Saturday, January 07, 2012
Bangalore: The SDM Institute for Management Development (IMD), Mysore, will organise an international symposium on “Doing Business in India” on January 9 on its campus here.

Secretary of Sri Dharmasthala Manjunatheswara Educational (SDME) Trust S. Prabhakar will inaugurate.Sid Mookerjee, CEO, Software Paradigms Infotech (SPI), Mysore, will deliver the keynote address.An interactive session will have students of SDM-IMD and the Mays B-School, Texas A and M University taking part in it. Julian Gaspar, Director, Centre for International Business Studies and Clinical Professor of Finance, Mays Business School, Texas A and M University, U.S., and his team of faculty, along with students, will participate in the symposium, a release said. Speakers
Managing Director of Raman Fibre Science Private Limited Aroon Raman, Chief Training Manager of Indian Oil Corporation Limited Ashok Jambur, Managing Director of Sundaram BNP Paribas Home Finance Ltd. Srinivas Acharya, and Head of the Corporate and Business Finance, iGATE Patni, Salil Ravindran will be the key speakers.

Panel discussion
The former Director of IIM-Bangalore K.R.S. Murthy will preside over a panel discussion on “Management Education – new trends, use of technology and the future”. The other panel members will be Pradeep Rau, professor of Marketing, George Washington University, U.S.; Julian Gaspar; R. Jagadeesh, professor-Operations, SDM-IMD; Mousumi Sengupta, professor – HR Management, SDM-IMD; and Malathi Sriram, associate professor-Systems, SDM-IMD.

Leading corporate executives, academicians and research scholars are expected to attend the symposium.