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KBS Convocation Ceremony for MMS students (2012-14)The Annual convocation for MMS students was

scheduled on 24th January 2015 at Mumbai University Campus, but the degree certificates of the qualifying candidates were awarded by their respective colleges. Taking note of this, Kohinoor Business School organized a Convocation Ceremony for handing over the degree certificates to the MMS Batch 2012-14 students at the Kohinoor Educational Complex in Kohinoor City.The program began with the lighting of the lamp followed by Saraswativandana. Kohinoor Business School Director General Dr N M Kondap spoke to the students about the difficulties they could face in corporate life and

On 31 January 2015, Kohinoor International Management Institute (KIMI) hosted their

cultural fest ‘Advitya 2015’. The students diligently raised the necessary funds and met budgetary deadlines. Participation came from prominent educational institutes like Sinhagad, Symbiosis, Anjuman-I-Islam, Institute of Hotel Management, Catering Technology and Applied Nutrition (IHMCTAN) Dadar, Rizvi, Atharva, International Institute of Fashion Design, Institute for Technology & Management ITM Khargar, St. Xaviers, Narsee Monjee, R A Podar College, Ruia College, Ruparel, Ferguson, D Y Patil and many others. The event had a footfall of about 200 and almost 110 participants. General Manager of Hilton Shillim Bhagwan Balani and Human Resource Manager Karthik Khanna graced the occasion with their august presence.The fest started with Ganeshvandana and had eight events for participants to prove their skills. ‘Food Fret-Ernity’ was the contest for budding chefs to

ADVITIYA 2015Riding The College Festival Wave

showcase their culinary skills, ‘Potion Pundit’ was for the ones to give a shade, manifestation and tang to the drinks they made.KIMI gave an opportunity to students of fine arts to paint the faces in the competition called ‘In Your Face’. ‘Counter Strike’ presented strategic planners of tomorrow ‘People are Strange’ was the Fashion Show that made the event colourful . ‘Rock Till You Drop’ gave rhythm to the stage in the Dance Competition. The icing on the cake was given by the event ‘Sponged Bob’, Advitya provided a challenging stage to amateur photographers to excel through the event Shutters, Lenses & Pricks.The day’s extravaganza culminated with a bang in the ‘War Of DJs. Kudos to the KIMIites!!!

how they should prepare themselves for it. This was followed by the Convocation Address by Kohinoor Education Trust Governing Board Chairman CA Sunil Karve. In his address, CA Karve emphasized on ethics youngsters need to cultivate and emphasized that ethics is the foundation for further growth. The students were then awarded their degree certificates issued by University of Mumbai.MMS Program Head Dr Bharati Deshpande concluded the program with a Vote of Thanks to all the dignitaries, faculty members and staff members for making the program a success.

Kohinoor Hospital Lights A Monster Cigarette Pyre To Mark World Cancer DayOn the eve of World Cancer Day (Feb 4), Kohinoor Hospital

organized a funeral service of a ‘Monster Cigarette’. Smoking has been the most preventable cause of cancer across the world for many years now. Smoking causes 12 different types of cancer. Kohinoor Hospital took out a funeral procession of a monstrous 10 feet long Cigarette with the objective of creating awareness on the dangers of the ‘Smoking Habit’ and how it causes cancer. The idea behind organizing this service was to promote ‘Stop Smoking Campaign’.Around 200 employees including oncology doctors, hospital staff, Kohinoor Business School and Gandhi Bal Mandir students from Kohinoor City gathered near Diamond Garden, Chembur, for the funeral service. This Cigarette was carried in an open cancer vehicle in a rally that began in the morning from Diamond Garden and went right up to Chembur Gaothan area. Throughout the funeral procession, the entire team was giving out strong ‘Quit Smoking’ messages with banners of ‘Sutta mat mar, Sutteko mar’, ‘Put it out before it puts you out’, ‘One Cigarette takes 11 minutes of your life. The choice is yours. Quit smoking before it is too late.’

Kohinoor Hospital Gifts Tulsi Plant To Celebrate National Girl Child Day National Girl Child Day is celebrated every year

on 24th of January as a national observance day for the girl child. On this occasion, Kohinoor Hospital started a unique initiative. As a gesture of prosperity and good health, the hospital started gifting a Tulsi Plant to maternity inmates delivering a girl child.The Tulsi plant represents a powerful lady, a friend and a physician. Every part of the Tulsi plant emanates a feeling of sanctity and well-being. Seeds, leaves, stem, roots, all have fragrance. It spreads happiness, positive energy and good health. In olden

days, the Tulsi plant occupied a special place in the courtyard and was worshipped by the ladies of the house. A symbol of ideal wifehood and motherhood, the Tulsi plant is often kept in homes and regarded as a sacred plant even today.To mark the beginning of this new initiative, Kohinoor Hospital gifted its first Tulsi plant on National Girl Child Day this year to its maternity ward inmate Annu Gupta, the proud mother of a baby girl. Kohinoor Hospital will now continue this as a regular practice to honour mothers who deliver baby girls in the hospital and welcome the girl child.Kohinoor Hospital’s unique gesture has been widely appreciated by patients and their relatives.

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Launch of Cardiac Support Group ProgramIn the month of February 2015, Kohinoor

Hospital launched a Cardiac Support Group Program for cardiac patients. This program will be held on a regular basis.The main objective of the support program is to educate patients and their relatives on how to handle post-surgery care. The program involves interactive sessions with the cardiologist, physician, nutritionist, physiotherapist and counsellors, along with cardiac health check-ups for patients to avoid complications after surgery. Kohinoor Hospital Vice President Dr Rajeev Boudhankar, Interventional Cardiologist Dr Deepak Shinde and Dr Abhishek Wadkar presided over the launch.

CIA’s International Tour to ICC Academy, Dubai

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Cricket India Academy (CIA) was invited by the International Cricket Council (ICC) to play series of matches with their academy in Dubai. A team of 15

students visited the ICC Academy. After successful tours to England and Sri Lanka in the past, the CIA team had fruitful session at ICC, Dubai. ICC is body which governs cricket the world over. Their acadamy in Dubai is part of their effort to develop cricket at the grassroot level.

Kohinoor Business School Professor Dr Attarwala Bags Prestigious BMA AwardKohinoor Business School’s (KBS) faculty member Dr A A Attarwala received the prestigious Best Management Faculty Award 2015 from industry doyen Ratan Tata, an Indian Businessman and Chairman Emeritus of Tata Sons and the former Chairman of Tata Group, at the 36th Bombay Management Association (BMA) Award Ceremony held at Y B Chavan Centre, Mumbai, on 16th February, 2015.Dr Attarwala has more than 36 years of Teaching and Research experience and is a recognized Ph D guide for management students. He is a Certified Management Accountant (Australia). His stellar qualifications include M Sc from IIT Mumbai and Ph D in Financial Management. Before joining Kohinoor Business School, he has been associated with several well-known business schools in Mumbai.Dr Attarwala has won eight prestigious awards so far including Vidya Ratan Award 2012 and Best Citizen of India Award 2013.

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KTI Premier League Cricket Tournament Was held On Sunday 8th February, 2015 at KBS, Kurla.Virar Warriors emerged as the Winners, Boisar Blasters were the Runners-Up

Fun@Kohinoor on January 31st Jan 14!!!January is a month of patriotism... The proud feeling of Republic Day is celebrated throughout the month; so, like every time, this month as well, employees celebrated Fun@Kohinoor in true patriotic spirit.An online Quiz competition to evaluate ‘How well you know your country’ was held. Winners of the Quiz Competition were Swapna Soparkar- Corporate Office, Alpesh Mohite - Kohinoor City and Sunil Mali - Kohinoor Square The dress code for the day was colours of the Indian Flag. Winners for the Best Dress Competition were Sugandha Bagi - Corporate Office; Monica Fernandes - Kohinoor City; Sushma Gad - Kohinoor Square.The Republic Day atmosphere was created by patriotic songs sung by some of the employees.

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Collaborative approach and clear open communication is the key to success. This is what KTI’s new CEO and Director Sameer Joshi seemed to be practising when he gathered Branch Managers from a few branches and the KTI-HO functional and business leadership team together with select senior management members of Kohinoor Corporate Office - HR & Admin VP Maj General (Retd) Yash Sharma, Finance SVP Ashish Kanitkar, and Business Assurance VP Sumangali Shah, to have an ‘Out-of-the-Box Thinking’ approach. This was a unique and first-of-its-kind brainstorming session held on 16th February at KTI Head Quarters.After sharing the KTI Vision of ‘500 Crores by 2020’,

KTI’s Brainstorming Session ‘How do we double our growth in 2015-16?’

Training Program On Management Skills: Managerial Competencies“Good management is the art of making problems so interesting and their solutions so constructive that everyone wants to get to work and deal with them.” – Paul HawkensA two-day training program for Kohinoor Group employees on ‘Management Skills: Managerial Competencies’ was conducted by Kohinoor Business School (KBS) Director General Dr N M Kondap and PGDM Program Head Prof Sandeep Sawant at KBS. In today’s global economy, a company’s long term success is determined by the ability of its senior management to lead effectively through periods of economic uncertainty. Today, the senior management has to deal with not only external factors but also with internal issues and challenges. They have to constantly find ways to help the organization evolve and rise above the rest.To cultivate the required management skills, a training program was organized to develop Managerial Competencies. The session covered an understanding of self and team, how to leverage leadership style by tweaking as necessary, developing network, developing strategic framework, a practice session using SWOT analysis, and finally, concluded with ‘P’ Principles, that is, Planning, Prioritizing, Preparing, Preventing, Pursuing and Personal Initiatives.The program was interactive, egging the trainees to participate actively in the practical sessions and actually put into practice the skills taught to them during the session. After this, they presented their work which was assessed and evaluated to give them an idea of where they stand at present and further decide how they could implement the principles taught to better themselves.

CEO Sameer Joshi quickly ventured into a globally recognized management concept of problem solving, called the Fish-Bone Approach. Often referred to as Cause and Effect Diagram, the Fish-Bone is a simple tool that quickly gathers ideas through brainstorming, that is, ‘causes’ for the desired effect, which was ‘How to double the business in 2015.’ With over 25 participating members actively contributing in the session, a total of 80 creative business ideas were generated in a two-hour long session. The ideas were broadly classified under heads like Product, Process, People, Technology, Extrinsic and Others in line with the CEO’s ‘Five-Point Business Strategy.’

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Innovative And Emerging Technology Tools And Techniques For Effective Librarianship At KBS

The Library of Kohinoor Business School organized a one-day hands-on training workshop on ‘Innovative and Emerging Technology Tools and

Techniques for Effective Librarianship’ on 24th Jan 2015 at Kohinoor Business School (KBS), Kohinoor City.Playing hosts, KBS provided the necessary equipment and human resource support for the training. The workshop was attended by nearly 42 delegates from Mumbai, Pune, Nashik and Raigad.The highlight of the discussion was - Information outburst and the popularity of the internet; faced with new challenges, libraries have to look for new ways

Connecting with alumni has always been a

meaningful pursuit for any academic institution. Being no exception to this rule, Kohinoor Business School (KBS) organized a Grand Alumni Meet 2015 at its campus on 24th January. This provided ex-students with a purposeful

platform to share their experiences with existing students, and also to recount good old nostalgic memories of their KBS campus days. Inaugurating the event, Kohinoor Education Trust Governing Board Chairman CA Sunil Karve highlighted the significance of having a dynamic and passionate pool of alumni, which in turn gives the institution its much needed anchorage. He encouraged the ex-students who came all the way from Hyderabad, Nagpur, Pune and Delhi to participate in the event to get the maximum from this annual meet. About 200 students of PGDM & MMS/MBA from Mumbai and Khandala campus came together. Most of them are holding key positions in the corporate sector or are engaged in entrepreneurial ventures. The meet started with some fun-filled activities arranged by existing junior students and reached its crescendo with breath taking music orchestrated by DJs followed by alumni showcasing their dancing skills. Soulful recollection of cherished moments of their student days combined with subtle yet firm

projections about their future were largely the theme of deliberations among the ex-students which sometimes culminated in animated discussions. The alumni said they were delighted to be a part of Kohinoor and gratefully acknowledged that they owe their success to KBS.

KBS ALUMNI MEET 2015 Kohinoor Business School Hosts CEO Breakfast and Conceptual Forum Meet

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Bombay Management Association (BMA) hosted the ‘CEO Breakfast and Conceptual Forum Meet’ at KBS Campus on 18th February 2015. The event started with a CEO breakfast followed by a panel discussion on ‘Make in India: Time for Action?’ The welcome address was given by Kohinoor Business School Director General Dr N M Kondap. The Keynote speaker and moderator for the panel discussion was Polycab Wires Pvt Ltd Vice Chairman, Joint MD and Group CEO Ramakrishnan Ramamurthi. The eminent panelists for the discussion were Asterii Analytics ED & CEO Niteen Bhagwat, also President of BMA, and Korn Ferry Leadership and Talent Consulting Managing Director Raj Bowen.The forum was well attended by some of the very senior members of BMA and senior managers from the industry which included Provogue Founder and Managing Director Nikhil Chaturvedi, Trainers Forum Founder and CEO Arun Vishwanath, BMA Director Mayuri Mistry, KTI CEO Sameer Joshi, Kou-Chan Director N S Bilgi, Kajay Remedies Ltd Managing Director Ajay Sahoo and Diva Envitec Managing Director Lalit Vashishta. CEO Breakfast and Conceptual Forum Meet was a memorable event, which gave students of KBS an opportunity to to interact with CEOs and top management from the industry and consulting fraternity.

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to meet the user’s new demands and expectations. Internet is one of the greatest technologies of this millennium; it revolves around advancements in Information Communication Technology (ICT) applications in all the areas of our library routine work. Libraries have started experimenting with ways in which it can satisfy the user’s needs effectively. We all chant the mantra of ‘lifelong learning’. In the 21st century, librarians must know about Blogs, Wikipedia, Websites, Google Apps, Twitter, other social networking and Web 2.0 technology to operate a library for Gen Y.The event was inaugurated with the traditional lighting of the lamp by KBS Director General Dr N M Kondap, Tata Memorial Hospital Department of Library Sciences Head Dr Medha Joshi and KBS Librarian Jayashri Mawale.The significant aspect of the workshop was the hands-on session which covered - search information using effective Google tools, create Google alerts, webpage creation using Google site. It also covered, how to use RSS (Rich Site Summary) feeds, use of SDI (Selective Dissemination of Information) service etc.

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Kohinoor Technical Institute Launches State’s First-of-its-kind Skill Development Scheme: Ties up with Industry and Social Foundation to help underprivileged youthsKohinoor Technical Institute (KTI) launched a unique

first-of-its-kind Skill Development Scheme in Maharashtra for underprivileged youths.The Deccan Pune branch of KTI took the initiative for this Skill Development Scheme last month. The institute tied up with Sahyadri Industries and Sakal Social Foundation to fructify the scheme. KTI took the responsibility of resource procurement and skill development, arranging for the training centre, faculty, practical material and assessment for training of the students. Vocational and Entrepreneurship Training Expert Ramesh Bendre was roped in as the Consultant and Guidance Expert for the program. The streams offered under this scheme are Electrical Wireman and Motor Winding, Computer Hardware, Turner and Fitter. The scheme is a short duration course of three months where students are given training for four hours everyday to hone their technical and vocational skills. Media partner Sakal Social Foundation (Pune) sourced Sahyadri Industries to sponsor the scheme and absorb the KTI trained students as part of its CSR activity.

Leadership Skill DevelopmentA Leadership Skill Development Training was organized for Kohinoor employees in the month of February. The two days’ training was conducted by trainer Kavitha Alwa. Personality development, successful negotiations and problem solving were the main topics for the training.

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The Kohinoor Times team thanks all those who have contributed for this issue, Sachin Mistry from KBS, Sadhana Patne from Kohinoor Hospital, Abhishek Shekhawat from CIA, Milind Pawar from KIMI and Swapnali Nagvekar from KTI who have proactively sent in their inputs very promptly from time to time. Please keep mailing your inputs to kohinoortimes@kohinoorgroup.co.in

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With the objective of showcasing the designs and creation of 70 women students who are

studying Fashion Design and Beautification at Panvel branch of KTI, a high powered fashion show ‘Being Feminine’ was organized in Feb, 2015 To organize this event Panvel branch Regional Manager Vivek Chandane collaborated with Nerul and Chiplun branch under the leadership of Vijay Gupte (AGM for Maharashtra). Total 42 women students participated in this gala event. The fashion show was inaugurated by jury member Pooja Poddar, who works as a model well known for advertisements for leading brands like Levis and Titan. More than 100 students from nearby colleges attended the program. A special dance and beauty performance was organized by Nerul branch along with a few contestants from extremely humble background

‘Being Feminine’ Fashion Show At KTI