5th "P" of Marketing - Party..!!!

It was the full strength of students in marketing class of Sem IV on Wednesday. Guess why!!!!! I think this time I can prove you wrong. It was not a quiz or presentation, but it was the time of celebration. It was party time.

Students have decided to celebrate any of the special occasions amongst the students of the Marketing fraternity of VMPIM. Be it a Birthday, a special occasion, or be it a student getting an appointment letter in any company, Marketing class will celebrate it with great joy and fun.

This initiative will prove to be memorable to all of us after we pass out from the institute.

If you know the birth date of any of the student of Marketing Sem IV, just comment over here. We will make sure that we celebrate it with ice-cream and Pizzas and lot more..!! We will make sure that no one is left out..:)

Dr. Rohit Trivedi undertakes Post doctoral research work with SAARC and AMDISA

It is my great honor to take this huge opportunity to write about Dr. Rohit Trivedi, who is working as Asst. professor at VMPIM. The work done by Dr. Trivedi and his achievements are indeed worth taking pride for our institute. What I am going to discuss now may not be of Interest for any common man, but we being management graduates should learn to appreciate the work done by Dr. Trivedi.

Dr. Trivedi is working as Asst. Professor at VMPIM and his areas of interest are Entrepreneurship, BRM and Marketing Mgmt. As part of the post doctoral research work, Dr. Trivedi has undertaken an international research work in collaboration with SAARC (South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation) and AMDISA (Association for Management Development Institutions of South Asia), under which he will be studying the entrepreneurship intentions and constraints for management students and also the lecturers’ and professors’ inclinement towards Entrepreneurship, for countries like India, Singapore and Malaysia. At this point of time, I cannot resist myself to share with you that Dr. Trivedi is the only Indian to receive this Post Doctoral fellowship. After the two doctors of IIM-A, Dr. Trivedi is the 3^rd academician Entrepreneur from Gujarat, the first from non IIM-A background, and the 7^th from all over India to get such work for the first time during last 10 years, the remaining all being non- Indians.

Adding colors to his achievements, Dr. Trivedi recently crossed another milestone when he won the Best Research Paper and Best Researcher Award in 8th International Entrepreneurship Forum organized by University of Essex, UK and European Commission at MICA, Ahmedabad. Dr. Trivedi won the first prize among 108 researchers from 15 countries worldwide like India, Iran, USA, Russia, SA, China & Pakistan.

Dr. Rohit Trivedi is also working for his upcoming project for Incubator study in China which he will be undertaking probably in 2010. We are indeed very proud to have Dr. Rohit Trivedi associated with our Institute. He is truly a GEM of our Institute. After his joining this institute, we have started understanding the importance of research in the life of a management graduate. He has indeed made a difference to the institute.

We wish him all the best for his overseas tour for his research work.

Protsahan 2009 - A Grand Success

...........and it’s a privilege, proud and glory to me for being a part of it. That was probably the best group of people that I had a chance to work with. And I see that my colleagues were trying their best to keep up the name we have striven to create. It is said that anything worth doing is worth overdoing which certainly applies to our event. All the people of VMPIM, with feeling of pride and enthusiasm over this occasion were very happy on seeing such huge, buoyant, well-behaved crowd who perfectly conveyed their belongings and knowledge. Variety were striving to present the most thorough their presentations, observations , talents and other skills of management expressing themselves at various formal event such as Ipitch, Prarambh, Money matrix, Astitva, Mastishka. And other informal events such as Rang de, Treasure hunt, Xplorator, Xplod, Filmi Chilmi..................

Moreover, I wish to quote that the memories and shadows, longings and fullness of this event will last with us forever.

It was a song of collective voice of people onstage and hundreds gathered around reflecting the pool.

It is said that "every bird loves to hear itself singing."

So we wish that we the juniors 2008-2010 batch also continue this public celebration with such stories of bold move where people are encouraged to warm up their talents and give them Protsahan- that’s the confluence of ignited minds.

Contributed by: Pooja Jain (MBA Sem II)