CHRIST (Deemed to be University), Pune Lavasa Campus

A workshop was organized on Friday, 29 th November 2019 from 2.30 PM onwards at CIML for MBA first year and PGDM Finance Major second year students on 'Financial Planning Using Mutual Funds ’ . It was sponsored by Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) and conducted by Mr Esmail Colombowala . Mr Esmail Colombowala holds a post graduate degree and a banking certificate from London. He has over four and a half decades of work experience in the financial IT and training space, besides mentoring management students on interview and presentation skills. He has been engaged with multinational companies and banks and is also an avid investor with domain expertise in the capital market and in-depth knowledge of multiple investment products. The program was an investor awareness and education initiative by L&T Mutual Fund. Mr Esmail began his lecture by defining financial planning and spoke about its importance. He spoke at length about the process o...

Jaro Education took a Skype interview of some students from CIML on Monday, 25 th November 2019. Jay Panjwani , pursuing MBA was elated to have got an opportunity to appear for an interview for Summer Internship Program (SIP) in Jaro Education. He felt quite nervous at the beginning but soon he regained confidence and gave his best performance. He felt that he was able to impress the interviewer and could find himself one among the various competitors who aim to have a career in the corporate sector.   Abin Roby from MBA found it a pleasant experience and found the questions quite challenging. He tried his best to give accurate answers but found some of them made him think deeply. However, he thanks CHRIST, Lavasa for his first Skype interview. It was quite a learning experience. Harsh Khandelwal from Marketing found the interviewer’s tone encouraging and pleasing and it boosted his confidence. He was able to answer the theoretical questions that checked ...

On 24 th November 2019 the School of Law CHRIST (Deemed to be University), Lavasa Campus conducted a workshop on Moot Courts for first year students of Law. The sessions were conducted by a team of four advocates in five sessions. The workshop commenced at 12.00 PM and the first session was based on the understanding and application of the Constitution of India and Civil Procedure Code with special reference to Moot Court case. It specifically lay emphasis on the process to be conducted in the moot court. Post lunch, the second session was conducted in the moot court wherein the SLCU students and the team that had come to conduct the workshop conjointly executed the demonstration moot. Post Tea, the sessions were resumed and the third session was based on understanding and application of IPC, Criminal Procedure Code for Trial Advocacy case. Further the session for Demonstration of Trial Advocacy was conducted in the moot court where the students were given the advantage of taki...

CHRIST, Laavsa is all set to carve a niche for itself and let its presence be felt at international level. It is a matter of great pride and honour that two PGDM students from CIML have gone to Liverpool for further studies. Then Dr Kedar Vishnu, Assistant Professor from Department of Economics, CHRIST (Deemed to be University), Lavasa got an opportunity to present his research paper at a symposium in Nanjing, China. He upheld the prestige and glory of CHRIST, Lavasa during his stay and has set a benchmark for others to emulate. Dr Kedar Vishnu presented his empirical research work on “Do transaction costs prevent smallholder’s participation in Supermarket?” in a symposium on “Small-holder Farms in Market Integration—Lessons and Experiences from China and South-East Asia” held at Nanjing, China from 10 th to 14 th  November 2019. The symposium was organized by The International Association of Agricultural Economists (IAAE) and Nanjing Agricultural University (NJA...

HR Club activity was conducted on 22nd November 2019 at CIML. Academic Coordinator, Dr Fr Arun Antony released the HR Newsletter, congratulated the HR department and inspired them to work in coordination with each other as a team. He was appreciative of the newsletter and articulated that it covered major events of the department and was pleased to observe that the students earnestly contributed articles for the same.    The highlight of the event was a lecture given by Mr Pushpendra Singh, Executive Coach, Business Coach and a Management Consultant from MIMAMSA , Pune. During the last forty years he has mentored several leaders. He coached 3 MD/CEOs of German/American subsidiaries in Pune last year. He had direct experience of dealing with Marketing, Materials, Planning, Coordination and Projects. A major part of his experience was in the field of Electrical and Electronic Industry. In his corporate talk Mr Pushpendra spoke about practical experience o...

  The Department of Commerce and Management conducted its first inter-class business fest IGNITE -2019 on 20 th  and 21 st  November 2019 at CHRIST (Deemed to be University), Lavasa. The event was inaugurated by Academic Coordinator, Dr Fr Arun Antony on 20 th  November 2019. In his inaugural address Fr Arun motivated the students to give their best and reminded them that winning and losing is not as important as taking part. He inspired them to make use of the given platform and enhance their leadership skills by competing in a healthy spirit. Then the anchor introduced all the participants to each activity with related inspirational videos emphasizing its importance. The contestants competed for the following events; Best Manager, Best Management Team, Debate, HR, Finance, Marketing, Business Plan and Business Quiz. The two-day event saw a lot of active participation of nearly 182 commerce and management undergraduate students across ...

A meaningful talk was organized for MBA students on 19 th  November 2019 in the Management Block, CIML. The keynote speaker was Mr Satish Koshal, a professionally qualified and experienced consultant, with a positive attitude. This is augmented with mentoring for managements of medium industry and their senior working professionals. Mr Koshal has had extensive experience of working in large government and banking projects integrating multiple technologies, process design and deployment, large work-force management, customer and service delivery management, MIS, IT infrastructure/ Data centre management and all allied aspects of Project Management including Change/Risk/Client management. Besides an engineering degree – B Tech (Hons), from IIT Kharagpur, Senior Life Member, Computer Society of India; Life Member, Indian Society of Training and Development (ISTD); a Certified Quality Analyst, Quality Assurance Institute, USA; Certified Internal Assessor for Tata...

Center for Digital Learning (CDL), CHRIST (Deemed to be University), Lavasa conducted a Free Webinar on " Talent Acquisition” by Mr Pratyush Nandkeolyar on 16th November 2019 from 4 to 5 PM. Mr Pratyush is a self-motivated, self-driven creative senior executive with a proven track record in ramping up businesses, creating & optimizing the process. His Talent hunt journey includes multi-geographical and multilingual hiring, creating a consistent recruiting process in a global environment. In his 6 years of experience of heading the Talent Acquisition teams, he has P&L responsibilities. He has led the India, UK, US & APAC staffing team. Pratyush started his career with GenesysCreations as a recruiting lead in 2002. He also worked with Planman Consulting as a Lead Recruiting. In 2005, Pratyush joined Perot Systems, now Dell. He was sole responsible for fulfilling the manpower demand and setting the Infrastructure Practice for Perot Systems, this $1.2 billion tran...

14 th November 2019 will be etched in the history of Lavasa as Dr Fr George Edayadiyil, Rector and Chancellor, CHRIST University, Bangalore visited CHRIST, Lavasa.  Director & Dean, Dr Fr Jossy P George welcomed him warmly in the presence of CHRIST fraternity. Fr Jossy articulated that vision without action is just a dream but a vision with action can change the world. He introduced Dr Fr George Edayadiyil as a visionary who is well versed with Lavasa campus. The Chancellor is aware of the latest developments and has encouraged Fr Jossy consistently and constantly. The progress of the campus is Dr Fr George ’s major concern and has dreams to see Lavasa reach the pinnacle of success. His unflinching support combined with the leadership skills of Fr Jossy can make his dream come true. Dr Fr George Edayadiyil, CMI, DTh, began his education at St Thomas Aquinas University, Rome, Italy. He did MA in Sociology from Mahatma Gandhi University and MSc in Mathematics from Kerala...

A guest lecture was organized on 13 th  November 2109 at CHRIST (Deemed to be University), Lavasa by Ms Sinthuja Martin about the importance of soft skills and a short training session on soft skills was also conducted for BBA and B Com students. Ms Sinthuja Martin is   a freelance Image Consultant and Trainer. A certified image consultant and soft skills trainer from the school of Image Consulting Business Institute, Chennai. She also undertook training under an international course curriculum from Conselle Institute of Image Consulting, Ohio, USA. Her   expertise lies in the field of designing and delivering communication, image and soft skills programs. The training methodology is tailored to suit different needs and levels to ensure that learning happens in a stimulating and fun filled environment. Ms Sinthuja’s session on soft skills was tailor made for students and she had the ability to improve their confidence and look credible, by cr...