The Year that Was- - And What a Year!
Snapshots of ten memorable events, among many, that kept
the campus in news
Prime Minister visits ISB in December 2006 -
It was the Prime Minister, Dr Manmohan Singh’s first
visit to the ISB campus. His visit coincided with the
School’s ongoing Fifth Anniversary Celebrations.
“This is my first visit to this magnificent campus, and
clearly, such a wonderful effort is due to team work - a
fine example of public private partnership,” said the
Prime Minister.” He also inaugurated the Global
Logistics Summit (GLS), hosted by the Centre for
Global Logistics and Manufacturing Strategies (GLAMS) at
the ISB
The ISB signed a Memorandum of Understanding with
IBM, to develop first-of-its-kind, joint research on
Service Science, Management and Engineering (SSME) in
India. As a part of this collaboration, ISB and IBM
sought to initiate and develop research, produce case
studies to streamline service processes and replicate
them across industries
Uday Kotak joins ISB Executive Board. Uday Kotak,
Executive Vice-Chairman and Managing Director, Kotak
Mahindra Bank Ltd, joined the Executive Board of the
Indian School of Business (ISB). This valuable addition
is indicative of the increasing support and recognition
of the School by leading business leaders and
corporations both in India and abroad
The ISB co-partnered with Indu Projects Ltd, a Hyderabad
based Real Estate Company, to establish a
Research Chair
for Real Estate and Urban Studies. This was the first
Research Chair being established by the ISB. The Chair
functions under the Wadhwani Centre for Entrepreneurship
Development (WCED) at the ISB. This was followed by the
first of its kind Real Estate and Urban Studies panel
discussion, titled ‘Real Estate in India - the Research
Imperative’. A laudable research initiative by the Real
Estate Club and the Wadhwani Centre for Entrepreneurship
Development (WCED) at the ISB
A Panel discussion on world stock exchange was
conducted as part of the Winter Research Conference
2006, organised by the Centre for Analytical Finance (CAF)
at the ISB. The forum saw heads of major Indian stock
exchanges (NSE, NCDEX), Chief Economist of NYSE, and
leading microstructure researchers address the theme of
the discussion - ‘Evolving Nature of World Stock
Exchanges'
ISB Radio’s Beta launch rolled out its first
broadcast. A full fledged student body and SFA (Spouses
& Families Association) managed initiative, the ISB
in-house radio was inaugurated during the Fifth
Anniversary Celebrations and made waves across the
country for its ingenuity in concept and content.
The First International Symposium of Information
Systems was organised by the Centre for IT and the
Networked Economy (CITNE), at the ISB, along with the
Fox School of Business at Temple University,
Philadelphia. The ‘inward looking’ conference,
facilitated discussion and presentation of research
papers on all aspects of Information Systems. The focus
was the role of IT in enhancing global competitiveness
and economic development.
ISB announced the setting up of a Research Chair in
‘Family Business and Wealth Management’. The Chair is
titled the Thomas Schmidheiny Chair of Family Business
and Wealth Management. Thomas Schmidheiny, on behalf of
‘Spectrum Value management’ based in Switzerland, has
committed to fund the Chair on Family Business and
Family Wealth Management at the ISB. The funding will
support the Chair for an initial period of five years.
Dr Y S Rajasekhara Reddy, Chief Minister of Andhra
Pradesh formally inaugurated the TiE – ISB Connect 2006
– India’s largest networking event for entrepreneurs,
investors and business leaders at the ISB campus. For
the first time, such a forum held discussions on
entrepreneurial opportunities in five new industry
tracks - Sports and Fitness, Retail, Media and
Entertainment, Infrastructure and Real Estate,
Semiconductors. Along with these were industry tracks on
Biotech / Pharmaceuticals, Internet Technologies,
Technology, IT Enabled Services.
The Finance Club at the ISB hosted a Capital Markets
Conference. The conference sought to provide an insight
into the dynamics of the Indian Capital market, focusing
on the role of Foreign Institutional Investors and M & A
transactions in the ‘take-off’ phase of the Indian
economy.
