The Design classroom at Welingkar Institute was abuzz with activity as it became the high voltage play field of creativity, talent, entrepreneurship and design thinking coupled with out- of- box thinking. Over forty professionals from diverse backgrounds including designers, entrepreneurs, students from NID, MIT and established businessmen had assembled at Welingkar Institute of Management Development [...]
Archive for February, 2012
Udaan…Putting Wind beneath Their Wings
Project Udaan, a joint initiative of NSDC- Government of India and corporate body CII, is a novel initiative to help Kashmiri youth join the mainstream of corporate India. Welingkar played the perfect host to the group of management students from Jammu and Kashmir, the state of longstanding political and social avalanches. While tourism, handicrafts, handloom [...]
How India’s Liberalization Shaped a Generation of Entrepreneurs
We are delighted to share with you an article that quotes Prof Kaustubh Dhargalkar, Associate Professor- Business Design & Innovation & Head- Innowe-Center for Innovation and Memetics at WeSchool. Prof Dhargalkar was telephonically interviewed by the editorial team and requested to share further details on some of his ideas before the article went up on [...]
Ronak Gandhi to attend Global Social Entrepreneurship Competition at Seattle
We again anticipate a few more happy and glorious moments taking shape as one of our students, Ronak Gandhi, PGDM (Marketing) 2010-12 shares with us the news of his selection for Global Social Entrepreneurship Competition (GSEC). Ronak’s team is one of 18 semi-finalist teams that advanced from the second round of application judging, selected from [...]
A Cerebral Engagement with China
A Chinese delegation from Tianjin University of Technology visited Welingkar, exploring how the two can work together in fields Innovation, R & D and similar arenas. Sino –Indian relations have always been grabbing public attention for variety of reasons. Recently Foreign minister SM Krishna visited the neighbour for boosting relations and inauguration of the new [...]
Dr SS Mantha felicitated on his appointment as Chairman, AICTE
Dr S.S. Mantha who has been appointed as the Chairman of AICTE was felicitated by the Forum of the Management Institutions, the Forum of Minorities Institutions and the University of Mumbai College Principal’s Association (UMCPA) and Consortium of Management Education (COME) at Welingkar Institute of Management Development and Research, on Sunday, 8 Jan 2012. Among [...]
