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The third batch of IIMV received stupendous industry support with all 61 participating students
receiving paid internships. One student opted for a research internship.
Summer placements for IIMV was a rolling process held on campus and it culminated in internship
offers for 49 students. The students also visited IIM Bangalore to participate in summer placement
process during the rst week of November 2017 resulting in 12 students securing internship
offers.
Marketing (39%), Strategy (20%), Finance (13%), and Operations (18%) were the dominant roles
offered to the students. Other roles included General Management (7%), and Product Manage-
ment (3%). Reputed companies from the BFSI sector such as Yes Bank, ICICI Lombard, HDFC
Bank, IDFC Bank offered roles across Customer Relationship Management, Sales, Underwriting
and Business Development. Engineering and Electronics multinational, Bosch, IT/ITES companies
like Intuit India & Sutherland Global Services offered roles in General Management, Sales, Market-
ing, and Product Management.
FMCG giants like Amul, Berger Paints, and Neway Paints extended offers in Business Development
and Operations. Leading healthcare service provider Rainbow Hospitals recruited students for
Operations & Strategy role. Under the educational sector, rms like T.I.M.E and Next Education
recruited students for Digital Marketing and Product Management roles.
As in the past the Institute attracted many Government sector organisations. The Government of
Andhra Pradesh recruited interns for their prestigious summer fellowship program for the Commis-
sionerate of Collegiate Education. NISG, incorporated by the Government of India and NASSCOM,
recruited students for their e-governance initiative. Public sector undertaking HPCL recruited for
their operations domain.This season also witnessed interest from other sectors like manufacturing,
logistics, social, development, travel & hospitality and e-commerce. Few start-ups also recruited
students for key internship roles in their organizations.
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Yoga Day IIMV welcomed students of 1 batch of PhD
program & 5 batch of PGP in Management
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Prof. Amit Baran Chakrabarti, Chairperson (Admissions), in his welcome address, provided insights on
Students and staff of IIMV celebrated the diversity of the incoming batch of PGP.
International Yoga Day with gusto and
enthusiasm. On the occasion, students unveiled
their creativity by designing posters, showing Prof. Rejie George Pallathitta, Chairperson (PhD Programme) described the doctoral programme as an
essential part of the research ecosystem and termed it as a course where seeds associated with the
what yoga means to them. Later Yoga asanas
were practiced under the guidance and future faculty of the country are nurtured.
supervision of the Yoga expert Mr.
Mohammad Saleem. Prof. M Chandrasekhar, Director, described the Institute as the best in terms of 4 I's –Intellectual
Resources, Infrastructural resources, Institutional processes & Investment (in students and faculty). He
described how the faculty with impressive credentials, who are from among the best pool of Institutes
across the world and the officers of the administration, working with clinical precision and design-
thinking make the learning from PGP and PhD programs wholesome and well-rounded. Citing
Visakhapatnam as a microcosm of India, he advised students to be responsible citizens along with
being professionally competent.
The chief guest Ms. Malavika R. Harita, Member, Board of Governors, in her address, mentioned
Gandhi as a role model for being a good human being and a master strategist who had an unwavering
vision of free India. She advised students to perform a SWOT analysis on themselves. Terming the
brain as the supercomputer, she cautioned them not to develop a victim complex. Citing Peter
Drucker, the father of Modern Management, she termed planning, prioritizing and taking
accountability are most important for a career in management and students must prepare themselves
accordingly.

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