students infrastructural and academic issues feedback to securing admission in XLRI for mentorship covering getting them alleviated by the administration in the issues related to academics, placements and smooth form of academic support, open houses and internet transition to the expected rigour. Through automated bill reimbursements. Additionally, two new student code we m apped 230+ seniors and 430+ juniors for Interest Groups related to the domain of Analytics guidance out of which 210+ juniors responded to the (DARVIX) and Product Management (PRODUX) survey questions based on the implementation and were approved and formalised on campus. Catering review of the program and 95%+ juniors reviewed to the the program positively. Worked with the college interests of students, insightful events and administration as first Student Affairs Council in discussions were conducted to propagate knowledge charge of XLRI NCR campus having 120 students of sharing under the purview of these 2 extremely PGDM BM programme to get the campus sought after domains. functioning and onboarding students. All the students run Committees were extended in XLRI

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AXIOM DISTINGUISHED ALUMNUS KRISH SHANKAR (PMIR-1984) Group Head of HRD Infosys AXIOM, the operations committee of XLRI, had to get used to the online mode owing to the prevailing scenario. As is always the case, there were The coronavirus pandemic threw a multitude of challenges, but opportunities are not hard to find if challenges last year. Even in these testing times, we there is a real intent for a change. We kickstarted the saw bright spots in the business world that were session with our first icebreaker of the year. And the resilient and guiding light for others. Cygnus was event was a huge success, thanks to the batch of hosted on the theme Resurgence through 2020-22. Resilience. With the learnings of our first event, we went ahead Traditionally, Cygnus is a two-day affair with to bring in new flavors for our next event, students from business schools and engineering CRONOS. One of the persistent challenges was colleges all over India visiting the Jamshedpur garnering registrations for the event as the online campus. The pandemic meant that the entire event mode meant enormous tussle for the promotion of was shifted to online mode. However, this did not events. Nonetheless, we left no stone unturned in deter the Cygnus team. We began preparation adopting an inclusive approach by having a tinge of almost 45 days ahead of schedule. Four exciting both formal and informal events. CRONOS events called Around India, Elixir Enigma, Family witnessed registrations of more than 100 students Feud and Bat World were organized with prizes from the junior batch which speaks for the worth INR 1.3 lakh. The events involved live popularity of the event amongst our batchmates. quizzes, simulation, strategy games etc. In addition, AXIOM organized online Six Sigma Further, we were privileged to host prominent certification program in collaboration with a top business leaders spread across five guest lectures MNC (KPMG) for more than 150 participants. The and two panel discussions. The speakers were from workshop garnered accolades for its industry-ready diverse industries and represented India Inc modules which assisted the students during their comprehensively. Mr. Vadiraj Kulkarni (Chief SIPs. Executive, ITC Paperboards), Mr. Dhiraj Rajaram As members of AXIOM, we strive to bring live (CEO, Mu Sigma), Mr. Amit Pande (Brand Head at projects for students of XLRI. Although this year Madura Retail Fashion) among many others, was uncertain owing to pandemic, we managed to graced the event and shared their views on the achieve an increase in industry collaboration. We theme. We saw enthusiastic participation from were successful in creating several opportunities by students who got a chance to engage with industry partnering with 4 companies viz. Swiggy (Online leaders. The panelists were particularly impressed food order and delivery platform), Hammer (e- by the quality of questions asked by the students. commerce platform for electronics items), Incnut Besides, we also conducted a workshop on Shape- Lifestyle Pvt. Ltd (globally renowned media and fitting spreadsheets and Dynamic Dashboards. commerce company) and RAS Essentials AXIOM was delighted to receive positive feedback (Wellness care products). It has proven to be a about all its events. It gives us immense motivation tremendous learning experience for students. to continue our work with great zeal and come back in the next year with an even bigger extravaganza. AXIOM and SOCRATES committees of XLRI hosted its annual Tech-ops symposium CYGNUS 2021 from 8-10 January 2021 with great pomp and show. The event was a grand success which attracted over 2500 registrations, a jump of 66% from last year’s number.

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DRACULA

The cultural committee of XLRI, the Dramatics plan to give a platform for creative and serious and Cultural Association of XLRI, fondly known actors and filmmakers in the form of “Ad Mad” as DRACULA has long been known to add some and “Lights camera action” event during flavour into the ever-present monotony of any b- Ensemble-Valhalla. school life. The committee has five verticals - The Fine Arts vertical worked towards promoting Dance, Drama, Quizzing, Literature and Debate art on campus by forming Art@XL, an interest and Fine Arts, to cater to students’ diverse set of group for all artists at XLRI to connect, share skills on campus. The committee is responsible their work and learn new tricks. The vertical also for organising a series of events across verticals organised a Doodling workshop for teaching art throughout the year to infuse the campus with enthusiasts how to make doodles. Not only this, some much-needed entertainment. the vertical released, for the first time, a calendar The ‘Lit’ club of XLRI has connotations that for the year 2021 featuring some of the best extend beyond just being associated with the works of students on campus. We aim to bring Literary and Debating Vertical of XLRI and with forth and ignite the same energy towards good reason. We kicked off the academic year promoting art during Ensemble-Valhalla with a with the ‘Turncoat Debate’ that attracted fun and exciting event called Spin-Art. participation from colleges across India. This The Quizzing vertical tested the wits of XLers by was followed up with the release of ‘Elixir’, a organising the Quizzing League. The league had collection of deeply moving poetry and prose by quizzes spread throughout the year on diverse XLers. ‘For Better or Verse’ was a writing topics ranging from Entertainment to India to competition conducted towards the end of 2020, fiction, catering to seasoned and first-time to capture the year. We are excited to leave a quizzers. larger literary footprint during Ensemble- Every B-School requires a committee to bring a Valhalla with our ‘Pocketful of Proses’ and ‘Just a little bit of fun into all the madness. This was Minute’ events. precisely the intent and vision of the committee The Dance vertical ensured that everyone was going into the 2020-2021 academic year, and we grooving at home as the world went into an online are proud to say that this vision stands mode by organising Bollywood Zumba and accomplished. As the year looms to a close with Bhangra workshops. The vertical held a contest convocations at the horizon, the committee called XL Reel Diaries. In this hook step promises to be back with more mischief and fun challenge, the best entries, based on views and and until then, In perpetuum ave atque vale likes, were showcased on our Instagram handle. (Farewell). We are set to experience a plethora of passionate dancers from across colleges as they battle it out in the Natyanjali- Solo Dance and Machayenge- Group Dance events during Ensemble-Valhalla. The Dramatics vertical has worked towards bringing out talent among the people at XLRI. The vertical conducted Spotlight, a talent search competition. Moreover, in Collaboration with Cease, it released a series on Men’s Day to sensitise everyone to men’s stereotypes. They

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DISTINGUISHED ALUMNUS CEASE DEEPAK GARG (PGDGMP-2005) CEO & Director Sany Heavy Industry

CEASE (Committee for Awareness, harassment at public spaces and workplaces that Sensitization, and Empowerment) works under often go unnoticed. The workshop unanimously the aegis of CASH Committee, which is headed received positive feedback from all. by Prof. Arundhati Sarkar Bose. It serves as the official student body responsible for generating CEASE is a committee that believes in equality gender sensitization and awareness against sexual and empowerment. This year, as a part of XLRI, it harassment. CEASE is a 20-member student contributed to organizing the esteemed Flagship committee (eight from the junior batch, eight from Conclave: Clockspeed, which promotes gender the senior batch, and four from GMP) that acts as inclusion in the domain of Operations and Supply an interface between students and the faculty Chain. The conclave received a good response panel. from Carpe Diem, the Icebreaker event of CEASE was the participants and concluded as a success. the first event of the year and it saw enthusiastic CEASE is also known for organizing and participation from the junior batch. This event celebrating the International Women's Day on 8 consisted of an exciting quiz, followed by another March an annual appreciation drive for all the challenging round which tested the gender women involved in our campus' daily lives, be it a sensitization-related concepts of the participants. friend, a colleague, a sister, or a social helper. The On International Men's day, it organized several flagship event of CEASE, Pandemonium is events in XLRI for appreciating and celebrating conducted each year during Ensemble Valhalla, men. An initiative by CEASE gave a platform for and the 2020 edition saw enthusiastic students at XLRI to appreciate the male students participation from 346 teams from students across through personalized appreciation cards. This the country. initiative received an overwhelming response, CEASE is dedicated to the cause of gender and more than a thousand cards were sent out. equality and maintaining a healthy culture Furthermore, we held a multi-faceted art-cum- among all genders in the college. The events literature competition on the topic Real men are… organized by the committee have been largely . CEASE also ran a campaign to promote men successful in sensitizing the students at the body positivity - to spread the word amongst the college towards the cause. college-goers who suffer from body shaming in their everyday lives. The CASH committee, with the active help of CEASE, organizes an annual workshop for students and faculties for issues regarding sexual harassment and gender sensitization. This year, it was conducted virtually by the Sexual Harassment Law Compliance Advisory. The workshop was interactive and engaging, making participants aware of everyday examples of

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COMMITTEE FOR PUBLIC POLICY RESEARCH

The Committee for Public Policy Research (CPPR) formed in academic year 2017-18 aims to provide a platform for some of the brightest minds to express their views on issues of importance in public policy and foster research. This year for the first time, CPPR hosted digital policy parleys. The first parley was on “India-China Conflict: Will there Ever be an Asian Century? Deliberations took place upon conflict between the two Asian giants while discussing the possibilities for future peaceful collaboration. The parley also covered numerous other aspects, including the history of relations between the two countries and their civilizational ties. The public policy enthusiasts discussed several points of convergence Building upon the committee’s desire to raise like forums through which the two countries co- awareness on happenings in public policies that operate, from BRICS to the Shanghai Cooperation affect us all and analyse these subjects in depth, the Organization. Points of difference were also articles covering defence, India’s diplomatic ties, considered for a holistic discussion, covering the economics, urban planning, energy, economics, banning of Chinese apps, NSG, the trade deficit and healthcare and gender equality were written in a the South China Sea. lucid, logical and comprehensive manner to foster With the nation currently witnessing one of the a healthy informed discussion. biggest organized protests in recent past over the Further, CPPR collaborated with Ensemble- controversial farm bills introduced by the Indian Valhalla and hosted an event named “Make XL government, CPPR organized a policy-parley on Great Again”. The event was hosted over the zoom this hotly contested topic. The debate drew healthy platform, and participants had to record a skit of 2- participation from the student community, and 10 minutes about making XL great again. The views from across the political and ideological participants enacted famous world leaders and spectrum were exchanged and appreciated. delivered their pitch as a group. Pandemic did not CPPR also published the 2020 edition of its annual constrain our endeavors, as CPPR will be magazine Abhijnah, including 24 articles from the conducting an event for the first time under the senior and junior batch and the FPM students. aegis of Ensemble Valhalla which is going to provide a platform for policy enthusiasts nation- wide. The past year was unique in many ways as the session was conducted online and creative ways were devised to hold events and activities within the confines imposed by the pandemic. We thank all the students, faculty members and staff for extending their support and encouragement for all our endeavors.

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DISTINGUISHED ALUMNUS CII-Yi SANDIP SEN (BM-1989) Global CEO Aegis Limited CII-Yi TEDx 2021 CII-Yi organised its eighth edition of TEDx on 19February 2021. The theme for this year's TEDx was Surviving the Storm. This year's TEDx speakers included Deepika Kumari, national-level archery player, Dhaval Jain, an IAS officer, Aditya Gupta, who successfully summitted Mt Everest at the age of 50, Sarah Hussain, an Indian food blogger who has around 380k followers, Tanmaya Jain, Founder & CEO, Infeedo, and Amit Behl, Indian theatre, television, and film actor.

Dare 2 Compete Case Competition CII-Yi organized a case competition, Dare 2 Compete, from 18 to 20 October 2020. In the first round a quiz was organised, which was followed by a case challenge, called Unravel. It challenged the participants to create a detailed growth strategy to help an E-Commerce firm navigate the complex business scenario during the COVID pandemic. Top three winning teams received cash prize worth Rs. 10,000.

Amphan Fund raiser CII-Yi was a contributor to the fundraiser organised by INCA for Amphan cyclone relief. The event called Beat the Odds raised a sum of Rs 3 lakhs for relief work. The team collaborated with NGOs like Mukti, Action Aid and Medical Service Center.

Live Projects CII-Yi received two live projects Leadership Development and Compensation Benchmarking from ISWP this year with the aim to enhance learning and increase student- industry interaction.

Tycoon's Gambit As part of XLRI's annual management festival Ensemble, CII-Yi organised an intensely contested business competition called Tycoon's Gambit.

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CRUX

CRUX- Consulting and Research Undertaking at XLRI had a stellar year in 2020-21, navigating through two placement seasons and hosting many events throughout the three terms. This year, we have grown to include students from the Delhi- NCR campus. Apart from supporting both the junior and the senior batches during their SIPs and Final Placements, respectively, CRUX also unveiled its casebook for the year 2020-21, complete with our students' case interview experiences, detailed case analysis, frameworks, and industry reports. Considering the recent trends of consult companies' interview experiences, CRUX launched the HR Casebook this year to help students with their preparation. The HR Casebook gives a snapshot of the variety of HR cases asked in interviews like downsizing, digital transformation strategies, etc. The detailed casebooks will be a huge help for future interview preparation. CONSquad, first event organised by CRUX tested the basic problem-solving skills and consulting knowledge of the junior batch. The event consisted of two rounds - a short quiz and a case study round. The submitted reports were judged on the basis of novelty of the idea, feasibility of the recommendation, and the structure of the solution. We also launched Visionarios - the annual business magazine of CRUX. The magazine included a host of articles written by XLers on pertinent topics like recent M&As and industry trends analysis. The various initiatives this year have resulted in growing traction for our newly launched LinkedIn page. We welcomed Mr. Victor Cheng, author of the book Case Interview Secrets, ex-McKinsey, and a global case interview preparation expert, to discuss insights in the field of management consulting. He conducted an exciting and informative session on case interview preparation and consulting in general. The students had various questions about different facets of the consulting world.

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DISTINGUISHED ALUMNUS DARVIX K PANDIARAJAN (PMIR-1984) Founder Ma Foi Group

DARVIX (Data Analytics, Research & Visualisation at XLRI), aims to share and foster National Analytics Case Competition knowledge about the relevance of analytics, and In collaboration with Tata iQ, DARVIX its applications among future managers, by conducted the first-ever Data Analytics and keeping them abreast of trends and happenings Visualization Case across industries through inputs from faculty, academia, and industry experts. competition at National level. The event achieved LAUNCH EVENT: grand success with 533 registrations from With the support of our faculty mentor, Prof. students Giridhar Ramachandran, XLRI, DARVIX was participating in 267 teams across more than 60 B- formed in September 2020. The official launch Schools in India. event of DARVIX Decoding Analytics witnessed Annual Magazine and Training sessions an enriching panel discussion on the emerging The annual magazine of DARVIX was launched utility of analytics with our esteemed panelists to keep our readers abreast of the recent Dipayan Chakraborty, Head of Analytics and development in the world of analytics and provide Business Intelligence, Myntra and Anurag Gupta, valuable insights through the lens of industry Senior Manager, Flipkart. Data Analytics Case leaders spearheading companies like BCG from Competition was launched for XLers, which saw the front. participation from 57 teams. DARVIX also organised certified Power BI The launch event was followed by a session on training sessions to upskill students and help them Data Storytelling by Jeff Neiman, Data Scientist tackle the challenges prevalent in the industry. at Ford Motor Company, where the participants To keep up the interest in analytics and showcase had a chance to learn from the vast experience of the recent happenings in the field of analytics, Mr. Neiman. DARVIX regularly engages viewers through its intriguing posts on social media platforms. ANALYTICS DESK: On 13 November 2020, To keep up the interest in analytics and showcase DARVIX launched the flagship event Analytics the recent happenings in the field of analytics, Desk, which was conducted in 3 Chapters. DARVIX regularly engages viewers through its The first Chapter comprised a session on People intriguing posts on social media platforms. Analytics by industry expert and our esteemed alumni, Raman S R, HRBP, SAP. The second Chapter of Analytics Desk saw the launch of the Data Visualization competition – Vizardry. The event saw enthusiastic participation by students who used analytical tools to develop findings and interactively present them. In the third Chapter, we had Mr. Arnendu Bose, Managing Director, Accenture Strategy) deep dive into the world of DARVIX has embarked on this journey with the aim to develop IoT-led Analytics. The session helped students budding managers who can narrate insighul stories through gain valuable knowledge about the Industry X.0 data. We have ignited the spark, and we look forward to an and how it is evolving into an outcome-based excing journey of learning. And as we always say, economy. 'In God we trust, others must bring data !’

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ENTREPRENEURSHIP

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 2020-21: XCEED made the most of the past year. XCEED Incubated start-ups received thousands of dollars in credit from the top ecosystem partners such as AWS. Each XCEED Incubated start-up received a singular mentor to help them navigate the uncharted waters. The mentors were distinguished veterans in their domains, and their expertise helped propel XCEED on the path of success. XCEED collaborated with VillGro, India's pioneering incubator of social enterprises, to fulfil the common goal of entrepreneurship for the greater good. With some of the XCEED liaisons being entrepreneurs themselves, the incubated start-ups received one-to-one support from the liaisons. XCEED conducted a network expansion, and competitiveness check drive this year, to grow the XCEED ecosystem to host multiple new partners, and to propel XCEED to be a nationally significant incubator. XCEED collaborated with India's rich start-up ecosystem to ideate and strengthen XES 21, a new E-Cell initiative to host India's Start-up Community at XLRI. XCEED is preparing to go full throttle in the coming year and stands prepared to help XLers achieve their entrepreneurial and investment aspirations This year, the E-Cell organised the inaugural XLRI Entrepreneurship Summit (XES).

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ENSEMBLE - VALHALLA DISTINGUISHED ALUMNUS AKASH KHURANA (BMD-1977) Mentor, Screewriter, Actor, Director, Author Ensemble-Valhalla is the annual cultural, sports, and management festival of XLRI has witnessed participation from various B-schools across the country and performances by renowned artists like Amit Trivedi, Lucky Ali, Nikhil D’Souza, The Local Train, Vipul Goyal, Sorabh Pant, Biswa zone itself. The event happened virtually but that Kalyan Rath, Zakir Khan, Akash Gupta, and in no way diminished the enthusiasm of the Karunesh Talwar. The multi-faceted fest is a grand students, faculty, and staff members. The event celebration of spirit and character encompassing witnessed a virtual participation of over 550 the values and integrity of India’s oldest business students and the Dean of Academics, Dr Ashis K management school. Pani also graced the occasion. This was followed by First Impressions, the event designed to EVCT hosted an entertaining performance by facilitate batch interaction and communication. comedian Pratyush Chaubey, which was attended 2nd day began with an event conducted to enhance by more than 550 audience. batch unity and competitiveness. All the sections collectively solved a crossword based on XL life and culture showing that even online EVCT can keep the XLRI spirit alive. Next event in line was a team event held on Dare2Compete. Here, all the student committees organized different activities showing how the event brought together all XLRI committee together and be a part of something great. The event concluded with a surprise round, where the winners were chosen through voting by all the students. The performances by the students of XLRI at Ignito was applauded by all.

Ignito also collaborated with PokerDangal to hold a poker night for all XLRI students.

EVCT hosted its annual management fest to be held virtually for the first time across the weekend of 5-7 March 2021. More than 30 events well designed for colleges across the country planned EVCT organized their theme launch event in all fields from strategy to HR, social causes and IGNITO on 20 and 21 November 2020. The theme even some just for entertainment. of the fest was Escapade – A New Journey Awaits. It encouraged people to overcome the monotony of life and daringly take off on a journey of adventure and thrill. It is not the confinement to a comfort zone, but the escape from the comfort

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EXTERNAL LINKAGES

External Linkages

External Linkages (ExLink) is the student-driven public relations cell of XLRI. The committee is responsible for coordinating with various stakeholders handle so that they reached all XLers. and being the interface between XLRI and the world. Summer Internship Experience Corner This involves handling XLRI’s various official 2020 was a year of many firsts, including the first channels of communication, among which are the online SIP experience. The various companies various official handles of XLRI on platforms such as associated with XLRI made sure to make it a LinkedIn, Instagram, Facebook, etc., and use the memorable experience, and the same was documented various portals to propagate news about XLRI. The on LinkedIn through the Summer Internship committee is also responsible for managing media Experience series. relations and act as a channel through which the various committees of XLRI get their word out to the Quil-a-thon world The MBA experience had shifted online this year and created its own share of memories for everyone. And Quil-a-thon, which was conducted two months after the junior batch entered XL, was that rewind moment where juniors were asked to pen down their XL experience, while rewarding the best entries with a feature on the official handles, and CV points.

Secret Santa 2020

In keeping with the XL tradition, Exlink conducted Secret Santa 2020, which gave XLers dispersed across . the country, a chance to bond over the festivity of the ending year, while getting to know another Xler in their Exlink is also probably the first committee on campus batch or the other. Xlers from both batches took part in that students get to know of. Exlink actively manages large numbers. the on-boarding process of the upcoming batch. Right from getting their interview calls to officially Campus Revisit Series becoming an XLer, Exlink is there all the way to assist aspirants with their preparation process and queries. And because one can never grow tired of looking at the 2020, being the year of the pandemic, aspirants faced beautiful XLRI campuses, Exlink has undertaken the unprecedented anxiety, and Exlink’s active online campus revisit series, wherein we post photos of both presence became a crucial mode of connecting with the the campuses, making everyone go XL meri jaan. incoming batch and addressing their issues. XAT Topper Series #XLKeKisse A series of videos was released on YouTube chronicling the journey of XLRI students from diverse 2020 was tough. But returning to the times spent at XL backgrounds – the challenges they faced on their path definitely eased the pain, while giving the incoming and more importantly, how they overcame them. These students a glimpse into XL life. Exlink started the are sure to help future XLers who will make their way #XLkeLisse series on Instagram with this in mind, into these hallowed corridors in the years to come. where students were asked to post photos of their time spent on campus, and narrate a memory associated with it. And these posts were shared by the official

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DISTINGUISHED ALUMNUS SIGMA RAMAKRISHNAN RAMAMURTHY (BM-1982) MD & Group CEO Polycab SIGMA-oikos India Ltd. The committee has always worked towards making a difference in society by taking up various socially responsible causes over time. From small acts of kindness to national level conclaves, the team has worked hard and earned a reputation. Some of the The Positive Impact Rating gives the students a initiatives conducted this year are: chance to evaluate school on how it is solving Daan-Utsav societal and sustainable challenges. XLRI will be During the last 12 years, by integrating and participating in the PIR 2021, led by student mobilizing support from the local community organizations under the Swiss Association. XLRI is (corporates, schools, civil society organizations, known for promoting ethical leadership, etc.), SIGMA-oikos has anchored and facilitated the sustainability, and social development through its Joy of Giving festival in Jamshedpur. Despite the proud legacy of contributing to the society. SIGMA- mostly online mode of the festival this year, XLRI oikos along with CII Yi and Samarthya contributes students and many others provided their time and to making a difference through the various student- resources. The events organized were Online Wish led initiatives. SIGMA-oikos is also responsible for Tree Campaign, Donation of Clothes, Skill conducting this survey at XLRI by building Development Drive, Oral Hygiene Awareness Drive communication campaigns through social media and Rangmanch. Literacy Programs- BMLP and BELP and emails and collecting the data and analyzing the Maths and English learning programs were performance at the end of the survey conducted online, with volunteers teaching a group Secret Santa of 30-40 students coming from less privileged This year SIGMA-oikos started this new initiative backgrounds. They were taught basic English with the aim to spread joy and happiness during the grammar and communication skills. In the Maths festive season of Christmas. With the support of Learning Program, they were taught elementary Robin Hood Army for on-ground implementation, concepts by students of XLRI. the team distributed gifts and sweets on Christmas Social Entrepreneurship Conclave (SEC) eve to 50 differently abled residents of Cheshire SIGMA-oikos has been organizing the Social Home. Entrepreneurship Conclave (SEC) under the aegis of oikos-Asia meet Fr. Arrupe Center for Ecology & Sustainability. An SIGMA-oikos co-hosted the oikos Asia Meet on off-shoot of the National Conference for Social virtual platform in November 2020. The meet Entrepreneurship, initiated by Prof. Madhukar witnessed attendees from 10 oikos chapters/cities in Shukla, the nation-wide event was rebranded as SEC Hong Kong, Suzhou, Bengaluru, and Kolkata etc. in 2018. A panel discussion was conducted with three The fourth edition of the SEC was held on 13 March Speakers from industry, academia and NGO to 2021 via an online medium. The theme for the understand the challenges faced in the social sector - conclave was Rural Sustainability for a Cohesive Aditi Deodhar, founder, Planeteers, Wilma World and it witnessed panelists across two panels Rodriguez, the founder, Saahas Zero Waste and Dr. on subthemes - Developing sustained rural Tata L Raghuram, Associate Professor of Strategic livelihoods, and Agricultural innovations Management, XLRI and Chairperson of FACES. strengthening rural India. Mr S Shivkumar, well known as the architect of ITC e-Choupal, the pioneering farmer empowerment initiative, was the keynote speaker. Positive Impact Rating (PIR)

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MAXI MAXI Bazaar – Bazaar serves as the first encounter of the junior batch with MAXI. Seniors help the juniors conceptualise and market an unconventional product right from imagining quirky attributes to orchestrating a bizarre marketing campaign. This year was the first ever year with an online Bazaar. Nevertheless, it was a night to remember for the juniors serving as the first encounter with out-of-the-box marketing! AdTwist – AdTwist is MAXI’s official icebreaker. One of the most awaited icebreakers, it brings out the Avant Garde in every junior with a contest that links favourite shows and movies with a relevant brand tagline. These ads were shared on Facebook and the ad with the maximum number of likes emerged triumphant. Food For Thought – To help the junior batch navigate through the competitive landscape of XLRI, MAXI conducted two sessions especially arranged for steering the students in the right direction. The first talk, delivered in collaboration with PepsiCo, revolved around what the field of Marketing essentially entails in the real world—both its challenges and opportunities. The second session was taken by Ruthvik Navuduru – Search Specialist at Google from the batch of 2019 on cracking case competitions.

Section Wars – Sections battle it out in a game requiring the utmost display of skill, teamwork and wit. The first event hosted by Junior MAXI, the Section Wars is the ideal time for batchmates to get to know each other and unite for a common cause. This year, the Section Wars was based on the theme of Masterminds- Aces of Anarchy which involved events like Meme Wars, Inspector Clueso, Maxionary and Brand Hunt. MAXI Pocketbook – Keeping up with tradition, MAXI published the upated pocketbook containing a plethora of marketing cases, trends and quick interview tips for reference. MAXI Pocketbook has been widely appreciated for its usefulness and readability and is referred to across top management institutes of the country. CIRCUS MAXIMUS – MAXI’s national level competition CIRCUS MAXIMUS is organized during Ensemble Valhalla, XLRI’s annual inter B-school fest. The event is designed to test how teams can apply classroom concepts to real world marketing challenges. This year’s case study will be based on corporate sustainability. MAXI Fair – MAXI celebrated 42 years of its flagship event with a host of colourful competitions conducted virtually for the first time, attracting a footfall of over 5,000 people from in and out of Jamshedpur. Families flocked to participate enthusiastically in events such as Jamshedpur’s Favourite Family and Masterchef. Children of all ages at the Fair displayed their talent in Kids’ Dance and Art Attack. The line-up also included one of the most awaited competition - Ms. & Mrs. Jamshedpur. One of the main highlights of the grand two-day event was the bedazzling Celebrity Night which was opened by the charming Stavya Kaila and embraced by the very talented Bollywood singer and performer Aastha Gill. The Fair also hosted research projects for well-known brands such as HUL, ITC & Perfetti Van Melle, and successfully conducted its first-ever digital research.

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MAXIGNOSIS’20

MAXI Bazaar – Bazaar serves as the first encounter of the junior batch with MAXI. SeniorsDISTINGUISHED help the juniors ALUMNUS conceptualise and market an unconventional product right from imagining quirkyREKHA attributesMENON (PMIR-1981) to Chairman & Senior Managing orchestrating a bizarre marketing campaign. This th year was the first ever year with an online Bazaar. The Finance Association at XLRI hosted the 11 Director - Accenture in India Nevertheless, it was a night to remember for the juniors serving as the first encounter with out-of-the-box marketing!edition of its annual financial symposium AdTwistGNOSIS’20 – AdTwist virtually is MAXI’s this year official on December icebreaker. 11th One of the most awaited icebreakers, it brings out the Avantand 12th. Garde The in everykeynote junior address with of a contestthe symposium that links favourite shows and movies with a relevant brand tagline.was presented These ads by were Dr. shared Aruna on Sharma, Facebook Former and the ad with the maximum number of likes emerged triumphant.Secretary, Government of India, Mr. Amitabh FoodChaudhary, For Thought Managing – To help Director, the junior AXIS batch Bank navigate and through the competitive landscape of XLRI, MAXI conductedMr. T.R. Ramachandran,two sessions especially Group Country arranged Manager for steering the students in the right direction. The first talk, deliveredat Visa in and collaboration the guest with speakers PepsiCo, would revolved be Mrs. around what the field of Marketing essentially entails in thePraveena real world—both Rai, Chief its Operating challenges O ffandicer, opportunities. NPCI and The second session was taken by Ruthvik Navuduru – Mr.Search Manoj Specialist Kohli, atCountry Google Head, from the SoftBank batch of India. 2019 on cracking case competitions.

Keeping in mind the changes that happened in the world recently the theme of GNOSIS 2020 is “Ripples of COVID in the Financial Services Industry”. It was held virtually this year with over 1400 registrations from various students and corporate delegates.

The themes of the first day panel discussions were “Lending Parameters: The Changing of Guard” and “Economic Outlook: After the Dust Settles”. The Sectiondiscussions Wars in– Sections these panels battle were it out led in by a game some requiringof the the utmost display of skill, teamwork and wit. The firstbiggest event stalwartshosted by inJunior the financeMAXI, the sector Section like Wars Mr. is the ideal time for batchmates to get to know each otherMadnesh and unite Mishra, for a common Joint Secretary, cause. This Ministry year, the ofSection Wars was based on the theme of Masterminds- AcesFinance, of Anarchy Mr. Abraham which involved Chacko, events Former like Executive Meme Wars, Inspector Clueso, Maxionary and Brand Hunt. MAXIDirector, Pocketbook Mr. Soumya – Keeping Kanti Ghosh,up with Group tradition, Chief MAXI published the upated pocketbook containing a plethora of marketing cases, trends and quick interview tips for reference. MAXI Pocketbook has been Economic Advisor, SBI, Mr. Sachchidanand widely appreciated for its usefulness and readability and is referred to across top management institutes of Shukla, Chief Economist, Mahindra Group, S the country. CIRCUSRanganathan, MAXIMUS CFO, Edelweiss– MAXI’s Financial national levelServices competition CIRCUS MAXIMUS is organized during Ensembleand Bidhan Valhalla, Chaudhari, XLRI’s ex annual CEO, inter Jana B-school Financial fest. The event is designed to test how teams can apply classroomServices. concepts to real world marketing challenges. This year’s case study will be based on corporate sustainability. MAXIOn the Fair second – MAXI day the celebrated panel discussions 42 years were of its on flagship event with a host of colourful competitions conductedthe topics virtually“The Dawn for of the Digital” first time, and “Investment attracting a footfall of over 5,000 people from in and out of Jamshedpur.Metamorphosis: Families Changes flocked in to the participate World” ledenthusiastically by in events such as Jamshedpur’s Favourite Familyindustry and stalwartsMasterchef. like Children Mr. Alok of all ages Bansal, at the Co- Fair displayed their talent in Kids’ Dance and Art Attack. Thefounder line-up & also Group included CFO, one Policybazaar.com, of the most awaited Mr. competition - Ms. & Mrs. Jamshedpur. One of the main highlightsAbhijeet Harolikar, of the grand Global two-day Head eventof large was and the Mid- bedazzling Celebrity Night which was opened by the charmingMarket, Paypal,Stavya Kaila Mr. R and Srinivasan, embraced CIO-Equity, by the very SBItalented Bollywood singer and performer Aastha Gill. The FairMutual also hosted Fund, research CIO, HDFC projects life for and well-known Mr. Vetri brands such as HUL, ITC & Perfetti Van Melle, and successfullySubramanian, conducted Head, UTI its first-ever AMC. digital research.

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SAMARTHYA

entrance exam preparation all the way to research Samarthya is the youth wing of the Centre for opportunities in their preferred field. Joining the Education Management, Leadership and Research student (CEMLR) at XLRI Jamshedpur. Akin to its name, volunteers was our esteemed guest, Commodore Samarthya strives to unlock the potential of students Sanjay Sachdeva, who guided the students interested in through the creation of an environment that helps them making a excel. Various initiatives undertaken by the committee throughout the academic year, with the help of the career in the defence field. He also spoke about college helps us fulfil our pledge to the students. opportunities for women and the leadership traits one Reflections, one of a kind conference was conducted on must possess if they wish to be a part of the honourable 29th November 2020 in the virtual mode. The event legacy of aimed to initiate discussion amongst students, teachers, the defence force. The event was a resounding success, and parents on various issues that affect school as parents and faculty reached out to the team, children on a day-to-day basis. The events saw a requesting if there could be more workshops in the participation of over 150 students. This year, the focus future. This year, Disha proved to be a learning was on Mental Health and the pandemic: it's opportunity for students of XLRI as well, as they implications and how to cope. Various questions benefitted from two-way flow of relating to drivers of mental wellness and the impact of information, and were left impressed by the level of social media on adolescent mental health were knowledge the leaders of tomorrow answered by the hosts. The guest speech by Dr Pooja possessed. Mohanty put forth valuable insights on how to deal with isolation during these troubled times. Apart from the student community, the event was also well received by the parents and teachers of the students who attended the event along with them. Samarthya's flagship event Disha , the annual career counselling workshop for students, by students was conducted on 3rd January 2021. The unique event, which is the largest virtual career fair in Jamshedpur focuses on providing guidance as well as addressing any doubts school students have regarding their career choices. Over 350+ students from renowned schools across Jamshedpur engaged in a one-on-one conversation with career experts and student volunteers regarding future career prospects. The chief speaker for the event was Prof Kalyan Bhaskar, a faculty in the Strategic Management Area at XLRI Jamshedpur. He has worked on environment and sustainability projects for UNEP, IFC, and various Indian government ministries. Prof Bhaskar provided valuable insights into the learning one can receive from setbacks by recalling his personal experiences while starting with his career. The inspiring speech ended on a fundamental lesson one must all keep in mind that success isn’t binary. Over 90+ student volunteers from XLRI, coming from a variety of educational backgrounds registered for the event and provided useful advice covering board and

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FINAX DISTINGUISHED ALUMNUS VIKRAM MISRI, I.F.S. (BMD-1986) Ambassdor (GOI) in China

LET’S GET FISCAL FINAX organized a two-round event on the fiscal policies of India. The first round of the event was an online quiz based on the various fiscal policies and the selected teams then qualified for the next round. The second round was submission of suggestions for policy changes that can be made in the next Union budget. The event saw a total GAME OF SCAMS registration of 898 participants. FINAX organized ‘Game of Scams’, a case study competition based on the Harshad Mehta scam. It was an intercollege event held on Dare2Compete. BUDGET’21 DISCUSSION The first round of the event was an online quiz SESSION based on various scams in the history of India. The A session for Union Budget’21 was arranged by event was a great success and had more than 530 FINAX to help the participants understand the registrations. various intricacies of the newly released budget. Many of the esteemed faculty members of XLRI TAMBOLA NIGHT Jamshedpur like Prof. H K Pradhan, Prof. Kalyan After the stressful process of Summer Internship Bhaskar, Prof. Arundhati Sarkar Bose and Prof. N Placements for the junior batch, a stressbuster Sivasankaran presented their views and discussed Tambola night was arranged by the committee and the various aspects. saw more than 150 registrations from both senior and junior batch. The event was a thorough success and was enjoyed by all the participants. Spot prizes were given for trivia questions answered by the participants.

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FIRE@X VP of Tata Workers Union, Mr Ajay Solanki- leader of labour and employment practice at The National IR summit, an initiative of the Nishith Desai Associates, and Mr PP. Mitra- Ex- th Forum for Industrial Relations at XLRI had its 4 Principal Labour edition held on December 18-20, 2020. The pandemic and its challenges inspired the theme of the summit- “Shape of Industrial Relations & Employment, Govt of India. The panel Amidst the Current Challenging times”. The discussion also unveiled the theme of the event weekend-long summit and its 5 events saw a and the launch of the digital version of Dhyuti, the turnout of over 500 students from colleges across annual IR journal. The journal had selected the country. entries written around the theme of social security. The summit began with round 3 and finale of Season 7 of Trial by Fire, a national level quizzing The discussion was followed by 2 exciting events competition with a turnout of 613 teams and 1837 running in tandem- “Guilty or Not” and the students of which only 10 teams made it to the “Labour Parliament”. The former had 2 rounds finale. The competition had its first round in with the first one testing the legal and IR acumen October and second in November, and the of participants through a range of video conclusion of the event marked the beginning of questions, and the finale was a mock disciplinary the summit. The finale was graced by the enquiry wherein the members of the teams had to nationally renowned quizmaster, Mr Somnath enact the roles of an enquiry officer, charge- Chanda. sheeted workman and a management This was followed by “Bury the Hatchet” representative. The Labour Parliament on the consisting of 2 rounds held over the course of the other hand was a mock parliamentary session day. In the first round, teams were pitted against which simulated governmental proceedings for each other in a matter of collective bargaining and the drafting of a bill. The participants were every team was either the management or the assigned states to represent, where they contested trade union. A charter of demands was provided and debated profusely. Members of FIRE@X as a reference point to guide the discussions. The overlooked assuming the roles of house speaker best teams progressed to the finale wherein a fact- and moderators. The agenda was "Drafting of a finding mission was given to all teams. A case was code on social security with special reference to given and the teams had to interrogate the various the acts that it encapsulates." characters in the story to unravel the culprit. A short quiz on laws marked the end of the day. This year's summit was truly groundbreaking in “Legal Eagle” was a rapid 20-minute event that it carried on the legacy of the past years while conducted on Kahoot. adjusting to an online mode, reflecting the true spirit of Industrial relations which is fiery, and The next day started with a 2 hour long thoughtful ever-changing. discussion on “Safeguarding workers: the issues, concerns and future directions” with a diverse range of panellists; Mr Sribesh Beltharia-VP and group HR head of Shyam Steel, Prof. Babu Mathew of National Law School of India University, Bangalore, Mr Shahnawaaz Alam,

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AcadCom DISTINGUISHED ALUMNUS DAVID RASQUINHA (BM-1984) Managing Director Export-Import Bank of India

Academic Committee, fondly known as the AcadCom, acts as the bridge between the students and the faculty. It comprises a Secretary and two Class Representatives (CRs) from each section, making it a team of 27 members. The students of each section elect the AcadCom members, and thus the AcadCom members are accountable to their batchmates. The sole objective of AcadCom is to serve as a central coordinator, working for the benefit of the students, faculty and administration. It is responsible for handling all academic issues of the batch. While accommodating student activities with class schedules and coordinating for assessments and remedial classes with faculty or other students, AcadCom strives to provide every kind of academic-related support to the students. The team played an important role in the smooth transition to an online teaching medium. The team coordinated with all the stakeholders in streamlining online classes and conducting examinations through digital platform, pedagogy and process improvements and recommendations. It also worked with the library and the dean's office to come up with a new reimbursement process for textbooks purchased during the semesters held online. AcadCom also organized XL Utsav, a platform for all XL Family members to celebrate being together while being at home. Students, teachers and non- teaching staff actively participate in various sporting and cultural activities during the XL Utsav. AcadCom stays true to its motto of being the student's negotiator and faculty's facilitator. The 27 brave and kind souls strive hard to promote excellence and foster a spirit of togetherness.

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no face-to-face interactions this year, What if a PiXL frame could depict every XLer of their identity and showcase it to the XL . #XLer_in_a_frame series ran by PiXL gave that opportunity to budding XLer's through its Instagram handle before they could experience an XL Journey of their own. Since the unprecedented pandemic pushed us to have a unique life, another frame has been dedicated to how XLer's life changed and how did they spend their time during this phase. The initiative has been received well by the XLer's and top frames have been posted in PiXL Instagram Handle. Flat Lay Photography Awareness: Since pandemic restricted us in our homes which ultimately killed photo bugs to explore the outside world. Eventually, PiXL came up with Flat lay photography, a photo of objects arranged on a flat PiXL, the official photography club of XLRI, surface, captured from directly above and great ensures that every important student event is way showcase everything of any product from captured. It comprises of nine of the best Laptop to the latest cup of tea. photographers from the senior batch, and 10 PiXL created awareness about this flat lay budding photographers from the junior batch. photography techniques in the form of videos, PiXL covers all the events that take place on the mails and Insta reels made by our team members. campus and actively promoted photography Flat Lay Photography Competition among the students of XLRI. PiXL upon creating the awareness, launched an Some of its contributions were : Online Photography competition on Flat Lay Official Photographers: conceptualization and asked participants to PiXL has been responsible for providing submit flat lay photographs right from their homes photographs for various formal purposes of the comfortably. Event received enthusiastic institute. Various committees also approach PiXL participation from both juniors & senior batches for their team photos for official magazines and of XL and the best among the photographs were communications. rewarded. Social Media Platforms Yearbook Photos for all committees and PiXL runs platforms on Instagram and Facebook, sections: where photos of various events, festivals, the PiXL has been responsible for clicking the group students and of the campus in general are pictures of all the committees and class sections of regularly uploaded. It captures the campus in its the graduating batch for the yearbook. This various colors; be it the beautiful lights during initiative was appreciated by all the students, Christmas, or the magnificent winter flowers. since it let them record a final memory with their PiXL also handles a Facebook page called the beloved committee members and classmates, with humans of XL (HoXL), which publishes stories of whom they spent two of the best years of their various people associated with XLRI. lives. #XLer_in_a_Frame : Since pandemic has pushed us to be virtual with

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INFRACOM DISTINGUISHED ALUMNUS DEEPAK KUMAR HOTA (PMIR-1983) Chairman & Managing Director BEML

SOCRATES Infrastructure Committee Socrates is responsible for the ideation, The team co-ordinates with the institute administration development, and maintenance of web/mobile- to improve mess facilities and hostel infrastructure. It based applications to assist students on campus. The committee also facilitates the management of organised Masterchef for students to show off their IT infrastructure for all the students and committees culinary skills. INFRACOM, with the support of the of the institution. SOCRATES falls under the administration, hosted XL Family Dinner. functional domain and serves as the intermediary touchpoint for expediting all students' interactions with the institute’s IT helpdesk. Kryptos The committee started the year by organizing an icebreaker event KRYPTOS for the 2020-22 batch. The event included a short tech-related quiz and saw participation of over 100 students. Encephalon SOCRATES organized Encephalon 2.0, a case competition to prepare students for Product Management roles in SIPs. The competition was open for the first-year students the Jamshedpur and Delhi campus. Cygnus Cygnus, the committee's flagship event, was organized in association with Axiom on the theme Resurgence through resilience. This was the first time the event was conducted online. The event involved four competition namely Around India – a detailed quiz that required participants to answer questions based on facts about Indian cities; Elixir Enigma – a vaccine development game that required participants to manufacture a vaccine and establish supply chains to ensure timely delivery across the markets; Survival of the fittest – a time- based quiz and crossword; Bat World – an automobile designing competition. Despite a lack of opportunity to promote the events in person, these contests saw over 2100 participation from more than 208 colleges spread across 92 Indian cities. The participation numbers shot up by over 35 percent from last year. The participants and panelists highly acclaimed the event on social media channels.

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XLANC

XLRI Adventure and Nature Club (XLANC) to the essence of XLANC and gave them a taste of the The XLRI Adventure and Nature Club (XLANC) is a adrenaline that was about to come their way. committee whose name is synonymous with adrenaline-filled fun not just on the XLRI campus but also across other premier B-schools. It is accountable 5. Medusa's Lair for making sure that students don't end up losing their The newly minted junior team XLANC fought all the glimmer of energy due to the hectic and rigorous odds of organizing an adventure event online and academic schedule. presented the XLRI students with a mythically themed XLANC's niche isn't just creating events and and fun-filled event called 'Medusa's Lair' in which the campaigns that give the students fun and adventure, participating warriors had to complete a Bingo of but to time and again create them in a way that draws adventurous activities to steal the prize from under the participants closer to nature. The significant ones Medusa's nose. organized by XLANC during the academic year 2020- 21 were: 6. Wildlife Photography Event The junior team again delighted the XLRI students and 1. Insta Galore spread wide-eyed cheer amongst the wildlife XLANC kickstarted its own Instagram page to photography enthusiasts by organizing a tête-à-tête maintain a connect with the students and subsequently with Prasenjeet Yadav, who is a contributing launched immensely successfully Instagram photographer for none other than National campaigns like #TheSpiritOfXLANC, which piqued Geographic. the interest of students in the world of adventure. This legacy of wanderlust was carried forward by the junior team through campaigns such as #AdrenalineJunkie and #MagicalSunsets.

2. Everest Base Camp Leadership Expedition XLANC is also responsible for maintaining the fact that in spite of being an academic hub, XLRI is renowned across its academic brethren for organizing the annual Everest Base Camp Trek for graduating batches of leading B-schools of India including IIMs, MDI, NITIE, and IMT.

3. Maelstrom In the January of 2020, XLANC organized an explosion of stress-consuming and mind-blowing adventure in its flagship event Maelstrom which was replete with competitive yet fun activities such as Archery, All Terrain Vehicles rides, Meltdown, Inflated sumo wrestling and Paintball.

4. Labyrinth In August 2020, Senior XLANC organized a refreshingly eye-opening icebreaker event for the junior batch called 'Labyrinth', which introduced them

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- The Product Management Group DISTINGUISHED ALUMNUS ProdUX DEBRATI SEN (PGDBM-1992) Managing Director In this era of technology & customer-focus, 3M India Region Product Management has emerged as a rapidly growing & respected role in various giants like Microsoft, Amazon, Apple, Sprinklr, organizations. ProdUX at XLRI has been helping etc., to stay competitive in the market and most students with workshops in the field of product importantly, how to deal with customer management and placement related materials. expectations.

We also carried out "Product Teardowns" of applications like Netflix, Uber, Zomato, Instagram, etc., to help students with their placement requirements. Explaining and clarifying their doubts in a live environment, we demonstrated various approaches to solve a particular case of product management.

ProdUX has conducted a variety of activities including workshops from Product Managers of companies like Sprinklr and Microsoft. Further, providing the students with compendiums, analysis of various applications and concepts relevant in the field of product management.

Before the students' placements, we conducted an "Hour-Hackathon" where students had to design an application of payment app for blind people. Under our "Product Management Workshop" This helped the junior batch with the interview series, we carried out different workshops like preparations. We conducted specialized "Demystifying PM" by Chaitanya Goyal, placement preparation sessions for students Director of Product Management at Sprinklr. eligible for placements, clarifying their doubts. They followed this up with a Product Spec Design Giving them insights about the expectations and Challenge, which saw massive participation and how to prepare for them, we shared experiences of got reviewed by Microsoft's PMs. students across top colleges. Further, we conducted "Discussing the PM ProdUX also compiled various sources of roadmap" by Naveen Srinivasan, lead PM at Prodman - compendiums, talks, teardowns, Microsoft where his experience in Product interview experiences from across B-Schools, Management helped the students with the nitty- books and frameworks. Further, we gritty of a PM role and how to do analysis in the recommended the students with crucial insightful interview process. Giving insights about the discussions, current happenings in the world of culture and roles, students benefitted from the PM and resourceful videos on LinkedIn and other hands-on PM case-solving experience. interest groups. Explaining a product life cycle right from the inception stage to its final roll-out, he explained how to start from scratch and develop a meaningful and optimized product. The mentors also explained strategies by various 85 th

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STUDENT INVESTMENT FUND

The Student Investment Fund was kickstarted by based on which stock pitches will soon be a few pioneering finance enthusiasts of the 2015- prepared and shared with the batch as well as on 17 batch. For the initial years, the committee social media. primarily focused on industry and stock research spanning across sectors without managing any actual investments. The team started with just three investors in 2017 with the investor base reaching 120+ in 2020. The academic year 2020-21 saw the fund reach several key milestones. Post the selection of junior SIF team, the fund was opened to the students for making investments in the end of September 2020. The fund raising round witnessed an enthusiastic response from both the batches with the team onboarding over 50 new investors. The Assets Under Management (AUM) which were 7.11 lakh at the end of 2019 fund raising grew to 11.35 lakh by the end of 2020 fund raising. The team swiftly set about to invest the corpus and put in countless hours to invest nearly 3.5 lakhs in over 15 new stocks. With the rally witnessed by the market in recent months, the fund generated returns of over 27% in the three months ending Jan 2021 and the current AUM stands at 14+ lakh. To enhance transparency and provide a more seamless flow of information to the investors, the team prepared a google spreadsheet where the investors could monitor the SIF portfolio in real-time and keep track of all the trades undertaken by the team. Apart from the management of the fund, the team also conducted finance knowledge sessions for the junior batch before the SIPs to help them for the finance roles that come to the campus. These sessions covered fundamentals of finance, accounting and valuation. A knowledge session on Discounted Cash Flow and Relative Valuation has also been recorded which will soon be shared with the batch to aid in their preparation for summer internships and jobs. Looking forward, the team plans to record a training session on using Bloomberg. We have also created standardized stock pitch templates

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SAPPHIRE DISTINGUISHED ALUMNUS LEENA NAIR (PGDPMIR-1992) CHRO, UNILEVER Providing a strong thrust to the domain of human resources knowledge at XLRI is SAPPHIRE, the Students' Association for the Promotion of In addition to the SAPPHIRE HR Compendium, the Personnel Management, Human Resources and committee went above and beyond to gather Industrial Relations at XLRI. speakers from across the globe for the 10th National Founded in 1989, SAPPHIRE aims to integrate the HR Conference with names such as Prof Wayne experiences from Industry with the knowledge from Brockbank, Clinical Professor at Michigan Ross academia in the field of Human Resource School of Business gracing the occasion. The theme Management. of the conference was - Driving Agility in the SAPPHIRE's mission is to enable the development Evolving Post-Covid World with the panel topics - of world-class, well-rounded HR Professionals who can deliver and create value in the emerging "Re-thinking Employer Branding and Employee business environment and make meaningful Experience in Dispersed Workplaces" for Day 1 and contributions to Human Resources. on "People-Analytics: The Power of Digital in Central to this mission is the unshaken belief that Driving Organisational Competitiveness" for Day 2. continuous interaction with Industry is needed to give a cohesive, practical business perspective. Some of the speakers who joined in as panellists Hence, the student body organises acclaimed events were - Krish Shankar, Group Head HR, Infosys; Ira like Battle HRoyale, a National level inter-college Gupta, CHRO, Microsoft India; Rohit Thakur, quizzing league, National HR Colosseum, a four- CHRO, PayTM; Daisy Chittilapilly, Managing course event to test HR competencies, and the Director of Digital Transformation Office for flagship National HR Conference along with a SAARC; Krishna Raghavan, CHRO, Flipkart;Priti plethora of opportunities of live projects and Narain, Market HR Leader, Google India ; Lakshmi workshops conducted throughout the year. Chandrasekaran, Managing Director of HR, Despite the challenge of shifting to an online mode Accenture India; Amit Vaish , HR Director, of operation this year, SAPPHIRE was determined Barclays; Anuranjita Kumar, Founder & CEO, WiT- to deliver the best of HR events, simulations making ACE; Prakash Singh, Chief Capability them interactive and engaging. The team hosted the Development,Tata Steel ; R.P. Srivastava, ice-breaker Chaos, which witnessed the Junior Director(Personnel &IR), Coal India (retd.) batch's overwhelming participation, acting a Additionally, there were also workshops on platform to introduce the committee. It hosted the Employer Branding (Day 1) and People Analytics annual quizzing league, Battle HRoyale online (Day 2) in addition to paper presentations, following the leaderboard system among competitions and a guest address by Anuradha participants from the country's premier B-schools. Razdan, Executive Director & VP of HR South Asia Over the course of the journey, team SAPPHIRE has at Unilever. been dedicated to raising the awareness of the batch with the new trends in the HR domain, through Pre- SIP talks with Krityanand, Learning and Wellbeing Lead for South Asia at HUL and HR Analytics workshops in association with Phoenix Global. We also released our annual newsletter HR Xpress featuring exclusive interviews with Anupam Trehan, Head of Cisco HR for India and SAARC; and Amit Mehta, Head of Employer Brand and Talent at HUL.

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SportsCom SportsCom, the sports committee of XLRI, was one There were 8 participant pools. The top players from of the hardest hit committees, if not the hardest, due each pool advanced to the semi-finals. The final to the COVID pandemic. Traditionally, all the composed of the top 8 players from the semi-final events conducted by the SportsCom at XLRI are pools. The matches were scintillating, and the final offline events with no online version possible for was a close one. Pradan Jain (HR, 19-21 batch) these events. This is where we improvised and emerged victorious, ahead of Archit Garg (HR, 19- designed new online events which kept the XLRI 21 batch) by only 2 points. Harishankar (HR, 20-22 fraternity engaged while keeping the SportsCom batch) came third at 8 points behind Archit. It was relevant even during these tough times. indeed an adrenaline-heavy and exciting 70 Lockdown Fitness Challenge (LFC): Amidst the minutes, representative of the sporting culture at confines created by the unforeseen pandemic, XLRI. SportsCom conceived and designed a totally new XHaust: Next, the SportsCom conducted Xhaust, a event called the Lockdown Fitness Challenge marathon running event, on 9th December and 13th (LFC). Two editions of the event were conducted December. Separate categories were created for which saw a whopping participation of 102 and 162 men and women with different running distance students on campus respectively in each of the options to choose from among the 3 km, 5 km and 10 editions. The idea behind the event was to allow km runs. The event saw over 100 participants students who had had a very sedentary lifestyle for amongst students, faculty, and staff between two months within the confines of their homes get an slots on both days – 7AM or 6 PM. The event's aim opportunity to work out and improve their fitness was to nudge the XLRI community to bring back without exposing themselves to the threats posed by physical fitness into their daily routine after months the pandemic. The LFC was a 14 day challenge of inactivity that set in due to the pandemic. Winners where people were divided into teams and competed in each category were accordingly recognized. against each other in teams to sustain the motivation Fr. P. Christie S.J., Director, XLRI - Xavier School across the 2 week period. There was room for a lot of of Management, encouraged the XL family for flexibility in terms of the diverse range of workouts maximum participation. He said, "XLRI has been allowed to perform. The people indulged in promoting fitness culture through its various sports exercises like running, cycling, dance workouts, events. The virtual marathon Xhaust 2020 will make yoga, push ups, crunches, squats, other body weight our XL community start working out again through exercises etc. and recorded their daily efforts in an external nudge and to keep the XL sporting terms of the total calories burnt per day which was culture alive; this would help them become active measured with the help of the various fitness apps again". available now. The top performers among the males were Yash Chaturang: After the success of LFC 1.0 and LFC Naiknavare and Pranav Bhatt. Among the females, 2.0, SportsCom XLRI organized Chaturang 2020, Rucha Kalekar and Chandini Gunaparthi posted the Online Chess Tournament of XLRI, in excellent timings. November 2020. The response was overwhelming, In the last month of this academic year, SportsCom with 65 participants filling the interest form. The will be proceeding with some of its traditional format of the tournament was Blitz, with each player events on campus like the famous Ratanjee entitled to 5 minutes + 0 seconds increment, held on tournament followed by internal events like Lichess. CricBlitz and Futsal League.

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DISTINGUISHED ALUMNUS SPICMACAY MADHAVI LALL (PMIR-1991) Managing Director Head-HR, India SPICMACAY continues to spark the beauty and Deutsche Bank magic of Indian culture and heritage among the XLers, amidst the hustle of the quizzes, tests and submissions. Though 2020 has been an life and works, SPICMACAY XLRI organised incredibly difficult year with most of us “Soulful Soumitra”, an online screening of the functioning from the scope of our own homes, actor’s legendary movie “Charulata”, directed our spirits have not been marred. We have been by Satyajit Ray. able to carry forward the legacy of being the most Makar Sankranti at XLRI Delhi loved extracurricular committee of the campus. The arm of the committee in the Delhi-NCR Hunar-e-XL: A melting pot of talents campus hosted the Kite-flying festival during SPICMACAY XLRI has been the cultural Makar Sankranti. While following social melting pot of the creative souls that XLRI distancing and COVID safety norms, this was welcomes every year. Continuing its legacy of our first offline event of the year and was much serving as the platform for showcasing the talent appreciated by all. of the junior batch to the entire XL Family, Miscellaneous Hunar-e-XL, XLRI’s annual Talent Night, was In the last year, we have also unveiled the cover hosted in October 2020. In a year of for our annual cultural newsletter SPIC Katha extraordinary circumstances, we hosted the which encapsulates the literary and artistic flagship event in two phases, welcoming entries fervour of students of XLRI pertaining to the rich in two fields, Live Performances and Art & cultural heritage of our country. Apart from this, Photography, for the preliminary selections. we also host “Ragalaya” as a part of the Following that, we had an overwhelming Ensemble Valhalla during XLRI’s annual fest, viewership for the Grand Finale with 10 best and our event at the annual XL Utsav scheduled performers that was premiered on YouTube live. during the last week of February. On our social Anubhuti: Lecture Demonstration series media channels, we continue to engage with We were delighted to flag off the inaugural followers and aficionados through our edition of the Lecture Demonstration Series #spicstories “Anubhuti” in January 2021. We had the series, where we disseminate information and pleasure of hosting Kavish Seth among us, who trivia about Indian culture in attractive and is a poet, songwriter, singer, and creator of a 21- interesting formats. stringed musical instrument called Noori. He has As future leaders, it is pertinent for us to also stay had a very unconventional creative journey, from grounded and promote the rich cultural heritage the classrooms of IIT Bombay to the trails of of the diverse country we hail from. To insinuate rural India in search of our musical roots, by such notions, SPICMACAY XLRI will conceptualising his music project and collective constantly strive to bring the platter of variants called Zubaan. The evening was a magical through our events. We are eternally grateful to amalgamation of tracing the musical scenes in the batches for supporting us in our endeavours. the remote places of India, met with the drizzles of poetry, and Indie songs that everyone could relate to. Remembering Soumitra Chattopadhyay In 2020 we witnessed the sad demise of Dadasaheb Phalke award winning actor Soumitra Chattopadhyay, a timeless legend of Bengali and Indian cinema. To commemorate his

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TOASTMASTERS club reached an all-time high of 124. The first stop in this exciting journey was the ice- breaker event How you see me, organized for the latest batches of BM and HRM 20-22, offering a glimpse into the plethora of public-speaking opportunities, with prizes and CV points providing the perfect incentive to the young souls. This paved the way for another exciting challenge when the senior team started a rigorous selection process for the Junior Executive Team to carry forward the legacy. Grooming these new enthusiasts into the leaders of tomorrow, the senior team passed on the secrets of the trade and provided a haven for the junior team, thus forming a beautiful family even in an unconventional virtual setting. With constant guidance and support of the senior team, the junior team conducted five meetings in the online mode, touching upon various themes- sarcasm, competition, arrival of winter, and the dreams and aspirations associated with the new year 2021. Word of the day was pre-defined for every meeting which enabled vocabulary enhancement as well as speech articulation. The members of the club showered their enthusiasm and encouragement in every meeting ensuring brilliant participation even in a hectic online schedule. Speech competitions and table topics kept The academic session 2020-21 witnessed the awe- the TM members on their toes while relevant feedback inspiring transformation of the XLRI Toastmasters was provided by the role players in every meeting. The club as it adapted to the virtual mode of operation. We winners were heartily celebrated on social media, commenced the season on a high note, forging new generating interest in the new members. bonds, as the first meeting was held in collaboration A new event Spin a story was introduced where the with Toastmasters IIFT Kolkata on the auspicious members weaved stories around random pictures thus occasion of Independence Day, celebrating the showcasing unique perspectives with hilarious stories "Unsung Heroes". This marked the beginning of an that kept us hooked. This initiative was met with much exciting journey in the online "Zoom" mode, as the success providing the necessary encouragement to the club navigated various challenges and emerged executive team to try out new and fresh ideas. Besides stronger than ever. The brilliant efforts of the club in the regular meetings, we also played an important part creating a platform to enhance communication and in the EV theme launch event Ignito 2020, celebrating leadership skills of the XL community have been the true spirit of TM through a fun trivia quiz, spearheaded by the diligent Senior Executive Team providing a glimpse into the roles and functions of a comprising Mansi Singh (President), Amit Garg typical TM club. Through these various initiatives, our (Treasurer), Shreyans Dugar (Vice President- Public goal has been to provide awareness about the concept Relations), Vishishtha Upul (Vice President- Public of a Toastmasters club and its relevance for the XL Relations), Anushree Ghosh (Secretary), Anvita community in building a strong foundation for the Anand (Vice President- Education), Ekta Roy (Vice leaders of tomorrow. The club aims at developing President- Membership), and Rohan Coelho fearless leaders and public orators capable of bringing (Seargent-at-Arms). True to the spirit of the club, the about necessary changes in the world at large. We stand senior team embarked on a journey to inculcate the by our commitment to create a platform where leaders values of Toastmasters in the existent as well as are made. incoming batches at XLRI. The total strength of the

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ALUMNI COMMITTEE

Committees of other top B-Schools to the start an Inter Collegiate Leadership Series to establish a strong student connect with external stakeholders and help build an external network. ALCOM also organized the 6th edition featuring Mr. Rakesh Kapoor for the batch of 19-21. Making full use of the virtual platforms, the committee organised the first Bay Area summer trivia event. This informal meetup saw the enthusiastic participation of 9 teams of alumni The Alumni Committee has been actively and their families competing in an online quiz working on building and sustaining covering various fun themes. alumni relations withover 16,000 alumni To beat the blues of a socially distant year, a all over the world. The committee grand evening of entertainment was organized strengthens the alumni and student for the XL fraternity in association with the relations through major events that it Bangalore chapter. Over 400 alumni across organises throughout the year, activities batches and from around the country came with the alumni chapter, new initiatives together online to share memories of their time at for social media and maintaining an XLRI and the iconic Bodhi Tree of 2004-06 active database of over 12000 alumni. reunited to perform after 15 years to their classic The year began with a series of interactive tunes. webinars conducted weekly in the months of The committee maintains an active connection April and May. Sessions on The New Normal, A with the Alumni community through it’s social masterclass on Compensation & Benefits, media activities. It has presence and reach on Applying a Growth Mindset in times of crises, `A major platforms like Facebook, LinkedIn and Masterclass on Job Evaluation’, ‘Joys and Instagram. Miseries of Working from Home - Can one stay engaged?’, ‘Engaging Customers with Empathy - Selling Value During Tough Times’ were taken by distinguished Alumni and opened to all XLers on popular demand. Multiple webinars addressed by our esteemed faculty members on burning current topics like ‘Challenges and Opportunities for SME's in a post-COVID environment’, ‘Managing Uncertainty from a place of Unshakeable Calm’ and ‘Future of Migrants - The Big Question: Home or Cities?’ were organized by the committee for Alumni and students. The committee also collaborated with Alumni

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