Alumni Events

Events at the ISB

Solstice – the ISB Alumni Reunion
December 21 – 23, 2 007

The Class of 2008 is pleased to welcome all alumni to Solstice 2007- The Alumni Reunion and Networking Event! Solstice 2007 is also the fifth year reunion for the Class of 2003, and we hope to see a record number of attendees from this class.

This year Solstice is planned for the 21st to the 23rd of December. The weekend begins with student interactions and mock interviews held by Alums on Friday the 21st followed by a Welcome back party at night. Next day’s highlights include, The Alum-entrepreneur showcase, a tiring session of Bind Unwind, and ‘Indian Ocean’ live in concert. The hours in-between will be filled with activities, old friends, good times and some really cool surprises!! We have planned a fun filled Sunday too.

Registrations are now open at http://www.isb.edu/solstice2007/solsticeReg.aspx



Panel Discussion: Investing in Technology Businesses
December 7, 2007

The IT track research and education here at ISB, starting this year, will focus on showing the students how IT connects strategically to various business functions. In this regard, the school has constructed a series of electives that interface IT with Finance, Marketing and Strategy. Two such electives are Financial Valuation of Technology Businesses and Investing in Private Equity in Term VI. Panelists for the discussions are Abhay Havaldar – General Atlantic, Bharani Bobba - Baseline Partners, Srinivas Satti – Satyam and Daniel Tennebaum. The discussion will be moderated by Professor Rajiv Banker, Temple University.

Venue: Khemka Auditorium
Time: 1700 – 1900 hrs



Capital Markets Conference: Financial Services - The Next Engine of Growth in India
Saturday, December 8, 2007

The Capital Markets Conference (CMC), organised by the Finance Club at the ISB, aims to bring together distinguished members from the financial services industry to share their views. The theme of the Conference this year is "Financial Services-The Next Engine of Growth in India”. There will be two panel discussion sessions covering the following topics:

- Broadening India's Corporate Debt Market – Role of Regulators, National Banks and International players
- Indian M & A activity: Innovations and Challenges

For more information on the Capital Markets Conference, go to: http://www.isb.edu/CapitalMarkets2007/



Metamorphosis
December 17, 2007

From AltaVista to Google, from Napster to iTunes, from Word Perfect to Word, the list goes on for market innovators who helped discover an innovation’s true potential. History has shown that developing cutting edge innovations is one thing and unraveling the potential of the innovation and bringing them to market successfully is another. Metamorphosis 2007 – an application discovery and business model contest - aims at establishing this marriage between innovative excellence and sheer business acumen making complimentary thinking a reality. Metamorphosis – a word that means transformation – is a transformation from the mind of an inventor to the mind of the market discoverer.

The event is being organized by the Entrepreneurship and Venture Capital Club (EVC) and the Wadhwani Centre for Entrepreneurship Development (WCED) at the Indian School of Business (ISB), Hyderabad. The contest is funded and co-partnered with the Government of India – Ministry of Science and Technology and supported under its Technopreneur Promotion Programme (TePP). This event brings the business school student in touch with selected innovators whose inventions (some patented) are already at advanced product development stages. The contest asks the student team to come out with innovative concepts that is best able to ‘discover the application’, ‘unravel the market’, ‘define the customer’, think ‘out of the box’ so as to truly bring this innovation to successful commercial exploitation.

In addition to eminent speakers and judges who will be on campus on December, we also have the inventors coming to campus on whose plans the student teams prepared ‘go to market’ strategies.

Agenda:
• 1100 – 1900 hrs: 15 shortlisted teams from business schools present their plans to two judging panels.
• 1900 – 2100 hrs: Address by judges and announcement of winning team to student body.
• 2100 hrs onwards: Dinner.


The entire Metamorphosis team eagerly looks forward to meeting you. Request you to drop in a line of confirmation to Ankur_agarwal@pgp2008.isb.edu so as to plan for logistics.

More details on Metamorphosis at www.isb.edu/metamorphosis



Accounting Research Conference
Dec 17-19, 2007

The Indian School of Business (ISB) is proud to host the first Accounting Research Conference from December 17–19, 2007 at the ISB.

The theme for the public conference on December 17, 2007 is the need for accounting research in India and Asia. Professor Shyam Sunder, James L Frank Professor of Accounting, Economics and Finance at Yale University, and immediate past president of the American Accounting Association, will deliver a special address on the topic. His address will be followed by panel discussions on the demand and scope for accounting research in India, and the incentives, topics, and publication outlets for accounting research in Asian schools.

The research conference on December 18 and 19, 2007 has an outstanding set of papers from top researchers in Asia and North America.

For more information on the Accounting Research Conference, go to: http://www.isb.edu/AccountingResearchConference/index.shtml

International Symposium of Information Systems (ISIS2007)
December 21 – 23, 2007

The Centre for Information Technology and the Networked Economy (CITNE) at ISB is hosting the second International Symposium of Information Systems (ISIS2007). This symposium will bring together leading academic researchers and industry thought leaders to confer and debate current unpublished work on research topics that are relevant and rigorous.

The meeting will open with a high-powered industry day comprising a series of panel discussions. Each panel focuses on issues of emerging importance, is moderated by a leading academic and is made up of 3-4 CXO level industry captains. The subsequent two days will focus on current academic research. The programme format consists of a series of paper presentations followed by discussant comments. Extended breaks and compelling social activities between and after sessions add to the significant networking opportunities in a collegial setting.

For more information on ISIS2007, please visit: http://www.isb.edu/SeminarsConference/ISIS2007/index.Shtml
 

First Asian invitational Conference on family Business
February 1 -3, 2008

Family businesses have been contributing to most industrial wealth creation in all the Asian countries. But the factors and processes that sustain family businesses as a thriving category have not been of academic interest until recently. Similarly, it is only now that business families and other stakeholders have started discussing the challenges and possible approaches to perpetuating and growing family wealth and happiness.

Organised by the Thomas Schmidheiny Chair of Family Business and Wealth Management, this conference facilitates in the following three ways, the process of filling these gaps and contributes to building more vibrant family businesses in Asia

- Share research insights that benefit academics as well as practitioners
- Learn from the experiences of members of business families and non-family professionals
- Network and benefit from each other in multiple ways

For more information, please visit: http://www.isb.edu/FamilyBusinessConference/



Global Social Venture Competition (GSVC) Asia Round
March 8 – 10, 2008

The finals of the Asia Round of the Global Social Venture Competition will be held at the ISB in March 2008. The GSVC awards prizes to the business plans that show the highest, most integrated financial and social returns. The programme is made possible through the corporate sponsorship of Helios and Matheson.

All competing ventures must have an active team member who is a current MBA student or who has graduated less than two years ago.

The last date for submitting an executive summary of your business plan is November 15, 2007. For further details and information, visit: http://www.isb.edu/wadhwani/GSVC_AsiaRound.html

Second Annual CAF - FIC - SIFR Conference in Stockholm

April 17-19, 2008

Starting 2007, the Centre for Analytical Finance (CAF) at the ISB, the Financial Institutions Center (FIC) at the Wharton School, and the Swedish Institute for Financial Research (SIFR) at Stockholm will organise joint research conferences in the area of emerging market finance. The conferences are annual, held in spring, and rotate between Philadelphia, Stockholm, and Hyderabad.

The second CAF - FIC - SIFR conference will be held in Stockholm, April 17-19, 2008. The theme for this year's conference is Emerging Market Finance. The conference will begin with a reception on the evening of Thursday, April 17, and the sessions will be held on April 18 & 19, 2008

 

Papers on all aspects of financial markets in emerging economies are welcome. Topics include, but are not limited to:

• Capital markets reform

• Law, institutions, and finance

• Banking and financial institutions

• Private equity

• Capital market integration

• Emerging market risks and asset returns

Please note the following important submission information:

• December 17, 2007:  Deadline for submission of papers

• Early February, 2007:  Communication of decision to authors

Submission should be made electronically to: anki.helmer@sifr.org  and marked: “Submission to Conference on Emerging Market Finance”

For more information on the conference, visit: http://www.isb.edu/CAF/UsrSiteEventMgmt.aspx?ModuleID=14&TopicID=62