CONVOCATION

FORE School of Management organized its twentieth annual convocation on May 10, 2013, where 171 students of the PGDM (FMG - 20th Batch), 59 students of the PGDM (IMG – 5th Batch) and 28 students of the PGDM (WMG-19th Batch) were honoured with their diplomas. The ceremony was graced by Mr. R.C. Sharma, President, and FORE School of Management, Dr. B.B.L. Madhukar, Vice President and treasurer, FORE School of Management along with Dr. J.K. Das, Director, and FORE School of Management. Mr. D. Shivakumar, President AIMA and Senior Vice President India, Middle East and Africa for Nokia, was the Chief Guest for the ceremony.

                              Dr. Madhukar, Mr. R.C. Sharma, with Mr. D. Shivakumar lighting the ceremonial lamp                   

The ceremony started with a welcome note by Dr. J.K. Das, Director, FORE School of Management. After the ceremonial lamp had been lit, Dr. J. K. Das, Director, FORE School of Management presented the activity report for the year 2012-2013. The major highlights of the report was that FORE School had received the ASSOCHAM’s “Best B School - North” award from the Hon’ble Union Minister for HRD, Dr. M. M. Pallam Raju, under the aegis of the “ASSOCHAM NATIONAL EDUCATION EXCELLENCE AWARDS 2013”, on April 9th, 2013. In addition to this the placement report for the year was also released. Herein, the highest international placement this year has been at Rs. 32 Lac p.a. and the highest domestic CTC for the batch is at Rs. 15 Lac p.a. The major recruiters for the past year have been from the IT Sector, followed by the Banking & Financial Services Industry, Consumer Durables, Market Research & Consulting, Financial Services, Automobiles, etc.

Mr. R.C. Sharma, President, FORE School of Management declared the convocation open. In his enigmatic style he showered his blessings on the students, and advised them that as an individual every student had to “upgrade themselves time and again”. Thereafter he conferred diplomas to the outgoing students. The scholastic medals were awarded to the toppers of the batches, namely Sonakshi Goyal, Harleen Kaur, and Megha Agarwal from FMG and Swati Jain, Sukriti Babbar and Mannu Khanna from PGDM-IB.

Lastly following the convocation oath by the director, Mr. Shivakumar, an alumnus of IIM Calcutta inspired the students with a motivating speech where he urged the students to represent themselves as leaders of tomorrow, especially in times when India is all set to become a global giant. One of the most important messages that he imparted to the students was that, “Success and failure will cross your path in equal measure. Success doesn’t last forever and failure is not fatal. Have the humility to deal with both success and failure in the same way”. 

Students at the end of the Convocation Ceremony

At the end of the ceremony, the students left, inspired to set a mark in the world, with degrees in hand, ambitions in heart and ideas bouncing off the walls of their mind.

FAREWELL 2013

The world is round and the place which may seem like the end may also be the beginning.
                                                                                                                   - Ivy Baker Priest

It was on March 7, 2013 that FORE School of Management bid adieu to batches of FMG 20 and IMG 5 through a memorable and immensely entertaining farewell night. The evening that was graced by students and teachers alike was a conflux of trips down memory lanes, beautiful performances by the students, and smiles all around.

FMG 20 and IMG 6 on Farewell Night

The evening kicked off with a beautiful band performance by the junior batch followed by an amazing salsa performance. Slowly the senior students were called aboard for various fun-filled activities that the NEXUS team had in store. Amidst the various activities that involved role plays, and crazy dances, many awards were given out such as the conventional Mr. and Ms Popular ( Paras Dhawan, and Divya Bhadouria) , and of course Mr. and Ms  FORE (Abhishek Singh and Saumys Shrivastav). However there were also a few out of the box awards such as the “techno freak” award for the technology whizzkid awarded to Mr. Vitul, and “ Khiladi No. 1” awarded to the best sportsman of the college, Mr. Nitin Gandhi and many other.

Performance by outgoing batch

However the highlight of the night was a surprise, nevertheless sensational performance by the seniors themselves on a medley of songs. The utter happiness and the inherent confidence with which the seniors bowled the audience over was just a testament to the kind of expertise, hard work and style that everyone at college looked up to this batch for. At the end of the evening the floor was open to all and as the students of the outgoing and current batch mingled together it was with a heavy heart that yet another batch was bid farewell with best wishes for their journeys to come and the thought that though the song may have ended, but the melody lingers on.

DREAM MERCHANTS

“You Have To Dream Before Your Dreams Can Come True.”

_ APJ Abdul Kalam

The students at FORE School of Management had a unique chance to gain knowledgeable insights through the “Opportunity Evaluation & How to write a B-Plan Workshop” conducted by Centre Fore Entrepreneurship and then the gauntlet was thrown down before them. The challenge was: coming up with a Business plan. CED’s event Dream Merchant was all about it. The headline said: “It's time now to scratch your mind, enlighten the visionary path and come up with an extraordinary Business Plan.” And everyone made sure that the opportunity should be tapped. After evaluating the executive summaries of various business plans submitted by the batch, CED shortlisted 5 teams for the final round held on 6^th march’13 in Virajam Auditorium, namely Storm Troopers, Small Wonders, Dreamers, Avensis and Avengers.

Each team had an idea to change the world, each member had a vision. But there could only be one winner and to judge that, CED called upon some illustrious minds from the corporate world viz. Mr. Ajay Tandon (Director, Citi Ventures), Mr. Tarun Bhalla (Founder, Building Blocks) and Mr. Abhishek Gupta (Founder, HR Synergy). The idea was that they would be able to better judge the feasibility of a plan by putting it in the real and practical context.

Dream Merchants event turned into a dynamic field where ideas were generated bandied around, discussed, discarded and sometimes, with much apprehension accepted, because apprehension is the key to precaution. Judges were very keen to explore the ideas thoroughly. Teams made presentation and every presentation was followed by an interactive Q&A sessions where students and judges posed questions and challenged the answers. The ideas presented by the teams were varied ranging from emergency medical services to home crèches; from customized smartphones to online forums for celebrity fashion; no avenue was left by the teams. It seemed that every business opportunity that could be exploited had been explored by the students.

Judges with Mrs. Anita T. Lal (Faculty-in-charge, CED) announcing the results.

All the teams were effective in their presentations and incisive in their answers. All the questions were tackled with; teams sometimes found themselves wrestling with contradiction, cornered by the questions but most of them found their way out after one or two bumps. But, Storm Troopers, with their idea of Zindagi 24x7 or emergency medical services (with Mumbai as target city) stole the glory and came out to be the winner of the event. Avengers came second and Avensis came third. Dreamers and Small wonders received praise and felicitations for participation. After a final address to the judges, teams and the audience, the event ended with a residual charm. The charm of a dream we hold close and don’t share because we fear. Something about Dream Merchants made us believe the cliché: Everything is possible.