Dinner With Director !

Ten new students joined the XIMB family for the term starting on the 20th of september. It was a moment of great joy for all of us. The new students are from three different prestigious colleges, Euromed, REIMS & IESEG.They will be completing a trimester here as a part of the foreign exchange program between their colleges & XIMB . Within two years of its formation, International Relations Committee of XIMB has signed MOU's with twelve international universities for undertaking international exchange programs. As per the tradition, to mark the occasion a dinner was organized for the new as well as the outgoing students on the 17th of September which was attended by director Fr. P.T Joseph, dean administration Fr. Tony , Dean academics Dr. Subhajyoti ray and the members of the IRC student committee. During the dinner the new students were briefed about the life that they could expect to have at the campus. The new students told that they made the decision of joining XIMB because they had heard a lot about the quality education provided at this institute from the previous exchange program students. They also said how excited they were to be in India the land of diversity. The out going students reinforced their belief by sharing their experiences at this esteemed institute. As a whole it was a remarkable evening and ended with hope in the eyes of the new comers and nostalgia was the feeling which could be seen in the eyes of those who were going back .

CONSTRAT Launch at XIMB

XIMB formally launched its Consulting & Strategy club, CONSTRAT on 25th September 2010. The new club seeks to set a new benchmark in terms of the perception of Consulting across Indian B-Schools. The inauguration of the club began, as is tradition, with a flash. The presentation explained the relevance of CONSTRAT and the initiatives planned to ensure its success. The presentation was followed by a speech by Prof. D. V. Ramana who advised the students to keep their focus on gaining knowledge and not to measure the success of CONSTRAT by its impact on placements, as it will then fail to serve the inherent purpose of the club. Prof. Amar Nayak also addressed the gathering and talked about the emerging trends in the consulting industry and the need to re-invent one-self continuously to be better able to advise clients on their increasingly complex and challenging issues. The launch was concluded by the Dean(Academics), Prof. Subhajyoti Ray who wished his best to CONSTRAT.



About CONSTRAT

CONSTRAT or the Consulting & Strategy club of XIMB, is a student association, which seeks to equip the student body with resources to make informed decisions on consulting careers and tools necessary to build successful careers in consulting. The club also aims at inculcating among the student body, a ‘cross-functional’ approach to business problems and develop a strategic mindset in order to come up with feasible solutions. The club anchors these efforts by creating forums for aspirants to learn and imbibe skills and best practices from industry experts and harnessing initiatives that will enable students to assimilate the learning into practical application.
The concept of CONSTRAT has been formulated in order to tap the rapidly changing perception amongst students of XIMB towards 'Consulting' as a domain of interest, a fact being readily proven by:
-Sudden increase in the number of students participating & winning national and international B-School Strategy & Consulting competitions.
-Voluntary use of Consulting frameworks by students in order to solve business cases as a part of the curriculum.
-Induction of 'Consulting specific' courses in the academic curriculum in order to provide students an even better platform to enhance their 'Consulting' skills.
-Close to 26% (31 out of 120) of the batch opting for Consulting profiles during the final recruitment process, Xuberance 2010.
CONSTRAT seeks to achieve its objective through in-house initiatives by the student body of Constrat such as case study discussions and mock quizzes which would be aimed at widening the ‘knowledge base’ of the students. CONSTRAT will also focus on bridging the Industry-Academia divide by conducting workshops by experts from the consulting industry and try to provide students with opportunities to work on live projects.
XIMB is currently in talks with various international B-schools to develop a consortium of B-schools around the world to pursue mutually beneficial activities, including knowledge sharing and networking.
For any questions or collaborations, you can get in touch at : email - constrat@ximb.ac.in