Regional Alumni Meet is being organised in two cities: Bangalore and Mumbai 

You are cordially invited to join us with your loved ones for the same.

The Regional Alumni Meet at Bangalore is on 23rd May’09 at The Taj Residency, MG Road.

Few other details of the event:

Time        : 7:00 pm onwards
Dress Code    : Casual

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Ajeeta (09986751404) / Avinash (09019703538) / Charanjeet (09663643700).

The Regional Alumni Meet at Mumbai is on 30th May’09 at Le Royal Méridien, Airport Road.

Few more details:

Time  : 7:30 pm onwards
Dress Code : Casual

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Aishwarya (09769794087) / Parth (09717791247)

Ecclesia is an informal gathering that is organised every year in different parts of the country. The purpose of Ecclesia is to bring together the current batch and new batch of MDI, on the same platform, before the session starts. 

This year, Ecclesia'09 will be organised in various cities, continuing the MDI tradition.

Mumbai (merged with regional alumni meet)

Date: May 30, 2009

Venue: Le Meridian

Time: 7:30 PM onwards

Bangalore (merged with regional alumni meet)

Date: May 23, 2009

Venue:Taj Residency, MG Raod

Time: 7:00 PM onwards

New Delhi (an informal meet)

Date:May 24, 2009

Venue: MDI, Gurgaon

Time: 6PM onwards

Kolkata (an informal meet)

Date: June 5, 2009

Venue: CityCenter, Salt Lake

Contact: Vipin Sharma - 09534061226, This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it

              Siddharth Maheshwari - 09910831572

Chennai (an informal meet)

Date: May 29, 2009

Venue: Ascendas, Tidel Park near NIFT

Time: 7 PM

Contact: Amey Kulkarni -  09543366679

Management Development Institute (MDI) Gurgaon held its 14th Annual Convocation today. Chairman, MDI Board of Governors and Member of Parliament, Mr. N K Singh, conferred a doctoral degree on 8 participants and declared them as Fellows of MDI. Mr. Singh then awarded Post Graduate Diploma in Management to 530 students of the various programs at MDI. With this ceremony183, 55, and 38 students were declared to have completed their PGPM, PGP-HR, and PGP-IM program respectively; 102, 65, 50 and 29 participants were declared to have completed the Executive Management Program (EMP), National Management Program (NMP), the Energy Management Program and the Public Policy & Governance Program respectively.

Congratulating the passing out graduates, Mr. N K Singh said they had no doubt difficult times ahead of them but the skills learnt by them during their education in MDI will hold them in good stead.

It was that time of the year when MDI beckoned its Alumni to come back to their Alma Mater for the National Alumni Meet held on February 7, 2009 and rekindle their memories from their heydays at MDI. They responded by attending in good numbers at a very short notice to unfold a wonderful evening brimming with happiness and nostalgia.

 The Meet was organised by the newly constituted Alumni Committee at MDI comprising of members from all the programs conducted at MDI and hence, for the first time in the history of MDI, the focus was on bringing together all the programs by creating a strong, vibrant and homogenous Alumni network.

The news making headlines nowadays have been primarily based on recessionary effects on the economy, job layoffs, placements at top B schools taking a hit, average salaries down by a third, placement processes lasting months, unplaced students hunting for jobs and repenting their decisions. In such hard times, one ManDevIan from the Class of 2010 has decided to walk the untrodden path.
Chaitanya Jha is a first year student in the PGPM program and he has taken the bold step of starting his own business venture in the field of handmade chocolates. The name of the organization is Chocolicious and the workshop is based in Delhi. There are three other friends with him in this venture whose profiles include a law student, a medical representative and a serial entrepreneur.
Chaitanya says “Management education teaches me that this diverse combination of people would help create the Medici effect. The beginning of the journey has been an exciting one. The basic idea of the business is to provide customized chocolates targeting corporate and events ranging from product launch to marriages. The biggest irony about business school is that it does not teach you business. At a time when B-schools are available at every nook and corner in the country and even the good quality B-schools are providing a hoard of job seekers, each year we have thousands of job seekers with similar skill sets entering the industry. Are B-schools really creating leaders or just corporate citizens? It is high time that we change the trend and there should be more job creators entering the industry. Let business schools also create people who do business.”

DI, Gurgaon on Saturday, 14th February successfully completed its annual Entrepreneurial event “E-week 09” held from 11th to 14th February. The event was organized by “Entrepreneurial Ecosystem”, MDI’s Special Interest Group for budding Entrepreneurs, and National Entrepreneurship Network (NEN), a nationwide organisation encouraging entrepreneurs and their initiatives.

Eminent personalities from the corporate including high profile CEOs visited the campus for having an interactive session with the aspiring entrepreneurs of MDI. The E-week started off with Mr. Rajeev Karwal, CEO of Milagrow Knowledge and Business Solutions, giving his views on importance of values and principles. Giving examples of recent developments in business, he explained why moral and ethics are important for a business to grow organically.