Holds Indore Marathon on theme of ‘Run for the Homeless’
After the successful completion of Indore Marathon-2014 on the theme of ‘Run for the Homeless’ on the eve of the Foundation Day, IIM Indore celebrated its 18th Foundation Day on Friday. The entire IIM Indore community, and a few alumni of PGP Batch 2012-14 attended the celebration.
The Foundation Day programme began with the welcome address delivered by Professor Rishikesha T Krishnan, Director, IIM Indore. He observed that it is proud moment for all the stakeholders of IIM Indore as the Institute has achieved remarkable heights in terms of student population, academics & courses offerings, locations and infrastructure. He also urged the IIM-I community members to move forward with the intention of strengthening our ability to impact management practices and thought leadership.
The Foundation Day lecture was delivered by Kiran Karnik, former president, NASSCOM. His insightful lecture on Faster Horses to Cars: Thinking Differently covered several examples of how clever innovations multiply products and their uses. He insisted on the concept that innovation does not necessarily mean invention and even changed application of existing ideas can deliver path-breaking products. He explained innovation as a person’s ability to not only answer the questions, but also, question the answers.
This was followed by an award presentation ceremony to felicitate the eight staff members of IIM Indore who performed exceptionally well in the year 2013-14. They included- Alpesh Bhunjiya, Amit Prakash Sharma, Arunendra Vishwakarma, KP Radhakrishnan, Md M Shaikh Chopdar, Pradeep Sharma, Satendra Singh Rawat and Shreeman Ghosh.
On the occasion, IIM Indore’s Best Teacher Award 2014 was also declared. The award recipients were Prof Bhavin Shah (Operations Management and Quantitative Techniques Area), Prof Prashant Salwan (Strategic Management Area), Prof Sabita Mahapatra (Marketing Area) and Prof Siddhartha Rastogi (Economics).