An HR Round Table on “Role of HR in Organizational Transformation” was organized by Amrita School of Business (ASB), Coimbatore at Sri Krishna Hall in the campus on 10th October 2015. The session was conducted in association with the launch of new HR Club in the campus.
In the first colloquium of this trimester, Dr. Martin D. Schoenhals, a cultural anthropology Professor at Columbia University, guided ASB Coimbatore students on approaching Live-in-Labs (LILA), the flagship theory-into-practice program of the college.
MBA students of Amrita School of Business (ASB), Coimbatore interacted with Prof. V. G. Narayanan, Harvard Business School, in a session held at Sri Krishna Hall in the campus on 6th October 2015. Prof. Narayanan addressed the students through online video conference.
In the International KAKENHI Workshop on Long-term Growth of Firms and Corporate Governance, organized by Chuo Univerisity and Musashi University in collaboration with Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research (IGIDR)- Mumbai from September 2-3, 2015, Dr. Sangeetha Gunasekar, Assistant Professor, Amrita School of Business, Coimbatore along with Ms. K. G. Sofi Dinesh, Faculty Associate, Amrita School of Business, Amritapuri presented a paper titled ‘Impact of board independence on the performance of listed Public Sector Undertakings (PSUs) in India’.
Dr. P. Balasubramanian, Associate Professor, Amrita School of Business (ASB), Coimbatore presented a paper on ‘Sunk Cost Fallacy– Effect of Situational Knowledge on Irrational Choices’ at Singapore Economic Review conference (SERC) 2015 from August 5th-7th.
An Amrita research paper titled, Recommending Customizable Products: A Multiple Choice Knapsack Solution, was presented at the 5th International Conference on Web Intelligence, Mining & Semantics (WIMS ’15), Limassol, Cyprus from July 13-14, 2015.
The 12th Convocation of Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham was held at Coimbatore campus on September 7, 2015. Dr. Harsh Vardhan, Honourable Union Minister, Ministry of Science and Technology and Earth Sciences, Government of India and Shri. N. Chandrasekaran, CEO, TCS, were the Guests of Honour at the convocation ceremony.
Amrita School of Business, Coimbatore celebrated UTSAV 2015- the three-day annual sports and cultural extravaganza. The program saw an enthusiastic participation of students in a variety of competitions, ranging from badminton to throw ball in sports, and face painting to street plays in cultural games.
The second year MSW students of the department of Social Work, Coimbatore campus along with Ryerson University students from Canada stayed at the tribal settlement of Komalikudi in Idukki District of Kerala from 6th to 13th August 2015 as part of the Live-in-LabsTM program.
Amrita Alumnus MN Harendhira Prasad has cracked the Civil Services Examination securing 93rd rank and bagged 7th rank in Tamil Nadu State level 2014 Examination.
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