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May 16, 2008 - IIM Lucknow offered the IIM community “Prodigies 2008”, a pan IIM leadership summit at Mumbai. Prodigies 2008 was an excellent opportunity to interact and learn from the leaders of the corporate world and was organized by the industry interaction committee of IIM Lucknow. The main speakers were Dr J J Irani, Ms Naina Lal Kidwai and Dabbawallahs who shared their views on ‘Leadership and the New World Economy'.
The prolific speakers, who are leaders in their respective fields, offered great insights to building the leaders of the future. The keynote speakers at the summit were Dr J J Irani, Director, Tata Sons, Ms Naina Lal Kidwai, CEO, HSBC India, Mr Manish Tripathi, Honorary Director, Dabbawallahs, Mr Raghunath Dondhiba Medge, President, Dabbawallahs. The summit was organized at Mumbai and was very well received by over 100 students and alumni’s of various IIM’s.
On the occasion, Mr. J.J Irani, Director, Tata Sons talked about “India’s journey from the 19th century till today”. He stressed on the fact that India’s share in the world trade in 19th century was 20% which has been drastically reduced to 1.5-2% in the current scenario. The reasons that he stated for such a situation were high import duties levied on the industries and the rise in corruption levels. But now situation seems to be improving with India’s young generation with their management skills making their presence felt on the world globe.
Ms. Naina Lal Kidwai, CEO, HSBC India talked about “Climate Change” and the problem of water scarcity. She also talked about the different initiatives by HSBC which included specific industry workshops, HSBC climate partnership and the global climate programme launched by them in 2007. Talking about the importance of green buildings she said, “Though fixed cost is higher for such buildings but operational cost is much lower. In the long run green buildings are not only environment friendly but also economical.” She concluded her speech by telling the youth that three mantra’s of leadership: “to learn what we do not know is the path to wisdom”, “confidence” and “determination”.
Mr. Manish Tripathi, Honorary Director, Dabbawallahs, centred his speech on “Localisation and Entrepreneurship”. He talked about the importance of taking local culture and values along for expanding business in a new territory and said, “Globalisation cannot be achieved without localisation”. He urged the students to become entrepreneurs. He also stated that Dabbawallahs are Six Sigma because they share the same language, same culture and same values.
The 100 plus IIM students and Alumni gained substantially by this interaction with the industry leaders. After the formal talks, it was on open house where views were shared and analysed. IIM Lucknow’s Industry Interaction committee regularly holds such events for the entire IIM community.
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