CHRIST (Deemed to be University), Pune Lavasa Campus

After carefully considering various aspects of training the students for corporate sector a comprehensive proposal has been initiated for MBA students by Talent next, an HR Consulting and Services firm. It commenced on 30 th September 2019 and will be conducted henceforth every Monday till December 2019. The program will train the students in facing an interview, which would touch upon aspects like a mock interview followed by a group discussion and finally a post interview feedback. The next step would be teaching them skills related to reasoning, aptitude, general awareness, resume writing, technicalities and various other skills associated with facing an interview for placement. Talent next, an HR Consulting and Services firm offers customized solutions aimed at meeting a company’s business and talent needs. The firm is led by an HR professional, who has 20 years of strategic and operational human resources experience spread across Telecom, IT, auto and realty space out of wh...

An innovative Gamification Training program 'BL Pundit Gamification' was conducted by Mr Puneet Maheshwari , Co-Partner,  Business Learning , Analytics Edge Consultants Pvt Ltd (‘Seller’),  pioneered by Transcendi - an International Consulting firm, headquartered in Scotland (United Kingdom) on 27 th  and 28 th  September 2019 at CIM, Lavasa. Business Simulation Game is a technology driven educational tool that complements management courses and training programs across the B-schools. Business simulations are hands-on learning tools that involve competition between teams/participants. The game-like nature of business simulations is proven to engage participants and develop micro-learning skills resulting into holistic thinking, commercial acumen, decision-making, and strategic skills in a fun and innovative way. Business Learning offered aspiring management graduates a real-time (virtual) business environment through their micro-l...

The Economic Club, Department of Law and Economics , CHRIST, Lavasa , was inaugurated on 27 th September 2019 in the Smart Room , Central Block at 2.30 PM. The speaker on this occasion was Dr K S Hari , Assistant Professor and Post-Doctoral Fellow from London School of Economics and Political Science. He has done M.Phil. in Applied Economics and Ph.D. in Economics from Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi (at the Centre for Development Studies, Thiruvananthapuram). He did M.A. in Development Economics from the University of Calicut (at Dr John Matthai Centre, Thrissur). His area of specialization is development economics and public economics. Director & Dean, Dr Fr Jossy George inaugurated the club and spoke about the need for economic analysis and asked students to express their intellectual rigour. Assistant Professor Ginish Cheruparambil spoke about the mission and vision of the Economic Club and urged the students to v...

A series of guest lectures were given by  Adv. Vismay Shroff, Adv. Kevin Tauro and Adv. Shwetha Bidhuri, Head (South Asia) for Singapore International Arbitration Centre (SIAC), Singapore at School of Law, CHRIST, Lavasa on Tuesday, 24 th September 2019 on Arbitration: An Efficient Dispute Resolution Mechanism , in the Smart Room, Central Block. There was also a high level collaborative talk between SIAC and SLCU with Director & Dean, Dr Fr Jossy P George, CHRIST, Lavasa. Adv. Kevin Tauro, a prospective Ph.D. student accompanied Adv. Shwetha Bidhuri. Kevin a good mooter and teacher and has competed his LLB from GLC, Mumbai and LLM from Mumbai University. He is currently teaching LLB and LLM at MU colleges. Adv. Kevin Tauro addressed the students and informed them that memo draft and pleading are two very important points to be kept in mind in a moot court. He also spoke at length about ways to conduct a research doctrinal and non-doctri...

A placement preparation program was conducted on Monday, 23 rd  September 2019 followed by a mock interview by Ms Sakshi Saini and Ms Charu Srivastav in the Conference Hall, Management Block, Lavasa for MBA students. Ms Sakshi Sahni is a Dale Carnegie Trained professional with expertise in training and development, drama based facilitator (Theatre Resource) and VICT (Master Trainer). With a decade long corporate HR and training experience in IT, staffing, foreign exchange  and education sectors, Ms Sakshi, is an articulate communicator and has effectively interacted with diverse people at varied levels. She is adept in spearheading behavioral development of participants as she has conducted training programs on business communication, etiquette, team building, time management and goal setting skills. She was able to recognize the creative potential of each individual and responded well to all queries in a spontaneous manner. She was able to set them at...

Moot Court Society for Department of Law, CHRIST, (Deemed to be University), Lavasa was formally inaugurated on 23 rd  September 2019. The inaugural ceremony took place in the Auditorium, Central Block. It was a proud moment for School of Law as the day is important in everyone’s life and it will define their career path and help them navigate successfully to reach their destination. The Chief Guest on this occasion was Adv. Vismay Shroff and the Guest of Honour was Adv. Gokul Narayan. After invoking the divine blessings, the ceremony began with the traditional lighting of the lamp by Director & Dean Dr (Fr) Jossy P George, Chief Guest; Adv. Vismay Shroff and Adv. Gokul Narayan, HOD, Dr Daisy Alexander, Adv. Kevin Turrao and Adv. Saimy Eliza Abraham while `Showers of Blessings’ played in the background during the lighting of lamp ceremony. The   Chief Guest, Adv. Vismay Shroff, Associate of Parimal K. Shroff & Co. Advocates, Sol...

The Intra Collegiate Management Fest (intra campus) – Xllenz 2K19 was conducted on 20 th  and 21 st  September 2019 at CIML, Lavasa. It is a precursor to the management festival, XUBRENZ. The various business-related events were conducted between four clans namely Knights, Samurias, Spartans and Vikings. The organizing team comprising of MBA students from the Department of Management Studies, Christ University, Bangalore, conducted the events flawlessly. The event began when Director and Dean, Fr Jossy George unveiled the logo amidst loud cheer. He was appreciative of an excellent collaboration by MBA students from Christ University, Bangalore. Fr Jossy inspired the MBA students to learn from the event and later conduct a similar event for undergraduate students, and in the process be completely prepared for the mega inter college event scheduled to be held in January 2020. Director and Dean wished the clan captains success and a wonderful show of ...

A workshop on `Opportunities in Data World’ was conducted by Department of Data Science, CHRIST (Deemed to be University), Lavasa on 20 th  September 2019 in the Smart Room from 11:15 AM to 04:00 PM. The resource persons were Mr. K Sridharan (CEO - CleverInsight) and Mr. Robin (CTO - CleverInsight). The interactive workshop was attended by I-Sem, B Sc (DS), M Sc (DS) and MA (Economics) students. Mr Kothandaraman Sridharan is an IT veteran who has co-founded BFL Software -  Mphasis , which is currently owned by HP. He began his career in Wipro and headed its Customer Support organization. Mr Sridharan has also written an operating system and compiled application packages such as production planning and control. He has rich experience in sales and support. He is a member of the advisory board - University of Memphis (MIS) - FedEx Institute of Technology. Mr Sridharan specializes in outsourcing, energy and environment, supply chain ...