Inauguration of Sahyadri Management Students Association (SMSA)

The Sahyadri Management Students Association (SMSA) for the Academic year 2020-21 was inaugurated by Mr. Kalbavi Prakash Rao, Owner – Kalbavi Cashews and Founder Chairman – CII Mangaluru District Council and Mr. Akash N, Owner – Spice Route, a Restaurant in Surathkal, Mangaluru (Alumni – Batch 2017) as Chief Guests; Dr. Vishal Samartha, Director-MBA and Prof. Ramesh K G, Dean-Strategic Planning on 20th February 2021. The office bearers were lead through oath taking by Prof. Samarth Shenoy. Kaushal B S, President of SMSA shared the Plan of Action of the Academic Year 2020-21.

Mr. Kalbavi Prakash Rao, in his inaugural address, firstly congratulated the students for getting into their dream college to pursue their MBA course. He said – “I have visited so many institutions in the past and even spoke everywhere about what a college campus should do, however after visiting Sahyadri I have realized that Sahyadri is one step ahead”. He said sometimes crisis situations helps to break away from the rut and do something different just like it happened way back in 1991 Crisis and 1994 Plague pandemic. He was glad to make a point that Indians have a natural gene to manage crisis well and we are naturally resilient to crisis. It takes a crisis situation to get the best out of us.
Key takeaways of his talk:
• Do not forget your Alma Mater, Parents and Guru and see how you can contribute something differently to them every year
• Freedom comes with responsibility. They are the two sides of a same coin
• Seize every opportunity that comes your way – Be the first to participate
• Be humble – No end to learning
• Have company of people who are higher than you in knowledge and value • Manage social media responsibly
• Be employment Creators rather than employment Seekers
• Digital Transformation as a result of the pandemic situation
Mr. Akash N shared his journey from Sahyadri MBA in 2019 to now an Entrepreneur. He mentioned anecdotes of how he failed during his initial attempts to be an entrepreneur and has NO regrets as it has contributed Chapters to the Book of his life’s journey.

Mathematics Faculty completes Ph.D

Prof. Sunita Priya D’Silva, Dept. of Mathematics has successfully completed her PhD in Graph Theory, thesis titled “Difference Labelling on the graphs” from Visvesvaraya Technological University, Belagavi. She completed this under the able guidance of Dr. B Sooryanarayana, Professor, Department of Mathematics, Dr. Ambedkar Institute of Technology, Bengaluru.
The main objective of her thesis was - A compact representation for the graph given in the form of integers that may be used in the application of graphs for which difference labelling is possible. This will be helpful in developing a routing algorithm to communicate between two nodes and will enlighten further direction towards development of good interconnection networks which are subgraphs of Cayley Network.

Webinar on ‘Changing Business Dynamics’ hosted by NAIN in collaboration with AIFMB

NAIN Sahyadri and Dept. of Business Administration, in association with the Asian Institute for Family Managed Businesses (AIFMB), organized a Webinar on “Changing Dynamics - Combining traditional and modern approaches” with keynote speaker Prof. Samish Dalal, Associate Professor from SP Jain School of Global Management. Webinar was attended by students and professionals belonging to Sahyadri as well as other institutions.
Professor Dalal gave students an insightful lecture on the fundamentals of managing a business and stressed that one needs to focus on consistency, persistence, seeing opportunity where others don’t, building strong relationships and respecting different abilities of each team member in a team.

Placement and Training - Paid Internship Project, Mangaluru

Hindustan Unilever Limited, one of the largest Multinational FMCG Companies worldwide is offering paid internship opportunity for the female students.
• Training: Training will be provided by the Industry experts through both online & offline mode.
• Job Description: The selected candidate has to study and understand the attributes and the benefits of the product/s to be promoted, meet & interact with the potential consumers where they live, offer them product demonstration and explain the product attributes and benefits followed by a paid sampling of the product/s. Achieve the daily target as set from time to time by the Team Leader/ Management. Keep an account of the daily consumption of sample stocks.
• Benefits of the Internship: Opportunity to work for one of the best multinational companies for extremely well-known products. Immense learning opportunities on product promotion, field interaction, interpersonal skills, most advanced real-time app-based reporting mechanism. Fixed monthly remuneration plus incentives on achieving targets as decided by the management. Individual Mobile Handsets with mobile data plan to be provided to the interns during the entire tenure of the assignment. Certificate to be awarded on successful completion of the internship.

Quote for the day

"In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on."
- Robert Frost