XUB 4th ConvocationReport2017 2018

MESSAGE FROM THE

VICE CHANCELLOR

Dear Friends, Greetings of joy! A warm welcome to the 4th Annual Convocation of the Xavier University Bhubaneswar. I am delighted to present the Annual Convocation Report 2018. God’s gifts to us continues to be greater than our efforts! We feel blessed as we continue to carry out the mission of inspiring futures…. inspiring future generations of students, in delivering excellent quality education comparable to the best. We develop young leaders capable, instilled with a spirit of inquiry, professionalism and social consciousness. XUB is built on the strong foundation of academic excellence and service excellence in the spirit of Magis, enables people to live extraordinary lives, and be the light for the world with the dream to impart state of the art education to one and all. Today, the University is at the forefront of a campaign to create sustainable and lasting change and stands tall as a center of excellence that develops confident leaders, independent thinkers and creative entrepreneurs. To the graduating batches of 2018: On behalf of the University, I wish you every success. My wish is for you to continue to be competent, committed and compassionate leaders and make a difference to the people with whom you work. Stay connected. Inspire the future. Be the light for the world. To the members of our Governing Board, students, faculty, staff, alumni, friends and well-wishers of the University: My heartfelt thanks for your continued support that enabled us to continue to build this University and its various Schools. May God continue to guide us in this journey of inspiring futures. My best wishes and prayers are always with you.

Prof. Dr. Fr. Paul Fernandes, S.J.

XAVIER UNIVERSIT Y BHUBANESWAR

Xavier School of Computer Science & Engineering

Xavier School of Economics

Xavier Center of Urban Management & Governance

Xavier School of Commerce

Xavier School of Communications

Xavier School of Sustainability

Xavier School of Rural Management

Xavier School of Human Resource Management

Xavier Institute of Management

CONVOCATION PROGRAMME

Academic Procession

: 5:45 PM

Prayer Song

: Students' Choir

Welcome Address : Prof. Fr. E. A. Augustine, S.J. Registrar Vice Chancellor’s Report : Prof. Dr. Fr. Paul Fernandes, S.J. Vice Chancellor Chairman’s Address : Shri Rajive Kaul Chairman, Board of Governors Convocation Address : Ms. Rekha M Menon Chairman and Senior Managing Director Accenture in India Award of Medals : Ms. Rekha M Menon Chief Guest & Convocation Speaker Presentation of Graduates : Dr. Subhajyoti Ray Dean (Academics), XIMB Award of Degree : Shri Rajive Kaul Chairman, Board of Governors National Anthem Recession

Prof. Dr. Fr. Paul Fernandes, S.J. Vice Chancellor

C O N V O C A T I O N

S P E A K E R

Ms. Rekha M Menon

Chairman and Senior Managing Director Accenture in India

Rekha M. Menon is the Chairman and Senior Managing Director at Accenture in India. In this role, she is responsible for building Accenture's business, strengthening Accenture’s position in our communities, and enhancing the profile of Accenture in India. She oversees the integration of Accenture’s overall growth strategy with our long-term vision for the country. A thought leader, an active voice for social causes and an industry influencer, Rekha is responsible for forging and maintaining Accenture’s relationships with key external stakeholders. Some of her external positions include – Nasscom’s National Executive Council, American Chamber of Commerce in India’s (Amcham) National Executive Board. She is also on the Board of Governors at XLRI School of Business. Rekha joined Accenture in 2004, and since then held several strategic and leadership roles - her last two roles were - as the lead for Geographic Operations for India, ASEAN and APAC Delivery centres and Human Resources lead for Accenture’s Growth Markets. Rekha is actively engaged in Accenture's Inclusion and Diversity and Corporate Citizenship initiatives - an active advocate of giving back to society and improving the way the world lives, she champions her support for society through her association with not-for-profit organizations.

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BOARD OF GOVERNORS (XUB) Chairman

Vice Chancellor

Registrar & Secretary

Shri Rajive Kaul

Fr. Paul Fernandes, S.J.

Fr. E.A. Augustine, S.J.

Chairman NICCO Engineering Services Limited Kolkata

Vice Chancellor Xavier University Bhubaneswar

Registrar & Secretary Xavier University Bhubaneswar

Members

Shri G.V.V. Sarma, IAS

Shri Tuhin Kanta Pandey, IAS

Shri Sanjiv Chopra, IAS

Shri Sanjay Kumar Singh, IAS

Fr. George Fernandes, S.J.

Fr. E. Abraham, S.J.

Additional Chief Secretary Higher Education Dept. Govt. of Odisha

Commissioner-cum-Secretary Skill Development & Technical Education Dept. Govt. of Odisha

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Principal Secretary Finance Department Govt. of Odisha

President Odisha Jesuit Society Loyola Hall, Jamshedpur

Principal Secretary Industries Department Govt. of Odisha

Director XLRI, Jamshedpur

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Members

Fr. Swebert D’Silva, S.J.

Director St. Joseph’s College of Law Secretary – JHEASA, Bengaluru

Dr. B. Muthuraman

Former Vice Chairman Tata Steel Ltd. Mumbai

Mrs. Jagi Mangat Panda Managing Director Ortel Communications Ltd. Bhubaneswar

Fr. Felix Raj, SJ

Fr. Nicholas Tete, S.J.

Shri Ansuman Das

Dr. Sanghamitra Mohanty

Vice Chancellor St. Xavier’s University Kolkata

Former Chairman-cumManaging Director NALCO

Shri Anubhav Patnaik

Member of Legislative Assembly Odisha

Principal St. Xavier’s College Ranchi

Former Vice Chancellor North Odisha University Baripada Odisha

Shri Jyoti Prakash Panigrahi

Member of Legislative Assembly Odisha

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BOARD OF GOVERNORS (XIMB) Chairman

Vice Chairman

Shri Rajive Kaul

Fr. Paul Fernandes, S.J.

Chairman NICCO Engineering Services Limited Kolkata

Director Xavier Institute of Management Bhubaneswar

Members

Shri B. J. Panda

Member of Parliament, Lok Sabha R.N. Singhdeo Marg Unit-8, Bhubaneswar

Fr. George Fernandes, S.J. President Odisha Jesuit Society Loyola Hall Jamshedpur

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Shri Aditya Prasad Padhi, IAS Chief Secretary Govt. of Odisha

Dr. Santrupt Misra

CEO, Carbon Black Business Director, Group HR Aditya Birla Management Corporation Pvt. Ltd. Mumbai

Shri Tuhin Kanta Pandey, IAS

Shri Sanjay Kumar Singh, IAS

Shri Kamal Bali

Shri D. Shivakumar

Principal Secretary Finance Department Govt. of Odisha

President & Managing Director Volvo Group– India Bangalore

Commissioner-cum-Secretary Skill Development & Technical Education Dept, Govt. of Odisha

Group Exe. President Corporate Strategy & Business Development Aditya Birla Management Corporation Pvt. Ltd. Mumbai

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Secretary

Treasurer

Fr. E.A Augustine, S.J.

Fr. Donald D'Silva, S.J.

Registrar Xavier University Bhubaneswar

Director (Finance) Xavier Institute of Management Bhubaneswar

Members

Shri Anand Sen

Fr. E. Abraham, S.J.

Prof. Subhajyoti Ray Dean, Academics XIMB

Vice Chancellor St. Xavier’s University Kolkata

Fr. Nicholas Tete, S.J.

Fr. K. M. Joseph, S.J.

Dr. Amar Patnaik, IA & AS

Shri Rajendra Kumar Dey, I.F.S.

President (TQM & Steel Business) Tata Steel Ltd. Jamshedpur

Principal St. Xavier’s College Ranchi

Director XLRI, Jamshedpur

Superior Odisha Jesuit Mission Bhubaneswar

Principal AG (Audit) Kerala

Fr. Felix Raj, SJ

Addl. Principal Chief Conservator of Forests (Central) MoEF & CC, Eastern Regional Office Bhubaneswar

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BOARD OF MANAGEMENT Name

Designation

Fr. Paul Fernandes, S.J.

Vice Chancellor - Ex-Officio Chairman

Fr. E. A Augustine, S.J.

Registrar - Ex-Officio Secretary

Fr. George Fernandes, S.J.

President, Odisha Jesuit Society

Fr. E. Abraham, S.J.

Director, XLRI, Jamshedpur

Fr. Donald D’Silva, S.J.

Director (Finance)

Fr. K. M Joseph, S.J.

Superior, Odisha Jesuit Mission

Prof. Snigdha Pattanaik

Dean, Academics, Xavier School of HRM

Prof. Kajri Misra

Dean, Academics, Xavier School of RM

Dr. Manoj Fogla, CA

CA, NSRM & Associates

ACADEMIC COUNCIL Name

Designation

Fr. Paul Fernandes, S.J.

Vice Chancellor - Ex-Officio Chairman

Fr. E. A. Augustine, S.J.

Registrar - Ex-Officio Secretary

Fr. Donald D’Silva, S.J.

Director (Finance)

Prof. Subhajyoti Ray

Dean, Academics, XIMB

Prof. Snigdha Pattanaik

Dean, Academics, Xavier School of HRM

Prof. Kajri Misra

Dean, Academics, Xavier School of RM

Prof. S. Peppin

Dean, Academics, Xavier School of SM

Fr. Lourduraj Ignacimuthu, S.J.

Dean, Academics, Xavier School of Communications

Prof. P. K. Mohanty

Dean, Academics, Xavier School of Commerce

Prof. Rahul Takurta

Associate Dean, Doctoral Programe

Prof. Manindra Narayan Nayak

Controller of Examinations

FINANCE COMMITTEE

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Name

Designation

Fr. Paul Fernandes, SJ

Vice Chancellor - Ex-Officio Chairman

Fr. E. A. Augustine, SJ

Registrar – Ex-officio Secretary

Fr. Donald D’Silva, SJ

Director (Finance)

Fr. K. M. Joseph, SJ

Superior, Odisha Jesuit Mission

We thank the Faculty for inspiring our Gradua tin g St ud en t s

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GRADUATING S TUDENT S DOCTORAL PROGRAM

Poornima Mohapatra

Rupambika Bharati

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XAVIER INSTITUTE OF MANAGEMENT (XIMB) Medals for Academic Excellence 2016 - 18 and List of Graduates MBA IN BUSINESS MANAGEMENT (MBA-BM) CLASS OF 2016 - 2018 TOP TEN RANK HOLDERS & AWARDEES OF GOLD MEDALS

GOLD MEDAL FOR ACADEMIC EXCELLENCE 1st Rank

Adyasha Hota

2nd Rank

Avichal

3rd Rank

Abhishek Agarwar

4th Rank

Tanuj Mehta

5th Rank

Mrigank Hajela

6th Rank

Sanjay Romero D Sami

7th Rank

Maharshi Dines Vyas

8th Rank

Nidhi Bhatt

9th Rank

Shubam Kar

10th Rank

Dasare Ashutosh

MEDALS FOR OUTSTANDING PERFORMANCE

Odisha Jesuit Society Medal for Social & Ethical Adyasha Hota Perspective in Management

Leeta-Mishra Ankalkoti Gold Adyasha Hota Medal for Lady – Topper

NTPC Gold Medal for Lady Topper

Adyasha Hota

Ravi Sharma-Arsha Vidya Gold Medal to Best All Rounder

K Vidya Sagar Reddy

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XAVIER INSTITUTE OF MANAGEMENT (XIMB) 2016-2018 MBA – BM GRADUATING BATCH

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XAVIER INSTITUTE OF MANAGEMENT (XIMB) 2016-2018 MBA – BM GRADUATING BATCH

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XAVIER INSTITUTE OF MANAGEMENT (XIMB) 2016-2018 MBA – BM GRADUATING BATCH

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GRADUATING STUDENTS (MBA - BM) P. Siddharth Sankar

Palasala S Prithvi Krishna

Aurodeep Mishra

Shweta Singh

Paricheeta Rajee

Bhabana Tripathy

Mahasweata Mukherjee

Syed Adil Raza

Bharti Agarwal

Alpana Kar

Rahul Patnaik

Aditya Hridya

Vishvadeep Pundir

Rahul Tripathy

Deepak Kumar Mohanty

Aakak Ghosh

Priyanka Agarwal

Deepak Pathak

Aakanksha Tyagi

Sabyasachi Mohanty

Geetesh Debayan

Amiya Kr. Sahoo

Sahil Gupta

Himanshu Somani

Aditya Sharma

Sahil Jain

Ipsit Bibhudarshi

Abinash Rautray

Sahil Sharma

Jitin Dhingra

Aman Kapur

Saket Kumar Agarwalla

Joel Joe Paul

Amlan Jyoti Badu

Sakshi Goenka

Krishen Kabijeet

Animesh Kar

Samar Nanda

Kriti Juneja

Anshul Gangawat

Sampriti Mahanty

Manathkar Abhishek Rajendra

Anshuman Acharya

Shubhrajyoti Das

Manisha Samal

Ansuman Prasad

Shreejit Swain

Nihar Ranjan Samal

Ashis Dash

Shreya Sharda

Nikhilesh Bhatt

Ashish Jadhav

Shubham Kar

Parul Singh Baghel

Ashwin Chakrapani

Shubranshu Sushekhar Pani

Payal Priya Chand

B Aniruddh

Sanjaya Kumar Sahu

Piyush Agarwal

Baibhav Jena

Shyam Prasad Ghosh

Poorva Gupta

Bauddheya Baliarsingh

Shyam Sundar Jhajharia

Prachi Khaitan

Debasis Pattnaik

Tahiliani Meenakshi Anil

Rajiv Khandelwal

Debasis Tripathy

Tanmay Mishra

Ramakrishnan N

Bikram Mishra

Uday Garg

Raunaq Sahu

Harprit Singh Saini

Abhilash Mishra

Bishoi Ranjan Kumar Ravindranath

Jaysmita Mohanty

Abhisek Mishra

Sandeep Kumar Panda

Jishnu Sanyal

Abhisek Patra

Sanjay Das

Karunaditya Tripathy

Aditya Vikram Khemani

Sanjay Romero D Sami

Kotni Santoshi Kumari

Adyasha Hota

Sanjay Sambit Mohapatra

Krishna Jenamoni

Ajayesh Mohanty

Santak Tripathy

Madhubrat Patra

Animesh Panda

Saptatshi Dhar

Maharshi Dinesh Vyas

Anindya Basu

Shubham Agarwalla

Neerav Merchant

Aniruddha Singh Chouhan

Siddharth Anand

Nidhi Bhatt

Anubhav Behera

Sk Md Sarfaraz Haque

Rohit Panda

Anwesha Mishra

Swagat Kr. Nayak

P Tharun

Aravind Kadakethu

Soubir Samadder

P V Apoorva

Attreyo Saha

Soumya Ranjan Panda

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4TH CONVOCATION 2018 Soumya Surya Adhikari

Rituparna Das

Dushyant Patel

Sourabh Bajaj

Rituparnna Patra

Eshita Mohanty

Sourav Chakravarty

Kartik Pradhan

Gupta Nishant Rahul

Tanuj Mehta

Rohineesh Saunilya

Gyana Ranjan Mishra

Kumar Aditya

Sashwatha S

Jyotirmaya Ghadai

Vijay Raghav

Sarthak Samal

Rahul Agrawal

Abhishek Mathias

Saswat Sambit

R. Priyanka

Abhishek Gantayat

Saswati Sahoo

Kushal Dadhichi

Abhishek Mishra

Shivam Agarwal

Lakshya

Akash Gupta

Satwik Mohanty

Amlan Lenka

Akshat Kaushik

Saubhagya Kumar Jena

Mohit Jain

Akshay Kumar Tripathi

Rajesh Ranjan

Mytreya Reddy Kamani

Anirudha Satapathy

Sourav Dalmia

Nivedita Yadav

Anishok Mishra

Spandan Nayak

Pratik Gupta

Ankeeta Dash

Subhankar Dash

Praveen Dash

Archit Keshan

Subharthi Chakraborty

Pravesh Kumar Tripathy

Akash Jain

Subhojit Hazra

Prerana Tripathy

Spandan Dash Mohapatra

Subhrajyoti Mohapatra

Prince Kumar Choudhary

Avichal

Sujay Motani

Probir Bose

Avinash Panda

Suman Mishra

Rohit Mishra

Bhashyajit Mukherjee

Tity M Alex

Rohit Pattnaik

Biswajeet Behera

Vijayamahantesh Kotin

Kumar Soubhav Purohit

Chirantan Palit

Vikram Khatore

Rudrasis Mohanty

Deepayan Pattnaik

Vivek Mishra

Saurav Pattanaik

Dhanush H N

Yash Sharat Pillai

Sayan Pattnaik

Govind Pradeep Kumar

Abinash Sabat

Sayantan Ganguly

Hitesh Goenka

Abulhaiyat Hasim Khan

Shahbaz Khan

Juhi Mittal

Adarsh Patnaik

Shaurya Bhagat

Kshitish Sahoo

Akshay Sharma

Shephali

Kumar Ankitesh

Alabhya Pranay

Shibashis Pattanayak

Kumar Siddhartha

Ankit Anupam

Suman Panigrahi

Mathew George

Ankit Mangla

Sunil Kumar Patra

Mehta Purvi Subodh

Ankit Prusty

Sunny Raj

Nilay Jain

Arupananda Rout

Susovan Dwivedy

Nishant Kumar

Arvind Sarangi

Swati

Pranab Sen

Ashirbad Rath

Swati Sucharita Das

Pranodita Sahoo

Avinash Sahu

Swati Suman

Prasad Khole

Avinash Sahu

Trishala Dash

Prashant Sharma

Biswajit Dash

Vishnu Pillai

Prateek Kaushik

Biswajit Raiguru

Walke Nikhil Hemant

Pratik Das

Divya Agrawal

Ankit Pattanaik

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REPORT 2017-18 Asish Pratik Biswal

Shouvik Mukherjee

Manali Madhuchhanda

Debashis Tripathy

Shubhashree Soubhagya Rashmi

Mrigank Hajela

Sudhansu Sekhar Bihari

Sidharth Dash

Nagesh Kumar Parida

Veeneet Acharya

Snahit Kumar Sahu

Neelabjo Mukherjee

Abhishek Naik

Tushar Malik

Neerja Jain

Aditya Syal

Soumya Routray

Payal Mazumdar

Akshika Kachroo

Soumya Shilpika Rath

Pinto Nikhil Priyesh Henry

Amit Mohanty

Soumyashree Kar

Pranjali Nanda

Abhipsha Sahoo

Subrat Rath

Pratik Roy

Akanksha Singh

Sumit Sancheti

Rahul Agarwal

Anmol Panda

Suraj Khandelwal

Rohit Dash

Arpit Garg

Swaroop Varghese Kuruvilla

Sangram Pattnaik

Aswath S B

Swayam Saswat

Sampurna Sagar Nayak

Avisek Mohapatra

Vignesh G

Saswat Satpathy

Biswajit Behera

Vinita

Satabdi Maharana

Chirag Jagga

Aayush Gautam

Shashwat Ramakrishna Nayak

Debabratta Panda

Abhijit Kar

Sheersa Suman Mohanty

Debdeep Mukherjee

Abhishek Agarwal

Siddhartha Ranjan Panda

Deepali Agarwal

Abhishek Dogra

Sidharth Padhi

Divyanshu Jain

Bontu Sonali

Somanchi Venkata Raghava

Gaurav Bachhawat

Aman Mohanty

Somdatta Sengupta

Jagadish Patra

Anuj Thakral

Soubhagya Pani

Jithin Davis

Anurag Padhi

Soumya Ranjan Mohanty

K Vidya Sagar Reddy

Archana Vijay

Soumya Sarthak

Kanika Dhall

Arunima Acharya

Soumya Snigdha Jena

Karna

Ashish Ranjan

Sudhanshu Sekhar Bhuyan

Rahuljit Kalita

Biswadhar Mohanty

Suraj Saraswat

Lipsa Lenka

Chirag Gupta

Swagatika Panda

Megha Saraogi

Chiranjeeb Mishra

Swastik Mohanty

Nachiketa Panda

Dasare Ashutosh Milind

Sambeet Mallick

Pallabi Pattnaik

Debesh Kumar Bal

Varun Tarshim Dogra

Sambit Sahu

Deepak Pahwa

Viraj Raisurana

Pooja Nanda

Devashree Rohit Gulgule

Vivek Guleria

Rajeev Nanda

Dwaipayan Das

Gyan Mohan Tudu

Rashmi Agarwal

K Anil

Md Sarfaraz Hussain

Rohan Rustagi

K V K A Sampath Govind Sarma

Aakash Gupta

Rounak Nayak

Kasif Khan

Abhijeet Mishra

Sanskruti Panigrahi

Mayank Chuttani

Abhineet Joshi

Saumya Saurav Brahma

Kunal Mahendru

Smrutisagar Mohanty

Saurabh Mitra

Lenka Pushpalata Parshuram

Nitesh

Shalina Bebarta

Lohit Kumar Das

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XAVIER INSTITUTE OF MANAGEMENT (XIMB) GRADUATING STUDENTS (GLOBAL – MBA) Class of 2016-2018

Kriti Singh

Kumar Shalabh

Anurag Modak

Diksha Mahawar

Chyanit Singh

Abhisek Samantray

Seema Mishra

Jalamangala Siva Anudeep

Ashutosh Kumar

Barnita Mishra

Priyank Aarwal

Nafees Fasal

Nitin Raj

Congratulations!

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XAVIER INSTITUTE OF MANAGEMENT (XIMB) GRADUATING STUDENTS (EXECUTIVE MBA-BM: ONE YEAR FULL-TIME) Class of 2016-2017 Diwan Chand Garg Gold Medal

1st Rank

Sumati Mishra

Gold Medal for Academic Excellence

2nd Rank

Soumendra Kumar Dalai

3rd Rank

Rajendra Prasad Puhan

Abhishek Shankar

Hrishikesh Mahapatra

Saurav Pattanaik

Ajitesh Biswal

Jyoti Upadhyaya

Siddharth Mohanty

Aman Pachisia

Aishani Garg

Siddhartha Mitra

Ankur Mittal

Rajendra Prasad Puhan

Soumendra Kumar Dalai

Ankur Mohapatra

Ruchira Panigrahy

Sumati Mishra

Anup Kumar Jaiswal

Sabyasachi Mishra

Tanay Kumar Choudhury

Arpita Mohanty

Sambeet Kumar Mohapatra

Vishal Panda

Congratulations!

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XAVIER CENTER FOR URBAN MANAGEMENT AND GOVERNANCE (XUMG) GRADUATING STUDENTS (MBA-UMG) Class of 2016-2018

Vice Chancellor’s Gold Medal for Best All-rounder

Biswaprakash Kar

C. S. Karthik

Vidisha Kandoi

Shreyangsh Rath

Jagatjeet Mohapatra

Amit Kumar

Som Nath Kar

Rakesh

Biswaprakash Kar

Sumit Senapati

Sambit Mishra

Pooja Mohanty

Dilshad Ali

Siddhi Dubey

Rama Gupta

Gourav Pradhan

Sikil Sibani Mishra

Sandeep Patro

Congratulations!

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NEW HORIZONS: UNIVERSITY HIGHLIGHTS

CONVOCATION 2017 The Third Convocation of Xavier University Bhubaneswar (XUB) was held on Wednesday, March 22, 2017. Shri Vinod Kumar, Managing Director & Group CEO - Tata Communications Ltd. was the Chief Guest and Convocation Speaker. We thank Shri Vinod Kumar, Managing Director & Group CEO - Tata Communications Ltd., Shri Rajive Kaul, our Chairman and all the Governing Board Members for their gracious presence and the wonderful Convocation which was well appreciated.

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First Convocation of Xavier School of Commerce (XSC) The first Convocation for the graduates of the Xavier School of Commerce was held on Friday April 21, 2017. The Hon’ble Governor of Odisha Dr. S. C. Jamir presided over the convocation ceremony and Smt. Sanghamitra Mohanty, former Vice Chancellor of North Odisha University & Member, Board of Governors of Xavier University Bhubaneswar delivered the Convocation Address. We thank the Hon'ble Governor of Odisha Dr. S. C. Jamir, and Smt. Sanghamitra Mohanty, for their gracious presence.

Inauguration of the Xavier Centre for Urban Management and Governance The Xavier Centre for Urban Management and Governance was inaugurated by Dr. S. C. Jamir, the Hon'ble Governor of Odisha on April 21, 2017.

Inauguration of 200 kWp Grid Connect Solar Power Plant On April 21, 2017 Dr. S.C. Jamir, the Hon’ble Governor of Odisha inaugurated Xavier University’s 200 kWp solar power project, the first Solar City project in Bhubaneswar. Taking the first steps towards zero carbon footprint and creating a clean and green campus in the true sense. We thank all those who helped to create solar power generation at Xavier University. We thank the Hon'ble Governor of Odisha Dr. S. C. Jamir for inaugurating the Centre for Urban Management and Governance and the Solar Power Project.

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Round Table Discussion and Dialogue A round table discussion and dialogue o n “ Tro u b l e d T i m e s a n d H o p e Reimagining a New Orientation for Humanities and Social Sciences” was held on 6th July 2017 in the Xavier City Campus, Xavier University Bhubaneswar. This is an exploratory round table. The focus of the round table was to build a best in class transdisciplinary School of Humanities and Social Science, which is both innovative and relevant. Twenty-five national and international dignitaries participated in the round table which espoused a vision of a world of humanities and social sciences beyond the traditional boundaries.

HR Symposium Xavier School of Human Resource Management organized the annual HR Symposium on July 15, 2017. Practitioners shared their thoughts and views in two panel discussions themed : “Overview of Contemporary HR Practices” and “Pushing the Boundaries of HR”. Fr. E. A. Augustine, S.J., Registrar, Xavier University Bhubaneswar and Prof. Snigdha Pattnaik, Dean, Xavier School of Human Resource Management (XAHR) along with a student from each batch of MBA-HRM, inaugurated the Symposium by lighting the lamp, in the presence of students and faculty members of the school of HR and some eminent speakers like Ms. Arpita Sahu, Senior Manager-Talent and Development, Bharti Airtel, Mr. Ankush Arora, Head of OD and Business HR, at Havells India Ltd. and Gaurav Khandelwal, HR Leader, Honeywell Process Solutions.

Jesuit Conference South Asian Assistancy's Annual Meeting of the Commissions' Secretaries was held during August 5-6, 2017 at XUB, Xavier City Campus. There were 15 participants including Fr. George Pattery, S.J., POSA, the President of the South Asian Jesuit Assistancy.

Workshop on Smart City A Smart Cities Workshop Sustainable Urban Development was organized by Heidelberg University, ORF, SPA and BayIND in collaboration with Xavier University Bhubaneswar (XUB), the IndoGerman chamber of Commerce and supported by Friedrich Naumann Stiftung für die Freiheit during September 21-22, 2017 at Hotel Mayfair Lagoon, Bhubaneswar. This was the first step in future collaboration.

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XIMB Business Excellence Summit 2017 In order to commemorate the 30 years of existence of XIMB, a Business Excellence Summit 2017 was organized during September 22-23, 2017 in the XIMB campus. This was an occasion for the institute to reflect over the past, celebrate the present and share our hopes for the future. The central theme of the event was XIMB @ 40 - “Surmounting the changing landscape of management education”. The panel discussions were aligned to this theme and about 27 alumni joined the reflection. The 2-day summit was inaugurated with the lighting of the lamp by Prof. Latha Ravindran, Prof. Subhajyoti Ray, Ms. Sunita Raut a 1992-1994 alumnus, Mr. Rakesh Kumar a 1988-1991 alumnus and Mr. Rahul Patnaik. Prof. Dr. Fr. Paul Fernandes, S.J., shared his experiences, memories and the sacrifices made by the founders to mould XIMB into one of the premier B-schools of the country.

Catholic Bishops’ Conference of India (CBCI) - Council for Women A National Training/Meeting of Regional Secretaries & Core Team members was held on September 30 – October 1, 2017, at the Xavier City Campus. The theme of the meeting was the “Role of Women in Making the Family”. There were about 42 participants from various parts of India. During the meeting CBCI guidelines to deal with Sexual Harassment at Workplace’ was launched by the Most Rev. Jacob Mar Barnabas, Chairperson, together with the Most Rev. Francis Kalist, Member Bishop, CBCI Council for Women.

JEASA Triennial Conference JEASA Triennial Conference on 'Our Mission, Our Schools from GC 36 Perspective' was organized by the Jesuit Educational Association South Asia (JEASA) in collaboration with Province Coordinators for Education during October 6-9, 2017 at Xavier University. It’s International Secretary, Rev. Fr. Jose Mesa, S.J. presided over the meeting. JEASA was constituted in 1961. It is a forum for reflection on the Educational Apostolate of Jesuits in the context of the changing circumstances in South Asia. The Jesuits Educators' Triennial is an event held once in 3 years to converge, communicate and commit on a theme to lead all our schools in South Asia. Educators come together, to discuss, discern and plan educational ideas for the future, as a corporate body in South Asia. This year it happens after the all-important GC 36. This prestigious event was the first Triennial under the New JEA Secretary. This Triennial meet is being held against the backdrop of some major events Laudato Si – the Encyclical of the Pope on ecology and environment, namely (1) The General Congregation 36 with its thrust on Discernment, Collaboration and Networking, (2) JESEDU RIO 2017 at Rio in Brazil, and (3) The Sustainable Development Goals. 250 participants attended the conference.

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Foundation Day Lecture 2017 The 15th Foundation Day Lecture of the Xavier Institute of Management Bhubaneswar was held on October 31, 2017. This year XIMB welcomed Dr. Naushad Forbes, Co-Chairman of Forbes Marshall, a corporation that helps customers save energy, improve product quality, increase process efficiency through their deep process knowledge and run a clean and safe factory. The event was presided over by Mr. Rajive Kaul, Chairman, XIMBXUB and Fr. Paul Fernandes, S.J., Director XIMB and Vice Chancellor XUB.

Business Conclave 2017 XIMB’s Executive MBA program hosted its maiden annual business conclave "X-eminence" on the 4th of November 2018. The event was made special by eminent personalities namely Mr. Debasis Mohapatra, Director, PwC, Mrs. Jayati Dwivedy, Head of Recruitment, British Telecom, Dr. Kushal Sanghvi, Former Business Head, Reliance Entertainment and Digital, Mr. Debasish Mohapatra, Head of Quality, Shell, Mr. Simanta Mohanty, President, HuCap and Mr. Ramesh Kollana, Head of ERP and Niche, TCS. The event focused on providing multidimensional insights on 'Competition in the area of Digital Transformation'.

VIKALP: A Festival of Performing Arts The second edition of Vikalp - Songs, Stories and Conversations was held from November 17-19, 2017 at Xavier City campus. It was hosted by the Xavier School of Communications, Xavier University Bhubaneswar. The essence of the festival was to celebrate plurality, diversity and tolerance through its attempt to revitalize long-lost art forms.

International Conference on Rural Management 2017 Xavier School of Rural Management (XSRM), Xavier University Bhubaneswar, successfully organized the first International Conference on Rural Management (ICRM) with the theme “Rural Management for Sustainable Development” during November 23 - 24, 2017. The conference was inaugurated by an insightful address by the chief guest, Shri Amarjeet Sinha, IAS, Secretary, Department of Rural Development, Government of India. He was joined in this august gathering by Shri Saurabh Garg, IAS, Principal Secretary, Department of Agriculture & Farmers’ Empowerment, Government of Odisha.

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Faculty Development Workshop-Case Pedagogy as a Learning Tool Faculty Development Workshop - Case Pedagogy as a Learning Tool was held at XIMB during November 24-25, 2017. This case method can be used in a very effective way for moving students gradually up the cognitive skills ladder from the low skills levels of knowledge, comprehension and application to the higher and more desirable skills of analysis, synthesis and evaluation.

Urban Management and Governance Symposium 2017 The Urban Management and Governance Symposium on “Professional needs for Smart Urbanization” was organized on December 2, 2017 and it brought together professors, urban planners, smart city advisors and management specialists from across the nation to deliberate and contribute their ideas on “Professional needs for Smart Urbanization”. Prof. Dr. Ashok Kumar, School of Planning & Architecture, Mr. Dinesh Harode, Team Lead SLPMC for Smart Cities, IPE Global, Mr. Shankar Arumugham, National Head, Jones Lang LaSalle, Mr. Prashant Kumar, Assistant General Manager, Ecorys, Mr. Chandan Sinha, Vice President, Smart City Advisory, Mr. Jamal A Rasheed, Head Urban Planning, L&T Ramboll and Mr. Md. Mahtab Alam, General Manager, Faridabad Smart City, were some of the esteemed speakers at the event.

HR-Marketing Symposium Xavier School of Commerce (XSC) organised the second edition of its Annual Symposium on December 7, 2017 at the Xavier City Campus. The theme was Sustainable Marketing and Human Resource Management. The session was inaugurated by Prof. Dr. Fr. Paul Fernandes, S.J., Vice Chancellor, Xavier University. Sri Srikumar Mishra, MD, CEO, Milk Mantra & Prof. Dr. Santosh Rangnekar, Prof. of OB, HRM & Knowledge Management, IIT Roorkee were the keynote speakers.

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3rd International Conference on Social Media: The Changing Communication Environment The 3rd International Conference on “Social Media: The Changing Communication Environment” was organized by the Xavier School of Communications, Xavier University Bhubaneswar during December 15-16, 2017. The welcome address was delivered by Dean Fr. Lourduraj Ignacimuthu, S.J., who stressed on the dynamics of new media and introduced all the nine sub-sections of the conference. Prof. Dr. Fr. Paul Fernandes, S.J., Vice Chancellor, XUB addressed the inaugural session. A compilation of the best papers of the previous conference, was released, as a book titled,"Media and Democracy'. The XCOMM international conference team invited prominent academicians, scholars, and media professionals to generate theoretical and practical interdisciplinary discourse which would expand the understanding of current and future trend in social media.

Children Environment Congress 2017 Children environment congress 2017 on “Environment and Sustainable River Basin Management” was held on December 21-22, 2017 at Xavier City Campus. It was hosted by the Xavier School of Sustainability, Xavier University Bhubaneswar. XUB once again partnered with Human Development Foundation – Centre for Development Action & Research (HDF-cDAR) to enable children to be the initiators of protecting and preserving our river basins. Children’s Environment Congress 2017 was graced by Sri. Badri Narayan Patra, Minister of School and Mass Education, Govt. of Odisha, Dr. Seba Mohapatra, Former Director, Health Services, Govt. of Odisha, Mr. Sudarshan Das, Organising Secretary, OEC., Prof. Dr. Fr. Paul Fernandes, S.J., Vice Chancellor, XUB., Fr. E. A. Augustine, S.J, Registrar, XUB., Prof. Dr. S. Peppin, Dean, XSOS.

National Conference on “Remembering Mahatma Gandhi: Compassion and Relevance for our Times” The Father of the Nation, Mahatma Gandhi was martyred on the 30th of January 1948. To remember this great man the newly formed centre, The Centre for Humanities and Compassion Studies, Xavier University Bhubaneswar humbly hosted a national conference on “Remembering Mahatma Gandhi: Compassion and Relevance for Our Times” on January 30th and 31st, 2018 at the Xavier City Campus.

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Sustainability Summit 2018: Sustainability Disruptions for Mitigating Global Risks XUB Sustainability Summit 2018 on 'Sustainability Disruptions for Mitigating Global Risks' was organized by the Xavier School of Sustainability (XSoS) during February 9-10, 2018. The summit was inaugurated by Mr. Kamal Bali, President & MD, VOLVO Group India. Representatives from companies like Wipro, KPMG, Tata Sustainability Group, Aditya Birla, NALCO, NABARD, were present. In addition to corporate dignitaries, students, research scholars and academicians from various institutions such as the University of Oklahoma (USA), University at Buffalo (New York) and Vienna University of Technology, Austria were an integral part of the summit. A compendium titled 'Fusions of Sustainability' containing the abstracts of all the speakers was released by during the inauguration. 65 speakers and 50 contestants participated in the summit. In addition, 300 people attended the summit.

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XUMG - 2nd Annual Research on Cities (ARC) Summit Xavier Centre for Urban Management and Governance (XUMG) successfully organized the 2nd ARCs Summit during February 16-17, 2018, on Knowledge Systems for Livable Settlements. The conference was inaugurated by Dr. Sameer Sharma, Addl. Secretary, Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs, Government of India, and Prof. Dr. Fr. Paul Fernandes, S.J., Vice Chancellor, Xavier University Bhubaneswar opened the event with a welcome address. The event also featured two Panels on Private Sector and CSR in Urban Development and on the conference theme respectively.

National Conference on Accounting and Finance The 2nd National Conference on Accounting and Finance was organized by the Xavier School of Commerce on Friday, the February 23, 2018. The theme of the conference was “Commerce in Digitized India”. Prof. Sunil Gandhi from Kalyani University, Kolkata and Prof. Sharmistha Banerjee from Dept. of Business Management, University of Calcutta were the keynote speakers on the occasion. Mr. Durgaprasad Harichandan, Senior Vice President & Head- Digital, Business Retention and Excellence, graced the occasion as Chief Guest in the inaugural session. The conference saw participation from many renowned academicians and research scholars. Research papers were presented in the technical sessions of the conference.

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Awards & Rankings Four Palmes Global Award By Eduniversal Convention Xavier University Bhubaneswar (XUB) was awarded the Four Palmes Global Award by France-based Eduniversal Convention for outstanding academic excellence in management education and research. While over the past few years Xavier University Bhubaneswar was awarded Three Palmes Global Award, this year it was elevated to the Four Palmes Global Award for exhibiting tremendous growth and development at par with global standards among top business schools in India. The Eduniversal Convention over the years has been grading and ranking more than 1200 business schools across the globe.

International Rankings EDUNIVERSAL MASTERS RANKING

Eduniversal had announced the results of the Eduniversal Ranking 2017 for the 4000 Best Masters and MBAs in 32 fields of study worldwide. The following programs of Xavier University are ranked:

Masters Program in Sustainability Management (MBA-SM) TOP 100 - Global ranking

Ranked N°95 in Sustainable Development and Environmental Management, Worldwide

MBA in Rural Management TOP 50 - Global ranking

Ranked N°19 in Agribusiness / Food Industry Management, Worldwide

MBA in Business Management TOP 200 - Regional ranking within the 9 geographical zones

Ranked N°5 in General Management, Central Asia

MBA in Human Resource Management TOP 200 - Regional ranking within the 9 geographical zones

Ranked N°5 in Human Resources Management, Central Asia

Executive MBA-Full-time One year TOP 200 - Regional ranking within the 9 geographical zones

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The BIZZ 2017 Award Xavier University Bhubaneswar has been awarded with THE BIZZ 2017 Award for its distinguished business excellence by the World Confederation of Business (WORLDCOB) at Frenchman's Reef and Morning Star Marriott Beach Resort, Saint Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands, USA.

National Rankings UNIVERSITY RANKING OUTLOOK-DRSHTI UNIVERSITY RANKING Xavier University is ranked 18 in the first Outlook-Drshti ranking of India’s top Universities.

HIGHER EDUCATION REVIEW Xavier University is listed 2nd in the Top Emerging Universities in India by Higher Education Review. We are also placed 3rd in the Top 10 universities with High-Quality Placement in the Higher Education Review.

NIRF RANKING BY MINISTRY OF HRD Xavier University is ranked 33 in the National Institutional Framework Ranking by Ministry of HRD.

CSR-GHRDC B-SCHOOL SURVEY Rural Management, Sustainability Management & Mass Communication programs of Xavier University Bhubaneswar has been ranked 2nd among the Top 12 B-Schools by Sector in the CSR-GHRDC B-School survey 2017.

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Our Distinguished Visitors His Excellency Dr. S. C Jamir Hon’ble Governor of Odisha His Excellency Major General Chris Eze (Rtd.) High Commissioner Republic of Nigeria Dr. Roger Benjamin Sages Professor and Docent Member, Department of Psychology, Lund University, Sweden Prof. Tugrul Atamer Vice Dean of Emlyon Business School, France

Mr. Vijayanand Jangiti India Ambassador & Alumnus of Thunderbird Arizona State University, USA

Dr. U. S. Saha Chief General Manager, Dept. of Economic Analysis & Research, NABARD Head Office, Mumbai

Dr. Srikanta Chatterjee Emiritus Professor in the School of Economics and Finance, Massey University, New Zealand

Mr. P. S. Narayan Vice President Head - Sustainability & Social Initiatives, Wipro Ltd Trustee and Head – Wipro Foundation

Dr. Ashok Das Vice Chairman, Odisha State Higher Education Council & Former Vice-Chancellor, Utkal University Odisha

Mr. Tony Henshaw Chief Sustainability Officer Aditya Birla Group, Mumbai

Dr. Naushad Forbes Co-Chairman, Forbes Marshall Pvt. Ltd.

Shri S. N. Sahu Former OSD and Press Secretary to Late President of India, K. R Narayanan

Dr. Balasubramanian Iyer Regional Director, International Cooperative Alliance Asia and Pacific, New Delhi

Fr. Peter Balleis, S.J. Executive President Jesuit Worldwide Learning, Switzerland

Dr. Shiv Visvanathan Senior fellow, Centre for the Study of Developing Societies (CSDS), Delhi

Fr. Francis, S. J. VP for Academics & Research Jesuit Worldwide Learning, Switzerland

Dr. D. Jeevan Kumar Professor of Political Science (Retd.) Bangalore University, Bengaluru

Dr. Ajit Kumar Pattnaik, IFS, (Retd.) Former PCCF, Odisha Ex Chief Executive, Chilka Dev. Authority, BBSR Vice President, Wetlands International South Asia

Dr. Simran Kahai Associate Professor of Economics and Finance John Caroll University, JSA

Dr. Rajsekhar Basu Head of the Department of History

Frank Trochi, ACCMI Mr. Robert J. McCubbing Counsellor (Commercial) High Commission of Canada Ms. Tejdeep Kaur Economic Analyst, High Commission of Canada Mr. Benedikt von Boehmer Responsible for India, St. Gallen Symposium Kamal Bali Managing Director, Volvo India Mr. Arjun Kr. Dutta Trade Commissioner, Canadian Trade Office Ms. Annie Lo International Senior Vice President & Chief Officer Asia Pacific, AACSB

Dr. Smita Nayak HOD & Associate Professor, P.G. Department of Political Science, Utkal University Dr. Vijay Mahajan The Founder and President of BASIX Dr. Shubhabroto Raychoudhury Vice Chancellor, Techno Global University, Sironh,Madhya Pradesh. Dr. Sudhir Chandra Jena Associate Professor, Department of Political Science, MPC Govt. Autonomous College, North Orissa University

Dr. Sameer Sharma, IAS Addl. Secretary, Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs, Government of India Sri. Badri Narayan Patra Minister of School and Mass Education Govt. of Odisha Shri Amarjeet Sinha, IAS, Secretary, Department of Rural Development Government of India Dr. Farrokh Mistree Professor, University of Oklahoma, USA Dr. John Hall Assistant Professor, University at Buffalo, USA Prof. Philippe Monin Academic Dean, Emlyon Business School, France

Mr. Ramasubramanian A Social Entrepreneur, Tamilnadu, India Dr. Apoorvanand Jha Professor, Delhi University Delhi, India

Mr. Adam Ferguson Fraud Prevention Manager U.S. Consulate General, Hyderabad Ms. Anuradha Selvarajan Fraud Investigations Specialist U.S. Consulate General, Hyderabad Mr. Jonathan P. Ackley Deputy Chief of American Citizen Services U.S. Consulate General, Hyderabad Ms. Sreedevi Poli U.S. Consulate General, Hyderabad Fr. George Pattery, S.J. Provincial of South Asia Fr. Jose Mesa S.J. International Secretary of Education, JEASA Mr. Allen Morrison CEO, Thunderbird Mr. Ashley Fernandes Senior Advisor to the Dean & CEO Emlyon Business School, France

We had the privilege of hosting over 200 distinguished guests.

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A Warm Welcome to Our New Faculty and Staff We welcome our new Faculty and Staff who joined the XUB family during the year and wish them many years of fruitful and productive service at XUB.

Faculty joined XUB during 2017-18 Arpita Saha

Nadarajah Manickam

Ashutosh Mishra

Parikshit De

Bibhuti Ranjan Mishra

Rahul Kumar

Gautam Mali

Shovan Ray

Gogol Mitra Thakur

Subhra Pattnaik

Monalisa Mandal

Suresh Kumar Patra

Nadira Khatun

V. Vijay Kumar

Non-Teaching Staff joined during 2017-18 Ajit Kumar Das

Ridhima Das

Arpita Jena

Sanjay Surin

Lopamudra Tripathy

Soumya Ranjan Dash

Lyndon D. Thomas

Sridebi Paricha

Pravat Kumar Das

Sripati Mahapatra

Ranjan Kumar Swain

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IHS

Xavier University

For the Greater Glory of God

Faculty of Management

Xavier Institute of Management (XIMB) Xavier School of Human Resource Management (XAHR) Xavier School of Rural Management (XSRM)

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Bhubaneswar (XUB) Xavier School of Commerce (XSC) Xavier School of Sustainability (XSoS) Xavier School of Communications (XCOMM) Xavier Centre for Urban Management & Governance (XUMG) Xavier School of Economics (XSE) Xavier School of Computer Science & Engineering (XCOMP)

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The ‘University Dialogue Series’ @ Xavier University Bhubaneswar

The University Dialogue Series (UDS) as a platform is open to all who believe in questioning and exploration. The faculty fraternity’s expressed need to deliberate and discourse with the end goal of creating and sharing knowledge is the intent of UDS. The use of the word ‘dialogue’ is influenced by the writing of famous educationist Paulo Freire from his book ‘Pedagogy of the Oppressed’, and symbolizes primacy to the issue of knowledge sharing and [re] creation, and not to the degree / position one holds. This is the foundation on which Indian and Western (Greek) civilization has evolved, which is expressed well in the Natya Sastra and the concept of Parrhesia, respectively. In modern times, dialogue is one the most influential pedagogical approaches followed in education (as advocated by Paulo Freire) and the crucial instrument for action and characterization (as mentioned by Jean-Paul Sartre in his book 'The Age of Reason'). The forum invites young students, doctoral scholars, faculty of XUB as well as scholars and practitioners from outside the University to share their work/ideas and create a culture of healthy critical discussions on a variety of topics. UDS Conducted: Solving Environmental Challenges in the Age of Big Data: Role of Remote Sensing in Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS) Research; Dr. Deepak Mishra, Associate Professor, Department of Geography, University of Georgia; Micro-Credit and Poor: From the Lens of Asset Creation; Mr. Souvik Gupta, MBA-RM Student; 2016-18 batch; Demonetisation in India: A Critical Analysis of Implementation; Prof. Pradeep Kumar Mishra; The Emergence of a Global Post-Post-Colonial Political Order; Prof. T. Kumar; Grassroots Leadership: Powering Your Purpose; Dr. Madhavi Panda, Co-founder and Director, Parinaama Development Foundation; Persistence of Actively Managed Equity Mutual Fund Performance: New Indian Evidence; Prof. Soumya Guha Deb; Impact of Corporate Social Responsibility on Corporate Reputation: Assessing the Mediating Role of Employee Trust; Prof. Sanket Sunand Dash; A Study of Work Place Bullying of Women Employees in Public Sector Banks in India; Prof. Mousumi Padhi and Prof. Tania S Rath; Revisiting Bowman’s Paradox in Accounting Risk and Return: New Indian Evidence; Prof. Ranjan Dasgupta and Prof. Soumya Guha Deb; Challenges for Natural Resource Management: Field Observation from Shirui Village and Shirui Kashong, Manipur, India; Prof. Satyendra Nath Mishra; Bonded Labour Issues in Western Odisha: A Practitioner's View; Migration Programme, Tata Trust; : Mr. Rahul Jain, State Coordinator

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Xavier Institute of Management (XIMB)

Management Education in the spirit of Magis

MISSION

Student Profile Number of students enrolled in 2017-19 Batch Programme MBA (BM) Global MBA Executive MBA (Full-time) 2017-18

Male

Graduating Students Female

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273

80

353

4

0

4

18

9

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Programme MBA (BM) 2016-18 Global MBA 2016-18 Executive MBA (Full-time) 2016-17 Doctoral Students

Male

Female

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288

71

359

9

4

13

16

5

21

0

2

2

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Dean’s Report Dr. Subhajyoti Ray At XIMB we prepare our students to excel in this ever changing VUCA world of complexities. Over the last three decades we have quietly and meticulously built a strong faculty base having a healthy mix of academicians and practitioners. This blend of our key resource has provided us inner strength to impart high quality management education with rigour and contextual relevance. Equally inspiring is our culture which encourages a free flow of ideas and healthy discussion.

XIMB Business Excellence Summit 2017 In order to commemorate the 30 years of existence of XIMB, a Business Excellence Summit 2017 was organized during September 22-23, 2017 in the XIMB campus. This was an occasion for the institute to reflect over the past, celebrate the present and share our hopes for the future. The central theme of the event was XIMB, ten years hence - “Surmounting the changing landscape of management education”. The panel discussions were aligned to this theme and 27 alumni joined the reflection. The 2-day summit was inaugurated with the lighting of the lamp by Prof. Latha Ravindran, Prof. Subhajyoti Ray, Ms. Sunita Raut a 1992-1994 alumnus, Mr. Rakesh Kumar a 1988-1991 alumnus and Mr. Rahul Patnaik. Prof. Dr. Fr. Paul Fernandes, S.J., shared his experiences, memories and the sacrifices made by the founders to mould XIMB into one of the premier B-schools of the country.

Ranking / Grading 1.

XIMB has been ranked 11th among India’s top 100 B-Schools in the Outlook Management B-School survey 2017.

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XIMB has been ranked 6th among India’s top 10 Private B-Schools in the Outlook Management B-School survey 2017.

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XIMB, Xavier University has been ranked 3rd amongst India’s Top 10 Private Leading B-Schools of Super Excellence in the CSR-GHRDC B-School survey 2017.

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XIMB has been ranked 7th among India’s top 100 Private B-Schools in the Week- Hansa Research Survey 2017.

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XIMB has been ranked 8th among India’s Top Private B-Schools in the Business World – C fore B-School Survey 2017.

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XIMB has been ranked 10th in Super League A2 positions in the Business Standard B-School Survey.

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XIMB has been ranked 18th among India’s top 100 best B-Schools survey by India Today in 2017.

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XIMB has been ranked 19th among India’s top 150 B-Schools in the Week- Hansa Research Survey 2017.

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XIMB has been awarded with National A*** and OR A***(Odisha) by CRISIL Business School Grading.

Xavier University Research Publications •

Vilakshan

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International Journal of Development and Social Research-IJDSR

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Journal of Case Research (Online International Journal)

Academic Program Highlights The industry Interactions Series has been introduced to deepen the linkage with industry and also bring more practitioner flavor to the curriculum. Mr. Wribhu Tyagi, Founder CEO, Deal4Loans.com. Mumbai was invited to speak on “Commercial Banking” Industry Talks provide for inviting eminent industry experts to interact and engage with students. Mr. Arpit Das, Campaign Manager, DHFL - Behtar India - Launch Event for Behtar India Contest Ms. Sasmita Birabar, Senior Manager HR, IFFCO, Interaction on HR Industry Scenario Mr. Ganesh Jirkuntwar, Executive Director- Manufacturing, Dalmia Cements - Generic discussion on Leadership Mr. Debadatta Baxi, Head HR, McCain Foods India - Interaction on HR Industry Scenario Mr. Kris Lakshmikant, Founder Chairman & MD, Head Hunters India - Present Trends in Industry Mr. Yugantar Saikia, SVP & CAO, Ola Cabs - Present Trends in Industry Ms. Delna Avari, Startup Mentor - Present Trends in Industry Mr. Sumit Neogi, HR Leader, Cipla - Present Trends in Industry Mr. Vikram Jha, Founder, PUCHO, Present Trends in Industry Mr. Amit Kasliwal, India Head, Corporate Sales, Ford India - Think Like A CEO

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Strategic Academic Advisory Board – XIMB Convener

Dean (Academics), XIMB

Member (Internal)

Associate Dean, XIMB

Member (Internal)

Prof. Shridhar K Dash

Member (Internal)

Prof. W.S. William

Member (Internal)

Prof. M.N. Tripathi

Member Ex-officio

Dean (Academics), XAHR

Member (External)

Mr. Rituraj Kulshrestha Senior Manager, Deloitte Consulting, Bengaluru

Member (External)

Mr. Siddhartha Sanyal Director & Chief India Economist Barclays Bank PLC, Mumbai

Member (External)

Mr. Amit Singh, CEO, Avendus

Member (External)

Mr. Nandakumar Giriyapur Director, Deloitte Consulting, Bengaluru

Member (External)

Mr. Biju Dominic, CEO, Final Mile

Member (External)

Mr. Ayashkant Sarangi, VP, HR, WIPRO

Member (External)

Mr. Ramkumar Ramamoorthy Executive Director - India, Cognizant Technology Solutions

SAAB Committee Activity Report This year the SAAB was augmented and we had the joy of welcoming Ramkumar Ramamoorthy to the board. Ramkumar is the Executive Director of India Operations, at CTS. The SAAB meeting was held on February 10, 2018 and was also attended by all area coordinators. The meeting provided a great opportunity to brainstorm about various topics including innovation, industry academic linkages and general curriculum matters.

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XUBERANCE 2018 MBA-BM •

Xuberance ’18 saw the batch of 361 candidates of MBA (BM) program participating in the CAS process.

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99 companies participated in the process.

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The highest domestic salary stood at Rs.23.5 Lakhs per annum.

Companies which visited the campus in various sectors are as follows: •

Banking, Financial Services and Insurance : Axis Bank, HSBC IB, HSBC Bank, HDFC Life, ICICI Bank, ICRA, L&T Finance, Motilal Oswal Financial Services, RBS and Standard Chartered Global Business Services

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Consulting : Capgemini Consulting, Cognizant Business Consulting, Deloitte, Ernst & Young, PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC), Tiger Analytics and United Health Group

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Systems : Accenture, Brillio, HCL, IBM, Intellect Design, TCS and Wipro

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Operations : Future Supply Chain Solutions, L&T, Tata Steel, GMR, Ultratech Cement and Vedanta

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Sales & Marketing : BPCL, Emami, Eveready, GAIL, Godrej, Godrej & Boyce, Hero Motocorp, IOCL, L'Oreal, Maruti Suzuki, Nestle and PPG Asian Paints

Summary Total of students participated

361

Total number of companies

99

Highest Domestic Salary

Rs.23.5 Lakhs per annum

Summer Internships: 2017-19 The Batch of 2017-19, MBA (BM) had excellent summer internship this year for a batch size of 351 students and 102 companies participating in the summer internship process. Companies across different sectors like BFSI, FMCG, Consulting, Sales & Marketing, Systems and Operations visited the campus for the summer internship process. Some major recruiters were L'Oreal, GSK Pharma, Deloitte, Godrej, HCCBPL, IBM, HSBC, Axis Bank, PPG-Asian Paints etc. The highest stipend of Rs.1,50,000 per month was offered by the Godrej Group.

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Xavier School of Human Resource Management (XAHR)

Management Education in the spirit of Magis

MISSION

Student Profile Number of students enrolled in 2017-19 Batch Programme MBA (HRM)

Male 52

Class of 2016-18 Female 71

Total 123

Programme MBA (HRM) 2016-18

Male 60

Female 63

Total 123

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REPORT 2017-18

CLASS OF 2016-2018: MBA - HRM Abhinav Padhy

Pragyan Paramita Kar

Abeer Wadnerkar

Priyangi Das

Adit Arora

Pratyasha Mishra

Abhineet Louis

Rachit Bajpai

Aditya Kulashri

Pratyush P. Mohapatra

Abhishek Sarkar

Raveesha Malhotra

Agnish Ganguly

D Laxmikant

Adarsh Golchha

Richa Ritambhara

Aishwarya Pareek

Rahul Gera

Akanksha Priya

Smruti Narayan Pradhan

Akankshya Acharya

Reema Kumari

Amaresh Gourav

Ritika Singh

Amiya Ranjan Biswal

Riddhi Majumdar

Anasuya Sahoo

Rohan Mallick

Anjali Maria Sunil

Ritika Chandra

Ankita Padhi

Sabyasachi Ghosh

Aparna Garg

Ritwik Pani

Anshuman Mishra

Sagarika Tad

Ayush Avi

Rupali Rupejita Pradhan

Ankit Anurag

Anubhav Kumar

Ayushi Srivastava

Sanjana Mohanty

B. Ramachandran

Sasanka Sekhar Pati

Brusty Swain

Sasweta Sahoo

Binayak Mohanty

Shashank Jain

Chintapalli Sai Ravi Teja

Shakti Nandan

Lipta Mishra

Shayanta Chaudhuri

Darshan Mohanty

Shantini Pattnaik

Debaprasanna Puhan

Shilp Rajika

Dipti Mayee Mishra

Shaun Shaurya Francis

Deepshikha S. Mathur

Shivangi Kapoor

Gourabashis Das

Smriti Modi

Gunjan

Shruti Sharma

Hiranmaya Kar

Soham Bhattacharya

Himanshu Sekhar Pradhan

Simant Mohanty

Ishani Kar

Soumi Chakravarti

Brijesh Nand Biswal

Soumya Shankha Banerjee

Laasya Siddavaram

Sounak Kundu

Khyati Majithia

Srijeeta Bhattacharyya

Lalit Kumar Maharana

Sreebha Ghoshal

Kumar Abhinav

Subashree A

Lorita Das

Srushti Shah

Lisha Ray

Monisha Das

Mandeep Singh

Subhalaxmi Nayak

Madhuchhanda

Sudipta Palit

Maria Devasia

Subham Sahoo

Manvendra Singh

Sulagna Panigrahi

Asish Amitav

Sushree Padhy

Medha Chaturvedi

Suman Mohapatra

Narayan B Mohapatra

Swabhiman Patra

Milind Mayank Dey

Suneet Padhy

Nikhita Naik

Swastik Mohapatra

Sidhant Mahapatra

Swapnila Moharana

Paneeru Himanshu Dora

Sweta Pradhan

Nikita Khamari

Matrujyoti Mansingh

Parul

Swopnil Mohapatra

Navodeep Dutta

Tanvi Tirthankar

Pooja Parashar

Sambit Mohapatra

Upasana Swain

Utsav Mazumdar

Poulami Bhattacharjee

Vibhasha Kumari

Prateek Ravi

Yogesh G

Prachi Wadhwani

Vivek Rajan

Pratikshya Meher

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Dean’s Report Dr. Snigdha Pattnaik The context that organizations exist in today is highly turbulent, chaotic and complex. Creating and sustaining high-performance organizations remains a continuing challenge. People management skills have become essential for business survival. Our curriculum is focused on creating people managers ingrained in the core disciplines of HRM, OB and IR. Additionally courses from across all functional areas of management ensure that they have a holistic understanding of business. We believe in developing people managers who uphold the core values of integrity, compassion and respect for others.

ACADEMIC PROGRAM HIGHLIGHTS: HR Symposium The HR Symposium, was held on Saturday, 15th July 2017. Academicians and industry practitioners shared their thoughts and views in two panel discussions themed on “Overview of Contemporary HR Practices” and “Pushing the Boundaries of HR”, during the symposium. The first panel was moderated by Prof. Dipak Bhattacharya. It comprised of Ms. Arpita Sahu, Senior ManagerTalent and Development, Bharti Airtel, Mr. Ankush Arora, Head of OD and Business HR, at Havells India Ltd and Gaurav Khandelwal, HR Leader, Honeywell Process Solutions. Prof. Sasmit Patra moderated the second panel discussion on the theme “Pushing the Boundaries of HR”. the panel members were Prof. Jose-Maria Aulotte, Director of Studies, Magellan Institute for International HR – MBA, Mr. Abhishek Mohanty, Management Consulting professional, PwC India's People & Organisation Advisory and Mr. A B Chandrasekhar, Assistant Vice President, EXL Service, Kochi Area.

INTERNATIONAL ACTIVITIES: International faculty members offered courses in XAHR 1.

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Prof. Jose-Maria Aulotte, Director of Studies, Magellan Institute for International HR, Paris taught the elective ‘International HRM’ to the MBA-HRM II students. The course was co-taught along with XAHR faculty, Prof. Sasmit Patra

REPORT 2017-18 2.

Prof. Patrik Vervinckt, Professor, Antwerp Management School, University of Antwerp, Belgium taught the elective ‘Strategic HRM’ to the MBA-HRM II students. The course was co-taught along with XAHR faculty, Prof. Sasmit Patra

HR Business Conclave ‘KSHITIJ' 2017 "Kshitij 2017", the National Level HR Business Conclave was held on Friday, 18th August 2017 on the theme “Gig Economy and Contingent Workforce: HR and Workplace of the Future”. The panel consisted of HR stalwarts, namely: Mr. Maharana Ray (GM HR – Bajaj Auto), Ms. Ankita Poddar (HR Business Partner – Amazon), and Ms. Swati Yadav (CHRO – HFCL). The moderator of the event was Prof. Sasmit Patra, Associate Professor, Xavier School of Human Resource Management, XUB.

Industry Talk & Guest Lectures: Ms. Sasmita Birabar, Senior Manager HR, IFFCO - Interaction on HR Industry Scenario Mr. Maharana Ray, GM, HR, Bajaj Auto - Interactive Session: Experience Sharing Mr. Debadatta Baxi, Head-HR, McCain Foods India - Insights and Experiences Mr. Soumya Panda, HRLP Associate, ETYL - Interactive Session: Experience sharing Ms. Gitika Saksena, Vice President-HR, Accenture, Bangalore - Accenture's shift to Performance Achievement Mr. Kris Lakshmikant, Founder Chairman & MD, Head Hunters India - The way ahead as a HR Manager Mr. Imdad Ali, Chief-HRM, Tata Steel Kalinganagar - HR in the field Mr. Yugantar Saikia, SVP & CAO, OLA Cabs -Interactive session Mr. Arnab Pal, Lead – HRBP, Star TV Network - Why a Career in HR with Media and Digital Companies is Exciting after B-school Mr. Sumit Neogi, HR Leader, Cipla - Connecting Theory to HR practices Mr. Satyajit Dwivedi, Director - Global Practice, SAS - Motivational talk Mr. Amit Kasliwal, Sales Head, Ford - Think like a CEO Mr. Raj Narayan, CHRO, Titan - Disruptions Mr. Sahil Nayar, Director HR, KMPG - Solidifying the Liquid Workforce Prof. Neharika Vohra, Professor, IIMA - Dynamics of Diversity and Inclusion Dr. Tapas Kumar Panda, Regional Labour Commissioner, Regional Labour Commission - Social Legislation for Indian Managers

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4TH CONVOCATION 2018 Immersion Courses aim at bringing to campus the emerging and latest trends from the workplace, ensuring student insdustryreadiness. Mr. Nishith K. Mohanty, Group President-HR, Manipal Group, Bengaluru - Designing and Implementing Executive Compensation & Reward System Mr. Rhiju Bhowmick, Freelance Academician - HR in Merger & Acquisition Dr. Suneeta Mishra, Consultant, Global Learning, BCG, USA - Instructional Design and Training as a Consultant Mr. Santhosh Mathew, Senior Director-HR, Cognizant, Chennai - Performance Management Live projects: A total of 16 Live Projects from 10 different organizations creating 70 live project opportunities were offered to the students of MBA-HRM. Among these, we were fortunate to collaborate with reputed organizations like Tata Steel, Tata Advanced Systems Limited and Odisha Power Transmission Corporation Limited (OPTCL). These live projects offered significant exposure to the students on the responsibilities of a HR professional in an organization and also to strengthen relationship with them.

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Convener

Dean (Academics), XAHR

Member (Internal)

Prof. Sasmit Patra

Member (Internal)

Prof. Mousumi Padhi

Member Ex-officio

Dean (Academics), XIMB

Member Ex-officio

Dean (Academics), XSRM

Member (External)

Dr. Gopal Mahapatra Professor of Practice (OB & HRM area), IIM Indore

Member (External)

Prof. M. G. Jomon, Professor, XLRI

Member (External)

Prof. Neharika Vohra, Professor, IIMA

Member (External)

Mr. Sunil Jha, President (HR), ACG Group Worldwide

Member (External)

Prof. T. V. Rao, Chairman, T V Rao Learning Systems

Member (External)

Mr. M. S. Magesh, VP-HR, Accenture

Member (External)

Mr. S. V. Nathan Sr. Director and Chief Talent Officer, Deloitte India

Member (External)

Mr. Richard Lobo, Sr. VP-HR, Infosys India Ltd.

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XUBERANCE 2018 MBA-HRM • • •

Xuberance’18 saw the batch of 123 candidates of MBA (HRM) program participating in the CAS process. 50 companies participated in the process. The highest domestic salary stood at Rs.20.8 Lakhs per annum.

Companies which visited the campus in various sectors are as follows: •

Banking, Financial Services and Insurance : ICICI Bank, L&T Finance, Standard Chartered Global Business Services and Tata AIG

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Consulting : Capgemini, Cognizant Business Consulting and Deloitte

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Conglomerates : Aditya Birla Group and GMR Group

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Systems : Infosys, ITC Infotech and Wipro

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Manufacturing : ACG Worldwide, Asian Paints, L&T, Tata Steel, Ultratech Cement and Vedanta

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PSU : BPCL, GAIL

Summary Total of students participated

123

Total number of companies

50

Highest Domestic Salary

Rs.20.8 Lakhs per annum

Summer Internships: 2017-19 The Batch of 2017-19, MBA (HRM) had excellent summer internships this year for a batch of 123 students, with 36 companies participating in the summer placement process. Companies across different sectors like BFSI, FMCG, Consulting, Sales & Marketing, Systems and Operations visited the campus for the summer internship process. Some major recruiters were Aditya Birla Group, Pepsi Co., Deloitte, Godrej, HCCBPL, ICICI, etc. The highest stipend offered was Rs.1,50,000 per month and was offered by the Godrej Group.

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INSPIRING NATURE @ Xavier University

The Xavier University campuses are kept verdant, perfumed with seasonal flowers all the year round. We thank our dedicated gardners who tend the campus gardens through the sun and the rain, inspiring beauty all around.

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MISSION

Student Profile Number of students enrolled in 2017-19 Batch Programme MBA (RM)

Male 76

Class of 2016-18 Female 35

Total 111

Programme MBA (RM) 2016-18

Male 54

Female 35

Total 89

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REPORT 2017-18

CLASS OF 2016-2018: MBA - RM Abhishek Mittal

Saswat Mishra

Dipam Jyoti Sahoo

Adishree Acharya

Satyajeet Samal

Deepika Kamani

Aditya Amlan Kar

Sharmistha Mishra

Ghungroo Bhargava

Aishwarya Baral

Shashank Shukla

Jyoti

Akash Dash

Shibani Mishra

Maruti Prasad Nayak

Alok Sahu

Shobhana Acharya

Monty Thacker

Alpana Joshi

Shreyashee Mishra

Mridul Ajmera

Amit Bikram Nayak

Siddhant Sekhar Satpathy

Prerana Chand

Anupriya Jain

Sidhant Subhankar

Pritam Naik

Arpita Mukherjee

Siri Krishna Gannamani

Pritish Priye

Bibek Bharadwaj Mohanty

Smridhi

Priyanka Priyadarshini

Biswa Ranjana Das

Souvik Gupta

Purbi Khemka

Chandrakanta Panda

Sweta Mohanty

Riya Bhuyan

Daksh Hasija

Abhigyan Geet Prakash

Sourav Meher

Debdarshan Panda

Abhineet Patnaik

Srajan Gupta

Deepak Kumar Mishra

Animesh Barik

Srikanta Das

Joshi Nisarg Mukundray

Ankit Kumar Kanungo

Subhratanu Upadhyay

Kiran Bose

Anubhaav Anupam Prashad

Swastik Chakrabarty

Lekha P

Anwesh Das

Soumyashree Panda

Manish Agarwalla

Aroop Pattanayak

Sradhanjali Paty

Manoranjan Behera

Ashish Kumar Sahoo

Srishti Sigtia

Pallavi Das

Ashutosh Das

Sunaina Dasgupta

Pankaj Kumar Bhanja

Avinash Nayak

Swati Dash

Pranjal Kumar

Ananya Mohapatra

Tanushree Kar

Pratap Chandra Nanda

Ayushi

Upasana Das

Rahul Pal

Bhagyashree Parida

Vaishali Choudhary

Saikatesh Dash

Biswa Ranjan Mohanty

Vijay Bhaskar B

Sakshi Gupta

Chandrakant Jyotishi

Yash Ondhia

Sambit Bastia

Crasto Lisha Magdaline Lancelot

Samikshya Tripathy

Samikhya Pradhan

Deepanshu Goyal

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Dean’s Report Dr. Kajri Misra "Building Sustainable Communities, Building Livelihoods, Building Value Chains, Building & Managing Development Programs”. The MBA (RM) is a unique, 'management-plus' program, preparing managers with the knowledge of business practice plus an understanding of rural India and the needs of rural communities. Our School equips its students for careers in corporates, social-entrepreneurship and development initiatives in the rural space.

ACADEMIC PROGRAM HIGHLIGHTS 1st International Conference on Rural Management, 2017 (ICRM) Xavier School of Rural Management (XSRM) successfully organized the 1st International Conference on Rural Management (ICRM) with the theme “Rural Management for Sustainable Development”, on November 23 - 24, 2017. Shri Amarjeet Sinha, Secretary, Ministry of Rural Development, Government of India delivered the inaugural address and two special addresses were delivered by the former Secretary, MoRD, GoI and the Secretary, Agriculture, Govt. of Odisha. The event featured selected papers and cases on innovative initiatives and practices in functional areas of development management and panel discussions comprising industry leaders, eminent professionals and government officers. 95 research papers were selected from the submissions received, of which 63 were presented, across 9 themes. In addition to students, faculty and other XUB members, 98 external participants attended the 1st ICRM.

Rural Living and Learning Experience (RLLE) From 27th November 2017 to 11th January 2018, all the students of the first year MBA-RM completed fortyfive days of village stay, for a first-hand experience of village life and experiential learning amongst the people and communities they are expected to work with in the future. The RLLE is a core component of the MBARural Management program, to enable understanding of the rural context and challenges, and develop the perspectives and attitudes necessary for rural management professionals.

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The National Colloquium in Rural Management (NCRM) The NCRM is intended to provide an understanding of the unique field of Rural Management, its history, scope and emergent trajectories to the first year MBA-RM students. It comprises a series of lectures/ seminars throughout the year by eminent practitioners, academicians and policy makers from across the country. Students write a critical summary of every discussion to earn credit. This year the following talks were featured in the NCRM : Mr. Amit Jawar, Sales Head-Odisha, Britannia - Nuances of Sales: Insights of a Rural Manager Mr. Choudhury Shripati Mishra, Agri-Nutrition Expert, TARINA, CARE-India - Nutrition Sensitive Agriculture through A Food system Approach’ Mr. Hemantha Kumar Pamarthy, Consultant and former Managing Director, Hand in Hand Micro Finance Private Ltd. - Changing Stakeholders Expectations in CSR: Implications for Rural Managers Mr. Gajendra Mohanty, Director, PASDO, Manipur - Working on Child Rights: Experience of a Rural Manager

Abhivyakti 2017 A Conclave on 'Rural Innovation: India’s Vehicle to Overcome Global Roadblock' was organized by the Xavier School of Rural Management, Bhubaneswar on 20 August 2017. The speakers for the first session of the event were Mr. Sarabindu Mohanta (Product Head, Indian Oil), Mr. Partha Deb (Power Economist, GE Power), Mr Harish Raghu (Managing Director, SaGgraha Management Services Pvt. Ltd.) and Mr. Benjamin Mathew (Head of Strategy, MART). Prof. Kajri Mishra, Dean, Xavier School of Rural Management inaugurated the conclave. Prof. T. Kumar, moderator of the discussion opened the forum by stressing on the macro perspective of rural innovation. Immersion Courses: To familiarize students with emerging and specialized topics in the field which they wish to explore but which are not yet included in the courses, 6-session modules are organized by the School, and are taught by industry professionals. In AY 17-18, XSRM organized two immersion courses by senior professionals, including Dr. Suresh B.P, General Manager (Marketing), Karnataka Milk Federation (KMF) - Dairy Business Mr. Vijay Kumar, Vice President (Operation), Vaya Finserv Pvt. Ltd - Business Correspondence

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Industry /Leadership Talks XSRM hosted 20 industry talks across different themes in Rural Management. Jagruti Swain, Senior Consultant, PWC - Role of Rural Mangers and Rural Management Program Niranjan Bariyar, Consultant, Program Coordinator, UNICEF - Role of Rural Mangers and Rural Management Program Biswajit Bhuyan, Internal Auditor, Annapurna Microfinance Pvt. Ltd - Microfinance Industries Mr. Prerit Rana, Founder and CEO, Agrasar - Essential traits of a Rural Manager Mr. Pratyush Kumar Panda, Country Head CSR, ACC Limited - CSR Initiatives in India Lt. Col Ashit Mahapatra, MD and CEO, Agri Link Food Processing Pvt. Ltd. - Innovation in AgriTech Startups of India Niharika Sahoo, AGM, JSPL - Impact of CSR Harish Raghu, Managing Director, SaGgraha Management Services - Rural Innovation “India’s Vehicle to Overcome Global Roadblocks” Benjamin Mathew, Head of Strategy, MART - Rural Innovation “India’s Vehicle to Overcome Global Roadblocks” Sarobindu Mohanta, Product Head, Indian Oil Corporation - Rural Innovation “India’s Vehicle to Overcome Global Roadblocks” Partha Deb, Power Economist - Rural Innovation “India’s Vehicle To Overcome Global Roadblocks”, Dr. Prashant Narnaware, IAS, DM Palghar, Maharashtra - Role of Govt. in Rural Business Development – Story for Maharashtra Mr. Aniket Thakur, Founder and CEO, eSthenos Technologies Pvt. Ltd. - Growth and innovations in Microfinance Ms. Prerna Mukharya, Founder and CEO, Outline India - Consulting and Data Analysis for Social Development Mr. Debraj Behra, Consultant, Global Food and Agricultural Practice (GFADR), World Bank - Rediscovering Rural Management Mr. Bibhu Ranjan Thanapati, GM, Technoserve - Project Management in Rural Development Ms. Shraddha Srimal, COO, Arohan Financial Services Private Ltd. - Microfinance Evolution Mr. Sasidhar N Thumuluri, CEO, BASIX Sub-K iTransactions Ltd. - Financial Inclusion and FinTech in India John Marshall & Biswajit Nayak, Co-founders, Shikhya - Discover the world through volunteering Rakesh Parida, Founder and CEO, Thoomri J-PAL - Linking artisans to markets

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SAAB Committee Meeting The fourth meeting of the XSRM Strategic Academic Advisory Board was held on 22nd November 2017. The agenda included a discussion on the 5 year Strategic Plan of the School. The SAAB recommended a deeper consideration of the changing trajectory of the field and identifying a unique role for XSRM in that context.

Strategic Academic Advisory Board - XSRM Convener

Dean (Academics), XSRM

Member (Internal)

Prof. S.S. Singh Professor Xavier School of Rural Management Xavier University Bhubaneswar

Members Ex-officio

Dean (Academics) of Schools

Member (External)

Prof. Debiprasad Mishra IRMA & CEO, Gram Vikas

Member (External)

Mr. Sanjay Panigrahi VP, Pidilite Industries

Member (External)

Mr. D. Durgaprasad Organizational Consultant

Member (External)

Mr. G. Muralidhar Mentor, Akshra Foundation

Member (External)

Mr. Joe Madiath Chairman, Gram Vikas

Member (External)

Mr. Uma Ganesh CEO, Global Talent Track

Member (External)

Mr. Ajit Chaudhri, General Manager, Community Services, TATA Sustainability Group, Tata Sons Ltd.

Member (External)

Ms. Neelima Khetan CEO, Sterlite Foundation

Member (External)

Mr. Vijay Mahajan Founder, Basix Group

Member (External)

Mr. Ved Arya Founder and CEO, SRIJAN

Member (External)

Prof. M. S. Sriram IIMB

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XUBERANCE 2018 MBA-RM • • • • •

Xuberance ’18 saw the batch of 89 candidates of MBA (RM) program participating in the CAS process. 33 companies participated in Xuberance ’18 of which 12 were new recruiters. The highest domestic salary stood at INR 13.75 Lakhs per annum The average annual compensation stood at INR 7.54 Lakhs per annum The median annual compensation stood at INR 7.15 Lakhs per annum

Prominent Recruiters which visited the campus in various sectors are as follows: • Banking, Financial Services and Insurance (BFSI): ICICI Bank, TATA AIG General Insurance, Bajaj Allianz Life Insurance, Bharti AXA General Insurance Co. Ltd, Ujjivan Small Finance Bank, Muthoot Fincorp • Financial Inclusion: Annapurna Microfinance Pvt Ltd, Arohan Financial Services, Samasta Microfinance Limited, Save Solution, Spandana Spoorthy, Fullerton India, Vistaar Financial Services Pvt. Ltd. • Consulting: Deloitte, Sambodhi Research, Quess Corp, MicroSave • Development: PRADAN, Basix Sub-K, Bihar Rural Livelihood Promotion Society, Dharma Life, Dilasha Janvikash Pratisthan, Harbauer India, SG Foundation, Odisha Livelihood Mission, Technoserve India • FMCG/ Agri Input: Cargill, Coromandel, AMUL • Marketing: ORMAS, FEDCO • Commodity: NAFED, Ergos

Summary Number of students placed

89

Total number of companies

33

Highest Domestic Salary

INR 13.75 Lakhs per annum

Average Salary

INR 7.54 Lakhs per annum

Summer Internships: 2017-19 The Batch of 2017-19, MBA (RM) had excellent summer internship this year for a batch size of 111 students, with 30 companies participating in the summer internship process. Companies across different sectors like BFSI, FMCG, Consulting, Agri Input, Marketing, Policy Research, Development, Livelihoods and Financial Inclusion visited the campus for the summer internship process. Some major recruiters were PwC, Muthoot Fincorp, Technoserve India, ICICI Foundation, Outline India, PRADAN, Sarda Group, Jharkhand State Livelihood Promotion Society, Samunnati, Basix Sub-K. The highest stipend offered was INR. 45,000 per month by PwC.

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XAVIER CENTER FOR URBAN MANAGEMENT AND GOVERNANCE (XUMG)

Education, research, policy engagement and collaboration in the spirit of Magis, for the development of resilient, sustainable and just human settlements.

MISSION

Student Profile Number of students enrolled in 2017-19 Batch Programme MBA (UMG)

Male 08

Graduating Students Female 09

Total 17

Programme MBA (UMG) 2016-18

Male 12

Female 05

Total 17

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XUMG Coordinator's Report Dr. Kajri Misra The MBA and Ph.D Programs of XUMG are the first of their kind in India, developed to bridge the abject shortage of professionals to guide urban development towards just, safe, resilient, humane, smart and sustainable cities. The MBA program offers specializations in Water and Waste Management, Transportation and Communication Systems, Affordable Housing and Housing Finance, Economic Development and Livelihoods, Energy and Smart Urban Systems.

ACADEMIC PROGRAM HIGHLIGHTS: Urban Learning Experience (ULE) The ULE is a core component of the MBA-UMG curriculum and comprises a six-week attachment to an Urban Local Body (ULB). This year the 17 students of first year UMG were positioned in six Municipal bodies in six districts of Odisha – Bhadrak, Balasore, Baripada, Keonjhar, Puri and Jharsuguda – from 4th December 2017 to 12th January 2018, in partnership with the Dept. of Housing and Urban Development, Government of Odisha. The ULE assignments included documentation and study of the six towns/cities, and work on revenue mobilization of the ULBs through improvements in property tax collection.

Smart Cities Conference XUMG organized a Workshop & Conference on Smart Cities and Sustainable Urban Development during September 21-22, 2017, in collaboration with Heidelberg University, ORF, School of Planning and Architecture, BayIND, the Indo-German Chamber of Commerce and supported by Friedrich Naumann Stiftung für die Freiheit. The Consul General Dr. Feiner, German Mission in Kolkata, delivered the Inaugural Address, and Fr. Dr. Paul Fernandes, Vice Chancellor, Xavier University Bhubaneswar delivered a special address. The keynote address was delivered by Prof. Dr. Om Prakash Mathur, Senior Fellow and Head Urban Studies, Institute of Social Sciences, New Delhi. The conference featured 6 Theme Speakers and 21 paper presentations by academicians, policy analysts, practitioners and NGOs.

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2nd Annual Research on Cities Summit (ARCS 2.0) XUMG successfully organized the 2nd ARCs Summit on 16th-17th February 2018, on Knowledge Systems for Livable Settlements. The conference was inaugurated by Dr. Sameer Sharma, Addl. Secretary, Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs, Government of India and Fr. Dr. Paul Fernandes, Vice Chancellor, XUB, opened the event with a welcome address. 38 research papers were submitted from which 21 papers were presented in the six sessions. These were introduced by six theme speakers on the various sectors of urban development. The event also featured two panels on the Private Sector and CSR in Urban Development and on the conference theme. In addition, there were two special addresses on the conference theme. Visit of the Canadian High Commission: The Canadian High Commission visited Xavier University to interact with the XUMG students and understand the new initiatives by XUB, in the urban space. The Vice Chancellor, Prof. Dr. Fr. Paul Fernandes, S.J., met the visitors including Robert J. McCubbing, Counsellor (Commercial) at the High Commission of Canada, New Delhi, Ms Tejdeep Kaur, Economic Analyst at the High Commission of Canada, and Arjun Kumar Dutta, Trade Commissioner, Canadian Trade Office, Kolkata.

The Urban Management & Governance Practice Colloquium (UMGP) This comprises a series of lectures/ seminars through the year by eminent practitioners, academicians and policy makers in the urban domain, from across the country. Students join in organizing the event and write a critical summary of every discussion to earn credit. In the Academic Year 2017-18, the following talks were featured in the UMG Program: Dr. Sneha Krishnan - Environment & Disaster Management Dr. Satya N. Mohanty, IAS (Retd.) - Inclusive and Affordable Housing Mr. Sishir Dash - Urban Livelihood and Capacity Building Immersion Courses: To familiarize students with emerging and specialized topics in the field which they wish to explore but which are not yet included in the courses, 6-session modules are organized by the XUMG, and are taught by professionals invited from the industry. In AY 17-18, XUMG organized two immersion courses, as under; Mr. Ram Shankar Saha, Urban & Environmental Planner, ARC-GIS - GIS Application in Urban Domain Mr. S. Nanda Kumar, Consultant, Urban Finance Expert - Municipal Financing

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Industry / Leadership Talks XUMG hosted five industry talks across different themes emerging in the urban domain. They were organized by the Career Advisory Services Committee of XUMG, and HabituX, the Urban Management Association of XUMG. Bhavna Prakash, Ernst & Young - Urban Infrastructure and Sanitation Sourav Lenka, Ques Corp, Business Head, Q Infra Divison - Ques Corp and Smart City Initiatives Shishir Dash, Tata Trust, HUD Odisha - Urban Skill Development by Tata Trust Antarim Charkroborty, Senior Consultant, CURE - Low Cost Housing Shomdip Ghosh, Darashaw, Local Government Advisor - Municipal Financial Reforms

New Initiatives in 2017-18 Samavesh – The Urban Conclave, 16th September 2017: HabituX, the Habitat Management & Governance Association of XUMG organized the Annual Urban Conclave on the theme Smart Management for Sustainable Urbanization. Three speakers from industry and policy arenas, spoke of the new directions and issues emerging in the urban sector, and the possibilities for urban management expertise to make a large difference in the domain. Speakers includedMr. Avilash Verma, Head, Urban Practice ICRA Management Service, Noida. Mr. Sourish Dey, Honeywell HBS Smart Cities, Bhubaneswar Mr. David Stein, Regional Planning Consultant, IBI Global, Berkeley, California. Symposium on Urban Management and Governance: XUMG and HabituX organized a Symposium on “Professional needs for Smart Urbanization”, to explore specific ways for integration of the expertise built in the MBA-UMG program into industry and government processes. The following speakers discussed the topic from their industry contexts – Prof. Dr. Ashok Kumar, School of Planning & Architecture, New Delhi Mr. Dinesh Harode, Team Lead SLPMC for Smart Cities, IPE Global, Mr. Shankar Arumugham, National Head, Jones Lang LaSalle, Mr. Prashant Kumar, Assistant General Manager, Ecorys, Mr. Chandan Sinha, Vice President, Smart City Advisory, Mr. Jamal A Rasheed, Head Urban Planning, L&T Ramboll and Mr. Md. Mahtab Alam, General Manager, Faridabad Smart City. Unnovations, an Inter-College Festival of Urban Ideas: Habitux, the student association of XUMG organized Unnovations–a one-day inter-college festival at Xavier City Campus featuring a quiz, debate and case analysis, in collaboration with Xquizzite. Each event focused on an urban theme/issue Quiz on “How well do you know your city?” Debate on the theme “Urbanisation is the answer to employment” and Case analysis of innovations in Solid Waste Management. Participants included teams and individual entries from 9 colleges.

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SAAB Committee Meeting The Second meeting of XUMG Strategic Academic Advisory Board (SAAB) was held on 17th February 2018.

Strategic Academic Advisory Board – XUMG Convener

Coordinator, XUMG

Members Ex-officio

Dean (Academics) of Schools

Member (External)

Prof. Dinesh Mehta Former Director, UN- Habitat

Member (External)

Prof. Chetan Vaidya Former Director, SPA Delhi & Bhopal

Member (External)

Shri. Hitesh Vaidya India Country Head, UN-Habitat

Member (External)

Shri. Jagan A Shah Director, NIUA

Member (External)

Mr. Shrinivas Kowligi Partner, Ernst & Young

Member (External)

Dr. Ganesh Natarajan President, NASSCOM

Member (External)

Mr. Dev Bhattacharya Vice President, Aditya Birla Group

Member (External)

Ms. Harini Nagaraj Azim Premji University

Member (External)

Prof. Annapurna Shaw IIM-Kolkata

Member (External)

Mr. T.R Raghunandan Arghyam

Member (External)

Dr. Sudhir Krishna Former Secretary, MoUD

Member (External)

Ms. Meera Mehta CEPT University

Member (External)

Mr. Partha Mukhopadhyay CPR, New Delhi

Member (Internal)

Prof. Tathagata Chaterji Professor, XUMG, XUB

Invitee

Mr. Durga Prasad Duvvuri Organization Design & Change

Invitee

Prof. Mayank Dubey Professor, XUMG, XUB

Invitee

Shri Ashok Kumar, Professor, School of Planning and Architecture, New Delhi

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Career Advisory Services: Batch 2016-18 MBA – UMG •

This is the first graduating batch of the MBA-UMG Program.

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Batch of 17 students participated in the CAS process.

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9 companies participated in CAS process; all were new recruiters of the Program

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The highest domestic salary stood at INR 9.3 Lakhs per annum

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The average annual compensation stood at INR 8.3 Lakhs per annum

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The median annual compensation stood at INR 8.5 Lakhs per annum

Summary Total of students participated

14 of 17 (2 Start-up and 1 Self-Placed)

Total number of companies

9

Average Salary

Rs.8.3 Lakhs per annum

Highest Domestic Salary

Rs.9.3 Lakhs per annum

Prominent Recruiters which visited/mentored for placement across sectors are; Consulting - EY, Spectrum, CSM, Crisil, Icra, Honeywell PMU - Rourkela Smart City, GIZ Infrastructure operation/Mgmt. - Quess Corp, NF Infra, Sarada, IBI, Taru, Housing and Finance - JLL Livelihoods - Janagraha, Tata Trust Environment and Sustainability - CDD society, Recity

Summer Internships: 2017-19 The Batch of 2017-19, MBA (UMG) are undergoing summer internship with more than 20 companies participating in the summer internship process. Companies across different sectors like Consulting, PMU, Infrastructure Operations/Mgmt., Housing and Finance, Livelihoods, Environment and Sustainability have partnered for the summer internship process.

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XAVIER SCHOOL OF SUSTAINABILITY (XSoS)

Sustainability Education in the spirit of Magis

MISSION

Student Profile Class of 2016-18

Number of students enrolled in 2017 Programme

Male

Female

Total

MBA (SM) 2017-19

13

15

28

B. Sc (SD) 2017-20

5

5

10

Programme MBA (SM) 2016-18

Male 20

Female 12

Total 32

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XAVIER SCHOOL OF SUSTAINABILITY (XSoS) CLASS OF 2016-2018: MBA–SM Abhisek Mohanty

Niharika Parasar

Soumendra Dishri

Abhismit Nayak

Nikhil Pandey

Soumyadeep Dhar

Ajit Kumar Rath

Nikita Verma

Supratik Sarthak

Akash Saigal

Pinak Mishra

Sweety Pati

Alan John Morais

Sambuddha Roy

Sweety Samantray

Arundhati Panda

Sandeep Mohanty

Tarun Suman Mohapatra

Dev Kumar Dutta

Saumya Mohanty

Ujapana Mohanty

Diganta Chaudhuri

Sayan Chakraborty

Akshay Singh Gahlot

Gargi Mohanty

Seshav Arora

Ankita Mishra

Greeshma Biswal

Sharon Shreya Masih

Prince Maharaj

Nalinikanta Jena

Sonali Swastika

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Dean’s Report Dr. S. Peppin The Xavier School of Sustainability was set up in 2015 with the mission to promote values of greater environmental justice and peace (on earth) and thus create enlightened innovative programmes to bring about change in the way corporate business is carried out in our society and economy; create and nurture the next generation of responsible managers and leaders who can anchor and accelerate sustainability as a strategy for connecting business and society and be a leader in sustainability studies and action in the AsiaPacific Region.

ACADEMIC PROGRAM HIGHLIGHTS: Sustainability Discovery Programme (SDP) The duration of SDP was from 1st December to 30th December 2017. 15 organizations including NGOs, government, international agencies, corporates and consultants from all over India agreed to host students of the MBA-SM program. Among them were CHINAR India, SBMA Uttarkashi, Govardhan Eco Village, XUB, CECS, SBMA Uttarkashi, CYSD, Bhubaneswar, FISHCOPFED, Sustainable Livelihood Institute, Auroville, Pondicherry, Desia Heritage Tours, Koraput, URMUL SEEMANT SAMITI, Mangalajodi Ecotourism Trust, IGS, Savitribai Phule Mahila Ekatma Samaj Mandal, Bakul Foundation, Water Literacy Foundation. This year, XUB signed an MoU with SDP partner Central Himalayan Institute for Nature and Applied Research (CHINAR), Uttarakhand. A SDP Gallery showcased flash film presentation and also poster presentation of SDP work on 17th February 2018.

E4L Program This year 5 organizations (Bakul Foundation, ORSAC, OLM & CDA) are hosting B.Sc., SD students in the experiential learning program called E4L, providing exposure to sustainability practices undertaken by these organizations.

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Sustainability Summit 2018 on Sustainability Disruptions for Mitigating Global Risks Sustainability Summit 2018 on 'Sustainability the Disruptions for Mitigating Global Risks' was organized during February 9-10, 2018. The summit was inaugurated by Mr. Kamal Bali, President and MD, VOLVO Group India. Representatives from companies like Wipro, KPMG, Tata Sustainability Group, Aditya Birla, NALCO, NABARD, were present. 65 speakers and 50 contestants participated in the summit. 300 people attended the summit. In addition to corporate dignitaries, students, research scholars and academicians from various institutions such as IIM Calcutta, IIM Lucknow, NIT Durgapur, NISER, SOA University, KIIT University and acclaimed International Universities such as University of Oklahoma (USA), University at Buffalo (New York) and Vienna University of Technology, Austria, were an integral part of the summit. A compendium titled 'Fusions of Sustainability' containing the abstracts of all the speakers was released during the inauguration.

Children's Environment Congress 2017 XSoS hosted the Children's Environment Congress,2017 on Environment and Sustainable River Basin Management on December 21-22, 2017. 280 students from 30 districts of Odisha participated in various competitions and the event was witnessed by 405 attendees. The inauguration ceremony was graced by Sri. Badri Narayan Patra, Minister of School and Mass Education, Govt. of Odisha, Dr. Seba Mohapatra, Former Director, Health Services, Govt. of Odisha and Mr. Sudarshan Das, Organising Secretary, OEC. The valedictory ceremony was graced by the Waterman of India, Mr. Rajendra Singh.

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San Diego State University (SDSU) and Xavier University, Bhubaneswar had entered into a co-operative agreement (CA) in 2016 and agreed to cooperate in academic exchanges, program development and research. As part of this CA, the SDSU study abroad program on Hands-on Exploration of Indian Culture, Health, Sustainability and Environment in Bhubaneswar was jointly offered by XSoS, XUB & the Graduate School of Public Health, San Diego State University (SDSU) during January 2-15, 2018. One faculty and 17 students visited India.

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XSoS is working with Dr. Farrokh Mistree, Professor, University of Oklahoma, USA and Dr. John Hall, Assistant Professor, University at Buffalo, USA on energy based social entrepreneurship development.

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XSoS is partnering with Loyola University Chicago, USA and Pennsylvania State University in the area of sustainability studies.

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XSoS is also initiating partnership opportunities with Prof. Ille C. Gebeshuber, Institute of Applied Physics, Vienna University of Technology Vienna, Austria and Prof. Gene Brothers, Associate Professor, Equitable and Sustainable Tourism, Investigator, P1t Lab, North Carolina State University.

Workshops •

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The United States-India Educational Foundation (USIEF) Fulbright Nehru Specialist Program on 'Remote Sensing in Earth System Science, by Dr. Deepak R. Mishra, Associate Professor, the University of Georgia Athens, GA during January 2-13, 2018. There were total 33 participants in the workshop, 22 were XSoS, UG, B.Sc (SD) students and 11 were students of the Department of Geography, Gangadhar Meher University (GMU), Sambalpur, Odisha. TSK SIA (Social Impact Assessment) Orientation Workshop for volunteers was held on 30th March, 2017 for the volunteers of 27 villages of Jajpur. Odisha State Open University, Expert Committee Workshop was held in XIMB on 12th April, 2017.

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Roundtable on Sustainable Diabetic Foot Care was Jointly organised by SCB Medical College & XSoS in SCB Medical College, Cuttack on 10th May, 2017 under the aegis of XUB-WIPRO SALT Programme.

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CDPO consultation workshop for Mission Shakti UNFPA Study was held on 2nd June, 2017 at Mission Shakti Bhawan, Bhubaneswar. Softskill Enhancing Workshop by Mr. Amarendran Chodavaram, Director Spectrum Solutions-HR & Management Consultants, Chennai for MBA-SM students was held from 7th - 10th July, 2017. Two days workshop on "Social Entrepreneurship for Sustainable Development (SESD)" by Prof. Farrokh Mistree, L.A. Comp Chair and Professor, School of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering, University of Oklahoma and Dr. Ashok Das, Founder CEO, SunMoksha Power Pvt. Ltd. for MBA-SM students was held during February 13-14, 2018.

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Other Activities •

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Documentation of two Flagship programmes of the State Government; Mission Shakti & Mamata: On behalf of UNFPA and Dept. of WCD, XSoS had signed an agreement with PREM to document Mission Shakti and Conditional Cash Transfer for maternal health nutrition programme of the Govt. of Odisha. The study was carried out in 9 districts of Odisha including 18 blocks and 36 Gram Panchayats. TSK SIA Study: XSoS, XUB has signed an agreement with Tata Steel Kalinganagar (TSK) for conducting Social Impact Assessment (SIA) for Promoting Sustainable Development (SD) in January, 2017. XSoS has completed the study of Social Impact Assessment for promoting sustainable development for Tata Steel Kalinganagar in 27 villages within a radius of 10 km from Kalinganagar steel plant in Jajpur

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district. The Final report has been submitted to Tata Steel. Workshop for the presentation of the final report to Tata Steel by XSoS was held in CSR office of Tata Steel on February 5, 2018. MoU with Wipro: An MoU was signed between Xavier University Bhubaneswar and WIPRO on promoting sustainability in higher education.

Industry/Leadership Talk eminent industry experts are invited to interact with and engage students to interact and engage with students: Dr. Ille C. Gebeshuber, expert in Tribology, Nanotechnology & Biomimetics, Institute of Applied Physics, Vienna University of Technology – Biomimetics Mr. Brajesh Choudhary, General Manager-CSR, Sun Pharma Industries Ltd - Transformational CSR Ms. Nandita Upadhayay, Tata Chemicals - Sustainable Entrepreneurship towards Social Innovation: Healthcare sector Shri. Saroj Samal, MLA Dhenkanal - Understanding economics with respect to GST Mr. Santhosh Jayaram, Partner & Head Sustainability, KPMG - Sustainability Consulting Ms. Richa Pant, CSR Head, L&T Finance - CSR & Finance Mr. Vishwa Bandhu Bhattacharya, Group Manager – Sustainability & CSR, Apollo Tyres - Transition from the Concept of Sustainable Development to Sustainability Ms. Sreemoyee Bhattacharya, Senior Sustainability Consultant, Environmental Resources Management India - Environment Resource Management Mr. Lovish Ahuja, Group Head – Sustainability, GHCL - Sustainability Management in Mining Sector Mr Sisir Kanta Pradhan, Team Lead(Program), Odisha Livelihood Mission - Sustainable Livelihood Guest Lectures provide for formal/informal interactions with the students, helping them clarify their understanding of workplace challenges and concerns: Dr. S. R. Samadder, Associate Professor, Department of Environmental Science and Engineering Indian Institute of Technology (Indian School of Mines), Dhanbad - Techniques for reducing surface and groundwater pollution due to open cast coal mining using GIS: A case study of Jharia Coalfield, Dhanbad Dr. Deepak Mishra, Associate Professor, Department of Geography, University of Georgia, USA - Solving Environmental Challenges in the Age of Big Data: Role of Remote Sensing in Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS) Research Dr. Prsanna Kumar, Scientist, Odisha Space Applications Centre, Department of Science and Technology, Government of Odisha - Application of Geospatial Technology in Natural Resources Management-Case Studies Dr. Gurdeep Rastogi, Senior Scientist, Wetland Research and Training Centre (WRTC), Chilika Development Authority CDA), Department of Forest and Environment, Govt. of Odisha - Interdisciplinary approaches for monitoring the Chilika Lagoon Dr. Kali Charan Sahu, Professor, Department of Marine Sciences, Berhampur University, Berhampur, Odisha - Remote Sensing of Ocean Colour Immersion Courses aim at bringing to campus emerging and latest trends from the workplace, ensuring industryreadiness of students. The invited speakers covered topics as follows; Dr. Manoranjan Mishra, Assistant Professor, Department of Geography, Gangadhar Meher University, Sambalpur, Odisha - Hands on Application of QGIS in Sustainability Mr S. P. Samant, Principal-Leadership Hiring, Sattva Media & Consulting Pvt. Ltd., Bangalore, India - Mapping of Sustainability Organizations Mr. Ravishankar C.K., Director, Brainchild Group, Dubai - Talent Management in sustainability Organisations Mr. Sunil Agrawala, Director, Bharati Consulting Inc. Bhubaneswar - Project Management Mr. Chandradeep Mitra, CEO, PipalMajik and Anvetion Consulting, Advisor & Mentor, IIM Calcutta Innovation Park, Co-Founder Neoleap Business Ventures, Kolkata - Sustainability and Stakeholder Marketing Prof. Manvinder Singh, Associate Professor, Finance & Data Science, KIIT University, Bhubaneswar - Finance and Analytics

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SAAB Committee Meeting

The 3rd SAAB Meeting was conducted on February 8, 2018.

Strategic Academic Advisory Board – XSoS Convener

Dean (Academics), XSoS

Member (External)

Prof. P. D. Jose Associate Professor, Corporate Strategy & Policy IIM-Bangalore

Member (External)

Mr. Tony Henshaw Chief Sustainability Officer, Aditya Birla Group

Member (External)

Dr. Suresh Jain Professor and Head, Department of Natural Resources TERI University

Member (External)

Mr. P.S. Narayan VP & Head Sustainability, Wipro Limited

Member (External)

Mr. Subrat Beura Director, Biz Ops/Planning, Hewlett Packard

Member (External)

Mr. M. V Ashok Former Chief General Manager Department of Economic Analysis & Research National Bank for Agriculture & Rural Development (NABARD) HO

Member (External)

Mr. Cherian George VP, HR, Harrisons Malayalam Ltd, Cochin

Member (External)

Dr. Ajit Kumar Pattnaik, IFS Principal Chief Conservator of Forests Project Director, OFSD, Bhubaneswar

Member (External)

Mr Pooran Pandey Former Executive Director, UN Global Compact India

Member (External)

Dr. Aditi Haldar Director, GRI South Asia

Member (External)

Mr. Jagadananda Member Secretary Centre for Youth and Social Development CYSD

Member (External)

Mr. Srinivasan Iyer Programme Officer, Ford Foundation

Member (External)

Mr. Aditya Batra Programme Director, Board & Funding Centre for Science and Environment

Member (External)

Mr. Jagdeesh Rao ED, Foundation for Ecological Security

Member (External)

Dr. Balasubramanian Iyer Regional Director, Asia and Pacific International Cooperative Alliance

Member (Internal)

Dr. M. Nadarajah Chair Professor, Centre for Humanities and Compassion Studies, Xavier University Bhubaneswar

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Career Advisory Services: Batch 2016-18 MBA – SM • • • • •

The Batch of 31 candidates of MBA (SM) program participated in the CAS process. 17 companies have participated in CAS 2018. The highest domestic salary stood at Rs. 7.2 Lakhs per annum The average annual compensation stood at Rs. 5.6 Lakhs per annum The median annual compensation stood at Rs. 5.5 Lakhs per annum

Summary Total number of students participated

31

Total number of companies

17

Average Salary

Rs. 5.6 Lakhs per annum

Highest Domestic Salary

Rs. 7.2 Lakhs per annum

Companies which visited the campus in various sectors are; Environment Health and Safety: Cadila Pharmaceuticals, CSR: Seed CSR, Sustainable Supply Chain Management: PRESPL, Banking, Financial services and Insurance (BFSI): ESAF, Consulting: ERM, KPMG, RSM General Carbon, Thinkstep, CTRAN, Shrachi, Marketing and Finance: Sutlej textiles, Cafe Coffee Day, Half Step Rock, Foundation: Kotak Education Foundation, Community Development: OLM, Tata Trusts, Tata Strive

Summer Internships 2017-19 The Batch of 2017-19, MBA (SM) have secured excellent summer internships this year for a batch size of 28 students, with around 22 companies participating in the summer internship process. Companies across different sectors like CSR, Sustainability Reporting, Environmental Health and Safety, Human Resource Management, Sustainable Agriculture, Sustainable Supply Chain, Human Rights, Transportation and Logistics Management, Energy and Water visited the campus for the summer internship process. Some major recruiters were Tata Motors, RSM GC, Tata Trusts, CESC, Grasim (Indian Rayon), Goa Shipyard, Paradeep Phosphates, ITC, L&T finance, Alfa Laval India Pvt. Ltd, PRESPL, NALCO, EnY, etc. The highest stipend offered was Rs.35,000 per month and was offered by Tata Motors.

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XAVIER SCHOOL OF COMMERCE (XSC)

Commerce Education in the spirit of Magis

MISSION

Student Profile Number of students enrolled Programme

Male

Class of 2015-18 Female

Total

Programme

B.Com (2017-20)

21

11

32

B.Com

B.Com (2016-19)

16

13

29

BBM

BBM (2017-20)

23

21

44

BBM (2016-19)

24

15

39

Male

Female

Total

21

10

31

6

13

39

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XAVIER SCHOOL OF COMMERCE (XSC) CLASS OF 2015 - 2018 Abhijeet Panda

Shubham Khurania

K. Srikanth

Kanhu Charan Lenka

Siddharth Saraogi

Kriti Batra

Ananya Jena

Sunayna Burman

Mihir Ranjan Swain

Anirudh Mohapatra

Sunischit Mishra

Mitulika Bhadani

Ankit Jhunjhunwala

Tejasvi Songola

Nikita Baliarsingh

Ashmit sukla

Yasbir

Nishita Baliarsingh

Digvijay Harichandan

Nayonika Bhadury

Nitin Gupta

Ganesh Agrawal

Soumya Ranjan Rout

Paipuri Arun Chola

Gourav Kant Choudhury

Aayush Nagpal

Prakhar Sharma

Kamakshi Saklani

Aditya Kaushal

pratik Patra

Lipsa Pradhan

Aditya Ranjan Pathak

Rahul Choudhury

Soumya Ranjan Rout

Anamika Singh

Roma Patro

Praptee Thacker

Angelika Bishwal

Saksham Guptaa

Pratyush Kumar Ratha

Apoorv Roy

Sanskrita Patnaik

Puskar Patnaik

Areeba Hashmi

Shweta srivastava

Radhika Bhattacharyya

Arijeet Nandan Mohanty

Siddhartha Gupt

Rishabh Agarwal

Arindam Banerjee

Srusti Patra

Rishav Jain

Arpan Jha

Suman Sourav Sahu

Ruchi Hota

B. Tanya

Sunidhi Raj

Sambid Kumar Pattanaik

Bhashya Sharma

Tahir Manzar

Sanol Sankalp

Devansh Dutt Sharma

Tanish Joshi

Sarthak Verma

Epari Manish

Tushar Mandal

Saswat Rath

Gajendra Pratap Singh Gurjar

Yatish Agrawal

Shruti Padhi

Himanis Das

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Dean’s Report Dr. P. K. Mohanty The Xavier School of Commerce was set up in 2015 with the mission to provide graduate and post-graduate education demonstrating domain knowledge and of fering quality education through a curriculum that is rich in rigour, to take on the challenge of business houses.

Symposium A symposium on “Sustainable Marketing and Human Resource Management” was organized on December 8, 2017. Many eminent resource persons graced the occasion and delivered talks on the theme. Students presented papers and participated in a poster competition on the main theme of the symposium. Prizes and certificates were given to successful participants.

Financial Workshop

A two-day financial workshop was organized for MBF students during August 28-29, 2017. Mr. Anand Deshpande, Deputy Manager, Karvy Stock Broking Ltd was the resource person for the workshop.

National Conference The 2nd National Conference on Accounting and Finance was held on Friday, February 23, 2018. The theme of the conference was “Commerce in Digitised India”. Prof. Sunil Gandhi from Kalyani University, Kolkata and Prof. Sharmistha Banerjee from the Dept. of Business Management, University of Calcutta were the keynote speakers on the occasion. Mr. Durgaprasad Harichandan, Senior Vice-President & Head- Digital, Business Retention and Excellence graced the occasion as chief guest in the inaugural session. The conference saw participation from many renowned academicians and research scholars. Research papers were presented in the technical sessions of the conference.

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Strategic Planning The school prepared a strategic plan for the next five years and made a presentation to the governing board. The school aims to become one of the top 10 commerce schools in the eastern region by the year 2022. The school also plans to start a Ph.D program in the coming academic year.

Master of Business Finance The school has started a Masters program in Business Finance with 20 students from the academic year 2017-18. Leadership Talks: During the academic year a series of leadership talks were arranged by the school. Eminent industry persons were invited to deliver talks on various contemporary topics. The following leadership talks were arranged; Mr. Swagat Panda - Life Insurance; Mr. Arabinda Sahoo, Circle Head, AXIS Bank – Banking; Dr. Chris D’ Souza, CFO, ICMA - CMA as a Career; Dr. Barendra Bhoi, Head of Monetary Policy, RBI - Indian Monetary Policy; Mr. Piyush Singh – Financial Technology; Mr. Robin Banerjee - Contemporary Issues in Finance.

Immersion Course An immersion course was arranged for MBF students on the following topics. • Anti-money laundering • Importance of compliance in financial markets • An introduction to Sharia concepts in finance Mr. Joseph Bosco, Director, Karamel Knowledge Ventures Pvt. Ltd was the resource person for the three-day immersion course during February 5-7, 2018.

XURBIA Xurbia is an annual sports event of the school which was organized by our students during January 1719, 2018. The students had invited other schools to participate in the three-day event. There were a large number of participants from our school as well as the students of other schools,in various sporting activities. The three day event ended with a cultural program in the evening.

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The Strategic Academic Advisory Board - XSC Convener

Dean (Academics), XSC

Member (External)

Prof. Bhabatosh Banerjee Professor & Former Dean, Calcutta University

Member (External)

Prof. Hanif Mandol Professor, St. Xaviers College, Kolkata

Member (External)

Prof. Ranjan Bal Professor, P G Dept. of Commerce, Utkal University

Member (External)

CA Sri Rajib Sahoo Sr. Practicing Chartered Accountant

Member (External)

Mr. Siddharth Rath Group Head, Axis Bank Ltd.

Member (Internal)

Prof. Snigdha Pattnaik Dean, XAHR

Member (Internal)

Prof. Manindra Narayan Nayak Controller of Examinations

Member (Internal)

Prof. Krishna Dasgupta Professor, XIMB

Member (Internal)

Prof. S.K. Padhi Associate Dean, Executive Programs

Member (Internal)

Prof. Sibanjan Mishra Faculty, XSC

Member (Internal)

Prof. Abhimanyu Sahoo Faculty, XSC

Member (Internal)

Prof. Rasmi Singh Faculty, XSC

Member (Internal)

Fr. V. Arockia Das, S.J. Assistant Registrar, Administration

Strategic Academic Advisory Board (SAAB) Meeting A meeting of the SAA Board was held on February 22, 2018. Mr. Siddharth Rath, Group Head, Axis Bank Ltd. has joined the committee as a member. The meeting deliberated on various academic issues and discussed strategic matters for the school. The minutes of the meeting are being given separately.

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XAVIER SCHOOL OF COMMUNICATIONS (XCOMM)

Communications Education in the spirit of Magis

MISSION

Student Profile Number of students enrolled Programme

Male

Class of 2016-18 / 2015-18 Female

Total

Programme

Male

Female

Total

M.A Mass Communication (2017-19)

3

4

7

M.A Mass Communication

1

0

1

B.Sc Mass Communication (2016-19)

8

20

28

B.Sc Mass Communication (2015-18)

4

12

16

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XAVIER SCHOOL OF COMMUNICATIONS (XCOMM) MA Mass Communication Class of 2016 - 2018

Geetanjali Panda

B.Sc Mass Communication Class of 2015 - 2018 Shemol Misra

Aman Rajak

Aditya John Paul Tirkey

Anmol Nayak

Ojeshwi Mohanty

Osheen Suzanna John

Aradhana Dash

Harshita Agarwal

Adarshdeep Singh

Akankshya Pattnaik

Leah Jena

Anisha Das Adhikary

Lovisha Darad

Shashank Upadhyay

Naheed Akhtar

Sankalp Mohanty

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Dean’s Report Fr. Lourduraj I, S.J. The Xavier School of Communications was set up in 2015 with the mission to empower the aspiring youth who join XCOMM to be ethically sensitive, innovative and skillful media professionals contributing to global peace and harmony. In the process, it also strives to promote progressive trends in the areas of Communications and Research and envisages students to communicate life to people across the world.

New Initiatives For 2017-18 •

Mr. Nithil Dennis, Director, Symbiosis School of Photography conducted a session on Photo Journalism during January 19 - 21, 2018.

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Dr. Raj Kishore Patra, coordinated a study tour on the Evolution of Indian Arts, Culture & Heritage which included: Ekamra Walk, visit to temples, museums, Odia arts, appliques, Dance – Exposure to the culture of Odisha during January 27 - 28, 2018.

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Dr. V. Vijay Kumar, initiated birthday celebrations, film club and debate sessions throughout the year.

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Dr. Nadira Khatun, shared a session on Communication for Development - Understanding nuances of different development models in context during November 17-19, 2017.

3rd International Conference on “Social Media: The Changing Communication Environment” Xavier School of Communications organized the 3rd International Conference on “Social Media: The Changing Communication Environment” at Xavier University Bhubaneswar, Xavier City campus during December 15-16, 2017. Prominent academicians, scholars, and media professionals were invited to share theoretical and practical interdisciplinary discourse which would expand the understanding of current and future trends in social media. Prof. Fr. Dr. Paul Fernandes, S.J, the Vice Chancellor, Fr. E.A. Augustine, S.J, the Registrar, and keynote speakers, Ariel C. Sebellino, Executive Director, Philippine Press Institute, Dr. Sharon Wilson, Assistant Professor, Tunku Abdul Rahman University, Malaysia) were welcomed by the Dean-XCOMM. A book titled “Media and Democracy”, a compilation of the best papers of the 2nd International Conference was

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VIKALP - 2017 The second edition of Vikalp - Songs, Stories and Conversations was held from November 17-19, 2017 at Xavier City campus. It was hosted by the Xavier School of Communications, XUB. The essence of the festival was to celebrate plurality, diversity and tolerance through its attempt to revitalize long-lost art forms. The Vice Chancellor inaugurated Vikalp 2017. Prof. Apoorvanand Jha, Head, Department of Hindi, Delhi University, delivered the keynote address on the theme “Reading Hind Swaraj in today’s context?” Prof. Ram Puniyani delivering a talk on “Violence in the name of history.” A panel consisting of Mr. Rahul Roy (Documentary Film maker), Prof. Apoorva Anand (Prof. Hindi Department, Delhi University), Prof. Ram Punyani (critic of communal forces), Mr. Satyajit Puhan (Moderator: founder of CHS, Bhubaneswar), Mr. Sandeep Sikhar (theatre artist) had a discussion on the “Not in my Name” protest. Dastaangoi, the ancient art of storytelling in the courts of the kings and rulers, was performed by Mr. Ankit Chhada. A workshop "Rangrez" by Mr. Brij Ballabh Udaiwal titled “The Story on Indigo” where the national award winner, Mr. Udaiwal talked about colonial oppression of the indigo farmers in Champaran, which spearheaded the Mahatma’s Satyagraha. Vikalp 2017 also showcased a vibrant collection of cultural performances by the students of XCOMM, Mr. Srinivas Satpathy’s flute recital, sitar performance by Mr. Sandeep Ghosh and Mr. Supratik Sengupta on tabla, Tala Vadya by Mr. Satchidananda and party, and a grand finale by Kabir Café. Industry Talks provide an opportunity to invite eminent industry experts to interact and engage with students. Mr. Paresh Choudhury, CEO, Madison PR: Career in PR Mr. Chandrakant Bhagat, Founder & CEO, GreyMatter Entertainment-Career in TV Production (Technical Aspect) Ms. Koustuvi Ghosh, Vice President- Head of Programing, Star Jalsa -Workshop on Career in TV Production (Content Development) Mr. Satyabrata Das, Head-Strategic, Laqshya Media Group-Career in TV Production, Marketing & Events Mr. Rohan V., Deputy Managing Director, Stepathlon Lifestyle Pvt. Ltd-Career in PR & Corporate Communication (Via Skype) Mr. Madhur Kalra, Account Director, WE Communication: Career in journalism and PR (Via Skype) Col. Sunil Brijkishan, Corporate Trainer, SunilBrij Consultant-Workshop on Soft Skill & Leadership Skill Prof. Saveeta Mohanty, Associate Dean, Career Advisory Services XIMB - Career Guidance Guest Lectures provide the students with formal/ information interactions with subject matter experts, clarifying understanding of workplace challenges and concerns. Mr. Velu Shankar, Freelancer, Alternate Media, Tamil Nadu Mr. Sidharth Iyer, Freelancer, Digital Marketing, Mumbai

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4TH CONVOCATION 2018 Mr. Amit Patra, Film Critic & Film Maker, Directorial Practices, Film Studies & Script Writing, Kolkata Mr. Sourav Sarangi, Director, Documentary Film Making, Kolkata Mr. Hudson Taylor, Sound Engineer, Digital Audio Production, Hummingbird, Hyderabad Mr. John Livingstone, Graphic Designer, Computer Applications for Media, Hyderabad Mr. G. S. Manju Rathan, Film Editor, Digital Video Editing & Computer Applications for Media Chennai Mr. Amit Sengupta, Film Director, Directorial Practices, Kolkata Dr. K. P. Shreekumar, Event Manager, Event Management, Pune Ms. Jyoti Mishra, Senior Anchor, Anchoring, Indian TV, Delhi

2017-18: Internship: Summer & Semester (4th and 6th) Sector

Organization & Place

Print Media

The Hindustan Times, Jaipur The New Indian Express, Bhubaneswar The Times of India, Bhubaneswar The Hindu, Chennai The Prameya, Bhubaneswar

Electronic Media

ETV, Hyderabad Zee Kalinga, Bhubaneswar BTVi, Mumbai NewsX, New Delhi

Production

Hummingbird, Hyderabad Wavetrap Productions, Ludhiana Zelos Studio, Bangalore Greymatters Entertainment, Mumbai

Radio

Fever 104 FM-HT, Kolkata

Event

The Mascot Events, Indore The Stylus Event, Pune

Public Relations

The Practice PR, New Delhi & Bangalore Edelman, New Delhi Sanket PR, Bhubaneswar Adfactors PR, Mumbai Avian Media, Mumbai NALCO, Bhubaneswar Coca-Cola, New Delhi

Advertising

Circuit9 Communication, Bangalore Turrino Advertising, Sharjah, UAE Alende Design, Kochi

Online Content /Journalism

My Citilink, Bhubaneswar The Wire, Delhi

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Reliance, Bhubaneswar Greenroom, Bangalore

Photography/ Documentary

Sight Saver, Kolkata Samadrusti, Bhubaneswar Film Society of Bhubaneswar, Bhubaneswar

Strategic Academic Advisory Board - XCOMM Convener

Dean (Academics), XCOMM

Member (External)

Mr. Krishna Prasad Former Editor-in-Chief, The Outlook, Bangalore

Member (External)

Mr. Pradyuman Maheswari Editor, MxM India, Mumbai

Member (External)

Mr. Anupam Dasgupta Senior Assistant Editor, Times of India, Mumbai

Member (External)

Mr. Robin Banerjee Managing Director, Caprihans India Limited, Mumbai

Member (External)

Fr. George Sebastian Vellocheril SJ, Visiting faculty at Marquette University, USA

Member (External)

Dr. Dev Vrat Singh Dean, Centre for Mass Communication Central University of Jharkhand

Member (External)

Prof. Stevenson Kohir Public Relations Officer, Osmania University, Hyderabad

Member (External)

Ms. Liza Roy Senior Anchor, Zee 24X7 Ghanta, Mumbai

Member (External)

Mr. Rajesh Raina Programme Director, ETV, Hyderabad

Report of SAAB Meeting A meeting of the SAA board was held on December 14, 2017. A number of suggestions were provided by the SAAB members which included measures to further strengthen the curriculum to include more practical facets and have industry ready students; introduce bi-lingual journalism; devising capsules to bring knowledge and journalism together; study circles inviting stalwarts from other fields such as literature and art to extend dialogue with modern media culture. The SAAB also deliberated on a XCOMM journal, promoting quality research articles and encouraging networking with other journalism schools across the country and also globally.

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To transform the world through Computer Science Education in the spirit of Magis

MISSION

Xavier School of Computer Science and Engineering (XCOMP) was inaugurated on 24 July 2017 by Prof. Sanghamitra Mohanty, Former Vice Chancellor, North Odisha University, Baripada, and Prof. Dr. Paul Fernandes. S.J., the Vice Chancellor. An orientation program was conducted, the same day, by the management and faculty for the students and their parents. The school offers 4-year full time Bachelor of Technology in Computer Science and Engineering which aims at providing quality education that meets industry expectations and promotes research. The school plans to offer Master of Technology (M. Tech.) and Ph.D programs in the coming years housed in the sprawling new campus which has a 24x7 digital library and all the modern amenities.

Student Profile

Number of students enrolled in 2017 Programme B.Tech (CS & E)

Male 08

Female 03

Total 11

The School has the following aims and objectives Developing competent, committed and compassionate graduates with an advanced level of knowledge, skills, and the right attitude required to manage change in the sectors they serve. XCOMP aims to be a school with a difference. Knowledge generation and dissemination: In a rapidly changing world, the School shall strive to embrace continuous learning through research and publication and thereby contribute towards intellectual capital and make Computer Science and Engineering education relevant and challenging. The School has the following mentors; Prof. Chitta Baral, Arizona State University, Prof. Prasant Mohapatra, University of California, Davis, Dr. Priyadarsan Patra, Sr. Architect / Principal Technologist at Intel and Dr. Ashutosh Dutta, Director at AT&T, USA.

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XAVIER SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS (XSE) Economics Education in the spirit of Magis

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Xavier School of Economics (XSE) started in 2017 backed by a mentor group of eminent economists drawn from premier institutions like IGIDR, JNU, ISI, Delhi School of Economics, Institute of Economic Growth & India Development Foundation. XSE is also advised by several other eminent academicians from India and abroad. We started with the full time three- year B.Sc. (Hons.) Economics course and completed the first semester in December 2017. Within this short span of time we have had several distinguished visitors to the school: Prof. R. Radhakrishna current Chairman of CESS and former Director, IGIDR and former Chairman National Statistical Commission and Emeritus Professor Srikanta Chatterjee, Massey University, New Zealand visited the School. A majority of the students are girls and it is a promising and varied group with high academic achievements. Several of the group,have national and international achievements worth highlighting. For instance, three students of the class, Ananya Parida, Ankita Choudhury & Amrita Choudhury have been selected for internship at the Summer School of the London School of Economics in Computational Methods in Financial Mathematics. The same three ladies were semi-finalists for the Wege Prize, International Championship, 2018, organised by Ferris State University, Michigan, under the mentorship of Prof. Shovan Ray, Dean XSE. Ananya Parida is an accomplished Odissi dancer and is a part of Padmashree Aruna Mohanty’s dance troupe. She has performed in the National Conference on “Remembering Mahatma Gandhi: Compassion & Relevance for our times” organized by XUB on 31st January 2018. Nayonika Chakraborty and Kavya Patnaik have won the 2nd and 3rd Prize for the elocution competition organized by SBI during the Vigilance Awareness week. The B.Sc course has been designed by the mentors with support from several academicians complying strictly with UGC guidelines. We are exploring collaboration and support from the Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research, Mumbai & the Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata in raising the quality of our proposed Master’s degree program. We have planned to organize a summer internship program, immersion courses and national and international conferences. In the first two semesters we have had visiting faculty from ISI, Kolkata, and we expect more such faculty from universities and institutions from India and abroad.

Student Profile

Number of students enrolled in 2017 Programme B.Sc (Economics)

Male 02

Female 11

Total 13

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Inspiring Passion For Knowledge Through Research

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Year

Numbers of Research Scholars

2017

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2016

18

2015

21

2014

18

2013

5

2011

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19 students were admitted into the Ph.D. program in academic year 2017-18.

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The total number of doctoral students at Xavier University is 86.

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Bhavna Acharya (XUPH1504) has been awarded the Swami Vivekananda Single Child Fellowship by University Grant Commission.

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Seminars and Workshops Conducted for Ph.D. Scholars •

Prof Roger Sages (Lund University, Sweden): Workshop on Phenomenological thinking on April 21-22, 2017.

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Prof. Elizabeth Abba (Xavier University): Coordinated a Workshop on Fulbright Mentoring Fellowship on 05th May 2017.

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Mr. Srikanth Balasubramanian (Fellow, IIM Bangalore): Workshop on R and/or Python and conceptual foundations of Regression on 02 -05 November2017

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Mr. Gaurav Gupta (Fellow, IIM Calcutta), presented a research talk on "Social networks for changes in the industry structure: the case of disaster management" to the doctoral scholars on 25 November 2017.

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Dr. Divvya Bajpai (Delhi School of Business): Workshop on Content Analysis using NVivo on 10-12 January 2018.

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Dr. Deepak Kuntia (Xavier University): Workshop on Database Search on 16 January 2018

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Mr. Dilip Kr Rath (Xavier University): Workshop on End-Note Referencing on 20 January 2018.

Seminars Presented by Ph.D. Scholars •

Seven scholars have presented their CE Seminar.

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Seven scholars have presented their Thesis Proposal Seminar.

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One scholar has presented his Draft Proposal Seminar

Publications •

Harsha, A., Sahu, P. K., Shankari, E., & Rath, D.K. (2017). Remote monitoring and localization using sensors: tools for e-governance. CSI Communications, 41(7), 17-20.

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Paul, M. & Sahoo, K. (2017). Role of spirituality as a positive psychological capital tool in prediction of emotions and subjective well-being among management students. In Bhatt, P., Jaiswal, P., Mazumder, B. & Verma, S. (Eds.) Riding the New Tides: Navigating the Future through Effective People Management ( pp. 224-233) New Delhi, India: Emerald Group Publishing Pvt. Ltd.

Our Research Scholars Bhawana Pal

Namita Kumari Mohapatra

Puneet Kumar Biswal

Himanshu Sekhar Nayak

Pallavi Das

Rainy Rose

Johnson Padiyara Thomas

Poonam Pratap Dev

Sebastian George

Lipsa Mohapatra

Pradyut Priyadarshini Mishra

Soumya Rani Gouda

Mitrabinda Acharya

Preeti Sharma

Subhrata Subhadarsini

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Sulagna Saha

Chinmayee Mishra

Debadata Das Mohapatra

Upendra Nath Behera

Debjyoti Mohanty

Gargi Banerjee

V.M. Gowthami

Goutam Das

Gulshan Bibi

Saroj Kumar Mahapatra

Itishree Nayak

Jeeta Sarkar

Arun Kumar Samal

Moitreyee Paul

Kishore Kumar Swain

Avipsa Mohanty

Md. Washim Raja

Nimisha Bora

Bighnaraj Sahu

Monalisha Ghosh

Saiyada Ghzalah Sahin

Debi Datta Das Mohapatra

Mrigakshi Das

Satya Shankar Banerjee

Alwyn Rodrigues, SJ

Prajwalita A Veronica Masih

Snigdha Choudhury

Joshy K X, SJ

Rahul Pratyush Mohanty

Swayam Sampurna Panigrahi

Kiran Cotha, SJ

Shashishekar M.S

Tanmay Khuntia

Jugal Kishore Mohapatra

Solomon James

Alok Pattanayak

Kamal Pandey

Sujata Das

Chinmayee Mishra

Nrusinha Prasad Gantayat

Sumitra Balakrishnan

Debjyoti Mohanty

Pradipta Ray

Swati Das

Goutam Das

Samaresh Chandra Mishra

T.K. Krishna Kumar

Biplab Mahapatra

Santoy John

Vidya Pujari

Chandan Malu

Sarmistha Pattanayak

Usha Padhee

Dillip Kumar Rath

Saswati Tripathy

Abhranil Gupta

Sourish Bose

Anshuman Mishra

Amaresh Kumar Panda

Sucheta Sucharita

Bagmi Khuntia

Arun Kumar Patra

Asish Kumar Panda

Virginia Sadhana Phillips

Bhavana Acharya

Atul Kumar

Alok Pattanayak

Chinmoy Bandyopadhyay

Julian Tobias

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INTERNATIONALIZATION @ Xavier University

Student Profile

Number of Graduating Students Programme MBA Global

Male 10

Female 4

Total 14

Inspiring the University towards a Global Focus It has been a year of giant strides in internationalization and globalization on-campus at Xavier University. There are presently twenty-five international programs from various universities and business schools offered by Xavier University in the MBA (Global) program. Apart from entering into collaboration with eminent business schools across the globe over the past year, it has also been a period of rapid expansion and growth in the field of international business education at the University. The various programs being offered to our students are: Thunderbird School of Global Management, Phoenix, Arizona, USA

Master of Global Management M.A in Global Affairs and Management

Master of Science in Business Analytics W.P Carey School of Business, Arizona State University, Phoenix, Master of Science in Global Logistics Arizona, USA Master of Science in Finance Master of Science in Global Finance Gabelli School of Business, Fordham University, New York

Master of Science in Management

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Master of Science in Finance Master of Science in Human Resource Master of Science in Integrated Marketing Communication Master of Science in Supply Chain Management

Boler School of Business, John Carroll University, Ohio, USA

Emlyon Business School, Paris, France Maastricht School of Management, Maastricht, Netherland

Boler MBA Master of Science in Accountancy Master of Business Administration Master of Science In Management/ Grand Ecole Master of Business Administration Master of Management Master in Finance Master in Global Management

Antwerp School of Management, Antwerpen, Belgium

Master in Global Supply Chain Management Master in Innovation & Entrepreneurship 3 - Continent Master in Strategic Marketing Master of Applied economics Science; Business Economics

Faculty of Applied Economics, University of Antwerp, Belgium

Facultad de Economia - IQS, Barcelona, Spain

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Master of Applied Economics Science; Economic Policy

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XUB’s New Education Partners • • • • • • • • • • • •

Thunderbird School of Global Management, Phonix, USA W. P. Carey School of Business, Arizona State University, Phoenix, USA Loyola University, Chicago, USA Loyola University, Maryland, USA Gabelli School of Business, Fordham University, New York Emlyon Business School, France Maastricht School of Management, Maastricht, Netherlands Pontifical Universidade Catholic of Parana, Parana, Brazil IQS School of Management, Ramon Lull University, Barcelona Groupe Institut Superieur De Comerce Et D’Administration Des Entreprises-Grupe ISCAE, Morrocco University of Antwerp Capital University of Economics and Business, Beijing, China

Existing Partnership • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • •

Antwerp Management School, Belgium Arizona State University, USA Global Compact Network India (GCNI), Indian arm of United Nations Global Compact (UNGC) Hanken School of Economics, France San Diego State University, California. Universidad Del Pacifico, Quito, Ecuador Universidad Loyola Andalucia, Spain University of San Francisco, California College of Management Law & Languages, Siauliai, Lithuania Warsaw School of Economics, Warsaw, Poland. Eastern Michigan University, United States of America. Graduate School of Business Economics, Warsaw, Poland. HHL – Leipzig Graduate School of Management. IESRG School of Management, Lille, France Sellinger School of Business & Management, Loyola University, Baltimore, USA. University of Stellenbosch Business School, Cape Town, South Africa

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INSPIRING KNOWLEDGE AND RESEARCH @ Xavier University

To provide effective access to learning resources of all formats required for general and research purposes, the libraries at both the University campuses are available round the clock to students, research scholars and the faculty members. From inception, both libraries have had an enviable collection of textbooks, reference materials, electronic databases and professional journals from all over the world. Over the years both libraries have acquired other resource materials, such as, audio visuals, working papers, annual reports, HBR cases, and summer projects. The prompt and effective services are in sync with the changing needs of the University’s academic community which is moving towards electronic resources such as e-books, e-journals and databases. The digital libraries at XUB and XIMB have an automated library system and different online resources for use. The present strength of the various resources is: Resources Books

XIMB Campus

Xavier City Campus 50100

25350

120000+

120000+

18000+

18000+

200

100

Bound Journals (Back volumes)

2050

1555

Video cassette

1100

DVD/CDs

1508

E-books Online Journals Current Journals

Cases Project reports/dissertations

390

90

2400

Theses

39

Newspapers

21

20

30000+

30000+

Company Annual Reports

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Other Online Resources Bloomberg

Sage Database

British Council Library-Online resources

JSTOR

EPWRF Database

Jgate plus

EBSCO – Business source complete

India stat.com

Proquest – ABI Inform complete

CMIE Databases

E-brary

ISI Emerging Markets

Emerald Management Xtra

ACE Knowledge portal

Taylor & Francis Database

Papersinvited.com

Elsevier – Sciencedirect

TURNITIN, an anti-plagiarism web tool

Training /Workshop conducted A half day workshop on Access of E- resources available at XUB-XIMB. Fifty participants attended the workshop, which included faculty members, research scholars and students. A one-day workshop on CMIE-Prowess & ACE-Equity, Mutual Fund & Knowledge portal was organised. Seventy-five participants were present in the workshop which included faculty members, research scholars and students.

Book Exhibition A book exhibition showcasing latest publications was organized to select books for both libraries during January 18-19, 2018. Faculty and research scholars selected around 1200 books for procurement for the libraries.

Visit to Library Fifty-five students (PG & MPhil students) of Utkal University, Bhubaneswar along with their faculty members visited XIMB library on November 8, 2017. There was a session on the different services provided by the XIMB library. Twenty-five students of the P. N. College of Library and Information Science and their faculty members visited the XIMB library on July 18, 2017 to observe the resources and services provided by the Library.

Inter Library Cooperation Xavier university library has taken the initiative for inter library cooperation with other libraries like the National Digital Library and the library of the Indira Gandhi Institute of Development & Research, Mumbai. Dr. MG Manjunath, Chief Librarian of IGIDR had visited Xavier University Library for this purpose.

Seminar/ Conferences attended • •

Dr. Dipak Kumar Khuntia, attended as Rapporteur General,the one-day seminar on “Open Education and Scholarly Communication: Expanding National Digital Library Footprints” on 13th Aug 2017 at the Institute of Physics, Bhubaneswar. Dr. Dipak Kumar Khuntia attended as Session Chairman, Soference 2017 on Dec 2,2017. The theme was “Digital by default: Make yourself Future ready”. It was organized by TCS, Bhubaneswar.

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XAVIER CAMPUS CLOUD & DATA CENTRE Xavier University is making rapid strides to fulfill its vision of a true Digital University. The Computer Resource Centre (CRC) at XIMB campus and the Data Centre at Xavier City Campus are further strengthened with IT resources and latest technology with a thrust on security measures across the campuses. Xavier City campus provides the backbone support to the University’s academic activities, embracing digital technology to an extent very few of its peers have done. This academic year XUB added three new labs housing more than 200 desktops in the new academic block in addition to the four existing labs with more than 300 desktops in the city campus. In addition, XIMB campus, has 5 labs with more than 250 desktops for the students. The core optical fibre network covering all the hostels, administrative buildings,auditorium and faculty quarters in XIMB was overhauled with 1G support and new CISCO switches. The initiation of “Xavier Advanced Cloud Computing Centre," supported by Microsoft Technologies, the first of its kind in the region, takes Xavier University deeper into the realms of a "Digital University". The University’s 24/7 WI-FI campus was upgraded with 400 Mbps leased lines and increased focus on data security measures. IT security was emphasized through implementing enhanced security features for the datacentres at both locations: establishment of DMZ zones and server migration, implementation of MAC Authentication solutions for enhanced security of devices, deployment of Microsoft Campus licenses, Firewall policy and group mail policy reformulation with the Microsoft Exchange Server configured in the data centre for the smooth functioning of electronic mail for faculty and staff. The 10G Backbone Optical Network Infrastructure work carried out by IBM supporting Juniper Network devices for data and Astra (previously Ericson) for Digital voice (VOIP) devices, was further upgraded to meet the growing needs of the University's new schools and digital initiatives. The current computing facilities of the University include -12 Servers based on Windows and Linux; more than 1000 Work Stations / Notebook PCs; over 100 Software Packages; video conferencing facilities and CCTV surveillance across the campus. Microsoft StorSimple with 15 TB storage and HP SAN Storage up to 10 TB was added to the infrastructure.

XIMB is part of the University Alliance Program of SAP and has access to the latest SAP ERP and BW systems. XIMB has also acquired Clementine data mining software from SPSS, NVIVO, EndNote and other relevant software for both quantitative and qualitative research. Additionally, the in-house Academic Information System (HIBISCUS), the Admission entrance exam X-GMT, the Examination On-Line (EOL) and the online faculty application process are hosted and managed by the CRC. The University intranet showcases our zeal and desire to IT-enable all our functions. These include internet-related services such as web, email and online library databases to provide complete support to all the schools of the university. XUB presently has nine distinct schools with separate domains and web presence. The resource centres also provides support to these schools in the form of training programs, workshops and live streaming of conferences/seminars.

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XAVIER MEDIA LAB Xavier School of Communications (XCOMM) has a state of the art studio spread over an area of 4500 square feet. The studio houses a Television Studio, Television Studio Control Room, Master Edit Suites, Edit Suites for students, a Digital Still Photography Room, Professional Audio Studio, Voiceover Booth and a Green Room. The Digital Still Photography Room’s is equipped with Elinchrom 200 (strobe lights), backdrop kit and other lights required for indoor digital photography, including DSLRs such as the Canon 5D - Mark II and the Nikon D7000 with accessories. The Television Studio is High Definition. The studio is capable of producing HD/3D visuals. The studio boasts of a Panasonic HD Data Video Recorder and a Panasonic P2HD Portable Recorder capable of recording in HD format and a professional talkback system. It’s a full-fledged professional TV studio system. The audio is recorded by Presonus 16-input mixer. The studio floor has 6 boundary (condenser) microphones fitted onto the ceiling. The studio has professional tripods (Libec) and 2 professional dollies. The professional audio studio has some fascinating aspects. The audio studio uses 24-input professional Presonus mixer with Studio Pro software. It uses the award winning Sceptre monitors. The studio has Yamaha Electronic Drums, Roland Midi-keyboard, and a Tabla. The studio has high-quality Blue and Orange condenser microphones, Baerdynamic and Shure microphones besides seven drum-kit microphones of Baerdynamic. The studio assures its users of great sound quality. The students are taught digital sound production through an intensive hands-on learning experience. The master Edit Suites has the latest cylindrical Apple MacPro with Final Cut Pro is equipped with professional sound monitors. HP workstation uses Adobe Premiere Pro for editing. The student edit suites lab has 10 Mac-Mini operated edit suites and 20 windows desktops with Adobe Creative Suites (registered under Xavier University) for designing and print media. Professional lights are used on the studio floor namely multi-20 (2), multi-10 (2), cool lights with 4 banks (2), 3 banks (2), 2 banks (2), spot lights (2), 4 babies (halogen) and 4 babies (LED), Canaflow lights (2), Canara LED 300W JEET panel (1), and LED Jagle Panel 400W (all from Canara lighting). Besides these, we have the fog machine. The professional lights make the student enabled audio and video production professional.

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CAREER ADVISORY SERVICES

We thank the companies and their executives who visited the XUB campuses and interacted with the students during 2017-18. Accenture

ESAF

Intellect Design

Scripbox

Aequs

Euromonitor International

IOCL

Seed CSR

Aequs

Eveready

SG Foundation

AMUL

Fairtrade LLC

Annapurna Microfinance

FEDCO

Kotak Education Foundation L&T

Arohan Financial Services

Fullerton India

L&T Finance

Spandana Spoorthy

Axis Bank

Future Generali

L'Oreal

Spark Minda

Bajaj Allianz

Future Supply Chain Solutions

Mahindra Comviva

Standard Chartered

Maruti Suzuki

Sutlej Textiles

Futures First

McNROE

TASL

GAIL

MicroSave

Tata AIG

Bihar Rural Livelihood Promotion Society

Garware

Mindtree

Godrej & Boyce

Motilal Oswal Financial Services

TATA AIG General Insurance

Blue Star

GMR

Basix Sub-K Bharti AXA General Insurance Co. Ltd

Brillio Cadila Pharmaceuticals Capgemini

HDFC Life

Coromandel

Hero Motocorp

CBC

HFFC

Click Labs

Hindware

CTRAN

HSBC

Deloitte Dharma Life DHFL Pramerica Dilasha Janvikash Pratisthan EdCIL EnY Ergos ERM

Havells HCL

Cargill

Emami

Harbauer India

HSBC IB IBM ICICI Bank ICRA ICT Health IndiaMart IndusInd Bank Infosys Infosys BPO InstaSafe

Shapoorji - Gopalpur Ports

Tata Metalliks

Muthoot Fincorp

Tata Steel

NAFED

TCS

Nestle

Technoserve India

Odessa Technologies

Thinkstep

Odisha Livelihood Mission

Tiger Analytics

OLM

TmaxSoft

Optum ORMAS

Tresvista Financial Services

PPG Asian Paints

UHG

PRADAN

Ujjivan Small Finance Bank

PRESPL PwC Quess Corp RBS RSM General Carbon Samasta Microfinance Sambodhi Research

Ultratech Cement Vedanta Vistaar Financial Services VKL Spices Wildcraft Wipro

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MANAGEMENT DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMS Inspiring Continuing Professional Education Senior Management Programmes

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Training Programme on “Behavioural Competency” for Institute of Life Sciences, Bhubaneswar on April 3, 2017, A one-day training programme for the faculty and senior management team of the Institute of Life Science was coordinated by Prof. Sasmit Patra and the sessions were facilitated by Prof. Neerpal Rathi and Prof. Sasmit Patra.

Workshop on “Design and System Perspectives in Agriculture Transition Strategies for Sustainable Community Systems” for College of Agriculture, Orissa University of Agriculture & Technology during May 16-18, 2017. A three-day training programme (Workshop) for the faculty members of the College of Agriculture, OUAT was held during May 16-18, 2017. The programme was coordinated and facilitated by Prof. Amar KJR Nayak.

Training Programme on “Programme on Human Resources Management” for Reserve Bank of India, Chennai during May 30 –June 1, 2017. A three-day training programme for the senior and middle level officers of the Reserve Bank of India was jointly coordinated and facilitated by Prof. Mousumi Padhi and Prof. Tania S. Rath.

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Training Programme on “Effective Team Building, Leadership and Interpersonal Communication” for Directorate of Soil Conservation and Watershed Development, Govt. of Odisha during August 9-11, 2017. A three-day training programme for the Technical Experts of the Department of Soil Conservation & Watershed Development was coordinated by Prof. Niraj Kumar and facilitated by Prof. Suchitra Pal, Prof. Mousumi Padhi and Prof. Niraj Kumar.

Training Programme on “Effective Team Building, Leadership and Interpersonal Communication” for Directorate of Soil Conservation and Watershed Development, Govt. of Odisha during August 1719, 2017. A 3-day training programme for the Assistant Soil Conservation Officers (ASCOs) was coordinated by Prof. Niraj Kumar and facilitated by Prof. Suchitra Pal, Prof. Mousumi Padhi and Prof. Niraj Kumar.

Training Programme on “Conflict Resolution and Stress Management” for Directorate of Soil Conservation and Watershed Development, Govt. of Odisha during September 4-6, 2017. A three-day training programme for the Project Directors and Additional Project Directors was coordinated by Prof. Niraj Kumar and facilitated by Prof. Suchitra Pal, Prof. Pradeep Kumar Mishra, Prof. Mousumi Padhi, Prof. Jeevan J Arakal and Prof. Niraj Kumar.

Training Programme on “Effective Team Building, Leadership and Interpersonal Communication” for Directorate of Soil Conservation and Watershed Development, Govt. of Odisha during September 18-20, 2017. A 3-day training programme on “Effective Team Building, Leadership and Interpersonal Communication” for the Technical Experts of the Department of Soil Conservation and Watershed Development, Govt. of Odisha was held during September 18-20, 2017 at XIMB. The programme was coordinated by Prof. Niraj Kumar and facilitated by Prof. Suchitra Pal, Prof. Mousumi Padhi and Prof. Niraj Kumar.

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Training Programme on “Project Management” for Power Grid Corporation of India Limited during October 9-13, 2017. A five-day training programme on “Project Management” for executives of Power Grid Corporation of India Limited was held during October 9-13, 2017. The programme was coordinated by Prof. W.S. William and the sessions were facilitated by Prof. Manimay Ghosh, Prof. Arun Paul, Prof. Suchitra Pal, Prof. Santosh K. Bishwal and Prof. W.S. William.

Training Programme on “Sustainable Livelihood Promotion in Watershed Areas” for Directorate of Soil Conservation and Watershed Development, Govt. of Odisha during October 24- 26, 2017. A three-day training programme on “Sustainable Livelihood Promotion in Watershed Areas” for the Assistant Project Directors of Department of Soil Conservation & Watershed Development, Govt. of Odisha was held during October 24-26, 2017. The programme was coordinated by Prof. Niraj Kumar and facilitated by Prof. Jeevan J. Arakal and Prof. Niraj Kumar.

Training Programme on “Risk Management and Value Creation” for Odisha Hydro Power Corporation Ltd. On October 31, 2017. A one-day Training Programme for the Executives of Odisha Hydro Power Corporation Ltd. was coordinated by Prof. Bishnu Prasad Mishra and the sessions were facilitated by Prof. Shridhar Kumar Dash and Prof. Bishnu Prasad Mishra.

Seminar-Cum-Workshop on “Collective Marketing” for KVIC-SFURTI Implementing Partners in Collaboration with XUB-XIMB during November 1-2, 2017. A two-day Seminar-Cum-Workshop for the KVIC-SFURTI Implementing Partners was coordinated by Prof. Pradeep Kumar Mishra and facilitated by Prof. Satyendranath Mishra, Prof. Kushnakur Dey, Prof. Subhasis Ray and Prof. Pradeep Mishra.

Training Programme on “Unlocking the Secrets and Science of Happiness” for Power Grid Corporation of India Limited during November 6-10, 2017. A Five - day training programme on “Unlocking the Secrets and Science of Happiness” for executives of Power Grid Corporation of India Limited was held during November 6-10, 2017. The training programme was coordinated by Prof. Suchitra Pal and the sessions were facilitated by Prof. Sadhna Dash, Fr. Donald D’Silva, S.J., Prof. Saveeta Mohanty, Fr. V Arockia Das, S.J. and Prof. Suchitra Pal.

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Training Programme on “Supervisory Development Programme” for Larsen and Toubro Limited during November 20-25, 2017. A six-day training programme for the Executives of Larsen and Toubro Ltd. (Construction) was coordinated by Prof. Saveeta Mohanty and the sessions were facilitated by Prof. Suchitra Pal, Prof. B.P. Mishra, Fr. A.C. Jesurajan, S.J., Fr. Donald D’Silva, S.J., Prof. Manimay Ghosh, Prof. W.S. William, Prof. S.K. Bishwal, Mr. Anand M R, Mr. T Lawrence Dhanaraj, Mr. Aloke Chatterjee, Mr. Biplab Ray, Mr. Vinod James, Mr. Tapas Sen, Mr. Dipak Lahiri, and Mr. Padmanabha Kumar D.

Faculty Development Workshop on “Case Pedagogy as a Learning Tool” during November 24-25, 2017. A two-day Faculty Development Workshop was coordinated by Prof. Bhaskar Basu. The sessions were facilitated by Prof. Subhajyoti Ray, Prof. Subhasis Ray, Prof. Soumya Guha Deb, Mr. Manaw Modi, Mr. Lav Nigam and Prof. Bhaskar Basu.

Training Programme on “Project Management” for Power Grid Corporation of India Limited during November 27 – December 1, 2017. A five-day training programme for Executives of Power Grid Corporation of India Limited was coordinated by Prof. W.S. William and the sessions were facilitated by Prof. Manimay Ghosh, Prof. Arun Paul, Prof. Suchitra Pal, Prof. Santosh K. Bishwal and Prof. W.S. William.

Strategic Leadership Workshop on “Transition Strategies for Sustainable Community Systems: Design & Systems Perspective” for the Senior Leaders, Development Champions, Academics & Spiritual Leaders during December 7-9, 2017. A three-day Strategic Leadership Workshop for the Senior Leaders, Development Champions, Academics and Spiritual Leaders was coordinated and facilitated by Prof. Amar KJR Nayak.

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Training Programme on “Effective Team Building, Leadership and Interpersonal Communication” for Directorate of Soil Conservation and Watershed Development, Govt. of Odisha during December 12-14, 2017. A three-day training programme for the Assistant Soil Conservation Officers was coordinated by Prof. Niraj Kumar and sessions were facilitated by Prof. Suchitra Pal, Prof. Mousumi Padhi and Prof. Niraj Kumar.

Training Programme on “Polishing your Oral Communication Skills” for South Eastern Region Pipeline, Indian Oil Corporation Ltd on December 20, 2017. A one-day training programme for the executives was coordinated Prof. Ibha Kumar and the sessions were facilitated by Fr. Donald D’Silva, S.J. and Prof. Ibha Kumar.

Training Programme on “Project Management” for Power Grid Corporation of India Limited during January 8-12, 2018. A five-day training programme for executives was coordinated by Prof. W.S. William and the sessions were facilitated by Prof. Manimay Ghosh, Prof. Arun Paul, Prof. Suchitra Pal, Prof. Santosh K. Bishwal and Prof. W.S. William.

Training Programme on “Leadership Competency” for National Academy of Customs, Indirect Taxes and Narcotics (NACIN) during January 18-19, 2018. A two-day Training Programme for the Indian Revenue Service (IRS) Officers of National Academy of Customs, Indirect Taxes & Narcotics was held during January 18-19, 2018 at Mayfair Palm Resort Beach, Gopalpur, Berhampur. The programme was coordinated and facilitated by Prof. Suchitra Pal.

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Training Programme on “Mid Career Programme - VIII” for Finance Department, Govt. of Odisha during January 22 – February 3, 2018. A twelve - day Mid-Career Program for the Officers of the Odisha Finance Services was coordinated by Prof. Asit Mohanty. The sessions were facilitated by Fr. Paul Fernandes, S.J., Dr. Manoj Fogla, Prof. P.K. Mohanty, Prof. S.K. Dash, Prof. S.K. Padhi, Prof. Asit Mohanty, Prof. B.P. Mishra, Prof. D V Ramana, Fr. Donald D’Silva, S.J., Prof. Soumya Guha Deb, Prof. Banikanta Mishra, Dr. S.P. Rath (Finance Dept.) and Shri J.K. Mohapatra, IAS [Retd.], NABFINS.

Training Programme on “Mentoring Competency” for South Eastern Region Pipeline, Indian Oil Corporation Ltd on January 30, 2018. A one-day training programme for the executives was coordinated Prof. Suchitra Pal and facilitated by Prof. Saveeta Mohanty and Prof. Suchitra Pal.

Training Program on “Project Management” for Power Grid Corporation of India Limited during 19 – 23 February 2018. A Five - day training program for executives of Power Grid Corporation of India Limited was held during 19 – 23 February 2018. The program was coordinated by Prof. W.S. William and the sessions were facilitated by Prof. Suchitra Pal, Prof. Santosh K. Bishwal, Prof. Manimay Ghosh, Prof. Arun Paul, and Prof. W.S. William.

Training Program on “Project Management” for Power Grid Corporation of India Limited during 5 – 9 March 2018. A Five - day training program for executives of Power Grid Corporation of India Limited was held during 5 – 9 March 2018. The program was coordinated by Prof. W.S. William and the sessions were facilitated by Prof. Suchitra Pal, Prof. Santosh K. Bishwal, Prof. Manimay Ghosh, Prof. Arun Paul and Prof. W.S. William.

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XUB CENTERS OF EXCELLENCE Centre of Excellence in Fiscal Policy and Taxation (CEFT)

The Finance Department, Govt. of Odisha has established the Centre of Excellence in Fiscal Policy and Taxation (CEFT) in collaboration with Xavier University Bhubaneswar (XUB), on September 7, 2015. Prof Asit Mohanty is the Chair for the Centre.

Online Pre- Budget Consultation Process 2018-19 CEFT in collaboration with the Finance Department, Government of Odisha was actively involved in the PreBudget Consultation Process. Both sector-wise and administrative department-wise analysis was made from 1913 numbers budget inputs that were received.

Budget Consultation Process: 2018-19 Team CEFT actively participated in the pre-budget consultation, meeting the trade & commerce associations, entrepreneurs, farmers associations, journalists, social activist, NGOs etc. presided by the Government of Odisha, The implication of policy inputs on State Budget 2018-19 were analyzed by CEFT and the study report of the same was submitted to the Government of Odisha.

Policy inputs to the government:

People’s Guide: 2017-18 A brief volume on the Budget was prepared as People’s Guide: 2017-18 in order to disseminate information to the public on the budgetary process and policies of the government in which CEFT was actively involved. People’s Guide is one of the budgetary documents of the Government.

Input on Commercial Taxes CEFT has been providing policy inputs on Goods and Services Tax to the Government.

Inputs on Budget Formulation 2018-19 • • • • • •

Study on estimation of optimal budgetary outlay in Education in Odisha Study on Estimation of optimal budgetary outlay in Health & Family Welfare in Odisha Study on Estimation of optimal budgetary outlay in Agriculture & allied activities in Odisha Study on potential tax revenue from Stamp Duty and Registration in Odisha Study on Motor Vehicle Tax Potential in Odisha Study on potential non- tax revenue in Odisha

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80 Years of Odisha Budget: Commemorative Volume The book “80 Years of Odisha Budget: A Commemorative Volume” celebrates a landmark in the journey of the State and is a dedication to the people of Odisha, who, over these years have contributed in making the State - dynamic, self-reliant and resilient. Through visuals, facts and anecdotes, the book provides a captivating account of the development of the State over the last eighty years. It is a hope that the book will serve its intended objective of being an interesting as well as informative narrative for everyone who has an eagerness to learn about the rich history of the State, captured through the budgets of the last eighty years. This volume consists of five chapters. The first chapter describes “Movement for the Creation of Separate Province of Odisha”. The second chapter narrates “Evolution of the Budgetary System and Inter-Governmental Fiscal Transfer Mechanism in India since the British Rule”. The third chapter delves into “A Study of 80 Years of Odisha Budget”. The fourth chapter delineates “Empirical Analysis of State Finances Since 1936-37”. The fourth is a glimpse of the “Way Forward” in the fast-changing dynamics of Public Finance.

Working Papers • • • • • • • • • • •

Does the Union Budget 2018-19 reflect the True Spirit of Fiscal Federalism in India? Determination of premium to be paid by Government Companies with mining lease under section 17A (2A) & (2B) of MMDR Act, 1957. A study on Socio-economic Indicators of Odisha since 1999-00. Review of Odisha Perspective Plan (OPP) 2036-37 Tax Implication of Oil Refinery Industry in Odisha Impact Analysis of Income Tax on Indian Economic Growth Impact of Demonetization on the economy of Odisha Fast tracking Odisha’s Growth: Centre State Partnership Nonlinear Fiscal Deficit-Growth Nexus in India States: A Threshold Model Analysis Determinants of Non-Performing Loans in India: A System GMM Panel Approach An Empirical Enquiry into India’s Import Demand Function

Conferences • • • •

Post State Budget discussion: 2017-18 Pre- State Budget discussion: 2018-19 Post Union Budget discussion: 2018-19 Papers accepted for 54th The Indian Econometric Society (TIES) Conference 2018: o Determinants of Non-Performing Loans in India: A System GMM Panel Approach has been. o Non-linear Fiscal Deficit-Growth Nexus in Indian States: A Threshold Model Analysis. o An Empirical Enquiry into India’s Import Demand Function

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An Empirical Analysis of Aggregate Import Demand Function for India (Global Economy Journal. 2017; 20170049) Revisiting the causal nexus between savings and economic Growth in India: An empirical Analysis (EconomiA, vol -18, issue 3: 2017)

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CENTRE FOR RESETTLEMENT, REHABILITATION AND CORPORATE SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY (CRRCSR) Background The CRRCSR was established in 2010. Over a period of seven years it has created its own equity and has consistently enhanced the brand equity of XIMB/XUB at different international forums and universities. Its key achievements during 2010-2017 include; • • • • •

Three conferences on R&R and CSR Two international funded research projects Multiple consulting projects in the area of R&R and CSR Designing and delivering a unique one-year executive education programme on R&R and CSR Invited talks on sustainability, CSR and markets at Harvard Business School, Yale, INSEAD

Activities for 2017-18 Consulting projects under consideration: • •

Sanitation project audit- NTPC Darlipali Sanitation project audit- NTPC Dulanga Coal mining project

Ongoing Research 1. 2. 3. 4. 5.

An Empirical Study and SWOT Analysis on Livelihood Restoration for the land-losers of Industrial, Mining and Linear Projects in Odisha (supported by Research Fund, XIMB) Research on BoP in collaboration with University of Lyon, France. Research on sustainable mining (in partnership with CASS School of Business, London, UK)- submitted to ESRC, UK- project approved in first round in January 2018 Sustainability and marketing for disaster risk management (with Royal Holloway University, London)Not accepted for funding Sustainable Production & Consumption- Universtity Paris Ouest, France and UNESCO- proposal submitted to UNESCO Paris

Outreach Prof. Subhasis Ray was invited to the University of Queensland, a top 50 university, to discuss possible joint research project submission to the Government of Australia

Future Activities planned •

Short course on R&R and CSR

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Training Programme on R&R and CSR

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NABARD CHAIR UNIT AT XAVIER UNIVERSITY National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development (NABARD) has set-up a NABARD Chair Unit at Xavier University Bhubaneswar (XUB). The NABARD Chair Unit at XIMB, Xavier University Bhubaneswar, is chaired by Prof. Amar KJR Nayak. In addition to advisory/policy related participation, the Chair facilitates a number of initiatives.

Chair Unit Highlights A three-day National Round Table Discussions/Workshop was organized for faculty members of OUAT Bhubaneswar on “Design & Systems Perspectives in Agriculture Transitioning Towards Sustainable Community Systems”. It was inaugurated by Prof. Surendranath Pasupalak, Vice Chancellor, OUAT Bhubaneswar, Fr. Dr. V. Arockia Das, S.J., Assistant Registrar of Xavier University Bhubaneswar. The Third Round Table Discussion on Institutions was organized at XIMB on 27th November 2017. Eminent sociologists, economists, experts in constitutional law and jurisprudence, activists, entrepreneurs, development practitioners, and government officials discussed the different aspects of institutions. The RTD was inaugurated by Prof. Fr. E. A. Augustine, S.J., Registrar, Xavier University Bhubaneswar. The Fourth Round Table Discussion on Governance was hosted at XIMB on 28th November 2017. A select group of academicians, practitioners, policy executives and delegates from the government, civil society organizations, development agencies and corporations from across the country deliberated on the factors of governance. A Strategic Leadership Workshop was organized on “Transition Strategies for Sustainable Community Systems: Design & Systems Perspectives for Senior Leaders, Development Champions, Academics & Spiritual Leaders” on 7-9 December 2017 at XIMB. Workshop was inaugurated by Prof. Dr. Fr. Paul Fernandes, S. J., Vice Chancellor and Director of Xavier University Bhubaneswar. Seventeen participants participated in the workshop and sharpened their knowledge on sustainability. The Chair facilitated training on Sustainable Agricultural Systems for 20 farmers at NISWASS, Bhubaneswar through the District Administration; delivered a Talk on Sustainable Community Systems to 185 Phase-II IAS officers at LBSNAA, Mussoorrie on 14-16 June 2017; delivered Talks in LBSNAA for IAS officers of Phase II and Phase III Training Programme; and, Leadership Training Sessions for IPS officers, Hyderabad. Projects/research studies with NABARD: included Model Farm on Sustainable Agricultural Systems at NISWASS, Bhubaneswar; and an action research project to stabilise Farmer Producer Organisation as a Community Enterprise System; in addition to a number of District Case Studies and field visits. Project Proposals to facilitate holistic Sustainable Community System at GP level – prepared and submitted to NABARD, Mumbai – Under Consideration, and to facilitate holistic community development including Sustainable Agriculture, FPO, Local Institutions and Community Governance – proposal prepared and submitted to TATA Trust

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CENTRE FOR CORPORATE GOVERNANCE The National Federation of Corporate Governance (NFCG) has accredited XIMB, Xavier University Bhubaneswar as National Centre for Corporate Governance (NCCG) on January 29, 2016. Aligned with the University’s mission towards advancing excellence in management education with social commitment and human values, XIMB, XUB has created a Centre for Corporate Governance. The broad objectives are - to impart education and quality hands-on training encompassing all aspects of corporate governance through short term and long-term courses to practicing and aspiring board executives and independent directors, conduct research and case studies, organize orientation program/seminar/ conference/workshops, publish newsletters and journal in tune with the best global practice. A Strategic Advisory Board (SAB) headed by Prof. Dr. Fr. Paul Fernandes. S.J., Vice Chancellor of Xavier University and Director, XIMB has been formed for providing strategic guidance to fulfil the objectives of the Centre. The notable members of the board are Mr. P. K. Choudhury, Director- Tata Financial Services Ltd and ex-chairman of ICRA (since deceased), Mr. Subhash Mohanti, CSR, Communication Consultant and exbusiness journalist and eminent chartered accountant Mr. R. S. Sahoo among others.

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XAVIER CENTRE FOR HUMANITIES AND COMPASSION STUDIES

The Xavier Centre for Humanities and Compassion Studies is a centre of excellence set up to promote studies concerning human beings and their culture and communities. It has been conceived not only for the study of traditional subjects in humanities, but also to create new strands of thought to promote the education of future generations of student leaders in and through the rich wisdom of humanities and enable them to create new streams of knowledge through innovative multidisciplinary research and studies. Proposed new disciplines within the centre include Spirituality Studies, Compassion Studies, Trust Studies, Peace and Reconciliation Studies, Mindfulness Studies and futures studies that aim to explore excellence traits which hold the key to the future of humanity.

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FACULTY RESEARCH PUBLICATIONS

Inspiring learning through research Books Sanjay Mohapatra

Information and Communication Technology in Primary Education published by Springer, Switzerland in November 2017

Sanjay Mohapatra

Service Quality in Indian Hospitals, Perspectives from an Emerging Market, published by Springer, Switzerland in October 2017

Fakir Mohan Sahoo

Landscape of Mind published by Ashra Publication 2017

Dipak Bhattacharyya

HR Analytics: Understanding Theories and Applications, published by Sage, India in April 2017

Book Chapters Banikanta Mishra

Regional Dynamics of Rural Credit and Growth in India: Exploring Nonlinearity and Convergence in Growth Patterns published by Cambridge University Press in 2017

Biresh K Sahoo

Determining Returns to Scale in VRS DEA Model (Chapter 5), Pages: 33-37 published by Wiley, U.K. in September 2017

Biresh K Sahoo

Dynamic Macroeconomic Performance of Indian States: Some Post Reform Evidence (Chapter 9), Pages: 181-197 published by Springer, Switzerland in September 2017

Dipak Bhattacharyya

HR mediated reverse innovation: A study on two MNCs in India published by IGI Global, USA in April 2017

Kalpana Sahoo

Organizational Wellbeing: A New Theoretical Model and Recommendations for Future Research published by IGI Global in January 2018

Papiya Bhattacharjee

Improving the Performance of an MRI Department Through Appointment Scheduling, Page No. 1 - 11 published by Springer, Singapore in February 2018

Satyendra Nath Mishra

Explicating Green Biofuel Policy Across India States: 164-181 published by IGI Global, Pennsylvania, USA in August 2018

Satyendra Nath Mishra

Exploring the Institutional Design of Biofuel Development Across World (236-251) published by Studium Press (India) Pvt. Ltd., India in February 2018

Bishnu Prasad Mishra

Burden of Risk based Pricing by Financing Banks on SMEs (Page141-154) published by New Century Publications, New Delhi, India in September 2017

Kalpana Sahoo

Personality Differences in Adolescence with respect to Geographical Region pp38-48 published by Aaviskar Publisher, India in August 2017

Kalpana Sahoo

Role of Spirituality as a positive Psycapof Emotions and subjective wellbeing among management students published by Emerald publishing, New Delhi, India in September 2017

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Cases Published M. N. Tripathi

KIDS in Trouble published by notionpress.com, India in April 2017

Dipak Bhattacharyya

Collegial Talent Management Practices in Indian Organizations published by Xavier University, Bhubaneswar in January 2018

Articles in International Journals Brajaraj Mohanty

Adoption of Content Analysis Technique for Tracking Evolution of Strategy, International Journal of Economic Research, Vol-14, No.10 published by Serials Publications Pvt. Ltd in October 2017 (2nd author)

Subhajyoti Ray

Attitude towards soft drinks and its consumption pattern: a study of Gen Y consumers of India & British Food Journal published by Emerald in February 2018 (2nd author)

Sanjay Mohapatra

Assessing the overall value of an online writing community, Education and Information Technologies, Volume 22, Issue 3, published by Chapman & Hall (previously published by Springer), UK in May 2017 (1st author)

Sanjay Mohapatra

User acceptance of web-based talent assessment platform (TAP), International Journal of Business Excellence, Vol. 12, No. 4, Pp 450-468 published by Inderscience, UK in June 2017 (1st author)

Sanjay Mohapatra

Framework for supporting business process reengineering-based business models, International Journal of Business Innovation and Research, Vol. 13, No. 4, Pp 451-474 published by Inderscience, UK in June 2017 (1st author)

Sanjay Mohapatra

Evolved factors affecting the cloud computing adoption by MSMEs in India, International Journal of Business Innovation and Research, Vol. 14, No. 1, Pp 71-103 published by Inderscience in July 2017 (1st author)

Sanjay Mohapatra

Statistical analysis on centralization of software testing organization and its impact on production defect and cost of testing, International Journal Enterprise Network Management, Vol. 8, No. 2, Pp 166-179. published by Inderscience, UK in July 2017 (2nd author)

Sanjay Mohapatra

Adopting MOOCs for affordable quality education, Education and Information Technologies, Vol 22, Issue 5, Pp 2027-2053 published by Springer New York, USA in August 2017 (1st author)

Sanjay Mohapatra

Retaining competitive advantage in commodities, Emerald Emerging Markets Case Studies, Vol. 7 Issue: 4, pp.1-25 published by UK in October 2017 (1st author)

Sanjay Mohapatra

Improving operational efficiency in utility sector through technology intervention, International Journal of Enterprise Network Management, Vol. 8, No. 4, PP 291 - 316 published by Inderscience, UK in December 2017 (1st author)

Subhasis Ray

Social Entrepreneurship: Creating Value in the Context of Institutional Complexity, Journal of Business Research published by Elsevier Netherlands in November 2017 (3rd author)

Asit Ranjan Mohanty

Fiscal Performance Index of the States in India, Prajnan: Vol.XLV,NO: 3, 2016-17, pp247266 published by National Institute of Bank Management, Pune in September 2017 (1st author)

Biresh K Sahoo

Research Productivity in Management Schools of India during 1968-2015: A Directional Benefit-of Doubt Model Analysis, Omega, Vol. 66 (Part A), pp. 118-139, published by Elsevier Science, Netherlands. In September 2017 (1st author)

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Returns to Scale and Most Productive Scale Size in DEA with Negative Data, European Journal of Operational Research, Vol. 255, No. 2, 545, published by Elsevier Science, Netherlands in December 2017 (1st author)

Biresh K Sahoo

On Classifying Decision-Making Units in DEA: A Unified Dominance-based Model. Annals of Operations Research, Vol. 250, No. 1, 167-184, published by Springer, U.S.A. in December 2017 (3rd author)

Biresh K Sahoo

Rationality of Energy Efficiency Improvement Targets under the PAT Scheme in India - A Case of Thermal Power Plants, Energy Economics, published by Elsevier Science, Netherlands in December 2017 (3rd author)

Biresh K Sahoo

Spatial Heterogeneity in Composite Indicator: A Methodological Proposal. Omega, DOI: 10.1016/j.omega.2017.04.007 (In Press) Corrected Proof; Available online, published by Elsevier Science, Netherlands, in December 2017 (3rd author)

Biresh K Sahoo

Identification of Congestion in Data Envelopment Analysis under the Occurrence of Multiple Projections, EJOR, Vol. 265, No. 2, pp. 644-654, published by Elsevier Science, Netherlands, in December 2017 (3rd author)

Rahul Thakurta

Identifying the Motives for User Participation in Information System Projects, Pacific Asia Journal of the Association for Information Systems published by Association for Information Systems, U.S.A. in September 2017

Manimay Ghosh

Measuring Electronic Service Quality in India using E-S-QUAL, International Journal of Quality & amp; Reliability Management, Vol. 35, Issue 2 published by UK in February 2018

Ajit Kumar

From A Literature Review to A Conceptual Framework for Affordable Quality Healthcare Service using Internet of Things (IOT) Network, International Journal of Enterprise Network Management published by Inderscience, United Kingdom in January 2018 (2nd author)

Gaurav Kabra

Prediction of online consumer intention using combined artificial bee colony algorithm and machine learning techniques, Neural Computing and Applications published by Springer, United States (Clarivate Analytics Impact Factor: 2.5) in May 2017 (2nd author)

Gaurav Kabra

Understanding behavioral intention to use information technology: Insights from humanitarian practitioners, Telematics and Informatics published by Elsevier, United States (Clarivate Analytics Impact Factor: 3.4 and ABDC Rank C Journal) in May 2017 (1st author)

Gaurav Kabra

Understanding barriers and enablers to training in humanitarian organizations: A SAPLAP framework, Development & Learning in Organizations published by Emerald, United Kingdom (ABDC Rank C Journal) in December 2017

Gaurav Kabra

Dynamic Capabilities and Environmental Sustainability for Emerging Economies Multinational Enterprises, International Studies of Management Organization published by Taylor and Francis, United Kingdom (ABDC Rank B Journal) in December 2017 (4th author)

Gaurav Kabra

Transforming Human Resource Management Processes through Intelligent Systems, Indian Journal of Industrial Relations published by Industrial Relations (ABDC Rank C Journal) in January 2018 (4th author)

Rahul Kumar

The State of Ambidexterity Research: A Data Mining Approach, International Journal of Organizational Ambidexterity- Vol 26: Issue 2 published by Emerald in September 2017 (3rd author)

Rahul Kumar

Improving recommendation quality by identifying more similar neighbors in a collaborative filtering mechanism, International Journal of Operational Research published by Inderscience in October 2017 (1st author)

T. Kumar

Does E-Governance Influence Decentralization? International Journal of Development and Social Research: Vol. No. V:41-54 published by Xavier Institute of Management, Bhubaneswar, India in September 2017

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Analyzing the Perception of Social Networking Sites as a Learning Tool among University Students: Case Study of a Business School in India, International Journal of Social, Behavioral, Educational, Economic, Business and Industrial Engineering, (2017), 11(7), 1633 - 1639 published by World Academy of Science, Engineering and Technology in September 2017

Mousumi Padhi

Role of Integration Segmentation on work family interface of Insurance sector employees in India, International Journal of Manpower, Vol 38, Issue 8, Page 1114-1129 published by Emerald Group, in January 2018 (1st author)

Sutapa Pati

Socio-Technical Drivers for Community Renewable Energy Systems & Analysis of Case Studies from India, Journal of Sustainable Development published by Canadian Center of Science and Education (CCSE) in May 2017

Ranjan Dasgupta

Association of South-East Asian Nations-US Stock Market Associations in and Around US 2007-09 Financial Crisis: An Autoregressive Distributed Lag Application for Policy Implications, International Journal of Economics and Financial Issues (ABDC C, SCOPUS INDEXED), Volume 7, Issue 3, P 684-705 published by Econ Journals, Turkey in July 2017

Ranjan Dasgupta

Behavioral Implication of Risk-Return Associations “An Application of Prospect Theory for CNX NIFTY Companies, Australasian Accounting, Business and Finance Journal (Accepted)published by Wollongong University, Australia in September 2017

Ranjan Dasgupta

The 2007-09 US Crisis Impact on Asian Stock Markets Integration and Dynamic Linkages “An Introspect, International Business Management (Accepted) published by Medwell Publications Pakistan in July 2017

Plavini Punyatoya

Factors driving consumer loyalty intention towards e-tailers: an integrated model, International Journal of Business Information Systems published by International Journal of Business Information Systems, Inderscience, UK (Forthcoming) in January 2018 (1st author)

Plavini Punyatoya

Factors affecting trust towards online retailers in India: an empirical study, International Journal of Business Innovation and Research (Forthcoming) published by Inderscience, UK in January 2018

Papiya Bhattacharjee

Scheduling Appointments for Multiple Classes of Patients in Presence of Unscheduled Arrivals: Case Study of a CT Department, IIE Transactions on Healthcare Systems Engineering published by Taylor and Francis, UK in February 2018 (1st author)

Mary Sabina Peters

Critical Commentary on The Energy Charter Treaty, European Energy Journal published by Claeys & Casteels (a publishing house specializing in European Law) in March 2018

Raj Kishore Patra

Importance of Internal Communication: Impact on Employee Engagement in Organizations, Media Watch: Special issue: Volume VIII-Number-II: Page No. 29-38 published by Media Watch, India in April 2017 (2nd author)

Girish Balasubramanian

Demystifying the leadership kaleidoscope into an integrated view, Journal of Management Development: 36:7: 859-876 published by Emerald in August 2017 (2nd author)

Girish Balasubramanian

Industrial Relations Situation in India: A Report, Japan Labour Issues: Volume 1: page no 120-129 published by JILPT Tokyo, Japan in December 2017 (1st author)

Tathagata Chatterji

Digital urbanism in a transitional economy and a review of India’s municipal e-governance policy, Journal of Asian Public Policy published by Taylor and Francis UK in May 2017

Goutam Mali

Topology Management-Based Distributed Camera Actuation in Wireless Multimedia Sensor Networks, ACM Transactions on Autonomous and Adaptive Systems published by ACM in November 2017 (1st author)

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An Empirical Analysis of Aggregate Import Demand Function for India, Global Economy Journal, 17 (4): 01-12 published by De Gruyter, Germany in December 2017 (2nd author)

Ashutosh Mishra

Modified Frei-Chen Operator-Based Infrared and Visible Sensor Image Fusion for RealTime Applications, IEEE Sensors Journal, Vol. 17, No. 14 published by IEEE in July 2017 (1st author)

Monalisa Mandal

Multi objective PSO-based Rank Aggregation: Application in Gene Ranking from Microarray Data, Information Sciences, Vol. 385-386, pp. 55 - 75 published by Elsevier in April 2017 (1st author)

Banikanta Mishra

Impact of Increased Derivatives-Trading in India on the Price-Discovery Process, Economic & Political Weekly: 52: 11: 43-54 published by Sameeksha Trust, India in March 2017 (1st author)

Brajaraj Mohanty

Approaches to Strategy - A Taxonomic Study, International Journal of Applied Business and Economic Research. Vol.15, no. 4, pp.629-640 published by Serials Publications Pvt. Ltd in March 2017 (1st author)

Sanjay Mohapatra

Assessing impact of technology based digital equalizer program on improving student learning outcomes, Education and Information Technologies, Vol. 22, Issue 1, Pp 195 published by Springer, UK in January 2017 (2nd author)

Sanjay Mohapatra

Empirical research on the adoption and diffusion of e-commerce portals, International Journal of Business Innovation and Research, Vol. 15, No. 2, Pp 137-151 published by Inderscience, UK in May 2017 (1st author)

Soumya Guha Deb

A VaR based downside risk analysis of Indian Equity Mutual Funds in the Pre and Post Global Financial Crisis Periods (Accepted forthcoming), published by Journal of Emerging Market Finance, SAGE (ABDC-tier B, ABS-2, Scopus: III) in 2018

Soumya Guha Deb

Stock Market, Banking Sector and Economic Growth: A Cross Country Analysis over Different Economic Cycles (Studies in Economics and Finance (accepted forthcoming) published by Emerald, Studies in Economics and Finance (ABDC -B, ABS-I, Scopus III) in 2018 (1st author)

Soumya Guha Deb

Institutional Investors and firm characteristics: new evidence from India (accepted forthcoming) published by Research in International Business and Finance (ABDC : B, ABS : 2, Scopus :II), Elservier, Netherlands in 2018

Soumya Guha Deb

Low Leverage Policy: a boon or bane for Indian Shareholders (accepted forthcoming), Journal of Asia Business Studies (Emerald, ABDC:C, Scopus: III) published in 2018 (1st author)

Soumya Guha Deb

Persistence of actively managed equity mutual fund performance: new Indian Evidence (accepted forthcoming) published by IIMB Management Review (Elsevier) (ABDC: B, Scopus: Q2) in 2018

Rahul Kumar

Identifying meaningful neighbors for an improved recommender system, Journal of Modelling in Management, Vol 12: Issue 2 published by Emerald in 2017 (1st author)

Rahul Kumar

Reconceptualizing co-opetition using text mining: inductive derivation of a consensual definition of the field (1996-2015), International Journal of Business Environment published by Inderscience Publishers in 2017 (2nd author)

Mary Sabina Peters

Defects in the WTO Dispute Settlement: Implementation, Enforcement and Remedies, Estey Journal of International Law and Trade Policy published by "Estey Journal Office College of Law University of Saskatchewan" in 2018

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Articles in National Journals D.V. Ramana

Alpha, Beta and XBRL: Some Observations from Indian Capital Market, The Chartered Secretary published by The Institute of Company Secretaries of India (ICSI) in September 2017

Asit Ranjan Mohanty

Is Fiscal Policy Pro-Cyclical or Counter Cyclical? Evidence from India, Arthshastra Indian Journal of Economics and Research, Vol:6, Issue: 2, pp: 7-19 published by Arthshastra Indian journal of Economics and Research, India in May 2017 (1st author)

Fakir Mohan Sahoo

Creative Genius, Current Development Reporter published in August 2017

Fakir Mohan Sahoo Kalpana Sahoo

Emotional Styles of Potential Managers, Indian Journal of Positive Psychology published in September 2017

Fakir Mohan Sahoo

Age and Achievement, published in December 2017

Fakir Mohan Sahoo

Psychology and Spirituality, Current Development Reporter, Vol.45 No.1,18-21 published in January 2018

Bishnu Prasad Mishra

Case for non-Bank retail payment system in India, Indian journal of Economics, Vol. XCVII NO.385 PAGE 337 -345 published by University of Allahabad, Dept. of Economics, Commerce & Business Management in October 2017

T. Kumar

E-Governance and Decentralization - Study of an Indian District, Journal of Rural Development: Issue 1: Volume 36: January-March 2017: Pg- 61-82 published by National Institute of Rural Development and Panchayati Raj (NIRDPR), India in April 2017

T. Kumar

Social Business Using ICTs - Case of Ekutir, Jharkhand Journal of Development and Management Studies: No.3: Vol. 15: 7461-7474 published by Xavier Institute of Social Service(XISS), Ranchi, India in September 2017

Mousumi Padhi

Regulation and Governance of Employment Relations in Pre-employment Phase, Economic and Political Weekly, Vol LII, No 17, pp102-110 published in July 2017 (2nd author)

Ranjan Dasgupta

International Portfolio Diversification Opportunities for the Indian Investors in and Around Us 2007-09 Financial Crisis: An ARDL Application for Future Reference, published by Sameeksha Trust, India in July 2017

Ranjan Dasgupta

Risk-Attitudes of the NSE 500 Firms - Bowman's Paradox and Prospect Theory Perspectives, IIMB Management Review (Elsevier) (ABDC B, Scopus Indexed) Volume 29 Pp 76-89 published by Elsevier USA in July 2017

Satyendra Nath Mishra

Void in Management Research, Economic and Political Weekly: 52 (29): p-5 published by Sameeksha Trust, India in July 2017

Kushankur Dey

Options and the Commodity Market, Economic and Political Weekly:41:52:29-32 published by Sameeksha Trust, India in October 2017 (1st author)

Kushankur Dey

Agriculture Insurance in India: Promise, Pitfalls, and the Way forward, Economic and Political Weekly: 52:52:88-96 published by Sameeksha Trust India in December 2017 (1st author)

Abhimanyu Sahoo

Motivations and Concerns for use of Financial Derivatives, The Management Accountant published by India in May 2017

Mary Sabina Peters

Indian Gas in Price Burns, Oil Asia Journal published by Oil Asia, India in October 2017

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Targeting emerging and untapped markets: Rethinking market intelligence decision framework, Prabandhan, Vol. 11, Issue 1 published by Associated Management Consultants Private Limited, India in January 2018 (2nd author)

Mary Sabina Peters

Energy Charter Treaty Is an Instrument For The Promotion Of Cooperation, Oil Asia Journal published by Oil Asia, India in March 2018

Working Papers D.V. Ramana

Earnings Management and Corporate Governance Some Observations

D.V. Ramana

XBRL and Quality of Reporting Literature Survey

D.V. Ramana

Power Consumption and Economic Growth

D.V. Ramana

Corporate Cash Holding in India

D.V. Ramana

Financial and Accounting Aspects of Power Distribution Companies of India

Bhaskar Basu

Machine Learning Methodologies for In-Length Temperature Forecasting of Building Structures: A Review

Bhaskar Basu

Bayesian Inference for indoor room temperature short term forecasting

Pradeep Kumar Mishra

Evolving Space of Knowledge in Rural Management

Satyendra Nath Mishra

Institutional Design of Biofuel Development Across World

Mary Sabina Peters

Role of local media in rejuvenating the Ganga

Raj Kishore Patra

Policies to Regulate Fake News on Social Media

Raj Kishore Patra

Social Media and Social Responsibility

Arpita Saha

Policies to Regulate Fake News on Social Media

Arpita Saha

Social Media and Social Responsibility

Arpita Saha

Working Title: Mobile Telephony in Rural Health Sector

Subhra Pattnaik

Inconsistencies in Justice-Performance Relationship: A review of the extant literature and directions for future research

Subhra Pattnaik

The Journey of Justice - A literature review

International Conference Attended D.V. Ramana

Presented Corporate Governance and Earnings Management: Some Observations from India, Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics (SASE), University of Lyon, France on 14th September 2017

D.V. Ramana

Chaired-Conducted Frequency Domain-Based Causality between Power Consumption and Economic Growth, 1st International Conference on Energy, Finance and the Macroeconomy (ICEFM), 2017, Montpellier Business School, France from 22-24 November 2017

Banikanta Mishra

Chaired-Conducted Derivatives, IITs at Kharagpur, Madras, Bombay, Kanpur, Roorkee, Delhi on 7th July 2017

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4TH CONVOCATION 2018 Brajaraj Mohanty

Presented Governance and Public Policy - Role of Management Development, MNU Business School, The Maldives National University, Male, Bandos Maldives from 24-26 April 2017

Soumya Guha Deb

Presented Negotiated Bank Finance, Earning Quality and Firm Characteristics: Indian Evidence, The ACRN Oxford Centre for Interdisciplinary Research from 25-27 September 2017

Soumya Guha Deb

Presented Returns to active management: new evidence from India, IIT Bombay, IITMadras, IIT-Rorkee, IIT-Delhi, IIT-Kanpur and IIT-KGP from 7th July - 8th August 2017

Subhasis Ray

Presented 9th International Social Innovation Conference, Swinburne University of Technology, Australia from 12th December 2017-14th January 2018

Subhasis Ray

Chaired-Conducted GSOM Emerging Market Conference, GSOM, SPBU, Russia from 5-7 October 2017

Subhasis Ray

Chaired-Conducted International Marketing Conference MARCON 2017, IMI-Kolkata from 18-19 December 2017

Subhasis Ray

Presented South Asian Conference on Business Models & Social Entrepreneurship, Tata Institute of Social Science, Mumbai from 17-19 January 2018

Bishnu Prasad Mishra

Presented 3rd International Conference-Drifts in Business, Governance and Societal Values: Conflicts & Challenges, IMI, Bhubaneswar & EGADE Business School, Mexico 12th August-12th September 2017

Bishnu Prasad Mishra

Presented International Conference on Economics and Finance-2018, Bits Pilani, Goa from 16-17 February 2018

Rahul Thakurta

Presented Exploring User Participation Motives in Information System Projects, Association for Information Systems, Langkawi, Malaysia from 17-19 July 2017

Manimay Ghosh

Presented Determinants of Green Procurement Practices in Indian Firms, Production and Operations Management Society, Seattle, USA from 5-8 May 2107

V. Arockia Dass, SJ

Presented Life Satisfaction Factors of Slum Dwellers in Bhubaneswar City, Odisha - An Exploratory Study, Institute of Research Engineers and Scientists, Los Angles, USA from 20-21 October 2017

Lourduraj Ignacimuthu, SJ

Chaired-Conducted Rethinking Communication in a Resurgent Asia, Asian Media Information and Communication Centre, Inc., Miriam College, Metro Manila, Philippines 27-29 September 2017

Purnima Anjali Mohanty

Participated International Conference on Bioethics, Sexuality and Gender Identity, Waset, Paris 17-18 May 2017

Kalpana Sahoo

Presented Corporate Social Responsibility, Park Rotana, Abu Dhabi, UAE from 19-20 November 2017

Fakir Mohan Sahoo

Presented CSR, College of Business at Abu Dhabi University from 19-20 November 2017

T. Kumar

Facilitated Philosophies, Theories and Trends in Social Media, Xavier School of Communications (XCOMM), Xavier University, Bhubaneswar, India from 15-16 December 2017

T. Kumar

Presenter Social Media and Social Activism: A Case Study of Jallikattu Movement, Xavier School of Communications (XCOMM), Xavier University, Bhubaneswar, India from 15-16 December 2017

Tania Saritova Rath

Participaed in International Conference on Assessment Centres and Talent Management, XLRI Jamshedpur from 9-10 December 2017

Tania Saritova Rath

Presented 10th International Critical Management Studies Conference2017, Edgehill University, Liverpool, UK, 3-5 July 2017

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Participated in A Study of Work Place Bullying of Women Employees in Public Sector Banks in India, Edge Hill University and Board of Critical Management Studies from 3-5 July 2017

Mousumi Padhi

Presented on Career Progression and Work Experiences of Urban Indian Women/018 Gender, Work and Organization 10th Biennial International Interdisciplinary Conference, Macquarie University Sydney, Gender Work and Organization from 13-16 June 2018

Mousumi Padhi

Presented International Conference on Assessment Centers and Talent Management in Emerging Markets: Lessons from Global Practice, XLRI Jamshedpur and Aon Hewitt from 9-10 December 2017

Mousumi Padhi

Presented ‘The Hijras of Odisha’: A Study of the Self-Identity of the Eunuchs and Their Identification with Stereotypical Feminine Roles/ICBSGI 2018: 20th International Conference on Bioethics, Sexuality, and Gen, Paris, France, World Academy of Science Engineering and Technology from 17-18 May 2018

Mousumi Padhi

Participated Theoretical Necessity for Rethinking knowledge in Knowledge Management, 5th Biennial INDAM Conference 2017, IIM Indore, Indian Academy of Management from 17-20 December 2017

Manindra Narayan Nayak

Institutional Excellence: Key to Execution of Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code. 2016. from 27-28 January 2018

Pradeep Kumar Mishra

Presented Problem of Matching Grant in Financing Cluster Development, XSRM from 23-24 November 2017

Sutapa Pati

Presented at International Conference on Sustainability and Business [SUSBUS 2018], IIM Kolkata from 13-14 January 2018

Jolly Jose

Participated in Hosting and Domain Conference 2018, ICANN, Hyderabad on 3rd February 2018

Jolly Jose

Presenter Livelihood concerns and utility of government schemes in the semi-urban village of Odisha, India, Xavier School of Rural Management, XUB from 23-24 November 2017

Ranjan Dasgupta

Presented at ICFMCF 2017, IIT, Kharagpur from 7-8 July 2017

Plavini Punyatoya

Participated in Consumer Response to CSR Communication Strategies: Role of Fit and Information Source, AUSSRE, Melbourne, Australia from 11-12 November 2017

Plavini Punyatoya

Participated in Consumer Responses to Corporate Social Responsibility, IIM Calcutta from 13-14 January 2018

Plavini Punyatoya

Chaired-Conducted Sustainability in Organizations and Economies-SUSBUS 2018 (Track Chair), IIM Calcutta from 13-14 January 2018

Plavini Punyatoya

Participated in the effects of social media communication on consumers brand evaluation: An empirical investigation, Xavier School of Communications, Xavier University from 15-16 December 2017

Papiya Bhattacharjee

Presented Mountains of Optimization, Informs Optimization Society Conference, 2018, University of Colorado, Denver, from 23-25 March 2018

Tathagata Chatterji

Presented at 3rd International Conference on Public Policy (ICPP3), International Public Policy Association, Paris from 28-30 June 2017

Sagarika Mishra

Presenter Role of Liberalization and Ruling-Party in Industrialization and Mining: Odisha’s Experience during the Last Half Century, Association of Indian Economic and Financial Studies (AIEFS) from 31st July -1st August 2017

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National Conference Attended D.V. Ramana

Keynote Speaker Cloud Computing and Accounting, Indian Accounting Association, MS University, Udaipur from 18-19 November 2017

D.V. Ramana

Keynote Speaker XBRL and Quality of Reporting: Some Observations, Indian Accounting Association, MS University Udaipur 18-19 November 2017

W.S. William

Participated 25th Global Symposium in Project Management, Centre for Excellence in Project Management (CEPM), New Delhi from 4-5 December 2017

Soumya Guha Deb

Presented Return-based style analysis of actively managed equity mutual funds: new Indian evidence J D Birla Institute (Jadavpur University), Kolkata on 22nd April 2017

Soumya Guha Deb

Presented Revisiting Bowmans paradox in accounting risk and return: new Indian evidence, IIT Bombay, IIT-Madras, IIT-Rorkee, IIT-Delhi, IIT-Kanpur and IIT-KGP from 7-8 July 2017

Fakir Mohan Sahoo

Keynote Speaker Building Self-Efficacy, Paramanada College, Bolagarh on 5th September 2017

Fakir Mohan Sahoo

Keynote Speaker Frontiers of clinical psychology, U.N. College of science of technology from 8th August 2017

Fakir Mohan Sahoo

Facilitator of Exceptional Intelligence Children, Ranjita Memorial Foundation, CYSD, Bhubaneswar on 28th October 2017

V. Arockia Dass, SJ

Participated Jesuit Higher Education Association South Asia (JHEASA), XIDAS, Jabalpur from 3-6 November 2017

Bhaskar Basu

Presented Management 2022: Growth and Sustainability Challenges, IFIM Bangalore from 15-16 September 2017

Mousumi Padhi

Participated 5th National HRD Network HR Summit on HR the New Wave, Hotel Welcome Sheraton, District Centre, Sector 6, Saket Delhi, NHRDN from 8-9 September 2017

Manindra Narayan Nayak

Participated National Conference on Justice Education, Institute of Law, Nirma University, Ahmadabad from 10-11 November 2017

Tamoghna Acharyya

Facilitated Environment and Sustainable River Basin Management Basin, jointly organized by OEC, HDF-cDAR & XUB from 21-22 December 2017

Elizabeth Abba

Chaired-Conducted Fulbright Mentoring workshop for doctoral scholars and Faculty of XUB on 5th May 2017

Satyendra Nath Mishra

Presented on Challenges for Natural Resource Management: Field Observation from Shirui Village and Shirui Kashong, Manipur, India, Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati from 8-9 September 2017

Satyendra Nath Mishra

Presented on ‘The Missing market orientation in livelihood program of the Development sector’: A case of right diagnosis but wrong pills, International Management Institute, Kolkata from 23-24 November 2017.

Abhimanyu Sahoo

Presented at 14th National CA Conference 2017, ICAI, Bhubaneswar from 5 - 6 August 2017

Abhimanyu Sahoo

Participated National CA Conference 2017, ICAI, Cuttack from 9-10 June 2017

Abhimanyu Sahoo

Participated in National Seminar on GST, Institute of Cost Accountants of India - Tax Research Department Bhubaneswar Chapter form 27 - 28 January 2018

Vikrant Vijay Patil

Participated in 2030 Agenda: Driving Inclusive Growth, Confederation of Indian Industries, Le Meridian New Delhi from 6 - 7 September 2017

Vikrant Vijay Patil

Facilitated conference on Environment and Sustainable River Basin Management

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Participated in NHRDN 5th HRM Summit on HR: The Next Wave, NHRDN, Delhi from 8-9 September 2017

Girish Balasubramanian

Presented 5th INDAM, IIM Indore 17-20 December 2017

Tathagata Chatterji

Presented Smart Cities Workshop, Heidelberg University, ORF, SPA, XUMG, Bhubaneswar from 21-22September 2017

Suchitra Pal

Presented Antecedents and consequences of work-family enrichment: A literature review, IIT Kharagpur from 22-24 December 2017

Conference/ Workshops Conducted M.N. Tripathi

Presented 'When Brands become Cults' - Paper presented at the Global Business Conference held in Dubrovnik, Croatia from 27th -30th September 2017

Dipak Bhattacharyya

Keynote Speaker on HRM: Changing Paradigms, Perspectives and Practices for the 21st Century, Rourkela Institute of Management Studies on 3rd April 2017

V. Arockia Das, S.J.

Chaired-Conducted JEASA Triennial, Xavier City Campus, XUB 6-9 October 2017

T. Kumar

Chaired-Conducted First International Conference on Rural Management(ICRM), Xavier School of Rural Management (XSRM), Xavier University Bhubaneswar from 23-24 November 2017

Tania Saritova Rath

Chaired-Conducted HR Symposium 2017, Xavier School of Human Resource Management on 15th July 2017

Pradeep Kumar Mishra

Chaired-Conducted Towards a diversified food system: Emerging opportunities in Odisha, TCI-TARINA-XSRM on 19th July 2017

Mary Sabina Peters

Chaired-Conducted Children’s Environment Congress 2017, XUB-XSoS from 20-22 December 2017

Faculty Development Programs Attended D.V. Ramana

Participated in Fund Raising for Startups at VC Circle, Bangalore on 5th February 2018

Ajit Kumar

Participated in Case Study as a Pedagogic Tool at XIMB-XUB during 24-25 November 2017

Tania Saritova Rath

Participated in Hiring for Success at FICCI, Mumbai during 8-9 May 2017

Mousumi Padhi

Participated in International Conference on Assessment Centers and Talent Management in Emerging Markets: Lessons from Global Practice at XLRI Jamshedpur and Talent Edge during 9-10 December 2017

Subhra Pattnaik

Participated in Case Study as a Pedagogic Tool at XIMB-XUB during 24-25 November 2017

Bhaskar Basu

Participated and Conducted in Case Study as a Pedagogic Tool at XIMB-XUB during 2425 November 2017

Seminars / Talks / Resource Persons D.V. Ramana

Keynote Speaker on Economic Aspects of Skill Development at Fasteners Association of India and its Local Partner, Bhubaneswar on 8th May 2017

D.V. Ramana

Keynote Speaker on Budget Conclave_ 2018 at XIMB Finance Association, XIMB-XUB on 2nd February 2018

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Presented on Action Research and Accounting Education: Experiments and Experience at Indian Accounting Association, MS University, Udaipur during 18-19 November 2017

Banikanta Mishra

Presented on 2017 Biennial Conference of Association of Indian Economic and Financial Studies at Association of Indian Economic and Financial Studies, NCDS, Bhubaneswar, Odisha during 31st July-1st August 2017

M.N. Tripathi

Keynote Speaker on Digital Marketing: An Extension of Marketing Infrastructure at Srusti Academy of Management, Bhubaneswar on 9th September 2017

Fakir Mohan Sahoo

Keynote Speaker on Righteous Living: Psychological Perspective at Swadhya Parivar, Suchana Bhabhan, Bhubaneswar on 24th April 2017

Fakir Mohan Sahoo

Keynote Speaker on Psychology of Happiness at P. S. College, Khandapara ,Odisha on 29th August 2017

Fakir Mohan Sahoo

Keynote Speaker on Positive Psychology at U. N. College of science of technology, Adaspur, Cuttack on 8th August 2017

Fakir Mohan Sahoo

Chaired-Conducted on Frontiers of Leadership at Bolagarh College, Nayagarh on 5th September 2017

Fakir Mohan Sahoo

Keynote Speaker on Care of the Elderly at Dabasanskrit University, Haridwar on 8th October 2017

Fakir Mohan Sahoo

Chaired-Conducted on the state of democracy in India at Thinker's Forum, Bhubaneswar on 28th October 2017

Fakir Mohan Sahoo

Keynote Speaker on Building Competence At BJB Autonomous College, Bhubaneswar on 13th November 2017

Bhaskar Basu

Chaired-Conducted on Management 2022: Growth and Sustainability Challenges at IFIM Bangalore during 15-16 September 2017

Tamoghna Acharyya

Participated in A state level program on sensitization on Zero Defect Zero Effect under ZED mission, Government of India at CTTC, Bhubaneswar sponsored by Quality Council of Indi and CTTC on 16th May 2017

Tamoghna Acharyya

Presented on Challenges and opportunities of Dolphin based ecotourism in Satapada, Odisha under the theme - Population, Environment and Sustainable Development at Department of Applied Geography, Ravenshaw University, Cuttack on 28th December 2017

Elizabeth Abba

Presented on Panel Discussion on Air Quality in commemoration of Earth Day conducted by Public Affairs Section at U.S. Consulate General Hyderabad, Lamakaan, USIEF on 20th April 2017

Kushankur Dey

Presented on Capital markets: Thinking beyond equities at Kolkata, National Institute of Securities Markets and Multi Commodity Exchange on 6th June 2017

Abhimanyu Sahoo

Chaired-Conducted on Professional Opportunities at Kalinga College of Commerce, Bhubaneswar on 13th December 2017

Manindra Narayan Nayak

Presented on Developing Entrepreneurial Skills: Skill Development for Youth Employability and Entrepreneurship at V.V. Giri National Labour Institute, Noida on 11th October 2017

Elizabeth Abba

Resource person for a plenary session in International Conference titled “STEM Education and Faculty Development” in collaboration with American Corner (American Consulate) at St. Francis College for Women, Begumpet, Hyderabad (T.S) on 8th November 2017

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International Training/ Work Shop Attended D. V. Ramana

Presented on Interdisciplinary Workshop on Energy and Development at IIT Mumbai on 9th December 2017

Bhaskar Basu

Participated on Case Method Teaching Seminar at SIBM, Bengaluru during 7-8 July 2017

National Training/ Work Shop Attended D.V. Ramana

Presented on Trends and Way Forward in the State Electricity Sectors at Prayas Energy Group, Pune during 12-14 September 2017

W.S. William

Participated on Workshop on Teaching with Simulation at SPJIMR, Mumbai during 27-28 October 2017

Manimay Ghosh

Participated in Teaching with Simulations SPIJMR, Mumbai during 27-28 October 2017

Mousumi Padhi

Participated in Hiring for Success: Talent Acquisition FICCI Quality Forum, Mumbai during 8-9 May 2017

Arup Roy

Participated on Sustainable Diabetic Footcare at SCB Medical College, Cuttack on 10th May 2017

Tamoghna Acharyya

Participated in TQM, Lean Six Sigma IPR at Central tool room & Training Centre, Bhubaneswar on 15th April 2017

Tamoghna Acharyya

Participated in A state level program on DLSAH Quality Trust Award sensitization and Zero Defect Zero Effect under ZED mission of the National Manufacturing Competitiveness Program at Central Tool Room and Training Centre, Bhubaneswar on 16th May 2017

Tamoghna Acharyya

Participated in Lean Six Sigma yellow belt training program at CTTC, Bhubaneswar during 6-7 May 2017

Tamoghna Acharyya

Participated on Roundtable on Sustainable Diabetic Footcare at SCB Medical College Cuttack, sponsored by WIPRO Earthian on 10th May 2017

Kushankur Dey

Participated in Making Agricultural Extension Pro-Poor - State Level Consultation at Bhubaneswar, TCI-Tarina Care ISD on 24th August 2017

Vikrant Vijay Patil

Participated in Roundtable on Sustainable Diabetic Footcare at SCB Medical College Cuttack on 10th May 2017

Manindra Narayan Nayak

Participated in National Academic Depository (NAD): A Digital Initiative by UGC at UGC, New Delhi on 5th February 2017

Elizabeth Abba

Participated on 1st Regional Knowledge conclave for colleges and Universities for Green Educators at St Xavier’s Kolkata during 24-25 August 2017

Training/ Work Shop Conducted Tamoghna Acharyya

Chaired-Conducted Fulbright Specialist Workshop on the Theme Remote Sensing in Earth System Science at Xavier School of Sustainability, sponsored by the US Department of State during 2-17 January 2018

Tamoghna Acharyya

Chaired-Conducted on Citing and Referencing What? Where? How? At Research promotion cell GM University, Sambalpur on 19th November 2017

Jolly Jose

Chaired-Conducted on Learning and Integration at St. Mary's Higher Secondary School, Pathanamthitta, Kerala on 4th January 2018

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Applied Research Activity Tania Saritova Rath

Gender policy development -Annapurna MicroFinance Pvt. Ltd.

Arup Roy

Development of nanostructured magnetic material-based adsorbent for the removal of Fluoride from water-Science & Engineering Research Board (SERB), DST, Government of India

Satyendra Nath Mishra

National Level Monitoring-MoRD, Government of India

Pradeep Kumar Mishra

National Level Monitoring (NLM) of Rural Development Projects--MoRD, Govt. of India

Mousumi Padhi

Operationalization of Odisha Municipal Cadre Act 2015 and effectuation of Municipal Cadre -Housing and Urban Development Department, Government of Odisha --Psychometric Testing Evidence-based scientific study of economic and environmental aspects of two UPNRM business models in Odisha

Suchitra Pal

Psychometric Testing - Odisha Mining Corporation Ltd

Kushankur Dey

Evidence-based scientific study of economic and environmental aspects of two UPNRM business models in Odisha-GIZ, New Delhi

Rahul Thakurta

Written Test for Recruitment of regular Non-executive staff pertaining to Multiple Trades-Nalco (Damanjodi)

Jolly Jose

Online health information-seeking behavior of users –Sri Padmavati Women University

Pradeep Kumar Mishra

Impact Assessment of IFF and IHP-GIZ, New Delhi

Pradeep Kumar Mishra

SFURTI -Technical Agency Support-KVIC

D.V. Ramana

Examining the Corporate Governance Practices of State Level Enterprises of India-National Foundation for Corporate Governance

W.S. William

Studies on Organization Structure and Manpower Requirements for NESCO, WESCO & SOUTHCO Utilities, Odisha--DISCOM Monitoring Unit (DMU), GRIDCO Ltd. Odisha

W.S. William

Lean Construction for Odisha Works Department, Phase-1-Odisha Works Department

Elizabeth Abba

Study Abroad Program-San Diego State University (SDSU)

Mousumi Padhi

Preparation of Gender Policy for AMFL-Annapurna Microfinance Private Limited

Tamoghna Acharyya

Phyto-health - An investigation of phytoplankton functional type, photo acclimation and grazing dynamics in the Chilika lagoon: A pigment chemotaxonomy approach-Science and Engineering Research Board (Statutory Body Established Through an Act of Parliament: SE)

Faculty Achievements Fakir Mohan Sahoo

Received the Best Paper Award in the International Conference on Corporate Social Responsibility in the 21st Century, Abu Dhabi (UAE). Paper titled Personality Predictors of Social Anxiety on 20th November 2017

Preshth Bhardwaj

One of the recipients of ICBM-AMP Academic Excellence Award 2017 in the category of Best Professor in Marketing on 16th December 2017

Kalpana Sahoo

Personality Predictors of Social Anxiety: Psychological Facilitator and Barrier in Potential CSR Service Providers on 20th November 2017

Tamoghna Acharyya

Selected as interview panelist for the selection of State WSSO Consultant - ME cum MIS, Govt. of Odisha on 25th April 2017

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Chosen by SAGE publications as an expert to review 03 chapters of a manuscript entitled Developing our World: Equipping Sustainability Change Maker on 29th May 2017

Tamoghna Acharyya

Awarded with project entitled Phyto-health an investigation of phytoplankton functional type, photo acclimation and grazing dynamics in the Chilika lagoon; on 26th May 2017

Tamoghna Acharyya

Chosen as a domain expert to review the two-year master’s Degree program course outline on Climate Science and Policy offered by TERI University on 4th October 2017

Tamoghna Acharyya

Selected as a domain expert by SAGE publications to review 03 book chapters on Environmental Governance in India: Issues and Challenges on 10th September 2017

Kushankur Dey

Adjudged as finalist to securing Paul Richard Lawrence Fellowship as part of North American Case Research Association on 21st July 2017

Mary Sabina Peters

Reviewed an article for Decisions, Springer Journals With special focus on oil contracts. Reviewer Recommendation and Comments for Manuscript Number DECN-D-17-00124 on 22nd January 2018

Arpita Saha

Contributed to four e-PG modules as Second Author in Gender, Media and Society under the subject Media and Communication Studies for the E-PG Pathshala Program jointly initiated on 4th August 2017

Faculty: Live Projects Name/s

Topic

Name of Organization/Industry

Tamoghna Acharyya

“Phyto-health - An investigation of phytoplankton functional type, photo acclimation and grazing dynamics in the Chilika lagoon: A pigment chemotaxonomy approach”

Science and Engineering Research Board (SERB), DST, Government of India in collaboration with University of Georgia, USA & Chilika Development Authority (CDA)

Tamoghna Acharyya

“Remote Sensing in Earth System Science” (XSoS received Fulbright Specialist fund to host a U.S. scholar for conducting workshop and thus develop linkages with American institutions.)

U.S. Department of State

Arup Roy

Development of nanostructured magnetic material based adsorbent for the removal of Fluoride from water.

Science and Engineering Research Board (SERB), DST, Government of India

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XAVIER UNIVERSITY Administration

Paul Fernandes, S.J.

Vice Chancellor & Director

E. A. Augustine, S.J. Registrar

Subhajyoti Ray

Donald D’Silva, S.J. Director (Finance)

Snigdha Pattnaik

Dean (Academics) XIMB & Assistant Registrar (Academics)

Dean (Academics) Xavier School of HRM

S. Peppin

Fr. Lourduraj I., S.J.

Manindra Narayan Nayak

Controller of Examinations

Kajri Misra

Dean (Academics) Xavier School of RM

P. K. Mohanty

Dean (Academics) Xavier School of Sustainability

Dean (Academics) Xavier School of Communications

Dean (Academics) Xavier School of Commerce

Manimay Ghosh

V. Arockia Das, S.J.

Fr. Alwyn Rodrigues, S.J.

Associate Dean, XIMB

Rahul Thakurta

S. K. Padhi

In-Charge Student Affairs & Residences Xavier City Campus

Sasmit Patra

Associate Dean Doctoral Programs

Associate Dean Executive Program

Associate Dean International Relations

Asit Ranjan Mohanty

Bikram Kumar Bahinipati

Saveeta Mohanty

Assistant Registrar (External Affairs & PR)

M. N. Tripathi

XIMB Alumni Coordinator

Rashmi Singh

XSC Alumni Coordinator

Suchitra Pal

Chairperson Continuing Education Centre

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Assistant Registrar Administration

Associate Dean Admissions

Mousumi Padhi

XAHR Alumni Coordinator

Jolly Jose

XCOMM Alumni Coordinator

Bhaskar Basu

I T Coordinator

Associate Dean Career Advisory Services

S. S. Singh

XSRM Alumni Coordinator

Abba Elizabeth Joseph

XSOS Alumni Coordinator

Deepak Khuntia

Library Coordinator

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OUR FACULTY

Inspiring University Education through Teaching and Research Abhimanyu Sahoo

M.Com (Ravenshaw University) CA (ICAI), CS (ICSI) Cost Accountancy (ICAI-Cost) JRF (UGC) Ph.D. (Ravenshaw University) Commerce

Ajit Kumar

B.Sc (Allahabad University) MCA (Bundlekhand University) Ph.D. (Taipei Medical University, Taiwan) Postdoctoral Fellow (Taiwan) Information Systems

Alwyn Rodrigues, S.J.

M.Sc (Anna University) Ph.D. (Xavier University Bhubaneswar)* Communications

Amar KJR Nayak

BE (NIT Rourkela), MBA (IIM-Bangalore); Ph.D. (IIT-Kharagpur); Research Fellow (Kobe University, Japan) General Management & Strategic Management

Andrew Dutta

M.Com (Calcutta Univ), MTP (IIMT), Ph.D. (ICFAI Univ), Visiting Research Scholar, Bentley University, Massachusetts (2004-05) Human Resource Management

Ansuman Tripathy

MBA, Ph.D. (Utkal) FPM (IIM Calcutta) Strategic Management & General Management

Arun Kumar Paul

B.Tech (IIT Kharagpur) Fellow (XLRI, Jamshedpur) Operations Management

Arpita Saha

Asit Ranjan Mohanty

M.Phil (Eco.), JNU, Fellow UGC, CAIIB Ph.D. (Utkal University) Dip in Risk Management (IIBF) Finance

Ashutosh Mishra

M.Tech (KNIT), Ph.D. (IIT, Kharagpur) Computer Science & Engineering

Banikanta Mishra

M.Com (Utkal University) Fellow (IIM-Ahmedabad) General Management & Strategic Management

Dipak Kumar Bhattacharyya MA (Eco.), PGDPM (NIPM) PG Dip. in Journalism Ph.D. (University of Calcutta) Organisational Behaviour

MA (Delhi School of Economics) Ph.D. (Stern School, New York University, USA) Finance

Dipak Misra

Bhaskar Basu

D. V. Ramana

BE (Mech), MProdE (Gold Medalist) C.Eng. (India) PGDOM (IGNOU), PGDBM (IIMC) Ph.D. (IIT-KGP) Information Systems

B.Sc Engg. (UCE, Burla), ME (NIT, Rourkela) Ph.D. (Utkal University) Information Systems M.Com, M.Phill (Utkal University) Ph.D. (Utkal University) Accounting

Donald D’Silva, S.J.

Bibhu Prasan Patra

MA (Comm.), PGDHRM, Ph.D. (Madras University) Communication

General Management & Strategic Management

E.A. Augustine, S.J.

MA (Utkal), MPhil (NEHU, Shillong) Ph.D. (IIT Kanpur)

Bhibuti Ranjan Mishra

MA (Utkal), M. Phill (NEHU, Shillong), Ph.D. (IIT Kanpur) Economics

MA (Utkal University), LLB (Ranchi University) MA (UAE, U.K), PGD- RDM (IRMA)

Elizabeth Abba

M.Tech (IIT, Kharagpur), Ph.D. (IIT, Delhi) Operations Management

M.Sc (Mumbai University), PGD in Environment Management, Fellow (NITIE, Mumbai) Sustainability

Biresh K. Sahoo

Fakir Mohan Sahoo

Bikram Kumar Bahinipati

MA (Eco), MPhil (Eco) Ph.D. (IIT Kharagpur); JSPS Fellow (GRIPS, Tokyo, Japan); Lise Meitner Fellow (WU-Wien, Austria)  Economics

Bishnu Prasad Mishra

MA, Ph.D. (Visva-Bharati, Santiniketan)* Communication

MA (Eco.), DSE Ph.D. (Utkal University), CAIIB Finance

Arup Roy

Biswa Swarup Misra

M.Sc (Vidyasagar University) Ph.D. (IIT, Kharagpur) Sustainability

Brajaraj Mohanty

MA (Utkal University), Ph.D. (Patna University), CAIIB Economics

MA (Utkal University) Ph.D. (Queens University, Canada) Organisational Behaviour

Girish Balasubramanian

B.Tech (NIT, Surat), FPM (XLRI) Human Resource Management

Gogol Mitra Thakur

MA, M.Phil (Econ.), Ph.D. (Econ.) Xavier School of Economics

Gautam Mali

ME (IIEST), Ph.D. (IIT, Kharagpur) Computer Science & Engineering

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MA (Kanpur University), Ph.D. (IIT Kanpur) Communication 

Jeevan J Arakal

PGDRM (XIMB), Ph.D. (IIT- Bombay) Rural Management

Jolly Jose

MMC (Guru Jhambheswar University) IRPM (Sri Venkateswara University, Tirupati) Ph.D. (SPMV, Tirupati) Communication

Joshy K. X., S.J.

MA (Loyola College, Chennai) M.Sc (St. Xavier’s College, Palayamkottai) Ph.D. (Xavier University Bhubaneswar)*

Kajri Misra

PGD in Planning (CEPT, Ahmedabad) Ph.D. (Cornell University, USA) Rural Management

Kalpana Sahoo

MA, M.Phil (Psych. Utkal University) Ph.D. (Utkal University) Organizational Behaviour

Kiran Cotha, S.J.

MA (Managlore University) Ph.D. (Xavier University Bhubaneswar)*

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Krishna Das Gupta

Manindra Narayan Nayak

Kushankur Dey

Mary Sabina Peters

Latha Ravindran

Mayank Dubey

MBA (Utkal University), Ph.D. (Utkal University) Marketing PGDM-AWSCM (Manage, Hyderabad) Fellow (IRMA), Post-doc Fellow (IIMA) Rural Management MA, MPhil (University of Madras) Ph.D. (Bharathiar University, Coimbatore) Economics

Lourduraj Ignacimuthu, S.J.

MA (University of Philippines, Diliman) PGD in A&V (Chitrabani, Kolkata) Ph.D.* (KITS, Coimbatore) Communications

M. N. Tripathi

B.Sc: Engg (REC, Rourkela) PGDM (IIM Ahmedabad) Ph.D. (Utkal Univ.) Marketing

Manimay Ghosh

BE: Mechanical (University of Calcutta), MBA (University of Pennsylvania, USA) MS, Ph.D. (Montana State Univ., MT, USA) Operations Management

M.Com (Utkal University) Ph.D. (Utkal University) Commerce

BA, L.L.B (Kerala Law Academy College), LLM: Oil & Gas Law (Univ. of Aberdeen, Scotland) Sustainability MA, Ph.D. (SPA, New Delhi) Urban Management and Governance

Monalisa Mandal

MCA, Ph.D. (University of Kalyani) Post Doc. NTNU, Norway Computer Science & Engineering

Mousumi Padhi

MBA (Utkal Univesity) Fellow (XIM-Bhubaneswar) Human Resource Management

Nadarajah Manickam

MA, Ph.D.: Sociology (JNU) Centre for Humanities & Compassion Studies

Nadira Khatun

MA (Visva-Bharati), M. Phill, Ph.D. (TISS, Mumbai) Communication

REPORT 2017-18 Narayan Chandra Sarangi

LLB/LLM (Utkal University) PGD in Law (Utkal University) Ph.D. (Utkal University) Human Resource Management

Niraj Kumar

B.Sc: Agri & AH (GBPUAT) M.Sc: Agri (GBPUAT) Ph.D. (IVRI, Izatnagar) Rural Management

P. K. Mohanty

M.Com, MBA (Utkal University) Ph.D. (Sambalpur University) Accounting

Papiya Bhattacharjee

M.Tech (NIT, Durgapur) M.Sc (University of Calcutta) Ph.D. (IIT, Kharagpur) Decision Sciences

Parikshit De

M.Sc (Calcutta Univ.), Ph.D. (ISI, Kolkata) Economics

Paul Fernandes, S.J.

Ph.D. (KU, WWF Ingolstadt, Germany) M.Sc. in Economics (KU Leuven, Belgium) MA Licentiate in Applied Ethics (KU Leuven, Belgium), PGDBM (XLRI)

Plavini Punyatoya

M.Tech (IIT, Delhi), Fellow (IIM, Indore) Marketing

Pradeep Kumar Mishra

MA (Sambalpur University) M.Phil (IIFM, Bhopal), Fellow (IRMA) Rural Management

Preshth Bhardwaj

MBA (Utkal University) Ph.D. (M.S University of Baroda) Marketing

Punyaslok Dhall

BE: Mechanical (NIT Rourkela) PGDM (XIMB), LLB (Utkal University) Ph.D. (IIT, Kharagpur) Marketing

Purnima Anjali Mohanty

MA: English Literature (Utkal University) Ph.D. (Utkal University) Communication

Rahul Kumar

BE, Ph.D. (IIM, Ranchi)* Decision Science

Rahul Thakurta

B.E. (BEC-DU), Fellow (IIM Calcutta) Information Systems

Raj Kishore Patra

MJMC (Algapa University) M.Phil (Utkal University) Ph.D. (Viswa–Bharati, Santiniketan) Communications

Ranjan Dasgupta

M.Com (University of Calcutta), M.Phil (University of Calcutta) Ph.D. (University of Calcutta) Commerce

Rashmi Singh

B.Sc (VBS Purvanchal University, Jaunpur) MBA (IILM), Ph.D. (IIT, Roorkee) Commerce

S. Antony Joseph Raj, S.J.

MA (Delhi School of Economics, Delhi University) MA (Loyola University Maryland, Baltimore)

Sadhna Dash

PGDBM (XIMB) Ph.D. (Xavier University Bhubaneswar)* Human Resource Management

Sagarika Mishra

B.Ed, MA, Ph.D. (Utkal University)* Rural Management (Economics)

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Sudhanshu Shekhar Singh

MA: Psychology (University of Allahabad) MPS: Demography (IIPS, Mumbai) Ph.D. (International Inst. for Population Sc., Mumbai) Marketing

Snigdha Pattnaik

Sandipan Karmakar

M.Tech, Ph.D.* (IIT, Kaharagpur) Decision Sciences

MA, MSW (Loyola College, Chennai) M.Phil and Ph.D. (JNU) Sustainability

T. Kumar

Sanjay Mohapatra

Soumya Guha Deb

Tamoghna Acharyya

Sanket Sunand Dash

Subhajyoti Ray

Tania Saritova Rath

MBA (Utkal University) Ph.D. (University of Allahabad) Organisational Behaviour

Subha Kant Padhi

Tathagata Chatterji

Satyendra Nath Mishra

Subhasis Ray

B.E. (NIT Rourkela), M.Tech (IIT Madras) PGDM (XIMB), Ph.D. (Utkal University) Information Systems PGDM (XIMB), Fellow (IIM–A) Organisational Behaviour

Sasmit Patra

M.Sc (TERI University), M.Phil (IIFM, Bhopal), Fellow (IRMA)* Rural Management

Saveeta Mohanty

PGD PM&IR (XLRI) Ph.D. (Utkal University)* Human Resource Management

Shridhar Kumar Dash

MA: Eco (University of Hyderabad), Ph.D.: Finance (IGIDR, Mumbai) Finance

Shovan Ray

MA: Economics (JNU) M.Sc (Econ.): London School of Economics Ph.D. (University of Cambridge) Xavier School of Economics

Sibanjan Mishra

B.Com (Ravenshaw University), MBA (BPUT), ICWAI (I), Ph.D. (Utkal University) Commerce

PGD PM&IR (XLRI) Ph.D. (Utkal University) Human Resource Management

Soosai Peppin

BCE: Hons (JU), PGDBM (IIM-Calcutta) Fellow (IIM-Calcutta) Finance M-Stat (Indian Statistical Institute) Fellow (IIM-Ahmedabad) Decision Sciences FCA (ICAI), DISA (ISA), Ph.D. (Utkal University) Accounting BE (North Bengal University) PGDBM (IIM-C), Ph.D. (Osmania University) Marketing

Subhra Patnaik

PGDM (XIMB), Ph.D. (Utkal University)* Human Resource Management

Suchitra Pal

MA, M.Phil (Utkal University) Ph.D. (Norwegian Univ. of Sc. and Tech., Trondheim) Research Fellow (Centre for Occupational and Life stress, NUIG, Ireland) Organizational Behaviour

Suresh Kumar Patra

MA (Utkal University) M.Phil, Ph.D. (Pondichery University) Xavier School of Economics

MA (S.K University), PGDRD (XISS Ranchi) Dip. in Sustainable Mgmt. (Univ. of Birmingham) Ph.D. (Ranchi University) Rural Management B.E.: ECE (NIT, Trichy), Fellow (IRMA) Rural Management M.Sc (Kalyani University) Ph.D. (Andhra University) Sustainability MA (Utkal University), PGDM (XIMB), CAIIB Human Resource Management MArch (Kent state University, USA) Ph.D. (University of Queensland) Urban Management and Governance

V. Arockia Das, S.J.

M.Com, M.Phil (Loyola College, Chennai) Ph.D. (University of Madras) Commerce

V. Vijay Kumar

MA (Adv. & PR), Madurai Kamraj Univ., M.Sc (Elec. Media) Anna Univ., M.Sc (Visual Comm), Bharatiyar Univ., M.Phil, Madurai Kamraj Univ., Ph. D (Anna Univ.) Communication

Vikrant Vijay Patil

M.Sc, PG Dip. Remote Sensing & GIS (Mumbai Univ.), Fellow (NITIE, Mumbai) Sustainability

W.S William

Sutapa Pati

B.Tech, MTech (IIT Kharagpur) Ph.D. (IIT Kharagpur) Operations Management

Prahlad Mishra

S.P. Das

B.E (UCE Burla), M.Des (IIT Delhi) Ph.D. (IIT, Delhi) Sustainability

Adjunct Faculty Bhabesh Sen

MA (Utkal) gold Medalist MS (Michigan State University, USA) Ph.D. (Corolado State University, USA) Decision Sciences

Indranil Chakrabarti

M.Sc, FPM (IIM–A) Strategic Management

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MA: Economics (Sambalpur University) Ph.D. (Sambalpur University) Economics & General Management

MA, LLB (Sambalpur University) DSW (Bangalore) Dip: SME (Cranfield School of Management, U.K.) Ph.D. (Utkal University) Economics

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Part-Time & Visiting Faculty

Amit Patra

Balwinder Kaur

Amit Ranjan Tripathy

Banita Behera

Amit Sengupta

Chandrabhanu Das

Amit Sharma

Chinmoy Ghosh

Ph.D., B.Sc (Phy.), M.Sc

MA (Geog.), MRP, Ph.D. (Geog.)

Amulyadhan Rout

Chittaranjan Jena

Kunal Ghosh

Anirban Basu

Damodar Jena

MA Mass Communication Ph.D., LLB, M.Com Graduation in F&T B.Tech, MBA

M.Sc, PGDM (XIMB) PGDM

Anirban Gupta PGDRM (XIMB)

Arjyolopa Mishra

MA (Sociology), M.Phil, Pursuing Ph.D.

Arkadev Chatterjea B.Sc (Math.), MA (Economics)

Ashijit Ganguli

Diploma (Licentiate in Printing & Graphic Arts), PGD in Cinema from FTI, Pune.

LLB, LLM, Ph.D. MA (Sociology)

BE, MBA, Ph.D.

M.Sc., PGDM (XIMB) MA (Economics), M.Phil (Economics), LLB

Debabrata Datta Ph.D., MA

Francis T. Castelino

Jose Maria Aulotte

Ph.D., IEP, Paris (Sc.), Masters in Public Law

Jyoti Mishra

BA Mass Communication & MA in mass communication & Journalism

Kanchan Gandhi

BE (Mech), M.Tech (IE & OR), Ph.D.

L. N. Mishra

B.Tech in ET, PGDM from IIM-A

Madhu Bharti MA, Ph.D.

B.Sc (Phy.), PGDPM & IR, PGDBM from XLRI, Pursuing Fellow in XLRI

Madhubrata Raysingh

G Srikant Pattnaik

Manaswee Kumar Samal

M.Com, CA

M.Com, CA, Ph.D.

G.S. Manju Rathan

Manaw Modi

M.Phil, NET & JRF, Pursuing Ph.D.

B.Sc, M.Sc, Dip. in Digital Visual Media, Search Engine Optimization Specialist

B.Tech, M.S. (CSE), MBA from University of Maryland

H. Maheshwari Vijay Kumar B.Com, MA, PGDM, M.Com

MBA, M.Sc in Statistics, Pursuing Ph.D.

Hudson Taylor

Manoj Fogla

Dip. in Film Technology, Specialized in Sound Engg., ITC in Electronics, PG in MA English

B.Com, MA, LLB, CA, Ph.D.

B.Sc (Agg.), PGDM (XIMB), Ph.D. (Utkal)

J. B. Das

Mona Iyer

M.Com, FCS, LLB, PGDM (XIMB)

Ph.D.

Atul Singh Chauhan

Jaydeep Mukherjee

Naresh Chandra Sahu

B.Sc, PGDM, Ph.D.

MA, M.Phil, Ph.D.

B.B. Mohanty

John Livingston

Neelima Risbud

Ashish Kumar Panda B.Sc, PGDM (XIMB) Pursuing Ph.D. (XIMB)

Ashok Kumar Mishra B.Sc, MBA, PGDFMP, Ph.D.

Ashok Kumar Singha

BE, Pursuing Ph.D. (XUB) MA, Ph.D.

T-Engg with Mechanical Engg.

Manidatta Ray

B.Arch, PGDTCP, Ph.D.

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Nitin Goyal

Santanu Kumar Ganguli

Novena Bothaju

Santosh Kumar Bishwal

BE (Civil), PGDM (XIMB) B.A, Sociology, Masters in Media Science and Comm.

P. K. Padhi

Ph.D., LLB, LLM, XLRI

Patrik C Vervinckt

Ph.D., Master in Industrial Psychology, EPHRM

Prithviranjan Parhi

B.Com, FACA, Ph.D. B.Sc, M.Tech

Sourav Sarangi

Graduation in F&T

Satyananda Routray M.Com, CA

Satyanarayan Mohapatra MBA

M.Com, FCA, DISA (ICAI), Fellow (ICAI)

Shashi Bhusan Mohanty

Rahul Pratyush Mohanty

Shiba Prasad Padhi

B.Tech, MBA, Pursuing Ph.D.

Rajat Ghosh

B.Sc, M.Sc, MFA Photography

Rajendra Nath Mehrotra

Ph.D., Dual Honours Degree in Electrical & Mechanical Engg.

Rajiv Bhutani

B.Sc, MBA(Fin), MFE, CFA-I

Rajneesh Krishna Ph.D., MA

Raksha Nanthan B.Tech, MBA

Rasananda Mohanty

B.Com, PGDCCSM, MBA

PGDM (IIMC)

M.Com, MBA, Dip. in Expert Mgt., Fellow of III, Fellow of ICWAI

PGDCM, PGDHRM, Pursuing Ph.D.

Sunil Agrawala

B.Sc in ETE, MS Degree in CS

Swagat Kishore Mishra MA, Ph.D.

Tanmaya Khuntia

M.Sc (Botany), MBA, UGC Net, Pursuing Ph.D.

Tumpa Dey

Sisir Kumar Panda

V. Nagaraj

PGDM from XLRI, Bank Officer in BoI

Ph.D., LLB, LLM, M. Phil

Solomon James

Velu Shakar

BE, MBA, Pursuing Ph.D.

MA in Communication

Subhash Rastogi

Vidya Pujrai

Fellow from NITIE, Mumbai B.Tech from IIT-K

Subrat Prasanna Mishra MCA, M.Tech, PGDM (XIMB)

Subrat Sarangi

Sankar Datta

Sudheshna Mitra

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Sumitra Balakrishnan

Fellow-XLRI, MA, M. Phil (Gender Studies)

B.Tech, PGDM (XIMB), Pursuing Fellow at XLRI

B.Sc, PGDRM (IRMA), Ph.D., AMI, Cornell Univ., USA

MBA, Ph.D.

Sidharth Iyer

PGDM

Ravi Subramanian

Sujit Kumar Patra

BPP, MUP, MRP, Ph.D.

B.Ed, M.Phil, Pursuing Ph.D.

Vijaya Batth

B.Com, DCA, ICWA, ACS, LLB, FCA, Pursuing Ph.D.

Washim Raja

B.Sc, MBA, Pursuing Ph.D.

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Non -Teaching Staff

Abhay Kumar Sahoo

Bhimasen Maharana

Geetanjali Behera

Abhi Chandra Nayak

Bibhuti Bhusan Rautray

George Ekka

Abhirama Nayak

Bibhuti Nayak

Ghanasyam Kahalasingh

Aishwarya Praharaj

Bidyadhar Pradhan

Golak Behari Mohapatra

Ajay Jena

Bighnaraj Pattanaik

Govind Nayak

Ajaya Kumar Mohapatra

Bijay Kr. Kar

Haraprasad Champati

Ajaya Kumar Nayak

Bijay Kumar Nayak

Hrushikesh Behera

Ajaya Pradhan

Bijay Kumar Nayak

Hrushikesh Hembram

Ajit Kumar Das

Bijaya Ketan Mangaraj

Jachi Naik

Ajit Kumar Dhal

Bijaya Kumar Rout

Jaisy Francis

Alok Kumar Pani

Binod Tirkey

Jayanta Kumar Das

Alora Kar

Bipin B. Rout

J.P.K Samant Singhar

Anil Kumar Badajena

Bulu Nayak

Jigisha Das

Anila Kalpana Masih

Chandan Kumar Digal

Jogendra Kumar Das

Anirudha Nayak

Chandra S. Rao

Juby K George

Annie Sahoo

Daniel Ekka

Julious Samantaray

Arabinda Panda

Dayanidhi Mishra

Jyoti Ranjan Nayak

Arjuna Moharana

Debaranjan Dhir

Kanduru Charan Barik

Arpita Jena

Debasis Mohanty

Kishore Chandra Pradhan

Asis Kumar Singh

Debasmita Behera

Kishore Dungdung

Atulya Behera

Debendra Jena

Krushna Chandra Mangaraj

Babuli Charan Nayak

Debendranath Behera

Kshyamanidhi Patra

Badsaha Marandi

Deepak Khuntia

Kulamani Mohapatra

Baleswar Digal

Despal Minz

Kunjabana Behera

Basant Ku. Das

Dibakar Mohapatra

Lalit Mohan Mohanty

Basant Ku. Mohanty

Digambar Rath

Lalmohan Nayak

Basant Kumar Pradhan

Dillip Kumar Panda

Laxman Swain

Bata Krushna Behera

Dillip Kumar Rath

Lingaraj Pattanaik

Batakrishna Behera

Dillip Kumar Sahoo

Lingaraj Samantaray

Bhagaban Panda

Dillip Kumar Swain

Lochan Behera

Bhaskar Mohapatra

Dipak Ranjan Digal

Lopamudra Tripathy

Bhaskar Patra

Gajendra Naik

Lyndon Dominic Thomas

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Niranjan Nayak

Priyanka Mohanty

Madhu Chhanda Panda

Nirmal Kumar Bhoi

Punam Purtty

Mahendra Kumar Padhy

Paramananda Bhuyan

Purna Chandra Panda

Mallika Devi Pathak

Partha Sarathi Parija

Purnima Pradhan

Manas Kumar Nayak

Pradeep Johan Ekka

Puspamita Praharaj

Manoj Kumar Patra

Pradeep Kumar Mallick

Pusparaj Singh

Manoranjan Sahoo

Pradeep Kumar Mohanty

R. Santosh Kumar Rao

Manoranjan Samal

Pradeep Kumar Moharana

Radharani Ray

Maruti Prasad Nanda

Prafulla Nayak

Raghu Mantri

Md. Mansur

Pramod K. Jena

Raicharan Kanungo

Mursalin Khan

Prasant Kumar Adhikary

Rajan Masih

Nalini Kanta Behera

Prasanta Kumar Mohapatra

Raju Dhada

Nalita Nayak

Pratima Topno

Rama Ch. Samantray

Narahari Naik

Pravas Kumar Dhal

Ramesh Ch. Swain

Narayan Nath

Pravat Kumar Das

Ramesh Chandra Naik

Niluram Gochhayat

Pravatilata Jena

Ramesh K. Mallick

Nira Dei

Prema Ch. Nayak

Ranjan Kumar Swain

Nirakar Das

Prema Swaminathan

Ranjan Kumar Swain

Niranjan Mangaraj

Premananda Routray

Rasmi Ranjan Nayak

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Sarat Kumar Mishra

Subrat Kumar Barik

Reena Ravichander

Sarbeswar Dhal

Subrat Kumar Nayak

Riddhima Das

Sarita Sahoo

Sudarshan Gochhayat

Rita Bilung

Satyananda Panda

Sudhansu Sekhar Biswal

Rudra Pratap Maharathy

Seema Nayak

Sudhansu Sekhar Sahoo

S. Leena

Seetara Rath

Sukdeb Das

Sachin Sundaray

Seshadev Panda

Sultan Ahmed Khan

Sadhona Bishoi

Shiba Paschima Kabat

Sumant Kumar Mishra

Sailendra Ray

Shubhakant Patra

Sunil Ekka

Saliyamma Xavier

Siba Prasad Mohanty

Sura Naik

Salomi Lakra

Sibani Roy

Suresh Chandra Mallick

Samhita Das

Smita Kanungo

Sushanta Kumar Moharana

Sangeeta Shanti Barla

Soumya Ranjan Dash

Sushanta Mohanty

Sanjay Kr. Nayak

Soumyajeet Das

Sushila Nayak

Sanjay Surin

Sreelekha Pradhan

Tapan Kumar Dash

Sanjukta Das

Sribatsa Pradhan

Tukunu Behera

Santosh Kumar Parida

Sridebi Paricha

Umesh Chandra Behera

Santosh Kumer Pradhan

Sripati Mohapatra

Upendra Kumar Dash

Sarat Ch. Behera

Subhasis Das

V. Nagmani

Sarat Kumar Jena

Subhransu S. Samal

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Student Executive Council The Student Executive Council (SEC) is the apex student body at XUB. It oversees the functioning of the various committees, presides over all students and acts as a liaison between the student body and the administrative authorities of the college. The body is led by the General Secretary and consists of the Treasurer, Cultural Secretary, HRM Secretary, RM Secretary, SM Secretary, UMG Secretary, Coordinators of the core, functional and interest committees, mess and hostel secretaries and also the Class Representatives along with Cultural Representatives from BM, HRM, RM, SM and UMG. This committee is the forum for discussion with the Vice Chancellor, Registrar, Dean (Academics), Assistant Registrar (Administration) on issues affecting the student body in general. The primary function of the SEC is to facilitate the smooth functioning of all the student activities at XUB.

Core Committees Career Advisory Services (CAS) Committees The CAS Committee facilitates the corporate interface for students. The responsibilities include corporate engagement activities like leadership talks, corporate competitions, live projects, guest lectures, summer internship process and final career advisory services.

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Alumni Committee The Alumni Committee of XIMB has continued making great strides in its dedicated efforts to preserve, promote and sustain relationships with the alumni, thus playing out an integral part in the functioning of the university; The major highlight of the year was the organising of the Business Excellence Summit to celebrate 30 years of XIMB, in tandem with the Student Executive Council.

This year the reunion of the 1997 batch who celebrated their 20 years at XIMB and "The Grand Homecoming" for the batch of 1992 was organized on December 4, 2017; Some other events were the annual online quiz competition only for alumni called "EnigmaX" as a part of Xpressions'17. The committee also worked to promote “XIMB day”. With X-Alma and KYA (Know your Alumni) ventures, it continues to reach alumni across the world. The National Chapter Election for the XIMB Alumni Association was conducted in January 2018. The Yearbook for the outgoing batch called “Reminiscence” was released and distributed.

XSRM Alumni Committee Endeavours to connect, engage and celebrate the school’s Rural Management alumni across the globe to forge lifelong and mutually beneficial relationships among them and their Alma Mater

XSOS Alumni Committee The event of HOMECOMING was organized to welcome the forerunners back home to be students again and relive life at XUB. It was a very nostalgic event for everyone. It was a rollercoaster of emotions for everyone, as they are the ones who pioneered the XSOS “LEGACY”. Participated in extravagant “XUBFARE” for batch 2016-18, a common farewell for all all the schools of XUB.

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IlluminatiX- Media and PR Cell IlluminatiX, the Media & PR Cell, is instrumental in – maintaining and in further building the media and public relations of the university as well as covering and branding all the events in the university through social and digital media. Major events organized by the committee: Mentorship Program for the fresher; RendezvouX: Fresher’s Meet at 7 cities across the country; Communiqué - The Media Conclave, hosting speakers like Mr. Jawhar Sircar- former CEO of Prasar Bharti and Media Advisor to Govt. of India, Mr. Aditya Maheswaran-

World Rank 2 in Public Speaking, Mr. Sumrit Shahi, Best Selling Author and Screenplay Writer, Ms. Shweta Shroff, Director of Biddable Media at Performics.Convonix and Mr. Diliip Satpathy, Resident Editor, Business Standard. XIMB Celebrated its 30 Years of Academic Excellence and IlluminatiX was responsible for its creative, branding and reach. A total of 57 Media partners were converted including a 30-minute national coverage in NDTV India, a full page feature in Forbes India and digital coverage in The Telegraph. Xpressions 2017: Media Partnership of more than 75 Media converts and more than 150 media houses covering the event along with leading design and branding of events. TEDx XIMB is scheduled in the month of June.

International Relations Committee 2017 saw 5 students opt for IESEG School of Management, France and Warsaw School of Economics, Poland from XIMB. IRC coordinated with partner institutes to facilitate the exchange program of our outgoing students. Major events hosted: during Xpressions '17, "Paint It Up", a first of its kind paintball event on campus; successfully conducted an international themed quiz "Pangea" and an article writing competition "Cogitare"; had Prof. José-Maria Aulotte of Magellan Institute take the International Human Resource Management course in the 4th semester and Prof. Patrik Vervinckt of Antwerp Management School for Strategic Human Resource Management course in 5th semester for MBA-HRM second year students. We also had 3 first year students from MBA- HRM program who attended the Global seminar on “International Mobility and Compensation and Benefits Management” in Singapore.

Functional Committees Maxim The major events organized by the committee: Published Maxpress on the latest happenings in the marketing world; hosted the annual marketing conclave “Mercatique”, featuring speakers such as Mr. Amit Tiwari. Mr. Vijay Jacob, Miss Sujata Dwibedy, Miss Ritu Gupta; conducted disguised marketing research for Ruchi & Frozit

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for products in the beverages category, conducted events like MPower, Brandstorm, MarkQuiz, Brandwarz, Creative Salvation ensuring maximum participation and cash prizes; organised immersion courses and workshops on topics like Innovative marketing, FMCG marketing.

X-FIN X-FIN endeavours to build interest in the field of finance. It conducted various events: Budget Conclave for post Budget Analysis and an on campus quiz event Bizzdom; organised FINOMICS where in speakers Mr. Shaktikanta Das, Mr. Sachchidanand Shukla and Mr. Rahul Nainwal spoke on Universal Basic Income: The Elixir against Inequality; annual magazine “Finshastra” ; article writing competition FINANCIUS was organised for the magazine; Business talks on “Private Equity Talk” and “Hedge Funds” from SEBI Research Division and on “Capital Markets” from Citi Bank; seminars on financial education by SEBI certified financial education resource persons as well as inspirational talks such as Finspire; TRADEWARS, a game that simulates the working of the Indian stock market and commodities exchange. Live projects included The Financial Doctors and projects from Equity lever and Money Roller were also floated amongst the students in which many students participated with enthusiasm.

X-Ops Various certifications were included in the curriculum in collaborations with Henry Harvin India Education and KPMG - KPMG Six Sigma certification, International Certified Agile Ninja, CMAP Certified Marketing Analyst with training on R. Live projects from OMFED, Apollo Hospitals and Labkafe were undertaken. Case studies, peer to peer sessions and Business talks from Business leaders were also organised. An Operations Simulation game was organized in collaboration with Orduino Labs. Two Operations quizzes-Arohan and BurnOut were also held. ASHWAMEDH, the Business conclave by X-Ops on “Use of IoT and Cloud Computing to improve Operational Efficiency", was conducted.

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Constrat - Consulting and Strategy Consortium CONSTRAT hosted its annual business conclave, STRATONOMICS, a national level seminar with the theme “Partnership and Consolidation: The key to survival in India’s competitive landscape”. Distinguished speakers included: Mr. Dinesh Jain (Founder and CEO of IndiaMaze Advisory Pvt Ltd.), Mr. Siju Narayan (Retail Head at IBM India), Mr. Subroto Gupta (Head of Innovation and Business Excellence at Jubilant Foodworks Ltd.), Mr. Dilip Sharma (AVP and Zonal Training Manager, DHFL Pramerica Life Insurance.); MAVEN – the flagship event during Xpressions saw over 200 teams participating from different B-Schools across the country. Guesstimates, CaseCzar, Sector Analysis and Markon events were also conducted by CONSTRAT.

XSYS - The Systems Association XSYS the systems association organised ENVISION, a national level business conclave on “Automation in IT”. Distinguished speakers included Mr. Satya Shankar Mahapatra, Sr. VP - Risk & Analytics, Barclays Investment Bank, Mr. Joydeep Dutta, Group CTO, CDSL, Mr. Debasish Mohapatra, Project Quality, and Global Quality Capability Team Lead, Shell India, Mr. Ritesh Srivastava, Director – IT, MSD Pharmaceuticals and Mr. Bhavesh Kumar, Head – Engineering & Technology: Data, TESCO PLC. The Annual magazine “ Xite” was also launched during ENVISION. Symposium’17 an unique competition on presentations of summer projects; a

national level case study competition “CASE CONNECT” during Xpressions’17 provided by AIRTEL and an online treasure hunt competition “PARIKRAMA”; intra college event “XIGABYTES” the annual gaming event also saw huge participation. The monthly newsletter “SynopSYS” featured interviews of Industry stalwarts sharing their insights. The immersions courses organised were on the themes “Enabling Digital Commerce: from Idea to Doorstep” and “Outsourcing and Digital strategy”.

RMAX of XSRM The major activities included: Arijit Ghosh Memorial Quiz held in the loving memory of its former coordinator Arijit Ghosh (1984-2011) on 1st July 2017, where 95 teams participated. Vaktavya - the National debate competition saw 22 teams from premier B- Schools participating in the debate. Abhivyakti - The Annual Rural

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Managers’ Conclave on the theme of “Rural Innovation – India’s vehicle to overcome Global Roadblock”. Abhigyaan- The weekly newsletter on current affairs of Rural India was launched during Abhivyakti. Gramotsava: The rural marketing fair and the annual flagship event of RMAX was held at Nimapada, Puri District which gave the students a chance to test their branding and promotion skills and helps them interact with rural masses. Dhwani- the annual magazine of RMAX was released on 21st Sept 2017. Gramodaya: a new initiative of RMAX which held on 22nd October 2017 at Sakhigopal district of Odisha whose main objective was to promote products and concepts among rural masses in partnership with business and social organizations. Kraft Mandi – a new initiative taken by RMAX to promote the SHG products, thus helping the SHG find a market in the urban areas. A total of 16 live projects were floated by RMAX.

XIMAHR of XAHR XIMAHR organized KSHITIJ, its national level HR Business Conclave attended by speakers from Bajaj Auto, Amazon and HFCL. XIMAHR conducted Case IN Point at Xpressions’17, which is a national level HR case study competition that saw participants from 6 reputed B-Schools across the country. Manthan 2017 was conducted aiming to prepare 1st year students for Summer Internships. XIMAHR conducted ThinkHR sessions for discussions on various trending topics in the field of HR. XIMAHR also facilitated Live project opportunities, engaging with 10 organizations (including Tata Steel, TASL, OPTCL etc) bringing in 16 live projects with 70 opportunities to perform. Other events organized by XIMAHR include Spotlight, JAM (Just a Minute) and HR Xpress (the first Xpressions event at XUB Campus).

ConXerv of XSOS ConXerv, the functional committee of Xavier School of Sustainability, hosted a bevy of informative and exciting events: Parivartan was conducted on 26th August 2017 centered on “Why Must Business Embrace Sustainability?”, hosting distinguished speakers including Dr. Rambabu Paravastu, CEO, RSM-GC Advisory Services Pvt. Ltd., Mr. Phil Turner, Group Head, Safety, Health and Environment, Vedanta Resources PLC and Mrs. Nandita Upadhyay Sustainability Expert, TATA Chemicals. Organized the SBI Vigilance Awareness Week elocution competition on the topic “Paradigms and Impacts of Corruption in your Pockets”, GRI-G4 (Global Reporting Initiative) certification workshop

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InfinX “InfinX”, the fledgling finance committee of Master of Business Finance (MBF) program of the Xavier School of Commerce organized its flagship event “Ascend” during the month of November, 2017 as a part of Xpressions 2017. “Ascend” comprised of two rounds – an online quiz and an on-campus round. InfinX conducts weekly sessions called “Insights” on various trending topics in the world of finance for the students of MBF. InfinX had also invited students from all the departments to discuss the nuances of the Union Budget 2018.

HabituX HabituX - the Urban Management & Governance Association of the Xavier Centre for Urban Management and Governance of XUB, organized Samavesh’17 the first UMG Business Concave on September 16, 2017. The esteemed speakers for the event were, Mr. Sourish Dey, Consultant at Smart Cities Technologies, Honeywell Automation India Limited, Mr. Abhilash Verma, Sector leader Urban Practice, ICRA Management Consulting Service Limited and Mr. J.David Stein, Planning Consultant and Team Leader, IBI who enlightened students on “Smart Management for Sustainable Urbanization”. During Xpressions, HabituX organised 'Urbrainiac' which was a business model competition on various aspects of urbanisation. On December 2, 2017 the UMG Symposium was organised and it brought together professors, urban planners, smart city advisors and management specialists from across the nation to deliberate and contribute their ideas on “Professional needs for Smart Urbanization”. Prof. Dr. Ashok Kumar, School of Planning & Architecture, Mr. Dinesh Harode, Team Lead SLPMC for Smart Cities, IPE Global, Mr. Shankar Arumugham, National Head, Jones Lang LaSalle, Mr.

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Interest Committees Sportscom Events and Achievements include: Athlos’17: Oct. 13th - Oct. 15th Annual Sports meet of XIMB. The teams that participated in Athos were IIFT-Kolkata, VGSOM-IIT Kharagpur, IMI Bhubaneswar, BIMTECH Bhubaneswar, KIIT School of Management and this year also saw the participation of the XIMB Alumni team; The battle of X (TBX) – Jan. 17th to 2nd week of Feb. the annual intersection sports meet of XIMB; Valhalla – 16th Nov. to

19th Nov. which was the annual sports meet of XLRI Jamshedpur; Colosseum’17 – 6th Oct. to 8th Oct. which is the annual corporate sports meet of XIMB. Tech Mahindra, Infosys and Oyo Rooms participated; X-sports: 7th July to 9th July - Intersection introductory sports tournament for first years; X-Basketball: 9th Aug.- 13th Aug- Intersection Basketball Tournament; Xavier Champions League-Futsal Tournament – Jan. 5th to Jan. 8th which was a 5 a side Futsal Tournament; Badminton Open Tournament – Jan. 5th to Jan. 8th which had 3 events namely men’s doubles, women’s doubles and mixed doubles.

XQuizzite XQuizzite, the knowledge and quizzing committee, organized its flagship event, Inquizzitive, the annual national level open quiz competition, during Xpressions ‘17. The quizmaster was Mr. Kaushik Saha (an alumnus of IIT Kharagpur & IIM Calcutta), currently one of India’s most popular quizmasters, and the event saw huge participation. As a countdown to Xpressions ’17, the committee conducted Lanciare, a 100-day online quiz. The committee also conducted Quizzicus Indica, in association with Odisha Quiz Association (OQA), an open quiz which was East India’s biggest India-themed quiz. In addition, XQuizzite also conducted

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a host of other quizzes, on a wide range of themes, such as media, business, entertainment, finance, sports, culture, technology, among others. XQuizzite continues to provide the best launchpad for students to step into the vibrant world of quizzing and develop a knack for gaining new knowledge.

SPICMACAY S P I C M A C AY X I M B XUB Chapter provides ample opportunities to students to stay rooted to their culture. The committee facilitated various on-campus as well as off-campus events: Pratishtha - The Intra-College College Talent Hunt in the field of Indian Culture, The Food Festival, YaminiThe Overnight Concert, three big events during the Annual B-School Fest, Xpressions’17 namely Paint@XIMB (The Painting Competition), Pratibimb (The Face Painting Competition) & Viraasat (the Solo Competition in Indian Classical Dance, Singing, Music and Instrumentals), Raghurajpur Heritage Trial organized by Trip 4 Fun Tours Pvt. Ltd (to create awareness & promote the heritage villages and crafts of Odisha), RajaRani Music Festival organized by Odisha Tourism and Sanskriti-The India Quiz. SPICMACAY fosters an enthralling ride of rich Indian cultural extravaganza through event management, association and interaction with stalwarts from the field of Indian performing arts like Dr. L. Subramaniam (Violinist), Ustad Nishat Khan (Sitar maestro), etc.

SpeakUp The academic year 2017-18 was a eventful one with the team successfully conducting a number of events: a GDPI preparation session was organized in collaboration with AskAnnie. This was followed by a mock GD for the batches of BM and HRM in association with Career Advisory Services. Sailing my internships were conducted for both BM and HR wherein the seniors who had done their internship with a particular company would share their experience and tips for

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X-SEED X-SEED- the Entrepreneurship cell organized KICKSTART-17, the annual entrepreneurship conclave of XIMB. Eminent entrepreneurs like Mr. Nitin Jain, Mr. Pranjal Parashar and Mr. Arvind Pani presided over the conclave. Major events organized were: Bhubaneswar Innovation startup weekend which saw eminent personalities from the field of industry and academia. Co-hosted Outreach Campaign for National Entrepreneurship Awards 2017. Organized the event X-Cycles to promote cycling in and around the campus premises. Participated in

the Petrochemical Investor’s conclave 2017 and presented views on developing Entrepreneurship in Eastern India. Published success stories of Startups under our initiative “My-Startup”, to foster Entrepreneurship among young minds. Organized the annual Entrepreneurship Summit- “XAVION-18”, presided over by eminent personalities from Industries. “Startup Samvaad” in collaboration with ICAR- NAARM to promote Entrepreneurship in Agricultural sector.

LitSoc LitSoc- the Literary Society had an eventful year in 2017-18. The HARAMBE Memorial Quiz kicked off the year, followed by Twitale, a micro tale competition, wherein, students were given the platform of social media to showcase their writing skills. The flagship event Flight of Fancy, challenged participants from across the Country by making them think out of the box to build upon the constitution of their own Nation. Litsoc published ‘Gyan Pulp’, which covered various important subjects supporting the SIP and final placement processes through informative articles. It contributed to Bhubaneshwar’s Literary Meet by Tata Steel which hosted eminent writers and speakers like Ruskin Bond, William Dalrymple and Barkha Dutt, among others. A new event, XUBaani, was introduced this year which successfully created a forum for all the students of XUB to come together and share their own stories, poems, experiences, or opinions on subjects that were of interest to them.

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X- Stage Major activities: XCapade! A talent hunt competition for the first years; participation in Valhalla, the annual Sports-cultural fest of XLRI, where the street play team secured the 1st position. During Xpressions coordinated Goonj- the solo singing competition, Decibelz - Battle of bands, Carnival De Vogue- Fashion Show competition, Aghaaz- Nukkad Natak competition (XIMB team were runners up), Thirkan- Group dance competition (XIMB team were runners up); Salsa workshop was held from 18th to 27th January 2017.

Exemplar - The Competitions Committee Team Exemplar conducted various interactive sessions for students on video making, effective PowerPoint presentation preparations and write ups to catch attention, techniques of primary and secondary research, how to approach different case studies ,structuring basic financial models in order to succeed in corporate competitions. These efforts witnessed maximum submissions in Reliance TUP, winning Facebook wizards award in Godrej Loud. XIMB emerged as winner in Godrej LOUD, Deloitte Convergence, Aviva Tweet-a-Thon, Gold Tier in Mahindra War Room, 1st Runner-up in Indian Retail Forum Rising star challenge, 2nd Runnerup in the Hero campus challenge and V-Guard Big idea business challenge; being National finalists in Tata Steel Steelathon, HUL LIME, Infosys Ingenious, Shoppers Stop Campus Guru challenge, RB Mavericks, CFA Research challenge, RAXA business case competition, Zonal finalist in RBI policy challenge and many more.

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XLENS The Photography committee of XUB, has helped all the different Core, Functional as well as the Interest committees in capturing their events throughout the year which also includes the University Dialogue Series. Organized the World Photography Day-2017 photoshoot in both the campuses which saw an active

participation from the students. The team has made the committee more visible on social media and helped the campus photography enthusiasts in showcasing their work to the college and make it available on the social media via the initiative X-Frame over both Facebook and Instagram.

SRC (Social Responsibility Cell) The Social Responsibility Cell remained committed to the cause of humanity and through its different initiatives, strived to make a lasting difference in the lives of the several individuals who have been pushed to the margins of the society due to social or economic conditions. Through its various initiatives and events such as the Joy of Giving, celebrating the International Yoga Day, Udaan, Diwali celebrations, X-enable and Para-Athlos, events such as Vakritva and Vriddhi organized during the annual fest, Xpressions, stem cell donation and blood donation camps, The Street Store, apart from the regular classes conducted by the students in an endeavor to impart education to the young adults (YAE), sanitation awareness programs, SRC tries to touch the lives of different individuals and make a positive impact in their lives. It is a small effort towards empowering the deprived and bringing them at par with the rest of the population.

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Live Projects

Yammlabs: Market Research: Sidhant Sourav MySmartPrice: Digital Marketing Implementation in the Commercial Vehicle Segment: Sangram Keshari Rout Tata Motors Limited: Digital Marketing Implementation in the Commercial Vehicle Segment: Ipsit Bibhudarshi:

Market Research on Last Mile Passenger Transport Solutions: Sanjay Sambit Mohapatra: Automobiles: Marketing - Devising a customer acquisition strategy for TATA Xenon Yodha: Avisek Mohapatra: Competition Intelligence on increasing penetration of Tata Motors competitors: Himanshu Somani: Customer survey and competition product market analysis for LPT1613 – MCV: K Anil: Tata Yodha Promotional campaign: Bhaskar Jain: Customer Acquisition Strategy for Tata Xenon: Kasif Khan: Designing and implementing an effective promotions mix for brand activation of Tata LCV: Pritish Priye: Six Point Demo Video Project of Xenon Yodha: Ankit Kumar Kanungo: Supply Chain Management & Project Management, Creating and executing quality recruitment and retention strategy: Abhishek Sarkar: Management case study; Gargi Paul:

Color Blind Communication: End to End Business Development & Digital Marketing: Ipsit Bibhudarshi:

Marketing Communication: Aman Sandilya: Digital Marketing: Srinivasan, Tushar Malik: Marketing Communication: Omkar Mohanty: Content Writing: Sumana Saha

Lex Mantra/Consulting: Comprehensive analysis of the new IPR policy and of the various incubation hubs in India - Abhishek Mathias

Shiksha.com: Influencer marketing: S Charanjeet Singh Sabharwal Finance Doctor: Financial market analysis: Shivam Jagga: Finance - Technical analysis & trading in live market:

Kajal Agrawal: Equity Research: K.Siddharth: Finantial Market Trainee and technical strategy developer intern: Amit Kumar Patra: Financial Markets and Forex Market Technical Strategy: Shailesh Mahapatro: Finance: Satyajit Jena: Equity trading: Chinni Sravan: Technical Analysis-Trading: Rushin Pandya

Microsoft: Multilevel ambassador and marketing: S Charanjeet Singh Sabharwal Quikr.com: Competitor analysis data collection: S Charanjeet Singh Sabharwal Market Litmus: Report description based on market research: Swetapadma Parida 99 Investments: Equity Research: Arpit Garg SeaLink Capital Partners: The Indian dermatology segment in the branded generics space: Deepali Agarwal SuperProfs: Brand Management, Content Marketing and SEO: Adyasa Mishra: Digital Marketing: Debdeep Mukherjee: Search Engine Optimisation: Nabin Agarwal: Digital Marketing & Brand Management: Sidharth

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The climber: Digital marketing: Aman Kumar Tiwari Glaxo Smith Kline: Usage and Experiences of Home Remedies and Ayurveda Products in India: Baibhav Jena Bivab Developers: Marketing strategy for sale of Low cost houses in Bhubaneswar: Ashish Ranjan Aurus Network Infotech: Digital Marketing: Gururaj Masali Nirupama Hotels: Business Development and Product Launch: Suraj Khandelwal: Digital Marketing: Suraj Khandelwal: Planning and executing business development and Product launch: K Anil: Digital Marketing: Sudipta Palit

The Money Roller: Equity Research: Yarra Aswani, Mitali Mishra: Equity Research: Aakash Gupta MySmartPrice: Campus Ambassador Program: Sidhant Agrawal 99 Investments: Equity Research: Rajiv Khandelwal Yamm Labs, Market Litmus, Financial Doctors: Digital Marketing, Market research, Finance: Aparna Behera: Digital Marketing: Suman Abinash

Udyan Tea: Business Development Function in Tea Sales of the company: Swati Sucharita Das Shiksha.com: Influencer Marketing - Capture Real Campus Experiences of Students and Alumni as reviews

on Shiksha.com: Parag Chaturvedi: Influencer Marketing - Capture Real Campus Experiences of Students and Alumni as Reviews: Sidhant Mishra

SeaLink Capital Partners: Market analysis on the Indian dermatology segment in the branded generics space: Rashmi Agarwal

Exquibit Software Solutions: Digital Marketing: Aashika Bhansali Quikker: Competition Analysis Of Consumer Experience For Online Classifieds Business In India: Sidhant Mishra

Verve consulting: Research and market analysis: Chirantan Palit: Consulting: Incubators under Atal Mission by the Government of India: Pratibha Singh: Scouting VC Funds: Ankit Anupam:

Exquibit Software Solutions: Social Media Marketing and Promotion: Sheersa Suman Mohanty Ashberry Research and Consulting (Market Litmus) Pvt. Ltd.: Market Research: Apoorv Mehta Amri Hospitals: Services Operations Management in Hospitals: Sanjay Sambit Mohapatra, Nihar Ranjan Samal, Ramakrishnan N, Subhojit Hazra, Avichal Saswat Sambit

Apollo Hospitals: Services Operations Management in Hospitals: Baibhav Jena, Ansuman Prasad, Anshul Gangawat, Prithvi Krishna, Aman Kapur

Barbeque Nation: Services Operations Management: Amiya Kumar Sahoo, Ashwin Ramesh, Raunaq Sahu, Swagat Kumar Nayak, Vijay Raghav, Dhanush H.N.

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Big Bazar: Services Operations Management: Mytreya Reddy Kamani, Rohit Dash, Abhijith Kar, Satabdi Maharana, Sidartha Ranjan Panda, Siddarth Panda

Britanina Industries: Sales & Distribution Management: Aurodeep Mishra, Ipsit Bibhudarshi Decathlon: Services Operations Management: Dwaipayan Das, Debabratta Panda, Subrat Rath, Rajeev Nanda, Shalina Bebarta, Aditya Syal

HAL: CSR and Sustainability Initiatives: Satabdi Maharana, Pushpalata Lenka, Neerja Jain, Pranjali Nanda, Chiranjeeb Mishra

KFC: Services Operations Management: Arupananda Rout, Sanskruti, Debdeep Mukherjee, Pranjali Nanda, Neerja Jain, Ayush Gautam, Mytreya Reddy Kamani

KIIMS Hospital: Services Operations Management: Abhijit Kar, Rohit Dash, Satabdi Maharana, Siddhartha Ranjan Panda, Sidharth Padhi

Larsen & Toubro Ltd.: CSR and Sustainability Initiatives: Saptarshi Dhar, Aravind Kadakethu, Deepak Mohanty, Geetesh Debayan, Swagat Kumar Nayak

NALCO: CSR and Sustainability Initiatives: Sourabh Bajaj, Nihar Ranjan Samal, Manisha Samal, Joel Paul, Soumya Surya Adhikari

Naturals: Services Operations Management: Megha Saraogi, Soumyashree Kar, Lohit Kumar Das, Abhishek Naik, Suraj Saraswat, Dushyant Patel

Mango Hotel Chains: Services Operations Management: Sumit Sancheti, Abhishek Naik, Abhijeet Mishra, Payal Mazumdar, Eshita Mohanty, Vishnu Pillai

Reliance Fresh: Services Operations Management: Rohit Pattnaik, Anuj Thakral, Pratik Roy, Abulhaiyat Hasim Khan, Anmol Panda, Shouvik Mukherjee,

The Crown: Services Operations Management: Siddhartha Ranjan Panda, Siddharth Padhi, Satabdi Maharana, Rohit Dash, Abhijit Kar, Mytreya Reddy, Ankit Mangla , Prince Choudhary, Swati Suman, Lipsa Lenka, Saumya Saurav Brahma, Swayam Saswat

The Empires Hotel: Services Operations Management: Suman Panigrahi, Aswath S B, Avisek Mohapatra, Suraj Khandelwal, Chiranjeeb Mishra, Soubhagya Pani

Primo hiring solutions Ltd.: Compensation, human capital and organization behavior: Ayush Sinha: HR case studies, job description, and job analysis: Prakhar Shrivastava: Human Resources Management: Shubha Srivastava: Job Analysis and Case Studies on HR Strategies: Sushmita Jha: Recruitment and Hiring: Nirlipta Panda

Anmol Industries Ltd: Designing & Implementing an effective promotion mix for brand activation for Anmol Biscuits; Shreyashee Mishra

Bajaj Super Sales: Branding and Promotion: Abhineet Patnaik Bazaar Kolkata: Rural Marketing: Arunish Paul, Sutapa Choudhury: To identify rural customers perception towards high end products of urban market: Jaysree Kedia:

Exide Life Insurance: Lead generation; Abhisek Sinha

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ExploreWatersports.com: Website Development: Ankit Kumar Kanungo Farm Tree: Dairy Management: Avinash Nayak GlaxoSmithKline(GSK): Survey on Usage and Experience of Home Remedies and Ayurvedic Product In India: Alpana Joshi, Jaysree Kedia, Ankita Mishra

Haiden Group: Recruitment: Bhavina Arora: Talent Acquisition of Sales Team for India: Swati Jindal, Kausik Bose

Inhof Technologies Private Limited: Module Development for Dairy Farmers; Ankit Kumar Kanungo Inkdad.com: Recruitment and Selection of Lead Generators: Brijesh Nand Biswal Jayesh Social Impact Creation and Assessment Foundation: Graphic Design & Brand Management; Ankit Kumar Kanungo

JSW Steel Limited: Research & Benchmarking on the best practices of organizations in regard to the

Employee Exit Program: Hiranmaya Kar, Subhalaxmi Nayak, Sudipta Palit, Rohan Mallick, Subham Sahoo: Benchmarking employee job rotation practices: Reema: Research & Benchmarking for Employee Suggestion Scheme: Suman Mohapatra

Jyote Motors (Maruti Four Wheelers): Branding and Promotions: Prerana Chand Mahila Udyog SHG: Market Study and Marketing Strategy of Handicraft and Handloom Products: Alpana Joshi, Pritish Priye

Maruti Suzuki: Brand promotion and marketing; Riya Bhuyan Philips Carbon Black Limited: HR Policy & Process Benchmarking; Milind Mayank Dey, Gourabashis Das, Raveesha Malhotra

Smart Solar: Branding and Promotional Activities for Smart Solar: Alpana Joshi Superprofs: Brand marketing: D.S. Sreenidhi: Search Engine Optimization & Content Marketing (SEO&CM): Alpana Joshi

Swaraj Tractors: Branding and Promotions: Prerana Chand TATA LCV: Lead generation; Abhisek Sinha Tata Steel: Benchmarking of medical facilities: Abhinita Mishra, Pragya Mishra: To Prepare Business Cases

based on their requirements: Farzan Todiwala: Benchmarking of Medical facility/Medical insurance: Gaurav Pandey: Comparative study of canteens at Tata Steel Kalinganagar: Madhuchhanda, Rahul Gera: Comparison of Career Progression of employees: Pratyush Mehta: Compensation and Benchmarking: Priyam Garg: Compensation and Benefits: Anisha Kanjilal: Compensation Benchmarking of Employees: Biswajeet Chand: Employee manual: Medical policy: Manvika Singh Saluja: Formulation of process flow and FAQ for social security schemes at Tata Steel Kalinganagar: Bhagyashree Mahanayak: Housing Policy at Tata Steel Kalinga Nagar: Vishal Pattanayak: HR: Compensation and Benefits benchmarking: Milanjyoti Sahu: HRM Manual for Employees: Kausik Bose: Industrial Relations- Management of Canteens and Other Amenities: Mandeep Singh: Manual of policies: Rachna Ahuja, Shradha Mohanty: Recommendations for Management of Canteens and Amenities: Ritika Chandra: Transfer and relocation policy: Sargam panjwani: HRM Manual for Employees; Madhusmita Sahoo:

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Times of India: Vocational training for spoken English to the underprivileged-I-lead-India programme; Riya Bhuyan

Ernst & Young: Communication for prevention of child marriage, labour and violence in UNICEF program

states- Inland water transport expansion program in Assam by World Bank; C.S.Karthik: Feacal sludge and Septage management in nine AMRUT towns of Odisha - Rakesh Kumar Sahu, Sikil Sibani Mishra & Dilshad Ali: Port Management; Pooja Mohanty: Summative evaluation of UNICEF Projects, KAP study of an UNICEF project; Rama Gupta: Transportation and Logistic Projects for hinterland area for improving profitability of port area; Sandeep Kumar Patro

ICRA Management & Consulting Services (IMaCS): A study on municipal finance and analysis of credit rating across various ULBs in India; Jagatjeet Mohapatra

CRISIL Risk & Infrastructure Solutions Ltd.: Jawaharlal Nehru Port Trust Influence area (JNPTIA) in CIDCO; Sambit Saurabh Mishra

GIZ, Puri Municipality: Beneficiary verification in Inclusive cities partnership program, Puri Municipality;

Siddhi Dubey: Beneficiary verification in Inclusive cities partnership program, Puri Municipality; Shreyansh Rath, Gourav Pradhan:

Janaagraha Centre for Citizenship and Democracy: ASICS Report- Collecting Database and Contact details,

Census Report preparation; Vidisha Kandoi: ASICS Report- Collecting Database and Contact details, Census Report preparation; Somenath Kar

Spectrum Techno Cunsultant Pvt. Ltd: PPP Models of Delivery in Urban Development & Opportunities in

Urban Infrastructure Development, RFP analysis of Surat ring road Project, SIA and EIA of Solapur land development project; Amit Kumar & Biswaprakash Kar

Jones Lang LaSalle Property Consultants (India) Pvt Ltd.: Rera implementation project, BDA town centre observation, BDA city centre observation; Sumit Senapati

DH&UD, GoO: Revenue Enhancement of Urban Local Bodies, Bhadrak Municipality; Manisha Choraria,

Keertika santuka, Monreen Mohanty: Revenue Enhancement of Urban Local Bodies, Baripada Municipality; Kanika Kishore, Jagriti Singh, Adarsh Kedia: Revenue Enhancement of Urban Local Bodies, Keonjhar Municipality; Shivangi Nesirkar, Priyanka Priyadarshini, Pratik Mishra: Mamta Agarwal, Soumyakant Jena: Revenue Enhancement of Urban Local Bodies, Balasore Municipality; Palak Das,A.K. Priyadarshini, Sourav Mohanty: Revenue Enhancement of Urban Local Bodies, Jharsuguda Municipality; Sumit Behera, Shougat Anurag

Anmol Biscuits: Branding and Promotion - Abhishek Pati, Sarthak Rana, Malla Nooka Harsha Chaitanya,

Akankshya Abhipsa, Suvam Agarwal, Deepanwita Dash, Payal Priyadarshini Ray, Durga Prasad Patnaik, Akshay Paul, Ashutosh Chaudhary, Nipunya Panda, Jay Ganatra, Prashant Kumar Rai, Pratip Das, Shreyasee Mishra, Priyanka Priyadarshini, Chandrakant Panda

Maruti 4 Wheeler: Branding and Promotion - Swastik Chakraborty, Siddhant Subhankar, Saswat Mishra,

Aishwarya Baral, Aditya Pady, Rishikesh Pany, Bhabna Mohanty, Tanvi Mishra, Tanmoy Sen, Ankit Tripathy, Parivesh Chnadra Dobriyal, Rajashree rath, Omkar Sahu, Koral, Nikita Bakshi, Suresh, Sampa, Kriti, Muskan, Anwesh Das

Tata LCV: Branding and Promotion- Debasis Parida, Sambit Bastia, Pritish Priye, Nirup Sundar Choudhary,

Bhagyashree Parida, Saket Goyal, Deepak Kumar, Niladri Bihari Das, Rohit Sharma, Pranamesh Kar, Sunaina

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Punjab National Bank: Creating Awareness on Digital Financial Literacy- Supriya Pati, Alpana Joshi, Nikita

Nayak, Anjali Sood, Avinash Nayak, Samikshya Tripathi, Shobna Acharya, Srishti Sigtia, Sakshi Gupta, Sarthak Das, Sharmistha Mishra, Biswajit Sarkar, Namrata Tali, Spandan Moharana, Ipsita Patra, Satyajeet Samal, Ashutosh Satpathy, Abhishek Shekhar, Sumeet Kumar Singh

Swaraj Tractors: Branding and Promotion - Animesh Barik, Latit Ranjan, Vijay Bhaskar, Anupriya Jain, Kiran

Bose, Himanshu Ray, Pragnya Priyadarshini Chinara, Siddhant Rattan, Prerna Chand, Pooja Parida, Ananya Goel, Sradhanjali Paty, Yash Ondhia

Jyoti Suzuki 2 Wheeler: Branding and Promotion - Alok Sahu, Abhineet Patnaik, Srakant Das, Daksh Hasija,

Soumyak Sourav Panda, Soumyak Sourav Panda, Sritam Panigrahi, Akash Ankit, Shubham Thakur, Souvik Banerjee, Rohan Dash, Sarthak Choudhary, Ankit Kumar, Soumyajit Paul, Sravani Tanaya, Abinash Sahoo, Manas Kumar, Pratyush, Siddharth Kumar

Bazaar Kolkata: Branding and Promotion - Jayshree Kedia, Anup Kar, Sampad, Arunish Paul, Snehanjali Nayak, Anupma, Sutapa Choudhary, Rishika Jaiswal

Inhof: Content writing, Website Design - Ananya Mohapatra, Ankit Kumar Kanungo, Kiran Bose, Shibani Mishra, Sakshi, Avinash Sahoo, Monty Thaker

Exide Life Insurance: Insurance Sales - Suvam Agarwal, Abhishek Pati, Ankit Aditya Bhatta, Abinash Sahoo, Abhisek Sinha, Aditya Kumar Padhi, Sanjeet Kumar Mahapatra, Navjeet Nanda, Rohit Kumar Sharma

Care India: Case Study Development - Aroop Pattanayak, Manoranjan Behera, Aishwariya Baral, Satyajeet Samal

NALCO: Conduct CSR activities - Yash Ondhia, Samikhya Pradhan, Samikhya Pradhan, Riya Bhuyian, Sidhant

Satapathy, Ayushi, Sidhant Subhankar, Saswat Mishra, Deepika Kamani, Niladri Bihari Das, Ankit Aditya Bhatta, Tanmoy Sen, Pooja Parida, Spandan Moharana, Pranamesh Kar, Sarthak Rana, Shabarnee Pradhan, Rajashree Rath, Nirup Sundar Choudhry, Ashutosh Satapathy

Union Bank: Creating Awareness on Digital Financial Literacy - Rishikesh Pany, Ashish Kumar Sahoo, Rishav

Mishra, Biswajit Sarkar, Shibani Mishra, Vaishali Choudhry, Jay Shailesh Ganatra, Soumyajit Paul, Pragnya Priyadarshini Chinara, Suvam Agarwal, Durga Prasad Patnaik, Sradhanjali Pati, Ankit Kumar, Pranjal Kumar, Nitish Duttaroy, Debasis Parida, Amrit Mishra

Mahila Udyog: Market Survey for handlooms and suggestions for market strategy - Pranabandu Nayak, Sambit

Bastia, Alpaana Joshi, Namrata Tali, Chandrakanta Panda, Ananya Goyal, Manas Kumar Rout, Tanushree Kar, Sumit Kumar Panda, Pramitee Behera, Nikita Nayak, Payal Priyadarshini Ray, Preety Mehta, Prashant Kumar Rai, Pritish Priye, Debashish Sharma

Eitcher Tractor: Branding and Promotion - Sourav Seal, Sanjeev Kumar Nayak, Akash Ankit, Snehanjali Nayak, Rohit Kumar Sharma, Saket Goyal, Rishika Jaiswal

Tata Motors: Branding and Promotion - Anwesh Das, Avinash Nayak, Biswa Ranjan Mohanty, Dipam Jyoti

Sahoo, Maruti Prasad Nayak, Rohan Dash, Soumyak Sourav Panda, Pranabandhu Nayak, Abhinash Sahoo, Abhijit Sahu, Omkar Sahu, Anup Kar, Ashutosh

NuSocia: Secondary study of top 15 corporates, framework delevopment and data capture and creating sectoral analysis.

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Student Awards & Achievements Name/Team Members

Event Name

Prize

Vijayamahantesh Kotin

Cognizant B’Hive Summer Internship Program

1st Place

Kanad Basu

GodrejLOUD

Internship opportunity in GCPL (1.5 lakhs p.m.)

Saoumyabrat Tiwari

Debate

Second

S Charanjeet Singh Sabharwal

Valhalla- Nukkad natak

1st Prize

S Charanjeet Singh Sabharwal

Xpressions - Nukkad Natak

2nd Prize

S Charanjeet Singh Sabharwal

Xansad

1st Prize

Yogesh Taparia

Financius

1st Runners-up

Pooja Nanda

The Hero Campus Challenge

2nd Rrunners-up

Arpit Garg

Finshiksha Learning Championship

National Runners up

Ankur Kaushik

Aaghaz - National Level Street Play Competition

Winner

Ankur Kaushik

NALCO National Level Elocution Competition

3rd Prize

Ankur Kaushik

Ensemble-Valhalla - National Level Street Play Competition

1st Prize

Ankur Kaushik

Behtar India Campaign Competition

Winner

Himanshu Somani

Athlos-Table Tennis Tournament

1st Prize

Mayank Chuttani

Product Development

3rd Prize

Paras Patel

Ascend

2nd Prize

Ashutosh Dasare

Equity Valuation Primer (FinShiksha Learning Championship 2017)

1st Rank

Aloknath Patra

Business Line On campus

Campus winner

Aloknath Patra

L&T OUTTHINK

Campus winner

ADYASA Mishra

Athlos 2017

1st position

Mrigank Hajela

FLIP National Challenge - Treasury & Capital Markets

AIR 2 and Rs. 30,000/-

Eshita Mohanty

Mahindra War Room

Campus Winner

Eshita Mohanty

Xpressions - Airtel Case Connect

1st Runners-up

Eshita Mohanty

Athlos

Winner

Sanjay Sambit Mohapatra

Magicbricks Case Study Competition

Winner

Shivam Agarwal

X-Capade

Runners-up

Devashree Gulgule

LIME Season 9- Lessons in Marketing Excellence

Campus Winner

Devashree Gulgule

Maven 2017, Strategy Case Study Competition

2nd Prize

Devashree Gulgule

ATHARVA - The Article Writing Competition

Winner

Santak Tripathy

Magicbricks case study competition

Winner

Sambit Sahu

Unilever Unplugged

Winner

Kanika Dhall

VECV campus connect case study competition

1st Runners Up

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Name/Team Members

Event Name

Prize

Ashish Ranjan

LIME Season 9

Campus winner

Ashish Ranjan

V-Guard

National Runner Up

Ashish Ranjan

Maven

Winner

Ashish Ranjan

Xops- Ashwamedh

Winner

Sanjay Romero D Sami

Mahindra War Room

Gold Tier level Rs. 25000 Cash Prize

Sakshi Goenka

Deloitte India Convergence 2017

1st Prize

Sakshi Goenka

Reliance Grey Matters Quiz - day 15

Winner

Vinita

Indian Retail Forum(IRF 2017) Rising Star Challenge

1st Runners Up

Vinita

MagicBricks Case Study Challenge

1st Prize

Neelabjo Mukherjee

VGuard Big Idea Competition

3rd Prize

Debdeep Mukherjee

Acting

1st Prizr

Ipsit Bibhudarshi

Magic Bricks Case Study Competition

Winner

Ankit Prusty

Airtel Case connect Case Study Competition

Runners Up

Sourav Chakravarty

Tata Steelathon

20000 Cash Prize

Ipsit Bibhudarshi

Vaktritya

Winner

Saurav Sambeet Mishra

State Level Debate Competition Felicitated by Hon. CM of Odisha

3rd Prize

Saurav Sambeet Mishra

State level debate competition organized by ASBM Bhubaneswar

2nd Prize

Saurav Sambeet Mishra

State Level debate competition organized by IIIT Bhubaneswar

3rd Prize

Jeevasankar J

Reliance The Ultimate Pitch

Campus Winner

Atishya Nayak

Reliance - The Ultimate Pitch

Campus Winner

Pranab Sen

Infosys ingenious

Campus winner

Sourav Guha

Reliance - The Ultimate Pitch

Campus Winner

Pranab Sen

HUL Unilever unplugged

2nd Prize

Anwesha Priyadarshini

Reliance - The Ultimate Pitch

Campus Winner

Pranab Sen

Mahindra Warroom

Campus winner

Shipra Priyamvada

Athlos

1st Prize

Aparna Behera

Pratistha & Pratibimb

1st Prize

Avilash Padhi

IOCL Viginalnce Week Debate

3rd Prize

shubhahsree soubhagya rashmi

Case Study competition

Campus winner

Kshitij Tripathi

Loreal Brandstorm

Winner

Kunal Mahendru

THCC- The Hero Campus Challenge

2nd Runner-up

Rohit Dash

Inter College Dance Championship

Winner

Sumit Sancheti

Unilever Unplugged 2017

1st Prize

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Name/Team Members

Event Name

Prize

Sumit Sancheti

Article writing competition

3rd Prize

Prachi Goel

Athlos-Table Tennis Women’s Singles

1st Prize

Sumit Sancheti

Mark My Word- Article writing competition

1st Prize

Saoumyabrat Tiwari

Devate

2nd Prize

Shailesh Mahapatro

L&T OutThink

Campus Winners

Aashika Bhansali

Reliance TUP

Runners Up

Sourav Tulsiyan

Techstars Startup Weekend

1st Prize

Deepak Pathak ; Sunny Raj; Dhanush H N ; Shibashis Pattanayak

TFC APICS Global Student Challenge Asia Pacific Regional Finals

Bronze Team Award

Payal Priya Chand

Case study competition

Rs. 50000 prize money

Aman Kapur

The Hero campus challenge

2nd runner up

Trisha Pal

Financius 2017 Article writing competition

Runners Up

Mohit Jain

HSBC IB League

1st Runner up

Mohit Jain

Airtel Case Connect Study Competition

1st Runner up

Mohit Jain

Reliance TUP 3.0

1st Runnerup

Anirban Datta

Elocution Competition

2nd Prize

Akshat Kaushik

HUL Premier League

winner

Ankit Pattanaik

Kurukshetra 2017

Winner

Kasif Khan

V-Guard Big Idea Business Plan 2017

Runners Up

Pritam Naik

Google Startup Weekend

Runners Up

Ritika Singh & Vibhasha Kumari

Sapphire : Article writing competition

First Prize

Ankita Mishra

Vriddhi, CSR Action Plan Competition

3rd Prize

Gargi Paul

XLRI HR Triathlon

First Runners up

Amartya Amitav

Lead HR

1st Prize

Amartya Amitav

Paint It Up

2nd Prize

Riya Bhuyan

Scouts and Guides President award

President guide award

Riya Bhuyan

National Cyber Olympiad

1st Prize

Ankit Kumar Kanungo

Radiance 2K18 / Business Quiz Competition

1st Prize

Ankit Kumar Kanungo

Startup Weekend by Google for Entrepreneurs

Runners up

Raveesha Malhotra

Published an article on ‘Gig economy and the contingent workforce’

ARTICLE PUBLISH

Raveesha Malhotra

Vriddhi: A CSR Action Plan Competition

2nd Position & Xash Prize

Shivam Sharma

Deloitte Workshop Talent 101

Certificate of Achievement (Group won)

Geet Karan Sohal

Brandstorm

1st Prize

Shakshi Singh

HR Colosseum

National Finalist

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Name/Team Members

Event Name

Prize

Akshay Singh Gahlot

Sustainability Associate

ISSP-SA

Swayamjyoti Bharatee

HR Triathlon

2nd Position

Anisha Kanjilal

HR Triathlon

1st runner’s up

Brijesh Nand Biswal

Samiksha Case Study Competition

Runner’s up

Brijesh Nand Biswal

Street Dance Competition, Valhalla

Winner

Brijesh Nand Biswal

Dance Competition, XCapade

Runner’s up

Kedar Thakar

Debate Competition in National Conference on Remembering Mahatma Gandhi

Winner

Vishal Pattanayak

ETYL Campus Ambassador

One of the 10 Ambassadors chosen all over the nation

Sumana Saha

Thirkan, Xpressions’17

1st Runners Up

Sumana saha

SNAP THAT!

Winner

Sumana Saha

Pratishtha’17

Special Mention

Sumana Saha

Talent 101 Wprkshop

Winner

Shakshi Singh

Colors of Campus

Consolation Prize

DEVINA DAS

Global Youth Video Competition

Top 20 all over the world

DEVINA DAS

C-Tran Paper Writing Competition

1st Prize

Abhineet Patnaik

Valhalla

1st Prize

Sreebha Ghoshal

Samiksha by HRHYTHM the HR club IIM Kashipur

2nd Prize

Anwesh Das

Startup weekend

Runners-up

Avinash Nayak

Startup Weekend

Runners-up

Anwesh Das

Startup Weekend

Runners-up

Hiranmaya Kar

Communiquiz- The annual media and PR quiz with the theme: “Media and Privacy- A Mismatch?”

2nd Prize

Sambit Bastia

VAKTAVYA

1st Runners up

Subhalaxmi Nayak

Head Hunters

Runners Up

Suman Mohapatra

Head Hunters

Runners Up

Farzan Todiwala

Reliance Grey Matter Quiz 17

Winner

Hiranmaya Kar

Communiquiz- The annual media and PR quiz with the theme: “Media and Privacy- A Mismatch?”

2nd Prize

Vinnata Rout

Deloitte Talent 101

Winner

Sitangshu Das

Deloitte Talent 101

Winner

Prerana Chand

Google Start-up Weekend

Runners-Up

Sitangshu Das

Colors of Campus

Consolation Prize/ Certificate of Appreciation

Sushmita Jha

JAM

Certificate and Cash Prize of Rs 1000

Shubha Srivastava

Talent 101

Winner

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Name/Team Members

Event Name

Prize

Pranamesh Kar

Spardha

Cash Prize

Shubha Srivastava

Guesstimate

Winners

Shubha Srivastava

Athlos’18

Winners

Shubha Srivastava

The Ultimate E-Kyuiz

Winners

Abhigyan Geet Prakash

Scratch your brain(Business quiz)

Champion- 1st

Diganta Chaudhuri

Dighir Ganguly Memorial Flim Making Competition

2nd Runner up

Simran Agarwal

Thirkan (Xpressions)

Runners up

Joe Melwin Raja

Lead HR

1st Prize

Sargam panjwani

Aviva tweet-a-thon contest

Winner

Sargam panjwani

Triathlon

National finalist

Sargam panjwani

Quiz HRia

Winner

Sargam panjwani

E-kyuiz

Runners up

Apurva Gupta

Triathlon

National finalist

Apurva Gupta

Athlos’18

Winner

Apurva Gupta

Quiz HRia

Winner

Apurva gupta

E-kyuiz

Runners up

Alice Peter Amit Kumar Singh

Special Mention Category CEC-UGC Educational Video Competition – National – Video Production of the Level year

Saswat Pati

Chilika Festival – State Level

Certificate

Saswat Pati

Odisha’s first Bird symposium – State Level

Book of the student released

Saswat Pati

Odisha’s Waterfall census – State Level

Certificate

Aman Kumar Rajak Adarsh Misra Disha Das

Young Scientists movement – State Level

Vouchers & certificates

Nishita Baliarsingh & Nikita Baliarsingh

Business conclave, Business plan and start - up presentation

1st position - A trophy and 9000/- cash prize

Nikita Baliarsingh

Business conclave Extempore

1st position

Nishita Baliarsingh

Business conclave Extempore

3rd position

Sidharth Gautam, Utkarsh Mishra & Mugdha Mishra

Business conclave Case study analysis

2nd position. A trophy and 6000/- cash prize

Kanhu Charan Lenka Sunishchit Mishra

Business conclave Business Quiz

3rd position. A trophy and cash prize of 3000/-

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ALUMNI Update

Xavier Institute of Management (XIMB) Alumni Update The XIMB Alumni Committee has continued making great strides in its dedicated efforts to preserve, promote and sustain relationships with the alumni, thus playing out an integral part in the functioning of the university. The major highlight of the year was the successful organization of the Business Excellence Summit to celebrate 30 years of XIMB, in close tandem with the Student Executive Council, which made XIMB a talking point at national levels. Around 30 esteemed alumni who are leaders of high reputation and stature graced the event in what is being deemed as one of the biggest and most epic events organized at XIMB in many years. The summit was highlighted with leadership talks by the alumni on their perspectives of the industry, panel discussions, alumni interactions and cultural programmes. The event was touted as a huge success by the alumni who were part of this summit.

This year also saw the reunion of the 1997 batch who celebrated their 20 years at XIMB with great splendor. Another successful event "The Grand Homecoming" was organized for the batch of 1992. Everyone departed with the resolve to visit again and spread the message amongst all who could not visit this time. Another highlight was as a part of Xpressions'17, an online quiz "EnigmaX" was conducted for the alumni which saw participation in huge numbers and saw encouraging responses from the competition. The quiz garnered a lot of positive feedback from the alumni and they requested us to conduct more competitions like these. AlCom also worked actively with other committees to promote “XIMB Day” amongst the Alumni by encouraging them to revive old memories by posting their old pictures taken at XIMB. With X-Alma and KYA ventures, AlCom continues to reach alumni across the world and strengthen the XIMBian bond. We also shared the current achievements of alumni with the students of XIMB through social forums. Alcom also shared a series of tips namely ‘Alumni Portal Tips’ for the alumni to leverage connections and use the portal of the Alumni Committee to their benefit. Like Every Year, AlCom released Unnayan – The Annual Alumni Magazine in February 2018. AlCom will also prepare and distribute the yearbook for the outgoing batch of 2018.

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4TH CONVOCATION 2018 The National Chapter Election for XIMB Alumni Association was conducted in January 2018. Mr. Debabrata Mishra of the PGDM Batch 89-91 was elected as the President and Mr. Chandra Shekhar Chitrala of PGDMbatch 1988-1990 was elected as the Vice-President (Uncontested). The Alumni committee apprised the alumni of the events, business conclaves and leadership talks held in the Institute through Facebook and LinkedIn. The Alumni Committee of XIMB has endeavoured to achieve alumni engagement with the existing students and is fulfilling its mission of “one family”. What makes all of this possible is the loyal support and commitment of the XIMB Family—our alumni, our faculties, committee members, the SEC and the students.

Major Alumni Events 1.

Tathagat’17 – An Alumni - student interaction session for incoming first year students was conducted in June in XIMB Campus

2.

Alumni informal get together meets took place in Bengaluru, Mumbai, Delhi, Kolkata and London in the months of June, July and August

3.

Business Excellence Summit’17 is planned on 22nd – 23rd September at XIMB Campus

4.

20 years reunion of 1997 Batch was organised in the XIMB Campus on 29th September 2017

5.

Grand Home Coming, the 25 year reunion was organised for the 1992 Batch Alumni in the XIMB Campus on December 4th 2017

Alumni Achievements & Accolades 1.

Mrs. Neelima Burra, Batch of 2001, elected as "President of the prestigious Indian Olive Association".

2.

Mr. Srikumar Misra, Batch of 2001, attended the prestigious “Champions of the Change” entrepreneurs’ event organised by the Prime Minister and key ministries.

3.

Mr. Binayak Acharya, Batch of 2013, has been transforming lives with his initiative - Think Zone. Based out of Odisha, the initiative aims at delivering quality education and promoting gender equality by empowering women from the low-income communities. https://thelogicalindian.com/my-social-responsibility/creating-women-changemakers/

4.

Mr. Binod Panda, Batch of 1996 has published "Solitude and Other Obsessions", a book of poems. The book will be available on Amazon and Flipkart.

5.

Shalini Rao, Batch of 1989-1991 was appointed as the Head of Strategic Planning for Horlicks Account by FCB Ulka.

6.

Mr. Murugan Narayanaswamy, Batch of 1997-1999 was awarded Digital Marketer of the year award in Food and Beverage category by Internet and Mobile Association of India (IAMAI).

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Mr Vineet Arora, Batch of 1994-96 was appointed as Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer of Aegon Life Insurance, effective January 2018.

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Mr. M Yeshwanth Nag, Batch of 2010-12 was presented with the prestigious “Business world 40 Under 40 award” in recognition of innovativeness and boldness of successful entrepreneurs under the age of 40.

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Mr. Lalatendu Acharya, Batch of 1991-1993 was inducted into Purdue University Teaching Academy and was appointed for his leadership in CSR 315, Relationship Selling course.

10. Geeta Ravindranath Lobo, Batch of 1994-96 was appointed as Executive Director and Head of Ipsos Bengaluru and a part of Ipsos India Leadership Team.

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Xavier School of Human Resource Management (XAHR) Alumni Update From being a part of the old Alumni Committee, the HRM Alumni Committee came into its own in the month of July 2017. Within a short period of time, the committee has been able to work on following areas: 1.

Conducting Tathagat: an Alum Connect event for the new batch of HR (2017-2019) where students got an opportunity to listen and interact with two HR alumni of XUB

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Creation of a database:

a. Building an independent database of all the HR batches from 2013 with a vision of its utilisation in the future b. Identification of all HR professionals since 1987, from the existing Alumni database 3. Campus engagement of the HR Alumni through buddy program visiting the campus during Kshitij-The annual HR conclave and other leadership talks 4. Multiple Know Your Alum (KYA) interviews conducted for all the HR Alumni visiting XUB campus during the year

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Launch of X-Alma program for HR batch (2018-19) to help them during the upcoming summer internships Continuous help provided for placements, HR conclaves and leadership talks in terms of contact sharing Merchandise has been designed for the XAHR batch of 2019, with the logo and name of XAHR

The HRM Alumni Committee has also worked closely with the XIMB Alumni committee in organising and conducting a few activities and events like: Grand Home Coming (GHC) of the batch of 1992, release of Unnayan, launch of yearbook "Reminiscence”, and Ximfare for the passing out batch.

Xavier School of Rural Management (XSRM) Alumni Update Alumni Talk An Institute has its reputation established on the achievements of its alumni, faculty and students. This is exactly the reason why XSRM has the kind of reputation it possesses The XSRM Alumni Committee has great pleasure in welcoming all alumni. It provides a platform for sharing intellectual, cultural, career and professional experiences of alumni with the present students. Dignified Alumni including Mr. Pratyush Kumar Panda (1996-98), Mr. Biswajit Bhuyan (2013-15) and Ms. Niharika Sahoo (1999-2001) inspired our postgraduate students with their knowledge repository on the current industry perspective.

Alumni Symposium – 24 June 2017 Alumni present: Mr. Niranjan Bariyar (Batch of 1999-2001), Consultant-Program Coordination, UNICEF Ms. Jagruti Swain (Batch of 2013-15), Senior Consultant, PwC Private Limited Theme: Professional Directions in Rural Management and Career ahead Agenda: Provision of an insight into the field of Rural Management Proceedings: ● Stating the schedule of the session by Prof. J. J. Arakal. ● Talk by Mr. Niranjan Bariyar about his work experience and the important role rural managers’ play in his field of work. ● Talk by Ms. Jagruti Swain about her work experience as a consultant in PwC.

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Learnings from the symposium o Mobility and adaptability are some of the most important factors in being successful. o In the long run, specialisation will play a key role. o In the short run, exploration of all fields is preferred.

Pratibimb Pratibimb is the memory book that is launched by the RM Alumni Committee every year during the month of March. It is a collection of the personal details of the graduating batch of Rural Management. The students contribute by writing testimonials about their batch mates and sharing their 'X-moments' during the two years that they spent in this beautiful campus. This is a way to make sure that the memories stay with them forever even if they go their separate ways. This also helps the alumni committee maintain a database of all the batches.

Reunion XSRM Alumni Committee organised its alumni meet - "Reunion 2018" from 26th to 28th January, where alumni (Batch of 2002-2004, 2003-2005 and 2004-2006) came to refresh their memories, to visit their alma mater. Turnout was overwhelming as compared to previous years. It was a three-day event. On the first day of arrival alumni had nostalgic conversations as many of them were meeting for the first time after they had graduated. It provided an opportunity for the alumni to revisit the campus and interact with students and faculties. A cultural event was organized not only for their entertainment but also for engagement.

Database Updation The task of updating the database of XIMB-RM Alumni, an integral part of the Alumni committee, was done by calling up Alumni of different batches. Information regarding phone numbers, date of birth, email ids, organisations currently employed in, address, present city was updated on a regular basis. Almost 70% of the data was successfully updated this year. Google forms were floated to Alumni of different batches to get data of people that could not be obtained through phone calls.

Margdarshan Margdarshan is the SIP mentorship programme where all the first-year students are assigned a particular alumnus as mentor who will guide the students during their summer internship programme. This event takes place in the month of April. Through this event the students get an opportunity to interact with the alumni personally and gain some knowledge from their experience.

Anubhav In this event the final year students share their experience of XUBERENCE with the junior batch. The entire event will be documented and will be shared with the junior batch, so that this will give them some insight of the placement process and will help them during the time of their placement process.

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Xavier School of Sustainability Management (XSoS) Alumni Update The Xavier School of Sustainability, XUB, hosted its first ever alumni meet on 8th February 2018. SM student Alumni Committee (ALCOM) took the lead in organising and making “SM Homecoming 2018” a rather memorable one. There was an air of excitement, emotion, and nostalgia during the gathering on the Xavier City Campus where the senior and junior batches of MBA-SM met the alumni from the first batch. It was an interactive session wherein they shared their own experiences which included their moments of success and challenges, doubts, questions, answers, and hopes of reaching newer heights. The current batches received useful insights from their alumni about future prospects and life after MBA in Sustainability Management. All in all, the “SM Homecoming 2018” event was a success in every way.

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Xavier University Bhubaneswar Alumni Association (XUBAA) The word Alma mater is an allegorical Latin phrase where the word alma means “nourishing/kind”, and the word mater “mother”.

Where ever you go you are the face of the University and in whatever you do you reflect the values of the University. As we part ways and you enter into a new phase in life, here’s wishing you all the very best for a blessed life ahead. We wish you well and good stead as you spread wings and make a difference wherever you go.

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SCHOOLS OF THE XAVIER UNIVERSITY BHUBANESWAR XAVIER INSTITUTE OF MANAGEMENT (XIMB)

XAVIER SCHOOL OF COMMUNICATIONS (XCOMM)

• Ph.D. in Business Management.

• Ph.D. in Mass Communication.

• MBA-BM : Two-Year Master's Program in Business Management.

• MA-MC : Two-Year Master's Program in Mass Communication.

• MBA-Global : Two-Year Master's Program in Global Management.

• B.Sc-MC : Three-Year Bachelor's Degree Program in Mass Communication.

• Executive MBA : One-Year Master's Program in Business Management for Executives.

XAVIER SCHOOL OF COMMERCE (XSC)

XAVIER SCHOOL OF HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT (XAHR)

• MBF : Two-Year Master's Program in Business Finance.

• Ph.D. in Human Resource Management.

• B.Com : Three-Year Bachelor's Degree Program in Commerce.

• MBA-HRM : Two-Year Master's Program in Human Resource Management.

• BBM : Three-Year Bachelor's Degree Program in Commerce.

• MC : Two-Year Master's Program in Counseling.

XAVIER SCHOOL OF RURAL MANAGEMENT (XSRM)

XAVIER CENTRE FOR URBAN MANAGEMENT AND GOVERNANCE (XUMG) • Ph.D. in Urban Management.

• Ph.D. in Rural Management.

• MBA-UMG : Two-Year Master's Program in Urban Management & Governance.

• MBA-RM : Two-Year Master's Program in Rural Management.

XAVIER CENTRE OF ECONOMICS (XSE)

XAVIER SCHOOL OF SUSTAINABILITY (XSoS)

• B.Sc (Economics) : Three-Year Bachelor's Degree Program in Economics.

• Ph.D. in Sustainability Management.

XAVIER SCHOOL OF COMPUTER SCIENCE & ENGINEERING (XCOMP)

• MBA-SM : Two-Year Master's Program in Sustainability Management. • B.Sc-SD : Three-Year Bachelor's Degree Program in Sustainability Management.

XIMB Campus

Xavier Square Bhubaneswar-751013, India Phone: +91-674-6647777 Fax: +91-674-2300995

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• B.Tech (CSE) : Four-Year Bachelor's Degree Program in Computer Science & Engineering.

Xavier City Campus

Plot No:12(A), Nijigada, Kurki Harirajpur-752050, Dist.-Puri, Odisha Web: http://www.xub.edu.in Phone: +91-674-2377700