De‘cement’ing the environment?

The government as well as Indian cement companies need to address mining related environment hazards

On one hand, Holcim, Lafarge & the Birla Group are fighting it out for control of India’s cement sector. But what is alarming on the other hand is that no matter who wins in this war, environment may most certainly turn out to be the loser. That’s because it’s one of those industries, which has by far got one of the worst track records in terms of drastically altering the environmental balance in India.


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Source : IIPM Editorial, 2007

An IIPM and Professor Arindam Chaudhuri (Renowned Management Guru and Economist) Initiative

Multi brand outlets

The multi brand outlets have more than tripled to 579 currently while the business partner network is now present in over 366 cities with 2,076 partners currently. But Lenovo is also taking its relational business model (with large corporates) very seriously. According to Neeraj, the company looks at segment- wise leadership like government, education et al. And Rahul claims the transition to Lenovo was very smooth, as he says they lost “practically no one” from their key corporate customers. Two years and many brand building initiatives later, Lenovo is still not a patch on the market leader. But it has survived, and retained the legacy of its parents.

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Source : IIPM Editorial, 2007

An IIPM and Professor Arindam Chaudhuri (Renowned Management Guru and Economist) Initiative

Star's parent company

According to the results of Star’s parent company, News Corp., for the quarter ended March 31. 2007, its television segment’s operating income has shown a decline of $13 million. The reason, to quote the statement is “...as increased contributions from the FOX...were more than off set by lower contributions from Star...” Analysts reckon that even Star’s South Asia operating profits have declined by more than 30% in the same period. Rewind two years and the network was miles and oceans ahead of competitors (read Sony & Zee) and looked invincible. So when a few Zee soaps topped ratings charts in early 2006, the whole thing was treated as a fl ash in the pan. When this reporter had asked Star’s Ajay Vidyasagar (Now President, Content and New Media at Star) about the resurgence of Zee, his disdainful retort was, “No one has been able to overtake Star in the last six years.”

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An IIPM and Professor Arindam Chaudhuri (Renowned Management Guru and Economist) Initiative

Topic: India – China: A Growth Comparison

GITA GOPINATH

Topic: India – China: A Growth Comparison
IIPM recognizes economics as the vital tool for the success of business and therefore emphasizes its importance by bringing to its students the chance to interact with professors from the best universities of the world. As a part of this endeavor to provide our students world class education, Planman invited Gita Gopinath, Assistant Professor of Economics - University of Chicago, Graduate School of Business. Prof. Gopinath is also associated with Harvard University and the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis.

Prof. Gopinath created an energizing atmosphere to deliver excellence in the field of economics and provided an insight into the aspect of analyzing and comparing growth in economies by way of an intense discussion seminar on India-China: A Growth Comparison.

Professor Gopinath’s seminar enabled IIPM students to scrutinize their classroom economics in the light of the practical economic world. Students got an opportunity to experience world class education and hence draw parallels between various economic theories and their practices.

Prof. Gopinath’s discussion highlighted her analysis by laying emphasis on the following focus areas:

• Analyzing & comparing economic growth

• Growth AccountingsGrowth of different sectors

• External Economic Indicators

• Institutional Indicators

Opportunity of interacting

STEPHEN COVEY
Topic: Effective Habits. Effective People. Effective Leadership.

IIPM students had the opportunity of interacting with Dr. Stephen Covey, the most influential non-fiction author of The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People.Stephen Covey’s principle-centered approach was a unique experience for our students. Students gained value in terms of gaining insight into areas such as “integrity”, “character”, and “responsibility”. He presented an overview of his acclaimed SEVEN HABITS of Effective People.

Dr. Covey emphasized on ingenerating in ourselves the foundations for success, effectiveness, and happiness in life . Students gained a perspective on how to achieve goals; instill a positive attitude; create the power to change; manage their own development and most importantly engendering the attitude to win. He also enlightened the students with the importance of passion to achieve excellence.

This was followed by an intense question and answer session where our students gained tremendous value by such close interaction with Dr. Covey. Students, thus got an opportunity to learn from the best and understood the importance of incredible energy to achieve excellence in life.