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(Forwarded by Amitanshu Nath, Electrical 2003. Email: Amitanshu.nath[AT]tcs.com)
We are pleased to announce the first ever meeting of Lucknow chapter of our alumni association as follows:
Date: Saturday, 25th July
Time: 7:30 PM
Place: Pack N Chew, 2/30 Vijay Khand, Gomti Nagar, Lucknow
This is an advanced intimation in order to block your calendar to take a nostalgic walk down the memory lane. The maiden session of IT-BHU Alumni Meet of Lucknow Chapter is being planned for 25th July 2009. Please feel free to share this mail with your friends, colleagues, seniors, juniors, relatives, etc. Everyone who belongs to IT-BHU (in or around Lucknow or UP / has a Lucknow connection) or share their contact details with us and we shall be more than happy to establish connect with them.
Please let us know if you plan to join. (Drop a mail/ call)
Thanks,
Amitanshu Nath (EEE 2003)
Cell: + 9838506053
Email: amitanshu.nath[AT]tcs.com
Keerty Nath (CSE 2004)
Cell: + 9838506043
Email: keerty[AT]gmail.com
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(Sanjay Behl)
India's T20 exit queers the pitch for advertisers
16 Jun 2009, 0730 hrs IST,
Ratna Bhushan & Meenakshi Verma Ambwani, ET Bureau
NEW DELHI: Knives are out for Mahendra Singh Dhoni & Co, with India crashing out of the Twenty20 World Cup, and advertisers are chewing their nails fearing a slump in viewership, but event broadcaster ESPN Star Sports is sitting pretty, having sold all the spots for the entire tournament at a premium.
“We do expect some attrition in ratings with India’s exit, but as far as commercial deals are concerned, we are sold out,” said ESPN Software India MD RC Venkateish.
His firm had closed advertising deals at rates ranging from Rs 2.7 lakh to 4 lakh per 10 seconds, at least three weeks before the tournament kicked off, and only a few seconds are left to be picked up.
Advertisers who paid a 20-25 % premium over the previous Twenty20 World Cup to ESPN Star Sports (ESS) include Reliance Mobile, Hero Honda, PepsiCo, Reebok, Hewlett-Packard, Maruti, Perfetti, Nokia, Adani, Visa, LG Electronics and Max New York Life.
ESS is learnt to have earned close to Rs 180 crore from the tournament.
“Viewership ratings will be adversely impacted, with India now out of the tournament. But our arrangement with ESS is till 2015,” said Sanjay Behl, CEO of Big TV and head of Reliance Mobile’s branding and marketing operation.
Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer of Maruti Suzuki India, Shinzo Nakanishi (L) and its executive officer for marketing, Mayank Pareek pose with newly launched 'Ritz' car in New Delhi May 15, 2009. Maruti Suzuki India Ltd, the country's top carmaker, on Friday launched its premium hatchback, Ritz, as it battles to boost sales in a segment that is set to see greater competition.
Email for Mayank Parekh: mayank.pareek@maruti.co.in
Additional Link
Interview with Mayank Pareek by exchange4media
http://www.exchange4media.com/brandspeak/brandspeak.asp?brand_id=90
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(Photo of Shomik Mehndiratta)
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From Beijing, a lesson for Delhi
Reshma Patil and Atul Mathur, Hindustan Times
Beijing/New Delhi, June 14, 2009
First Published: 01:42 IST(14/6/2009)
Last Updated: 02:06 IST(14/6/2009)
Every day, about 1,000 new cars hit the roads of both the capitals of India and China.
To decongest the capital, Delhi is struggling to build at least half, or 135 km of the third ring road by next May.
A six-hour flight away, Beijing is struggling to make commuters stop using the six ring roads — and building the world’s biggest subway network set to surpass that of London and New York.
As both capitals grapple with a 17 million-strong population each and the problem of how to keep it moving, the message from China is that badly planned ring roads create congestion if they don’t allow easy access to public transport nodes.
“The danger is, unless you are very careful, the ring road will induce land development that will cause even greater congestion that will be harder to fix,’’ Shomik Mehndiratta, a senior transport specialist with the World Bank in Beijing, told Hindustan Times.
Beijing’s sixth ring road now slices the mountainous outskirts, but the capital’s latest problem is how to make commuters stop using these roads and ride the subway, buses or even bicycles. Since April, one-fifth of Beijing’s vehicles were ordered off the roads on weekdays in a system based on license plate numbers.
The officials who proposed Delhi’s third ring road agree the capital needs a strong public transport system.
“The peripheral expressway alone will not help decongest Delhi, but it will definitely keep non-destined commercial vehicles away,” Noor Mohammad, member-secretary of the National Capital Region Planning Board told HT.
“Along with peripheral expressways and an orbital rail system, we need a strong public transport system so that people leave behind their private vehicles and travel by public transport,” he said.
Delhi’s metro lines are set to expand from 74 km today to 193 km by 2010 and another 112 km between 2010-15. By 2015, Beijing’s subway tracks will grow from over 200 km today to 561 km.
But just expanding the metro lines is not enough. The newly rich commuters living around Beijing’s six ring roads don’t want to park the car and sweat to work. “For most people in Beijing, the commute is not a simple matter of a subway ride with a walk at each end,” pointed out Mehndiratta. “It involves an inconvenient mix of a walk to a bus-stop, bus ride, metro ride, probably a metro transfer and a taxi/bus ride at the end.’’
Singapore, not Beijing, has the best example of a ring road, said Mehndiratta, pointing out it was one of Singapore’s last pieces of infrastructure put in place after urban development was concentrated around public transport nodes.
“Singapore first focused on carefully aligning road and urban rail corridors and paid careful attention to urban design, to ensure that public transport was always a more convenient option than cars even for the rich,’’ he said.
Beijing did not foresee that residents living around the new ring roads would help China become the world’s biggest car market this year. New cars in Beijing will soon need 60 sq km parking space, equal to area within the second ring road. China’s capital has come full circle.
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(Note: Interview with Nitesh Duhan is published on Interview page in this issue. He is still studying at FMS, New Delhi. Nitesh can be contacted at: nduhan@gmail.com)
Reveal admission test marks, CIC tells FMS
(Nitesh Duhan)
Email: nduhan@gmail.com
NEW DELHI: The dean of Faculty of Management Studies, Delhi University has been served a show cause notice by the Central Information Commission (CIC) for not furnishing information under RTI regarding the marks break-up of students admitted to its MBA programme.
The RTI was filed by the student who had topped the FMS written test in 2008 but could not make it to the flagship management programme as his extempore, interview and GD marks were not good enough. CIC has asked FMS to give the information sought - an order that may force B-schools across the country to disclose their admission test marks break-ups too or be flooded with RTIs.
CIC has asked the Public Information Officer (PIO) to explain why penalty should not be levied under Section 20 (1). The commission held dean J K Mitra (deemed PIO) guilty of not furnishing information within the time specified has said that it raises doubt about the refusal being malafide. The order came in response to the student's appeal.
On April 9, 2008 Nitesh Duhan, a MBA (Management Services student) of the 2010 batch filed an RTI seeking information on written, group discussion (GD), extempore and personal interview (PI) marks of each of the candidates who were admitted to the MBA programme. The DU registrar who is the first appellate authority had asked FMS to give the information to the PIO by July 31, 2008 so that the appellant gets it by August 14, 2008.
On May 6, 2008 Duhan received a reply stating that information is denied under section 8 (1) (j) as "disclosure of the same to the applicant can be objected to by the candidates concerned.'' It came with a copy of the merit list for the MBA MS programme. Duhan then approached the DU registrar on June 3, 2008.
"Despite the order I received no information and I told this to the FAA in February 2009. I wrote three more applications, the last one on March 25, 2009. Finally I was provided given a copy of the MBA merit list on March 31, 2009 but there was still no break-up of marks,'' said Duhan.
The CIC notice (Times City has a copy) said: "It is also apparent that in spite of the clear order of the FAA to give the information by August 14, 2008, the information had not been provided to the appellant until March 31, 2009. The respondents were asked to explain the reasons for this and it appears from their statements that dean, FMS had taken a position that this information could not be given. All officers in public authority have to understand that they are bound to obey the laws and the structures thereof. It appears that Professor
J K Mitra, dean, FMS has taken a position to defy the order of the FAA under RTI.''
In its decision allowing the appeal CIC said that the PIO will give the information mentioned before June 15, 2009. The CIC said: "From the facts before the Commission it is apparent that the deemed PIO Professor J K Mitra, dean FMS, is guilty of not furnishing information within the time specified under sub-section (1) of Section 7 by not replying within 30 days, as per requirement of the RTI Act. He has further refused to obey the orders of his superior officer, which raises a reasonable doubt that the denial of information may also be malafide. The FAA has clearly ordered the information to be given.''
Mitra refused to comment. But FMS sources say the admission committee would soon meet to discuss the reply to the notice.
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FMS admissions under scanner, CIC asks Dean to reveal process
http://www.pagalguy.com/index.php?categoryid=56&p2_articleid=1924
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India Infoline News Service / Mumbai Jun 03, 2009 14:59
AIG India Equity Fund was awarded Best Fund over Three Years in the India Equity category in four countries - UK, Germany, Hong Kong and Taiwan at the Lipper Fund Awards 2009
AIG Investments announced the elevation of Huzaifa Husain as Head of Equities. Huzaifa, who has been with the AIG Group for the last five years, has more than 12 years of experience in fund management in India. Prior to joining AIG, Huzaifa was an Equity Analyst at Principal Mutual Fund and SBI Mutual Fund.
At AIG Investments, Huzaifa has been a key member of the team advising AIG India Equity Fund (a Dublin domiciled India dedicated offshore fund advised by AIG Investments, India). AIG India Equity Fund was awarded Best Fund over Three Years in the India Equity category in four countries - UK, Germany, Hong Kong and Taiwan at the Lipper Fund Awards 2009. The Fund is currently rated 5-star by Morningstar.
Huzaifa completed his Post Graduate Diploma in Management (PGDM) from Indian Institute of Management (IIM) Bangalore after obtaining B. Tech. (Metallurgy) from the Institute of Technology (Banaras Hindu University) in 1995.
AIG Investments is a group of international companies that provide investment advice and market asset management products and services to clients around the world. AIG Investments is a worldwide leader in asset management, with extensive capabilities in equity, fixed income, hedge funds-of-funds, and private equity.
Risk Factors: All mutual funds and securities investments are subject to market risks and there can be no assurance that the scheme’s objectives will be achieved and the NAV of the schemes may go up or down depending upon the factors and forces affecting the securities market. Please read the Scheme Information Document carefully before investing.
Statutory Details: AIG Global Investment Group Mutual Fund (‘the Fund’) has been established as a trust under the Indian Trusts Act, 1882, sponsored by AIG Capital Corporation (liability restricted to Rs. 1 lakh). AIG Trustee Company (India) Private Limited, a company incorporated under the Companies Act, 1956, with a limited liability is the Trustee to the Fund. AIG Global Asset Management Company (India) Private Limited, a company incorporated under the Companies Act, 1956, with a limited liability is the Investment Manager to the Fund
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Manoj Sinha: Fueling the Future
Email: manoj.sinha@lycos.com
Thomas Wolfe was wrong: You can go home again.
Manoj Sinha left home in Bihar, India, about a decade ago to study electrical engineering at Banaras Hindu University. He earned a master's degree in electrical and computer engineering at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, and took a job at Intel Corporation in Austin, Texas.
For two years, he led a global team that was designing the company's smallest computer chip, the Intel Atom processor.
"At one point I learned that, because of hostilities [between Israel and Lebanon in the summer of 2006], the people in Israel were working on this product on their laptops in bunkers," he said. "That was extremely humbling."
His experience at Intel, which helped him sharpen some skills, also gave him insight into skills he lacked. "I knew I needed to know how to lead people of different cultures and be able to communicate with people from different mindsets," he said.
The case method, small classes, and a close-knit community brought Mr. Sinha to Charlottesville for the MBA at the University of Virginia's Darden School of Business. The school has helped him in many ways, large and small. Among these is financial support.
In the spring of 2008, Mr. Sinha was one of four Darden students who won a prestigious Genovese Fellowship—a $45,000 award that covers the cost of the second year of an MBA degree. Frank Genovese (Darden '74), president of Rothbury Corporation, a Richmond-area investment company, has provided $1.5 million in fellowships to forty-five Darden students over the past seventeen years.
The awards are designed to support students with entrepreneurial ambitions. Mr. Sinha fits that profile.
Before arriving at Darden, he and a classmate, fellow engineer Gyanesh Pandey, designed a power generator fueled by rice husks for use in developing countries. Their project was a response to the situation in the eastern "Rice Belt" of their native India, a largely rural area, off the national power grid, where farmers grew a lot of rice while piles of husks sat around unused.
The power plants generate electricity by burning rice husks, producing a gas that runs an engine. One plant generates enough power to reach four hundred houses, one hundred farms, and ten businesses, such as flour or rice mills, or a water-purification system.
Originally, the pair had planned to establish power plants using these generators in a few small villages in India. But at Darden, Mr. Sinha learned about the power of private equity.
"We can build a viable business to attract investors and not limit ourselves to four or five villages," said Mr. Sinha, who is now working with Darden classmate Charles "Chip" Ransler IV to raise $4 million in private equity for the project. "We can expand to 2,000 villages. I'm meeting people who have money they want to invest and who want to help people improve their lives."
The company they have created, Husk Power Systems, is designed to make money in three ways: by selling electricity to residential and commercial customers; by refining waste ash for use in the manufacture of cement; and by selling Certified Emission Reductions (CERs), carbon credits earned by reducing the production of carbon dioxide under the global Kyoto Protocol.
Still at an early stage, their company has won acclaim at university business competitions around the country.
Ultimately, Mr. Sinha envisions serving villages not only in India, but also in other developing countries with rural power needs, such as Indonesia, Cambodia, Nigeria, and the Philippines.
For now, he is content to return home, bringing new opportunities to rural villages through electrification and the economic development it makes possible, and affording hope for a better life among the people he once left behind.
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University of Virginia-Darden School of Business
http://www.darden.virginia.edu/html/default.aspx
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Ravi Kumar Buregoni, Senior Technical Architect, Infosys Technologies
Mr. Ravi Kumar B. has over 10 years of experience in Embedded Systems and Computer Networking fields. He had completed his Masters in Communication Systems from Institute Of Technology; Banaras Hindu University; India in 1999 with a CGPA of 8.9/10 and his Bachelors in Electronics & Communication Systems from Osmania University; India in 1997. He is the author of two papers that got published in IEEE sponsored international conferences. Currently; he is a Senior Technical Architect in the Product Engineering Unit of Infosys Technologies Limited focusing on system aspects of Computer Network devices. Over the years; he has worked on wide variety of multi-rack and multi-shelf distributed network devices like Remote Access Servers (RAS); DSLAMs and Modems. He has over 5 years of experience in designing complex systems using Network Processors.His areas of specialization include Buffer Management; Buffer Sizing; Performance Improvement (of applications; Control Plane and Forwarding Plane); interrupt & polling drivers and Quality of Service; inter card issues on distributed systems; processor specific alignment and data issues. He had worked extensively on General Purpose Processors; Network Processors and ASICs.
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About ESC Conference, Bangalore, 22-24 July 2009
Conference The 3rd edition of Embedded Systems Conference India has created a place for itself in embedded community by imparting world class education and providing answer to problems faced by embedded engineers. Dawn of 2009 poses greater challenges to YOU, new technologies making obsolete what were in practice for over the years embedded with so called ‘recession’.
Ask yourself - Am I –
* aware of latest trends in embedded market?
* effectively managing embedded projects?
* building my own embedded systems?
* prepared to face technology challenges faced in 2009?
* to identify and remove bug and validate codes?
* adding value to company, myself and lot more
ESC India 2009 is the place not to be missed in July 2009 for Design/Development Engineer, System Architect, Hardware/Software Engineer, Engineering Management or Corporate Management with tracks covering topics ranging from Security, System Integration and Test, Debugging Techniques and Tools, Project Management/Software Engineering Practices, Programmable Logic, Multimedia and Signal Processing, Multi-core, Multi-threading, and Virtualization, Linux and Open-Source Software, Real-Time Kernels/Real-Time Development, Datacom/Telecom, and to Developing for ARM
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The seminar at University of Texas at Austin:
“Doctoral Internationalization Consortium in Marketing” on July 22-25, 2009
http://www.mccombs.utexas.edu/research/CIBER/doctoralconsortium2009/Agenda.htm
(Pradeep Chintagunta)
Robert Law Professor of Marketing, University of Chicago Booth School of Business
Home Page: http://www.chicagobooth.edu/faculty/bio.aspx?person_id=12824666112
Email: pradeep.chintagunta
ChicagoBooth.edu
Pradeep K. Chintagunta conducts research into the analysis of household purchase behavior, pharmaceutical markets, and technology products. "A lot of my early research was with scanner panel data trying to understand how consumers respond to different marketing activities of firms - prices, promotions, advertising, etc.," explained Chintagunta. "My research has expanded in two directions - one was to expand the domain beyond CPG products to pharmaceuticals and technology products and the other was to go beyond the consumer to other players in the broader 'ecosystem' to obtain a more holistic view of the effects of marketing."
Chintagunta is an area editor of Marketing Science, an associate editor of the Journal of Marketing Research, Management Science, and Quantitative Marketing & Economics. His research has appeared in the Journal of Marketing Research, Marketing Science, Management Science, the International Journal of Research Marketing, the Journal of the American Statistical Association, and the Journal of Econometrics.
In addition to being a finalist for the O'Dell award in both 1996 and 2001, Chintagunta is the recipient of the Hillel J. Einhorn Award for Excellence in Teaching and has been named one of the Chicago Booth's top professors by BusinessWeek.
"Teaching across programs such as full-time, evening, weekend, XP, and international XP exposes me to a variety of perspectives and experiences that I can then integrate into my subsequent teaching and research." He hopes his students learn that there is always more progress to be made.
He earned a bachelor's degree in mechanical engineering from Banaras Hindu University in 1984, a postgraduate diploma in management from the Indian Institute of Management in 1986, and a PhD in marketing from Northwestern University in 1990. In addition to teaching at Chicago Booth, he has taught courses at the Harvard Business School and the S.C. Johnson Graduate School of Management at Cornell University. He joined the Chicago Booth faculty in 1995.
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University of Chicago, Booth School of Business
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SEATTLE (Thursday, June 4 , 2009 12:03:28 PM)
SEATTLE and BANGALORE, June 4 /PRNewswire-AsiaNet/ --
Unitus, Inc., an international nonprofit dedicated to reducing global poverty by accelerating access to microfinance, is very pleased to welcome Ganesh Rengaswamy as India Country Director and the newest member of Unitus's global senior management team. As India Country Director, Rengaswamy will head the organization's India microfinance initiatives including managing the team of consultants, advising Unitus microfinance partners and serving on the global senior management team.
(Ganesh Rengaswamy)
"Ganesh brings a unique blend of commercial experience and passion for poverty reduction to this critical role at Unitus," said Ed Bland, President of Unitus. "His entrepreneurial leadership and business acumen will greatly benefit our world-class Bangalore team and serve as a strategic advisor to our MFI partners as they continue to grow their businesses to serve more of India's working poor."
Before joining Unitus, Rengaswamy was co-founder of Travelguru.com, the leading online travel site for hotels and vacations in India and South Asia, and launched India investments for Greylock Partners, one of the oldest top-tier venture capital firms in the US. Prior to Greylock Partners, he worked at Infosys Technologies managing mission-critical engagements for Fortune 500 clients and leading $100 million (USD) customer acquisition programs. Before Infosys, he managed a private investment fund.
Rengaswamy holds a Bachelor's degree in engineering from IT-BHU/IIT-BHU (India), a Masters in Business Administration from Harvard Business School, and a graduate degree in finance and systems strategy from IIM-Calcutta.
About Unitus
Unitus, an international nonprofit organization, fights global poverty by accelerating the growth of microfinance -- small loans and other financial tools for self-empowerment -- where it is needed most. Unitus partners with young, high-potential microfinance institutions helping them build capacity, attract capital, and unite with the greater partner network to achieve rapid, sustainable growth. In just 7 years, Unitus has helped its partners serve more than 7 million families throughout India and Southeast Asia, East Africa, Mexico, and South America.
Unitus received Fast Company's Social Capitalist award in 2006, 2007, and 2008. Unitus is a 501(c)3 with offices in Seattle, Washington, Bangalore, India, and Nairobi, Kenya. For more information, please visit www.unitus.com.
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Profile of Ganesh Rengaswamy
1) http://www.unitus.com/about-us/management-team/ganesh-rengaswamy
2) http://www.linkedin.com/ppl/webprofile?action=vmi&id=1461840&pvs=pp&authToken=sUt0&authType=name&trk=ppro_viewmore&lnk=vw_pprofile
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(N. Raghunandan)
Email: raghunandan@servion.com
Marketing and Sales Strategies for Emerging (SME) Companies
When: 8:30 am - 10:30am Friday, June 19 2009
Where: Narmada Hall, COURTYARD BY MARRIOT, Anna Salai, Teynampet, Chennai
Description:
Ashim will be covering these topics
1. The SME conundrum - opportunities and constraints
2. Marketing to SMEs
3. Marketing by SMEs
4. Customer preferences and product management challenges
5. Unearthing opportunities
6. Customer relationship imperatives
Speaker
Raghunandan - CEO, Athena Info Consulting is a Graduate from B. Tech from Institute of Technology - Banaras Hindu University and a Post Graduate from IIM, Bangalore. From a Programmer Analyst with Tata Burroughs Limited in 1986, he moved on to TVS Electronics Limited and to MicroLand Limited, Bangalore in 1990 holding diverse positions. In 1994 he was assigned as the Country Manager for Seiko Epson Corp. Chennai. In 1996 he was the Promoter, Managing Director & CEO - Serviont Global Solutions Ltd., Chennai, Then in 2004 Strategic Investor and CEO of Indium Software India Limited. Raghunandan is an active speaker at different forums and associations.
Professional Summary (from TiE Chennai chapter)
Raghu is responsible for transforming Indium, into a globally reputed innovative product testing company. Raghu brings 20+ years of professional experience at top-notch corporations like Tata Burroughs, USA, TVS Electronics, Microland, Seiko Epson, where he donned roles involving Product Management, Business Development, Business Transformation and Strategic Planning. Prior to Indium, as co-promoter, MD & CEO he successfully built Servion Global Solutions into a 250-people organization with USD 12 million in revenues.
He holds a Master’s in Mechanical Engineering from the Institute of Technology, Banaras Hindu University, and a Master’s in Management from the IIM, Bangalore.
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Cannes Lions 2009: Full Story
“Decent” haul in Press Lions: Ogilvy gets a Silver & Rediffusion gets a Bronze
June 25, 09 Noor Fathima Warsia
While last year, Press Lions was one of the stronger categories for India, this year there were only two Lions won in the category in comparison to the seven Lions last year.
(Abhijit Awasthi)
Email: abhijit.avasthi@ogilvy.com
Ogilvy India has bagged one Silver Lion Campaign for the entries ‘Cave-Man’, ‘Diver’ and ‘Tourist’ done for Perfetti Van Melle’s Sour Marbels Candies. Rediffusion Y&R has bagged a Bronze Lion Campaign for ‘Engineer’, ‘Housewife’ and ‘Tourist’ from the print campaign done for Bharti Airtel.
David Lubars, Chairman and Chief Creative Officer, BBDO North America stated at the outset that the jury was very tough on the Press entries this year. He explained, “There has been significant talk on how there is superficial stuff that has been entered in awards, and what is the point of that in a year like this where everyone is cautious about what they are spending. You have to use this as a platform to show clients that when you do good work, ground breaking work, it holds everyone in good stead. The shortlist was much shorter than any year. We were clear that even a shortlist entry should mean something.”
Ogilvy India's Abhijit Avasthi, who was the Indian juror on Press LionsAvasthi stated that it was decent year for India. He added, “Crafting in Indian press entries have improved substantially, and that is one reason why we have two entries that have a Lion.”
In all there were 10 entries from India that had made it to the Press Lions’ shortlist.
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Cannes Lions 2009-56th International Advertising Festival, 21-27 June
http://www.canneslions.com/
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Rs 300 crore: Cost of IIM-B’s dream
Shamsheer Yousaf
First Published: 20 Jun 2009 07:07:03 AM IST
Last Updated: 20 Jun 2009 11:16:26 AM IST
BANGALORE: Guess how much it will cost the Indian Institute of Management Bangalore (IIM-B) to put in place its dreams of being among the cream of the world’s Bschools? A whopping Rs 300 crore over 10 years.
(Prof. Pankaj Chandra)
Email: chandra@iimahd.ernet.in
Bio-data of Prof. Pankaj Chandra, Director of IIM Bangalore
http://www.iimahd.ernet.in/~chandra/cvchandra.pdf
The IIM-B Board has appointed a sub-committee headed by ITC Chairman Emeritus K L Chugh to chalk out a fund-raising plan towards this end.
The institute has already recruited a senior manager, with experience in fund-raising from international agencies for this purpose.
The Rs 300 crore will go towards implementing the objectives laid out in the long-term Vision document of the institute.
These include doubling intake in long duration programmes, enhancing faculty strength, raising faculty compensation and setting up research centres both