The students of Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta, (IIMC), would like its alumni to fund small infrastructure within the campus. | |
| Innovative ideas, like introducing course web and online library through the IIMC website, were presented by the students to the alumni who attended the IIMC reunion last week. |
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| Increasing the frequency of alumni newsletters, better co-ordination of alumni parties and release of more advertisements to make the alumni aware of the facilities available on the IIMC network, besides a paper presentation programme by the faculty specially for alumni and corporates, were among the other measures suggested by the students. |
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| The director of IIMC, S Chowdhury, asked former students of IIMC to act as brand ambassadors and use their contacts and expertise to enhance the institute's brand name. |
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| It would be beneficial if the expertise of the alumni could be tapped through a professional system to develop new cases, he added. |
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| He also urged the alumni's involvement in upgrading the syllabus and making it more meaningful.Important alumni of the fourteenth batch who attended the reunion includes Sangeeta Talwar, vice-president, human resource and development at Nestle India, Rahul Kansal, executive director of Mudra, Navneet Bali - finance director of the Taj chain and KB S Anand of Asian Paints. |
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| "The new trends in management education will be that of experiential learning and learning by challenges . Negotiating skills will become crucial for success in the field of business", said A Kakkar, chief executive officer of Thomas Cook. |
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| S Malhotra, director of Cyber Media, said the diverse range functions, dealing with stress and high workload, made the IIMC course on of the best. |
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