SYMBIOSIS INSTITUTE OF INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS(SIIB)

A guest lecture was conducted by Mr. Rahul Bhaskar Mhaske, who is the Chairman and Managing Director of Monsoon Agro Bio Ltd. which is an Agro processing, Cool chain, Specialty Retail Food stores company, based in Pune. Its specialty Retail Stores consists of Corn Club and Monsoon Momos, which caters to specialty food products.

The lecture was titled "Entrepreneurship - Lets get rich" and Mr. Mhaske spoke at length about his experiences right from getting into cultivation of sweet corn to the marketing of ready to serve products made from sweet corn.

He also spoke about his latest venture Monsoon Mapp, which is a Factory Price, Food store. It is a platform for agro processors to market their processed food products.

The lecture was very inspiring and useful for all the students, especially so for the aspiring entrepreneurs in our midst. After all as the saying goes "A small idea is the birthplace of great accomplishments".

Mr. Prabir Kumar Aditya, Director(IT), United Health Group (a $ 70 billion company specializing in Health Care and Services)Mr Prabir spoke keeping with the theme of SIIB leadership Series "Journey to Success" about the growth of United Health Group in India and how difficult it was to scale up the function in health care sector with too many regulations by Government. He empasized on the growing additional working force of 83 million by 2010 and the educational capacity going up to 195 million and thus the opportunities it brings to companies like UHG. Mr Prabir further explained the recipe for the success of UHG highlighting the fact that the approach should be a bottom up, starting with a motivated individual to good team harmony and co-ordination and moving upto to the organization aligning with the ultimate goal. He explained through equations like CQ + EQ> IQ stating that its actually competitive quotient plus emotional quotient should be greater than Intelligent quotient. He thus motivated students to take up challenges in life and not be scared to innovate and take risk.

 

Mr. Ramesh Chandak, MD& CEO of KEC International Ltd. which is one of the largest power transmission infrastructure companies in the world and a part of the RPG group. Mr. Chandak’s talk was centered around the theme - ‘The journey to Success’, and he used the KEC case study to illustrate the same. While talking about what it meant to be successful, Mr. Chandak spoke of Failure- as being the first step to success, Accomplishment- as the second step to success, Success- as a string of accomplishments, and True Success- as when the need is felt to redefine success itself.

 

Mr Gautam Rajadhyaksha, one of India's best known celebrity portraitist, having photographed almost all the icons of the Indian Film industry, had graced the Leadership Series at SIIB as one of our esteemed guest speakers. He completely enthralled the young audience with the celebrity photographs from his famous book FACES. He adorned it with anecdotes in his speech, describing what happened when photographing them or while just chatting with them. The students were spellbound with the intricacy of the soft-focus technique that he has pioneered. He pepped up the young crowd by asking them to “feel like a star” and more importantly to “follow their heart”. The audience chuckled with delight at his witty one-liners. It was a rendezvous to remember for times to come.

 

Mr. Ravi Kastia is the Global Head of Aditya Birla Group and also the Managing Director & CEO of Essel Mining & Industries Limited. Mr. Kastia started off with showing a small video on Aditya Birla Group and showed how Late Shri G. D. Birla contributed to the independence of the country and social upliftment of the masses. He told how in the late 80’s Shri Aditya Birla took over the reins of the company and started the business in South East Asia which was an open market.