On July 24, 2023, JIMS Kalkaji conducted a lecture featuring Ms. Tamra Johnson, Associate Director of Graduate Admissions at the University of California. The lecture, attended by students from the PGDM 2023-2025 batch, covered various PG programs at UC Riverside School of Business, including MBA, Masters in Finance, and Masters in Science and Business Analytics. Ms. Johnson emphasized the importance of extracurricular activities, provided insights from successful Indian alumni, and addressed student queries regarding admissions, visas, industrial experience, scholarships, and tuition. The session ended with an invitation to students to apply to the University of California.

JIMS organised Jagannath Gupta Memorial Lecture on the theme "The Role of Venture Capital in India - Challenges and Upside for Entrepreneurs" on 27th May 2022 at India International Centre, New Delhi. Prof. Viney Sawhney, a Distinguished Professor, Finance at Harvard University delivered the session. Mr Vijay Rai, Chief Growth Officer at Asia Pacific Region and Member of the Executive Board with Day One Technologies was the anchor at the event.
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JIMS Kalkaji organized a guest lecture on the topic "Sustainability Reporting Standards Framework" by Dr. Sanjeev Kumar Singhal, Chairman, CA. Parivaar on 31st March 2022 at JIMS auditorium. 90 students from PGDM and PGDM (IB) 2021-2023 Batch attended the session. The speaker discussed about Covid 19 in accounting terms i.e., assets and liabilities. Further he laid emphasis on COP - 26. He mentioned that with money things can be bought but outcomes are never considered i.e., harmful results of using AC's, Bottles etc. He further presented his views on "Climate change - A code Red for Humanity".Main highlights of the PPT were: BSR to be made compulsory from 1st April, Solar & renewable energy and SDG 1- poverty, SDG 2 - Zero Hunger, SDG 3 - Good health & wellbeing, SDG 4 - Gender equality, SDG 5 - Clean water. He concluded by saying that if no action is taken with respect to climate, there are chances of average temperature to reach to 4 degrees celsius.

JIMS, Kalkaji organised a "Distinguished Lecture Series" wherein Distinguished Lecture was being delivered by "Prof.Phanish Puranam" who is a Roland Berger Chair Professor of Strategy & Organization Design at INSEAD on 22nd February, 2022. The lecture was delivered on the topic "Organizing in the Metaverse" for students of JIMS and various colleges and universities across India. The Welcome Address was given by Dr. (Cdr.) Satish Seth, Advisor to Chairman, JIMS, Kalkaji and Vote of Thanks by Dr. Amit Gupta, Chairman, JIMS. Dr. Ashok Sharma, Director, JIMS, Kalkaji was also present to grace the occasion.
Prof. Phanish Puranam addressed 250+ students on the Generic strategies used for coordinating distributed work and learning distributed working trade offs such as flexibility, talent market access, sustainability, learning, creativity, culture & networks. Prof. Phanish Puranam said metaverse is a 3D virtual world where users create avatars of themselves to share spaces, collaborate, and do real activities together. It is a digital world filled with real-life people. Towards the end, he highlighted on the "Base R" interactions concept leads to metaverse applications which can help bridge some of the missing social interactions of distributed work.

JIMS, Kalkaji organized a "Distinguished Lecture Series" Inaugural Lecture by Dr. Anurag Batra, Editor in chief & Chairman Exchange 4 Media Group & Business World on the topic "Leadership in the Post-Pandemic World" on Saturday, 04 September 2021 for the students of PGDM and PGDM (IB).The Welcome Address was given by Dr. (Cdr.) Satish Seth, Advisor to Chairman, JIMS, Kalkaji, Inaugural Address by Dr. Amit Gupta, Chairman, JIMS and Vote of Thanks by Dr. Ashok Sharma, Director, JIMS, Kalkaji. Dr. Anurag Batra is a serial entrepreneur, media mogul, a journalist and an eternal optimist rolled into one. Under his erudite leadership, Business World has expanded into digital marketing, events and BW communities. In a world of unprecedented complexity, he considers that humility teaches many things to people if they have the right attitude.

JIMS Kalkaji organized International Guest Lecture on the topic "Intercultural Awareness-Navigating Cultural Differences, Communication Across-Cultural Perceptions of Time" by Mr. Florian Huesmann, SAP Assistant Manager, Nintendo of Europe, on 27.8.2022 from 12:30 pm onwards on zoom meeting platform . The session was organized for the entire PGDM & PGDM(IB) batch. The speaker for the session has 10 years of work experience – 7 years in SAP environments and has accompanied SAP implementation projects as well as country roll-outs for big retail and fashion companies. He holds a Master's Degree in International Business. Living and working in different countries has strengthened his interest in inter cultural exchange. Coping with challenges in various industries he has broadened his horizon for the importance of client's needs and therefore the necessity to continuously develop his personal skills. Throughout the session he shared insights from his area of expertise and explained various dimensions of intercultural awareness. He touched upon the different perspectives with regard to cultural differences and communication across cultural perceptions of time. Overall the lecture was very interesting, engaging and insightful.

JIMS, Kalkaji organized an International Guest Lecture on "Intercultural Awareness" on Monday, 28th Feb 2022 by Mr. Florian Huesmann, SAP Assistant Manager, Nintendo of Europe in the Auditorium, JIMS Kalkaji. Dr. Ashok Sharma, Director, JIMS, Kalkaji, gave the welcome address highlighting the relevance and need of the international guest lecture topic. Mr. Florian Huesmann discussed the importance of gaining intercultural competence and cultural awareness in the work which leads to interaction and communication with people from different cultures in a respectful and effective way. Intercultural competence and awareness cannot exist without recognizing diverse identities and making intentional steps to be inclusive to people of varying backgrounds. He also discussed about the Intercultural, or cross-cultural, competence is a crucial set in today's global workplace, where employees are more likely to interact with co-workers, customers from different cultures and countries, and need to work productively with people who have been shaped by different values, beliefs and experiences Ms. Shilpi Yadav, Assistant Professor, JIMS Kalkaji coordinated the session for the students of PGDM and delivered vote of thanks.

On 15th September 2023, The finance club “MoneyTech” of JIMS Kalkaji introduced its new segment the finance talk show named FinXpress on the topic “Integrated Reporting” for PGDM & PGDM(IB) at JIMS Kalkaji, New Delhi. The event started with the introduction of the guest speaker Dr. S.K. Gupta, M.D. of Registered Valuers Organisation of the Institute of Cost Accountants of India, CEO of ICMAI Social Auditors Organisation. This was followed by presentation of Dr. S.K. Gupta on Integrated Reporting and how it is important in current reporting landscape. He also talked about how it is prepared and what a company must have to present an integrated report. He talked about the attributes and significance of the integrated reporting from the point of view the stakeholders of a company. The event was further followed by a Q&A round “Finblaze” which was hosted by the Treasurer of the club Jasmine Anand. This round was very informative and enlightening. After the Finblaze round there was an open Q&A session to make this event more interactive with the audience. Dr. Anuj Verma, Director JIMS Kalkaji, and Dr. Sandeepa Kaur, Faculty coordinator of MoneyTech, presented Green Initiative and Memento to the guest followed by a photo session of the MoneyTech team with Dr. S.K. Gupta and Dr. Anuj Verma. The event was concluded with Vote of Thanks.

JIMS Kalkaji organized PROWESSIQ Training Session for the students of PGDM(IB) Batch 2022-2024 & Batch 2023-2025 on 28 August 2023 from 2:40 pm – 4:30 pm in the Computer Lab. Ms. Pratima, Business Relationship Manager, PROWESSIQ provided the training for using ProwessIQ. 76 students attended the session and learnt how to use the database. The speaker started by how ProwessIQ is an interactive querying system to find companies from the Prowess database. It consists of a client software that provides an interface to construct and submit queries over the internet to the Prowess database and receive answers to the queries from the database. She further elaborated that all queries in ProwessIQ aims at finding companies that match a given set of search conditions. The ProwessIQ interface therefore consists of a large number of query construction facilities, display of query results in spreadsheets and the further use of the results of queries. The Prowess database consists of the financial performance of Indian companies. The database contains information on all listed companies and a larger set of unlisted companies. The database is built from the audited Annual Reports of companies and information submitted to the Ministry of Company Affairs; and in the case of listed companies, the database also includes company filings with stock exchanges and prices of securities listed on the major stock exchanges. The speaker delivered the session effectively. Sharing some snapshots from the session.

JIMS, Kalkaji organized a guest lecture on “Communication Skills to Boost Employability” on 27th June, 2023 for students of PGDM & PGDM (IB) during the Foundation Programme of Batch 2023-25. Dr. Navneet Gera, HOD, PGDM (IB) welcomed Mr. Gagan Singh with a green initiative. Ms. Shilpi Yadav, Assistant Professor, JIMS Kalkaji introduced the guest speaker, Mr. Gagan Singh, Rank Holder Alumnus, of IIM- Ahmedabad, DTU who talked about the need and importance of communication in the present business era and told the students of the PGDM & PGDM(IB) the Art Of Effective Communication is to keep it S.MA.R.T - S : Succinct, M : Measurable, A : Agreeable, R : Reconfirm, T : Time Bound.
Mr. Gagan Singh gave a detailed view of Business Communication in the digital world with the help of examples and a few activities. He explained to the participants about basic communication skills which are required to be successful in the corporate sector. He talked about different and important principles of communication and the basic telephonic and online meeting etiquette to be followed during conversation with the clients or customers at the workplace. The guest lecture ended with the interaction between both speaker and attendees in which students asked certain questions based on concepts shared by the speaker and sir shared his valuable perspective on the same. It was a highly interactive and knowledgeable session which highlighted the importance of business communication in the real world.

JIMS, Kalkaji along with IIC, JIMS Kalkaji organized a guest lecture on “Empowering women through education”. The session was taken by Mrs. Shipra Kulshrestha, Founder & Managing Trustee of “Raah-Ek Mission”, Charitable Trust. She enlightened everybody on how the long-term benefits of girl education can help a society grow holistically and lead to true women empowerment which can have far reaching impacts. The session ended on great note by highlighting that there is no tool for development more effective than the empowerment of women.

E -Cell JIMS, Kalkaji in association with IIC organised a workshop on 'Finding your Inner Entrepreneur' held on Monday, 27th February, 2023 . The interactive and activity based session was conducted by Metvy Founders, Mr Shawrya Mehrotra and Mr Rajan Luthra. The workshop focused on how to build a cohesive team and create a product that is constantly evolving with the need of the hour. It deliberated on core values like vision, loop learning, developing non technical skills etc as fundamental at early stages and also highlighted possible mistakes that first time entrepreneurs should not make.

JIMS, Kalkaji in collaboration with WWF India organized a guest lecture on the topic "Life without Ozone: A myth or reality?" on 15 September 2022 to observe World Ozone Day. The session was delivered by Dr. G Areendran, Director-IGCMC & Coordinator -ENVIS (MoEFC & CC), WWF India. Students from PGDM & PGDM(IB) 2021-2023 & 2022-2024 attended the session. The speaker shared his views on the topic assigned and touch based upon a wide area of emerging issues like Ozone layers-Tropospheric ozone & Stratospheric ozone, formation role of ozone, UV rays & its types-UVA, UVB, UVC, cause of ozone layers depletion, how chemicals deplete ozone, impacts of ozone depletion, effects on terrestrial plants, effects on Marine ecosystem, ozone Hole in the Antarctic and depletion of Ozone layers harming cheetah. Overall the session was insightful and highly informative. Sharing below few of the snapshots from the session.

JIMS, Kalkaji organized a Guest Lecture by Mr. Vivek Nanda, corporate leader, motivational speaker and student mentor, on 6th August, 2022. He addressed PGDM and PGDM (IB) 2022-24 students on the topic "The Magic of Branding" and PGDM and PGDM (IB) 2021-23 students on the topic "Seven Mantras for Corporate Success". He gave some valuable insights about gamut of branding and marketing tactics used globally by reputed brands like Tata and Big Bazaar. Sir discussed the three mantras of success-punctuality, sincerity and integrity. He gave industry examples and corporate success stories of Samsung, Bata, T-Series, Godrej, Dabur, Reliance etc. He motivated students how to prepare themselves for corporate challenges by having positive attitude, hard working approach and sincerity. The session was well appreciated by students.

JIMS, Kalkaji organized a guest lecture on "Cyber Security, a Complete Solution of Cyber Crime" on 16th July, 2022 for students of PGDM & PGDM (IB) 2022-24. Dr. Navneet Gera, HOD, PGDM (IB) gave the welcome address highlighting the relevance and need of the session topic. Ms. Jyoti Kukreja introduced the guest speaker, Mr. Surender Singh, Assistant Professor, CSE department, NIIT University who talked about the need of Cyber security in the changing business scenario and how companies need to be alert in all their web transactions and social media platforms. Sir touched upon various fundamentals of cyber security like cybercrime, cyber threats, hackers, crackers, stagnography, virtualization and bots.
Sir demonstrated Google hacking, Googletalks and search engine analytics and how Robots.txt can be used to allow or disallow crawling information for search by any search engine. The session was highly interactive where students were asked to give their inputs on their understanding about phishing, ransomware, malware, trojan or backdoor, DOS/DDOS (Denial Of Service / Distributed Denial Of Service), virus Vs worms and made them relate with some real-life examples on different softwares for better understanding. Also, he tried to provide insights about what Proxy server is and how it works with FTP, telnet, https, SSL security layering, Firewall and brute force methods.
The session ended with the interaction between both speaker and attendees in which students asked certain questions based on concepts shared by the speaker and sir shared his valuable perspective on the same. It was a highly interactive and knowledgeable session which highlighted the importance of cyber security in the real world.

A Guest Lecture was organized for students of PGDM and PGDM (IB) batch 2022-2024 on the topic: 'Digital Health' on May 17, 2022 in the online mode. Mr. Rijul Arora, Senior Consultant, EY addressed the students on the content and device management. 30 students attended the session. He shared various techniques and mechanisms to manage the fear of missing out while indulging into digital detoxification. The session was very informative and was found most useful by the students.

Jagannath International Management School (JIMS) Kalkaji, New Delhi, had organized an Online Guest Lecture on "Inventory Management", on 30th March, 2022 by Mr. Adarsh Raj, Alumnus and Assistant Manager DHL Supply chain India Pvt. Ltd. He discussed that the primary objective of inventory management technology is to track and utilize inventory in a way that balances business objectives with customer service requirements. In order to optimize a business' financial and operational health, any technology solution that is selected for an implementation must effectively extend to, and integrate with existing solutions. For external stakeholders, the solution must empower the business to go above and beyond to deliver the highest level of customer service. He explained the concept using examples from his day today life. He made the session interactive by asking questions to the students. Students also asked a lot of questions which he answered to their satisfaction. Overall it was a quite a fun way learning session.

Jagannath International Management School (JIMS) Kalkaji, New Delhi, had organized a Online Guest Lecture on "Storytelling with Data Visualizations Using Power BI". Mr Vinod Nair founder of Humalitix discussed how Power BI helps in to craft story, with the help of an intuitive dashboard that deciphers data and share insights and individuals can present data-driven visualizations that support in smarter decision making process. Students got introduced to Visuals, Power Query (M) and Data Modeling (DAX). With Power BI capabilities and features continually expanding and evolving, it can be a challenge for individuals and business teams to keep up with new visual components, create compelling dashboards, and truly own their data. Participants were able to position themselves to make better data driven decisions after attending such an insightful session workshop.

JIMS Kalkaji organized an informative and interactive session on "How to Keep Yourself Healthy During the Covid-19 Break" on 10th February, 2022 with the collaboration of Probiotic Giant Yakult Danone India Pvt. Ltd for PGDM and PGDM IB students and faculties under the coordinator ship of Dr. Shruti Traymbak, Associate Professor, JIMS, Kalkaji. Dr. Neerja Hajela, Sr. General Manager-Science & Regulator Affairs, Yakult Danone India Pvt Ltd. discussed about human's digestive system with special focus on Intestinal Health and role of good bacteria in maintaining a healthy and long life. She further added health benefits of probiotic drink and also suggested how can we build our immunity through probiotics. Overall the session was quite interactive and insightful. Students and faculties actively involved in question and answer session.

A webinar was organized for students of JMC on the topic: 'Career opportunities in Emerging areas beyond 2022' on January 28, 2022. Dr. Gopika Kumar, Assistant Professor, JIMS Kalkaji and Dr. Ashok Sharma, Director, JIMS Kalkaji and Dr. Satish Seth, Advisor to Chairman, JIMS Kalkaji welcomed the students. Dr. Neelam Tandon, Professor, HOD-PGDM, JIMS Kalkaji, -Dr. Navneet Gera, Professor, HOD-PGDM (IB), JIMS Kalkaji and Dr. Sanjeela Mathur, Associate Professor, JIMS Kalkaji addressed students on Career options in Finance and Analytics, Career options in International Business and Career options in Marketing and Entrepreneurship respectively. The session was highly appreciated for being both comprehensive and concise at the same time.

An enthralling guest lecture was organised by JIMS Kalkaji on 19th of January on the topic "Scrappage Policy in India" by Mr. Rajesh Joshi, Founder & MD-CEO of Research to Design who is the harbinger of industry competitive design consultation and market insights for automotive engineering and construction by his ornate venture, Research to Design. Previously he has served as a marquee resource with Eicher Trucks & Buses, Tata Technologies and Tata motors. Sir discussed about the contribution of automobile sector in the GDP of India over the years and its multiplying effect. His main focal lied around the clouding pollution in metros caused by the unburnt gases as a byproduct of combustion in the fuel engine further zeroing on the need for a domestic scrappage policy. The students got to know about the "Scrappage Policy", an initiative by the Government of India to curb growing pollution in the country. It was an informative session well appreciated by the students.

PGDM Department of JIMS Kalkaji organized a Guest Lecture for its HR Specialization students on January 14, 2022 by Ms. Juhi Tripathi, Global HR Direct-Consultant, Ericsson on the topic: 'An insight into on boarding processes'. Ms. Jyoti Kukreja, Assistant Professor, JIMS introduced the guest. The session was highly informative as it included all the details such as contact points for the new joinee, appraisal policies of the organization, team member additional functions and roles, grievance redressal issues, how to approach your boss and such soft issues. Students asked varied questions as to how to ask as a new employee and how to answer as an HR the organizational culture and organizational grapevine concerns. The session was very profound and comprehensive and we thank the guest for sharing her valuable time and knowledge with our students.

JIMS Kalkaji organized an online webinar on "HR Analytics-a practical approach" on 7th January, 2022 by Mr Rahul Sethi, CEO, Protouch. HR Analytics changed the working style of the HR domain and many functions in HR can be done very easily like improving talent acquisition, increasing employees retention, increasing employee's productivity and efficiency and reducing attrition rate. There are various tools and techniques available to analyze HR data sets that help solve issues and concerns in the business and allow management to make quantitative decisions. Sir showed hands-on experience with available data sets and also discussed the importance of descriptive, predictive and prescriptive analytics in the area of HR . He emphasized that Excel can be one of the effective tools to analyze and visualize data. Furthermore, he showed how to analyze data with the help of Excel's solver feature. Overall, the session was very interactive.

A Guest Lecture was organized for students of PGDM HR Specialization, batch 2020-2022 on the topic: 'Neurosciences in Talent Acquisition' on December 23, 2021 in the online mode. Ms. Divya Singh, renowned Soft Skills Trainer, Image Consultant, Founder, Skilldify Studio addressed the students on the various aspects of hiring. She mentioned various questions that are intentionally asked to the job candidates while making a right hiring decision. Significant aspects of personality are unearthed during the interview such as their foresight, confidence and their rigorous preparation through the non verbal aspects of their personality and communication skills.

NSS Club of JIMS Kalkaji organized an interactive session on " Importance of Self Reliance and Human Values in Management " by HG Amogh Leela Prabhu ji, Vice President, Iskcon Dwarka, & visiting faculty at IIM-A at JIMS auditorium for the students of PGDM and PGDM(IB) 2020-2022 batch. the speaker discussed about the most significant qualities of a great leader by sharing insights from Lord Krishna's life. He touch based upon the various verses from the Bhagavata Gita and enlightened the students about the importance of human values in management. Few of the leadership lessons shared with the students are -a leader should not be attached to his profile, he should be ready to mould himself and provide support wherever required, the flow of evaluation of any person should be Intelligence quotient, emotional quotient and spiritual quotient, the nectar flows from the top i.e. if the leader is good then his/her subordinates and other colleagues will also reciprocate the same values, The leader should be a good listener, the more we listen the more we attract the empathy of others. Overall the session was very informative, interactive and highly enlightening.

A Guest Lecture was organized by Entrepreneurship cell of JIMS Kalkaji for the students of PGDM and PGDM IB - 2021-23 batch on 12th October 2021 by the eminent guest speaker Mr. Rahul Pandey, Ex coo of Ambedkar University Incubator and Founder Abbibo Fresh. Sir adopted an interactive approach and made students comfortable on topics of Business Idea. Sir, focused on how to keep our selves motivated during the first / initial stage of business we may have to operate at loss in first level then too we should focus on equilibrium at second level then think of profit at the third level. So we need to have patient throughout in-order to become a successful entrepreneur. The session taught important aspects of how to think out of the box and try to find solution of the happenings.

Alumni Club of JIMS Kalkaji organized under the 'Young Corporate Meet' Series hosted Mr. Shikhar Mehrotra, Regional Sales Manager, Capri Global Capital Limited from PGDM (IB) batch 2014-2016 on October 7, 2021. He shared his immense knowledge with the audience. A detailed and interesting talk right from his placement into Tata Motors to Axis Bank and now to the current organization was conducted. Dr. Anju Shukla, Assistant Professor, JIMS Kalkaji convened the session. The various interesting excerpts for the young generation to follow are mentioned here as: 'Do what you love and love what you do!' and enjoy the path to success. Hardwork won't work unless you do ! Thus working hard is the success mantra for our young minds to follow.

The NSS club of Jagannath International Management School, Kalkaji organized a guest lecture on the topic "The Mahatma: Management reformer in the new millennium" on 7 October, 2021 from 02:45pm onwards, on zoom online meeting platform for the students of PGDM and PGDM(IB). The Speaker for the session was Prof. Prasad Gollanapalli, Managing trustee, 'Gandhi king foundation', affiliated scholar of the King Institute at Stanford University. 155 students participated in the session. Overall the session was very informative and the speaker discussed about Gandhi's principles of Satyagraha. His session was based upon Gandhiji's motto "Be the change you wish to see in the world". He further threw light upon Gandhi's principles of management, how he turned out to be a great recruiter that people believed in his idea, and much more information about the ideologies of Gandhi ji. Overall the session was very informative, interactive and very insightful.

JIMS, Kalkaji organized a session on 'Entrepreneurial Thinking- Idea Generation' by Dr. Vikas Rajput, Certified Mentor, NEN on September 22, 2021. He addressed the students on guiding through their entrepreneurial instincts.

Jagannath International Management School, Kalkaji organized a guest lecture on the topic "Supply Chain Management during times of Covid" on 31 July 2021 on zoom online meeting platform for the students of PGDM and PGDM (IB). 82 students participated in the session. Mr. Anish Gupta, Senior Manager, Procurement, Jubilant Ingrevia Limited was the speaker for the session. He laid emphasis on the various aspects of Supply Chain Management during times of Covid. Concepts like Supply chain process, Procurement, disruptions in supply chain, empathy in distribution were explained using case studies. Overall the session was very informative, interactive and very insightful. Shared below are few of the screen shots from the session.

Jagannath International Management School, Kalkaji organized a guest lecture on the topic " THE CHANGING DIGITAL LANDSCAPE" on 28 July 2021 from 3:30pm to 4:30 pm on zoom online meeting platform for the students of PGDM and PGDM(IB).120 students participated in the session. Dr. Farlon J Rahaman, Lecturer in Digital Business, Course Leader for BA Business Management (Digital Business) & Digital Champion (SAM),School of Applied Management, University of Westminster was the speaker for the session. She laid emphasis on the various dynamics of e commerce business models. Recent trends of e commerce in pandemic situation were highlighted .She touch based upon the digital areas like digital disruption, digital adjacencies, digital technologies digital innovation. Innovative examples were used to explain the terminologies new to the students. Overall the session was very informative, interactive and very insightful. Shared below are few of the screen shots from the session.

JIMS Kalkaji organized a Guest Lecture on the topic "Resolution of Conflicts and Disputes in Cross Culture Context" on 9th April, 2021. The lecture was delivered by Ms. Shraiya Jain, Senior Executive, Capability Development, KPMG. She discussed the meaning of cross cultural not just from geographical point of view but also from many facets of our personal life and also shared the common reasons that lead to arrival of cross cultural differences, where she shared about ethnocentrism and ego issues. She also shared various examples to support that how cross cultural concept comes into picture in the business world. Few examples including Walmart (success in New York and failure in France), KFC (success in western nations but failure in China), Mcdonald's and Dunkin Donuts (advertising the brand showing black person in Thailand). Students also shared the examples of Fair and lovely going Fair and Glow, Myntra (changing it's logo after petition), followed by Amazon changing its logo. Students were mighty inspired with the insights that ma'am shared.

International Women's day was celebrated on 8th March 2021 in the form of a panel discussion. The guest speakers were Ms. Atisha Juneja, Ms. Vishakha Verma and Ms. Ritika Bhutoria from the corporate leading in HR, Finance and Marketing. The questions shared were on their introduction and journey. Other points of discussion were what women support and inspire on their career path? What gender-specific challenges, stereotypes, or barriers they had to overcome during their career? How hard is it to make it to the top? As women, what advice will they give to their younger self?
The discussion had an interesting rapid fire including questions like, if they were not a professional, what would they be and the quote that motivates them. They also shared their favorite book, authors and movies from where they get inspiration and how they plan to lead post pandemic in the new normal.

JIMS Kalkaji organized a Guest Lecture on the topic "Role of E-Commerce and Analytics in Supply Chain Management" on 28th January, 2021 for all the students of PGDM & PGDM (IB) 2020-22 and PGDM 2019-21 Business Analytics specialisation. The lecture was delivered by Mr. Shwayatank Ajay, Head-Pan India E-Commerce and Modern Trade North, Beverly Hills, Polo Club, India. He discussed about various concepts and terms used e-Commerce like its infrastructure, technological setup, e-payment methods, online trading, challenges and benefits of e-SCM. He also explained use of SAP and SalesForce tools in driving analytics based SCM and reaping better business results. Students gained abundant knowledge as the lecture was very enriching and informative covering useful facets of e-commerce drivers, analytics applications and student queries.

JIMS Kalkaji organized a Guest Lecture on the topic: 'Human Resources and more' which was addressed by Ms. Diksha Sharma, Senior HR Analyst, Shopclues on January 21, 2021. She unveiled various HR tools for talent succession planning, IJP, employee engagement that accounts for developing organizational effectiveness.

JIMS Kalkaji organized a Guest Lecture for HR Specialization students by Ms. Divya Singh, Soft Skills Trainer and Image Consultant and Founder, Skilldify Studio on the topic: Talent management process: Industry perspectives on January 20, 2021. She elaborated on Skills Fitness to sustain in jobs especially during present times. Several key concepts such as employee retention, employer branding, exit interview along with varied soft skills which are requisite for talent acquisition.

JIMS Kalkaji organized a Guest Lecture on the topic "International Capital Budgeting & Balance of Payment" on 8th January, 2021. The lecture was delivered by CA. Tarique Anjum, Assistant General Manager, India Infrastructure Finance Company Ltd. He discussed about various concepts and terms used in Capital Budgeting and Balance of Payment. Case study of Wipro was discussed to highlight the complexities of NPV method in international scenario. 2 approaches, foreign currency approach and domestic currency approach of Capital budgeting were discussed. Overall practical exposure was given to the students about the techniques used in international capital budgeting. Students gained copious knowledge that will definitely help them in the near future.

JIMS Kalkaji, Entrepreneurship Cell organized a Workshop on "Journey of an Entrepreneur" on 29th December, 2020 for all students of PGDM & PGDM (IB). It was taken by Mr. Shawrya Mehrotra, Founder, Metvy accompanied by his mentor Mr. Shadab Mobin. The session included sharing of Mr. Shawrya Mehrotra's journey from being a Kirorimal alumni to a successful entrepreneur who introduced a very successful startup – Metvy Networking. He shared his experience of generating the idea of his business, and the planning involved in it. He was candid enough to admit his downfalls and problems faced in the entire journey but also reiterated the need to constantly chase his dreams to make it a success. Towards the end of the session, the speaker took questions from the audiences to give answers to the curiosity and clear out their confusions. At the end of this fruitful session, students were able to attain a better view into how entrepreneurial factors work and about the hardships and opportunities available to an entrepreneur.

Mr. Mohit, Senior manager, HDFC, AMC took a webinar on Mutual Fund Expert Speak for students of JIMS, Kalkaji. He gave the insights about why investing is required apart from the savings. As by only saving from the salaries we will not be able to fulfill the basic requirements in the near future. He told this by giving the example of how the mobile phones has become a necessary part of the life which was not a part of our life in 1990s. He gave the insight about why to invest in mutual funds and how mutual funds can be beneficial by investing in them for a longer period of time as compounding interest can result in the formation of a larger amount even if we invest a small amount every month rather than investing bigger amount for a small period of time. The session was good learning for students.

On 21st December 2020, the Data Science Club of Jagannath International Management School (JIMS), Kalkaji organized a webinar on the topic "Humanizing Artificial Intelligence with Emotion Analysis". The guest for the webinar was Mr. Bandenawaz Bagwan, Founder, Director of Illuminates Skills, Bangalore who's an Industry Expert for JAVA/ Android/ Joomla/ C/ HTML/ CSS/ PHP/ JQuery/ R Programming, Python, iOS, Swift, Kotlin, Block Chain, Unity Game development, AR, VR , Data Science, Machine Learning & Artificial Intelligence. Session Insights from chatbots to emotional chatting machines, using emotions to make AI sound like a human, ability to create products that adapt to consumer emotions with usage of multimodal sentiment analysis helped our participants to understand that emotions are a cornerstone of human intelligence and decision making.

JIMS Kalkaji organized a webinar on "Farm Bills 2020: Policy, Reforms and Perspectives" on December 10, 2020. Renowned Advocate, Mr. Prateek Som addressed the students. The session was attended by more than 400 students from PGDM and BBA, B.Com. The speaker discussed about Farm Bill 2020, its benefits to Farmers, Government's motive towards Farm Bill 2020 and reasons of farmers protest against Agriculture bill 2020. Overall, students had clarity on all the issues related to Farm Bill 2020. The session was very useful and impressive for one and all.

'Everyone will tell you the risk but only Entrepreneur can tell you the reward!' To tell the truth of the reward, E-Cell of JIMS Kalkaji organised a webinar on "Startup Talk" with Mr. Apar Gupta, Founder, Blue Ocean Studios and Mr. Shadab Mobin, CEO-Business Incubator, ANDC in Start Foundation. They discussed various facets related to Startups like funding, scope and future prospects. It was an enriching session for students.

JIMS, Kalkaji organized a Guest Lecture on "Creative Decision Making" for PGDM and PGDM (IB) 2020-22 batch on 17th October, 2020. The session was taken by Mr. Ankit Jhamb, Senior Associate Director, KPMG. The session consisted of 6 interesting stories-. Fire Fighter's Dilemma, Nokia & Nike, Protos Pharma, Amsterdam Urinals, U.S. Marine Corps, The Speaker's life story and each one of them had a decision making factor where the subjects (Company/Man/Group) were taking decisions according to their conditions and situations, in turn show casing the importance and relevance of Decision making not only in business but in normal life as well.

JIMS, Kalkaji organized Guest Lecture on "Supply Chain Analytics" and "Block Chain Technology" for PGDM and PGDM (IB) 2019-21 batch on 5th and 8th October, 2020. The sessions were taken by Prof D.K. Banwet, Prof Emeritus and founding VC- UEM, IIT Delhi and UEM, Kolkata.

JIMS, Kalkaji organized Guest Lecture on "Atmanirbhar Bharat: Role of MSME Sector" for PGDM and PGDM (IB) 2019-21 batch on 3rd October, 2020. The session was taken by Prof. A. K. Sen Gupta, Former Dean IIFT and Former Director & Chair Professor, JIMS in which he stated that this is the right moment when India can promote its Atmanirbhar Bharat and Make in India missions by incentivising Indian companies as well as foreign companies seeking to relocate their operation from other countries.

JIMS Kalkaji organized a guest lecturte on September 21, 2020. The session was taken by Mr. Anuj Singhal, Manager-Product Management, Exzeo Softwares on the topic "Digital Marketing Strategies". He discussed facets of Google Analytics, SEO, SEM, SMM and other modes of Digital Marketing that corporate need to focus on. He also guided students on how to improve their skills on these techniques and get better job prospects.

JIMS Kalkaji organised a webinar on 18/09/2020 with the key speaker Mr Anurag Gupta Head, CRM Development & Delivery, NewGen Software. Mr. Gupta emphasized on the importance of CRM in these times of COVID-19 and on the fact that how businesses mould their strategies to approach the potential customers using technologies like Salesforce. Overall students found the webinar very informative and helpful in understanding that the responsiveness towards customer need is a key focal point and CRM can help businesses in recognizing the value of its customer.

JIMS Kalkaji organised a Guest lecture on “Future of Banking Industry in India” by Mr. Himanshu Chaudhary, Branch Head, Deputy Vice President, HDFC Bank on 31st January 2020 for PGDM & PGDM (IB) first year students.

A Guest Lecture on ‘Creative Thinking and Appreciative Inquiry’ was delivered by Dr. Rekha Dayal, Associate Porfessor, Jesus & Mary College, Delhi University on December 6, 2019 for PGDM & PGDM (IB) First Year students.

Mr. Pranav Desai, Senior Executive Vice President, Global MNC and Founder of VoSAP, “Voice of Specially Abled People” delivered a Lecture on the topic: “Accelerating Growth through Compassionate Leadership on December 4, 2019 for PGDM & PGDM (IB) First and Second Year students.. Significant aspects such as social inclusion and leadership aspects such as followership were discussed.

JIMS Kalkaji organised a Guest lecture on “Importance of Skills in Industry 4.0” by Mr. Parth Shukla, Consultant and Software Engineer, Microsoft on 21st October 2019 for PGDM & PGDM (IB) first year students.

JIMS Kalkaji organised a Special Guest lecture on “Cyber Security” by Mr. Deepak Maheshwari, Director - Government Affairs, India, ASEAN & China, Symantec Corporation on 9th October 2019 for PGDM & PGDM (IB) first year students. Dr. (Cdr.) Satish Seth, Director General, JIMS Kalkaji gave the welcome address. Mr. Deepak spoke on topics like Evolution of Cyber Security and Data Protection Framework in India, Global Cyber Security Threat Landscape, Skills Gap & Solutions, Policy & Institutional Framework and Milestones of Legal and Policy Framework. Overall it was an enriching session. Dr. J. K. Batra, Director, JIMS, Kalkaji gave vote of thanks.

JIMS Kalkaji organised a Guest lecture on “Secret Recipe for Success in Personal and Professional Life” by Mr. Nanda Kumar Das, Asst. Vice President, Genpact on 31st August 2019 for PGDM & PGDM (IB) first year students.

JIMS Kalkaji organised a Guest lecture on “Social Entrepreneurship and Sustainability” by Mr. P. K. Biswas, Dean, Academics, IMT Ghaziabad on 22nd August 2019 for PGDM & PGDM (IB) first year students.

JIMS Kalkaji organised a Guest lecture on “Corporate Expectations” by Mr. Deepak Mehra, Director, Training and Development, Videocon on 17th August 2019 for PGDM & PGDM (IB) first year students.

JIMS Kalkaji participated in the Annual 'Subir Raha Memorial Lecture' on 5th July, 2019 at ONGC Ltd Auditorium, Urja Bhawan, Vasant Kunj, New Delhi, by ONGC Ltd, an annual event organised in memory of Late Mr Subir Raha who had contributed immensely to the growth of ONGC as President. The lecture on "How can Corporate Organisations help achieve Sustainable Development goals?" was delivered by Padma Bhushan Dr Kirit S. Parikh, Former Member Planning Commission, Govt of India and Chairman, Integrated Research and Action for Development (IRADe). The lecture covered issues related to sustainable development and contributions of various sectors of the economy and corporate organisations in achieving Sustainable Development goals laid down by UN 45.

JIMS Kalkaji organised a Guest lecture on “Role of Marketing in Retail Industry” by Dr. Sundarmoy Senon on 21st June 2019 for all the students of “Foundation Class 2019”.

JIMS Kalkaji organised a Guest lecture on “Importance of Digital Marketing” by Mr. Kush Bhardwaj on 18th June 2019 for all the students of “Foundation Class 2019”.

JIMS Kalkaji organised a Guest lecture on “Know Your Brain, Know Yourself” by Dr. Alok Kumar Mishra, Joint Secretary (Evaluation & Meetings), AIU on 6th April, 2019 for students of PGDM – IIIA, IIIB & (IB)-III of batch 2018-20

JIMS Kalkaji organised a Guest lecture on “Emergence from the Exponential Future” by Mr. Sameer Soni, Director, Times of India on 2nd April, 2019 for students of PGDM – IIIA, IIIB & (IB)-III of batch 2018-20.

Ms. Somya Singhal, Trainer, Josh Talks and Vivel took an interactive session of two hours on the topic “Ab Samjhauta Nahin” for PGDM & PGDM (IB) 2018-20 Batch on 12th March 2019.

JIMS Kalkaji organised a Guest lecture on “How to be an innovation Business Leader and Create New Product of Service Innovation” by Dr. Philippe Bouvier, French Professor on 28th Feb-2019. He is an Assistant Professor in Strategy at Geneva Business School (Switzerland), Innovation and Entrepreneurship at Hamdan University (Dubai) and in Smart & Sustainable Cities at the American university of Rochester Institute of Technology.

Professor Rebecca Chandy, Deputy Head, Business School, Liverpool Hope University visited JIMS, Kalkaji Campus on 18th February, 2019 to address students on the topic “Strategic Management for International Business Growth”.

JIMS Kalkaji had Padamshree awarded, Dr. Meenakshi Gopinath, Founder and Director, WISCOMP (Women in Security and Conflict and Peace) on January 18, 2019 as a Special Guest to discuss on 'The New learning Pathways: the Concept of Liberatory Spaces'. Many useful aspects were revealed and the audience appreciated her insights and talk.

Eminent speaker, Mr. Rajiv Sachdeva, Former Managing Director, Siemens Power Engg. Pvt. Ltd. on October 8, 2018 addressed PGDM and PGDM (IB) students of batch 2017-2019 on the topic: ‘Institutional Ethics’ in the campus auditorium. He highlighted the difference between morals, ethics, corporate governance and honesty.