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Wednesday, July 31 2024

MBA students placed in Prakash Retail Private Limited (Harsha)

Twelve students of second-year MBA - Akshay, Apeksha Nidhi Shetty, Akash, Goutham M, Krithik Hosdurg, Pratheek K, Pooja, Ronith, Rishitha, Swathi, Sumana Bhat and Sinchana K have been placed at Prakash Retail Private Limited (Harsha) as Management Trainees in the Retail Operations Department. Established in 1987 and headquartered in Udupi, India. Prakash Retail Private Limited (Harsha) is a prominent player in the retail market, specializing in household, electronic, and hardware products. The company operates 17 retail stores across Karnataka and is recognized as the most innovative retailer in the region. They are respected as a consumer durable retailer adhering to strict ethical standards, striving to act fairly and consistently in their dealings with customers.

Placements and Training: Recruited by Cognizant

A total of 14 students from the 2024 passed out batch have been recruited by Cognizant for the position of Programmer Analyst Trainee.

The recruits are:

Chirashree Padmashali, Varsha A, Sudeep N Naik, Bhavith, Thilak N Rai, and Shivani Rai from the Computer Science & Engineering Dept.
Sriram V and Pratiksha Churya A from the Data Science Dept.
Yashmitha B, Elvicia Miriam Pinto, Shravya R Shetty, Shamya P Shetty, Prakruthi P D, and Nidhi Rai from the Information Science & Engineering Dept.

One-day EDP by MBA Dept. inaugurated by Mr. Kempegowda H, Joint Director-Agriculture, DK District

One-Day Entrepreneurial Development Program (EDP) was organized on 31st Aug, 2024 by the EDC Cell and Academic Club headed by Prof. Monisha Shetty and Dr. Sushma V, Dept. of Business Administration. The program was inaugurated by the Joint Director-Agriculture, Dakshina Kannada District, Mangaluru – Mr. Kempegowda H by lighting the lamp. In his inaugural address, Mr. Kempegowda urged the students to ponder on why they work – for money, happiness, both or for any fourth option? and majority of the students lacked clarity in their thoughts. “Out of 80,000 thoughts created during the day, 85% of them are negative thoughts which hinders growth and manifest into diseases”, he said. He re-iterated on 3 positive thoughts – Belief, Content and Experience and advised the MBA dept. to invite speakers on ‘Positive thoughts and power of happiness’ to hold a session for the students.

Dr. S S Injaganeri, Principal advised to do Self-evaluation on positive and negative thoughts. He said – “Spend time on the bad experiences of the day, they are the results of virtue of actions”. “If you perform your tasks with commitment and dedication, success will automatically follow”, he said in his concluding remarks.

The first session was on ‘Lean Manufacturing for Entrepreneurs’ by Ms. Swasthika Devadiga, Senior Manager Quality, Primacy Industries Pvt Ltd. She conducted activity-based session with the objective of creating awareness on maximizing productivity and reducing waste.

The second session was on ‘Compelling content creation’ for social media’ by Mr. Waseem and Mr. Raghavendra Nayak, the partners at Mangalore Meri Jaan. Talking about their journey from being an IT professional to social media page handlers, their struggles, the content that became viral, ethics in social media posting, the contents that have potential to be viral and building a strong online presence. In the concluding remarks Mr. Waseem said – “Patience and 100% efforts can take you places no matter how hard others try to pull you down”.

The last session of the day was by Mr. Ronald Kevin D’Souza, Founder, Aquatic Biosystems. He spoke about start-up eco-systems and the status of ornamental fish trade including imports and exports. He also spoke on aquatic bio-systems and the salient features, production details, Business Model and the challenges faced by an entrepreneur. In his concluding remarks - “Create partners and not competitors’, he said.

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MBA students placed in Prakash Retail Private Limited (Harsha)

Wed Jul 31 2024