The Voice of SIESCOMS is SIES College of Management Studies' monthly newsletter.

1. The Voice of SIESCOMS January 2012
The Voice of
SIESCOMS
Reaching out to
the world
JANUARY 2012
In Focus: NGO Internship
By The Editorial Team
At SIESCOMS, we encourage our students to which has made him realize the importance
take Internship with NGOs during first year. of Nature and Animals, while Rajshree Patil
The aim of this unique program is to create from the same group is keen to work with
“Socially Sensitive Managers’’ with a motive them again. Sandeep Sharma a student who
to not only increase the bottom-line, but also worked with Bharti Vichar Shodh Sansthan in
work in an environment which benefits the Rajasthan says it was a learning curve for
Society . SIESCOMS believes in holistic him, because of the diverse portfolio of
development of the students beyond the NGO. He treasures it as one of the most
four walls of a classroom. An activity that beautiful memories of his life. Vivek Shankar From the Director’s Desk
started as a tie up with 19 NGOs in 2008 has who worked with Abhaya Sadan, an old Age Greetings from SIES College of Management
grown to an extent where our students Home in Kerala, sums up the experience as a Studies (SIESCOMS). It is indeed a great pleasure
currently intern with 57 NGOs across India. major learning which brought him much for me to pen my message for SIESCOMS
more closer to his own grandparents than Newsletter - a new initiative of our students.
The Internship is spread over 15 working days before. SIESCOMS has a rich tradition of grooming our
where the student gets exposed to various MBA students through empowering them and
activities like Fund Raising, Marketing Model Dilshad, another student, had an opportunity supporting them in their various activities - this
and other activities for NGOs. Says Snehrag, to work with NeelKamal, an NGO which newsletter being their latest such initiative!
a student who worked with NGO “EACH deals with plantation. He had unique learning
ONE TEACH ONE” which deals with of how with nominal amount of money, time The basic objective of this newsletter is to
education of underprivileged children, and passion one can bring a change in establish communication channel between
“Working with NGO was a humble environment. SIESCOMS and its various stake holders viz the
experience and it revealed to me other part corporate world, alumni, internal & external
of India which I was not acquainted with. The The NGO program which has been running faculty members, students, parents and the
positive attitude of children even in difficult successfully since the past four years has management. This will also be a very good
conditions impressed me”. Another Student helped in a big way in grooming modern platform for our students and alumni to share their
Vikram Shah, who worked with PAWS (Plant managers not only in terms of being more views, ideas and achievements on a regular basis
and Animal Welfare Society) voices “ It was socially sensitive and responsible citizens but apart from giving updates on happenings at the
an exciting time for me as each day brought also in their professional and personal institute.
a new challenge: One day I was rescuing journey.
injured dogs and rushing it to hospital and I extend my best wishes to this initiative.
the next day I was rescuing a cobra.’’ on a
-Dr. S.N.V. Sivakumar
parting note he says it was an experience

2. The Voice of SIESCOMS January 2012
Felicitating our
torchbearers
By The Editorial Team
CONVOCATION CEREMONY
Venue: SIES College of Management Studies
Date: 26th November 2011
Convocation ceremony for the PGDM batch
th
2009-2011 of SIESCOMS was held on 26
November 2011. Chief Guest for the event
was Mr. Subir Gokarn, Deputy Governor of
RBI. Mr. Gokarn spoke on Leadership during sense of purpose, which may not necessarily being “Relationships”, in which he stressed
which he discussed 7 attributes needed for be paychecks but a deeper on the importance of trust and respect.
good leadership. The first attribute being sense of doing something Students were He further concluded by emphasizing on
“Collective” where he mentioned that good in a larger sense for the felicitated by Dy. the fact that it is important for a leader to
leadership as a process involves everybody society. Governor of RBI continuously translate his abstract visions
who is leading and who is being lead. The Mr. Subir Gokarn into something more concrete and
second attribute being “Alignment” where The 5th input being understandable for the team members.
he mentioned it was important for “Knowledge”, it is important
individuals, teams and organization to be for a leader to harness the knowledge of He congratulated all the graduating students
th
aligned with each other and to the common individuals for growth of a team. The 6 and also wished them great success in their
goal. The third attribute he pointed to was “Being Value Driven”, it is important for careers.
“Upliftment”. He said that it is an important individuals to decide their values, and define
aspect of leadership to give its employees a boundary for themselves. The 7th element
Alumni Speak on to ourselves the responsibility of creating “Virtualities”- the Annual Management event
By Sandeep Bhanot a robust brand image of our institute. It was of SIESCOMS- in March 1996 at UTI Institute
and it still is of Capital Markets and
I was a student of the first batch of MMS at quite important Fine Arts Society,
SIESCOMS in the year 1995. I still remember to be part of a Chembur. A Business
the first day when I walked into the class and recognised B- Quiz was held at the
was greeted by a bunch of curious and School. We Fine Arts Society which
enthusiastic faces, all anxious to be part of participated in a was compeered by
the MMS course of the Mumbai University. number of Harish Bhimani. I also
As we headed towards the class, several college events had the golden
questions like “How will the course turn out and organized an opportunity to be the
to be?”, “Will we have good professors?”, array of guest Class Representative
“Will the placements be good enough?” lectures. Two of of the Finance class
rattled our minds. our batch mates in the second year.
were awarded the
But it was SIES, and we trusted it. best ‘Summer SIESCOMS campus at Nerul was formally
Somewhere deep inside, we knew all would Project’ award. inaugurated in May-June 1996. I am indeed
be fine. proud to state that we were the first
Our first Principal, (Late.) C. Gopi, was a true inhabitants of this wonderful campus.
Our first semester was held at Sion’s SIES leader and a visionary. His teachings are
College of Arts, Science and Commerce, embedded deep into our souls. Prof. Mr.Sandeep Bhanot is an alumni, Senior
popularly known today as “Old SIES”. Later Neelkanthan took over in February 1996 as Faculty and ex-chairperson (MMS) at
that year we shifted to SIESCOMS Nerul. the Director. We had our first ever SIESCOMS.
Since ours was the first batch, we had taken

3. The Voice of SIESCOMS January 2012
SIES NEWS
Winners of Ad-Mad, New Product
Club Activities Development and Best College
This month witnessed Corporate Interaction Sessions Awards at Bedekar Institute of
amongst various student clubs formed at SIESCOMS. The Management Studies
guest for our Finance Club meet held on 28th January was
Mr. Pranay Mota from SBI DFHI. He gave the students a
deep insight on Debt Markets.
The Marketing Club witnessed an interesting session
conducted by our very own esteemed professors: Parag
Amin, Suniel Deshpande, Vikram Parekh and Rajesh Nair.
They enlightened the students by sharing their experiences
of their work life in Sales & Marketing.
These sessions aim to help our students grow much
beyond the four walls of our classrooms and bridge the gap
between corporate and academics. Wall of Honor Corporate
Our brand new 3rd Floor By The Editorial Team
Connect
SIESCOMS encourages its students to take Partial list of companies who visited
active part in inter-college events and as always, our campus in December/January:
students from MMS, PGDM and Biotech bagged
prizes in events conducted by some of the  Allied Digital
leading institutes. The winning streak started in
 Big Tree Entertainment
the month of September 2011 with Chakrvayuh
2011, Exporia 2011, Nirmiti 2011 and many  Business Standard
This month also marks the completion of 3rd floor in the
main building at our campus.
others.  Delloite
Prizes were won in Debates, HR events and Quiz  Dupen Pharma
FAST FACTS competitions. Marketing students won accolades
 Hexaware
from the audience and the judging panel for their
unique performance in the Ad Mad event at Lala  Larsen & Toubro
1996
Lajpatrai Institute of Managements -  Lodha Group
Chakravayuh 2011. The students were asked to
create a commercial in the form of a skit and a  Pharmarc
Year of inauguration of the SIESCOMS Campus
print ad within a time limit of 15 minutes for a  Ranbaxy
very odd combination of products viz. Pillow
with Alarm. SIESCOMS bagged the second  Somatico Microlabs
position out of 45 participating colleges.  State Bank of Hyderabad
57 Students of SIESCOMS bagged first positions for
Ad-Mad, New Product Launch and Skill-o-
Prastuti at Bedekar Institute of Management


State Bank of India
Sun Jewels
Number of NGOs SIESCOMSites participated in
Studies. The jewel in the crown was that  Sun Pharma
THE EDITORIAL TEAM
SIESCOMS was adjudged as the Best College in  Tata Motors
the Competition.
 Torrent
31 prizes in all! Hearty congratulations to our
Chief Editors: winners!
Parag Amin , Sharmila Mohapatra &
Susen Varghese
UPCOMING EVENTS
Newsletter Committee:
Ajit Joy, Ashwin Varma, Mayank Mehta &
Nikhil Anand
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