34th SIBM Pune Annual Management Day Celebrations held on 11th March 2012 at Auditorium at the Symbiosis Knowledge Village in Lavale
SIBM Pune celebrated its 34th Annual Day on 11th March 2012 at the Symbiosis Knowledge Village Auditorium from 3:30 pm to 6.00 pm. The chief guest for this function was Mr Pravin Patil, President of Strategic Initiatives of domestic as well as global operations at Hero Cycles. Dr. Vidya Yeravdekar, Principal Director of Symbiosis and Dr. Vivek Sane Director, SIBM, Pune were also present on this occasion.
Dr. Vivek Sane, Director SIBM Pune presented the highlights of SIBM Pune’s annual report. Talking on the occasion he recounted the many achievements of the students including Ms Aparna Sundararaman’s presentation of her paper at Harvard Business School.
This was followed by the presentation of the “Alumnus Achiever for the Year 2011-12” Award to journalist and Asst Editor of WISDEN Mr. Rahul Chandavarkar for his valuable inputs to the Industry and the presentation of the “Distinguished Alumnus for the Year 2011-12” award to Mr Jitender Pathurkar, HR Head at Cummins for his contributions to his Alma Mater. Dr Vidya Yeravdekar also felicitated Mr Mukesh Thopte, employee at the Institute who completed 25 years of worthy service to SIBM-Pune.
Mr.Pravin Patil our Chief Guest for the occasion released the book “Guts and Glory” which has a collection of stories of alumni from SIBM. This was also the occasion for the release of “Samvad” our bi-annual journal which promotes SIBM Pune’s dialog with its alumni, industry and society and is a compilation of articles contributed by SIBM faculty on varied management topics by Dr. Vidya Yeravdekar. The students research journal “Beacon Management Review”, a new initiative by the Research & Scholastic Development Team of SIBM Pune is a student’s research journal with a specific thrust on research. This journal was released by Dr Vivek Sane.