ABOUT The All India Management Association (AIMA) is the national apex body of the management profession in India. Over the last five decades, AIMA has contributed immensely to the enhancement of management capability in the country. AIMA has a broad base of 65 Local Management Associations including two cooperating LMAs abroad, with a membership crossing 30,000 in number. AIMA is a non-lobbying organisation, working closely with Industry, Government, Academia and students to further the cause of the management profession in India. AIMA is represented on the Boards of India's premier Business Institutions like Indian Institute of Management – IIMs. AIMA is also represented on Boards of Government bodies including the All India Council for Technical Education, National Board of Accreditation, National Productivity Council to name a few. AIMA makes a salutary contribution to management learning and practice in the country by offering various services in the areas of testing, distance education, research, publications and management development programmes. AIMA brings to the Indian managers, the best management practices and techniques through numerous foreign collaborations with professional bodies and institutions. AIMA is a member of the Asian Association of Management Organisations (AAMO) and works closely with several international management institutions like Robert H Smith School of Business at the University of Maryland; St Gallen Foundation etc. in organising international conferences and management development programmes. 01 ENHANCE Management Development Programmes Focusing on today's potential for tomorrow's performance, AlMA’s Management Development Programmes (MDPs) align with AlMA's mission to enhance the competitiveness of Indian managers across functional areas while improving their knowledge. These MDPs help in enhancing the professional and personal development of management professionals who will play increasingly important management and leadership roles within their organisations. The high point of AIMA MDPs is their unique pedagogy-experience sharing by some of the best practitioners in the business. The delegates at GAMP USA 2012 with Nirupama Rao, Indian Ambassador to the USA. Global Advanced Management Programme AIMA has been conducting its flagship Global Advanced Management Programme (GAMP) in collaboration with international universities of repute. AIMA has so far organised these programmes in Shanghai, China and in the United States as well. These programmes are organised by AIMA and are moderated by faculty from the Robert H. Smith School of Business at the University of Maryland and the Haas School of Business, University of California, Berkeley. They offer their learning through a combination of Class Room Lectures, Small Group Work, Case Discussions, Presentations, 02 President of India, Pranab Mukherjee with AIMA Managing India Awards 2013 winners and AIMA office bearers. (Seated L-R) H M Nerurkar, then Vice President, AIMA; D Shivakumar, then President, AIMA; Mukesh D Ambani, Chairman & Managing Director, Reliance Industries Ltd.; Preetha Reddy, then Sr Vice President, AIMA and Executive Vice Chairperson, Apollo Hospitals Group (Standing L-R) Rekha Sethi, Director General, AIMA; Bhaskar Bhat, Managing Director, Titan Industries Ltd.; Vivek Jain, Managing Director, Gujarat Fluorochemicals Ltd., Inox Group; Pawan Munjal, Managing Director and CEO, Hero MotoCorp Ltd.; late Karl Slym, Managing Director, Tata Motors Ltd.; B P Rao, Chairman & Managing Director, BHEL; Hari S Bhartia, Co-Chairman & Founder, Jubilant Bhartia Group; Shyam S Bhartia, Chairman & Founder, Jubilant Bhartia Group and Prannoy Roy, Executive Co-Chairperson and Editor-in-Chief, NDTV. Retreats AIMA has also initiated a ‘learning community’ in the form its Retreats which are based on relevant themes catering to RC Bhargava, Chairman, Maruti Suzuki India Ltd. addressing AIMA’s 39th National Management Convention. Executive Panels and Site Visits which includes interaction with Adi Godrej, Chairman, Godrej Group addressing AIMA's National the top management teams of leading companies. Foundation Day after receiving the AIMA - JRD Tata Corporate Leadership Award. 03 Anand G Mahindra, Chairman & Managing Director, Mahindra & Mahindra Ltd. addressing on receiving the AIMA – JRD Tata Corporate Leadership Award. specific audiences. These Retreats offer developing managers, supervisors and leaders an opportunity to break free from the continuous distractions of their daily work by providing an environment that is conducive to reflecting on goals, honing skills and building winning strategies. Some of the Retreats conducted by AIMA include HR Leadership Retreat, Young Rajnath Singh, Home Minister, Government of India addressing Leaders Retreat, Leadership Retreat, Senior Leadership AIMA's Managing India Awards 2014. Retreat, Marketing Retreat etc. Rajiv Vastupal, then President, AIMA and Chairman & MD, Rajiv Petrochemicals Pvt. Ltd. presenting a memento to Narendra Modi, Prime Minister of India (then Chief Minister, Gujarat) with D Shivakumar, then Sr. Vice President, AIMA. 04 SHARE National Conferences & Seminars AIMA organises several conferences, events and forums throughout the year at both national and international levels. These sessions act as platforms for industry leaders, policy makers, academicians and thought leaders to articulate and share their views on current trends, practices and challenges and their impact on the business scenario. AIMA regularly organises conferences on pivotal issues like 'Business Sustainability', 'Innovation', 'Public Private Partnerships', 'Public Governance', 'Learning & Development' etc. AIMA also creates industry specific forums that focus on important sectors of Indian economy such as IT & Knowledge Services, Public Sector Enterprise, Healthcare etc. Thus, AIMA provides exclusive platforms to brainstorm at the highest level and deliberate on some of the critical issues being faced by the Indian industry today. (L-R) Preetha Reddy, then President, AIMA and Executive Vice Chairperson, Apollo Hospitals Group; M Venkaiah Naidu, Minister of Parliamentary Affairs, Urban Development Housing and Urban Poverty Alleviation, Government of India; Sudhir Jalan, Chairman, Neo Foods Pvt. Ltd.; H M Nerurkar, then Sr Vice President, AIMA and Chairman, TRL Krosaki Refractories Ltd. and Firdose Vandrevala, then Vice President, AIMA, and Executive Vice Chairman, Essar Steel India Ltd. Some of AlMA's other key events include the National Management Convention; Foundation Day & National Management Day; World Marketing Congress; Innovation Practitioners Summit; Conference on New Age Leadership; Business Responsibility Summit; HR Summit; Learning and Skills Development Summit to name a few. All of these events are chaired by eminent thought leaders from across 05 the Industry and Government and have included luminaries like Najma Heptullah, Union Minister of Minority Affairs; NR Narayana Murthy, Chairman Emeritus, lnfosys Technologies Ltd.; M Damodaran, former Chairman SEBI; Nandan Nilekani, Former Chairman, Unique Identification Authority of India; Bhaskar Chatterjee, DG & CEO, Indian Institute of Corporate Shiv Nadar, Founder & Chairman, HCL, Shiv Nadar Foundation and N Chandrasekaran, CEO & Managing Director, TCS. Arun Jaitley, Minister of Finance, Information and Broadcasting, Corporate Affairs, Government of India addressing at AIMA's 40th National Management Convention. Affairs; Rajiv Pratap Rudy, Ministers of State (IC) of Skill Development, Entrepreneurship, Youth Affairs and Sports; BJ Panda, Member of ParIiament, BJD; RA Mashelkar, Chairman & Partners; S Gopalakrishnan, Co-Founder & Executive Co- National Innovation Foundation, India; Azim Premji, Chairman, Chairman, lnfosys Technologies Ltd, amongst many others. Wipro Ltd.; Sunil Kant MunjaI, Joint MD, Hero MotoCorp Ltd. Our unique 'Shaping Young Minds Programme', provides a and Chairman, Hero Corporate Service Ltd.; R Gopalakrishnan, platform for young professional and management students Executive Director, Tata Sons Ltd.; Jack Trout, President, Trout to interact with leading icons from different fields, aimed at helping them manage their career with added confidence, experience and zest. Since 2004, over 45 programmes have been conducted and addressed by stalwarts like Azim Premji, Piyush Pandey, Justice Santosh Hegde, Kiran Bedi, Tarun Das, R Gopalakrishnan, Naresh Trehan, Sanjeev Kapoor, Ustad Amjad Ali Khan, Sachin Pilot, JJ Irani, M Damodaran, Vijay Thadani, Prabhu Chawla and many others. Ustad Amjad Ali Khan, Sarod maestro; Shobhaa De, Author & Columnist and Prahlad Kakkar, Ad film Director at AIMA’s Shaping Young Minds Programme. 06 GROW Training AIMA has developed unique and innovative HR training tools that equip corporates and institutions with the requisite means to facilitate a free flow of knowledge within their organisations. Competitions are held at an all India level providing excellent platforms for young and aspiring managers to exhibit their creativity, leadership & business acumen and hone their managerial skills. Both the corporate sector and educational institutes see these events as an important and keenly anticipated training tool. L to R 1st Row: Naren Dey, then Minister for Agriculture, West Bengal; B Muthuraman, Chairman of the 37th NMC and Vice Chairman of Tata Steel; MK Narayanan, then Governor, West Bengal; Pratibha Devisingh Patil, then President of India; Sanjiv Goenka, Chairman, RP-Sanjiv Goenka Group; Gautam Thapar,