With an objective to provide platform to budding as well as best management brains across the world, the Third PAN IIM World Management Conference began at IIM Indore on Wednesday. The conference is being attended by about 400 delegates.
The formal inaugural of the three-day conference commenced with the lamp lightening ceremony by Professor Rishikesha T Krishnan, Director, IIM Indore, along with all the Directors of various other IIMs present on the occasion.
Professor Krishnan in his welcome address mentioned that in total, the conference had received 481 submissions out of which 176 paper presentations (166 Indian + 10 Foreign) and 38 posters were accepted to be a part of the conference. He also thanked the Ministry of Human Resource and Development for its constant support and encouragement which helped IIM Indore to host the event.
Professor Rajan Varadarajan, Distinguished Professor of Marketing, Regents Professor and Ford Chair in Marketing and E-Commerce Department of Marketing, Mays Business School, Texas A&M University, was the guest for the ceremony, who gave the inaugural address on the topic ‘Innovating for Environmental Sustainability & De-Marketing for Environment Sustainability’.
Professor Varadarajan mentioned in his speech about how the environment is changing with modernization. Discussing about the problems people are facing across the globe related to environmental sustainability he quoted, ‘If you are not thoroughly confused by now, you just don’t understand what the problem is’. Mentioning about carbon emission across various countries, Professor Varadarajan said that India stands at a lower position at per capita carbon emission; however, India and China are the countries which have the most carbon emission if compared on a factor of per GDP, because a large population of these countries depend on coal for electricity.
This was followed by a Q&A session with Professor Varadarajan, wherein various delegates from various parts of the country got a chance to interact with him.