Events

Enthusiasm and festivity marked the Teacher’s Day celebrations at SPJIMR where students came together to express their love and gratitude for their teachers. The celebrations comprised of spirited musical and dance performances by the students. Many members of the faculty joined in too. The winners of the photography competition – Spectacle, were felicitated. The event was organised by the cultural committee of SPJIMR.  

SPJIMR’s Post Graduate Programme in Management (PGPM) hosted its annual business-academia conclave, Samavesh on September 7, 2019, at the SPJIMR auditorium. The theme for, this year was, ‘Impact of AI on driving business innovations’.

The 73rd Independence day celebrations at SPJIMR were marked by solemn reflections and spirited performances. The flag hoisting by the SPJIMR Dean, Dr. Ranjan Banerjee, in the presence of faculty and students, was followed by a cultural show of dazzling performances by the students and the Abhyudaya Sitaras.

Chief Guest Hon’ble Former President of India, Shri Pranab Mukherjee presented the award at the 10th edition of the Indian Management Conclave, 2019 held in New Delhi on August 2 and 3, 2019. Chairperson of SPJIMR’s Post Graduate Programme in Development Management (PGPDM), Dr Rukaiya Joshi made a presentation about the recent innovations of the programme.

SPJIMR’s Abhyudaya celebrated the 11th year of its flagship event, Hastantaran on 30^th June 2019. It aims to foster social responsibility in its B-school students with its year-long mentorship programme in which the first year Post Graduate Diploma in Management (PGDM) participants mentor bright, underprivileged children called ‘Sitaras’.  

SPJIMR observed a ‘Digital Detox’ day on June 25, 2019.  All forms of digital communication; Computers, Wi-fi as well as smartphones were not used across the campus.

SPJIMR co-hosted an International Summit on ‘Learning by Doing’ with the Global Business School Network (GBSN), to develop and apply the principles of assurance of learning to project-based experiential learning courses.

The summit offered content sessions, panel discussions and hands-on guided workshop activities led by faculty from The George Washington University School of Business; MIT Sloan School of Management, USA;Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth, USA and SPJIMR among many more.

The SPJIMR Business-Academia Conclave (SBAC) brings together corporate and academic leaders to drive new and implementable best practices in the business world. The theme for SBAC 2019 was ‘Design thinking for Innovation’ - a fast-growing approach to problem-solving under ambiguity that is rapidly being adopted in India. Corporate leaders and academic leaders came together to understand and assimilate current best practice in this area and identify exciting new directions for India Inc.

SPJIMR’s Development of Corporate Citizenship (DoCC), completed 25 years of social impact in India this year. Under DoCC, management students are exposed to an immersion programme in the rural areas and complete their internship of social projects for 4 weeks and 2 weeks respectively with NGOs, corporate foundations and government agencies across the country. 

Money makes the world go round but understanding the economy can make our heads spin. Days after a new budget can confuse the best of us, the students of PGPM 2019 had the opportunity to understand the nuances of the latest budget, with Dr. M. Govinda Rao, who has been a member of the Finance Commission in the past shedding light on the budget as a whole and giving it an unbiased view.