ASB Campuses are always a buzz with activities which are organized by a number of student’s clubs and forums which are managed by the budding managers at different campuses of ASB. All campuses have different subject-wise forums and student-clubs which provide to students a platform to showcase their knowledge and skills. The clubs conduct quizzes, colloquia sessions with subject related experts from industry and academia, and simulation games. A brief sketch of the student driven activities in each campus follows.
| Name | Designation | Topic |
| Gangadhar | Angel Investor | Colloquium – Career Talk |
| Prof. Narayanan | Professor Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, Amritapuri |
Security of Internet of Things-Pitch Fest |
| Prof K. B. Nagaraju | Former COO TVS Logistics |
Performing and Achieving in Organizations: A Holistic Approach |
| Mr. Prasannavadhanan Thami | Former Vice President Oracle Financial Service Software Ltd |
Relationship Management |
| Mr. Lokesh Payik | Director – Engineering Centre and Business Development TT Electronics |
Marketing and Strategies |
| Mr. M. K. Chandrasekhar | Founder and Director eSWAR |
Insights of Marketing |
| Ms. Kavita | Director Corporate Executive Board |
Management Consulting |
| Ms. Kanupriya Sindhu | Director-Product Management Canvera.com |
Digital Markteting: An Overview |
| Mr. Prabhakar V. | Manager-Education, Training & Business Development Bangalore Stock Exchange Ltd |
Stock Markets |
| Mr. Nagesh Karuturi | Co Founder Sher Karuturi Ltd |
Africa as a Low Cost Destination |
| Mr. Kiran Bableshwar | Co Founder & CEO Keyjobskills.com |
Job Preparedness |
| Prof. Jay Mishra | Professor Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham,Amritapuri |
Venture Capitalist |
| Manish Mahendiratta | Marketing Consulting Manager Wipro Technologies |
IT services Marketing Ecosystem |
| Prof. Stanley Nollen | Professor Mc Donough School of Business, George Town University |
Indian Software Industry |
| Mr. Bharath | Manager-Clients and Markets Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu India |
How Consulting Companies Function |
| Prof. Ramaratnam Bishu | Professor University of Nebraska Lincoln |
Business Analytics |
| Mr. Manish Jain | Head of Knowledge Management and Training Copal Amba India |
Opportunities in Capital Markets Outsourcing |
| Mr. Tapan Bhat | Vice President and Business Head Wipro Consultancy Services |
Business opportunities in Services sector |
| Mr. M. K. Chandrsekar | Founder and Director Muspace India Pvt Ltd., |
Careers @ reality.com |
| Mr. Prasannavadanan Thampi | Former Vice President Oracle India Pvt Ltd., |
CRM as a career |
| Dr. Balakrishnan Shankar | Director (MBA & Engineering), Amritapuri Campus Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham |
Quantum Mechanics, Vedanta and Management |
| Mr. Ramamurthy Swaminathan | Managing Director, India Operations Logfire, Bangalore |
Future Supply Chain Management |
| Mr. Sampatkumar B. Aratti | Vice-President & CHRO- for India Operations Lapp India Pvt Limited, Bangalore |
Opportunities ahead- Are we ready to grab them? |
| Mr. Aravind Warrier | Human Resources Lead TIMKEN Industries, Bangalore |
Dealing with Crisis : MBA Graduates Way |
| Dr. Shashi Sivramkrishnan | Professor, Narsee Monjee Institute of Management Studies, Bangalore |
History of the Rupee |
| Mr. Sridhar Rajendran | General Manager – HR & PMO Simbus Technologies, Bangalore |
Next Generation Management |
| Dr. Adam Karg | Lecturer, Sport Management / Brand Facilitator Deakin University, Melbourne, Australia |
Sport Management – The Marketing Involved |
| Mr. Abraham Cherian | Head – Talent, OD & Recruitment TESCO, Bangalore |
Employability factor among MBA Graduates |
| Mr. Shekar Kupperi | Co-founder KnownGrow |
Importance of Financial Strategy in an Organization |
| Jonas Prasanna | HR Manager Philips Ltd., Bangalore |
Leveraging social media for employer branding |
| Mr. Umesh Ramalingachar | Vice President Hike Ezee, Bangalore |
Strategic Partner Alliances and Startup Experience |
| Mr. Sudheep Dharan | Vice President (Marketing & Sales) RazorSight, Washington, D.C. |
What dont you study in MBA? |
| Mr. Bipin Nair | Professor and Dean Amrita School of Biotechnology |
Managing Leadership in Pharma Industry |
| Mr. Sathya Kalyanasundaram | Director – Finance Bally Technologies |
Ethics and Corporate Governance |
| Mr. Kochat Narendran | Director (Operations) DTDC Nikoos, Bangalore |
Operations – Opportunities & Trends |
| Mr. Sandeep Pandit | Senior Analyst GENPACT, Bangalore |
Business Analytics – An Overview |
| Mr. Mohan U. V. | Visiting Professor ISME, CMRIT |
Operations Management and ERP Systems |
| Mr. Sumeet Bahl | Director of E-Commerce Strategy Symantec, USA |
The Digital Marketing Landscape |
| Mr. Lokesh Payik | Technical Assistant to MD Bosch India |
Corporate Strategy Planning |
| Mr. Mrutyunjay M. | Co-Founder – Juxt Consultancy | Scope of Market Research – Choosing a Career |
| Mr. Rajib Saha | Senior Software Engineer Samsung Software India |
Mobile domain and Business |
| Mr. Sam Pitroda | Member National Knowledge Commission |
Entrepreneurship |
| Mr. Vishu Hegde | Consultant & Motivational Speaker | Managing Stress by understanding its nature, the responses of body and mind, impact on overall health. Techniques to De-Stress |
| Mr. Symalendu Potra | Executive at Anand Rathi | Stock Markets |
| Mr. Digambar Deshpande | Chief Operating Officer Tata Metallics |
Importance of Values and Ethics |
| Mr. Suhas Gopinath | Chairman and CEO Globals |
Entrepreneurship |
| Mr. Vinu Nair | Managing Partner Antal International, Chennai |
Alternate Career Paths & Pre Sales |
| Swami Dhyanamrita | Disciple Mata Amritanandamayi Math |
Two day workshop on “Don’t Steal My Chappals |
| Dr. Jay Srinivasan | CEO RedMed (Entrepreneur) |
Know yourself – What do you want to do in Life? |
| Dr. S. Ramanujam | Executive Vice President – Group Taxation UB Group |
Humour in Taxation |
| Dr. T. S. Mohan | Head, Education and Research Infosys Bengaluru |
Cloud Computing |
| Mr. Aditya Singhal | Executive Assistant to the CEO TVS Interconnect Systems |
Financial Management – Concepts and Opportunities Ahead |
| Dr. Chandil Kumar Gunashekara | Chief Operating Officer Narayana Hrudayalaya Diagnostic Services |
Broad and open ended on Healthcare Industry in India |
| Dr. Christian D. Chandramohan | Global Co-ordination & Special Project Management Nokia Siemens Networks |
Corporate Growth |
| Mr. Santhosh Bhargava | Vice President Capgemini Consulting India Pvt Ltd |
IT industry in India – Achievements & Challenges |
| Mr. Shankar Narayanan | Director of Corporate Startegy and Corporate Development Advanced Micro Devices |
A primer on the Stock Market |
| Mr. Gopinathan | President-Applications Mphasis |
Global delivery Applications Services – A primer |
| Brig. Lalit Malhotra | Director MDC Ashok Leyland |
Developing Competetive Edge for Facing Interviews and GDs |
| Dr. Maren Duvendack | Overseas Development Group | Smoke & Mirrors: MicroFinance Impact Evaluations: Thoughts from a study in India |
| Dr. Anandhkumar | Chairman & MD Cellworks Research India Private Ltd |
Trends in India for Gen-X |
| Mr. Ragunath S. Iyer | Management Consultant IBM |
The Changing Realities in the World of Work and Careers |
| Mr. Parthasarathy N. S. | CEO MindTree |
Experience of starting MindTree |
| Mr. Narayanan | Lead, Research Initiatives | Internet Security |
| Mr. K. B. Nagaraj | Ex -COO TVS logistics |
Performing and Achieving in Organizations: A Holistic Approach |
| Mr. Prasannavadhanan Thami | Vice Chairman Oracle Financial Services Software Ltd. |
Relationship Management |
| Mr. M. K. Chandrashekar | Founder and COO Thought Works |
Insights of Marketing |
| Ms. Kavitha | Managing Director Corporate Executive Board |
Management Consultancy |
| Mr. Lokesh Payik | Program Manager Robert Bosch Engineering and Business Solutions |
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| Video Conferences | ||
| Distinguished Professors | Harvard University | Innovation – Essentials |
| Dr. Diana Wais | Ph. D. from SUNY Buffalo MS from Stanford University |
Emotional Intelligence – E.Q. overtakes I.Q. in determining the ideal leader |
| Dr. Karmeshu | Post Doctoral Laurete | Bass model used in Economic decision making |
Marcedos -The Marketing Forum
The forum conducts regular meetings and share insights on various Branding and Marketing strategies.
Events Conducted
Ethos (Operations Club)
The name Ethos means set of ideas and attitudes that is associated with a particular group of people or a particular type of activity. The objective of the operations club is to raise awareness, interest, and knowledge about Operations Management among the students within and beyond the classroom. Ethos was inaugurated by publishing the first issue of the operations newsletter on 26th March, 2010. This issue was published by Mr.Srikanth Vellal Subrahmanya, Associate Director – ADMS, Capgemini Consulting Pvt. Ltd, Bangalore. In future, the club plans to conduct various activities such as Case Competitions, Quizzes, Industrial visits, Guest lectures, Panel discussion and Fun learning through Role plays & model formation. The club also plans to conduct an Operations meet in the near future to foster industry-academia interaction.
Anuva (HR Club)
Aspiring to reach the zenith in Human Resource Management, the Human Resource students of Department of Management Bangalore, decided to a have a Learning Club through which they can put their Innovative Ideas, Share our Knowledge, Leverage Industrial Relationships for our Growth and Prosperity.The club was named as ANUVA, a Russian word which means A New Beginning. The club was aimed at conducting discussions on various business and non-business related Issues, rolling out the series of activities, events, developing competencies of its members, learning team work so as to understand group dynamics and more importantly to build ever lasting relationships with Industry people and academia.
ANUVA was formally inaugurated by Prof. Shekar Babu, Associate Dean, Department of Management, Bangalore and Dr. Vatsal Singh, Chief Mentor & Head of ANUVA Club on 12th April, 2010 during the HR Meet 2010. On the day of inauguration, ANUVA successfully rolled out HR Meet 2010 which included the Panel Discussions and Workshops conducted by Human Resource Veterans from the Industry.
The theme for the HR Meet was decided to be The Changing Business Trends: Implications for Human Resource Development as it was believed that the present business scenario is characterized by a shift from a world of predictable, incremental, and linear change to that of radical and discontinuous change which has global implications. The aim of this meet was to provide a platform for leaders from business and academia to deliberate on latest trends, challenges and best practices in HRD in the emerging knowledge economy.
There were two panels, each consisting of 4 Human Resource Veterans across Industries. The first panel consisted of Mr.Mahalingam (Executive Vice President & CPO, Symphony Services), Ms.Nina Nair (Vice President Human Resource Development, 24/7), Mr. Mohan P Rao (Vice President Human Resource, The Leela) and Mr.Augustine V D (Head Human Resource, Bosch). The panel discussed about the The Emerging New Normal- Implications for Organizations, a term coined by Mckinsey. The panel highlighted the possible dimensions of the new normal as it begins to unfold.
The second panel consisted of Mr.Kalyan K Banerjee (Senior Vice President, Mind Tree), Mr.Krishna Bhagavan (Director Human Resource, Motorola), Mr. Elango R (Chief Human resource officer, MphasiS) and Prof. Ram Ramesh (University at Buffalo, New York). This panel discussed about Attracting, Developing & Engaging the 21st Century Workforce which is a current topic in today’s corporate. The panel focused on the modern method of talent management and also illuminated and illustrated the different paradigms of HR 2.0.1
In the second half of the day, Workshops were organized by the Industrial experts to provide a comprehensive forum on topics that may not be fully explored during the main panel discussion.
Humanity and Peace as the key values of ANUVA and the core principles of our Chancellor AMMA, we recognized the importance to take part in the Social Causes. As a club’s activity, the students of Department of Management visited an Orphanage Anatha Shishu Sevashram, Wilson Gardens, Bangalore and conducted a painting competition for the God’s Children. Through this activity, ANUVA did a Monetary and a Non Monetary Contribution to the Ashram.
Finally, ANUVA assures that it will continue to grow and expand till Thirst for Knowledge and Passion to serve the community exists.
AYKYA – 2013
The splendid evening of 5th December 2012 turned out to be a memorable day in the hearts of every ASBian, as the Bengaluru campus celebrated the kick off ceremony of its First Management Fest AYKYA that was held on February 8th and 9th 2013. The ceremony was a testimony to the potential of the students of management. The ceremony opened with a surprise ‘flash mob’ by the students dancing to the tunes of ‘Jai Ho’ and ‘Kolaveri’; that drew the attention of the campus and the crowd of engineering students present there. The flash mob ended with a physical formation of the AYKYA logo, highlighting the unity and enthusiasm of the students of ASB.
The ceremony commenced with the lighting of the lamp and unveiling of the AYKYA logo by Dhanraj Swamiji along with Dr.Nagaraj, Dean at the School of Engineering in the presence of faculty and students, followed by a small delivery by the dignitaries, who lauded the efforts of the ASB students wishing them success for the future and for the blessings of AMMA. The ceremony proceeded with addressing the theme of AYKYA on ‘urban issues’ and waste management and its relevance to the fest, signifying the spirit of every Amrita student and holding it as a joint effort to support the awareness of the issues by communicating across all campuses. The ceremony ended with a 10 minute clean up of the wastes around the campus as part of the theme, to connect with what it represents to the society.
Overall the evening was a fuse of excitement enthusiasm and hard work that culminated in bringing the best of the management students who toiled through many chaotic obstacles and constraints to ensure the success of the ceremony.