Academic Scholarships Awards and Student Council Investiture Function

IIM Udaipur strives to encourage the enthusiasm and dedication among the students by recognizing and appreciating the talent from the student fraternity who have excelled in their devotion, work, commitment and performance in various strata towards taking forward the IIMU legacy. IIMU Community comprising the students, staff and the faculty got together to award the recipients of Academic Scholarships in a function organized on 6^th March, 2014. The awards were presented by the faculty and Prof. Janat Shah, Director – IIMU. The awards were not limited to only academic achievements but also covered the Course Representatives, best Club / Committee SPOC and the best Library users. The felicitation list preparation was helped by the Academic Council of IIMU.

In addition to the appreciation of the awardees, the function also had the investiture of the newly elected Council of Student Affairs Members (CSA). Council of Student Affairs and Academic Council ensure the students’ rights and duties are properly exercised. IIMU has also set the benchmark by becoming an institution with a full-fledged Constitution and Code of Conduct in place just within two years of its foundation. The Council is elected by a voting process by the student fraternity and the newly elected body took the charge from the First Student Council selected in August, 2013. Mr. Joel Xavier, Manager – Student Affairs at IIMU played the role of the Master of Ceremony from the dias and kept everyone glued to the ceremony with his one liners in the speech.

List of Awardees (PGP-2): Sameer Hasan | Prateek Shukla | Vivek Pandey | Anusha Ganne | Raghuveer Patnala | Virangna Kansal | Adhya Shivhare | Richa Sharma | Aashima Priye | Aprajitha Ranjan | Arun Kumar P | Chayanika Bathla | Ratika Mittal | Soumya Dasoju | Surya Mahesh Marisetti | Venkatesh Thouti | Nitish Sana | Anupam Sikdar | Dipthi M V | Jaspal Singh | Juhi Panchal | Rahul Verma | Rishiraj Kashyap | Sudhir Medithi | Hina Agarwal | Agradeep Chakraborty | Ajith Pancily | Akanksha Bali | Anjan Jyoti Goswami | Bharat Nigadi | Biswarup Das | Esha A | Ishan Bharadwaj | Kotagiri Harish | Mrityunjai Yadav | Neha Jangid | Neha Tare | Pradeep Hiremath | Pradeep Meena | Rohit Jaiswal | Sandeep Rana | Shashi Kumar | Shuchismitha Biswas | Sneha Sathawane | Sriharsha | Sunil Gunti | Vidushi Yadav | Vinay Tejasvi | Vivek Batra | Vivek Pandey | Dipankar Behera | Raj Mohod

CSA 2013-14 (PGP-1): Abhimanyu Bhardwaj | Arun P | Ashish Mishra | Ashwini Soundararajan | Jitaditya Dey | Nagaraj N | Rohit Mishra

Food Festival Week – The way of life at IIMU!

Celebrations and cheers continue to be written time and again in the cultural activities at IIM Udaipur. And the week saw a new addition in IIMU’s activities horizon with the second edition of the eagerly awaited food festival, The Food Fiesta – 2014 organized from 2^nd – 6^th March, 2014. Students at IIMU strive to maintain a fine balance between academics and the co-curricular activities. The essence of sharing, joy, happiness and the spirit of celebrations are revered in this five day long festival jointly organized by Culcomm – The Cultural Committee of IIM Udaipur and Messcomm – The Mess Committee of IIM Udaipur.

Day 1 : Bengali Cuisine

The student members of each clubs as well as volunteer representatives work in collaboration to help the staff prepare sumptuous delicacies covering the cuisines of different parts of India. All the five days see a different theme and the students leading the way for a day dress up accordingly, present dance and musical numbers pertaining to the theme.

Day 2 : Rajasthani Cuisine

The flavor of the food is enhanced by the hospitality and the culture where the PGP-1s serve the food to their seniors, PGP-2s and the PGPX students along with the faculty.

Day 3 : Gujarati and Maharashtrian Cuisine

The sweets, dances, music, decorations and the enthusiastic involvement by the staff, students and the faculty made the festival successful.

Day 4 : South Indian Cuisine

IRIS – The Photography Club of IIM Udaipur helped in capturing the glimpse of the festival.

Day 5 : Awadhi and Punjabi Cuisine

FlashBack – The IIMU Reunion: When the Pioneers visited their Alma Mater!

Alumni And Allies Association (A4) of IIM Udaipur organized the first ever alumni meet of the Class of 2013 of IIMU, FlashBack. The meet was organized on 1st March, 2014 in the campus. Flashback was organized with the motive of creating a feeling of déjà vu for the pioneers and to initiate a process of building an ever growing network of IIMU graduates. The meet had been organized as a day-long event so as to enable maximum interaction among the pioneers and the students within the IIMU fraternity.

FlashBack started with an interactive session between the alumni and Prof. Janat Shah, Director – IIMU. The theme for the session was The Journey bygone & The Journey ahead. The pioneers shared their experiences after stepping out of IIMU and their takeaways from their 2 years of stay here. Emotions flowed through the voices of the pioneers reflecting their proclivity towards the institute. Later, Director Sir discussed with them the progress of IIMU in comparison to the Top 100 B-Schools across the world in the last one year. He shared with them the future plans and working model on which IIMU would thrive to become one of the best B-Schools in the world. The pioneers actively gave their suggestions and add-ons for improving the plans. Prof. Shah re-enforced the importance of enhancing the alumni network and took suggestions from the pioneers on ways of enhancing the alumni engagement.

Post the session, Team A4 in association with LakeSiders – The Sports Committee of IIMU, organized a cricket match between IIMU Alumni and the IIMU community team formed from the participants comprising students, faculty and the hostel & institute staff. The idea behind the debut version of FlashBack Cup was to form a legacy which would go on for years to come.  The feeling of involvement with the students who had been the first to grace the campus received applauds and cheers. Moments were re-lived and a legacy was created. IIMU Alumni team lost the trophy by a close margin but won everybody’s hearts with their sheer dedication and enthusiasm.

Curiosity amongst current students to know about the corporate life after graduation from IIM U opened the stage for the interactive session of PGP-1 and PGPX students with the alumni. Director Sir and faculty also took out their time to attend the session and felicitate the alumni with souvenirs for their successful journey. It was an ice breaking session where the alums narrated their memorable moments at IIMU, shared their experiences of the corporate world and revisited the work undertaken by them as founders of various clubs and committees.

The evening saw an exclusive dinner for the alumni organized at Lal Baagh restaurant amidst live music and a picturesque setting. The event also witnessed release of the pioneer issue of the Alumni Magazine, “The Thump” which garnered rave reviews from the alumni. The alums were deeply engrossed in nostalgia all the while as they chatted and laughed about their good old days at IIMU.

The dinner was followed by a DJ party for the alums. The ‘unique’ thing about the party was that this was the first moment in the history of IIMU when the alumni, PGP1s, PGP2s, PGPX1s and PGPX2s; all were seen sharing the same stage. The party ended on a high note with cheers and celebrations in the air. A4 Team put up an amazing example of conducting an event showcasing team work, the best use of limited resources and involving and paying gratitude to all the students, staff, faculty and alumni of IIMU. IRIS – The Photography Club of IIM Udaipur helped in capturing the magical moments of the reunion.

A4 Team: Deewakar Gupta | Kushal Joshi | Gaurav Singh Gehlot | Sitanshu Upadhyay | Chaitanya Kumar Sandaka | Gaurav Singh

IIM Udaipur releases Summer Placement Report for the Batch 2013-15

Indian Institute of Management, Udaipur, takes great honor in announcing the successful completion of the Summer Placements 2013-14. The institute once again takes pride in 100% summer placements in spite of 11% increase in batch size. This season saw participation of several reputed organizations across various sectors such as Banking, Financial Services and Insurance (BFSI), FMCG, Consulting, E-Commerce, Pharmaceutical / Healthcare, Retail, Energy and Conglomerates among others. BFSI emerged as the largest sector making offers to 25% of the batch.

IIM Udaipur witnessed participation from a total of 56 companies, marking a 22% increase over the previous year in the Summer Placement process for the 110 students of the Post Graduate Programme (PGP) 2013-2015. This year saw many prominent brands visiting the campus for the first time, a few names being Aegis Global Ltd., Boston Consulting Group, Cummins, Future Group, Dover Corporation, Marico, Maersk Line, Sundaram Mutual, Talisma and many more. This strongly reflects the rising distinction of the institute and the increasing value of its talent in the industry. Several past recruiters like GE India, ICICI Bank, ICRA, KPMG, Infoedge India (naukri.com), Mapro, Xpress Money, UAE Exchange, Vedanta and others have continued to show confidence in the quality of the students and the management education imparted. With the varied professional and educational diversity of the batch, students have been offered with a variety of profiles like Finance, Marketing, Consulting, Operations, IT/Analytics and HR. Various profiles of Business Development, Strategy design and execution have been provided by different start-ups.

Also, the institute is the first B-school from India to partner with the prestigious Global Business Project consortium through which selected students get an opportunity to work with the very best management graduates from a set of 12 global universities namely UNC-Chapel Hill, Columbia, George Washington University, Lingnan College, Miami, Maryland, Purdue, Pittsburgh, San Diego State, the University of Connecticut, and University of Wisconsin & UNISINOS. The project will provide the students with an opportunity to work with top global companies who recruit MBAs as well as with fellow MBAs from different backgrounds, countries and culture. Three of our students will be working for clients HPCL, Eli Lilly and Handwriting Without Tears in consulting projects which will help them gain an international business experience complementary to the academics.

IIM Udaipur believes in doing things differently and focuses on maximizing the utility of the summer internship program. The students have been selected to work for Trunz Water Systems, a Switzerland based firm on a project that will be completely handled by the students and they will carry out the commercial-feasibility analysis. The students will get an opportunity to work in collaboration with the students from the University of St. Gallen, thus giving them exposure of working with a global team and analyzing from a global perspective.

IIMU is one of the few institutes in India which follow IPRS Reporting Standards for placement reports. An unaudited detailed report of the placements can be found at: http://www.iimu.ac.in/images/pdf/iimu_summer_placement%20report_2013-15.pdf.

The audited report of the placements will be shared soon. Other communications regarding the placements can be found at: http://www.iimu.ac.in/corporate/placements/placement-report.html.

Second Edition of The Udaipur Leapday Lit Fest organized at IIM Udaipur!

“Management is a science that should be taught in an artful manner”.

In keeping with its unique style and commitment to din that admonition into the state of mind of the student managers of IIMU, Potpourri – The Literary Club of IIM Udaipur presented the second edition of The Udaipur Leapday Lit Fest on 28^th February, 2014. Under the theme, “Odyssey of Expressions”, the event proved to be a spellbinding consuetude where some of the best minds from the world of arts and literature came together on a common platform to enrich the ever hungry literary souls of IIMU.

The precursor to the event started a week prior with The Udaipur Amazing Race, a one of its kind event held to explore the city of Udaipur like never before. Udaipur, the City of Lakes and Palaces with its rich, diverse and beautiful locales provides a unique setting for this race with a back drop of a cultural milieu. The race is a treasure hunt competition and tests the students for their out of the box thinking, attitude, negotiation skills and a grasp on both the in campus and out campus locations to crack the clues.

A total of 20 teams participated in the first elimination round where 8 teams had to be shortlisted for the next level of the race. A total of 8 clues were placed in different locations in the campus. The clues are designed to test the most basic of common sense among the participants and a way to figure out the most quirky things about the life in IIMU campus. First set of 8 teams to find out the clues ran in the actual race, the actual mania. Each team was provided a fixed budget from which they had to figure out all the day’s travelling and other expenses. The fun part is that each clue deciphered the next location and thus tested the real negotiation (read Jugaad) skills to convince the city autorickshaw owners to travel with the participants throughout the city for a day and that too on a meagre budget.

The first clue in this race’s edition took the participants to the Royal Cemetery which is a huge structure spread across a large area. The participants had to figure out from the clue to drive towards the next location where a sumptuous portion of Daal Baati awaited them to be finished as a part of the tasks in the race. The Baati’s taste left them with the next clue, a run towards the Dai Mata Ki Baoli. The clue there landed the teams straight into the cold water for three dips in the Pichola Lake at the Ghangour Ghats. The real crazy part began here when all the completely drenched participants had to sell handicrafts to complete strangers on the street. The teams running everywhere took every onlooker to surprise and left most of them querying if a film shooting was in place there. The participants exerted physically by then had to push their stamina beyond limits. Recollecting the strength, the teams had to trek the hill to reach the Karni Mata Mandir. Some quit and some could not figure out the clues to reach. But the enchanting view from the top of the summit refreshed the complete day’s exhaustion. Then started a run to Shilpgram, The Handicrafts Village where the teams had to complete the tasks of pottery artefacts and garland making. From there began, a cycle race back to the campus. Throughout the event, picture snippets and video clipping of the various participants in various stages of races were tweeted live and trended the Social Media channels of IIMU. Raghuram and Hari Prasad from PGP-1 won the race showcasing brilliant sporting attitude, perseverance and skills. Potpourri ensures with ado to imbibe the flavour of art and culture in every task of its farrago of activities.

The curtain raiser to the Lit Fest saw an evening filled with a dash of entertainment, drama and humor when the Society of Dramatics collaborated with Potpourri to present a satirical play, Kanjoos – a Hazrat Awara adaptation of a popular French Play by Moliere. Dramatics fans from Udaipur turned up in the campus for this sumptuous comic appetizer. The visual setting, audience cheering and applauds set the right mood for the Lit Fest.

The Lit Fest day began with the lamp lighting by Prof. Janat Shah – Director, IIMU. Light is synonymous with the spreading of knowledge, wisdom and hope. And the enthusiastic students, speakers, faculty comprising prominently Prof. Jagdeep Chhokar, Prof. Vandana Swami, Prof. Thomas Joseph and Prof.  N. Vishwanathan along with the audience indulged in talks to exchange experiences and thoughts to assay the notion.

For the literary minds, first panel discussion saw Mr. Nikhil Sachan, an IIT-BHU and IIMK alumnus and author of last year’s Hindi bestseller Namak Swadanusar, discussing the issues which young writers face. He also spoke in detail about the publishing industry’s intricacies, falling popularity of Hindi and other regional literature as well as the challenges faced by budding writers. Nikhil also recited some of the poems from his body of work which are close to his heart and through which he connected with young audience. He was accompanied well by the second panelist, Mr. Chetan Mahajan, author of The Bad Boys of Bokaro. Chetan touched the audience with a sensitive note of his storytelling experiences, narratives which went into shaping his book, social issues and tips for aspiring writers.

Following the literary discussion, began an hour of Mrs. Vidya Rao, Classical Singer and Editor, speaking from the podium. She mesmerized the audience with her sweet and cherubic renditions of Thumri when her mellifluous voice filled everyone’s hearts in the auditorium. Her journey of evolving as an artist and her views on people, expression, arts, music, dance, love and life left everyone awestruck.

A photography exhibition of Prof. Mahesh Sharma’s collection depicting the various shades of life in Udaipur enthralled the audience. The speakers also distributed books and CDs of their works among the participants.

The event culminated with a talk by celebrated Painter and Sculptor, Mr. Sidharth. He shared his experiences as an artist, the power of expression and the spirit of arts as a medium of communication and change. He also painted a portrait of Gautam Buddha in the fest and gifted it to IIMU as a token of souvenir.

Udaipur Lit Fest is the only Lit Fest conducted in an educational institute in India. And it conveys the very message of IIMU’s Uniqueness and Diversity with elan. The speakers congratulated the Potpourri team for conducting the event. The event ended on a thanking note to the audience and the sponsors viz., The Times of India, Learning Quotient, Sojatia Classes, Big 92.7 FM, Kaju’s Pizza and Lake City Mall. And the audience left with a promissory word from Potpourri to return next year bigger, better and more opulent. A week in the name of Literature, Arts, Music, Dance and Life. Cheers Potpourri!

Salsa Workshop at IIMU!

“Let us read, and let us dance; these two amusements will never do any harm to the world.” – Voltaire

IIM Udaipur strives to inculcate a vibrant spirit in its students to promote cultural awareness and continue a process of unearthing and nourishing unconventional talent. A right mix of academic and cultural activities conducted by the various student clubs & committees provide ample scope to try out new ideas and polish implementation skills to develop traits like team building and leadership in an outré approach.

Society of Dance under the umbrella of Culcomm – The Cultural Committee of IIMU conducted a week long salsa workshop in IIM Udaipur. Led by Kunal Gulati – PGP-1, the workshop saw an enthusiastic response from the student community willing to learn this innovative dance form.

Salsa has several forms and primarily Cuban salsa was taught to the participants. This form of salsa involves significant physical flexibility and stamina. The students, novice in the art form put in a lot of hard work, esteem and patience to master this art. “Initially, one gets dizzy when the turns are taught but once you have passed that beginner’s phase, you realize how fun salsa can be!” complimented D. Sunil Kumar, Naveen Kumar, Neha Singh and Stuti Agarwal, students of PGP-1.

The initial two days of the workshop included the basic movements in salsa to make the participants comfortable and to assess the level of competence of individuals and partners. To ease the process of learning, the partners were frequently switched while practicing a movement.

The different dance moves which were taught in the workshop were spot turn, cross body walk, cross body turn and open break. And advance steps which were covered in the workshop were Lasso, Sombrero and Bachata.

The final day of the workshop culminated with all the participants giving a dance performance with their partners. IRIS – The Photography Club of IIM Udaipur helped in capturing some amazing moments of the workshop.

Saksham – The E-Cell of IIMU presents Prarambh!

Entrepreneurship for IIM Udaipur is a value which it endeavors to inculcate in its students and community as we progress. With this thought in mind, Saksham – The Entrepreneurship Club of IIMU, launches its first edition of Prarambh – The 32 hour Challenge in Udaipur. The idea of the start-up platform is to bring together entrepreneurs of different backgrounds, including software developers, marketers, designers, enthusiasts to develop synergies and facilitate the translation of ideas to reality. The participants that attend have to pitch their ideas, the pitches are whittled down to the top ideas and then teams can be formed around these ideas. Teams work on their plans continuously for 32 hours with guidance from the mentors to create a working model of their idea or a Minimum Viable Product. Finally, the weekend culminates with demonstrations in front of judges and potential investors who decide the winners.

Participants of the Event:

• Early professionals and students from premier institutes across India
• Startup enthusiasts who want to meet Venture Capitalists for raising funds
• Entrepreneurs who are looking for a good team for their startups
• Designers and Tech-experts who want to join an idea
• Entrepreneurs who want to build networks
• People who want to learn how to start a company

What’s in it for the Participants:

• Aspiring entrepreneurs can use it as a platform to try out their ideas
• Continuous mentoring from Entrepreneurs and Professionals
• Exposure to Angel Investors and Venture Capitalists
• Opportunity to interact with young minds from diverse backgrounds
• Two days of highly engaging working experience with exciting new teams
• Incubation opportunities for Winners
• Exciting prizes to be won for all participants

Event Details

• Date: 07th, 08th and 09th of March, 2014
• Time: 18:00 hrs. onwards
• Venue: IIM Udaipur

Visit http://www.facebook.com/Saksham.Prarambh and http://www.iimu.ac.in/prarambh for more details!

Mentorship Initiative for IIMU Aspirants

Greetings!

Dear Aspirants,

Congratulations for getting shortlisted for the WAT/PI process. To make sure that your last step before joining an IIM doesn’t become difficult, the IIMU student fraternity would be assisting you in your preparations and solving your admission related queries with our Mentorship Initiative. Kindly fill the following form and we would assign you mentors with whom you would be able to interact on a one-on-one basis via phone, e-mail or any social networking medium.

https://docs.google.com/a/iimu.ac.in/forms/d/1AgIDS9DERXwX1_ikNljvQ04hrdmvxk-hk9XW8Chrzr8/viewform

Kindly make good use of this initiative.

Best wishes,

Team MiiC
IIM Udaipur

Summer Program for Future Leaders in Development application deadline extended till 7th February, 2014. Hurry up to grab the unique opportunity!

 

Details and application procedure are available at: http://www.iimu.ac.in/programs/summer-school.html

Interested people are requested to direct all the queries to cdmadmissions@iimu.ac.in

IIM Udaipur launches Summer School Programme for Future Leaders in Development in association with the Sanford School of Public Policy, Duke University, USA

A learning event for Development Students and Practitioners

May 31- July 11, 2014, Udaipur, India

Indian Institute of Management, Udaipur || Sanford School of Public Policy, Duke University, USA

IIM Udaipur and the Sanford School of Public Policy at Duke University are pleased to invite applications for the 2014 edition of the Summer School Programme for Future Leaders in Development. This programme is a six-week signature academic workshop sponsored by the Center for Development Management, Indian Institute of Management, Udaipur and the Sanford School of Public Policy, Duke University, USA. It brings together a selected gathering of students and practitioners of development drawn from Duke University, prestigious Indian universities, non-profit organizations and social enterprises. Aimed at students and NGO professionals seeking careers in the academic field and practice areas of development and related sectors, the summer school programme imparts a plethora of theoretical perspectives, research skills and empirical tools.

The programme provides a unique opportunity for students to work and interact with globally reputed faculty (including academics and practitioners) through a combination of features in the coursework that includes lectures, discussions, direct field investigations and project work that aims to help in transforming the lives of some of the most under-privileged people in the world. The curriculum will be of particular significance to young development leaders who are engaged in, or are getting ready to apply themselves to contemporary socio-political challenges. Some of the themes included in the curriculum program are as follows:

• Concepts and theories of Development
• Investigative research methods
• Thematic modules on health, education and livelihoods
• Professional development through grant writing and data presentation skills

To encourage peer-learning and project development, students will be placed in a three-person team that will include one student each from an Indian University, an early career staff member from a non-governmental organization (NGO) and Duke University. Teams will spend considerable time in rural areas as hosts of an NGO in order to identify and assess existing gaps in community needs. Through this experience, they will employ academic learning from the classroom for transforming real-life.

The program is fully residential. Students will stay in IIMU dorms while classes are in session. Host NGOs will arrange home stays during field visits. Selected participants will receive a full scholarship to attend the program and cover program costs, although they will have to arrange for their own travel to and fro from Udaipur.

Details and application procedure are available at: http://www.iimu.ac.in/programs/summer-school.html

Interested people are requested to direct all the queries to cdmadmissions@iimu.ac.in