Vantage Point

Inside this Issue:

Note from the Director

Events On Campus

Guest Speakers On Campus

Student Events on Campus

Best Student Activity

Note from the Editorial Team

Life at VBS

Highlights Of the Summer Internship

Process

Summer Internship Experiences

Campus Achievements

Volume 1; Issue 1; Date: 12th July 2012

Note From the Director

Last year capped a very exciting first year for Vanguard

Business School. We were thrilled to welcome our first batch

and guide them on their journey towards becoming frontline

managers. This newsletter gives all our readers a glimpse of

what our first year was like. As we are poised to welcome the

second batch of students at Vanguard, I congratulate the

editorial board at the timeliness of this initiative and hope that

this effort succeeds in sharing our joy and enthusiasm with

you.

ARKS Srinivas

- Director

Message From The Editorial Team

It gives us immense pleasure to bring out the very first

edition of Vanguard’s Newsletter “Vantage Point”. Vantage

Point refers to a position that provides a broad view or

perspective. In wars, as in business, securing a good vantage

point provides a moment to regroup, review and replan

efforts towards the goal.

For the first batch of VBS, we feel that this is exactly the

place where we have arrived at the end of the first year. As

we stand poised to welcome the second batch on campus ,we

are proud to bring out this newsletter which gives an account

of all we have achieved in the last year.

We hope you enjoy reading this newsletter as much as we

enjoyed putting it together for you.

Bhanu Oberoi

Partho S. Roy

Anupam Choudhary

- Editorial Team

Events On Campus

Inauguration Day

It was this day when all our dreams came

true. The day when VBS started. It was very

auspicious for all of us. All the directors

were present for the inauguration along with

Mr. M.S. Ganesh, our Chief Guest for the

day. The inauguration started with lighting of

the diya which was followed by all the

Directors giving a brief talk and explaining

to us the motive and mission of Vanguard

Business School.

Fresher’s Party

On 17th of August,2011 we all assembled at

the Shilton Royale for the welcome party

which was organized by the college

management. The Directors, Faculty, the

entire staff along with the students attended

the party. The party kick started with a ramp

walk which was followed by a series of

performances by our students. The party

went on till late night after Avinash Sairam

and Yamini Varshney were declared Mr and

Ms. Fresher for the year. This event was

indeed the first and the most memorable

event of the Vanguard family

Management is nothing more than motivating other people.” -Lee Iacocca

Events On Campus

Diwali Celebration

It was a lovely get together of the batch and staff

when we all assembled for the Diwali

celebration on campus. What added more color

to the celebration was the birthday party of our

honorable Director Mr ARKS Srinivas and our

batch mate Bhanu Oberoi. Events such as Bindi

competition, Balloon bursting competition,

paper dance competition were conducted for

everybody. Everyone hit the dance floor after

dinner.

Workshop on Brand Management On 19th December,2011 we had the opportunity

of meeting Ms Sirisha Tadepalli ,Brand Manager

at Tata Global Beverages, India. A workshop on

brand Management was organized by the

Corporate Interactions Club. She is an alumnus

of MICA. She is also one of the key players

actively working for the JV with Starbucks on

behalf of Tata. Her workshop was about the

importance of branding in the corporate world

and how it plays a major role in changing the

customer behaviour. Towards the end, we had a

group activity related to the concept of branding

which helped us understand the concept in a

practical sense. It was indeed a very informative

and interactive workshop.

“What gets measured, gets managed”. -Peter.F Drucker

Guest Speakers On Campus

Mr Kartikeya Misra Mr Karthikeya Misra from BITS Pilani, IIMA,

Goldman Sachs and an IAS Officer was on campus.

It was indeed a revelation seeing someone like him

so grounded and so humble .He interacted with the

batch by talking about the simple joys of life like

reading, learning and doing everything with passion

and determination.

Mr A Srinivas Mr A Srinivas, the Vice President of Quantum

Finance, a soft spoken person delivered an awesome

guest lecture to our batch. He spoke on the scope of

finance careers in the world today. His speech was

indeed useful to us with a lot of information which

we could apply in our practical life.

Ms Nandini Vaidyanathan Ms Nandini Vaidyanathan is the co-founder of

CARMA (Creating Access to Resources and

Management with an ambition to change the

entrepreneurs in India) and a leading faculty in

various B-schools around the world. She spoke

about Management skills and how entrepreneurship

is the need of the hour. She also explained the

importance of a mentorship program and how it adds

value to each of us.

Ms Aparajita Tripathi Ms Aparajita Tripathi, student of IIMK, came to our

campus to enlighten our lives with the management

lessons on one of the greatest epic, The Mahabharata.

She related instances from the Mahabharata and

related them to game theory for Managers. The Ses-

sion ended with a Q & A round with the speaker.

“The smaller the function, the greater the management”. - C. Northcote Parkinson

Guest Speakers on Campus

Ms Asita Anche and Mr Evan Pearce

It was the time when we had two great people on

campus, Asita Anche and Evan Pearce. Asita Anche

Graduated from the University of Illionos. She is

currently the Managing Director of Goldman Sachs,

UK. Evan Pearce was a Portfolio Manager at Cita-

del Investment Group and currently is a partner at

Edoma Capital. Evan explained to us the intricacies

of the Euro Debt Crisis. Asita explained about the

concept of Risk Management. Both of them

explained the practical implications of both these

situations.

Mr Samuel Eddy

Mr. Samuel Eddy, founder of TedX Chennai spoke

about entrepreneurship and how it is very important

for every individual to pursue ones passion as ones

career. He explained how one can monetize ones

passion into a business and make money. The main

motive of conducting these activities was to

understand that every tough problem has simple

solutions. In a nutshell, his speech was inspiring and

it was an interactive session which involved lots of

brainstorming and helped us think differently.

Ms Neha Miglani

Ms Neha Miglani from Mu Sigma delivered a

lecture on Data Analytics. She introduced the

concept of Data Analytics and told us about its

importance and career prospects.

“Management is, above all, a practice where art, science, and craft meet” -Henry Mintzberg

Student Events On Campus

Money Mania

Money Mania, the Finance Quiz was organized in the

month of December by Fintelligent. This quiz gave the

contestants an exposure to the Financial terms, person-

alities, Banks and enhanced our knowledge. There

were twelve teams competing with each other. Ketan,

Shashi and Nitin were declared the winners of the quiz.

Quiz Mania

Quiz Mania, the Marketing Quiz was organized by

Streetsmart. The quiz was organized to inculcate an

interest in Marketing among batch mates and focused

on brands, logos, taglines and brand ambassadors of all

visionary companies.

Simulation Workshop at Vanguard

The day was 14th of March,2012,when for the first

time ever in Bangalore a Simulation game was

conducted on our campus in Association with IIT

Kanpur and Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, (RPI)

USA. The event was organized by Dr Deepu Philip,

Dr Dimitri Markowich and Dr Lois Peters. We all

assembled for the Strategic Innovation Game which

gave us the experience of doing business through a

Simulation exercise. Everybody including the faculty

participated in the event which added further

excitement for the batch. There were thirteen teams

divided into three groups. In the first two groups there

were six teams each while the 13th team consisted of

professors from IIT Kanpur. We would also like to

thank Dr. BV Phani of IIT Kanpur for having fa-

cilitated this event on campus.

“Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things.”- Peter F.Drucker

A visit to Toyota

Prof. Krishna Kishore facilitated the Industrial

Visit to Toyota which was planned on 26th

December 2011.We were briefed about the

company’s history along with the philosophy of

the company which gave us an idea about the

management style of the company. We then

visited the factory where we saw the entire car

manufacturing process. We personally would

want to thank Prof. Krishna Kishore for having

facilitated this Industrial Visit for our batch.

Table Tennis Competition

Sports is the most loved form of recreation at

VBS. At VBS we have some of the best Table

Tennis enthusiasts. Two of them are Avinash

Ranbaore and Saam Ajay. Both of them are tennis

freaks and refuse to budge an inch when it comes

to competition. As expected they met at the final

round of the table tennis competition. It was a

clash of the “Titans”. The match started at 10 am

in the morning and the five set of the match

lasted for about forty five minutes. Neither left no

stone unturned, both tried to outdo the other, but

in the end Avinash won the game with three

closely contested sets to NIL (3-0).

“What gets measured, gets managed”. -Peter.F Drucker

Best Student Activity

It was a great experience and opportunity

for the whole batch when we were taken for

a outward bound training at Pegasus Institute

for Excellence in Bangalore under the

guidance of KK Sir, Ajay Sir and Ashish Sir.

It is one of the premier institutes in India

offering comprehensive outward bound

management training and organizational

development services. It was a two day

workshop at Pegasus. We learnt a lot from

the team building lessons at the workshop

and we also enjoyed the camp fire at the

night. This training helped us come together

as a batch. The bonding among our batch

mates was even more strong than before .We

could understand each other better and this

training changed the relationships among our

batch mates for good. We were excited to

sleep in tents in the nights, which added to

the fun and joy for all of us.

Out Bound Training at Pegasus

“Good managers have a bias for action.” -Thomas J Peters

Life at VBS

The journey of my first year of MBA trails down to a

memorable yet arduous experience I have had. As I look

down the memory lane, my faculty and campus life

come first on the list. Every faculty taught me not only

their subjects but also certain unique qualities that an

MBA should possess. The entire faculty team taught me

hardwork, dedication, honesty and above all, humility. I

was quite taken aback when every Professor gave us

personal attention towards all of us , and encouraged us

to seek their help whenever needed. While it may sound

clichéd to say this, the fact remains that they were

extremely dedicated and that, in a way, motivated me to

take my leap forward. They made me overcome my fear

of stretching myself and that made me give my best in

everything that I did. Thanks to the reproachable

deadlines. They made me more professional and most

importantly, a better manager! Our hectic, overloaded

schedules were balanced with refreshing sessions like

Table Tennis matches or sometimes even small

get-togethers to keep our spirit going. Coming to my

hostel and friends, I had a lot of learning in terms of

balancing my hostel and college life. There were also

some unfavourable experiences that I had to overcome

but nevertheless, I came through all of them, and now I

stand as someone who can vouch for all my actions and

be completely confident of pursuing my next year of

MBA with a whole new perspective towards life.

“The one word that makes a good manager -- decisiveness”. -Lee Iacocca

Internship created quite a buzz in our

college two months back and now, I am

done with it. Abbott India in Mumbai,

was where I interned, for the two months

period. My project was on identifying

areas / opportunities of cost optimization

across various support functions and

businesses of the organization. The best

part of my internship was to interact

with all the senior people in the organi-

zation and this gave us ideas and views

which in turn, helped us to give our

recommendations for the project.

Another important learning for me in

particular, was business communication

at work place. Overall, it was a brilliant

kickstart for me as I managed to engage

myself in short conversations with a lot

of other MBA pursuing students.

Mathangi Sridhar

First of all I would like to thank all

those who made it possible for me to get

into Tata Motors specially Arkss Sir and

Arka Sir. To work in a company like Tata

Motors was a fabulous experience

for me. Though I had work experience in

the past. The exposure and the kind of

work culture which I saw was just out-

standing at Tata Motors. I feel lucky to

have got an opportunity of having done

my interns in such a big and reputed

company.

Swarup Kumar Basuri

My first corporate experience was the best

and the place where I did my interns was

at 24/7 Innovation Lab, Bangalore. It was

a four month roller coaster ride with a lot

of fun and learning going hand in hand.

The project which I was involved into in-

cluded text mining of data along with

business insights and recommendations. It

was into Data Analytics. I was the only

intern working in my team along with the

employees who were from IIMs and IITs.

I learnt how to adapt myself in the

corporate culture. The best part of my in-

ternship was my team at 24/7 along with

all the Senior People I interacted with.

This corporate experience was the first

and probably the best where I learnt a lot

of small things which would help me not

only now but for the rest of my life.

Bhanu Oberoi

It was an awesome experience for me to

work for Mini Box Office. It was a

wonderful 4 months for me as the Project

in Charge and also as the Festival

Coordinator for BSFF-2012. It was real

exposure for me where I learnt a lot of

stuffs such as communicating with the

filmmakers , searching for sponsors and

thus speaking with them to finalize the

deal. Finally the event was a dream come

true for me when the 1st edition of

BSFF-2012 was a huge hit and success in

Bangalore.

Anupam Choudhary

“Actions, not words, are the ultimate results of leadership." - Bill Owens

Summer Internship Experiences

Highlights Of Summer Internship

Process

Vanguard Business School completed its very first summer internship process. The truly en-

couraging part of the process for a first time business school involves the nature of summer pro-

jects and profiles offered to our students as well as some of the big names that visited our cam-

pus for the Summers process. We are proud to share that we achieved 100 percent placement of

all students in less than a month and a half of the process. Below are some of the highlights of

the summer internship process.

27 Companies made 46 offers to 38 Students

Students have been offered profiles offered ranging from roles in Sales & Marketing,

Operations, ITES, Finance, HR, etc.

Sectors as diverse as Media, Education, Manufacturing, E-Commerce, Pharma, Consumer

Durables, Data Analytics and BFSI have made offers to Vanguard Students

Students placed in firms like Abbott India, who historically only offer internships to

students from IIMs.

Profiles of the Summer projects at Exide, Tata Motors are related to Supply Chain, Opera-

tions and Manufacturing Process Improvement.

100 percent placement (summers) in a span of a month and a half

Approx 73 percent students have been placed in major locations outside Bangalore

The Companies participating in the Summers process include

Industry Majors from Corporate India such as Abbott India, Ebay ,Fractal Analytics, Tata

Motors, Exide.

Established names such as Shanti Boilers, Deccan Coach Builders,V2 Solutions Inc, Value

Pitch offering Niche profiles.

Promising Start-ups such as Tender Leaves, Xplore 360 and niche firms that offered very

interesting profiles.

“We need leadership, and we need it now." - Byron Dorgan

“The only safe ship in a storm is leadership.”- Faye Wattleton

We are Proud to be associated with:

And many more...

Campus Achievements

Faculty Achievements

International publications published papers:

“Knowledge Management- A need of trend” Mousumi Majumdar and Krishna Kishore

in Research Journal of Social Science and Management, The International Journal,

Singapore, Vol 2, Number 2, June 2012.

India’s Role towards Sustainability Management through International Carbon

Trading” Vasanth Kiran and Dr. Joy Mukhopadhyay (IISc, Bangalore) in ITM University

International Journal, December 2011. (Awarded the best paper).

Edited Books

“Innovation in Visionary Leadership Practices”, Krishna Kishore and Vasanth Kiran,

published in the edited book “Innovative management practices in modern business

era” edited by Dr. V.M. Senthilkumar and S. Kowsalyadevi,Mithila Publications, Erode,

Tamil Nadu March 2012.

“Management Education and Corporate expectations - Gap Analysis” Mousumi

Majumdar and Krishna Kishore accepted for publication in Handbook of Manangement and

Behavioural Science, Vol 7, edited by Dr. Sunil Kumar and Dr. Shyam Lata Juyal, June 2012

International publications Accepted papers

“Innovative Marketing Strategies For Micro, Small & Medium Enterprises” Vasanth

Kiran , Mousumi Majumdar, Krishna Kishore is accepted for publication in International

Journal of Contemporary Research in Business (IJCRB), USA, Vol .4, No.1, June 2012.

“Leadership is the key to 99 percent of all successful efforts." - Erskine Bowles

Student achievements

National Seminar On “Challenges and Opportunities before the Management Education

in India: A Critical Review” by Mazid Ali Khan and Shireen Khan at ‘The Matrix Business

School”.

Cultural events

Our college participated in “USHUS’ cultural organized by Christ University, and secured

the third place in the Simulation game.. Avinash Sairam, Saam Ajay, Bhnau Oberoi and

Mathangi Sridhar took part in the event

"A desk is a dangerous place from which to view the world." - John Le Caré