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APDMS Student's September 2011 batch won a prize for their paper

Released: Monday 10th March 2012
 
"Sista Radhika & Santosh Nair from APDMS September 2011 batch won a prize for their paper ''THE NEED FOR DEVELOPING ALTERNATIVE RENEWABLE SOURCES IN INDIA'' presented at the NATIONAL CONFERENCE conducted by Aurora Business School on 'ROLE OF FINANCIAL SERVICES IN GREEN AND RENEWABLE AREA AT GRASS ROOT LEVELS' on 25th Feb '12. ".

Sanskriti - 2012

Released: Monday 10th March 2012
 
"EThames students made a mark at 'Sanskriti - 2012', a National Level B-School competition held at Institute of Public Enterprise, Osmania University on March 01st 2012. Out of numerous national wide B-school entries of business plans, the plan submitted by our students is short listed in top 14 & got a chance to present the same at the event. ".

Campus-Corporate-Connect program for SHRM Unit

Released: Monday 10th March 2012
 
The Campus-Corporate-Connect program for SHRM Unit-EDSML-Sep-12 batch was executed at PARKER Hannifin India Private Limited, an MNC located in Hyderabad on 02nd March 2012. The students had an excellent interaction with Mr. Nagesh, Head – HR, on various HR Functions practiced in real-time scenario. The whole discussion focused on the following areas…
•   HR Planning
•   Hiring processes for Regular Employees and Contract Employees
•   Training & Development
•   Performance Management Systems
•   Labor Laws and statutory compliance at Parker
•   Reward & Recognition practices
It was a great learning experience for the students through direct interaction with the practicing HR Professionals in their industry premises followed by Industry visit also.

THE GAME CHANGERS

Released: Monday 13th February 2012
 
"As part of their yearly activities, EThames India conducted two Events in February 2012. The Events were supported by NHRD (Hyderabad Chapter), SAMKRG Pistons, and LAMCO Industries. The knowledge partner was The Strategist and electronic and print media partners were Radio Mirchi, TV5, TV 9, The Hindu, The Deccan Chronicle and Hans.

A competition to Identify Big Ideas "THE GAME CHANGERS" was held on 11 February 2012. This was a unique competition focusing on New Ideas and Innovations. The Game Changers 2012 provided an opportunity to students of all disciplines to showcase ideas with the greatest potential for commercial success or making a positive impact on society. Nearly fifty teams from large, well known colleges in and around Hyderabad registered for the event. A panel of judges evaluated the entries. Ten shortlisted teams, made their presentations on 11th February. The panel of Judges included eminent persons from the industry such as Mr. Sree Kumar, Former CEO, Intellicap; Mr. Vikas Gupta, VP Talent Acquisition, Deloitte and Ms Shefali, Partner, The Strategist. The Big Idea winners were Mr.Bhanu Prakash Reddy and Mr. Rahul J. from Institute of Public Enterprise who won a cash prize of Rs. 40,000. The runners up were Mr. Rahul Motihar, Mr.Binit Kumar and Mr. Harish from Holy Mary Business School. They were awarded Rs.20, 000.

The second event PRASHNA MANCH, a unique Business Quiz was held on 12 February 2012. Over 60 teams participated in this two stage event with six teams selected for the Final On-Stage Round. Mr. Mithun Pentuker was the Quiz Master. The Quiz was appreciated by one and all. The team from Institute of Public Enterprise won the first cash prize of Rs 40,000.The team members were Mr. Mohammad Zuhair Ali, Mr.B.Naveen Kumar and Mr. Surya Prakash. The runners up team comprising Mr. Syed Mustafa Hashmi, Mr. Aditya Vikram Boddu and Mr. Arun Kandikonda, were given a cash prize of Rs. 20,000.

The award distribution that followed the events was presided over by dignitaries from the NHRD, Hyderabad Chapter, Senior Management from SAMKRG Pistons and LAMCO and the Directors of EThames Group from UK. A number of consolation and special prizes were given to the participants. Both the events were a big hit among the students of the twin cities. According to EThames India these would be yearly events which would offer students an opportunity to showcase their talent.".

First Anniversary

Released:Wednesday 8th February 2012
“EThames graduate School , India campus, Hyderabad successfully completes its first anniversary today (8 February 2012). Looking back, it has been a year of learning ,discovering and fulfilment . The road ahead is promising and wit the good wishes of all our associates, students and the teaching fraternity, we are sure to be one of India’s Best B -School “.

GUEST LECTURES

Dr. Frank Loeschmann's

Released: Tuesday 07th February 2012
 
Dr.Frank Loeschmann’s seminar at EThames India Campus on 07th February 2012.
"I am a nice person. I am good looking guy.", these were the opening lines of Dr.Frank Loeschmann's outstanding speech at EThames India campus. He interacted with the students & faculty members of EDSML & HNDB.He threw light on various attributes of innovation, processes and marketing. The audience got to know all about the ground work done to launch an automobile in the Industry. He shared his experience of launching several models of Volkswagen in various countries. He patiently took all the questions put forth by the audience and enriched them with his knowledge, experience & insight. He concluded his talk by inviting the young generation to participate in the fast development of the country and meet the global needs.
 
Dr.Loeschmann's Profile -
He worked in Volkswagen for 20 years in several senior executive positions including that of CEO and president of Volkswagen group India (which includes Volkswagen,Audi,Porsche).He was instrumental in establishing the biggest automobile plant for Volkswagen in Pune and he is the principal designer for several models in Volkswagen.He aided in production of around 40 lakh vehicles in one of the biggest plants in Volkswagen Germany and he also headed the Volkswagen quality department worldwide certifying all the major vendors.

MR.VIKAS GUPTA

Released: Thursday 15th September 2011
 
Mr.Vikas Gupta is Vice President (HR-Talent Acquisition) for Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu India Private Limited. He visited India campus on 15th September 2011 for a talk on ‘Talent Acquisition Practices’. (Courtesy NHRD). The talk was very well received.

MR.VISHRUT MULAY

Released: Friday 28th October 2011
 
Mr.Vishrut Mulay is a Senior Consultant withErnst & Youngand an alumnus of SP Jain Institute Of Management & Research. He visited EThames India campus on 28th Oct 2011 and delivered a guest lecture to the APDMS, EDSML & HNDB students on Strategic Planning with live examples. After the lecture, students had a brief discussionabout careersin Consultancy.

MR. SAKAAR ANAND

Released: Thursday 24th November 2011
 
Mr.SakaarAnandis Vice President (HR) at CA Technologies and previously headed the center of Excellence of Technology & Development Group (TDG) worldwide. He held and interactive session on ‘Merger & Acquisition – Culture Assessment’ with the audience on 24thNovember 2011 (courtesy NHRD).

DR. A. R. ARYASRI

Released: Thursday 1st December 2011
 
Dr.A.R.Aryasri is currently the Director, School of Management Studies, JNTU Hyderabad. He conducted an activity on TEAM EFFECTIVENESS through a management game during his session at the Campus on 01st December 2011 (courtesy NHRD).

VISITS

Released: Thursday 1st December 2011
 
Mr Bob Morgan, Dean of London Metropolitan Universityalong with Mr Tony Begley, Academic Leader visited EThames India campus on 01st December 2011 for familiarization and discussions on the Programmes. They were very happy with the infrastructure and facilities at the Campus.They also interacted with EDSML & HNDB students.

Released: Wednesday 30th November 2011
 
MsSmitaChaudhary, New Country Manager, Vocational Education, Edexcel India visited India Campus on 30th November 2011 on a familiarization tour. She was accompanied by MrBharath Solomon, Regional Development Manager.

FIRST BATCH OF APDMS.

The first batch of APDMS students completed their Internship with Big Bazaar, Retail Company. Their internship was successful and the HR and Marketing Managers at Big Bazaar expressed their satisfaction at the work done by the students.

All the students have passed in the IELTS with scores 6.5 and more and are awaiting their move to UK to complete
the MBA Programme from EThames, UK.

CAMPUS CORPORATE CONNECT

Students of APDMS/EDSML Programmes visited the two Companies given below to gain first-hand knowledge about the
application of theory in real life in the industry. They were very happy about the
experience.
  • Change Management – Indo-American Cancer Hospital – 11th October 2011 APDMS/EDSML Batch
  • Strategic Marketing Management- Future Group – Big Bazaar – 01st November 2011 APDMS/EDSML Batch

EVENTS

Released: Wednesday 28th September 2011
 
A batch of final year UG students of St Francis College visited the Campus on 28th September 2011. The students were acquainted with the programmes being conducted and other aspects of teaching and assessment.

Released: Friday 25th November 2011
 
EThames India conducted a workshop on 25th November 2011 on ‘EMERGING TRENDS IN BUSINESS EDUCATION’
for students who recently appeared in All India Common Admission Test for Management Schools(PG).
The workshop comprised an introduction to UK education and the twinning programmes conducted at EThames India.
The workshop was very well received and was a success.

December 2011 Graduation

Released: December 2011
 
This year we had over 800 MBA graduates which makes EThames as one of the largest MBA provider in the UK and more than 2300 students passed their course at EThames in 2010 – 11.

Mr.Sree Kumar

 

Mr. Sree Kumar, the CEO of IntelleCap, visited our Campus on 23rd August and delivered a talk on his experiences in Strategic Planning. Mr Sree Kumar is an alumnus status of IIT Delhi & IIM Bangalore and has an illustrious career in the Corporate sector having worked in TCS, PwC, Deloitte and Cognizant before assuming the current appointment. He has vast international exposure having worked as Head of AFRICAN Operations of PwC, Vice President of Deloitte and as Director of New Businesses at Cognizant.  He narrated his experiences heading IntelleCap- a social sector advisory firm serving corporations, nonprofit organizations, development agencies and governments working in developing markets. He concentrated on how social entrepreneurship can be a commercially viable way to address the 5 high impact sectors i.e. agriculture and rural innovations, clean energy, education, sanitation, and technology for development. He recounted his experience of being on the panel of Judges for ‘The Sankalp Awards’ which was telecast in CNN. Finally, he explained three case studies of sustainable and scalable social enterprises that were proven to be commercially viable

1.       Private schools where the fee can be paid everyday instead of a year or semester.

2.       Selling Bee hives to farmers which improved their yield by 30%

3.       Providing solar powered lanterns on lease to street hawkers.

All the students and staff of EThames, India enjoyed listening to him and benefited from his talk.

Prof. Chary’s paper in ‘Spurthi - IMSR Journal of Management Thoughts

 

We are proud to announce the publication of Prof. Chary's paper in 'Spurthi - IMSR Journal of Management Thoughts' which is a peer reviewed journal. The paper has already been awarded the 'First best paper award' at a national level management conference at Hubli, India.


It focuses on various issues involved in the current policy framework relating to Special Economic Zones (SEZs) in India and its implementation. It presents a critical analysis on the Central Government's attempt to blindly follow China's SEZ policy without heeding their failures.

 

Prof. Chary’s paper in ‘Spurthi -IMSR Journal of Management Thoughts PDF: Click here

Dr.Carl S. Spetzler's Senior Faculty Member at Stanford University. speech at EThames India Campus

A special event was conducted at EThames Graduate School by NHRD, Hyderabad on 10th of August 2011. The Speaker for the day was Dr. Carl Spetzler – Chairman & CEO, Strategic Decisions Group (SDG) and Decision making Guru. He is also a Senior Faculty Member at Stanford University.
Dr Carl Spetzler is the program director for the Strategic Decision and Risk Management program at the prestigious Stanford University’s Center for Professional Development. He was named by Treasury & Risk magazine as one of the 100 most influential people in finance for his work in Enterprise Risk Management

Dr Carl spoke on the topic Strategic Organisational Transformation – What & How

His lecture was very inspiring and aroused the thinking process of how and when appropriate decisions should be taken.  His talk was educative and he enlightened the audience through his rich experience.

The invitees included Senior Management people from various corporate as well as HR professionals. Students from Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University (JNTU) and EThames Graduate School India also participated. We had the pleasure of the presence of Mr Kondal Rao & Prasad Rao of LAMCO.

The gathering was well attended – approximately 120 in all and 2 lecture halls were used to accommodate everyone comfortably.  The necessary technical facilities were arranged so that the Lecture from the main hall could be followed live in another lecture hall.

 

Dr.Carl S. Spetzler's speech at EThames India Campus Photo Gallery :  Click here

 

Fresher's Party

On 16th of July, 2011 the first batch of EThames Graduate School, India Campus welcomed the freshers by throwing a party at Cuba Libre, GVK one Mall.  They invited the faculty, staff and the Principal to join them as well! There was one condition to enter the club…each one of the attendees had to have a rose in hand. They were later asked to give it to their favorite person. The seniors addressed the gathering and invited people to join them on the dance floor. After a little boogieing, the freshers were asked to do a ramp walk and answer questions.

To the faculty and staff’s surprise they were also asked to do the same which they did in a sportive spirit.  Next, the delicious buffet spread was consumed at an amazing rate. After a little more Salsa they decided to call it a day. In this process they made several heartwarming memories for years to come!

Fresher's Party Photo Gallery :  Click here


NHRD Meet the Mentor Series

The June session of 'Meet the Mentor' series was held on 24th June 2011 at EThames Graduate School, Hyderabad. This month ‘the Mentor’ was Mr. Raja Krishnamoorthy who believes that "... to be born as a human being is our greatest gift. We are all and each one of us capable of amazing levels of achievement, creativity and compassion."

He is a versatile and seasoned professional, consultant and HR specialist. A multi faceted person, Raja has also acted in Indian films. He is also a writer, director and a popular TV personality as well.

The event was well attended with over 100 participants (members and invitees) gathering together. Many a corporate were represented by their prominent HR professionals, for example, Mr. SV Nathan (Director – Talent from Delloite), Mr. Ravikanth Reddy (President – NHRD, Hyd chapter and VP- HR from NCCL), Mr. Ravi Dasari (Treasurer –NHRD, DGM-HR from NCCL), Ms. Uma Devaguptapu (VP- NHRD and Head-HR from ITW Singnode), Mr. Manoj Kr. Sharma (AGM, Hartex Rubber), Mr. Ramana Diratla (Manager -Marketing, Aeon Infotech Pvt. Ltd.).Their sprightly participation made the event a roaring success.

The venue and the facilities provided right at the heart of the city were much appreciated. We plan to hold more of such events as and when feasible. Towards that end, a programme called HR InterAct will be held every Thursday at EThames Graduate School.


Collaboration with Bharatiar University
We are very happy to announce that EThames Graduate School, India has entered into a  collaborative
arrangement with Bharathiar University to offer their programmes at its Campus.

Bharathiar University was established in February, 1982  and is recognized by the  University Grants Commission (UGC). The National Assessment Accreditation Council (NAAC) has rated the University as ‘A’ grade.

This collaboration provides our students, at no additional cost, an opportunity to gain an MBA /BBA/ other PG/UG qualification corresponding to the programme they are pursuing at EThames, India.

This will open up additional avenues for our students to pursue further education or conduct research or find gainful employment.




EThames Student :Santosh Nair excelled in allaspects of dance. At LALITHASAI....

Santosh G. Nair's full-fledged dance recital for the Indian Fine Arts showed a lot of promise. Every posture, tap of the foot and bhava spoke volumes of the training given by her gurus V.S. Ramamoorthy and Manjula Ramaswamy. After paying obeisance with pushpanjali she performed a padam 'Vande Shambu,' a ragamalika in praise of Lord Shiva.

The highlight of the recital was the varnam which was pulsating and where the dancer kept time to the rhythm of the percussion. It was a navaragamalika pada varnam and a composition of K.N. Dandayudhapani Pillai with the underlying mood 'viraha.' Beginning with the line 'Swamiyai Vara Solladi,' it talked about how the nayaki pleads with her friend to unite her with the Lord by bringing him to her as quickly as possible. The heroine talks about the various ways in which her Lord could be received. In the line, 'Thamatham yeno vasantha' set in raga Vasantha, bhibatsa and karuna rasas came to the fore when her friend tests her patience by delaying her departure, by having a good meal, chewing on betel leaves and so on. She even wants to be dressed and bejewelled like the nayaki for her meeting with the nayika.

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