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December’14 was abuzz with activities that boosted positivity in the campus. An enthralling audience watched the launch of FIIB’s new tradition of celebrating achievements and receiving fame by Faculty, staff and students. The highlight of the month has ought to be the two awards of Excellence that FIIB received from ASSOCHAM and Education Post. Also, our students raised FIIB’s flag high by winning Inter-College Marketing Quiz competition. Besides, there’s a crossword to whack your brains! FIIB’s Corporate Communication Department loves sharing cookies with you. Read on to keep yourself updated. P.S. - Last Cookie has always a special taste. We will continue to serve you more the next year. Swati Sharma- Editor Fortune Cookies

FEATURED STORY Launch of New Tradition at FIIB

THROUGH THE CORRIDORS • FIIB celebrate Good Governance Day • FSE Club organized Finance Debate • FIIB on most popular TV show • Updates on Ranbhoomi • Clothes Drive

INDUSTRY VISIT Students visited Mother Dairy

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Tête-à-Tête with Winners of Oratory Skills Competition Crossword Puzzle

PLACEMENT UPDATE (Batch 2013-15) FIIB witnessed astounding placements in Dec’14. 14 students got placed with distinguished organizations. Heartiest congratulations to all. • Info Edge (99 acres.com) - Taranjeet Singh

Chawla, Vibhu Malhotra, Jagpreet Singh, Janis King, Ravinder Pal Singh

• ONICRA - Ashish Sharma, Mridula Raghav • ICE - Shruti Singh • Keuhne & Nagel - Ankit Patwal, Asma

Hameed, Arushi Rajput • Info Edge (Naukri.com) - Kanika Agarwal,

Jivesh Arora • Techsci Research - Tarun Narang, Sakshi Gupta

IN THE SPOTLIGHT • FIIB received Academic Excellence Award

2014 • FIIB won Inter-college Marketing Quiz-

Quiz-IQ

Straight from Achievers!!

“Success Mantras” for Dec’14

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” Manimala A Paul, Junior Recruiter, Mastech Inc

Life is not a bed of roses. Work hard till you succeed and don’t miss out on opportunities

“ ” Taranjeet Singh Chawla, Placed as Sr. Executive- Corporate Sales

at Info Edge (99 Acres.Com)

FOCUS ! Ignore the noise around and have an absolute focus on your goals.

Sometimes it feels like our hard-work goes unnoticed. This can be dis-heartening. Especially if we ourselves do not recognize the specific achievement. December at FIIB changes all this. We rung in the gong sounds 40 times this month for our collective achievements in making FIIB a great institution. From institute-level awards, to our students winning accolades at inter-college level, to faculty presenting/publishing in prestigious platforms, to students achieving success at the placement season -all victories have been very dear. The enthusiasm with which everybody came out to congratulate the folks in the spotlight speaks of the sense of pride that we all feel. I’m hoping for more reasons to hear the gong sounds in the next coming months! This will happen if all of us (individuals and teams) ask ourselves the following two questions regularly: What have I/We achieved over the past few weeks? What milestones do I/We hope to reach soon? Best Regards, Radhika Shrivastava

Message from Executive Director (FIIB)

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” Vibhu Malhotra, Placed as Sr. Executive-Corporate Sales at Info Edge (99 Acres.Com)

Practice Makes a Man Perfect... Continued Preparation is a sure route to SUCCESS

“ Vaishali Sharma, Placed as Sr. Executive at Lloyd Venture

Strive for the Best. Dedicatedly put in efforts in the right direction for your victory

” “

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FIIB started a new tradition of recognizing the achievements of faculty, staff and students. Achievers rang the Buddhist Gong to embark their success story. Students who got placed were given ‘Wishes Stars’ which were hanged around the campus.

“It’s an awesome initiative taken by FIIB to commemorate the achievements made by the FIIB Community. We rang the Gong, which symbolized the sanctity of the persistent efforts made by FIIB to nurture its strong foundations. Then we were given the best wishes Star, which made us feel very special. Thank you FIIB for this beautiful memory.” Poornima Malhan who got placed with Strategic Resources

Stars were placed at Courtyard to allow faculty, staff and students to write wishes for the students. Courtyard was given a new name ‘Star World’, as the courtyard looked like one after the Stars were hanged around the campus.

Students proudly posing with their Stars

IN THE SPOTLIGHT

FIIB got felicitated by ASSOCHAM and Education Post with Education Excellence Award 2014 which was held in Ahmedabad on 8th December 2014. FIIB was awarded with Best Management Institute for Industry Interface in India and Best Management Institute for Entrepreneurship Development in North India.

Proud to be owner of Education Excellence Award

Mr. Anil Kumar Sinha, Director-FIIB received the Award from Governor of Gujarat, Shree O. P. Kohli

FIIB celebrated this great moment together

2 teams comprising Madhav Johri, Rajatdeep Singh Kathuria and Deepesh Sharma, Arpit Agrawal; represented FIIB at Jaipuria Institute of Management for its Annual Marketing Quiz ‘Quiz-IQ’. Out of 21 teams from 19 B-schools across Delhi/NCR; FIIB marked its name as Rajatdeep Singh Kathuria and Madhav Johri showed their skills and emerged as winners of the quiz.

FIIB won Inter-college Quiz

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THROUGH THE CORRIDORS

FIIB celebrated Former Prime Minister Shri. Atal Bihari Vajpayee’s birthday as Good Governance Day on 23rd and 24th December, which encouraged students to learn about Good Governance. With collaboration of AICTE, FIIB organized Oratory Skills Competition and Essay Writing Competition on ‘Use of Technology and Innovation in Promoting Good Governance.’ With available cash prize of upto Rs. 30,000/-, students competed with a good spirit.

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Prize Name

1st Prize, Rs 15,000 Anuradha Apan

2nd Prize, Rs 10,000 Prateek Upadhyay

3rd Prize, Rs 5,000 Anshika Goel

Oratory Skills Competition

Winners

Winners of Oratory Skills Competition

Position Name

Winner Poornima Malhan

1st Runner Up Manish Saraswat

2nd Runner Up Ankita Mehta

Top 3 entries from essay writing competition were awarded appreciation certificates

Judges included renowned Professors from FIIB

Essay Writing Competition

FIIB celebrated Good Governance Day

Jaagriti Club organized ‘Clothes Collection Drive’ to address the social cause of supporting the poor and needy. Collection boxes were kept on all floors and collected the clothes, which were sorted and given to an NGO. FIIB generously donated clothes to

combat the cold and tried its best to keep

the homeless warm this winter.

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At FIIB, we support the Less-Fortunate…

The Sports Committee of FIIB organized Annual Sports Meet- Ranbhoomi 2014 which saw captivating Cricket and Football matches between juniors and seniors. Teams from 1st year Glamour XI & Warrior XI challenged 2nd year teams Titans XI & Sparking Spartans Titans XI won by 75 runs against Warriors XI and in finals, Sparking Spartans won by 47 runs against Titans XI In the finals, Sparking Spartans won by 18 Runs from Titans XI. The friendly match between Team Drona (Team including Faculty & Staff)) and the Team Warrior XI was conducted where Warriors XI won by 5 Wickets in the last over.

RANBHOOMI

Students donating for the cause

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FINANCE DEBATE BY FSE

Finance Club organized Debate Competition to give students an opportunity to deliberate on trending topics in Finance domain. Students shared their opinions on: • Should RBI decrease the bank rates? • Whether the government be successful in bringing back Indian money lying in Swiss Bank? Competition was conducted under the supervision of Dr. Asheesh Pandey and Prof. Abhijeet Roy.

This competition turned out to be an enlightened session for students, as this allowed students to read through a lot to come prepared for the topic.

INDUSTRY VISIT @

FIIBians visited Sonepat plant of Mother Dairy and learned about processing procedure of milk. Students got a know how on production of dairy products and also learned about various management techniques that are followed in this industry. Students also got an opportunity to interact with employees there who discussed about Mother Dairy’s differentiators in comparison to their competitors.

“It was quite an enriching experience to see the processing of milk. The state-of-the-art microprocessor technology integrates and automates all functions of milk processing, which ensures high quality milk. The live exposure of this process was quite helpful in learning the various management techniques which are followed in Dairy Industry.” Ankita Mehta, 1st Year Student

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FIIBians on NDTV

FIIBians touched base with media industry, as they got an opportunity to be an interactive audience for NDTV’s most popular shows like- AGENDA, THE BIG FIGHT and THE NDTV DIALOGUES. Students heard big personalities such as CBI chiefs – Mr. Joginder Singh, Mr. PC Sharma, Mr. ML Sharma, Mr. Kapil Sibal, Professor Sunil Khilnani, Mr. Ashok Malik and Dr. Ananya Vajpeyi deliberating and sharing their opinions on recent happenings: • Has the idea of India changed? Have we moved away from the Nehruvian idea of India? • Ranjit Sinha a caged parrot or rebel ? What opinions do they have about the new procedures, etc.? • Are we prepared to deal with another event like the 26/11 attack?

Students at ‘The Big Fight’

FIIBians with Mr. Mani Shankar Aiyar

Students sharing a moment with Mr. Gardiner

“It was certainly an amazing experience to see these eminent personalities discussing over sensitive political topics. From now on I will be following NDTV religiously, as it will update me with the current happenings around the globe.” Neelanshu Bhardwaj, 1st Year Student

We bring to you an interesting conversation we had with winners of Oratory Skills Competition which was conducted on Good Governance Day. Anuradha, Prateek and Anshika who won 1st, 2nd and 3rd prize respectively sharing their story with us.

Tête-à-Tête with winners of Oratory Skills Competition

How do you feel to be the winner of the competition and of course the huge prize money? Anu: It feels great to have won this competition and the prize money of Rs 15,000 was a great encouragement. (Smiles) Pra: Being winner of the competition proved one thing that even if you are nervous or unprepared; never show it up to the audience. Prove yourself as one of the most confident candidate and you will be the one. Price money of 10,000 means a lot to me , but its pinching that I couldn't win Rs 15,000. (Laughs) Ans: It feels great to be a part of such competitions and showcase our skills in front of everyone. Definitely, emerging as a winner is a huge success in itself How do you plan to spend this money? Anu: I plan to splurge as the prize money is quite big!! Pra: My friends are party snatchers, I have to treat them. In addition, some amount of this money will be spent to do my bit for the ones who need care in this. This will also make me do my part in the good governance and help my Government though in a micro level but it will. Ans: As New Year is round the corner, I have descent amount of money to spend. How tough was the competition? Anu: The topic was tough and required a lot if research and application of existing knowledge. The other speakers were exemplary and the competition was tough and also more interesting because of it. Pra: Competition was tough, the other speakers were quite competitive and this made this competition quite interesting. Ans: Competition was tough as all the finalists were trying their level best and moreover, the topic was really challenging to deal with. According to you, what all does it take to practice good governance? Anu: The day Indian citizens realize their responsibility, the Good Governance will look like a practical solution; as it is rightly said, “Charity begins at home.” Pra: Good governance is nothing but our participation in government and this will not be fulfilled till we leave our comfort zones and really be a part of this governing system. No Mr. Modi can achieve good governance without our participation. Our duty does not end just after we vote but actually it begins at that point of time. We need to do our part such as stop bribing, helping needy, respecting women, etc. We remember our rights but the day we will feel responsible and remember our duties good governance will be achieved. Ans: To practice good governance, it is very necessary for us as citizens to walk hand in hand with the government and make our country achieve great heights. Any message for other students Anu: All I can say is there is no harm in participating you might just win and more then that you will gain more confidence and build a lot of diverse skills. Pra: Students should take part in such competitions, these not only enhances skills but also gives you the confident to stand up in front of audience. We all are management students and management always mean to be an all-rounder at every sphere. Don’t get scared of the stage or have the fear to fail as “Sometimes by losing a battle you find a new way to win the war.” Ans: Other students must also take part in such activities as it would give them good exposure and build confidence in them.

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How many companies you can identify…

For Clues P.T.O

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Crossword Clues

Across 3. Leading retail chains of showrooms in India 5. Leading CDMA service provider 6. Sponsor for FIFA World Cup 2014 7. "Be you" 9. Finger licking good 10. Founder - N. R. Narayana Murthy 14. Sponsor for ICC T20 World Cup 2014 15. Just do it 17. "Hum Hai na..." 19. Paper started by a Ayurvedic doctor 20. Owner - American philanthropist

Down 1. Online restaurant search 2. Distinctly Ahead 4. British multinational telecom company 8. A multinational management consulting company from California. 11. Bank Aapki Muththi Mein 12. MSP 13. More bounce to the ounce 16. Joint venture between MetLife International Holdings Inc. (MIHI), Punjab National Bank Limited (PNB), Jammu & Kashmir Bank Limited (JKB) 18. Job search portal

As we bid farewell to 2014 which brought us amazing memories; lets look

forward to 2015 for awesome days to come!!

Wish you all a very

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