 LEADERSHIP INSIGHTS

BY JOE MASTRANGELO
FROM GE & MANVINDER #1 JUNE 2010
SINGH BANGA .............. 1

 INDO – JAPAN
COLLABORATIVE SEMINAR AND
THE 2010 MEDIA
CONCLAVE………….. ....... 2

Focusdms
 PFIZER B-PLAN COMPETITION
AND THE ANNUAL CONFLUENCE
SERIES ............................ 3

Apprising you about the latest events at the

Department of Management Studies, IIT Delhi.

Instilling leadership the GE

way
When it comes to get real life
leadership learning, who else could be
a better guide than top team from GE.
Mr. Joe Mastrangelo, Vice President –
Turbo machinery, GE Oil & Gas along
with his colleagues visited DMS, IIT The leadership lecture was followed by
Delhi to take session on leadership. a rich Q&A session which featured a
gamut of different questions addressed
Mr. Joe Mastrangelo shared his by the budding leaders at DMS
thoughts on importance of simplicity, regarding leadership and its essence in
maintaining professional and personal the GE way of life. Overall the session
balance, unpredictability, preparation, was indeed highly inspiring,
transparency and feedback for informative and interactive.
successful leadership.

Mr. Mastrangelo drew on his

experience of several years at GE from
Visit by Mr. Manvinder Singh Banga,
the time he started out as an FMP
intern at GE.
Ex-CEO HUL
Mr. Manvinder Singh Banga visited IIT Delhi to share his experience
as an Industry expert. Mr. Manvinder Singh Banga is one of the
distinguished alumni of IIT Delhi. He is President Foods, Home and
Personal Care (HPC), Unilever. Mr. Banga is in India to receive the
Padma Bhushan Award. Mr. Banga shared various instances about
his life. He talked about various managerial and leadership aspects
and also need of thinking about environment and global warming.
The session was very interactive and thought provoking which will
surely help in real life in future.
Media Conclave 2010
Media Conclave organized by DMS
has been attracting huge attention of
people from various spheres be it
Corporate houses, advertising agencies
or Media houses in print, television or
online form. Every year eminent
spokesperson comes together to
discuss about the currently relevant
role of Media in Business.
This year the theme on which
discussion took place was
“Commercialization of media: what is
the priority: Business or Ethics?”
Eminent panelists of Media
Conclave 2010 included Mr.
Swapan Dasgupta, journalist and
political commentator, Ms. Preeti
Mehra, Deputy Editor, HT Media,
Ms. Neelu Bhatia, Special
Correspondent, The Week, Mr.
Manohar Manoj, Editor, Economy
India. , Mr. Amit Agnihotri,
Chairman, MBAUniverse.com, Mr.
Vikas Pathak, Correspondent, the
Hindustan Times. File Photo: Mr. Swapan Das Gupta, key speaker at
the media conclave.

Indo – Japan Collaborative Seminar

“The possession of knowledge from Mitsui & Co. India Pvt., Ltd. and Mr. Mayur Shah from Mizuho Corporate Bank Ltd.,
does not kill the sense of wonder Delhi. The students from Rikkyo University, Japan and their Indian counterparts
and mystery. There is always more presented interesting case lets on the interaction between Japanese and Indian markets
mystery.”- Anais Nin and how to evolve strategies for the best interests of both nations. The Japanese team
carried the day through their precise and crisp presentation but after being thoroughly
Believing in the same, Department of challenged by teams from DMS.
Management Studies under the able
guidance of Dr. Surendra S. Yadav &
Dr. Kiran Momaya organised the India-
Japan Collaborative Seminar on 31st
October 2009 to explore the dynamics
of Indo Japanese ties in the current
scenario and how both the nations can
evolve a winning strategy in face of
global and regional challenges. Key
objective of the seminar is to evolve
new approaches to India-Japan
collaboration by learning from
experiences of veterans as well
emerging reality from projects of young
researchers. The event saw an
enthusiastic response from students of
DMS who took up the opportunity to
interact with Japanese delegates and
students with an open hand. The event
saw a host of Japanese bigwigs
including H. E. Hideaki Domichi,
Ambassador of Japan to India, Mr. N.
Noguchi from Japan External Trade
Organisation (JETRO), Mr. Takeshi
Yoshida from New Energy and
Industrial Technology Development
Organization(NEDO), Mr. Nakajima
Pfizer innovation B-Plan Competition
Department of Management awarded US$ 3,000.00 and a
Studies (DMS), IIT Delhi, in letter of recommendation from
collaboration with Pfizer organized a B- Prof. Stan Kachnowski, HIT Lab,
plan competition ‟Pfizer Innovation Columbia University, New York.
Prize‟ open for all IIT students on 23
April 2010. Topic of the business plan
was Electronic Commerce Applications
in Health Care/ Pharmaceuticals
Industry. Participants included students
from various departments of IIT Delhi.
Four teams were shortlisted for
presenting their plan out of several
entries. The competition was won by
Team Ambrosia. The winning team was

Confluence 2010 – The idea series…..

Confluence, the much awaited
seminar series, organized by the
Department of Management Studies,
IIT Delhi conducted sessions on two
core managerial topics – Finance and
Marketing. The event saw two sessions,
the morning session which delved into
Finance and had eminent business
leaders presenting their views on „Time
to go Retro‟ and the afternoon session
which saw various industry leaders
sharing their thoughts on the theme
„Brands Turning into Commodities‟.
Kapoor, EVP Marketing and Corporate Affairs, Godfrey Philips; Ms. Anisha Motwani, EVP
and CMO, Max New York Life; Mr. Sandeep Srivastava, Founder Chairman, IYC World;
Manish Rangra, Executive Business Director, JWT; Mr. Shouvik Roy, Partner, Brand
Planet; Mr. Hitesh Oberoi, COO, Naukri.com; were present to discuss on the theme
„Brands Turning into Commodities‟. Their discussion focused on the major forces that
pave ways for the Branding and the forces of commoditization of brands. They took real
life cases to elucidate the factors leading to the commoditization of brands. Discussion
also saw the importance of personal branding, ethical context in branding, cult branding
and brand repositioning. Not only this some of the speakers also emphasized on the
importance of various frameworks of Marketing not only for companies but also for the
countries.

The Confluence was started with the

inaugural speech by the senior faculty
member of Department of Management
Studies, IIT Delhi, Prof. Vinaysheel
Gautam, which was preceded by the
lightening of auspicious diya by the
guests present.

The session on Marketing was

chaired by the senior Professor of
Marketing, Department of Management
Studies, IIT- Delhi, Prof. Harish
Chaudhary.

The Marketing session saw panelists

from various spheres of Corporate
World, holding varied positions of
responsibilities. Mr. Debashish Paul,
SVP-Marketing, McCann; Ms. Nita
 Ad – Astra 5 FACTS ABOUT
PLACEMENT
“Aiming for the stars” ‘10:
The placement season for the 2010 batch out A must know!
ended in a spectacular way with top notch
recruiters vying for DMS talent.

The recruitment season witnessed a slew

of offers offered to our students from top notch
firms such as P&G, American Express, GE,
Citibank, JP Morgan Chase, Coke (HCCB),
Nomura, Johnson & Johnson and many more.
Dms ranked Profiles were offered in Risk Management,
1. Average Salary of
Supply Chain Management, Treasury
no.5 by Management, Equity Research and several other 11.86 Lakhs (INR)
niche profiles.
eduniversal: 2. Average Laterals
Salary of 12.15
Lakhs (INR)

3. 81 offers made to
61 students

4. 21 Lateral offers

5. 42 Companies in
all participated