Annual Report

XAVIER
UNIVERSITY
2015-2016
REPORT
XAVIER UNIVERSITY BHUBANESWAR
Mission
Inspiring Futures
Education in the spirit of Magis
Vision
Enabling people to live extraordinary
lives, and be the light for the world
Xavier University Bhubaneswar

Message from the
Vice-Chancellor
Dear Friends,
Greetings of joy!
I am happy to welcome you to the 2nd Annual Convocation of the Xavier University Bhubaneswar.
I am delighted to present the Annual Convocation Report 2016. We feel blessed as we continue to
deliver excellent quality education comparable to the best, carrying out the mission of inspiring futures:
inspiring the future generations of students. God’s gifts to us are greater than our efforts!
XUB is built on the strong foundation of academic excellence, service excellence with personal values,
and social concern. The University stands for education in the spirit of Magis and enabling people to live
extraordinary lives and be the light for the world.
To the graduating batch of 2016: I am sure you had a happy and beautiful life on campus. Going forward
continue to be competent, committed and compassionate leaders and make a difference to the people
with whom you work. You made history when you stepped into the Xavier University, and we wish you
a very successful career and fruitful life ahead. The bond between you and your alma mater, may it
endure. Stay connected. Inspire the futures. Be the light for the world.
To all of you, members of our Governing Board, students, faculty, staff, alumni, friends and well-wishers
of the University, my heartfelt thanks for your continued support that have enabled us to unfold this
dream of the University and its various Schools. God’s ways are more beautiful. 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.

Convocation
Programme
Academic Procession : 6:00 PM

Prayer Song : Students Choir
Welcome Address : Fr. Antony Uvary, 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
Award of Medals : Shri Suresh Narayanan

Chief Guest & Convocation Speaker
Presentation of Graduates : Dr. Biswa Swarup Misra

Academic Dean, XIMB
: Dr. Snigdha Pattnaik

Academic Dean, XSHRM
: Dr. Kajri Mishra

Academic Dean, XSRM
Award of Degree/ Diploma : Shri Rajive Kaul

Chairman, Board of Governors
Convocation Address : Shri Suresh Narayanan

National Anthem
Recession
Convocation Speaker
Shri Suresh Narayanan
Chairman and Managing Director
Nestlé India Limited
Mr. Suresh Narayanan has over 30 years of rich and exhaustive experience in the
FMCG Industry and has held senior management and top leadership roles in leading
global companies. He is on the Board of Directors of Nestlé India Limited from 1st
August, 2015. Mr. Narayanan was Chairman and CEO of Nestlé Philippines prior
to joining Nestlé India in 2015. He is also the Chairman of Corporate Governance
and Social Responsibility Committee of the Board of Directors of the Company.
Mr. Narayanan was Managing Director of Nestlé Singapore Pte. Ltd., from 2008 to
2010. During his time the overall business in Singapore witnessed sustained growth
amidst the economic downturn. He was awarded the Medal of Commendation
by the Government of Singapore in 2010, for excellence in employee relations
during this challenging period. He moved to Nestlé Egypt as Chairman and CEO
and Head of NEAR, where his initiatives resulted in significant business growth
and investments despite the turbulence and volatility faced by the region at this
time.
Mr. Narayanan joined Nestlé in 1999 as Executive Vice President for Sales in
India, where he spearheaded major structural and strategic changes in Sales and
Customer Management and set up the chilled dairy business. He moved to Nestlé
Indochina in 2003, as Executive Director for Sales, Marketing and Food-Services,
covering the countries of Thailand, Cambodia, Myanmar, Laos and Vietnam. Two
years later in 2005, he returned to Nestlé India as Head of Sales for India, Sri
Lanka, Bangladesh and Nepal.
Mr. Narayanan began his career as a management trainee with Hindustan Unilever,
where he held numerous positions of increasing responsibility in Sales, Marketing
and General Management. He has also worked with Colgate Palmolive in India.
Mr. Narayanan holds a Master’s Degree in Economics from the Delhi School of
Economics and has a Diploma from the IMD Program for Executive Development.
He has participated in the Nestlé Leadership Program of the London Business
School.
Contents
Convocation 2016 New Horizons: University Highlights
Programme Events : 24
Convocation Speaker Conferences : 28
Distinguished Visitors : 33
Management Overview
Deans Reports : 38
Board of Governors : 02
Board of Management : 06 Doctoral Programme Report : 70
Academic Council : 06 Internationalization at XUB : 74

Finance Committee : 06 Inspiring Knowledge and Research : 76
Xavier Campus Cloud, Data Centre
Medals for Academic Excellence 2015-16 and Media Lab : 78
& List of Graduates
Career Advisory Services : 80
Masters in Business
Management Development Programme : 81
Administration (BM): 2014-16 Batch : 08
Centers of Excellence : 87
Masters in Business
Administration (HRM): 2014-16 Batch : 16 Faculty Research Publications : 91
Masters in Business Faculty Achievements : 102
Administration (RM): 2014-16 Batch : 18 Office Bearers : 104
Masters in Business Our Faculty : 105
Administration (Executive): 2014-15 Batch : 20
Non-Teaching Staff : 110
Masters in Business
Administration (Global): 2014-16 Batch : 21 Student Engagements
Post Graduate Diploma Student Committee Reports : 113
in Management (Executive): 2014-15 Batch : 21
Live Projects : 123
Post Graduate Diploma Student Achievements : 125
in Management (PGDM-PT): 2013-16 Batch : 22
PG Diploma in Film & TV Production : 23 Alumni Update : 130
Xavier School
Xavier School of
of Rural Sustainability
Management
Xavier School
of Human
Resource
Management
Xavier School
of
Communications
XIM
Bhubaneswar
Xavier School
of
Commerce
2nd Convocation 2016
Board of Governors (Xub)

Chairman Vice-Chancellor Registrar & Secretary
Shri Rajive Kaul Fr. Paul Fernandes, S.J. Fr. Antony Uvary, S.J.
Chairman Vice-Chancellor Registrar & Secretary
NICCO Corporation Limited, Kolkata Xavier University Bhubaneswar Xavier University Bhubaneswar
Members
Shri Ashok Chandra Panda Shri R. Balakrishnan, IAS Shri G. V. V. Sarma, IAS
Hon’ble MLA and Minister D.C-cum-Addl. Chief Secretary Principal Secretary
Tourism & Culture Finance Department Higher Education Dept.
Govt. of Odisha Govt. of Odisha, Bhubaneswar Govt. of Odisha, Bhubaneswar
Shri Laxmi Narayan Gupta, IAS Shri Sanjiv Chopra, IAS Fr. George Fernandes, S.J.
Principal Secretary President
Skill Development & Technical
Principal Secretary
Industries Department Odisha Jesuit Society
Education Dept.
Govt. of Odisha, Bhubaneswar Loyola Hall, Jamshedpur
Govt. of Odisha, Bhubaneswar
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Members
Fr. E. Abraham, S.J. Fr. Nicholas Tete, S.J. Fr. Swebert D’Silva, S.J.
Director Principal Principal
XLRI , Jamshedpur St. Xavier’s College, Ranchi St. Aloysius College, Mangalore
Dr. B. Muthuraman Dr. Sanghamitra Mohanty

Shri Ansuman Das
Ex-Vice-Chairman Ex-Vice Chancellor
Ex-Chairman-cum-MD North Odisha University
Tata Steel Ltd., Mumbai
NALCO
Baripada, Odisha
Shri Manohar Randhari Mrs. Jagi Mangat Panda Fr. Felix Raj, S.J.
Member of Legislative Managing Director Principal
Assembly, Odisha Ortel Communications Ltd. St. Xavier’s College (Autonomous)
Bhubaneswar Kolkata
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Board of Governors (XIMB)

Chairman Vice-Chairman
Shri Rajive Kaul Fr. Paul Fernandes, S.J.

Chairman Director
NICCO Corporation Limited, Kolkata Xavier Institute of Management Bhubaneswar
Members
Shri Aditya Prasad Padhi, IAS Shri R. Balakrishnan, IAS Shri Laxmi Narayan Gupta, IAS Fr. George Fernandes, S.J.
Chief Secretary D.C.-cum-Addl. Chief Secretary Principal Secretary President
Govt. of Odisha, Bhubaneswar Finance Department Skill Development & Technical Odisha Jesuit Society
Govt. of Odisha, Bhubaneswar Education Department Loyola Hall, Jamshedpur
Govt. of Odisha, Bhubaneswar
Shri Anand Sen Fr. E. Abraham, S.J. Prof. Biswa Swarup Misra
President Director Dean Academics
(TQM & Steel Business) XLRI, Jamshedpur Xavier Institute of Management
Tata Steel Ltd., Jamshedpur Bhubaneswar
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Secretary Treasurer
Fr. Antony Uvary, S.J. Fr. Donald D’Silva, S.J.

Associate Director Director (Finance)
Xavier Institute of Management Bhubaneswar Xavier Institute of Management Bhubaneswar
Members
Dr. Santrupt Misra Shri B. J. Panda Shri Roopen Roy Shri D. Shivakumar
Additional Director Member of Parliament Ex-Managing Director Chairman & CEO
Board of Directors of SKI Carbon Lok Sabha Deloitte &Touche Consulting India PepsiCo India Holdings Pvt. Ltd.
Black (India) Pvt. Ltd. Pvt. Ltd., Kolkata Gurgaon
Aditya Birla Group
Fr. S. Tony Raj, S.J. Fr. Felix Raj, S.J. Fr. Nicholas Tete, S.J.
Superior Principal Principal
Odisha Jesuit Mission St. Xavier’s College (Autonomous) St. Xavier’s College, Ranchi
Bhubaneswar Kolkata
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Board of Management
Name Designation
Fr Paul Fernandes, SJ : Vice-Chancellor - Ex-Officio Chairman
Fr. Antony Uvary, SJ : Registrar - Ex-Officio Secretary
Fr. George Fernandes, SJ : President, Odisha Jesuit Society
Fr. E. Abraham, SJ : Director, XLRI, Jamshedpur
Fr. S. Tony Raj, SJ : Superior, Odisha Jesuit Mission
Fr. Donald D’Silva, SJ : Director (Finance)
Prof. Snigdha Pattnaik : Academic Dean, Xavier School of HRM
Prof. Kajri Misra : Academic Dean, Xavier School of RM
Dr. Manoj Fogla, CA :
Academic Council
Name Designation
Fr. Paul Fernandes, SJ : Vice-Chancellor - Ex-Officio Chairman
Prof. Biswa Swarup Misra : Academic Dean, XIMB
Prof. Snigdha Pattnaik : Academic Dean, Xavier School of HRM
Prof. Kajri Misra : Academic Dean, Xavier School of RM
Prof. S. Peppin : Academic Dean, Xavier School of SM
Fr. Lourduraj Ignacimuthu, SJ : Academic Dean, Xavier School of Communications
Prof. P.K. Mohanty : Academic Dean, Xavier School of Commerce
Prof. Sandip Anand : Associate Dean, Doctoral Programme
Finance Committee
Name Designation
Fr. Paul Fernandes, SJ : Vice-Chancellor - Ex-Officio Chairman
Fr. S. Tony Raj, SJ : Superior, Odisha Jesuit Mission
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Annual Report 2015 - 2016
Graduating Students of
Xavier University
Congratulations to the Graduating Students
578 Students Graduating in 2016
MBA - BM 358
MBA - HRM 90
MBA- RM 82
Global MBA 03
1 Year MBA- Executive (Full-time) 15
PGDM (Part-time) 20
1 Year PGDM- Executive (Part-time) 09
1 Year PG Diploma in Film & Television 01
We thank the Faculty

for inspiring our Graduating Students
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Faculty of Management :
Xavier Institute of Management Bhubaneswar (Ximb)
2014-2016 MBA-BM Graduating Batch
Graduating Students
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Medals for Academic Excellence 2015-16

And List of Graduates
Mba in Business Management (Mba-Bm)
Class Of 2014 – 2016
Top Ten Rank Holders & Awardees of Gold Medals

C.M Kandoi Gold Medal & Rs. 10,000/-
Cash Award for First Rank Holder Archana Mishra
(Sponsored by Aditya Steel Industries Ltd., Cuttack)
C.M Kandoi Gold Medal & Rs. 5,000/-

Cash Award for Second Rank Holder Saikat Mukherjee
(Sponsored by Aditya Steel Industries Ltd., Cuttack)
Faculty Council Gold Medal for Academic Excellence

3rd Rank Riga Das 7th Rank Jalaj Pathak
4th Rank Rituparna Mohanty 7th Rank Radhika Rajgopal Sarda
4th Rank Basavanneppa Sankeshwar 9th Rank Aviseth Kumar Maharana
6th Rank Nibedan Kumar Bhawsinka 10th Rank Nishant Mishra
Medals for Outstanding Performance

Odisha Jesuit Society Medal for Social & Ethical Perspective in
Aseem B. Pattnayak
Management
Leeta-Mishra Ankalkoti Gold Medal for Lady - Topper Archana Mishra
NTPC Gold Medal for Lady Topper Archana Mishra
Ravi Sharma-Arsha Vidya Gold Medal for Best All Rounder Radhika Rajgopal Sarda
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Graduating Students (Mba-Bm)

Abhijeet Dash Megha Pandey Adhiraj Singh Panwar
Abhinaba De Mohit Jain Aditi Viswanath
Abhineet Sudhendra Mudita Manot Akankhya Jena
Abinash Mallick Nitika Baralia Amitabha Dey
Abul Hasnain Zaidi P Goutam Prasad Rao Arjya Choudhury
Aditi Sahu Padmalaya Mallick Aman Kumar
Adyasha Dash Partha Pritam Sahoo Amarnath Dash
Akash Mohanty Pavan Shenoy Amiya Arnav
Amaresh Panda Pratik Bisani Anish Avinash Sahu
Aniket Valsangkar Pritam Ranjan Roul Ankita Sahu
Ankit Jain Rajendra Kumar Biswal Anmol Sharma
Ankita Singh Robin Karlose Anukriti Singh
Anuja Nath Rohitaksha Panda Anurag Nayak
Anupras Jain Sakshi Choudhary Basavanneppa Sankeshwar
Anurag Mohanty Samay Rashmi Nanda Biswa Prakash Sukla
Ashish Dwivedi Sambit Mishra Divya Jauhary
Barnali Patnaik Sathamchetty Balachander Ekta Maheswari
Barsha Rani Hota Satyajit Patnaik Ganjave Vikas Govind
Chavan Prajakta Dhananjay Saurabh Arora Gosalia Nihar Tushar
Debananda Patra Shitika Ujjain Guayanna Nayak
Dibyasundar Nayak Shubham Mehra Indrajeet Mohapatra
Esha Epsita Sonia Chadha Isha Aishwarya
G Tarakeshwar Rao Sourabh Ranjan Khuntia Ksheerabdhi Tanaya Samantaray
Girish Kuttisankaran Sukanya Dash Mangaroliya Rakshit Mansukhbhai
Jain Akansha Ashok Kumar Sumukh Savanur Neha Gupta
Kingshuk Roy Sushree Sucharita Senapati Smruti Ranjan Sahoo
Krishna Kumari Sahoo Swagat Acharya Nitigya Mehta
Kriti Gandhi Vijendra Kumar Partha Sarathi Sharma
Kshitij Tinku Abhijit Pati Pinaki Prasad Mohanty
Kundan Mohapatra Abhinav Mohanty Prabhu Kalyan Mohapatra
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Pratik Tripathy Ammu Nagabhushana Sandeep Rahul Jhamnani

Prerna Goel Amrut Patnaik Rhitu Parna Das
Priti Palit Anirban Biswas Chinmayee Sahu
Ragini Choudhary Ankita Singh Rupal Singh
Rahul Agarwalla Ansuman Pradhan Sambit Tripathi
Rajesh Kumar Panda Anup Kumar Patnaik Satish Kumar Parida
Rutwik Rath Sribatsa Patra Satyaki Ghosh
Sambit Rath Archana P Patange Saurabh Wadhwa
Sarda Radhika Rajgopal Avisekh Kumar Maharana Shreya Subrata
Saurabh Paul Ayesha Hota Shruti
Shibani Satarupa Bhagyashree Patra Siba Prasad Dash
Shirsendu Chatterjee Charegaonkar Vaibhav Pramod Siddharth Muduli
Shradha Sehgal Debasis Swain Sidhanta Routray
Shrikant Salke Divyajeevan Satpathy Sohil Verma
Siddhi Prasad Lenka Harshit Srivastava Sourabh Tantia
Soham Pradhan Ipsita Joshi Subhashree Patnaik
Sonali Lipsa Patnaik Isha Das Swapna Samir Shukla
Souman Kumar Jay Poddar Swarnim Pant
Subha Darshan Panigrahi Kasturi Nayak Swayambhu Sekhar Rath
Swaha Mohapatra Kaustuv Mishra Takshashila Pani
Swati Swagatika Joshi Kriti Srivastava Tarun Sahoo
Tanya Singhania Mahamedha Sahoo Utsav Banerjee
Tanuj Padhy Mayank Kaushal Vidhi Shah
Utkarsh Shrivastava Naved Badr Alam Vijayakumar P C
Yash Singh Chauhan Neyati Bhanot Vishnu S Dayal
Abhijit Palit Nori Radha Santosh Abhinandan Pattnaik
Abhinav Modi Pradosh Kumar Sahu Aditya Bhattacharya
Abhishek Pattnaik Pritish Kumar Panigrahi Agrim Verma
Aditya Gandhi Priya Soni Kabyasachi Baral
Alisha Mohanty Pulkit Singhal Anjana Mohanty
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Ankit Shukla Rudrani Das Ansh Srivastava

Anup Ranjan Mohanta Saikat Mukherjee Arjun Katyal
Anupam Priya Samuel Abraham Koshie Aseem Bijayananda Pattanayak
Anurag Soni Satyajeet Senapati Ashwin Srivastava
Archana Mishra Saurav Kumar Panda Asim Mishra
Arsh Khosla Shaikh Ajaz Ahmad Chandra Prakash Joshi
Bankim Prasad Patel Shiba Sundar Behera Gargi Gupta
Bharambe Pradnya Kishore Shiva Shankar Jena Gourav Mishra
Bhuvan Gupta Shobhna Dixit Jalaj Pathak
Chinmayee Das Shreya Chaudhary Javed Iqbal
Chirag Malhotra Shweta Shrikrishna Prabhudesai Joshi Vikash Suresh
Debasree Panda Som Debasis Karnik Sinha
Gandhi Aakansha Piyush Srishti Mohapatra Kasturi Manohar Sanap
Naba Kishore Sarkar Subrat Nanda Mahak Juneja
Ipsita Mishra Sumalya Mandal Manoj Kumar Panda
Jain Thomas Susanta Kumar Sahu Naveen Attri
Jyoti Ranjan Sahoo Sushree Sangeeta Ray Neelam Lal Sharma
Kodukula Srikkanth Swati Pattanayak Nishita Dash
Lavanya Suvarna Sweta Satapathy Noel Vaz
Md Abid Hossain Vaibhav Jain Omkar Makarand Modak
Mirza Farhan Beg Varun Vasudevan Pradyumn Pasari
Namrata Tripathy Vivek Lohia Pragnya Ranjan Pradhan
Nishan Gantayat Y Sumanth Reddy Pragya Paromita
P Hanumantha Rao Prudhvi Yamini Kothari Priyabrata Sahoo
Pallavi Sinha Abhilash Mohanty Priyadarshi Soumya Prakash
Prateesh Purohit Abinash Satpathy Priyambada Choudhury
Rahul Patro Adyasha Bhanja Rahul Bihany
Raj Kumar Sah Akanksha Aggarwal Rajat Agarwal
Rajat Singh Amrit Kumar Rosalina Das
Rishabh Ranjan Ankit Tripathi Riga Das
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Sagar Mishra Anubhuti Parija Shibashis Sahu

Saarthak Sankalp Anuvav Mishra Shikha Sharma
Samapika Draghima Ashish Dave Shounak Dasgupta
Satish Rath Ashtik Nayak Shruti Ray
Saurajit Sar Ashutosh Patnaik Sidharth Kumar Patra
Saurav Shekhar Ashwini Haawa Sobhan Pattanaik
Shagun Singh Chirag Chirantan Somak Ghosh
Shankalp Mohanty Debasis Pattnaik Somnath Chakraborty
Shashwat Tiwari Dhruv Satija Somya Nayak
Shubhank Parashar Divya Jena Soumya Ranjan Sahoo
Siddharth Dash Isha Upadhyay Sourav Pradhan
Somasree Choudhury Kanakesh Gupta Srijata Chakraborty
Soumya Ranjan Mohanty Kanumury Akshita Taruni Abhishek Kumar
Subrata Mahapatra Kishor Chandra Sahu Sudhir Potnuru
Abhijit Gosh Manoj Kumar K Sukriti Mohanty
Sudisna Lenka Marut Kumar Mishra Sumit Sahu
Sumit Kumar Sahu Neetesh Singh Tiwari Shubhanshu Sidhnath
Tanmay Mohanty Nibedan Kumar Bhawsinka V Abhinav
Umashankar Satapathy Payal Patra Vigya Gupta
Vikram Arora Pragyan Pattnaik Vikram Rengaswamy
Vishesh Agarwal Pranay Kohli Vikrant Verma
Vishwajeet Kumar Jha Arya Balabantray Sweety Das
Y Navin Kumar Prateek Sinha Nishant Mishra
Yashi Sehgal Pratikash Bagh
Abhisek Agrawal Priyank Kamal Shah
Adit Khiroria Puja Bedi
Aditya Jain Rachit Jain
Amit Kanodia Rahul Mandloi Other Batch- 2013-2015
Ananta Lal Rishi Raj Singh Maneesha Sahoo
Anchit Gupta Rituparna Mohanty Kshitiji Pathak
Anshuman Das Sandhyarani Sahoo Saurabh Thacker
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Xavier School of Human Resource Management
2014-2016 Mba-Hrm Graduating Batch
Graduating Students
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Xavier School of Human Resource Management
MBA HRM
Class of 2014 - 2016
Top Three Rank Holders & Awardees of Gold Medals
1st Rank Priyanka Gaur
Faculty Council Gold Medal for Academic Excellence 2nd Rank Allwin Amalraj A
3rd Rank Sneha Raj
NTPC Gold Medal for Lady Topper Priyanka Gaur
Graduating Students (MBA-HRM)

Aakriti Dhawan Rohan K Dharmahapatra Liza Banerjee
Abhimanyu Sureka S Sri Lalitha Manisha Monalisa
Abhipsa Dash Samayita Nandi Megha Chatterjee
Aishwarya Banerjee Sandeep Panigrahy Nandini Bhalla
Akash Kaushik Shibani Panigrahi Neha Agarwal
Allwin Amalraj A Silva Acharya Nishant Das
Amrita Mishra Sonalika Meher Parth Khanna
Arka Chatterjee Soumya Kanungo Prashant Choudhary
Christina Shalini Das Subhrajyoti Das Pratyusa Mohanty
Debangshu Bhattacherjee Sunil Kumar Sahoo Priyanka Gaur
Deepika Tanwar Sunku Kranthi Puravi Nanda
Gitanjali Singh Upasana Samaddar Rupkatha Sarkar
J. Arthy Yash Raj Sachin Kumar Sahoo
Jaishree Charan Aayush Gandhi Seekha Pattnaik
Krishna Panigrahi Abhishek Dasgupta Sharique Khan
Kunj Kauntia Akshaya Venkateswaran Shashank Shekhar Katyayan
Madhuri Kejriwal Anish Gupta Shivam Khazanchi
Marisha Chatterjee Ankita Rout Smruti Ranjan Sahoo
Nagesh Kanduru Apurvi Maheshwari Sneha Raj
Narayanan M Arundhati Choudhury Sonal Saini
Neha Singh Arushi Gupta Subhashree Dey
Nishita Acharya Avinash Mahapatra Sudha Pujari
Noha Sinha Ayan Bandyopadhyay Swagatika Sahoo
Parth Gupta Dipika Sahoo Swarna Singh
Pooja Daruka Ina Bhan Swarup Prakash Sahoo
Priyanka Banerjee Jai Shree Swati Sinha
Priyanka Jha Kasturi Swain Tirtharaj Dasgupta
Punyatoya Sahu Kavyashree M. Hegde Varnika Tewari
Purbasa Patnaik Khushboo Bothra Vishwajeet Choudhary
Ramya K Kuheli Nag Ankur Gupta
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Xavier School of Rural Management
2014-2016 Mba - rm Graduating Batch
Graduating Students
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Xavier School of Rural Management
MBA - RM
Class of 2014 - 2016
Top Three Rank Holders & Awardees of Gold Medals
Orissa Jesuit Society Medal for Academic Excellence 1st Rank Somnath Kejriwal
2nd Rank Shreya Goenka
3rd Rank Satyabrata Nayak
NTPC Gold Medal for Lady Topper Shreya Goenka

Fr. M.V.d. Bogaert Gold Medal for Topper in the D.E.S. Course Sweta Kejriwal
Graduating Students (MBA - RM)

Aaditez Bachu Saswat Prasad Das Pratheesh P
Abhay Kumar Tiwari Shraddha Suman Preeti Shankar
Akshay Kapoor Shreyas Trivedi Rakesh Jalan
Alok Sharma Shweta Tripathi Rohit Rathi
Amar Bikash Sahani Soham Ghosal Ruma Paul
Amrita Dhal Sophiya Dash Sailesh Pattnaik
Aneesh Kumar Agarwal Soumya Swarupa Nayak
Sarvottam Prasad
Ankit Srivastava Swarup Ranjan Ghadei
Satyabrata Nayak
Aparna Sridhar Sahinsaha Ali Khan
Avantika Kushwaha Vineet Kumar Mishra Shreya Goenka
B K Arpan Subhashis Abhilash Kumar Panda Sidhartha Sarbapriya
Barnali Dash Akshay Kumar Nayak Somnath Kejriwal
Bipin Kumar Amrita Das Subhashree Subhadarsani
Chinmaya Kumar Pattanayak Ankit Kumar Jain Suchindram
D Evalyn Anushree Gupta Sweta Kejriwal
James Biplab Salim Arnab Parida Unnati Solanki
Kalpit Kaya Mohanty Bhautik DMakadiya Vemula Raghuram
Krishna D Mahapatra Brijesh Arora Vinitesh Garima
Kushal G Harshvardhan Neha Vandana Minz
Manish Bameta Karishma Ramchandra Padhy Nayomi Ilin Bari
Neha Agarwal Komal Mundhra
Dangi Hembrom
Pallavi Gupta Matru Prasad Das
Noel Bothaju
Parinita Dey Meera T Muricken
Parul Jhunjhunwalla Monika Pattnaik Anurag Nayak
Preetam Babu Pankaj Kumar Senapati Siddharth Mohanty
Priyabrata Panda Parth Kapoor Debashree Debashrita
Raunak Roy Pooja Pattnaik Omprasad Nayak
Ruchira Choudhury Prachi Jhankruta Abhisekh Samantaray
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MBA (Executive)
Class of 2014 - 2015
Top Rank Holders & Awardees of Gold Medals

1st Rank Shachindra Saxena
2nd Rank Manoj Kumar Sahoo
Adyasha Sahoo Manoj Kumar Sahu Nisha Gangwani

Archit Das Rakesh Kumar Jana Pranav N Pandya
Ashis Kumar Panda Shachindra Saxena Sidheswar Mishra
Kumkum Mishra Sumeet Routray Rahul Dhamija
Dhrutiman Mishra Ketan Mahapatra Santosh Kumar Sahoo
Graduating Batch of Executive MBA (Full-Time) 2014-2015
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Global- Mba
Class of 2014 - 2016
Anurag Bose Sam C. Verghese Samvrant Dwivedy
Executive Postgraduate Diploma

in Management
Class of 2014 - 2015
Top Rank Holder & Awardee of Gold Medal
Faculty Council Gold Medal for Academic Excellence 1st Rank Pravek P
Aditya Kumar Nayak Siddharth Jain Rajib Kumar Dhal

Anup Singh Vinod Kumar Mishra Alexzandar Das
Janmejaya Nanda Pravek P Chandan Kumar Sadangi
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Postgraduate Diploma
in Management (Part-Time)
Class of 2013 - 2016
Top Rank Holder & Awardee of Gold Medal
Faculty Council Gold Medal for Academic Excellence 1st Rank Suvendu Sekhar
Abhijeet Singh Levina Pradhan Suvendu Sekhar Das

Amrita Mohanty Rajeev Ranjan Umesh Kumar Padhan
Ananta Narayan Behera Rupam Goswami Sanjeet Nayak
Arun Kumar Samal Shankar Bharadwaj Other Batches
Balaram Mishra Smrutirekha Padmini Mahapatra
Debasish Mohapatra Srikanta Kumar Patra Arabinda Pati
Deepak Ranjan Suman Kumari Khitish Kumar Sarangi
Graduating Students (PGDM - PT) 2013-2016
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Xavier School of Communications

PG Diploma in Film & TV Production
Class of 2015 - 2016
Anubha Sourya
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New Horizons:
University Highlights
Convocation 2015
The First Convocation of XUB, Twenty-Fourth Convocation of XIMB was held on Friday, March 27, 2015.
His Excellency Dr. S.C. Jamir, Governor of Odisha presided over the Convocation ceremony.
We take this opportunity to thank His Excellency Dr. S.C. Jamir, Governor of Odisha, Shri Rajive Kaul,
our Chairman and all the Governing Board Members for their gracious presence and a wonderful
Convocation.
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Inauguration of the St. Ignatius Chapel, Jesuit Residence and

other facilities of the Xavier University Bhubanesar
His Excellency, Archbishop Salvatore Pennacchio,

the Apostolic Nuncio to India & Nepal, blessed the
University Chapel, Jesuit residence & other facilities of
the University along with Archbishop Most Rev. John
Barwa, SVD, Most Rev. Albert D’ Souza, Most Rev. Simon
Kaipuram, CM, Most Rev. Niranjan Sualsingh and Rev. Fr.
George Fernandes, S.J. on Sunday May 31, 2015.
The Two New Schools of the University

The inauguration of Xavier School of Sustainability (XSoS)
Xavier School of Sustainability (XSOS) was inaugurated on
July 5, 2015. Unique in its mission, the School’s Masters
programme is among the top three in the world after
Columbia and Harvard.
A summit on “Sustainability Leadership” was organized

during July 5-6, 2015 to commemorate the launch of the MBA
program in Sustainability Management. Shri. Upendra Nath
Behera, IAS, Development Commissioner-cum-Additional
Chief Secretary and Secretary, Planning and Coordination
Department, Government of Odisha was the Chief Guest and
Mr. Anand Sen, President TQM and Steel Business, Tata Steel
was the Guest of Honour.
The inauguration of Xavier School of

Communications (XCOMM)
Xavier School of Communications (XCOMM) was inaugurated
on Thursday, July 2, 2015 by Mr. Amitabh Shukla (an XIMB
alumnus), a renowned Film Editor and Ms. Archita Sahu,
leading actor in the Odia Film industry. The School sports a
one-of-its kind studio and is equipped with state-of-the-art
infrastructure. The Vice- Chancellor and Registrar, along with
the invited dignitaries graced the occassion. Fr. Lourduraj
Ignacimuthu, S.J., Dean of the School welcomed the gathering
and thanked everyone for their valuable support.
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Centre of Excellence in Fiscal Policy

and Taxation (Ceft)
Finance Department, Govt. of Odisha has established a
Centre of Excellence in Fiscal Policy and Taxation (CEFT) in
collaboration with Xavier University Bhubaneswar (XUB). The
Centre of Excellence in Fiscal Policy and Taxation (CEFT) was
inaugurated by the Hon’ble Chief Minister of Odisha, Shri
Naveen Patnaik in the presence of Hon’ble Finance Minister,
Shri Pradip Kumar Amat and other dignitaries on September
7, 2015. Prof. Asit Ranjan Mohanty is appointed as the Chair
Professor of the Centre.
We thank Govt. of Odisha and the Additional Chief Secretary
to Government (Finance) for establishing this Centre of
Excellence in Fiscal Policy and Taxation (CEFT) at Xavier
University. This Centre will be governed by a Governing Body
chaired by the Additional Chief Secretary to Government
(Finance), which will guide and mentor its working policies
and provide the finance.
Foundation Day Lecture

The Institute’s Foundation Day Lecture, was made special
with Mr. D Shivakumar, Chairman & CEO, PepsiCo India
Holdings Pvt. Ltd. delivering the 13th XIMB Foundation Day
Lecture. Mr. Shivakumar described the millennial generation
as possessing ‘hurried career aspirations’, highly conscious
of work life balance and ones who aspire to maximize their
compensation. Mr. Shivakumar emphasized the students’
need to focus on specialization which will make them unique,
build a bouquet of capabilities for the future world which
are beyond a formal education and engage in continuous
learning, which he considers as critical in order to succeed.
State Level Convention of CHAI

Xavier University, Bhubaneswar, hosted the 30th State-Level
Convention and AGBM of Odisha Catholic Health Association
(OCHA) on 13th of August 2015. OCHA is the regional Unit of
Catholic Health Association of India (CHAI). The theme of the
convention was “Action 2020-Repositioning for the Future”.
The Chief Guest for the day was Dr. S.C. Jamir, Honorable
Governor of Odisha. The ceremony was also attended
by Archbishop John Barwa SVD; Bishop Simon Kaipuram,
Chairman, Health Commission; Dr. Chittaranjan Nayak,
Director of Health Services, Odisha; Rev Dr. Tomi Thomas, IMS,
Director-General, CHAI; Dr. Bikram Kumar Kindo, Additional
Director of Health Services, Odisha; Fr. Paul Fernades, SJ,
Vice-Chancellor, XUB; Sr. Alphonse SAB, Vice-President, CHAI;
and Sr. Gemma FC, President, OCHA, among others.
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UGC Expert Committee Visit

The UGC constituted Expert Committee along with the
AICTE nominees visited the Xavier University during
June 28-30, 2015 to assess fulfillment of criteria in
terms of programmes, faculty, infrastructure facilities,
financial viability, etc., for granting 12(B) status as per
UGC (Fitness of Certain Universities for Grants) Rules,
1974. The team consisted of Prof. Mohammad Miyan,
Former Vice-Chancellor, Moulana Azad National Urdu
University, Hyderabad, Prof. Anup Beniwal, Dean, School
of Humanities and Social Sciences, New Delhi, Prof.
Sitanath Mazumdar, Dept. of Business Administration,
University of Calcutta and Dr. G. Srinvas, Joint Secretary,
UGC –ERO, Kolkata. The AICTE nominees of the Expert
Committee were Dr. Amitabh Dey, Director, Rajiv Gandhi
Institute of Management, Shillong, Prof. H.P. Mathur,
Professor of Management Studies, FMS, BHU and
Architect Akshaya Muduli.
Visit of the Chairman Saqs

Committee and Executive Director,
Amdisa
Dr. A.H. Kalro, Chairman SAQS Committee and Dr. C
Ramakrishna, Executive Director, AMDISA visited the
University on September 16, 2015 in order to facilitate
the SAQS re-accreditation process for Xavier University
Bhubaneswar for Faculty of Management (XIMB, XSHRM
& XSRM) Schools.
AACSB:
It is our aspiration to acquire global accreditation for
our programmes. AACSB Accreditation process has
been initiated to enable continuous improvement
of the business programmes and the Schools of the
University. The first and second progress reports have
been submitted. A two-day workshop on Assurance of
Learning (AoL) was organised by the AACSB committee
members for the benefit of all faculty during April
6-7, 2015. All members of faculty would follow the
AoL process for their respective courses. Prof Snigdha
Pattnaik, Dean, Xavier School of HRM and Prof Kajri
Misra, Dean, Xavier School of RM attended an intensive
seminar on Assurance of Learning during February 8-9,
2016 at Bangalore.
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Global Compact Network India (Gcni)

Life Membership
Global Compact Network India (GCNI) is a forum of
India signatories to United Nations Global Compact
(UNGC) for sustainable business models and markets.
Executive director UNGC India Chapter Mr. Pooran
Pandey participated in the Summit on Sustainability
leadership and is a member of the Strategic Academic
Advisory Board of the School of Sustainability. The
University’s pioneering work in the field of sustainability
education and action, has earned the Xavier School
of Sustainability an invite to become an Institutional
member of the Global Compact Network India of UNGC.
This esteemed membership will put XUB on the global
map of sustainability led by United Nations.
Strategic Planning for the Schools

A workshop to review and plan the road ahead for the
Schools of the University, was held during September
11-12, 2015. This exercise was facilitated by Dr. T.V.
Rao, Chairman, T.V. Rao Learning Systems and Dr. Gopal
Mohapatra, VP, Group Learning and Organization
Development, RPG Enterprises. The Schools of HRM, RM,
Sustainability, Commerce and Communications along
with the respective faculty created their perspective
plans via brainstorming sessions and presentations and
reviewed their objectives and 3-year roadmap for the
Schools.
Connecting Academics & Research

At XUB, Conferences, Seminars and Roundtables are a critical part of our quality higher education
mission. It is our aspiration to become a leading research University, providing forum for sharing ongoing
research, support socialization between students, academia and industry, talk out ideas and improve the
overall quality of learning. Students get an opportunity to see and hear inspirational thought leaders,
discuss research-based approaches to management and business / industry concerns in the emergent
economy, and learn from young research scholars and academicians. Conferences allow the students to
shoulder responsibility of being a part of working groups and to meet and exchange ideas with other
young leaders from other schools and countries.
Sustainability Leadership Summit

In order to put sustainability at the center of the development agenda and nation building, a first of its
kind Summit on Sustainability Leadership was organized during July 5-6, 2015 by the Xavier School of
Sustainability. The aim of the Conference was to mainstream sustainability in management education
and explore and celebrate sustainability leadership initiatives in various organizations. It also marked
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the foundation day of the School of Sustainability. With

this Annual Conference, the School of Sustainability
has created for itself the ideal platform for institutional
network among all the actors engaged in sustainability,
and has embarked on the journey of creating a better
world. The summit witnessed participation of delegates
and thought leaders from all over the world. Discussion
topics covered were Corporate Social Responsibility
(CSR) policies, Opportunities in sustainability, addressing
risks and challenges and Measuring the impact of
Sustainability.
National Conference on Fiscal

Policy and Taxation
Shri Naveen Patnaik, the Hon’ble Chief Minister of
Odisha inaugurated the Centre of Excellence in Fiscal
Policy & Taxation (CEFT), a collaboration between
the Government of Odisha and Xavier University
Bhubaneswar on September 7, 2015. This was followed
by the National Conference on Fiscal Policy and
Taxation. The Centre will be engaged in research and
provide inputs with a strong academic base and core
competence in federal finance and taxation to the
Government. It will contribute to create state-of-the-
art fiscal governance system that optimizes mobilization
as well as use of resources for rational, equitable and
sustainable use.
Great Conversations - Future of

Indian Cities
A discussion on the Future of Indian Cities was hosted
by British Council on August 26, 2015 at XIMB. It was an
open discussion by expert speakers, Ms. Karuna Gopal,
an internationally acclaimed thought leader, columnist,
keynote speaker and advisor on SMART CITIES, Ms.
Bee Rowlatt, a writer, journalist and the author of the
best-seller “Talking about Jane Austen in Baghdad” and
moderated by Mr. Scott Furssedonn-Wood, a career
diplomat and the British Deputy High Commissioner for
Eastern India since October 2013. The opening address
was provided by the Vice-Chancellor of Xavier University
and Director XIMB, Fr. Paul Fernandes, SJ, emphasizing
the current need for a society having great leaders,
peace, sustainability, resilience and justice.
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Mass Mediated Culture and Trend Today:

Challenges and Opportunities:
The first international conference of Xavier School of
Communications was held on November 7, 2015, on
the theme ‘Mass Mediated Culture and Trend Today:
Challenges and Opportunities’. Mr. Krishna Prasad,
Editor-in-Chief of Outlook, was the Chief Guest. A
number of media educators, professionals, scholars,
researchers and students from various media institutions
participated in the event. Research papers in the area
of Newspaper, Film, Television and new media were
presented by delegates from different parts of India and
abroad. The conference also had two sessions of panel
discussion. Mr. Krishna Prasad (Editor-in-Chief Outlook),
Ms. Liza Roy, (Zee TV Mumbai) and Mr. Sandeep Sahu
(BBC Odisha) constituted the panel at the opening session with Mr. Pradhyuman Maheswary (MxM
Mumbai) as the moderator. The Film directors Mr. Nila Madhab Panda, Mr. Basant Sahu and renowned
Odia film actor Mr. Anubhav Mohanty participated in the panel discussion on the topic “Odia Film
Industry today”.
Make-In-India Initiatives and Changing

Paradigms of Industrial Relations:
The National Conference was hosted by Xavier School of HRM during December 4-5, 2015. Hon’ble
Justice Shri Gopal Ballav Patnaik, former Chief Justice of India, delivered the Inaugural keynote address.
There was a special address by Dr. Jerome Joseph, retired professor, IIMA on the topic “Unmasking HR
through the IR lens.” A number of eminent speakers, Mr. H. Mahadevan, President, All India Trade Union
Congress (AITUC), Prof. (Dr.) E.M. Rao, Dr. E.A. Ramaswamy, former Professor, Institute of Social Studies,
the Hague and former Professor IIM, Bangalore, Dr. Tapas Kumar Panda, Regional Labour Commissioner
(Central), Dr. Pravin Sinha, Secretary General, IIRA and Senior Advisor, FES India to name a few were
special invitees to the Conference. Emerging research and interesting panel discussions with respect
to changes to the Labor Laws and its impact were defended by scholars and professors from XLRI, TISS,
Lal Bahadur Shastri Institute of Management-Delhi, IIM-Indore, XISS-Ranchi, IMT-Ghaziabad, Sri Sri
Ravi Sankar University and KIIT-Bhubaneswar. The IR
Conference was organized to revive the IR field in India.
The Valedictory address was delivered by Dr. G.B.S.
Prasad, Director-Personnel, Rashtriya Ispat Nigam Ltd.
Prof. (Dr.) E.M. Rao, was felicitated and honored during

the conference for his immense contribution to the
field of IR and Labour Laws. Dr. Rao is the former Dean
of XLRI, Jamshedpur and former professor, XIMB. He
has authored several books on labour laws including
“Industrial Jurisprudence: A Critical Commentary”
(2008), which is the first work of its kind in the world,
apart from editing the famous treatise of OP Malhotra,
“The Law of Industrial Disputes” (2004).
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14th International Conference on Information Technology:

XUB hosted the 14th International Conference on
Information Technology during December 21-23, 2015.
ICIT is a premier international forum for sharing high
quality research in the areas of Information Technology.
The conference was organized by XUB in collaboration
with Orissa Information Technology Society and IEEE.
The three-day event comprised of several keynote
addresses, invited talks and paper presentations.
Out of the presented research papers, three were
conferred with awards under different categories. The
top 62 papers were accepted for publication in event
magazine - IEEE XPlore. For XIMB-XUB, the conference
signifies a milestone in keeping pace with the latest
research trends in various fields of IT.
National Conference on Jesuit Higher Education “Strategic

Leadership in Higher Education: Options for the Future:
The University hosted the National Conference on

Jesuit Higher Education during October 22-25, 2015.
Fr. George Pattery, S.J., Provincial of South Asia, Dr.
B. Muthuraman, Ex-Vice-Chairman, Tata Steel Ltd.,
Prof. T.V. Rao, Chairman, TVRLS, Ahmedabad and Mr.
Simanta Mohanty, Executive Chief Consultant, Rashtriya
Uchchatar Siksha Abhiyan (RUSA), Ministry of HRD, New
Delhi, took sessions and shared their views with the
participants.
National Round Table Discussion of Farmer Producer

Organization (Fpo) & Sustainable Agricultural System (Sas)
National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development
(NABARD) has granted approval for setting up of a
NABARD Chair Unit at Xavier University Bhubaneswar
(XUB) and we have executed an MoA to this effect. Prof.
Amar KJR Nayak has been selected as NABARD Chair
Professor. National Round Table Discussion of Farmer
Producer Organization (FPO) & Sustainable Agricultural
System (SAS) was held during January 18-19, 2016. Two
research studies are underway. The Chair has provided
advisory role on Producer organisations to NABARD,
Govt. of India as well as Govt. of Odisha.
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Inclusive India Forum 2016

In a first of its kind, the event was organized jointly by the
HBS Club of India and Xavier University Bhubaneswar on
January 22, 2016. Dr. Ganesh Natarajan, Vice-Chairman
& CEO - Zensar Technologies; Chairman NASSCOM
Foundation and President HBS Club of India, provided
the opening address and Shri Pradip Kumar Amat,
Hon’ble Minister of Finance, Govt. of Odisha was the
Chief guest. The objective of the Forum was to identify
meaningful ways for corporate India to partner with
NGOs in their specific areas of focus. Informative panel
discussion were facilitated around the key themes
of education, employability and healthcare, inviting
participation from academia and the corporates from
all over the country.
Commerce in the 21st Century :

Innovations, Trends and Practices
Xavier School of Commerce organised its 1st National Conference on February 20, 2016. Prof. Dr.
Fr. Paul Fernandes, S.J., Vice-Chancellor of the university while inaugurating the conference said the
commerce graduates have a lot of responsibilities towards mother earth and stressed the need for
green accounting. Sri Niten Chandra, IAS, Principal Secretary to Govt. of Odisha, Dept. of Social Security
and Empowerment of Persons with Disabilities was the Chief Guest. In his speech, Sri Chandra said that
commerce held the key to every success in 21st century. CMA Bhabatosh Banerjee, Retd. Professor
of Calcutta University and Prof. Banikanta Mishra, Professor of Finance were Guests of Honour in the
inaugural session. A plenary session was held on the theme, “Role of Commerce Education in Nation
Building”. CMA Bhabatosh Banerjee, Retd. Professor of Calcutta University, Prof. Hanif of St. Xavier
College, Kolkata, Prof. Achalapathy of Osmania University, Hyderabad, CA Rajib Sahoo, Sr. Practicing
Chartered Accountant, spoke on the occasion. Prof. Ranjan K. Bal, Professor, PG Dept. of Commerce,
Utkal University, moderated the session.
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Our Distinguished Visitors

D. Shivakumar Dr. Sankar Datta Dr. Tapan Panda
Chairman & CEO Advisor Regional Labour Commissioner (Central),
PepsiCo India Holdings Pvt. Ltd. BASIX Dept of Labour, GoI
Ganesh Natarajan Debaraj Behera Richard Lobo

Vice-Chairman & CEO- Zensar Consultant Sr. VP HR
Technologies The World Bank Infosys
President HBS Club of India
Chairman NASSCOM Foundation M. S. Sriram B. Radhika, IPS
Professor Addl. D.G. of Police
Sharon Buteau IIM Bangalore State Crime Reports Bureau cum
Executive Director Communication
IFMR-LEAD MS Magesh
VP-HR Dr. Sruti Mahapatra
Sambit Kumar Mohanty Accenture Social Activist & Chief Executive
Business Manager Indonesia Swabhiman
Metahelix Life Sciences Ltd Prof. TV Rao
Chairman S. Dwivedy
Bishnu Prasad Mishra TV Rao Learning Systems Director
AGM Coromandel International Ltd. SAP Lab
Dr. Gopal Mahapatra
Hardeep Singh Chopra VP Group Learning and Organization Venkata Narasimham Peri
Project Head - Livelihoods, Rajivika Development Partner Advisory
RPG Enterprises PriceWaterHouse Cooper
Ashok Singha
MD Rhiju Bhowmik
CTRAN Consulting General Manager
(Diversity, Inclusion and
Sushant Tripathy Change)
Executive Vice President United Spirits Ltd
Yes Bank
Chandrima Sinha
Programme director IDFC Foundation
Niranjan Bariyar
Odisha State Nutition Co-ordinator
(UNICEF), UNICEF
Prabhakar Lingareddy
VP-HR (ABD), ITC
Aditya Singh
Regional Head - Titan, Titan
Girish Aivalli
MD & CEO
Rural Agri Venture
Digbijoy Chakraborty
Director
Frost and Sullivan
Charudutta Panigrahi
Chairman
FIDR
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Vinodh Chellambathodi Manoranjan Misra Nicole Lunstead

CHRO Executive Engineer Trade Commissioner
Polaris Software Lab. Contract Management Cell High Commission of Canada
Odisha State Roads Project
Rakesh Barik Shriya Ramachandran
Director Debasish Mahapatro
Deloitte Consulting India Pvt. Ltd. Chief Executive Officer Trade Commissioner
Verve Consulting Pvt Ltd,Bhubaneswar High Commission of Canada
Varun Mudukur
Senior Launcher Satyanarayan Mohapatra Niten Chandra, IAS
UBER Business Head Principal Secretary to Govt., Dept. of
Saksham Training and Facility Social Security and Empowerment of
Mayank Madhur Management Pvt. Ltd. Persons with Disabilities
Vice President
Goldman Sachs Parameswaran Iyer CMA Bhabatosh Banarjee
Managing Consultant
Ritesh Yadav Retd. Professor of Calcutta University
ESPL
Sr. Manger
Tl & JV, BHEL Rajeshwar Sahoo Ranjan Kumar Bal
Infrastructure Lead Professor
Shantonu Das Mahapatra TCS Product Division PG Dept. of Commerce, Utkal University
Vice President-HR
NITCO Dr Kunal Ghosh Achlapathy
Professor Professor
Anirban Ghosh IIT Kharagpur
Vice President-Sustainability Osmania University, Hyderabad
Mahindra & Mahindra N.P. Gantayat Hanif
Delivery Head
Sunil Prabhune Infosys Technologies Ltd
Professor
Business Head HR St. Xavier College Kolkata
L & T Finance Amitabh Mohanty
VP Strategy & Operations CA Rajib Sahoo
Sambitosh Mohapatra Whirlpool,China Sr. Practicing Chartered Accountant
Partner
PriceWaterHouseCooper M V Ashok
Derek O’Brian
Member of Parliament CGM
M. A. Binu
Head, Leadership Development Dept. of Economic Analysis Research
BOSCH Sonia Roca NABARD, Mumbai
Chancellor
Vishal Gupta South Asia, Universidad del Pacifico P K Merkap
Dy.Manager - HR Talent Acquisition Quito, Ecuador IFS, Chairman
Samsung Electronics
Rajasthan State Bio-Diversity Board
Chris Garg
Shrikant Dash University of Queensland, Australia Rajasthan
Chief Credit Officer
Discover Financial Services Vigya Sharma Ajay Vince
University of Queensland, Australia Professor of Business & Associate
Suhel Bidani Dean International Programs, W. P
Partner Satish Pradhan Carey School of Business, Arizona State
PriceWaterHouseCooper Ex-Member University, Scott Furssedonn-Wood
Board of Directors of Tata Sons
Srikanth Sundarrajan British Deputy High Commissioner
Director Velushankar
Helionvc Bangalore Karuna Gopal
Independent Media Consultant
President
Sunil Agrawala Foundation for Futuristic Cities Bee
Founder Joseph Tom
Head, Strategy, ISDC Rowlatt British Author and Broadcaster
PMP, Bhubaneswar
Divya K.Gupta Lucia Martin Dr. Guru Gujral

Head Operations International Director (Head Society (India)
Jabong.com ACCA, International Skill Development British Council
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A Warm Welcome
to Our New Faculty & 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 Non-Teaching Staff Joined

During 2015-16 During 2015-16
Prof. Bikram Kumar Bahinipati Ameet Kumar Paricha
Prof. Papiya Bhattacharjee Avipsa Mohanty
Bibhuti Ranjan Mishra
Prof. Plavini Punyatoya
Bijayalaxmi Singh
Prof. Satyendra Nath Mishra Binaya Ranjan Das
Prof. Arup Roy Debi Prasad Bal
Prof. Elizabeth Abba Hrushikesh Behera
Prof. Sutapa Pati Priyanka Mohanty
Purnendu Pujapanda
Prof. Tamoghna Acharyya
Puspamita Praharaj
Prof. Ranjan Dasgupta Pusparaj Singh
Prof. Santanu Kumar Ganguli Ratiram Khakha
Prof. Sibanjan Mishra Rubina Dash
Fr. Lourduraj Ignacimuthu S.J. Sadhona Bishoi
Satyendra Kumar
Prof. Amrit Amlan Pattnaik
Sunil Ekka
Prof. Jolly Jose Suresh Kumar Patra
Prof. Sadhna Dash V. Nagamani
Congratulations to Our Long-Service Awardees

Ms. Anila Masih 25 years of service
Mr. Bipin Bihari Rout 25 years of service
Mr. Sushanta Mohanty 25 years of service
Dr. Dipak Misra 15 years of service
Mr. Kishore Chandra Pradhan 15 years of service
Mr. Pradeep Kumar Mohanty 15 years of service
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Xavier University (XUB)
Xavier University
XUB
Xavier Institute
of Management
(XIMB)
Xavier School of
Faculty of
Human Resource
Management Management
Xavier School of
Rural Management
Xavier School
of Commerce
Xavier School
of Sustainability
Xavier School
of Communications
Xavier Institute of
Management Bhubanewar (Ximb)
Mission
Management Education in the
spirit of Magis
Student Profile
Number of students
enrolled in 2015-17 Batch: Graduating Students:
Programme Male Female Total Programme Male Female Total
MBA (BM) 254 108 362 MBA (BM) 2014-16 240 115 355
Integrated Ph.D-2015 1 1 2 Global MBA 2014 3 0 3
Global MBA 9 0 9 PGDM (PT) 2013-16 13 4 17
3CMGM 10 11 21 MBA (Executive) 2014-15 12 3 15
Executive MBA (Full-time) 21 9 30 PGDM (Executive) 2014-15 9 0 9
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Dean’s Report
Dr. B. S. Misra
Achievements
1. XIMB has been awarded with International Quality Crown Award (IQC) in the Platinum category
in the year 2015 for commitment to Quality and Excellence by Business Initiative Directions (BID),
London.
2. XUB, XIMB has again been awarded by Eduniversal the title of “Excellent Business School with
reinforcing international influence” the “3 Palmes of Excellence” category in 2015.
3. XUB, XIMB has been awarded with “Peak of Success” by World Confederation of Business, Las Vegas,
USA.
4. XIMB received Great Place to Study certification from Skiltree Knowledge Consortium.
Ranking / Grading
1. Xavier University Bhubaneswar has been awarded as Asia’s Best Education Institute – 2014-15 by
WCRC (World Consulting & Research Corporation).
2. XIMB has been ranked in Super League 2 in the Indian Management Best Business School Survey
2015.
3. XIMB has been ranked 5th amongst top 10 Private B-Schools of Super Excellence in CSR – GHRDC
B - School Survey 2015
4. XIMB has been conferred with Certificate of Excellence as A+++ Category B-School of India, Year
2015 by Chronicle Best B-School Survey 2015.
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5. Xavier Institute of Management, Bhubaneswar captures the 7th position of Top MBA colleges in
India 2016 by Careers360 Survey.
6. XIMB has been ranked 11th among India’s Top 100 B-Schools for the year 2015 in the Outlook
Management B-School Survey 2015.
7. XIMB has been awarded with 3 Palmes by Eduniversal International Scientific Committee.
8. XIMB has been ranked 14th in India Best B- Schools survey 2015 by Business Today - MDRA.
9. XIMB was ranked 17th in the 3rd edition of the NHRDN-People Matters B-school Ranking 2015.
Xavier University Research Publications

w Research World
w Vilakshan
w International Journal of Development and Social Research-IJDSR
w Journal of Case Research (Online International Journal)
Academic Programs Highlights:

New Initiatives undertaken
An exercise was undertaken to review the Mission and Vision of XIMB and
the Mission and Vision statement was redrafted. This crtical exercise was
undertaken after a gap of more than 6 years to provide for the changed
context and emerging developments in area of higher education.
XIMB received Great Place to Study certification from Skiltree Knowledge
Consortium in a presentation ceremony held in London Parliament on
November 19 2015.
SAAB Committee Activity Report

The first meeting of the Strategic Academic Advisory Board (SAAB) of XIMB was held on April 25, 2015,
and a follow up meeting on May 8, 2015 to decide on suggestions around strengthening the Summer
Internship programme and development of courses with industry-academia collaboration.
The composition of the SAAB was broadened by including more external members, senior executives
from Industry with a passion for academics. Mr. Ayeshkant Sarangi, VP, HR of WIPRO, Mr. Amit Singh,
CEO of Avendus, Mr. Nandu Giriyapur, Director of Deloitte, Mr. Biju Domnic, CEO of Final Mile and Mr.
Mukund Trivedy of SRF are the new members of the SAAB.
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International Conference on Information Technology:

The International Conference on Information Technology (ICIT)-2015 was conducted during December
21-23, 2015. ICIT 2015 attracted high quality papers from China, Egypt, India, New Zealand, and Saudi
Arabia. Among the 132 research papers received, 61 were selected after a thorough and careful review
of each paper by atleast three independent researchers in the respective areas.
National Inclusive India Conference:

Inclusive India Forum 2016 was organized jointly by the Harvard Business School (HBS) Club of India
and XIMB, on 22nd January 2016. Participants in the forum included alumni of Harvard Business School
in India many of whom are CEOs / senior leadership members in their organizations, domain experts,
including leaders from several leading and reputed NGOs in India, CSR representatives from the corporate
world and eminent academicians.
International Activities:
XIMB participated in the Higher Education Leadership
Programme organized by Skill Tree Knowledge
Consortium in collaboration with University of Oxford
which was hosted by the Department of Continuing
Education, University of Oxford, United Kingdom during
August 24-27, 2015. The programme provided rich
inputs for shaping an appropriate internationalization
strategy for Xavier University.
MS (Finance) / MBA (Finance) + MS (Global Finance) - is a new dual-track Finance

program. The first year is at XIMB, XUB and the 2nd year provides an opportunity to study at Fordham
University, New York, USA.
Industry Talks provide for inviting emminent industry experts to interact and engage with students.
Mr. S. Dwivedy, Director, SAP Lab - Experience Sharing
Mr. Venkata Narasimham Peri, Partner Advisory, Price Water House Cooper - Emerging Trends in Risk
Management - How the CEOs can Identify Blind Spots
Mr. Pushkar / Ms. Mira Gulati, ABG LRP, A B Birla Group - Power Dressing
Mr. Vinodh Chellambathodi, CHRO, Polaris Software Lab. - Leadership Talk & beyond
Mr. Rakesh Barik, Director, Deloitte Consulting India Pvt. Ltd., - Experienced sharing and consulting
industry
Mr. Varun Mudukur, Senior Launcher, UBER - Experience Sharing
Mr. Mayank Madhur, Vice President, Goldman Sachs - Latest trends in Corporate and Industry
Expectations
Mr. Ritesh Yadav, Sr. Manger Tl & JV, BHEL - Mergers & Acquisition
Mr. Shantonu Das Mahapatra, Vice President - HR, NITCO - The Concept of Balanced Scorecard
Mr. Anirban Ghosh, Vice President - Sustainability, Mahindra & Mahindra - Mahindra War Room Event
Related
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Mr. Sunil Prabhune, Business Head HR, L&T Finance -

Leadership Development
Mr. M.S. Magesh, Associate Director, Accenture - HR
Practices in the Industry
Mr. Sambitosh Mohapatra, Partner, Price Water House
Cooper - Experience sharing : Consulting industry
Mr. M. A. Binu, Head, Leadership Development, BOSCH
- Industry Ready
Mr. Vishal Gupta, Dy. Manager - HR Talent Acquisition,
Samsung Electronics - HR Practices in the Industry
Dr. Shrikant Dash, Chief Credit Officer, Discover Financial
Services, Risk management in financial institutions - US
lessons from the Great Recession
Mr. Suhel Bidani - Partner, Price Water House Cooper -
Experience sharing
Guest Lectures provide for formal / informal interactions with the students, helping
students clarify their understanding of workplace challenges and concerns:
Dr. Merlin Nandy, Pre-sales Consultant, IBM

Mr. Satyanarayan Mohapatra, Business Head, Saksham Training and Facility Management
Pvt. Ltd.
Mr. Srikanth Sundarrajan, Director, Helionvic
Mr. Sunil Agrawala, Founder, PMP
Mr. Divya K. Gupta, Head Operations, Jabong.com
Mr. Manoranjan Misra, Executive Engineer, Contract Management Cell, Odisha State Roads
Project
Mr. Debasish Mahapatro, Chief Executive Officer, Verve Consulting Pvt. Ltd.
Mr. Prashanta Kumar Guru, Project Manager, Midal Cables Pvt. Ltd.
Mr. Parameswaran Iyer, Managing Consultant, ESPL
Mr. Rajeshwar Sahoo, Infrastructure Lead, TCS
Dr Kunal Ghosh, Professor, IIT Kharagpur
Mr. Manoj Panda, Delivery Manager, Infosys Technologies Ltd.
Mr. Debasisha Mohanty, Group Project Manager, Infosys Technologies Ltd.
Mr. N. P. Gantayat, Delivery Head, Infosys Technologies Ltd.
Mr. Amitabh Mohanty, Vice President, Strategy & Operations, Whirlpool, China
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Immersion Courses aim at bringing to campus the emerging and latest trends from the workplace,
ensuring student industry-readiness. The invited speakers covered topics as detailed below
Name Designation Topic Organization
Mr. Manaw Modi CEO & Founder Business Analytics Karma Strategies
Mr. Biju Joseph Dominic CEO Behaviour Architecture Final Mile Consulting
Risk Management in Investment
Director
Mr. Subrat Das Decisions-Qualitative & First Solar
(Finance)
Quantitative Approach
Business Simulation through
Prof. D. S. Broca Professor XLRI
Arena Simulation Software
Bright Brain
Mr. Sandeep Israni Business Head Digital Marketing
Technologies, Pune
Evolution of Money, Barter Verve Consulting,
Mr. Debasish Mahapatro CEO
systems and E-commerce Bhubaneswar
Associate Business Transformation in the
Mr. Ranjit Agarwal Cognizant, Kolkata
Director Information Age
Head Ops
Products -
Mr. Divya Kumar Gupta Supply Chain E-Commerce Jabong.Com
Operations and
Marketplace
Other Seminars
Mr. Venkata Narasimham Peri, Partner, Advisory,: PwC,
Washington DC : ‘Emerging Trends in Risk Management-
How the CEOS can Identify Blind Spots’
Mr. Rahul Sachdev, Head SAP University Alliances, India
Subcontinent : Latest SAP technologies
Dr. Shrikant Dash, Chief Credit Officer-Discover Financial
Services: Risk management in financial institutions. US
lessons from the Great Recession
Shri Sanjay Sahay, Add. DGP IT Project Management -
Police Computer Wing, Bangalore
Mr. Mrinal Chatterjee, Head, IIMC - Industry Talk
Xuberance 2016 MBA-BM

w Xuberance’16 saw the batch of 341 candidates of MBA (BM) programme participating in the
placement process
w 89 companies participated in Xuberance’16 of which 59 were new recruiters
w The highest domestic salary stood at Rs. 20 Lakhs per annum
w The average annual compensation stood at Rs. 12.44 Lakhs per annum
w The Median annual compensation stood at Rs. 12 Lakhs per annum
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Companies which visited the campus in various sectors are as

follows:
w Banking, Financial services and Insurance (BFSI): Prominent Recruiters: Arcesium India, CRISIL,
SBI Group, HDFC Bank, IIFL, RBS, ICRA and Tata Capital.
w Consulting: Prominent Recruiters: PwC, Deloitte, KPMG, Cognizant Business Consulting, TCS, IBM,
ICRA Management Consulting Services.
w Sales & Marketing: Prominent Recruiters: Amazone, Maruti Suzuki, Vodafone, Godrej & Boyce,
Idea, GroupM, Spencer’s, Bluestar, SAB Miller, Bajaj Auto, Tata Steel and Vedanta.
w Systems: Prominent Recruiters: HP, Accenture, Infosys, MindTree, Wipro, HCL and Capegemini.
w Operations: Prominent Recruiters: Godrej, L&T, Tata Steel, Dr. Agarwal Healthcare and TASL.
Summary
Number of students placed 341
Total number of companies 89
Average Salary Rs. 12.44 Lakhs per annum
Highest Domestic Salary Rs. 20.00 Lakhs per annum
Summer Internships: MBA (BM) 2015-17

The Batch of 2015-17, MBA (BM) had excellent summer placements this year for a batch size of 362
students, with around 88 companies participating in the summer placement process so far.Companies
across different sectors like BFSI, Consulting, Sales & Marketing, Systems and Operations visited
the campus for the summer internship process. Some major recruiters were Amazon, Loreal, PwC,
Deloitte, Godrej, Mahindra, HCCBPL, HSBC and Spencer’s. The highest stipend offered was Rs.80000
per month, by Loreal.
Vision
lives, and be the light for the world.
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Xavier School of
Human Resource Management (Xshrm)
Mission
Management Education in the
spirit of Magis
Student Profile
Number of students
enrolled in 2015-17 Batch: Number of Graduating Students:
MBA (HRM) 55 67 122 MBA (HRM) 2014-16 29 61 90
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Dr. Snigdha Pattnaik

w The SAAB had its second meeting on 8th August, 2015 at XIMB. We welcomed Mr. MS Magesh,
VP-HR, Accenture as a member of the SAAB. The external and internal members of SAAB, the Asst.
Registrar (Academics), and Deans of the other Schools, participated in the meeting. The meeting
focused on creating a perspective plan for the School, and deliberating on new directions that the
HR School can take.
w Two new members have joined the SAAB during the year:
v Mr. SV Nathan, Sr. Director and Chief Talent Officer, Deloitte India and
v Mr. Richard Lobo, Sr. VP - HR, Infosys India Ltd.
Annual HR Conference:
The National Conference on Industrial Relations “Make
in India Initiatives and Changing Paradigms of Industrial
Relations” was organized on during December 4-5, 2015
by Xavier School of Human Resource Management in
collaboration with Indian Industrial Relations Association
(IIRA) and Friedrich Ebert Stiftung. The Conference was
based on the backdrop of Prime Minister Narendra
Modi’s invitation to the rest of the world to Make in
India and the subsequent need for reforms in labour
market governance to spur economic growth. Insightful
research was presented by various scholars from across
the HR academic fraternity and the IR/HR industry.
Emminent thought leaders on the subject facilitated
panel discussions to name a few, Dr. E.M. Rao, Dr. P.K.
Padhi, Mr. H. Mahadevan, President, AITUC and Dr. E.A.
Ramaswamy.
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HR Roundtable was organised in collaboration with the

National HRD Network on September 26th at Hotel
Leela Palace, Gurgaon. The theme of the HR Roundtable
was ‘Creating High Performance Organizations: New
Trends’. Around 70 participants from the industry
and academic world, including students and faculty,
registered for the event. The keynote address was
delivered by Dr. YV Verma, Board Member, Dena Bank.
Two panel discussions, one on the theme: HR Challenges
in Emerging Business Leadershipand another on the
theme: Innovative Practices in HR were hosted. The
objective of holding the event in NCR was to give the HR
School visibility and to connect with HR practitioners in
that region.
KSHITIJ-HR Conclave: The HR Conclave, Kshitij ’15

was organised on the theme ‘Emerging Trends in
Recruitment’ by XIMAHR, the HR student association,
on September 6th, 2015. The event was moderated by
Prof. D.P. Kar, Faculty, XSHRM, XUB. The speakers were
Mr. Priya Ranjan Prasad, CEO and Sr. VP, Essar Steel;
Ms. Jayati Dwivedy, Head Recruitment, British Telecom;
Mr. Pradeep Deshpande, GM-Talent Acquisition,
Schneider Electric; Mr. Simanta Mohanty, Chief
Executive Consultant, RUSA. The discussions focused
on recruitment related issues and potential challenge
areas. Kshitij is an annual HR student initiative which
is organised and managed by the student association
XIMAHR.
Book Release: The 7th edition of the Book titled “The

Law of Industrial Disputes”, edited by Prof. E.M. Rao
was officially released by Fr. Paul Fernandes, SJ, Vice-
Chancellor of Xavier University, on Wednesday, 30th
September, 2015, in the Xavier City campus in the
presence of Prof. E.M. Rao. The book critically examines
a number of judicial pronouncements from the
standpoint of industrial jurisprudence. It provides an in
depth analysis of recent legislative changes and a logical
& scientific evaluation of judicial precedents.
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Industry Talks and Guest Lectures provide for inviting emminent industry experts to engage with
students, both through formal / informal interactions, helping students clarify their understanding of
workplace challenges and concerns
Mr. MS Magesh, VP - HR, Accenture - HR in Practice

Prof. TV Rao, Chairman, TV Rao Learning Systems, Future of HR
Dr. Gopal Mahapatra, Vice President -Group Learning & Organisation Development RPG Enterprises -
Future of HR
Mr. Rhiju Bhowmik, General Manager (Diversity, Inclusion and Change), United Spirits Ltd. - Gender
Diversity and Inclusion - Driving Change
Dr. Tapan Panda, Regional Labour Commissioner (Central), Dept. of Labour, GoI-Labour Laws in Practice
Mr. Richard Lobo, Sr. VP HR, Infosys - HR in Practice
Ms. B. Radhika, IPS, Addl. D.G. of Police State Crime Reports Bureau cum Communication - A woman in
the IPS
Dr. Sruti Mahapatra, Social Activist & Chief Executive, Swabhiman - Persons with Disabilities
Immersion Course aim at bringing to campus the emerging and latest trends from the workplace,
ensuring student industry - readiness. The invited speakers covered topics as detailed below
Name Designation Organization Topic

Mr. Biju Dominic CEO Final Mile Consulting Behaviour Architecture
Prof. D. V. Ramana Professor XIMB Accounting for HR Managers
Mr. R. Change Works Consulting
Consultant Appreciative Inquiry
Sankarasubramanyan Services Pvt. Ltd., Mumbai
Garware-Wall Ropes Ltd., Performance Management
Mr. Ravendra Mishra President-HR
Pune Systems & Balanced Scorecard
Xuberance 2016 MBA-HRM

w Xuberance’16 saw the batch of 89 candidates of MBA (HRM) programme participating in the
placement process.
w 44 companies participated in Xuberance ’16 of which 25 were new recruiters
w The highest domestic salary stood at Rs. 19 Lakhs per annum
w The Median annual compensation stood at Rs. 10.80 Lakhs per annum
Companies which visited the campus in various sectors

are as follows:
w Banking, Financial services and Insurance (BFSI): Prominent Recruiters: ICICI, HDFC Life, L&T
Finance Holdings, SBI Group and Mahindra Finance.
w Consulting: Prominent Recruiters: Deloitte, Cognizant Business Consulting.
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w Conglomerates & Infrastructure: Prominent Recruiters: ABGHRLP and L&T.

w IT/ITES:Prominent Recruiters: HCL, Infosys, Wipro, DE Shaw and MindTree.
w Manufacturing: Prominent Recruiters: Bajaj Auto, HCCBPL, Tata Steel, Vedanta and
Garware Wall Ropes.
Summary
Average Salary Rs. 11.50 Lakhs per annum
Summer Internships: MBA (HRM) 2015-17

The Batch of 2015-17, MBA (HRM) had excellent summer placements this year for a batch size of 123
students, with around 45 companies participating in the summer placement process.
Some major recruiters were Deloitte, Godrej, D.E. Shaw India, HCCBPL, ICICI, Aditya Birla Group and Tata
Steel. The highest stipend offered was Rs.75000 and was offered by HCCBPL
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Xavier School of
Rural Management (XSRM)
Mission
Management Education in the spirit
of Magis
Student Profile
Number of students
enrolled in 2015-17 Batch: Number of Graduating Students:
MBA (RM) 55 26 81 MBA (RM) 2014-16 49 33 82
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Dr. Kajri Misra
Academic Programs Highlights:

w The MBA-RM program curriculum was revised
based on inputs provided by the Joint Curriculum
Review Committee.
w The core Rural Living and Learning Experience
(RLLE) component of the Master’s program was
reconstructed to strengthen the learning from the
village stay by the students. Duration was increased
to 45 days, a structured Village Report was created
and a detailed Case Study of each village was
developed by each student.
w An annual Symposium in Rural Management was
incepted, with 5 speakers during the Orientation for
incoming students.
w A National Colloquium on Rural Management was
also introduced in the curriculum, comprising a
series of lectures by eminent guest speakers in RM.
This is the first and unique series of its kind in the
country.

The 2nd meeting of the Strategic Academic Advisory Board of XSRM was held on June 26 2015. The
discussions centered around strengthening Faculty body, increasing suitable Applicant pool to improve
quality of students, improving learning – benchmarking courses with similar international offerings,
undertaking AoL exercise, strengthening field and industry engagement, smaller class size and explore
potential for new Programs through tailoring programs to the needs of specific client segments, part-
time/off-site Ph.D programs appropriate for senior professionals, etc.
Symposium on Rural Management

The Symposium in Rural Management was organized on June 27, 2015, during the Orientation of
the incoming students of 2015-17 batch. The topic “Directions in Rural Management” by eminent
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persons in the field provided the the students with an introduction and overview of the future of Rural
Management.
The key Speakers were:
w Anirban Gupta, CEO - Dhriti
w Debiprasad Mishra, Professor - IRMA
w D. Durga Prasad, Consultant - Organisation Change and Development
w G.Muralidhar, Head-Capacity Building - National Rural Livelihoods Mission, MoRD
w Joe Madiath, Executive Director - Gram Vikas
Field-based and industry engagement activities: The Rural Management program includes a variety of
field-based curricular and co-curricular activities, as below, designed for student engagement with rural
communities.
The Rural Living and Learning Component (RLLE):

The RLLE is the six-week village stay component of the MBA (RM), with a pedagogy is founded on the
efficacy of experiential learning from the very people and communities with whom the future rural
managers are expected to work. This year 81 first year MBA (RM) students went for RLLE from15th
November 2015 to 31st December 2015. A total of 19 organizations supported XSRM students across
twelve (12) States / Union Territory of India. Student lived in 32 different villages, where they explored
various aspects of the village to prepare a structured Village Report (38 in all). They also undertook 32
assignments for their host organizations, to prepare a Development Project Report.
The RLLE Mela was organized on 13th January 2016 in the Xavier City campus, to exhibit their learning
and showcase the experience. A skit depicting the contradictions of “development work”was also
performed by the students.
Gramotsava - The Rural Marketing Fair:

The tenth edition of the Gramotsava, the annual three
day Rural Marketing fair was launched on October 8th,
2015 with a cultural event by the first year students and
the unveiling of the mascot– Boney Bhaina. Gramotsava,
the flagship event of RMAX- the Rural Manager’s
Association of XSRM – has Boney Bhaina an Olive Ridley
Turtle as its mascot, symbolizing the natural heritage of
Odisha, peace, longevity and sustainable development.
Gramotsava 2016 was organized in the haats of
Begunia and Tangi villages of Khurda district. With a
theme of “Connecting India: Digitalization”, it sought to
reduce the digital gap between urban and rural India
by raising understanding of digital technology and its
utility. The awareness campaign included skits, nukkad
nataks, songs, interactive activities and games, and van
promotion. Stalls featured products of organizations
working in rural space such as IFFCO, SBI, Mahindra
and Mirambika. The Dighir Ganguly Memorial Stall by
the RM Alumni Committee worked with the Swaach
Bharat Abhiyan to raise awareness on cleanliness and
sanitation, with games and activities designed for the
kids and youth.
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“Abhivyakti”- the RM Conclave:

The annual Rural Management Conclave creates an
opportunity for budding rural managers to engage
with some of the best minds in relevant industries and
emerging sectors, and learn of contemporary directions
in management practice. Speakers at Abhivyakti 2015
included :
Mr. Niranjan Barriyar Odisha State, Nutrition Coordinator,
UNICEF - Rural - The Next Growth Destination
Mr. Hardeep Singh, Project Director, Rajeevika, Govt. of
Rajasthan - Rural - The Next Growth Destination
Mr. Ashok Singha, MD - CTRAN Consulting BASIX GROUP,
Rural - The Next Growth Destination
Mr. Ambika Prasad Mohanty, Team Leader, Eastern
States Reliance Foundation - Rural - The Next Growth
Destination
Mr. Sushanta Tripathy, ExecutiveVice President, Yes Bank(ISB) -Inclusive Growth & Digital Revolution
Mrs. Chandrima Sinha, Director - IDFC Foundation - Inclusive Growth & Digital Revolution
Mr. Prabhakar Lingareddy, Vice President (HR), ITC ABD - Inclusive Growth & Digital Revolution
International activities: The Dean, XSRM attended the Eduniversal Conference of Business Schools
at Harvard University, USA, during October 12-14, 2015, to understand their ranking process for
Management Schools in India, discuss possible collaborations with other Schools.
The Dean also visited the new Lilly Family School of Philanthropy of the Indiana University - Purdue
University consortium during October 16-17, 2015, to discuss the possibilities of setting up a Center for
Non-Profit Studies and Management in XSRM, XUB, with their collaboration. The discussions are being
taken forward with potential partners in India.
Prof Kajri Misra gave a Seminar on “Drivers and Impacts of Migration in India” on October 19 2015 at the
World Bank, Washington DC, under the aegis of its Development Economics Group.
The Rural Management Reunion 2016 : The RM Homecoming & Reunion was organized during January
16-17, 2016, for the batch of 2001-03 at both XIMB and Xavier City campuses.
Consultancy Projects: KVIC, Mumbai - Technical Agency for SFURTI: Rolling assignment. The School
has been empaneled as the technical agency (TA) for the SFURTI programme of the Khadi and Village
Industries Commission (KVIC). Under this, clusters of village industries traditionally found in rural areas
are developed into projects, with the help of NGOs and Khadi-based organizations. XSRM will undertake
the diagnostic study, prepare detailed project proposal, and help the implementing agencies in various
cluster development activities that includes capacity building of artisans, product development, and
creating marketing linkages.
Industry Talk: During 2015-16 academic year six talks were organized by Xavier School of RM.
Mr. Sambit Kumar Mohanty, Business Manager Indonesia, MetaHelix, Agri - Input Marketing
Mr. Bishnu Prasad Mishra, AGM, Coromandel International Limited - Agri Input Marketing
Mr. Aditya Singh, Regional Head, Titan-Field of Rural Management - New Avenues
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Mr. Girish Aivalli, MD & CEO, Rural Agri Venture-Agro Logistics and Infrastructure
Mr. Digbijoy Chakraborty, Director, Frost and Sullivan-Public sector consulting scope and opportunities,
management practices for the socio economic development of a nation
Guest Lectures:
The National Symposium on Rural Management (NCRM) : A new series of Symposia and Seminars
featuring talks on Rural Management by leading academics, practitioners and alumni were organized
to systematically help students understand the field they have chosen, and map its territory, scope and
possibilities. The following guests were invited.
Dr. Sankar Datta, Advisor, BASIX -Creating the Field of Rural Management:
Early Efforts
Aditya Singh, Regional Head, Titan Company Ltd.-Field of Rural Management:
New Avenues
Debaraj Behera, Consultant, The World Bank - Rediscovering Rural Management
M. S. Sriram, Professor, IIM Bangalore - Evolution of Rural Management
Profession
Immersion Courses: Two immersion courses were organized, as mentioned

below.
Prof. M.S Sriram, Professor, IIM-B :Business Unusual
Shri Satyajit Dwevedi, AGM, NABARD :Value chain finance
Xuberance 2016 MBA-RM

w Xuberance’ 2016 saw the batch of 81 candidates of MBA (RM) programme participating in the
placement process.
w 28 companies participated in Xuberance ’16
w The highest domestic salary stood at Rs. 11.38 Lakhs per annum
w The Median annual compensation stood at Rs. 6.56 Lakhs per annum
Companies which visited the campus in various sectors are as follows:

w Banking, Financial services and Insurance (BFSI): Prominent Recruiters: Axis Bank, HDFC Bank, ICICI
Bank, ICICI Lombard and IFMR Capital
w Consulting: Prominent Recruiters: PwC, Deloitte, NABCONS, Sambodhi Research and Communication,
and Microsave.
w Development Finance: Prominent Recruiters: Ujjivan, Satin Credit Care Network Limited, Suryoday
Microfinance Limited, NABFINS, and Fincare.
w Development: Prominent Recruiters: Care India and Rajeevika.
w Dairy Cooperative: Prominent Recruiter: GCMMF (Amul)
w Agri-Input: Prominent Recruiter: UPL (United Phosphorus Limited)
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w FMCG: Prominent Recruiter: CavinKare

w CSR: Prominent Recruiter: Sarvajal-Piramal
Summary
Average Salary Rs. 7.21 Lakhs perannum
Summer Internships: MBA (RM) 2015-17

The Batch of 2015-17, MBA (RM) had excellent summer placements this year for a batch
size of 83 students, with around 28 companies participating in the summer placement
process.
Companies across different sectors like BFSI, FMCG, Consulting, CSR, Policy Research,
Development and Livelihoods, and Development Finance visited the campus for the summer
internship process. Some major recruiters were PwC, ITC, HDFC Bank, SIDBI, Microsave, J.K.
Paper, Care India, Pradan, and Jharkhand State livelihood Promotion society (JSLPS). The
highest stipend offered was Rs. 20,000 per month and was offered by HDFC Bank.
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Xavier School of
Sustainability (XSOS)
Mission
Sustainability Education in the spirit
of Magis
Student Profile
Number of students
enrolled in 2015-17 Batch:
Programme Male Female Total
MBA (SM) 17 8 25
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Dr. S. Peppin
The Xavier School of Sustainability was set up 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 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
Asia-Pacific Region.
Inspired by the University’s vision of inspiring future generations of students, XSoS strives to invoke
Sustainability to care for environment, human development and sustainable communities and
responsible business to manage our common future, they enrolled the first batch of students on 19th
of June 2015.
The TN Khoshoo Memorial Award

The School won the prestigious Award for the Best Entry for the
2015 Wipro Earthian Awards. The TN Khoshoo Memorial Award was
instituted in 2004 to honour the world-renowned environmental
scientist, Dr Triloki Nath Khoshoo, and was started by the Khoshoo
Endowment Fund to encourage and promote individuals for
outstanding achievements in the field of conservation and sustainable
development. The award is a peer-level public recognition of
excellence in the fields of conservation science, conservation policy
and conservation action.
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Conference of the School : Sustainability Leadership Summit

July 05-06, 2015:
To main stream sustainability in management education and explore and celebrate sustainability
leadership initiatives in various organizations the first of its kind summit on ‘Sustainability Leadership’
was held during July 5-6, 2015 at XUB. The Summit brought together heads of various UN and Bilateral
agencies, government and non government organizations, academic institutions from India and abroad.
The Development Commissioner-cum-Additional Chief Secretary and Secretary, Planning and Coordination
Department, Government of Odisha, Sri Upendra Nath Behera, IAS, inaugurated the Summit. Mr. Anand
Sen, President TQM and Steel Business, Tata Steel was the Guest of Honor. Dr. Aditi Haldar, Director
Global Reporting Initative (GRI), Focal Point India also
addressed the gathering. A compendium titled “Springs
of Sustainability” was released. The sessions of the
summit include ‘Springs of Sustainability’, ‘Sustainability
& Sustainable Livelihoods: Role of State & Civil Society’,
‘Sustainability & Development: Role of UN & Bilateral
Agencies’, ‘Sustainability & Development: Role of UN
& Bilateral Agencies’, ‘Sustainability in Practice: Stories
of Success & Struggles’, ‘Sustainability & Management
Education & Research: Role of Academic Institutions’
and ‘Advocacy for Sustainability Affirmation: The
Road Map’. The University brought together men and
women of exceptional accomplishment to share their
experiences and their views on sustainability with 500
outstanding graduate students of BM, HRM, SM, RM,
School of Commerce and School of Communications.

The first SAAB Meeting was held on July 05, 2015 in XIMB. The Vision and Mission of the School, focus
of MBA-Sustainability Management curriculum and the process followed for designing the MBA-
Sustainability Management were presented and discussed.
New Programs of the School:

w Three UG Programmes: Curriculum for three UG
programmes- B.Sc in Human Development, B.Sc in
Sustainable Development and B.Sc in Sustainability
Science and Technology were designed and developed
to be launched in the academic year 2016-17.
w Centre for Innovation in Sustainable Livelihood
and Nature Conservation & Development
(C-ISLAND): A proposal has been submitted to CDA
(Chilika Development Authority) and it’s under
consideration.
w Knowledge Partner: Process has been initiated
to partner with Loyola University, Chicago to
be a knowledge partner in India for research on
Sustainability Supply Chain.
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w Seminar on Promoting SMART (Sustainability Movement for Advancing Rural Transformation)

Villages in Odisha: The proposal has been approved by CDA and this will be organised to sensitise
the Hon’ble members of Parliament and Legislative Assembly to appreciate the need to include
equity, environment and economic concerns in developing model villages. This seminar is scheduled
during April-May 2016.
w Knowledge Partner for promoting Wipro Earthian: XSoS collaborates with Wipro in promoting
intergenerational responsibility towards sustainability by engaging the school and college students
through their innovative programme called Earthian. A Round Table on Sustainability Thinking,
Action and Reflection (STAR) was held on 26th February 2016 in coordination with Wipro Earthian
- Wipro’s initiative to promote sustainability in schools and higher educational institutions, at the
Xavier City Campus. Mr. Abhijit Zachariah from Wipro Corp. led the panel discussion.
International Activities:
w Collaboration with SDSU (San Diego State University) California USA
SDSU and XUB have entered into a co-operative agreement (CA) and agreed to cooperate in academic
exchanges, program development and research. A Faculty Led Programme for the students of SDSU
and XSoS at XUB was organized in January 2016. As part of this CA, two undergraduate students,
from SDSU visited XUB during January 2-18, 2016. This initiative is part of the collective mission of
mainstreaming sustainability and internationalization of MBA in Sustainability Management.
w Collaboration with Global Compact Network, India

Xavier School of Sustainability XUB became an Institutional member of the Global Compact Network,
India of United Nations Global Compact (UNGC). The membership will put XUB in the global map of
sustainability led by United Nations.
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Sustainability Discovery Programme (SDP) was held

during November 17 to December 19, 2015. The
students of XSoS spent 4 weeks on-site at the following
organisations: UNGCNI, Global Reporting Initiative (GRI),
International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN),
Centre for Science and Environment (CSE), Harrisons
Malayalam, Ford Foundation (PRADAN), Wetlands
International South Asia, Chilika Development Authority,
Biome Solutions, Wipro Cares, Vikramshila, Senergy,
Welspun Renewables, and Auroville. SDP gallery
was scheduled on 25th February, 2016. The gallery
showcased SDP work undertaken by the students and
a 10 minutes flash film presentation alongside a poster
presentation was on display
SIP 2015-17: Summer Internship Program for the MBA-SM students focused on empaneling organizations
with a sustainability focus. The following organizations selected students for SIP during April-May
2016: Wipro Limited, Accenture, Aditya Birla Group, Freight Investor Services, UNGC, BLP-Statkraft,
Endeavour, ITC Limited, Ernst & Young, Dr. Reddy’s Laboratories, ACC Limited, ESAF, Tata Sustainability
Group, Enking International, Thinkstep Consulting, GVK Group (Mumbai International Airport), and IIM
Bangalore. Other organizations that participated in the SIP were Dalmia Cement, Mahindra Reva, Earth
and Us, Tata Power, Tata Sustainability Group, GIBBS, Sambodhi Research & Communications Pvt. Ltd.
and Dhamra Port (Adani Group)
Industry/Leadership Talks:
Mr. Amlan Dutta, HOD of Environment, Coconut Island,
Dhamra Port Co. Ltd. - CSR and Ecology
Mr. Ramdas Shrinivas Shenoy, Director - Marketing,
Green India Building Systems and Services (GIBSS) -
Leading Innovation in Green Building
Mr. Alok Shrivastava, General Manager & Corporate
Head-HSE, Shapoorji Pallonji And Company Private Ltd -
CSR: Emerging Trend and Opportunities
Mr. Sunil Kumar Nandamudi, Head, Sustainability and
CEO at RBS Foundation, Royal Bank of Scotland, Asia
Region. - Sustainability Leadership
Mr Tony Henshaw -Chief Sustainability Officer, and Mr.
Prabodha Acharya- Senior VP, Assurance Corporate
Sustainability Cell, Aditya Birla Management Corporation
Pvt Ltd. - Corporate Sustainability: Challenges and
Choices
Mr. Pratyush Kumar Panda, Corporate Head, CSR, ACC
Limited - Sustainability and CSR
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Immersion Courses aim at bringing to campus the emerging and latest trends from the workplace,
ensuring student industry-readiness. The invited speakers covered topics as detailed below.

Indira Gandhi Institute of
Professor of ‘Development Discourse and
Prof. Shovan Ray Development Research
Economics Human Development’
(IGIDR)
Mr. Nadarajah
Director GCSSFS Spirituality and Sustainability
Manickam
Corporate Sustainability and
Mr. Pooran Pandey Executive Director UNGCNI
role of UN
Vice President &
Mr. P S Narayan Head, Sustainability, WIPRO Business and Sustainability
Wipro
Mr. Abhishek
Playwright Independent Playwright Art and Sustainability
Mazumdar
Senior Research Centre for Science and Environmental Impact
Mr. Digvijay Singh
Associate Environment Assessment
Adani Insitute of
Dr. Dipti Ranjan Management of Energy
Associate Professor Infrastructure
Mahapatra Business
Management
Student Achievements:
w Vivek Balachander S, Abha Mahapatra, Biswabhusan
Samantray won the Wipro-Earthian Award and Best
Entry Award in the country at the National Level
Wipro-Earthian Competition, with a cash award of
Rs.1,50,000/-.
w Shubhankar Biswal, was selected as a delegate to attend
the Harvard US India initiative conference in Mumbai
w Archana Patnaik and Shubhankar Biswal, attended
conference on Peace and Sustainability organized
by INEB in Colombo, Sri Lanka.
w Students of MBA SM successfully cleared the Rio+22
certification course.
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Xavier School of
Commerce (XSOC)
Mission
Commerce Education in the
spirit of Magis
Student Profile
Number of students enrolled :
Programme Year Male Female Total
B.Com 2015-18 25 16 41
B.Com 2014-17 18 13 31
BBM 2015-18 23 8 31
BBM 2014-17 15 10 25
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Dean’s Report
Dr. P. K Mohanty
The Xavier School of Commerce was set up with the mission to groom graduates and post-graduates
who will demonstrate domain knowledge, by offering quality education through a curriculum that is rich
in rigour, to take on the challenge of business houses..
Inspired by the University’s vision of inspiring future generations of students, its mission is to be a school
of national repute, in the field of commerce education and research.
Strategic 3-Year Roadmap for School of Commerce

The School of Commerce participated in the workshop to review and plan the road ahead during
September 11-12, 2015. This exercise was facilitated by Dr. T.V Rao, Chairman TV Rao Learning Systems
and Dr. Gopal Mohapatra, VP Group Learning and Organization Development, RPG Enterprises. The
School created its perspective plans via brainstorming sessions and presentations and reviewed their
Vision-Mission and 3-year roadmaps, with inputs from all the other Schools.
Commerce In The 21st Century : Innovations, Trends and

Practices
Xavier School of Commerce organised its 1st National Conference on February 20, 2016. Prof. Dr. Fr. Paul
Fernandes, S.J., Vice-Chancellor of the university while inaugurating the conference said the commerce
graduates have a lot of responsibilities towards mother
earth and stressed the need for green accounting.
Dr. P.K. Mohanty, dean of the school and convener
of the conference delivered the welcome address.
Sri Niten Chandra, IAS, Principal Secretary to Govt.,
Dept. of Social Security and Empowerment of Persons
with Disabilities was the Chief guest. In his speech,
Sri Chandra said that commerce held the key to every
success in 21st century. CMA Bhabatosh Banerjee, Retd.
Professor of Calcutta University and Prof. Banikanta
Mishra, Professor of finance were guests of honour in
the inaugural session. A plenary session was held on
the theme, “Role of Commerce Education in Nation
Building”. CMA Bhabatosh Banerjee, Retd. Professor of
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Calcutta University, Prof. Hanif of St. Xavier College, Kolkata, Prof. Achalapathy of Osmania University,
Hyderabad, CA Rajib Sahoo, Sr. Practicing Chartered Accountant, spoke on the occasion. Prof. Ranjan K.
Bal, Professor, PG Dept. of Commerce, Utkal University, moderated the session. Research papers were
presented by researcher scholars, faculty from different colleges and universities and students of the
school of commerce in two technical sessions. Many research topics were well discussed and debated.
The sessions were chaired by eminent researchers who shared their expert views as well.

The school had its second Academic Advisory Committee(AAC) meeting held on February 19, 2016. All
the members of the committee including SoC faculty attended the meeting. Fr. Paul Fernandes, S.J.,
Vice-Chancellor shared his thoughts on the future goals and challenges for the school. The dean of the
school shared the activities of the school during the previous year and the plan for offering the proposed
honours in Banking and Insurance from the coming academic year. The views of the members were
taken for starting M.Com program from the academic year 2017-18.
Industry Talk provide for inviting emminent industry experts to interact / engage with students.
Sri K. Sukumaran, Dean, School of Investor Education and Financial Literacy, National Institute of
Securities Markets, Navi Mumbai - Economic Reforms and Indian Securities Markets”
CMA Mrityunjay Acharjee, Associate Vice-President, Balmer & Lawrie -”New Changes in Fiscal Regime
of the Country
Mr. Derek O’brien, the famous TV personality and MP - had an open-house interaction with the
students.
Industry Visit:
Students of XSOC visited the NALCO smelter plant, Angul on February 6, 2016.
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Xavier School of Communications

(XCOMM)
Mission
Communications Education in the
spirit of Magis
Student Profile
Number of students
enrolled in 2015-17 Batch:
Programme Male Female Total
B. Sc Mass Communication 4 12 16
M. A Mass Communication 2 3 5
PG Diploma in Film & TV Production - 1 1
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Fr. Lourduraj I, SJ
The Xavier School of Communications was set up 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
Inspired by the University’s vision of inspiring future generations of students, the School’s mission is to
enhance knowledge and professionalism in the field of Media and Communication; to promote ethical
media practices and keep abreast with the changes of the time; and to function as a center of excellence
and to play a vital role in building a new media culture where life is respected and valued. The School
enrolled its first batch of 22 students on the 1st of July 2015.
Activity Highlights for the Year focused around

the establishment of the new School :
w Three faculty and two technical staff were recruited
for the School, Manual of Policies (MoP) for the
programs of the School was instituted, Syllabus
and Course Outlines designed, finalised and
implemented.
w Setting up of the Studio floor, on-line TV Production
Room, Audio Studio, Edit Suites, Workstations for
Image softwares, Still Photography Studio, and
Master Edit Suites room.
w Relevant books and magazines for the School
in coordination with the library identified and
procured.
w Industry engagement established for hosting of
various mass communication and media events
established with key stakeholders, namely OTV,
Film Society Bhubaneswar(FSB) and Films Division
Kolkata.
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Annual Conference of the School

International Conference on ‘Mass Mediated Culture
and Trend Today: Challenges and Opportunities”.
The first international conference of Xavier School of
Communications was held on November 7, 2015 at
Xavier Institute of Management (XIMB) auditorium,
Bhubaneswar on the theme ‘Mass Mediated Culture
and Trend Today: Challenges and Opportunities.’ More
than 400 Media educators, professionals, scholars,
researchers and students from various media institutions
from Odisha participated in the event. The delegates
from different parts of India and abroad presented
research papers from the area of Newspaper, Film,
Television and new media.
Mumbai International Film Festival Bhubaneswar Chapter, Xavier University-

2016: The Films Division, Ministry of Information and Broadcasting, Film
Society Bhubaneswar in association with Xavier School of Communications,
Xavier University organized a three-day film festival at Xavier University,
Xavier City campus during January 28-30, 2016. Twenty-four selected
documentaries and short films were screened at 14th Mumbai International
Film Festival (MIFF). Prof. Dr. Fr. Paul Fernandes SJ, Vice-Chancellor,
inaugurated the festival. It is the first of its kind to happen in any university
campus in Odisha. National Award-winning Film-makers Mr. Subash Das and
Mr. Susant Misra were part of the inauguration. Mr. Sumoya Mukherjee,
Branch Head, Films Division Kolkata spoke on the importance of MIFF.

The first meeting of Strategic Academic Advisory Board of Xavier School
of Communications was held on the 6th of November 2015, chaired by Fr.
Paul Fernandes SJ, Vice-Chancellor, Xavier University, Bhubaneswar. The
purpose of the meeting was to sharpen the focus of the School and to draw
necessary strategic plans to achieve it. Fr. Lourduraj, SJ, Dean, Xavier School of
Communications, presented a report of XCOMM to SAAB. The presentation
included the vision, mission, key objective, facilities, the present programs
and the number of students admitted, capacity of students’ intake and
the details of faculty and the staff. The future plans to incorporate other
programmes and certificate courses and the requirements of faculty also
were shared.
The SAAB members highlighted the concern over the diminishing focus on in-depth knowledge and
research-oriented media training in general. Emphasizing the need for the School of Communications to
take up the challenge and provide both theory and practical knowledge rigorously.
Key recommendations by the SAAB members included :

w Initiate students and faculty exchange programme with the XCOMM and University of Philippines
w Mr. Velu Shankar is entrusted with setting up of the Community Radio at both Xavier City campus
and XIMB campus
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w SAAB decided to continue with the International conference annually

w Organize Film festival under the leadership of Mr. Satyajit Puhan and Mr. Subrat Beura
w Initiate students film festival in the coming academic year 2016-17
w Mr. Ashijit Ganguli will help out with content creation for the Digital University
w To start PG Diploma in Advertising & Marketing & PG Diploma in Public Relations and Corporate
Communication for the 2016-17 academic year
Guest Lecture by Shri Amithab Sukla, Film Editor- Mumbai - Film Industry today
Student Activities:
Visit to Radio Chocolate Radio
BSc Students Radio Chokolate Bhubaneswar
Bhubaneswar Broadcasting
Radio
Visit to RED FM Bhubaneswar BSc students RD FM Bhubaneswar
Broadcasting
Vigyan Prasar Department of
Science & Technology, Govt. of National Work
BSc, MA & PGD
National Work shop India and National Council of shop on Science
- FTV
Science Museums Ministry of Films
culture Govt. of India
BSc, MA and
Konark Festival Tourism, Govt. of Odisha Performing Arts
PGDFTV
Student Achievements:
Vaisali Behra, Abhijith Nishant, Amit Singh & Sakshi Gandhi of the MA program and Anubha Sourya
& Alice Peter of the PG Diploma Program in Film and Television, screened a film titled “ Missed Call” at
Mumbai International Film Festival (MIFF) Zonal screening Bhubaneswar at Xavier City Campus.
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Inspiring Futures through our
Clean, Green and Beautiful Campuses
Doctoral Programme
Inspiring Passion for Knowledge
through their Research Year No. of Research Scholars
2015 21
2014 21
2013 5
2011 5
2010 3
2008 3
2007 1
Doctoral Program Highlights :
The third batch of Ph.D. scholars at Xavier University Bhubaneswar successfully completed
the course work. This year the coursework was conducted during July 15-30, 2015 and
December 16-31, 2015.
Three Ph.D. scholars presented their topic registration seminar.
The following Doctoral candidates presented seminars as detailed below:
w Mr. Biplab Mahapatra on “Portfolio Optimization using Genetic Algorithm”.
w Mr. Alok Pattnayak on “Differential impact of rural financial services in poverty reduction
of rural poor-The case of Nayagarh district in Odisha”
w Mr. Shashishekar M.S. on “NPI Performance and Market Orientation”
w Mr. Mahendra Kumar Shukla, pre-submission seminar on “Role of dealer-manufacturer
intimacy in marketing channel relationships: A dealer’s perspective”
Doctoral candidate Mr. Stayendra Chandra Pandey submitted his Ph.D. thesis. The title of
his thesis is “A Study on the role of Organizational capabilities in the management of
knowledge in business enterprises”.
One day workshop on “Polishing your presentation Skill” by Prof. Ibha Kumar
Publications by Research Scholars in the Research World

Journal of XIMB:
w “Seeking Research Objectives to Study Rural Finance” by doctoral candidates Ms.
Mrigakshi Das and Mr. Subhendu Patnaik
w “Improving Portfolio Management: Research Focus on Computational Models” by
doctoral candidates Mr. Md Washim Raja and Mr. Dillip Kumar Rath
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w “Corporate Debt Restructuring and Bank Stability: Evidence From India” by doctoral
candidates Ms. Mrigakshi Das, Mr. Subhendu Patnaik, Mr.T. K. Krishna Kumar,and Ms.
Vidya Pujari
w “Business Performance of New Products: Literature Review and Research Focus” by
doctoral candidates Mr. Md Washim Raja, Mr. Alok Pattanayak, Mr. Solomon James, Ms.
Prajwalita A. Veronica Masih, and Ms. Monalisha Ghosh
Journal Club Seminars

18 JCSs were delivered by the doctoral scholars of XUB. JCS are designed to provide doctoral
scholars with an opportunity to not only present what they read but also expand and enrich
their critical thinking on the subject. JCS contributes to the vibrant research culture at XUB
through discourses on Sustainability, Entrepreneurships and Analytics (SEA).
Journal Article Ph.D. Scholar
A Financial System for India’s Poor Alok Pattanayak
What drives global ICT adoption? Analysis and research

directions, Author (s): David M. Weber and Robert J.
Chandan Malu
Kauffman, Source: Electronic Commerce Research and
Applications 10 (2011) 683 - 701
A Discussion on Competency Management Systems from

a Design Theory Perspective , Author (s):Dr. Bernd Simon, Sucheta Sucharita
Source:DOI 10.1007/s12599-010-0134-4
Evaluating Online Learning Communities, Author

(s):Fengfeng Ke and Christopher Hoadley, Source:
Swati Das
Educational Technology Research and Development, Vol.
57, No. 4 (Aug., 2009), pp.487-510
The Vertical Integration of Production: Market failure

Consideration, Author(s): Oliver E. Williamson, Source: Rahul Pratyush Mohanty
University of Pennsylvania
Modelling Project Investment decisions Under Uncertainty

Using Possibility Theory, Author (s): Sherif Mohamed &
Itishree Nayak
Alison K. McCowan, Source: International Journal of Project
Management 19 (2001) 231 - 241
Reciprocal Effects Between Multichannel Retailers’ Offline
and Online Brand Images, Author (s): Wi-Suk Kwon and
Solomon James
Sharron J. Lennon b, Source: Journal of Retailing 85 (3,
2009) 376–390
Open Defecation and Childhood Stunting in India: An
Ecological Analysis of New Data from 112 Districts, Author
(s): Dean Spears, Arabinda Ghosh and Oliver Cumming, Monalisha Ghosh
Source: PubMed,/journal.pone.0073784,September 2013
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Municipal Functions, Structure, and Expenditures: A

Reanalysis Of Recent research, Author (s): Ronald J. Liebert,
T K Krishna Kumar
Source: Social Science Quarterly, Vol. 54, No. 4 (MARCH,
1974), pp. 765-783
E-government maturity models: Extension of the Layne and

Lee model, Author(s): Kim Viborg Andersen and Helle Zinner
Sujata Das
Henriksen, Source: Government Information Quarterly 23
(2006) 236–248
Markowitz-based portfolio selection with minimum
transaction lots, cardinality constraints and regarding
sector capitalization using genetic algorithm, Author(s):
Biplab Mahapatra
Hamed Soleimani, Hamid Reza Golmakani, Mohammad
Hossein Salimi Source: Expert Systems with Applications 36
(2009) 5058–5063
Measuring implicit psychological constructs in
organizational behavior: An example using psychological
capital, Author(s): Peter D. Harms and Fred Luthans, Subhendu Patnaik
Source: Journal of Organizational Behavior, J. Organiz.
Behav. 33, 589–594 (2012).
The Evolution and Continuing Challenges of E-Governance,
Author: Sharon S. Dawes, Source: Public Administration Dillip Rath
Review, December 2008, Special Issue.
The job demand - control (-support) model and psychological

well-being: a review of 20 years empirical research,
Vidya Pujari
Author(s):Margot Van Der Doef and Stan Maes, Source:
Work & Stress, 1999, Vol. 13,no. 287 - 114.
Graen, G. B., & Uhl-Bien, M. (1995). Relationship-

based approach to leadership: Development of leader-
member exchange (LMX) theory of leadership over 25
Sumitra Balakrishnan
years: Applying a multi- level multi-domain perspective,
Author(s): George B. Graen and Mary U hl-Bien, Source:
Leadership Quarterly, 6, 219-247.
Market Orientation: The Construct, Research Propositions,

and Managerial Implications, Author(s): Ajay K. Kohli and
Shashishekar M.S
Bernard J. Jaworski, Source: Journal of Marketing, Vol. 54,
No. 2 (Apr., 1990), pp. 1-18
Sustainability Accounting for companies : Catchphrase or

decision support for business Leaders? Author(s):Stefan
Mrigakshi Das
Schaltegger and Roger L. Burritt, Source:Journal of World
Business 45 (2010) 375–384.
Gorn, G. J. (1982). The effects of music in advertising

on choice behavior: A classical conditioning approach,
Md Washim Raja
Author(s): Gerald J. Gorn, Source: Journal of Marketing,Vol.
46, No. 1 (Winter, 1982), pp. 94-101 Published
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Our Research Scholars

Alok Pattanayak Abhranil Gupta Biplab Mahapatra
Chinmayee Mishra Amaresh Kumar Panda Chandan Malu
Debjyoti Mohanty Arun Kumar Patra
Dillip Kumar Rath
Goutam Das
Bhavana Acharya
Itishree Nayak Sourish Bose
Bijay Kumar Mudali
Lala Niladri Bihari Ray Sucheta Sucharita
Chinmoy Bandyopadhyay
Moitreyee Paul Shruti Bag
Debadata Das Mohapatra
Md. Washim Raja
Amar Patnaik
Monalisha Ghosh Gargi Banerjee
Gulshan Bibi Asish Kumar Panda

Mrigakshi Das
Namrata Giri Jeeta Sarkar Atul Kumar
Prajwalita A Veronica Masih Kishore Kumar Swain Biswajit Pal

Rahul Pratyush Mohanty Nimisha Bora Poornima Mahapatra
Shashishekar M.S
Niranjan Malla
Rupambika Bharati
Solomon James
Saiyada Ghzalah Sahin
Subendu Patnaik Mahendra Kumar Shukla
Satya Shankar Banerjee
Sujata Das Satyendra C. Pandey
Sharmistha Kar
Sumitra Balakrishnan
Gayatri Patnaik
Sillu Muduli
Swati Das
Snigdha Choudhury
Jogendra Behera
T.K.Krishna Kumar
Vidya Pujari Swayam Sampurna Panigrahi Julian Tobias
Usha Padhee Tanmay Khuntia Srilata Patnaik
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Internationalization at
Xavier University
Inspiring the University towards a Global Focus
We have enhanced our offerings with international university partners and
collaboration from around the world. The Xavier University has collaborated with
Arizona State University(ASU) to offer a bouquet of global masters program. XIMB
also collaborated a premier partnership for the World’s No. 1 Global Masters Program
with Thunderbird School of Global Management. XUB signed up with W.P Carey School
of Management, Arizona State University to offer very unique Masters programs. XUB
will now offer enrollment for five new global programmes in India starting Fall 2016 :
w Master of Global Management from Thunderbird School of Global Management
w Master of Arts in Global Affairs & Management from Thunderbird School of Global
Management
w Master of Science in Business Analytics from W.P. Carey School of Management
w Master of Science in Finance from W.P. Carey School of Management
w Master of Science in Global Logistics from W.P. Carey School of Management
This is a proud moment for higher education in Odisha and would enhance the stature
of global management education in the state and in the country.
Our other New Education Partners:

Antwerp Management School, Belgium
Arizona State University, USA
Fordham University Gabelli School of Business, New York
Global Compact Network India (GCNI), Indian arm of United Nations Global
Compact (UNGC) - Life Member
Hanken School of Economics, Finland
Magellan Institute, Paris, France
San Diego State University, California
Universidad Del Pacifico, Quito, Ecuador
Universidad Loyola Andalucia, Spain
Universita Cattolica Del Sacro Cuore, Italy
University of San Francisco, California
Existing Partnerships
Antwerp Management School, Belgium
College of Management Law & Languages, Siauliai, Lithuania
Eastern Michigan University, United States of America
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Facultad de Eco nomia, IQS, Barcelona, Spain

Fordham University, New York, USA
Graduate School of Business Economics, Warsaw, Poland
HHL-Leipzig Graduate School of Management
IESEG School of Management, Lille, France
London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
Sellinger School of Business & Management, Loyola University, Baltimore, USA
University of Antwerp, Belgium
University of Stellenbosch Business School, Cape Town, South Africa
Warsaw School of Economics, Warsaw, Poland
XUB’s International Study Abroad Programs

MBA (Global)
There are currently nine students in the second year of the MBA (Global) programme.
All of them have been placed. They are undertaking their fifth term in the second
year presently and would be concluding their programme by May, 2016. There are
thirteen first year students of the MBA (Global) programme out of which nine are in
their 3C-MGM programme and four are undertaking their dual degree programmes
at the Antwerp Management School, University of Antwerp, Belgium. They would be
returning to attend their second year in June-July, 2016.
International Exchange programme

Fourteen XIMB students undertook their International Exchange programme with the
following business schools in France and Poland for the 5th term from September
2015 to December, 2015.
The distribution of these XIMB students according to their opted Business Schools in
France is as follows:
The WARSAW School IESEG School of KEDGE Business

Term Total
of Economics Management School
5th Term 1 5 8 14
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Inspiring Knowledge and

Research @ The University
The libraries at both the campuses are a veritable feast of knowledge and are accessible round the
clock to students, research scholars and the faculty members. From its inception it has had an enviable
collection of textbooks, reference materials, electronic databases and professional journals from all
over the world. Over the years it has acquired other resource materials, such as, audio visuals, working
papers, annual reports, HBR cases, and summer projects.
The overwhelming need for virtual access to knowledge has fueled the establishment of a digital library
on the Xavier City campus and XIMB campus, providing for a web-based Library Information System
enabling remote access to different on-line library resources for authorized use by students, scholars
and faculty.
Book Exhibition:
Book Exhibition showcasing the latest publications
across all areas are an annual feature. The exhibition
was organized by the Library during January 7-8, 2016.
Faculty members and research scholars are invited to
identify suitable books to be procured for the libraries.
Around 1500 books have been selected.
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The present knowledge repository includes :
Resources XIMB Campus Xavier City Campus

Books 54,600 14,700
E-books 120,000+ 120,000+
Online Journals 18000+ 18000+
Current Journals 200 100
Bound Journals ( Back volumes) 3350 15
Video cassette 1100
DVD/CDs 1400
Cases 344 25
Project reports/dissertations 2300
Theses 35
Newspapers 21 10
Company annual reports 500
Other Online resources:

Bloomberg Sage Database
British Council Library-Online resources JSTOR
EPWRF Database (New Addition) 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
OLA Committee Visit to the Library
Library Subcommittee on research of Odisha Legislative Assembly comprising of 18 Hon’ble MLAs visited the XIMB Library
on August 11, 2015. There was a presentation on XIMB, XUB and its research activities made to this elite group.
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Xavier Campus Cloud,

Data Centre and Media Lab
The Computer Resource Centre (CRC) caters to the IT requirements of the Univeristy on its campuses.
IT resources to the students, faculty and staff are provided by this team. All computers are connected to
the Campus LAN/ Wi-Fi, which is supported by Fibre Optic backbone. In addition, wireless hotspots have
been installed across the campus making it possible to remain connected anywhere on the campus, at all
times. The campus network covers the Institute academic blocks, class rooms, library, hostels and faculty
residences. All members on the intranet have access to the internet 24 hours, through approximately
500 MBPS leased lines across the 2 campuses.
The CRC designed, developed and implemented many software applications. These include the proprietary
open source Academic Information System (HIBISCUS), HR System, Library Information System (LIS),
Leave Accounting System, File Management System, Office Automation System, Project-based Accounting
Information System (PAMIS), Inventory Management System, including the Examination On-Line (EOL)
and I-Survey applications. HIBISCUS integrates all the above applications & is a web-based application
software. The University Intranet showcases our zeal and desire to IT-enable all our functions. These
include internet-related services such as the Web, Email and Library Online Databases. XIMB is part of
the University Alliance Programme of SAP and has access to SAP ERP and BW systems. New courses are
being offered leveraging the SAP software. XIMB has also acquired Clementine data mining software from
SPSS. In addition, all transactional CRC activities related to planning, procuring, installation and licences
are carried out by the CRC team with complete support catering to all Schools of the University.
IT Infrastructure: IT Backbone Network Infrastructure work has been carried out by IBM supporting
Juniper Networks devices for data and Astra (previously Ericson) for voice IPBX devices. The backbone
network is high capacity network with a 10G speed, scalable to 192Gbps and supports integration of
data, voice and video. HP (Hewlett-Packard) is supporting with HP servers, storage and desktops. HP
is proposing HP Videobook, digital education platform to support, hybrid environment supporting local
applications and cloud applications, infrastructure-on-Demand as a Service (IaaS), Software as a Service
(SaaS), delivering pooled, automated, efficient, integrated scalable, shared IT infrastructure for the
University education. The architecture can be scaled to support 10000+ users.
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 in all the examination halls
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The 2016 Admissions process of XUB was successfully

conducted and the University’s entrance exam X-GMAT
was conducted both on-campus and off-campus and
declared the result online. The Computer Resource
Center also hosts various online examinations for
intra courses for internal assessment convenience.
Additionally, the Faculty Recruitment registration and
application process for 2016 was hosted online via the
website.
The Xavier Digital University was conceived to cater to

innovation in providing education in the virtual space. New
Data Center has been crated with high performing blade
Server. Four new Labs have been set up with 300 PCs.
Increasing our Web presence : New websites were

hosted for the Xavier University and each of the new
Schools of the University. Constant updates to the
websites to report current events and on-campus
news are done on daily basis. Social media sites for the
different schools were created and have been hosted on
the respective websites and posts maintained.
Media Lab
The Xavier School of Communication offer a state-of-
the-art 2000 square feet media lab containing a TV
studio, TV Studio Control Room, Edit Suits for students,
Professional Audio Studio, Voiceover Booth, and
Green room and Lobby. The Digital Still Photography
Room’s is equipped with Elinchrom 200 (strobe lights),
Backdrop Kit and other lights required for indoor digital
photography, including a variety of lenses and other
studio accessories. The TV Studio is HD enabled and
is completely digital, with Data Video Recorder, and
a Panasonic P2HD Portable Recorder. The studio has
a professional talkback system and has 6 boundary
microphones that are connected to the audio and
TV Studio Control Room for quality sound recording
for videos. The Audio Studios is equipped with sound
editing and recording software, Pro Tools and Studio 1.
The master Edit Suites has the latest cylindrical Apple
MacPro with FCP and professional sound monitors.
Windows based video editing software media composer
is used with HP workstation. Another lab is a 10 FCP
edit suite with 10 Dell desktops for designing and print
media assignments. Professional lights are used on
the studio floor - multi-20, multi-10, cool lights with 4
banks, 3 banks, and 2 banks. There are two spotlights
and 4 babies with all the accessories including outdoor
lights for the production of short films.
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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 2015-16:
ABG HDFC Life PwC

Accenture High Radius Ranstad
ACG Worldwide HP RBS
Aircel HP Enterprises Reliance Industries Limited
Altimetrik IBM Right Management
Amazon ICICI Bank
RJ Corp
Arcesium ICRA
SAB Miller
Bajaj Allianz ICRA Management Consulting
Services Sambodhi Research
Bajaj Auto
Bharti Axa Life Idea Cellular Sarda Group of Companies
Bluestar IIFCO SBI Bank
Capgemini IIFL SBI Caps
CBC Infosys SBI General Insurance
Citibank Infosys BPS SocGen
CRISIL Intellect Design Spencer’s Retail
DE Shaw ITC Infotech TASL
Deloitte Janalakshmi TATA Capital
Dr. Agarwal healthcare Ltd. John Deere
Tata Interactive Systems
EDCIL Keya Foods
TATA Steel
Emami KPMG
Tata Teleservices
GAIL L&T
TCS
Garware Wall Ropes L&T Finance
Mahindra Finance Tech Mahindra
Godrej
Godrej & Boyce Manipal Group UHG
Group M Maruti Suzuki Vedanta
HCCBPL MECL Vodafone
HCL Mindtree Wipro
HDFC Bank Phillips Carbon Black Wipro Consumer Care
and many others……………… we thank them all!
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Management Development
Programmes
Inspiring Continuing
Professional Education Senior Management Programmes 05
Middle Management Programmes 15
Number of MDPs 20
Number of Participants 491
Mid-Career Development Program for

Odisha Finance Services (OFS), Finance
Department, Govt. of Odisha during May 11
- 23, 2015
This twelve day training programme was jointly

coordinated by Prof. Asit Ranjan Mohanty and Prof.
B.P. Mishra. The sessions were facilitated by Fr. Paul
Fernandes, S.J., Prof. S.K. Dash, Prof. Asit Ranjan
Mohanty, Prof. B.P. Mishra, Prof. Soumya Guha Deb,
Prof. Banikanta Mishra, and Shri Niten Chandra, IAS,
Commissioner Commercial taxes.
Mid-Career Program for Department of

School & Mass Education, SIMEAT, Govt. of
Odisha during May 12-16, 2015
A five day training programme was coordinated by Prof.

Asit Ranjan Mohanty. The sessions were facilitated by
Prof. Asit R. Mohanty, Prof. Suchitra Pal, Mr. Arabinda
Routray, Mr. Sanjay Pramanik, Mr. Dipak Ray, Mr. U.C.
Mohanty, Dr. Deepak Khuntia, Mr. Dasharathi Satapathy,
Mr. Surya Narayan Mishra and Mr. J. Mishra.
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Training Workshop on “Essential Managerial Competencies” for IFS Officers, Indira

Gandhi National Forest Academy, Dehradun during July 13-17, 2015
A five day training Workshop was coordinated by Prof. Niraj Kumar and Prof. S.S. Ganesh. The sessions
were facilitated by Prof. Niraj Kumar, Prof. S.S. Ganesh, Prof. Jeevan J. Arakal and Prof. D.P. Kar.
Developmental Training Programme on

“Pathways to Effective Monitoring, Control
& Management Systems and Processes” for
Public Health & Urban Services, Govt. of
Odisha during July 28-30, 2015
A three day training programme was coordinated by

Prof. Laxmidhar Swain. The sessions were facilitated
by Dr. Arun K Paul, Dr. W.S. William, Dr. Suchitra Pal, Dr.
Sasmit Patra, Mr. LN Nanda, Mr. J.J. Devaraj, Mr. Bivash
Mohaptra, Prof. Pradeep K. Sahu, Prof. G.K. Nayak and
Prof. L.D Swain.
Training Programme on “Strategic HR

Scorecard” for Powergrid Corporation of
India Limited during July 29-31, 2015
A three day training programme for HR Executives on

“Strategic HR Scorecard” was coordinated by Prof. S.S.
Ganesh. The sessions were facilitated by Prof. S. S.
Ganesh, Prof. Snigdha Pattnaik, Prof. Shridhar K. Dash
and Prof. Devendra Prasad Kar.
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Training Programme on “The Art of

Interacting with Print and Electronic Media”
for the Ministry of Environment Forests
& Climate Change, Govt. of India during
August 3-7, 2015
A five day Refresher Training Programme on “The Art

of Interacting with Print & Electronic Media” for the
IFS Officers, Ministry of Environment Forests & Climate
Change, Government of India was coordinated by Prof.
Niraj Kumar. The sessions were facilitated by Prof. Niraj
Kumar, Mr. Rajaram Satpathy, Mr. Sampad Mohapatra,
Dr. Ajit Pattnaik, IFS, Mr. Jajati Karan, Fr. Lourduraj S.J.
and Prof. Jolly Jose.
Training Programme on “Total Dealership

Management” for Indian Oil Corporation
Ltd. during August 12-13, 2015
A two day “Total Dealership Management” training

programme for Dealers of Indian Oil Corporation Ltd.
was held during August 12-13, 2015 at MDC Training
Hall. The programme was coordinated by Prof. Suchitra
Pal and the sessions were facilitated by Prof. B.P Mishra,
Prof. Saveeta Mohanty, Prof. M.N. Tripathi, and Prof.
Suchitra Pal.
Training Programme on “Total Dealership Management” for Indian Oil Corporation

A two day training programme for Dealers of Indian Oil Corporation Ltd. was coordinated by Prof.
Suchitra Pal and the sessions were facilitated by Prof. B.P Mishra, Prof. Saveeta Mohanty, Prof. M.N.
Tripathi, and Prof. Suchitra Pal.
Training Programme on “Total Dealership Management” for Indian Oil Corporation

A two day programme was coordinated by Prof. Suchitra Pal and the sessions were facilitated by Prof.
B.P Mishra, Prof. M.N. Tripathi, and Prof. Suchitra Pal.
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Management” for Indian Oil Corporation
Ltd. during September 9-10, 2015
A two day programme was coordinated by Prof. Suchitra

Pal and the sessions were facilitated by Prof. B.P Mishra,
Prof. M.N. Tripathi, and Prof. Suchitra Pal.
Training Programme on “Conquering the

Challenges of Execution” for Reliance
Communication Ltd. during September 14-
16, 2015

Prof. Andrew Dutta and the sessions were facilitated by
Fr. Paul Fernandes, S.J., Fr. Antony Uvary, S.J., Mr. Raj
Prusty, Circle Head, Prof. Snigdha Pattnaik, Prof. Sasmit
Patra and Prof. ISF Irudayaraj.
Training Programme on “Supervisory

Development Programme” for Larsen and
Toubro Ltd. Construction during September
21-26, 2015
A six day training programme was coordinated by Prof.

Andrew Dutta and Prof. Mousumi Padhi. The sessions
were facilitated by Fr. Antony Uvary, S.J., Prof. Arun
Paul, Prof. Ibha Kumar, Fr. Donald D’Silva, S.J., Prof.
Andrew Dutta, Prof. D.V. Ramana, Prof. Mousumi Padhi,
Prof. M.N. Tripathi, Ms Saswati Basu, Mr. D.K. Singh,
Mr. R Nagarajan, Mr. Tapas Sen, Mr. V Ramanathan, Mr.
Aloke Chatterjee, and Mr. S Ravishankar.
Manthan Partners Meet held on 1st December 2015

A one day partners meet of Livelihood MANTHAN was organized by Manthan-XIMB at MDC on 1st
December 2015.
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Training Programme on “Leadership

for Managerial Excellence” for Bajoria
Appliances Pvt. Ltd. during December 14-
16, 2015

Prof. Mousumi Padhi and the sessions were facilitated
by Prof. Shridhar K. Dash, Prof. Jeevan J. Arakal, Prof.
Ibha Kumar, Prof. Sasmit Patra and Prof. Mousumi
Padhi.
Round Table Discussion on Optimal Farmer Producer Organization and Sustainable

Agricultural System organized by NABARD Chair Unit, XUB during January 18-19,
2016
A two day Round Table Discussion on Optimal Farmer Producer Organization Design and Sustainable
Agricultural System was organized by the NABARD Chair Unit of XIMB from January 18-19, 2016 at MDC
Training Hall.
Training Programme on “Developing

Managerial Competencies: Leadership
Excellence” for Department of Tourism and
Culture, Govt. of Odisha during January 25-
29, 2016

Mousumi Padhi and the sessions were facilitated by
Prof. Tania S. Rath, Prof. Sasmit Patra, Prof. Suchitra Pal,
Prof. Kalpana Sahoo, Prof. Ibha Kumar, Prof. Purnima
Anjali Mohanty and Prof. Mousumi Padhi.
Training Programme on “Innovation in

Government” for Department of Planning
and Coordination, Govt. of Odisha during
January 28-30, 2016

Prof. S. Peppin and the sessions were facilitated by
Prof. Sutapa Pati, Prof. Tamoghna Acharyya, Mr. Sanjib
Sarangi, VP, IGS, Dr. N.K. Panda, Jt. Director (Innovation)
and Prof. S. Peppin.
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Training Programme on “Developing

Managerial Competencies: Leadership
Excellence” for Department of Tourism and
Culture, Govt. of Odisha during February
1-5, 2016

Mousumi Padhi and the sessions were facilitated by Prof.
Tania S. Rath, Prof. Sasmit Patra, Prof. F.M. Sahoo, Prof.
Kalpana Sahoo, Fr. Donald D’Silva, S.J., Prof. Purnima
Anjali Mohanty and Prof. Mousumi Padhi.

Management” Indian Oil Corporation Ltd.
during February 18-19, 2016.
A two day “Total Distributorship Management” training

programme was coordinated by Prof. Suchitra Pal, and
facilitated by Prof. B.P Mishra, Prof. Saveeta Mohanty,
Prof. Ranjan Dasgupta, and Prof. Suchitra Pal.
Training Programme on “Innovation in

Government” Department of Planning
and Coordination, Govt. of Odisha during
February 18-20, 2016

Prof. S. Peppin and the sessions were facilitated by Prof.
Subhajyoti Ray, Prof. Tamoghna Acharyya, Mr. Surya
Kumar Mohanty, CDA, Mr. Sanjib Saranghi, VP, IGS, Dr.
N.K. Panda, Jt. Director (Innovation), Dr. Ajit Pattnaik,
IFS, Chilika Development Authority and Prof. S. Peppin.
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Our Centers of Excellence

Centre of Excellence in Fiscal Policy and Taxation (CEFT)
Finance Department, Govt. of Odisha has established a

Centre of Excellence in Fiscal Policy and Taxation (CEFT) in
collaboration with Xavier University Bhubaneswar (XUB).
The establishment of the Centre of Excellence in Fiscal
Policy and Taxation (CEFT) signifies the commitment of
the State to institutionalize the process of implementing
the Fiscal Responsibility and Budget Management Act,
2005 and successive recommendations of Finance
Commissions in letter and spirit. CEFT envisages serving
the larger purpose of making research on the overall
fiscal policies of the State, providing assistance to the
Finance Department of the Government of Odisha
for budgetary activities, providing analysis on fiscal &
taxation issues.
During the year, 19 study reports and 6 Ongoing Study Reports were prepared by the CEFT team.
Study reports made by the centre:

• Impact of Debt on Primary Deficit and GSDP Gap in Odisha: Empirical Evidences
• Physical Infrastructure Index for Govt. Schools of Odisha: An Analysis using Principal Component
Analysis
• Impact of Revenue Expenditure on Revenue Deficit: An Empirical Evidence from Odisha
• Analysis of Fiscal Multipliers in Odisha
• Estimation of Long Term Elasticity of Commercial Taxes & Forecasting of Commercial Tax Revenue
and GSDP
• A Comparative Analysis of Inter-State Expenditure Ratios
• Evidence of Wagner’s Law in Odisha
• Analysis of Finance Commissions Transfers to Odisha: From GSDP Perspective
• Annual Analysis of the State Finance for FY 2014-15
• Mid-Year Analysis of the State Finance for FY 2015-16
• Study of Revenue Implications of 14th Finance Commission Recommendations and Union Budget FY
2015-16 on Odisha
• Preparation of Participatory Budget Initiative framework
• Efficiency of Revenue Expenditure in Economic Sectors of Odisha : RORE
• Optimal Credit Deposit Ratio in Odisha
• Fiscal Performance Index: A State wise Comparison
• 7th CPC Matrix for Govt. of Odisha
• Analysis of Participatory Budget Initiative.
• Estimation of Optimal Commercial Bank Credit to Agriculture Sector in Odisha
• Facilitation of Open Budget Consultation of Government of Odisha
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• Preparation Economic Survey of Odisha: 2015-16

• Core Committee Member for formulation of Agriculture Budget 2015-16
The Ongoing Study Reports:

• Estimation of Incremental Capital Output Ratio in the Economic Sectors in Odisha
• Quarterly Analysis on Central Government Finance
• Fiscal Decentralization and Economic Growth: Evidence from Indian States
• Impact of Bank Credit to Agricultural sector- State Wise Analysis and investigation of crowd in effect
of State Government Expenditure and Bank Credit in Agricultural Sector
• Multi Year Budgeting
• Preparation of Coffee Table Book on “Odisha State Finance, Since 1936”.
Research Publications
Suresh Kumar Patra and Dr. Amaresh Samantaraya (2015) “Growth Acceleration of the Indian Economy
in the Post-Independence Era: A Story of Sustained Savings and Investment”. Arthshastra: Indian Journal
of Economic & Research. Vol.4
Suresh Kumar Patra, M. Ramadass and L. Annam (2015) “National Rural Health Mission (NRHM) & Health
Status of Odisha”. Indian Journal of Public Health Research & Development. January-March 2015.
Suresh Kumar Patra, Dogga Satyanarayana Murthy and Dr. Aparajita Biswal (2015) “Saving-Growth-
Inflation nexus in Asia: Panel Data Approach”. IOSR Journal of Economic and Finance (IOSR-JEF). Vol. 6
Suresh Kumar Patra and Dr. Aparajita Biswal (2015) “Problems in Operational Efficiency and Responsiveness
of The Microcredit Institutions: A Case Study”. Indian Journal of Applied Research (IJAR). 2015. Vol.5
Suresh Kumar Patra, Dogga Satyanarayana Murthy and Dr. Aparajita Biswal (2015) “An Empirical Analysis
of Determinants of Investment in India: An ARDL Approach”. International Journal of Research in Social
Sciences. Vol. 5
Debi Prasad Bal and Badri Narayan Rath, (2015), “Nonlinear Causality between Crude Oil Price and
Exchange Rate: A Comparative Study of China and India”, Energy Economics, Vol. 51 Published by
Elsevier,
Debi Prasad Bal and Badri Narayan Rath, “Is Public
Debt Burden for India?, Accepted in Economic papers:
a journal of applied economics and policy, Wiley
Publication
Devi Prasad Dash, Debi Prasad Bal and Manoranjan
Sahoo, “The Nexus Between Defense Expenditure
and Economic Growth in BRIC Economies”, Accepted
in Theoretical and Applied Economics, Published by
ECTAP
Purnendu Pujapanda, “Ekmra Youth Icon Award” by
Department of Tourism & Culture, Government of
Odisha, for outstanding Social Service
Ms. Avipsa Mohanty: Award of UGC Research Fellowship,
2015
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Centre for Resettlement, Rehabilitation and

Corporate Social Responsibility (Crrcsr)
Outreach activities
w Invited to UNDP webinar on ‘Creating dialogue
networks in global extractive industries’ on 16th
September, 2015
w Invited discussant and session chair in UNEP- TERI
workshop on sustainable consumption, September
18, 2015, New Delhi.
w CRRCSR contributed to the Sustainability Summit
organized by School of Sustainability through
initiating and facilitating participation of leading
scholars from Russia and Japan.
w CRRCSR invited by UNDP Head Office at New York for stakeholder consultation on Sustainable
Development Goals (SDG)
w CRRCSR invited by US based Newmont Corporation , one of the world’s largest gold mining company,
to study the CSR and sustainability practices at its Ghana operations.
w Invited to UN- PRME Asia Forum- November, 2015
Inclusive India Forum 2016: December 22, 2015

The event was organized jointly by the HBS Club of India and Xavier University Bhubaneswar on 22nd
January 2016. The objective of the Forum was to identify meaningful ways for corporate India to partner
with NGOs in their specific areas of focus. The identified areas of focus were education, employability and
healthcare. Inaugurated by Shri Pradip Kumar Amat, Hon Minister of Finance, Government of Odisha,
the conference had more than eighty registered participants including 7 CEOs.
Consulting Projects
w R&R and CSR project at Tata Steel Kalinganagar
w R&R project- Tata Steel Gomardih project
w CSR project- OMC Limited
w Strategic CSR Plan- SAIL Limited
Research
w An Empirical Study on Livelihood Restoration for the land-losers of Industrial, Mining and Linear
Projects in Odisha ( Prof. L. Ravindran)
w Study of sustainable livelihoods and market interventions in the artisanal mining sector (Prof. S. Ray)
w Collaboration with University of Queensland ( a top 50 university) on energy, poverty and mining
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NABARD Chair Unit at Xavier University
National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development (NABARD) has granted approval for setting up
of a NABARD Chair Unit at Xavier University Bhubaneswar (XUB) and we have executed a MoA in this
regard. Prof. Amar KJR Nayak has been selected as NABARD Chair Professor. Two research studies are
underway. The Chair has provided advisory role on Producer organisations to NABARD, Govt. of India
as well as Govt. of Odisha.
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Faculty Research
Publications
Inspiring Learning Through Research
Books
Bishnu Prasad Mishra Credit Rating of SMEs published by Scholar’s Press, Germany - June 2015
D K Bhatacharyya Recruitment and Selection published by Cengage, New Delhi - March 2016
Training and Development: Theories and Applications published by Sage,

D K Bhatacharyya
New Delhi - 2015
The Magnetic Organization: Attracting and Retaining the best talent

D K Bhatacharyya
published by Sage Response, New Delhi - 2015
Empirical Study of Media’s Role in Shaping Harmonious Society at Ranchi,

Lourduraj Ignacimuthu, SJ
Jharkhand published by IASE (D), Rajasthan, India - November 2015
Innovation Strategy for Enterprises in Emerging Economies: Case Studies

Sanjay Mohapatra
for the Digital Age published by Emerald, UK - 2015
Sanjay Mohapatra Resource Allocation Problems in Supply Chains published by Emerald, UK
The Use of Technical and Fundamental Analysis in the Stock Market in

Sanjay Mohapatra
Emerging and Developed Economies published by Emerald, UK - 2015
Book Chapters
Regional Dynamics of Rural Credit and Growth in India: Exploring
Banikanta Mishra Nonlinearity and Convergence in Growth Patterns in Sustaining Rapid
Growth in India published by Cambridge University Press
Smart Technologies for Smart Nations: Perspectives from the Asia-Pacific

Bhattacharjee, P. Region, Mandal, P. and Vong, J (Eds.), In Appointment Scheduling in
Presence of Walk-ins and Emergency Arrivals published by Springer
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Why Government Should Prioratise Spending on Health?: Exploring the

Health Expenditure, Health Outcome and Output Relationship in Indian
States, Centre - State Relations in Indian Fiscal Context Editors C.H.
Biswa Swarup Misra
Hanumantha Rao, R. Radhakrishna, S. Galab and N. Sreedevi, academic
foundation in association with Centre for Economic and Social Studies
(CESS), Hyderabad, 2015
India’s Growth performance 2000-2012: Region Based Perspective in

Biswa Swarup Misra Regional Development and Public Policy Challenges in India, edited by
Rakheee Bhattacharya, Springer, 2015
Scale Elasticity in Non-parametric DEA Approach In J. Zhu (ed.) Data
Sahoo, B. K. Envelopment Analysis - A Handbook of Models and Methods, New York:
Springer
Integrating sustainability in executive education- An Indian Case Study in
Human Centred Management in Executive Education
Subhasis Ray CSR and NGO engagement in Indian public sector mining companies:158
in Development -Oriented Corporate Social Responsibility published by
Greenleaf, UK
Edited Book
Handbook of Research on Strategic Green Business Practices: published by
D K Bhatacharyya
IGI Global USA – January 2015
Articles in International Journals

Relationship between Electricity Energy Consumption and GDP: Evidence
from India in the International Journal of Economics and Finance; Vol. 7,
No. 2; 2015
Asit Ranjan Mohanty
State Level Expenditure Management Policy in India: An Empirical Analysis
of Odisha State Finance in Indian Journal of Finance and Economic
Management ISSN 2347-3061 Volume 2, Number 1 (2015), pp. 1-20
Simulation Modelling and Analysis of Appointment System Performance

Bhattacharjee, P. for Multiple Classes of Patients in a Hospital: A Case Study in Operations
Research for Health Care
Which Infrastructure Matters More for Growth-Economic or Social?

Evidence from Indian States during 2001-2010 in Review of Urban &
Biswa Swarup Misra
Regional Development Studies, Applied Regional Science Conference
(ARSC) and Wiley Publishing Asia Pty Ltd.
Compensation and Benefits Program a Mediating Variable for Talent

D K Bhattacharyya Retention: A Study on Two Century-old Indian Organizations in
Compensation and Benefits Review, Sage, USA
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Udyogini and Lac Producers in Jharkhand- Catalyzing Inclusive Value Chains

Jeevan J Arakal
at the Base of Pyramid
Predictors of Employee Wellbeing’s among Private & Public Sector: An

Kalpana Sahoo Empirical Study in Odisha in International Journal of Multidisciplinary
Research in Social & Management Sciences, India
A problem-solving routine for improving hospital operations in the Journal

Manimay Ghosh of Health Organization and Management (Emerald Publication, H- index:
25), 29(2), 252-270
An empirical study on hospital selection in India in the International Journal of

Manimay Ghosh
Health Care Quality Assurance (Emerald Publication, H- index: 29), 28(1), 27-39
Impact of total quality management on customer satisfaction in Indian

Plavini Punyatoya banking sector in the International Journal of Productivity and Quality
Management, Vol. 16, No. 2, pp. 127-147 (Inderscience)
Investigating the influence of TQM, service quality and market orientation on

Plavini Punyatoya customer satisfaction and loyalty in Indian banking sector in the International
Journal of Quality & Reliability Management (Emerald) (Accepted)
Effect of perceived brand environment-friendliness on Indian consumer

Plavini Punyatoya attitude and purchase intention: An integrated model in the Marketing
Intelligence & Planning, Vol. 33, No. 3, pp. 258 - 275 (Emerald)
Demographic and Socioeconomic Impact on Risk Attitudes of The Indian

Ranjan Dasgupta
Investors - An Empirical Study in the Asian Economic and Social Society
A study of microfinance institutions as a tool for inclusive growth of rural

poor in India in the International Journal of Decision Making in Supply
Chain and Logistics
The use of Technical and Fundamental Tools By Indian Stock Brokers in the
International Journal of Business Analytics
Study of motivational factors post-implementing ERP (SAP) solutions
in National Aluminium Company Limited extending the technology
acceptance model at organisation level (TAMO) in the International Journal.
Sanjay Mohapatra of Management and Enterprise Development , UK
Business school education and technology-a case study in the Education
and Information Technologies
Requirement Management - Controlling Quality At The Upstream In
Commercial Software Project Management in the International Journal of
Applied Engineering Research
Using integrated information system for patient benefits, a case study in
India in the International Journal of Healthcare Management, UK
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On the identification of the global reference set in data envelopment

Sahoo, B. K. analysis in the European Journal of Operational Research, Vol. 245, No. 3,
pp. 779-788
A Green Economy of Permanence: Innovation Insights from Grassroots

Shambu Prasad C
Knowledge in the International Journal On Green Growth And Development
The Choice Between QIP and Rights : Evidence From India in the SAGE
Global Business Review ( Scopus Indexed) (ABDC: Tier C)
Abnormal Returns Using Accounting Information within a Value Portfolio
in EMERALD, Accounting Research Journal, Emerald, Scopus indexed, ABS-
Soumya Guha Deb
tier 3 / ABDC-tier B
Equity Performance of Zero Debt Firms vis-à-vis Their Leveraged
Counterparts in the Global Business Review,Vol: 16, No 5, ( SAGE, Scopus
Indexed, ABDC : Tier C )
Exploring the Venture Capitalist - Entrepreneur Relationship: Evidence from
India in the Journal of Small Business and Enterprise Development (Accepted)
Shridhar Dash
Friends and Strangers: Leveraging the Power of Networks for New Venture
Success in Development and Learning in Organizations
Indian Philosophical Issues- Relevance to Contemporary Management
Subhasis Ray
published by Springer Germany
Development of Women Employees: A Source of Sustaining Competitive
Advantage in Banking Service in the International Journal of Research
Tania Saritova Rath
In Organisational Behaviour and Human Resource Management, Asian
Research Consortium, India
Articles in National Journals

An Assessment of Impact of Crop Loan Delivery on Credit Cooperatives The
Biswa Swarup Misra Microfinance Review, Journal of the Centre for Microfinance Research,
Bankers Institute for Rural Development, India, Vol. VII, No.1 Jan-June 2015
Causality between Electricity Consumption and Output: Evidence from

Indian States” published in conference compendium of the National
Biswa Swarup Misra Conference on Science, Engineering and Management (NCSEM-2016)
organized by IRAJ Research Forum and in association with Institute of
Research and journals at Pune, India(January 2016)
Performance Measurement and Accounting: In Search of a Composite Index

D.V. Ramana
with Reference to Public Enterprises in India in Indian Accounting Review
Managing Rewards and Recognition in Survey, Vol. 54, Indian Institute of
Social Welfare and Business Management
Revisiting Talent Management: Reflection on Theories and Practices, Indian
D K Bhattacharyya
Journal of Training and Development, Issue-2, 2015
Making Diversity a Business Imperative: A suggestive Note to CPSEs in
Journal of Institute of Public Enterprises, July-December, 2015 issue
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Fakir Mohan Sahoo &

Personality Predictors of charismatic leadership
Kalpana Sahoo
Fakir Mohan Sahoo,

Attributes of Women Feminists As Perceived by Management Students in
Purnima Anjali Mohanty
International Journal of Exclusive Management Research, India
& Kalpana Sahoo
Fakir Mohan Sahoo,

Purnima Anjali Mohanty Perceived attributes of Women Feminists using Lens Model
& Kalpana Sahoo
Jeevan J Arakal Case Analysis - Supply Problems at CCI India
Diversity Awareness Skills, A Road for Business Excellence in the The

Kalpana Sahoo
Brahmaputra Rhythm of the Promises, India
Dissecting Affect - An attempt to understand its influencee on Consumer
M N Tripathi Decision Making in Vilakshan - XIMB Journal of Management, Vol 12, Issue
No. 1, March 2015
Technical analysis and risk premium in Indian equity market: a multiple
regression analysis, The IUP Journal of Applied Economics (forthcoming)
Mishra. S
Test of Persistence in Indian Equity Markets: A rescaled range analysis in
IUP Journal of Applied Finance Vol.21, No. 4, pp-05-17
F.M. Sahoo &

Perceived Attributes of Women Feminists using Lens Model
Kalpana Sahoo
Control Rights in Collective Entrepreneurial Activities of SHG’s: Setting the
Shridhar Dash Research Agenda for National Rural Livelihood Mission (NRLM) in Vilakshan,
XIMB Journal of Management
Long Run performance of Rights Issues and FPOs : Evidence from India in
Soumya Guha Deb
NSE (NSE working paper series)
Prahlad Mishra, Sandip Corporate identity, customer orientation and performance of SMEs:
Anand & Niraj Kumar Exploring the linkages in Elsevier
Career Advancement of Women Bank Managers In India: A Study In State
Tania Saritova Rath
Bank of India in VILAKSHAN, XIMB Journal, India
Cases Published
The power shift: will it help? Micro privatization of power distribution
D V Ramana
business in Emerald’s Emerging Markets Case Studies - 2015
‘Swacch Odisha - A case on attempt in to inculcate healthy sanitation
practices in rural Odisha - Sage Publications, Lahore University of
M N Tripathi
Management Sciences, Asian Journal of Management Cases, Vol 12, No.2,
Sept. 2015, ISSN 0972-8201 January 2015
Sikshasandhan: Funding Challenges and Mission Drift, Asian Case Research
Pradeep Mishra
Journal Singapore - 2015
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Working Papers
The Neo Indian Wave: Digital Filmmaking, Distribution & Indie Cinema
Amrit Amlan Pattanaik On Panels & Pictures: Locating Spatio-temporality in the graphic works of
Sarnath Banerjee
Bhaskar Basu Perception of online social networks among University Students
Measuring and Evaluating KM Effectiveness in an Organization: An

Bhaskar Basu
Exploratory Case Study
Dasgupta Krishna Marketing approach to Indian Politics: A Case Study
Soumya Guha Deb & Assessing the role of median portfolios in value-premium and size-
Banikanta Misra premium
Downside Risk Analysis of Indian Equity Mutual Funds in the Pre and Post
Soumya Guha Deb
Global Financial Crisis Periods Using A Value At Risk Framework
International Conference Attended

Attended Jesuit Conference in Melbourne, Australia at Australian Catholic
Antony Uvary, S.J.
University during July 7 -10, 2015
Invited Presentation: NGOs, Activists, and Scholars in Resistance Movements

in the Indian State of Odisha: Questioning the Development Paradigm at a
Workshop on Extraction, Contention, Development: Global Perspectives on
Resource Politics at University of Washington
Banikanta Mishra Program Committee Member, Reviewer, Session-Chair, Paper-Discussant at the
Eastern Finance Association Annual Meetings, USA
Presented a paper on Value of Commons under Hostile Cultural Takeover:
Finance and Game-Theoretic Analyses at the Eastern Finance Association
Annual Meetings, USA
Participated in the 9th Biennial International Conference of the Dutch HRM

Network, Recontextualizing Talent Development: A study on two Indian
D K Bhattacharyya
organizations with British and Dutch origin, submitted at Utrecht, The
Netherlands during November 12-13, 2015
Presented Creation of Virtual Start Up Lab at British Council, Edinburgh organized

by British Council, Scotland during January 19-22, 2016.
D V Ramana Presented a paper on Experiments and Experience of Working with the People
Doing Business on Street at the Goa Institute of Management, 6th PRME Asia
Forum during November 27-29, 2016
Participated in Fixing process problems in healthcare using metaroutines organized
Manimay Ghosh
by POMS, Washington at Washington, USA during May 8-11, 2015
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Attended Jesuit Conference in Melbourne, Australia at Australian Catholic

University during July 7 -10, 2015
Attended 25th General Assembly of the International Federation of Catholic
Paul Fernandes, S.J. Universities at Australian Catholic University during July 13-17, 2015
Attended a conference about improving the quality of Learning Mobility
between Global North and South as part of the LEMONOC Project at Belgium
during September 20-25, 2015
Delivered a speech on “Global Collaborations and Alliances in Business Education”,

Bringing added Value to Business School-to-Business at Eduniversal World
Convention 2015 at Plaza Hotel, Boston, USA during October 11-15, 2015
Attended the International Quality Crown Convention in London, UK and
received the International Quality Crown Award (IQC) in the Platinum category
in the year 2015 for commitment to quality and excellence by Business Initiative
Paul Fernandes, S.J.
Directions (BID) Group, Madrid, Spain during November 21-22, 2015
Presented a paper on “Institutional Learning & Growth from Accreditation:
The Experience of the Faculty of Management of Xavier University”. At
the International Conference on the theme “Accreditation for Institutional
Learning and Growth” organized by Association of Management Development
Institutions in South Asia (AMDISA) on December 8, 2016
Chaired and conducted the European Marketing Conference organized by LCBR,

Punyaslok Dhall
Germany at Lisbon, Portugal, during June 28 - July 2, 2015
Chaired and conducted The 2015 International Business and Education
Conferences organized by the Clute Institute at Kensington Close Hotel, London
during June 7-11, 2015
Sasmit Patra
Presented a paper on Business Anthropology in India and its impact on Human
Resources at The 2015 International Business and Education Conferences, The
Clute Institute at Kensington Close Hotel, London during June 7-11, 2015
Presented a paper on Understanding Indian Culture and Behaviour: Implications
for MNE’s entering India at The 2015 International Business and Education
Conferences, The Clute Institute at Kensington Close Hotel, London during June
7-11, 2015
Sasmit Patra
Presented a paper on 3-Continent Global Management programme: Globalizing
Indian Business Education at The 2015 International Business and Education
Conferences, The Clute Institute at Kensington Close Hotel, London during June
7-11, 2015
Presented a paper on Long Run equity and operating performance of SEOs:

Evidence from India, at the India Finance Conference 2015
Presented a paper on Impact of Low Leverage Policy on Firm Performance:
Soumya Guha Deb Evidence from India , at the India Finance Conference 2015
Presented a paper on Winners and Losers in Different Sub-periods in Indian
Equity Market: Importance of Market-Capitalization and Price-to-Book Ratio, at
the India Finance Conference, 2015
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Presented a paper at SUCAS 2015 organised by SOA University, Bhubaneswar

during May 15-16, 2015
Participated at the CATALYST D&I LOGUES at CATALYST INDIA, Mumbai on
September 9, 2015
Tania Saritova Rath
Presented a paper on Innovative Management Practices: Challenges &
Opportunities in the 21st Century at the International Conference on
Organisation and Management at Hotel Intercontinental, Abudhabi during
November 22-23, 2015
Participated in Great Place to Study organized by SkillTree Global Knowledge
V. Arockia Das, SJ
Consortium at House of Commons, London, UK during November 19-20, 2015
National Conference Attended

Participated in CRRCSR- HBS conference on corporate social responsibility
Arup Roy
organized by Centre for R&R and CSR, XIMB on January 22, 2016
Presented a paper on : Importance of Market- Capitalization and Price-to-Book
Ratio and Firm Age, Brand-Value, and Crisis Resistance: Indian Experience at
Banikanta Mishra the India Finance Conference : Winners and Losers in Different Sub-periods in
Indian Equity Market and Chaired the Session “Mergers and Acquisitions” at
Indian Institute of Management - Calcutta
Presented Case Study- “Uphill Tasks in the Foothills” at Global Summit on
Management cases-2016 at IIM, Raipur during February 5-6, 2016
Bishnu Prasad
Mishra Participated in Reaching the Unbanked through the Digital Revolution-National
Financial Inclusion conference -2015 organised by Sa-Dhan, New Delhi during
October 8-9, 2015
Presented a paper on Financial Literacy and Inclusion Programme for BOS in a
D. V Ramana conference organized by ISB and MBA Universe, held at ISB Hyderabad during
July 29-30, 2015
Kenote speaker on Cost Management and Value Addition in the Power Sector at
D. V Ramana
Institute of Cost Accountants of India at Gopalpur on December 13, 2015
Participated in UK-Odisha Partnership on Climate Change Organized by Office of
Elizabeth Abba
the Deputy high Commissioner, Kolkata at Bhubaneswar on August 27, 2015
Presented a paper on The Psychological Antecedents of CSR : An Application
of Self Determination and Social Influence Theories at Department of PM & IR,
Utkal University during May 9-10, 2015
Kalpana Sahoo
Presented a paper on A study on the Effect of Performance Management on
Employees’ Job Performance: An Empirical study of RSP at NIT Rourkela during
November 9-10, 2015
Attended the Corporate-Academia Connect Event: “Deans Summit 2015”
organised by Deloitte Consulting India Private Limited held in India extension of
Deloitte University, Hyderabad during April 16-17, 2015
Paul Fernandes, S.J.
Invited by Kerala State Government and FICCI, Higher Education Department
to attend as delegate in the Global Education Meet (GEM) 2016 held at Hotel
Leela, Kovalam, Trivandrum during January 29-30, 2015
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Participated at the ICAI All India National Conference 2015 at KIIT, Bhubaneswar,
Subha Kant Padhi
during August 12-14, 2015
Presented a paper on “Community Models of Renewable Energy Technology -
Sutapa Pati Lessons from India” at Sustainable Technology for Cleaner Environment - STCE
- 2016 at National Institute of Engineers, Rourkela on February 14, 2016
Participated at the Coastal and Marine Ecosystems, People and Biodiversity; A
Conversation with Businesses to enhance Conservation along the East Coast
Tamoghna Acharyya of India organized by International Union for Conservation of Nature & ICZM,
Integrated Coastal Zone Management Project, Odisha at Bhubaneswar on
September 29, 2015
Participated at the CII Workshop on Contract Labour

Tania Saritova Rath Participated at the 6TH HR conclave on “HR Strategy and Tools” at KIIT University,
Bhubaneswar
Conference / Workshops Conducted

Chaired and conducted the 14th International Conference on Information
Bhaskar Basu Technology ICIT- 2015 organized by IEEE, Xavier Institute of Management
at XIM, Bhubaneswar during December 21-23, 2015
Chaired and conducted the 14th International Conference on Information

Dipak Misra Technology ICIT- 2015 organized by IEEE, Xavier Institute of Management
at XIM, Bhubaneswar during December 21-23, 2015
Facilitated Start Up Lab for the Entrepreneurs at the BOP at XIMB for British
D V Ramana
Council, India on January 30, 2016
Chaired and conducted the Summit Sustainability Leadership at XUB during
Elizabeth Abba
July 5-6, 2015
Chaired and Conducted the Make in India Initiatives and Changing Paradigms
of Industrial Relations at XUB during December 4-5, 2015
Mousumi Padhi
Chaired and conducted the Round Table on Towards Creating High
Performance Organization: New Trends at XUB
Chaired and conducted the Inclusive India Forum organized by the Harvard
Subhasis Ray Business School Club of India and XIMB at XIM, Bhubaneswar on January 22,
2016
Facilitated a session on “Design linked Marketing” at Boyanika, Bhubaneswar

Sutapa Pati
on December 15, 2015
Facilitated the National Jesuit Higher Education Conference on “Strategic

V. Arockia Das, SJ Leadershi in Higher Education: Options for the Future” at XIM, Bhubaneswar
during October 22-25, 2015
Pradyumna Kumar Chaired and conducted the Financial Inclusion & Health Services of State- A
Mohanty Critical Appraisal organized by Madhusudan Academy, Govt. of Odisha
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FDPs Attended
Participated in Structural Equations Modelling organised by the Management
Biswa Swarup Misra Department of Veer Narmad South Gujarat University, Surat during October
25-27, 2015
Participated in Indian Accounting Standards at PwC, Bangalore during
D V Ramana
November 16-17, 2015
Participated in The Age of Sustainable Development by Prof Jeffery Sachs
Elizabeth Abba
organized by Coursera
Participated in Strategic Change Management organized by IIM Lucknow
Sanjay Mohapatra
during October 12-17, 2015
Participated in Basic Human Labs Programmes (BHLP) organized by Indian
Sasmit Patra
Society for Applied Behavioural Sciences (ISABS)
Seminar/ Talk/ Resource Person

Keynote speaker on Commerce Education-The Road Ahead at P G Department
of Commerce, Utkal University on January 29, 2016
Keynote speaker on Performance of Power Distribution Companies at
D V Ramana
Sankalp, Odisha on February 24,2016
Keynote speaker on Financial Aspects of Start Ups at DAV School of Business
Management (DSBM) at Bhubaneswar on February 20, 2016
Resource person for conducting study abroad programme for students from
SanDiego State University, CA organized by XSoS, XUB
Elizabeth Abba Participated in Coastal and Marine Ecosystems, People and Biodiversity: A
conversation with business to enhance conservation along the east coast of India
organized by IUCN, Leaders for Nature, Mangroves for the future and ICZM
Chief Guest at Xavier Institute of Communications, Mumbai, Annual
Convocation on April 23, 2015
Chief Guest, Alumni Association, College of Agriculture, Bhubaneswar,
Paul Fernandes, S.J “Importance of Alumni Associations and their role in Institutional Building”
on December 27, 2015
Chief Guest at “SBI Kidovetors – A National Level Competition for School
Children” at Hotel Marrion, Bhubaneswar on January 10, 2016
“Make in India - Academia and Industry working together for Developing
Skills for Tomorrow” organized by ACCA in association with ISDC
Pradyumna Kumar Chaired and conducted Sarbasikshya Abhiyan- An Inclusive Development- A
Mohanty Critical Appraisal organized by Madhusudan Academy, Govt. of Odisha
Chaired and conducted Financial Management in Govt. of Odisha organized
by Madhusudan Academy, Govt. of Odisha
Presented at UN-PRME 6th Asia Forum orhanized by United Nations and GIM
Keynote speaker at Sustainable Consumption, marketing & social
Subhasis Ray entrepreneurship organized by St Petersberg University Russia
Participated in Sustainable production, consumption and marketing
organized by UNEP and TERI
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Training/Workshop Attended
Amrit Amlan Participated in the Digital Film-making Workshop by Nandan Saxena & Kavita
Pattanaik Bahl organized by Jatin Das Center For Art at Bhubaneswar
Participated in the Stakeholder Consultation Workshop on Odisha Climate Change

Elizabeth Abba
Action Plan organized by Govt. of Odisha Forest & Environment Department
Participated in the Higher Education Leadership Program organized by SkillTree
Donald DSilva, SJ
Knowledge Consortium at University of Oxford, UK
Participated in the National Workshop on Science Films organized by Dept. of

Science and Technology Govt. of India
Jolly Jose
Participated in Digital Audio production organized by XCOMM
Participated in Video Editing organized by XCOMM
Presented at Sustainable CSR Practices Shared Ideas organized by Centre for

Tamoghna Acharyya Environment and Education (CEE) & Adani Foundation and Dhamra Port Company
Ltd (DPCL)
Consultancy Assignments
Bishnu Prasad Study to explore methods and means for achieving complete LPG penetration
Mishra in households of a market: Bhubaneswar City, Odisha - IOCL
Biswa Swarup Misra Ramification of Debt Waivers in Odisha _ NABARD
Pradyumna Kumar Stakeholder Pereption Analysis and Training Need Analysis - Commercial Tax
Mohanty Department, Govt. of Odisha
Conducting selection tests for three designated posts - DTI

Rahul Thakurta
Written test for supervisory employees for selection to the executive grade- NALCO
Sandip Anand Marketing research based consultancy
Soumya Guha Deb PPT Sevottam Audit - Paradeep Port Trust
E Newsletter for the Bhubaneswar Branch of Institute of Chartered Accountants

Subha Kant Padhi
of India, Bhubaneswar, Odisha,
CSR and Smart village - OMC Ltd.
Subhasis Ray
Strategic CSR Plan - SAIL Ltd.
Manpower Planning - IPICOL
Recruitment - OSBC
Suchitra Pal
Study to explore methods and means for achieving complete LPG penetration
in households of a market: Bhubaneswar City, Odisha - IOCL
W.S. William Alternatives to Deal with Marketable Surplus Milk - OMFED
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Faculty Achievements
6th Indian Management Conclave 2015: Enhancing B-school Competitiveness.
Since its inaugural edition in 2010, annual Indian Management Conclave (IMC)
has emerged as India’s definitive MBA educators’
D.V. Ramana
Our project of developing Virtual Start-Up Lab has been selected under Social
Enterprise Education Project (SEEP) and awarded small grant to create the
relevant knowledge. We will be working with Plym
Successful Organization of the 14th International Conference on Information

Dipak Misra
Technology (ICIT 2015) at XIMB from 21 - 23 December 2015
Received certificate of Excellence by Wipro’s Sustainability Programme for

Elizabeth Abba
mentoring students in the Wipro Earthian project
Winners of the Regional Round of Tata Crucible Business Quiz held at Hotel
M.N. Tripathi
crown, Bhubaneswar
Received Peak of Success Award conferred by World Confederation of Business

Paul Fernandes, S.J. (WORLDCOB) in their programme “The BIZZ 2015”, held at Caesars Palace Hotel,
Lus Vegas, USA during July 31-August 1, 2015
Sanjay Mohapatra Won ‘Emerald Research Award’ in Emerald-UUM Case competition
Best Paper Award for the paper “Business Anthropology in India and its impact
Sasmit Patra on Human Resources” at The 2015 International Business and Education
Conferences, sponsored by The Clute Institute
Best Paper Award for the paper “Understanding Indian Culture and Behaviour:
Sasmit Patra Implications for MNE’s entering India” at The 2015 International Business and
Education Conferences, sp
Received AARYA Award 2016 on March 6, 2016 in recognition of contribution

Snigdha Pattnaik and achievement in the field of Education. This award is instituted by Parichay
Foundation to mark the International Women’s Day.
Regional Champion and East Zone runner up Tata Crucible Corporate Quiz
Subhasis Ray Invited to teach a full course on Sustainability Marketing at GSOM, St Petersburg
University, Russia- currently ranked by FT as one of the top 50 business schools
in the world
Invited as Visiting Professor at SOKA University, Japan
Invited Sustainability Scholar to Ahafo Gold Mines, Ghana operated by Newmont
Corporation, USA
Subhasis Ray Invited Sustainability scholar to Ahafo Gold Mine, Ghana operated by Newmont
Corporation USA
Invited discussant- Global Stakeholder Consultation on building Responsible
Mining Dialogue Platform- UNDP, New York.
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Faculty in Directorial / Advisory Positions

Amar KJR Nayak Chair Professor, NABARD Chair Unit
Asit Ranjan
Chair Professor, Centre of Fiscal Policy and Taxation (CEFT)
Mohanty
Member, Odisha State Advisory Group on MGNREGA, Ministry of Rural

Development, Government of India
Member, Editorial Review Board, Global Advances in Business Communication
Journal
Member, Editorial Board, The Tribal Tribune, India (an e-journal)
Member, Finance Committee, National Law University - Orissa, India
Banikanta Mishra
Member, Curriculum Development Committee on Economics, Central University
of Orissa, India
Member, Board of Studies on Computational Finance, Utkal University, Orissa,
India
Member, Advisory Committee on Financial Engineering Program, IIT - Kharagpur,
India
Director, Central Electricity Supply Utility (CESU)

Director, IFCAL
Director, Kalinga Iron Works Ltd
Member, Task Force for Evaluating the Performance of State Level Public
D.V. Ramana Enterprises
President, Kendriya Vidyalaya, Bhubaneswar Alumni Association
Director, Industrial Development Corporation Ltd
Member, State Advisory Committee, Orissa Electricity Regulatory Commission
(OERC)
Dipak Misra Chairman, Technical Committee, Commercial Tax Organization, Govt. of Odisha
Member, Advisory Board, ’Srushti Management Review’ for the Srushti Academy
of Management, Bhubaneswar
M.N. Tripathi
Local Committee Member of Management School of NIT, Rourkela
Member, Research Approval Sub-committee, State Labour Institute, Government

Mousumi Padhi
of Odisha
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Xavier University Office Bearers
Paul Fernandes, SJ
Vice-Chancellor & Director
Biswa Swarup Misra

Antony Uvary, SJ Donald D’Silva, SJ Academic Dean
Registrar & Associate Director Director (Finance) Xavier Institute of Management
(XIMB)
Snigdha Pattnaik Kajri Misra S. Peppin

Academic Dean Academic Dean Academic Dean
Xavier School of HRM Xavier School of RM Xavier School of Sustainability
Lourduraj I., SJ P.K. Mohanty Asit Ranjan Mohanty

Academic Dean Academic Dean Assistant Registrar
Xavier School of Communications Xavier School of Commerce (External Affairs & PR)
Subhajyoti Ray V. Arockia Das, SJ Sandip Anand

Assistant Registrar Assistant Registrar Associate Dean
(Academics) Administration Doctoral Programme
Saveeta Mohanty Arun K Paul Sasmit Patra

Associate Dean Associate Dean Associate Dean
Career Advisory Services Admissions International Relations
S. K. Padhi Latha Ravindran Suchitra Pal

Associate Dean
Alumni Coordinator MDP Chairperson
Executive Programmes
Biresh Kumar Sahoo S. Peppin Bhaskar Basu

Library Coordinator CENDERET Coordinator I T Coordinator
Bipin Kumar Kujur, SJ

Student Affairs
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Our Faculty
Inspiring University Education Through Teaching and Research

Amar KJR Nayak Bipin Kumar Kujur, SJ Elizabeth Abba
BE, MBA (IIM-B) MA : Philosophy, English MSc (Mumbai),
PhD (IIT-Kharagpur), MA (San Fransisco), MA (Santa Clara) Fellow (NITIE, Mumbai)
Research Fellow Sustainability
(Kobe University, Japan) Biresh K. Sahoo
NABARD Chair Professor MA, MPhil (Eco) Fakir Mohan Sahoo
General Management & PhD (IIT Kharagpur); MA, PhD (Queens Univ., Canada)
Strategic Management JSPS Fellow (GRIPS, Tokyo, Japan); Organisational Behaviour
Lise Meitner Fellow (WU-Wien, Austria)
Amrit Amlan Pattnaik Economics Gopal Krishna Nayak
MA, MPhil BTech (IIT Kharagpur),
Communications PGDM (IIM B), PhD (IIT Kharagpur)
Bishnu Prasad Mishra
M.A (Eco), DSE, PhD, CAIIB Information Systems
Antony Uvary, S.J.
PGD PM&IR (XLRI) Finance
PhD (Madras University) Ibha Kumar
Organisational Behaviour Biswa Swarup Misra MA (Kanpur), PhD (IIT Kanpur)
MA, PhD, CAIIB Communication
Arun Kumar Paul Economics
B.Tech (IIT Kharagpur) Jeevan J Arakal
Fellow XLRI, Jamshedpur PGDRM (XIMB),
Brajaraj Mohanty PhD (IIT- Bombay)
Operations Management
MCom,Fellow (IIM-Ahmedabad) Rural Management
General Management &
Arup Roy
Strategic Management Jolly Jose
MSc, PhD (IIT, Kharagpur)
Sustainability MMC, PhD (SPMV, Tirupati)
C. Shambu Prasad Communication
Asit Ranjan Mohanty B. Tech & MS (IIT, Madras)
M.Phil JNU, Fellow UGC, CAIIB, PhD (IIT Delhi) Kajri Misra
PhD (Utkal), Dip in Risk Mgt.(IIBF) Rural Management PhD (Cornell University, USA)
Finance Rural Management
Dipak Kumar Bhattacharyya
Banikanta Mishra M.A. (Eco.), PGDPM, PG Diploma in Kalpana Sahoo
MA (Delhi School of Economics) Journalism, PhD (Calcutta) MA, MPhil(Psychology)
PhD (Stern School, New York Univ., USA) Organisational Behaviour PhD (Utkal University)
Finance Organizational Behaviour
Bhaskar Basu Dipak Misra

B Sc. Engg. (UCE, Burla),
Krishna Das Gupta
BE, PGDBM (IIM-C), PhD (IIT-KGP) MBA, PhD (Utkal Univ.)
ME (NIT, Rourkela), PhD (Utkal Univ.)
Information Systems Marketing
Information Systems
Bibhu Prasan Patra Latha Ravindran
MA, MPhil, PhD (IIT Kanpur) D.V. Ramana MA (Madras); MPhil, PhD (Coimbatore)
General Management & MCom, MPhil, PhD (Utkal Univ.) Economics
Strategic Management Accounting
Lourduraj Ignacimuthu, S.J.
Bikram Kumar Bahinipati Donald D’Silva, S.J. MA (Communication:
M.Tech (IIT, Kharagpur) M.A. Communications Broadcast Communication),
PhD (IIT, Delhi) PGDHRM, PhD (Madras Univ.) University of Philippines, Manila
Operations Management Communication Communication
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M.N. Tripathi P.K. Mohanty Pradeep Kumar Mishra

BSc: Engg (NIT Rourkela) MCom, MBA, PhD (Sambalpur Univ) MA (Sambalpur),
PGDM (IIM Ahmedabad) Accounting MPhil (IIFM, Bhopal)
Marketing Fellow (IRMA)
Papiya Bhattacharjee Rural Management
Manimay Ghosh M.Tech (NIT, Durgapur),
BE (Mech), MBA, MS, PhD (USA) PhD (IIT, Kharagpur)
Decision Sciences Prahlad Mishra
Operations Management MA, PhD (Sambalpur)
Paul Fernandes, S.J. Economics & General Management
Manindra Narayan Nayak PhD (KU, WWF Ingolstadt,
M.Com, PhD (Utkal) Germany), M. Sc. in Economics Punyaslok Dhall
(KU Leuven, Belgium) BE (Mechanical), NIT Rourkela
Mousumi Padhi M. A. Licentiate in Applied PGDM (XIMB), LLB (Utkal University)
MBA (Utkal Univ), Fellow (XIMB) Ethics (KU Leuven, Belgium), PhD (IIT, Kharagpur)
Human Resource Management PGD BM (XLRI) Marketing
Niraj Kumar Plavini Punyatoya
BSc: Agri & AH, MSc: Agri M.Tech (IIT, Delhi), Purnima Anjali Mohanty
PhD (IVRI, Izatnagar) Fellow (IIM, Indore) M.A( English Literature), PhD (Utkal)
Rural Management Marketing Communication
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Rahul Thakurta Sandip Anand Satyendra Nath Mishra

B.E. (BESU), Fellow (IIM Calcutta) MA (Psychology) (Univ. of Allahabad) M. Sc (TERI Univ), M. Phil (IIFM,
Information Systems MPS, PhD (International Inst. for Bhopal), Fellow (IRMA)
Population Sc., Mumbai) Rural Management
Ranjan Dasgupta Marketing
M. Com, M. Phil, PhD (Calcutta Univ) Saveeta Mohanty
Commerce PGD PM&IR (XLRI); PhD (Utkal)
Sanjay Mohapatra Human Resource Management
S.P. Das B.E., M.Tech (IIT Madras)
MA, LLB (Sambalpur); DSW PGDM (XIMB), PhD (Utkal)
(Bangalore), PhD (Utkal)
Shridhar Kumar Dash
Information Systems
MA (Economics), PhD (Finance) (IGIDR)
Economics
Finance
Sadhna Dash Santanu Kumar Ganguly
PGDM(XIMB) FCA, PhD (Vidyasagar) Sibanjan Mishra
Commerce MBA (BPUT), ICWAI (I), PhD (Utkal)
Human Resources
Commerce
Soosai Peppin
M.A. (Loyola College, Chennai) Sasmit Patra Snigdha Pattnaik
MPhil and PhD (JNU) MBA, PhD (Allahabad) PGD PM&IR (XLRI), PhD (Utkal Univ.)
Sustainability Organisational Behaviour Human Resource Management
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Soumya Guha Deb Sutapa Pati V. Arockia Das, S.J.

BCE (Hons) (JU), PGDBM (IIM- M. Des, PhD (IIT, Delhi) M.Com, M. Phil,
Calcutta), Fellow (IIM-Calcutta) Sustainability PhD (Madras University)
Finance Commerce
Subhajyoti Ray S S Singh

M-Stat (ISI), Fellow (IIM-A) MA (Sociology), PGDRD (XISS Ranchi) W.S. William
Dip. in Sustainable Mgmt. B. Tech: Hons, M. Tech, PhD (IIT
OM & DS
(Univ. of Birmingham), PhD (Ranchi) Kharagpur)
Rural Management Operations Management
Subha Kant Padhi
FCA (ICAI), DISA (ISA), PhD (Utkal)
Accounting
T Kumar
B.E. (ECE), NIT, Trichy,
Subhasis Ray
Fellow (IRMA)
BE, PGDBM (IIM-C), PhD (Osmania Univ.)
Rural Management
Marketing
Suchitra Pal Tamoghna Acharyya

MA, MPhil (Utkal University) M. Sc (Kalyani Univ), PhD (Andhra Univ)
PhD (Norwegian Univ. of Sc. and Tech., Sustainability
Trondheim)
Research Fellow (Centre for
Occupational and Life stress, NUIG, Tania Saritova Rath
Ireland) M A (Utkal), PGDM (XIMB), CAIIB
Organizational Behaviour Human Resource Management
Adjunct Faculty
A .C Jesurajan, S. J. Indranil Chakrabarti Debendra Prasad Kar
B. Sc., L. Ph., M. Sc., FPM (IIM – A) MBA, LL.B,
M.A. (Leicester, UK) Strategic Management PhD in OB (IIT, Kharagpur)
General Management Human Resource Management
Anshuman Tripathy Shashi Bhushan Mohanty

MBA, PhD (Utkal), FPM (IIM Calcutta) PGDM (IIM Calcutta)
Strategic Management / Human Marketing
Resource Management
S K Bishwal
Bhabesh Sen M. Tech: IE & OR (IIT Kharagpur)
MA (Utkal)Gold Medalist Operations Management
MS (Michigan State University, U.S.A)
PhD (Colorado State University, U.S.A)
Decision Sciences
Part-time & Visiting Faculty

Abhishek Majumdar Aditi Haldar Ajit Kumar Pattnaik
Visiting Associate professor Ph. D PhD
New York University, Abu Dhabi Director, GRI South Asia IFS, Chief Executive,
Chilka Development Authority
Aditya Batra
Programme Director, Board and
Funding, CSE, New Delhi Ajit Choudhuri
M.A University of Hyderabad PGDRM FPRM (IRMA) Amit Ranjan Tripathy
M. A University of Missouri, General Manager, Com. Services, PhD,
Columbia, USA Tata TATA Sustainability Group Reader Of Commerce (Retired)
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Amulyadhan Rout Manoj Fogla Sankar Datta

PGDBM, XIMB (LL.B., M.A. (Phil.), FCA, Ph.D.) PGDRM (IRMA)
Project Finance Advisor Development Specialist
Manidatta Ray
Anirban Gupta M.Sc., PGDCA, MBA Srikanta Mohapatra
PGD-RM (XIMB) PGDM, MCA
Dhriiti – The Courage Within Mary Sabina Peters Senior Consultant
PG in Environmental Law Tata Consultancy Services
Ashok Sarkar
P. G. Diploma (SQC & OR) and Nadarajah Manickam Subhasish Mukherjee
SDP Fellowship (SQC & OR) Ph. D, JNU, New Delhi BE
Head - SQC & OR Unit Director, The Global Centre for the Assistant Vice President
Indian Statistical Institute, Mumbai Study of Sustainable Futures and Tecpro Systems Limited, Kolkata
Spirituality (GCSSFS), Malaysia
Biswaranjan Jena Sunil Agrawala
BE, PGDM M.S. in Computer Science from
Solution Architect
Nilamadhab Mohanty Florida Institute of Technology, USA
BVS. Sc. & AH (OUAT)
Tata Consultancy Services BE, Founder & CEO, Bharti Consulting
FPRM (IRMA)
Chittaranjan Jena Satyajeet Mishra
PGDM, XIMB Prafulla K. Mohapatra PGDM, XIMB, CA
IBU Head- Govt. A&D Tech Mahindra Ph. D, University of Keele, England Professor, KIIT School of Management
Former Professor of Philosophy at Bhubaneswar
Damodar Jena Utkal University
Ph. D, Utkal University Soumya Saraka
Professor Pooran Chandra Pandey PGDBM, IIM, Calcutta
KIIT School of Rural Management M. Phil, JNU, New Delhi Professor, IIM, Rabchi
(KSRM) Executive Director, United Nations
KIIT University, Bhubaneswar Global Compact Network India Swati Mishra
Ph. D
Debasish Maitra P.S. Narayan Utkal University, Bhubaneswar
B. Sc. & M. Sc(Agri.) VP and Head Sustainability
FPM (IRMA) WIPRO, Bangalore Sagarika Mishra
Faculty , IMT, Ghaziabad M. A
Rajiv Mishra Assistant Professor
Fr. George Joseph, SJ M.S. (Industrial;SUNY, Buffalo, USA) Birla Institute of Management &
Ph. D, Faculty, XLRI Professor, XLRI Technology, Bhubaneswar
Geeta Vaidyanathan Rajaram Senapaty Subrat Sarangi

Ph. D, Faculty of Environment, PGDBM (XIMB), Ph.D. (XLRI) PGDM
University of Waterloo, Canada Associate Professor
VP, CTxGREEN/University of Guelph/ Ramakrishna Panigrahi School of Management,
VLB FFIS Project Odisha MA, M. Phi l(Economics) KIIT University, Bhubaneswar
Ph.D.(Economics) Bangalore
G.K. Agarwal Faculty IMI Sudip Kundu
M.S. in Industrial & Management EPMBD [IIM Cal], MBA
Engineering, MSU, USA Assistant Professor, NCMT Kolkata
Ramani Sankarnarayan
Professor, IMI, Delhi
Ph. D., McGill University, Montreal,
Canada
Shiba Prasad Padhi
Jyotibhusan Das President, CTxGREEN/ University of
Partner, SAPSJ & Associates Cost Accountants
FCS, Institute of Company Secretaries
Guelph/ VLB FFIS Project Odisha
of India Subhankar Mohapatra
Freelancer Consultant PGDSCM, Supply Chain Management
Ranjan Bal
Kalika Mohapatra Faculty PG Dept. of Commerce Surya Dev
Disaster Management Utkal University MFC & Ph. D. (Commerce)
Utkal University
Manaw Modi Sarit Kumar Rout
MD/CEO Public Health Foundation of India Vijaya Batth
Karma Strategies, Bhubaneswar (PHFI) FCA, C A
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Non-Teaching Staff
Abhay Kumar Sahoo Binaya Ranjan Das Krushna Chandra Mangaraj

Abhi Chandra Nayak Binod Tirkey Kshyamanidhi Patra
Abhirama Nayak Bipin B. Rout Kulamani Mohapatra
Aishwarya Praharaj Bulu Nayak Kunjabana Behera
Ajay Jena Chandan Kumar Dhal Lalit Mohan Mohanty
Ajaya Kumar Mohapatra Chandan Kumar Digal Lalmohan Nayak
Ajaya Kumar Nayak Chandra S. Rao Laxman Swain
Ajaya Pradhan Daniel Ekka Lingaraj Pattanaik
Ajit Kumar Dhal Dayanidhi Mishra Lingaraj Samantaray
Alok Kumar Pani Debaranjan Dhir Lochan Behera
Alora Kar Debasis Mohanty Madan Mohan Barik
Ameet Kumar Parichha Debendra Jena Madhu Chhanda Panda
Anila Masih Debendranath Behera
Anirudha Nayak Debi Prasad Bal
Arjuna Moharana Deepak Khuntia
Ashok Kumar Patra Despal Minz
Asis Kumar Singh Dibakar Mohapatra
Atulya Behera Digambar Rath
Avipsa Mohanty Dillip Kumar Panda
Babuli Charan Nayak Dillip Kumar Rath
Badal Kumar Nayak Dillip Kumar Sahoo
Badsaha Marandi Dillip Kumar Swain
Baleswar Digal Dipak Ranjan Digal
Basant Ku. Das Gajendra Naik
Basant Ku. Mohanty George Ekka
Basant Kumar Pradhan Ghanasyam Kahalasingh
Bata Krushna Behera Golak Behari Mohapatra
Batakrishna Behera Govind Nayak
Bhagaban Panda Haraprasad Champati
Bharati Ray Hrushikesh Behera
Bhaskar Mohapatra Hrushikesh Hembram Mallika Devi Pathak
Bhaskar Patra Jachi Naik Manas Kumar Samal
Bhimasen Maharana Jaisy Francis Manas Ranjan Mohanty
Bibhuti Bhusan Rautray Jayanta Kumar Das Manoj Kumar Patra
Bibhuti Nayak J P K Samant Singhar Manoranjan Sahoo
Bibhuti Ranjan Mishra Jitendra Champati Manoranjan Samal
Bidyadhar Pradhan Jogendra Kumar Das Maruti Prasad Nanda
Bighnaraj Pattanaik Juby K George Md. Mansur
Bijay Kr. Kar Julious Samantaray Mursalin Khan
Bijay Kumar Nayak Jyoti Ranjan Nayak Nalini Kanta Behera
Bijay Kumar Nayak Kanduru Charan Barik Nalita Nayak
Bijaya Ketan Mangaraj Kishore Chandra Pradhan Narahari Naik
Bijaya Kumar Rout Kishore Dungdung Narayan Nath
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Niluram Gochhayat Raju Dhada Seema Nayak

Nira Dei Rama Ch. Samantray Seshadev Panda
Nirakar Das Ramesh Ch. Swain Shiba Paschima Kabat
Niranjan Mangaraj Ramesh Chandra Naik Siba Prasad Mohanty
Niranjan Nayak Ramesh K. Mallick Sibani Roy
Nirmal Kumar Bhoi Ranjan Kumar Swain Smita Kanungo
P.K. Mohanty Rasmi Ranjan Nayak Soumyajeet Das
P.K. Mohapatra Ratiram Khakha Sreelekha Pradhan
Paramananda Bhuyan Reena Ravichander Sribatsa Pradhan
Partha Sarathi Parija Rita Bilung Subhasis Das
Pradeep Johan Ekka Rubina Dash
Subhransu S. Samal
Pradeep Kumar Mallick Rudra Pratap Maharathy
Subrat Kumar Barik
Pradeep K. Moharana S.Leena
Subrat Kumar Nayak
Pramod K. Jena Sachin Sundaray
Sudarshan Gochhayat
Prasant Kumar Adhikary Sadhona Bishoi
Pratima Topno Sailas Ekka Sudhansu Sekhar Biswal
Pravas Kumar Dhal Sailendra Ray Sukdeb Das
Pravatilata Jena Saliyamma Xavier Sukesini Ekka
Prema Ch. Nayak Salomi Lakra Sultan Ahmed Khan
Prema Swaminathan Samhita Das Sumant Kumar Mishra

Premananda Routray Sangeeta Shanti Barla Sunil Ekka
Priyanka Mohanty Sanjay Kr. Nayak Sura Naik
Surendra Naik
Punam Purtty Sanjukta Das
Suresh Kumar Patra
Purna Chandra Panda Santosh Kumar Parida
Suresh Mallick
Purnendu Pujapanda Santosh Kumer Pradhan Sushanta Mohanty
Purnima Pradhan Sarat Ch. Behera Sushila Nayak
Puspamita Praharaj Sarat Kumar Jena Tapan Kumar Dash
Pusparaj Singh Sarat Kumar Mishra Tukunu Behera
R. Santosh Kumar Rao Sarbeswar Dhal Umesh Chandra Behera
Radharani Ray Sarita Sahoo Upendra Kumar Dash
Raicharan Kanungo Satyananda Panda V. Nagmani
Rajan Masih Satyendra Kumar Xavi Thomas
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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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Student Executive Council

The Student Executive Council (SEC) is the apex student body at XUB. The body is led by the General
Secretary and consists of the Treasurer, Cultural Secretary, HRM Secretary, RM Secretary, Coordinators
of the core, functional and interest committees, mess and hostel secretaries and the class representatives
from BM, RM and HRM. This committee is the forum for discussion with the Vice-Chancellor, Registrar,
Dean (Academics), Asst. 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.
Xpressions, the flagship annual b-school fest is hosted by the SEC.
Core Committees
Placement Committee:
PlaceCom is responsible for facilitating the corporate interface for the students of XUB. The responsibilities
include – corporate engagement activities like leadership talks, corporate competitions, guest lectures,
summer placement process and final placement process (Xuberance). Other activities include: Summer
Placements - An all-year rolling process supplemented by mini SIP weeks for selection of students for
summer internship by industry partners; Xuberance - The Final Placement process for the selection of
full-time hires by industry partners; Leadership/CXO Talks and Guest Lectures; Live Projects.
Major Events: Godrej Loud Launch; Loreal Brandstrom; Mahindra War room Launch; Deloitte Leadership
Connect Series; Deloitte Maverick, East region.
RM Placement Committee:
Leadership Talks: CXOs representing various sectors came and interacted with the students through the
leadership talk platform. Various topics on which these speakers spoke were on Agri Input Marketing,
Field of Rural Management - New Avenues, Agro Logistics and Infrastructure, Public Sector Consulting
Scope and Opportunities, Management Practices for The Socio Economic Development of a Nation.
Rural Management Alumni Committee:

Sanidhya’16 - The Alumni meet of XIMB was held in 7 cities of India. The Bhubaneswar Alumni Chapter
co-organized the Bhubaneswar Sanidhya together with the Alumni Committee.
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RM Reunion ’16 - The reunion for the batch of 2001-03 was a two day affair at both XIMB and Xavier
City campus that saw enthusiastic participation from alumni, students and faculty. The event gave the
students and faculty a chance to mingle freely with alumni.
Dighir Ganguly Memorial Short Film Making Challenge - The Short Film Making Challenge was organized
in memory of Dighir Ganguly. It saw participation from top B-schools across the country. The touching
films with important social messages helped convey everything Dighir stood for.
Published X-Post July and October - July and October editions (softcopy) of the monthly alumni
newsletter was published covering all the activities going on in the campus.
Unnayan - Published the annual alumni magazine Unnayan along with BM Alumni Committee.
Alumni Interactions - Ten Alumni talks by 12 RM alumni were held over the academic year 2015-16 in
the XUB campus.
Margdarshan - Students were mentored by Alumni during their Summer Internship Process.
Pratibimb - The batch of 2013-15 was presented with their batch Yearbook.
Anubhav - The Xuberence experience of batch 2015 was shared with the junior batch to guide them for
their placement process.
IlluminatiX - Media & PR Cell
TEDxXIMB-2016 Communique-2015
lluminatiX, the Media and PR cell, is instrumental in maintaining and further building the media & public
relations of XUB and its Schools.
Mentorship Programme for New joinees - The year started with making the joining process of new
students smooth by handling their queries and branding XUB; an interface of communication between the
Admissions Office and prospective students. In a new initiative an informal session named ‘Rendezvous’,
extending a warm welcome to the new batch, was conducted in various cities across India.
Communiqué - The Media Conclave of XUB - Communique provides the students a peek into the world
of media and digital branding. The event reached new heights this year with participation from speakers
like Mr Prabhu Chawla, Mr Abhay Kumar to name a few.
TEDx XIMB - An achievement which added a feather to the cap was TEDx XIMB. As promised, the event
brought something new to the table with budding entrepreneurs sharing their experiences and thoughts
with bright minds.
Institute Day in association with Alumni Committee - A joint initiative to dedicate a day to the entire
fraternity of XIMB and XUB. The event saw a huge success with active participation from students and
alumni all over the globe.
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International Relations Committee: During the year, 14 students went on exchange programs to KEDGE
Business School, IESEG and Warsaw School of Economics. Two comprehensive Student’s Exchange
Brochures were documented, which served as a guide for the Exchange Students for the year of 2015.
The team engaged in profiling of Exchange Students, sharing their experiences and excitement on the
journey through our partner universities, with future aspirants.
Early in August, IRC in association with Xquizzite, organized a quiz “Pangaea”. The team designed a
concept of “Shadow Profiling”, the very first of its kind on social media platforms. IRC launched its
presence at Xpressions’ 15 for the very first time through an exciting treasure hunt, “Around the World
in 80 Minutes”. The committee managed French language classes on both campuses. Currently the
team has started its work on the Student Exchange Program 2016-17.
Functional Committees
MAXIM
Printed and published the Maxpress containing all the latest happenings in the marketing world. Annual
marketing conclave “MERCATIQUE” conducted with eminent speakers, Mr. Amit Kumar Gope, Mr.
Mahesh Rao, Ms. Susmita Misra and Mr.Arvind Suri.
Conducted disguised market research for Agri links for millet based products based on several aspects,
like positioning, packaging, pricing and target market as part of Maxim Mela during Xpressions’ 15.
Conducted Market Research for Mobility Solutions & Citizen Engagement Program for BMC Smart City
Program, Bhubaneswar and won the first position in the first batch of cities to receive funding.
X-FIN
X-FIN’s first event was an on campus quiz event, Bizzdom with 150 participants. Followed by workshop
on equity and trading market in association with ICICI; competition were organized for students to trade
in the stock exchange and money was provided; online financial courses were launched and a career
guidance session for the 1st year students.
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The financial conclave, FINOMICS, was organized for the very first time in Mumbai and was a success
with the community and alumni network. With 6 speakers and 2 sessions, topics covered were ‘The
Impact of Board Composition on the Financial Performance of a Firm’. A pan India level quiz FINOCRACY,
with participation from over 350 teams was organized. The annual magazine “Finshahtra” was also
launched during the conclave.
X-Ops
Aarohan - The pan India business case study competition was conducted successfully in July
Opium - Intra-college creative article writing and poster making competition
Ashwamedh 2015 - The Flagship business conclave of X-Ops, was hosted in August with speakers from
Godrej & Boyce, Snapdeal, Adani ports, Britannia, Beckton & Dickinson and Mylan Labs Pvt Ltd, debating
on the topic “Gaining Competitive Advantage Through Operations and Supply Chain Management”. It
included an inter college white paper presentation competition which saw participation from various
b-schools of India
Nirnay 2015 - Hosted an inter-college business simulation game during Xpressions’15
Opsie-V - A pan India Visual quiz based on Operations Management and SCM concepts was held in
January.
Crack-It - An interactive session with the winners and finalists of corporate case study events like, Mahindra
War Room, Delloitte Maverick, HUL L.I.M.E, TCS case wiz, was conducted twice in the past year.
Live Project on “Materials Management” for a six sigma black belt certification in Apollo Hospitals was
floated for the general members of X-Ops
Constrat - Consulting and Strategy Consortium
CONSTRAT, the Consulting and Strategy Consortium, is the forum for enhancing the consulting and
strategy vigour of XUB. Key events:
Stratonomics: National level seminar on the trends and challenges in the world of management
consulting with the theme for 2015 Industry 4.0 and Digitization of the value chain. The distinguished
speakers included Mr. Debashish Mahapatro - CEO, Verve Consulting; MD, eastbrooklandholdings; Mr.
A Karthik - General Manager, Head-Product Management (Trucks) Ashok Leyland; Mr. Sovit Biswal -
Senior Manager, Corporate Strategy & Planning, Tata Steel.
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Live Projects: CONSTRAT has worked on live projects in the fields of marketing consultancy, business
development, product/ platform enhancement across varied industries. Live projects done last year
included: Barakaat Consulting, Branddudes, Stratelytic, Visiontek, WhozHigh.
MAVEN: CONSTRAT’s flagship strategy and consulting competition puts business school students face
to face with real world business problems. The event saw over 150 teams from across India competing
for glory.
XSYS - The Systems Association

Symposium’15: A unique competition on presentations of the summer internship projects in the areas
of Systems, Marketing, Operations, Finance, Consulting, HR and RM was conducted.
Envision’15 : A business conclave, hosting speakers from reputed organisations like Microsoft, Datawise,
British Telecom and Digital Globe sharing their knowledge on the topic “Transforming Financial Services
with Big Data Analytics”.
Xpressions’15: National-level events “Parikrama” and “Case Connect” were hosted by the XSYS.
Parikrama’15 - an online event based on the lines a treasure hunt; Case Connect - a case study
competition, solving a case study presented by the Airtel.
“X-ITE” the XSYS magazine, keeps the students abreast of all the latest trends in the industry and
emerging areas of research.
RMAX
RMAX the functional committee for Rural Management students conducted the first event of the
academic calendar - “Arijit Gosh memorial quiz” with students across campuses participating.
“Abhivyakti” the Rural Management business conclave was organised in August. A full day event with
distinguished speakers from diversified field pertaining to Rural Management made their presence and
shared valuable insights with the students.
Gramatosava’15 - the School’s flagship Rural Marketing fair was hosted in October, in three phases
namely Aadi, Madhya and Iti Parva.
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Spardha - an inter College Social Entrepreneurship B-Plan competition was organised during Xpressions
in November. Participants proposed Business Plans in terms of livelihood intervention for the selected
villages, to esteemed panel after doing necessary primary research in the selected villages.
XIMAHR
CASE IN POINT: XIMAHR, The HR association organised a HR Case study challenge during Xpressions’ 15
with prizes worth Rs. 40,000 was awarded to the winning team.
KSHITIJ’15: A national level HR conclave, is the flagship event of XIMAHR. The theme for this year
“Emerging Trends in Recruitment” was held on September 06, 2015. Eminent Industry experts in the
field of HR were invited and students were exposed to the industry challenges in the field of HR.
Article Writing Competition : A national article writing competition was conducted on the topic “Emerging
trends in recruitment” in the field of HR. Cash prizes and certificates were awarded for the same.
HR Mantra: HR Mantra, HR Business Quiz, in association with Society of Human Resource Management
was organised by XIMAHR on July 12, 2015.
Interest Committees
Sportscom
Sports Com facilitated the participation in Valhalla a national level B-school sports fest at XLRI.
A faculty/staff-students Sports meet was conductd on the occasion of August 15 which included Cricket,
Badminton, Chess and Volley Ball. Conducted an inter-section sports tournament exclusive for the first
year students across campuses. Conducted a Faculty-Students cricket match on January 26, 2016.
Athlos 7.0 generated a lot of PR for the university. It attracted a lot of alumni to the campus who
participated in almost all the events.
XQUIZZITE
Key Achievements
w Rachit Jain & Sankalp Mohanty (Core Members) stood All India First in the prelims of the Ernst &
Young Business Quiz 2015 conducted by Ernst & Young online.
w Conducted external events for corporate audience, school students, general public and alumni.
Conducted Cross Functional Quizzing League for B-Schools for the first time. And is a on-going
activity
w Successfully conducted online 100 day countdown quizzing night (Lanciare) for Xpressions’ 15
promotions.
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w Conducted quizzes for various committees like ILLUMINATIX, X-FIN, X-OPS, and IRC.
w Launched a Facebook Page (www.facebook.com/xquizzite.ximb) with 3413 followers as on 30th Jan,
2016. And a blog (www.xquizzite.blogspot.in)
SPICMACAY
Pratistha - The Cultural Talent Hunt, showcasing various Indian art forms
Indian Food Festival, discover the flavours of India and a walk-through of heritage and culture of Indian
cuisine
Paint@XIMB, an entourage to expand thoughts and express through colours during Xpressions’ 15 in
association with Kala Kiran Foundation
Pratibimb, a face painting competition during Xpressions’ 15
Viraasat, an event unleashing the classical side through dance and music during Xpressions’ 15
SPEAKUP (The Oratory Club)

Sailing-my-Internship - a new edition this year where the seniors share their internship experience with
the juniors, with insights/ tips to crack company interviews for the internship process. VAANI with a
unique theme with prepared speech, extempore etc. was conducted. A unique Spoken Word Poetry
Workshop was conducted in association with Bakul Foundation, teaching the students the art of Spoken
Word Poetry. XANSAD, the Parliamentary Debate competition was conducted in September, drawing
excitement and participation from the students. Mr. Harsha Bhogle, the renowned cricket commentator
and motivational speaker visited the institute during Sanidhya Bhubaneswar in collaboration with the
Alumni association during October. Model United Nations was conducted for the very first time at XUB
during Xpressions’ 15 in November which saw a huge and diverse participation from the colleges in
Orissa and outside the state.
X-SEED, the Idea and Initiative Cell
KICKSTART - Entrepreneurship Awareness Drive - July 12, 2015, aims at raising awareness about
entrepreneurship amongst the students and encourages them to turn their dreams into reality. The
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speakers for the occasion were Mr. Chandrashekhar Mishra, Founder, Canyon Consultancy Pvt. Ltd. and
Crux Power; Mr. Anshu Gupta, Founder, Goonj and Mr. Subasish Mishra, MD, Techno5 Ltd. and Joint
Secretary, TiE Bhubaneswar.
Start-up Weekend Boot Camp Bhubaneswar - July 23, 2015, powered by Google for entrepreneurs
SW Bootcamp - Customer Validation and Ideation Workshop was conducted on August 12, 2015.
Start-up Weekend Bhubaneswar a global network of leaders and entrepreneurs which helps budding
entrepreneurs start up their venture was hosted August 14-16.
Interactive session on “Fund Raising for Startups” on September 29, 2015 by Mr. Subrat Kar, Co-Founder
& CEO, Vidooly.
Udaymita, the Business and Entrepreneurship Quiz Competition by X-SEED in collaboration with
X-Quizzite on October 31, 2015.
Open Doors Session in association with Unitus Seed Fund. The investment and sourcing team of USF
engaged in a conversation with entrepreneurs around “The Balancing Act for Startups and the Investors’
Ask” on January 29, 2016.
LitSoc
A micro-story writing competition was organized seeing the interests of the current generations.
Bookstalls were put up in both the campuses in association with Walking Bookfairs to help students
develop a habit of reading. Ensured students get to experience writings of different forms by helping the
Literary Festivals in Bhubaneswar reach out to the right audience, both for the New Indian Express and
Tata Steel. Many article writing contests were also organized that were open to students from all over
the country. Partnered with SRC to organize an online event for World AIDS Day to spread awareness
about the matter. Many author interactions were organized with eminent authors visiting our campuses
like Mr. Ruskin Bond, Ravinder Singh and Preeti Shenoy.
X-Stage
X-Stage showcased exhilarating performances at Valhalla’15 (XLRI) by winning 7 out of 8 events
participated. Nukkad natak, Group dance and Ramp show being few of them.
X-Capade 2015 helped spot hidden talents in the junior batch in various cultural activities.
Nukkad natak on Independence day as well as on World Humanitarian day in front of The World mall at
Bhubaneswar to spread the message of peace, harmony and humanity.
Salsa workshops, a week long extravaganza, were conducted on both the campuses.
Hosted Mr Rajat Kapoor for a cinema workshop at the XIMB campus.
Aaghaz, Carnival de Vogue, Decibelz, Goonj and Thirkan, conducted by X-Stage, saw participation from
various colleges during Xpressions’ 15.
A theatrical play by the very famous Indian Ensemble Theatre was hosted on February 20.
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Social Responsibility Cell
The following activities were conducted :

Condolence for Dr. A.P.J Abdul Kalam : 28th July 2015
Candle March on the eve of Independence Day : 14th August 2015
Celebration of World Humanitarian Day with children from Help Foundation : 23rd August 2015
Cleanliness drive for spreading the message of Swachh Bharat : 2nd October 2015
Visit by children from Asha Kiran : 11th October 2015
Joy of Giving Week : 10th -16th October 2015
“Xenable” sports event for differently abled children : 15th October 2015
Blood Donation drive : 31st October 2015
“Street Store” a one day old clothes store for the under privileged : 1st November 2015
Blood Donation drive : 9th November 2015
Diwali Celebration at NGOs : 11th November 2015
Children’s Day celebration with the students of Young Adult Education : 14th November 2015
World Aids Day awareness drive : 1st December 2015
Old age Home visit : 24th January 2016
“Para Athlos” sports event for differently-abled students : 26th January 2016
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EXEMPLAR - The Competitions Committee

A new Committee, established in August 2015 which comprises of students who are past winners or
have done well in various competitions. The aim is to bring more corporate competitions on campus
working in sync with the Student Placement Committee. Conducting workshops on ‘Presentation skills’
and ‘Approaching a case study’ to assist students in preparing for national level corporate competitions.
Preparatory session for the competition Godrej Loud, Mahindra War Room, SAB Miller, Tata Steelathon,
TCS Casewiz, Capgemini Aegon and a session for HUL Carpe Diem were conducted.
XLENS
World Photography Day- Portrait Photoshoot - Portrait photography of students with printout service
Photography workshop on Basics of photography - Photography workshop organized by the best
photographers of XLens in both both campuses to
teach the fundamentals of photography
Professional photography workshop by Sony - Professional photography workshop conducted by
Sony Alpha team
Express - Organised an inter college photography contest
during Xpressions
Workshop on digital post processing - Workshop on the understanding and application of
digital post processing using Adobe Lightroom and
Adobe Photoshop
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Student Live Projects
Apollo Hospital, Bhubaneswar: On MRI & CT scan scheduling data: Y Navin Kumar, Jalaj Pathak,
Noel Vaz, Kasturi Manohar Sanap, Mahak Janeja, Anchit Gupta
Apollo Hospital, Bhubaneswar: On Application of Six Sigma Tool for Inventory Management:
Sashi Bhusan Pal, Sibasis Mohapatra, Sushanta Kumar Kar, Amarnath Dash, Swayambhu Sekhar
Rath
Kalinga Institute of Medical Sciences(KIMS): Comparing Processes in Service Delivery Systems

in Hospitals: Sumalya Mandal, Susanta K.Sahu, Som Debashis, Shreya Chaudhury, Y Sumanth
Reddy, Varun Vasudevan, Neyati Bhanot
State Bank of India: Queuing Theory: Naved Alam, Avisekh Maharana, Sambit Tripathi, Shruti
Dhiman, Siba Prasad Das, Ansuman Pradhan, Anirban Biswas, Saurav Wadhwa,
Pantaloons: Aditya Birla Groups Market Analysis and Consumer Behaviour: Neyati Bhanot
Apollo Hospital: Understanding Sourcing practices of Indian Hospital Industry: Kishor Chandra
Sahu, Rituparna Mohanty, Vishes Agarwal
DAV Public School, Pokhriput, Bhubaneswar: Consumer Behaviour: Arijit Chowdhury, Chinmaya
Kumar Swain, Tathagata Chattopadhyay, Ipsita Satapathy, Soham Pradhan, Samrat Mazumdar
Sony India: Studying Distribution & Pricing Strategy and Organizational Structure: Sumalya
Mandal, Shaikh Azaj Ahmed, Swetha Prabhudesai, Som Debashis, Subrat Nanda, Shreya
Chaudhury, Swati Pattnaik, Sushree Sangeeta Ray
NALCO, Angul: Inventory Operations Management: Jagannath Mohanty, Yash Patadia,

Sashibhusan Pal, Prerak Shah, Ayushi Gilra, Anup Diwedi, Bhabani Shankar Mishra.
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Aditya Care Hospital, Bhubaneswar: Inventory Management: Anurag Panda, Ayesha Cassim,
Amit Kumar, Kirti Kiran Mohapatra, Preeti parna, Sourav Ganguly
SMS India Pvt.Ltd.: Lean Manufacturing: Jaydeep Sahoo, Nripesh Sen, Gautami Pati, Pratyusha
Dash, Shilpi Agarwal, Balijepalli Nagasri Sandhya , Arya Swayamshree.
Sandy Tower, Bhubaneswar: Inventory Operations Management: Apurv Srivasatva, P.Tarun

Saikrishna, Aditi Chaturvedi, Sashidhar Imani, Sabyasachi Mahapatra, Pratik Poddar
Bhushan Power & Steel Ltd., Angul: Aggregate Planning: Nandita Nayak, Piyush, Purohit Aman
Gajanan, Apratim Chandra.
Hotel Trident, Bhubaneswar: Inventory Operations Management: Pratik Poddar, Sabyasachi

Mahapatra, Sashidhar Imani, Aditi Chaturvedi, P.Tarun Saikrishna, Apurv Srivasatva
Two & a Bud/Food outlet: Logistics & operations: Sweety Das
RLT/Online travel portal: Digital Marketing: Sweety Das
Jagannath Foods & Aquaculture Pvt. Ltd.: B2B Sales: Sambit Kumar Nayak
Playcer: Digital Marketing: Sambit Kumar Nayak
Careers360: Digital Marketing: Ashish Tiwari, Kanumury Akshita Taruni
CFO Axiom: Domain modeling: Sukanya Dash
Roads Less Travelled: Digital Marketing: Kanumury Akshita Taruni
Internshala: Student Partner: Kanumury Akshita Taruni
ideasmakemarket.com: Campus Ambassador: Kanumury Akshita Taruni
Melmus: Digital Marketing: Aradhana Dwivedi
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Achievements:
Institute /
Name / Team Members Event Name Prize Level
Company Name
Preetiranjan Jena, Sumeet
National
Patnaik, Deepak Burma, XLerate Atheletics XLRI Winners
Manish Mathew
Bibhu XLerate Dance XLRI Winners National
Sweety Das Kanumury

Akshita Taruni/ Purbasa Samavay IIT Madras 2nd prize National
Patnaik
Buzzar (marketing
case study
Kanumury Akshita Taruni,
competition) at DoMS, IIT 10,000 INR &
Purbasha Patnaik, Sweety National
Samanvay (annual Madras Certificates
Das
fest of DoMS, IIT
Madras)
Runners-Up
Kundan Mohapatra,
CaseWiz TCS ₹1,00,000/- National
Sambit Mishra
Cash Prize
Kundan Mohapatra, Ashish Certificates
Maverick Deloitte National
Dwivedi, Swagat Acharya (Top-4)
Online Business
Amaresh Panda, Anup KIIT School of
Simulation ₹20000/- National
Kumar Patnaik Management
Contest
Scammed - Case
Abhinandan Pattnaik, T. A. Pai
study challenge ₹30000/-
Shweta Prabhudesai, Swati Management National
at Annual Finance Cash prize
Pattanayak Institute
conclave, TAPMI
Ragini Choudhary, Sourav
Mahindra War ₹25000/-
Panda, Priya Soni, Rahul Mahindra group College
Room Cash prize
Agarwalla
Xavier Institute
P Goutam Prasad Rao, ₹10000/-
Parikrama of Management National
Abhinav Mohanty Cash Prize
Bhubaneswar
ZeneSys Case ZeneSys and
Amit Kumar Certificates College
Study XIMB
Runners-up
Debasis Swain, Debananda Arthagyan 3.0-
IIM Raipur Certificates National
Patra Quiz
and ₹1000/-
Gen-X Chanakya
Amit Kumar, Himanshu
case study IIM Raipur Certificates National
Chugh, Akshobhya Shah
competition
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Abhijit Pati Exponentia IIM Ranchi ₹1600/- College
C.N.Sreeram,Samdarshi V-Guard Big Idea ₹10,000 +

V-Guard National
Yadav, Nihitha Davis Challenge Certificates
Rajendra Biswal/
Barcode SIMS Pune ₹8000 National
Bhagyashree Patra
Rajendra Biswal/
Samadhan IIM Ranchi ₹12000 National
Bhagyashree Patra
Bulls of Wall DoMS-IIT
Prerak Jigar Shah ₹10000 National
Street Madras
Prerak Jigar Shah, Rajmeet
Stock Mogul NMIMS Mumbai ₹5000 National
Singh
R S L Praveena Vahalla Volley Ball XLRI Runners Up College
XIM Third
Komal Gupta Maxim MPower College
Bhubaneswar Position
First prize,
Nripesh Sen, Kunal Talwar Beyond the Case IIM Ahmedabad National
₹30000/-
Best
Mahindra War presenter
Arsh Khosla Mahindra National
Room - ₹5,000 +
Certificate
Deloitte Maverick Grand finale
2015 Ashish Dwivedi. Deloitte Maverick runners up
Deloitte National
Swagat Acharya,Kundan 2015 Award and
Mohapatra Certificate
Samuel Abraham Koshie Tata Consultancy National Top
TCS CASE Wiz National
Shobhna Dixit Services 10 - BFS
Vivaan 2015 Indian Institute
Aakansha Gandhi, ₹15000/-
- International of Foreign Trade, National
Rohitaksha Panda Cash Prize
Business Summit Kolkata
Certificate
Chetan Anand Aulla,
TCS Case Wiz TCS - Top 10 National
Pranay Sarkar
solutions
Mahamedha Sahoo,Ipsita
₹30000/Cash
Joshi,Shreya Subrata, TATA STEELATHON TATA STEEL National
Prize
Subhashree pattnaik
Radhika Sarda, Anmol Prometheus in ₹25000/-
XLRI National
Sharma, Ankit Jain Ensemble Cash Prize
₹10,000/-
Sourav Sharma Aaghaz XIMB College
Cash Prize
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NALCO National
vigilance
Yasasvi Santosh Kotamraju awareness week NALCO First National
2015 debate
competition
Mechanitikos,
Pradnya Bharambe, Raj The Consulting
IIM Ranchi Runners Up National
Kumar Sah Case Study
Competition
Nalco National
Debate
Kinshuk Tripathi Competition Nalco 1st Prize National
- Vigilance
Awareness Week
Bhubaneswar
Smart City Vision ₹11,000/-
Anupam Priya Municipal National
Contest Cash Prize
Corporation
Zenesys
Arnab Barat, Rohit Case Study ₹2500/- Cash
Zenesys College
Sharma, Ishita Sinha Competition, Prize
XIMB
Subhashree Patnaik,
₹30000/-
Shreya Subrata, Ipsita Steelathon Tata Steel National
Cash Prize
Joshi, Mahamedha Sahoo
Best Summer
Godrej Industries
Radhika Sarda Gurukul 2015 Internship International
Ltd
Project
Best Summer
Godrej Industries
Radhika Sarda Gurukul 2015 Internship International
Ltd
Project
Samuel Abraham Koshie , Tata Consultancy National Top
TCS CASE Wiz National
Shobhna Dixit Services 10 - BFS
Dighir Ganguli
₹7500/- Cash
SWAVIN film making XIMB National
Prize
competition
₹100000/-
ICICI STOCKMIND
Jay Poddar ICICI SECURITIES Cash Prize & National
SEASON 3
certificate
Sambit Mishra, Kundan Tata Consultancy ₹1,00,000/-

TCS Case Wiz National
Mohapatra Services Cash Prize
Pradosh Kumar Sahu /

NMIMS, ₹6000/- Cash
Pritish Kumar Panigrahi / FinsQape National
Hyderabad Prize
Swapna Samir Shukla
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Esha Epsita,Padmalaya
Mahindra War ₹25000/-
Mallick,Sourabh Mahindra College
Room Cash Price
Khuntia,Nitika Baralia
Winners -
Sambit Mishra, Pratik
Financius 15 XIMB ₹4000/- Cash College
Bisani
prize
rohit sharma, Arnab barat, Zenesys case
Zenesys 1st College
Ishita sinha study competition
National level
Sambit Mishra, Rajesh PG Business
KIIT Top 10 National
Panda, Pratik Bisani Simulation
Contest
Ipsita Joshi, Mahamedha
₹30000/-
Sahoo, Subhashree Steelathon TATA STEEL National
Cash Prize
Pattnaik, Shreya Subrata
Pre
Rahul Bihany, Abinash TCS CASE Wiz Placement
TCS National
Satpathy 2015 Offer,
Certificates
Pranay Sarkar, Chetan
Casewiz TCS Certificate National
Anand Aulla
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Alumni Update
Condolence:
We are deeply saddened by the loss of Shaiwal Parashar (PGDM
2011-13) who left us on 21st August 2015. May our condolences
bring consolation and peace to his family during this difficult time.
He shall be truly missed!
Accolades:
Awards:
w Srikumar Misra Batch of 1999-2001, Founder-Milk Mantra - Odisha Citizen Awards
w Deva Dhar Batch 1987-1989, Business Development Award - Arthritis NZ Awards Night in
Christchurch.
w Adwaita Govind Menon, FPM Alumnus, employed with KPMG, Dubai - Top Emerging HR Leaders of
2014 Award.
w Dapinder Singh Batch 2011-2013(HRM) - Golden Globe Tiger Awards at Kuala Lumpur , Malaysia
w Ravi Kumar - Executive Vice President of Infosys, New York, with expanded role on its Technology
Advisory Board - honored by MIT Forum for Supply Chain Innovation
w Biju Dominic Batch 1988-1990, FinalMile, Co-founded & Anand MP Batch 1995-1997 - Best Case
Study Award at ESOMAR 2015.
w Nandikolla Venkat Kumar Batch 1996-1998 – Chairman’s Award, Mindtree
w Mritunjay Kumar, Batch of 2002-04, Chief Business Manager, Biostadtindia Limited - finalist Agro
Awards –(1)“Best Public Outreach Programme & (2)Best Packaging Innovations” at Agro Awards -
2015, London (UK).
w Dr Sanjay Mohapatra Batch 1991-93, Professor at XIMB and Shriram Misra Batch 2013-15, Mr Rohit
Padhi, Mr Subhabrata Nath Sharma, Mr Vikram Swain, Mr Subhajit Deb, Mr Neelakanth Veluru &
Tanay Saha Dalal Batch of 2013-15 - 6th in the Emerald-UUM case writing competition.
w Anirban Gupta Batch 2002-2004 - SEED Recognition Award.
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w Milind Geete Batch 2011-2013 - Deltapine Champion Award

w Bijen Pattnaik Batch 2007-2009, 3rd in the “Cross-Country Race” organized by Tata Steel
w Shruti Jaiswal, Batch 2012-14 RM, founder of ROOOH - one of the six winners of eBay# She Means
Business contest.
Elevations:
w Richard Lobo, batch of 1994 - 96, elevated as Sr. Vice President and Head-Human Resources - Infosys
India Limited
w Pratyush Kumar Panda batch of 1995 - 96, promoted as Vice President, CSR, ACC Ltd.
Startups, Acquisitions:
w Srikumar Misra’s venture Milk Mantra acquires Westernland Dairy for $1.6M. This is the first
acquisition by Milk Mantra, which is looking to expand its operations in Odisha, and enter Chhattisgarh
and Jharkhand.
w Ankur Sharma (PGPRM 2008-2010) and Pooja co-founded ‘FeePal’
w Nishant Gupta (PGDM 2004-2006) started a venture, 100krafts: A One Stop Platform for All Interior
Needs.
w Saroja Yeramilli’s (PGDM 1989-1991) tryst with jewellery helped her raise one of biggest seed
rounds in India. Online jewellery brand, Melorra, has raised $5 Mn from LightBox Ventures at the
seed stage.
Publications:
w Uday Satpathy’s (Batch 2008-10BM) novel BRUTAL joined ranks of bestseller books
w Bhaskar Chattopadhyay (Batch 2002-2004BM) signed an important book deal with a publisher in
Bangladesh today. As part of the “Library of Bangladesh” project
w Interview with Bibhav Behera (Batch 2008-10BM), regional head at Snapdeal. Read his interview:
CET Rising: RISING.CETB.IN
w Bhaskar Chattopadhyay, (Batch 2002-04 BM) edited and translated “14 Stories That Inspired Satyajit
Ray” was published by Harper
w Priyadarshi Mohapatra (Batch 1995-97)’s interviews published in The Business Line, Hindustan
Times.
w An insightful article by Biju Dominic (Batch 1988-1990) on Alcohol Ban in Kerala titled ‘Why Prohibition
will not solve Kerala’s Alcoholism problem - Behaviour Architecture’
w Prof. Sanjay Mohapatra co-authored a book titled “The Use of Technical and Fundamental Analysis
in the Stock Market in Emerging and Developed Economies” published by Emerald
w Srikumar Mishra, MD & CEO, Milk Mantra; alumnus of XIMB, shares his learnings and experiences as
an entrepreneur in an article published by The Business Standard.
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Other Achievements:
w K Mohan (PGDM 1997-1999), Vocalist of group Agnee, featured in the ‘30 Vocalists That Changed
The Face Of Indie Music In India – Part II’.
w Abhishek Majumdar (PGPRM 2002-2004), Artistic Director at Indian Ensemble, wins the first ever
Shankar Nag Award for excellence in Theatre.
w Sanju Verma (PGDM 1991-93) has been recently appointed as a Co-convener of the BJP Intellectual
Cell and also spokesperson of the party.
w Joseph Bosco, for being appointed as an Advisor to GREX Alternative Investment Markets.
Alumni Visit on Campus

S. Dwivedy Venkatesh D Sushmita Pradhan Ashok Singha
PGDM-BM (1989-91) PGPRM (1998-00) PGDM-BM (1993-95) PGDM-BM (1990-92)
Venkata Narasimham Peri Suvra Kanta Roy Vikas Goyal Madhuri Purohit
PGDM-BM (1991-93) PGDM-BM (2006-08) PGDM-BM (2010-12) PGDM-RM (2011-13)
Vinodh Chellambathodi Shiv Shankar Avik Sen

Prateek Chakravarty
PGDM-PT (1999-02) PGDM-RM (2007-09) PGDM-RM (2013-15)
Mayank Madhur Preeti Bharti Tinu Jain Jagadish Behura

PGDM-BM (2006-08) PGDM-RM (2011-13) PGDM-RM (2005-07) PGDM-RM (2013-15)
Sunil Prabhune Himanshu Rai Nageswar Rajanala Soumyakant Dwivedy

PGDM-BM (1996-98) PGDM-BM (2011-13) PGDM-BM (1993-95) PGDM-BM
M. S. Magesh Sumant Dubey Robin Menon Vinay Chak

PGP (1996-98) PGDM-RM (2005-07) PGPRM-RM 1998-00) PGDM-BM (1995-97)
Sanjeev Mohapatra Itishree Sahoo Vikas Sinha Jagruti Swain

PGDM-RM (2006-08) PGDM-RM (2003-05) PGDM-RM (2001-03) PGDM-RM (2013-15)
Subhankar
Sudatta Khuntia Ashok Das Subrat Beura
Mahapatra
PGDM-RM (1999-01) PGDM-BM (1991-93) PGDM-BM (1996-98)
PGDM-BM (1993- 95)
Alok Pattanayak M.S. Harinath Ramesh V.S Simanta Mohanty

PGDM-RM (1998-00) PGDM-PT (1994-97) PGDM-BM (1994-96) PGDM-PT (1996-99)
Chittaranjan Jena Jayati Dwivedy Divisha Gupta Richard Lobo

PGDM-BM (1997-99) PGDM-BM (1989-91) PGDM-BM (2002-04) PGDM (1994-96)
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Biju Dominic Nitin Goyal Vinay Chak Ojaswini Mishra

PGDM-BM (1988-90) PGDM-PT (2003-06) PGDM-BM (1995-97) PGDM-BM (2006-08)
Mahesh S. Rao Charudutta Panigrahi Subhashini Acharya Sarika Pradhan

PGDM-BM (1993-95) PGDM-BM (1987-89) PGDM-BM (2006-08) PGDM-BM (1998-00)
Amitabh Shukla Sudeep Dube Chandrasekhar AB Niranjan Bariyar

PGDM-BM (1989-91) PGDM-BM (2006-08) PGDM-BM (2003-05) PGDM-RM (1999-01)
Swayam Prakash
Anirban Gupta Mahesh Rao Ravikumar S.
Misra
PGDM-RM (2002-04) PGDM-BM (1993-95) PGDM-BM (1994-96)
PGDM-BM (1999-01)
Susmita Misra Amit Gope
Sambit Kumar Mohanty Mayank Madhur
PGDM-BM (1991-93) PGDM-BM (1991-93)
PGDM-RM (2006-08) PGDM (2006-08)
Bishnu Prasad Misha GSS Gopal Krishna Juhi Agarwal

PGPRM (2002-04) PGDM-PT (1999-02) PGDM-BM (2009-11)
Alumni as Visiting Faculty

Name Programme Course
MBA-14-16 &
Subrat Sarangi Business to Business Marketing
Ex.MBA-14-15
MBA-14-16 & Business Process Re-engineering and Automation, IT & Risk

Srikanta Mohapatra
MBA-15-17 Management and Business Information Systems
Biswaranjan Jena MBA-15-17 Business Information Systems
Chittaranjan Jena MBA-14-16 IT Strategy Design & Implementation
Amulyadhan Rout Ex.MBA-14-15 Infrastructure Finance & Risk Management
Biju Joseph Dominic MBA-14-16 Immersion Course
Subrat Das MBA-14-16 Immersion Course
Rajkumar Narashiman MBA-14-16 Pricing Management Workshop
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Sanidhya 2015 (Alumni Meet)

Ever since the XIMB was established in the year 1987, it has produced over 7,000 alumni, who are
making their mark in the corporate as well as in the social sector all over the world. XIMB, XUB boasts
of a widespread alumni network with its members occupying top positions in the corporate world.
Each summer, XIMB community congregate in major cities across the country at Sanidhya – the annual
alumni meet conducted by the Alumni Committees of XIMB to celebrate its legacy. Sanidhya provides
the alumni an opportunity to meet old friends and reminisce old memories. Sanidhya 2015 events were
as follows:
w Hyderabad April 25th at Katriya Hotel and Towers, Raj Bhavan Road, Somajiguda, Hyderabad
w Chennai April 25th at Harrington Road, Chennai
w Kolkata May 2nd at Camellia’s Banquet, Axis Mall, Rajarhat, Kolkata
w Bangalore May 9th at The Park, M.G. Road, Bengaluru
w Delhi May 16th at Civil Service Officers Institute, KG Marg, New Delhi
w Mumbai May 23rd at MCA Recreation Centre, Bandra Kurla Complex, Mumbai
w Bhubaneswar October 4 at XIMB Campus, Bhubaneswar.
The faculty members and current students of XUB also attend the event which provides a platform for
the Alumni to reinforce the bond with their Alma Mater, meet the faculty, network with their colleagues
and share their experiences with the current batch students undergoing their Summer internship in
these cities.
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Publication:
X-Post: The Alumni Newsletter
The aim of the Newsletter is to keep the XIMB fraternity more widely interested in the development and
changes happening on and off campus.
Unnayan
The fifth issue of the alumni magazine, Unnayan was released during the Bhubaneswar Sanidhya in
October. It relives the journey of the Alma Mater sharing events and traditions over the years.
Interaction between Alumni and the UGC Team

XIMB, with its 27 years of excellence has now metamorphosed into a magnanimous university. UGC
expert committee made a visit to Xavier University on June 29th 2015 to assess competencies of
the students and to understand the journey as a Univeristy from 2013 to 2015. Their visit assumed
significance as they assessed the facilities and infrastructure, both academic and non-academic and
interacted with the students and senior alumni members.
Grand Home-Coming of the Silver Jubilee PGDM Batch of 1988-90

26th & 29th of December, 2015 had the XIMB campus reverberating, not just because of the chimes
of Christmas bells but by the Grand Home-coming of the 1990 batch. They came back to visit the
college surprising everyone with their never fading camaraderie and their everlasting friendship. The
bigwigs had fun squatting on the lawns & sprawling on the corridors, reliving all the happy moments
they shared together on the campus. Not only were the Alumni nostalgic but also the faculty who
taught them, the dean…. in short XIMB was filled with an air of nostalgia. The alumni flew from various
geographies across the globe.
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Reunion of RM batch of 2001- 2003

The saga of RM Reunion continued this year with much fervor, inviting on-campus batch of 2001-03 on
the 16th - 17th January 2016. The alumni were thrilled to be back. Members of the Alumni committee
welcomed everyone, followed by interaction with the Vice-Chancellor and the Faculty. They also
interacted with the current batch students and faculty followed by dinner.
Batch Reunion of PGDM 1995-97

The PGDM Batch of 1995-97 had their batch reunion in Goa. The theme was ‘picking the pieces after 18
years’. 35 of them met. Alok Bansal brought back cathartic memories of GDs during placement when
he appointed himself as the ‘moderator’ to the ‘discussions’. The batch reminisced about the very first
X-pressions and how it grown into a massive ‘X-travaganza’ now. As they contemplated, each of them
was struck by the entrepreneurial streak in their batch: Soumendra’s cracking IT start-up in ‘Dev- ops’,
Debasmit’s top-rated quant shop, Bansal’s massive franchise for Time coaching, Bobby followed his heart
to start tennis academies, Satyadarshi runs an engineering and architecture college, Chak’s marketing
start-up, Suraj’s ecommerce venture, Kamal’s rapid strides in power-corridors of Delhi, Manasi’s ascent in
the ultra-competitive real-estate brokerage business and Alok Acharya’s social sector consulting firm.
Alumni Meet at London

Fr. Paul Fernandes, SJ, Director and Vice-Chancellor, met
some of our alumni over dinner at London in November
and interacted with them.
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Bhubaneswar Sandihya 2015 (Alumni Meet)

XIMB Campus played host to the annual alumni meet “Sanidhya”, in Bhubaneswar on Sunday 4th
October 2015. The event was jointly organized by the Institute and the Bhubaneswar Chapter of XIMB
Alumni Association.
The Annual General Body Meeting of XIMB Alumni

Association, a body registered at the national level, was
held during Sanidhya. Fr. Paul Fernandes, S.J., Vice-
Chancellor, XUB and Fr. Antony Uvary, S.J. Registrar
XUB led the discussions and Professor Latha Ravindran,
Alumni Coordinator, XIMB, presented the annual activity
report of the Association. Fr. Donald D’Silva presented
the Financial Statement of the Alumni Association. This
was followed by a presentation by Bhubaneswar Chapter
and an open house interaction with the alumni focusing
on academic and other meaningful collaborations
between the alumni and their alma mater. The students
of the Alumni Committee showcased their activities
through a video presentation.
Dr. Adyasha Das, Faculty, Indian Institute of Tourism & Travel Management, Bhubaneswar and alumnus,
Batch 1992-94, enthralled the audience with her voice. She is an eminent classical and a contemporary
singer in the Odisha music circle.
The highlight of the event was “An evening with Rajat

Kapoor”, a renowned, Bollywood Actor, Director,
Producer and Writer interacted with the alumni, faculty
and students of the Institute. The event concluded with
cocktail and dinner.
Bhubaneswar Chapter formation

The XIMB Alumni Association Bhubaneswar Chapter has been very active and has been meeting
regularly. The Executive Body of the Bhubaneswar Chapter has worked tirelessly to draw up the MoA
and the same is now officially registered under the Societies Registration Act XXI of 1860. Congratulation
to the Executive Body who worked hard to accomplish this.
Fourth Ambit Technologies Private Limited

Xavier Institute of Management has signed a MoU with Fourth Ambit Technologies Private Limited for
Alumni Portal and Services. This will enable us to strengthen our alumni database.
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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”.
The alumni is the pride of every premier institution. And the 2016 Convocation batches are particularly
special for us as we are privileged to have them as the very first members of the Xavier University
Bhubaneswar Alumni Association (XUBAA).
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 making a difference wherever you go.
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Convocation Foundation Day

Speakers Lecture Speakers
1990 March 31 Shri Biju Pattnaik YEAR SPEAKER
1991 August 20 Shri V. Krishnamurthy
1993 December 17 Shri Russi Mody 2003 Dr. J. J. Irani
1995 April 8 Shri S. B Mishra, IAS

2004 Shri Arun Maira
1996 April 6 Shri B J Panda
1997 April 5 Shri Arvind Pande

2005 Ms. Lalita Gupte
1998 April 4 Shri Rajive Kaul
1999 April 6 Shri Giridhar Gamang

2006 Shri Ashok Soota
2000 March 10 His Excellency Shri MM Rajendran
2001 March 12 Dr. Basudeb Sen 2007 Shri Madhur Bajaj

2002 March 21 Dr. N.R. Narayan Murthy
2003 March 10 Shri Kumar Mangalam Birla 2008 Shri Sarthak Behuria
2004 March 19 Shri Tarun Das
2005 March 14 Shri Jamshyd N.G 2009 Shri Sunil Kant Munjal
2006 March 18 Shri M. Damodaran

2010 Ms. Vinita Bali
2007 March 24 Shri Subodh Bhargava
2008 March 26 Shri Shekhar Datta

2011 Shri S. Gopalakrishnan (Kris)
2009 March 21 Shri Siddhartha Behuria, IAS
2010 March 20 Shri R. Seshasayee

2012 Shri Deepak Premnarayen
2011 March 30 Shri Adi Godrej
2012 March 27 Shri Harsh C Mariwala 2013 Dr. Preetha Reddy

2013 March 25 Shri Jaspal Singh Bindra
2014 March 25 Shri T.V. Narendran 2014 Dr. B. Muthuraman
2015 March 27 His Excellency Dr. S. C. Jamir

2015 Shri D. Shivakumar
2016 March 29 Shri Suresh Narayanan
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For the Greater Glory of God
Xavier City Campus

Plot No.:12(A), Nijigada, Kurki, Harirajpur-752050, Dist. - Puri, Odisha
Web: http://www.xub.edu.in
Phone: +91-674-2377700
XIMB Campus
Xavier Institute of Management (XIMB)
Xavier Square, Bhubaneswar-751013, India
Phone: +91-674-6647777, Fax: +91-674-2300995
Mission of the Xavier University
The mission of the Xavier University shall be to imitate Christ as the model of wisdom
for youth in the service of justice, peace, truth, and building a civilization of love.
Its avowed mission is to develop scholars, committed to their own life-long and
global development, and nurtured in their careers and in their lives by the spirit of
their alma mater to be unique person and responsible citizen.
Established in the ancient land of India, the Xavier University believes that serious
and sustained dialogue among people of different faiths, cultures, and beliefs carried
on in her domain and extended to all forms of public life, can promote intellectual,
ethical, and spiritual understanding of all God’s people, through its various Schools.
It will use higher education as a means to proclaim the ideals and values of a culture
of peace and search for truth.
It will guide and motivate its students to go beyond knowledge and become
practitioners of the Truth that underlies all knowledge and wisdom, the Truth that is
the ultimate goal of all learning.
Vision of the Xavier University

Taking its inspiration from Saint Francis Xavier, a Jesuit scholar, whose name this
University is privileged to take as its own, the Xavier University strives to become
a globally recognized center of learning and of service to the people of Odisha, of
India, and even, of the whole world, by its commitment to excellence in all spheres
of human life as lived out in individuals and in institutions.
It seeks to become the leader as a Research oriented University that generates
knowledge and diffuses it for the benefit of all. It will be a leader as a visionary
University by equipping every student with the necessary competence to create a
just society in which it can lead a meaningful life. It will endeavor to become a global
leader in higher education by its vision that seeks to innovatively transform the world
into a just humane society.
Graduating Batch 2016, Xavier University Bhubaneswar
For the Greater Glory of God
Visit us @
www.xub.edu.in
www.ximb.ac.in
www.xshrm.edu.in
www.xsrm.edu.in
www.xcomm.edu.in
www.xsos.edu.in
www.xsc.edu.in
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XAVIER

Xavier University Bhubaneswar

My best wishes and prayers are always with you.

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

Academic Procession : 6:00 PM

Vice-Chancellor’s Report : Prof. Dr. Fr. Paul Fernandes, S.J.

Chairman’s Address : Shri Rajive Kaul

Award of Medals : Shri Suresh Narayanan

Presentation of Graduates : Dr. Biswa Swarup Misra

: Dr. Snigdha Pattnaik

: Dr. Kajri Mishra

Award of Degree/ Diploma : Shri Rajive Kaul

Convocation Address : Shri Suresh Narayanan

Academic Council : 06 Internationalization at XUB : 74

Board of Governors (Xub)

Dr. B. Muthuraman Dr. Sanghamitra Mohanty

Board of Governors (XIMB)

Shri Rajive Kaul Fr. Paul Fernandes, S.J.

Fr. Antony Uvary, S.J. Fr. Donald D’Silva, S.J.

We thank the Faculty

Medals for Academic Excellence 2015-16

Top Ten Rank Holders & Awardees of Gold Medals

C.M Kandoi Gold Medal & Rs. 5,000/-

Faculty Council Gold Medal for Academic Excellence

4th Rank Rituparna Mohanty 7th Rank Radhika Rajgopal Sarda

4th Rank Basavanneppa Sankeshwar 9th Rank Aviseth Kumar Maharana

6th Rank Nibedan Kumar Bhawsinka 10th Rank Nishant Mishra

Medals for Outstanding Performance

NTPC Gold Medal for Lady Topper Archana Mishra

Graduating Students (Mba-Bm)

Pratik Tripathy Ammu Nagabhushana Sandeep Rahul Jhamnani

Ankit Shukla Rudrani Das Ansh Srivastava

Sagar Mishra Anubhuti Parija Shibashis Sahu

NTPC Gold Medal for Lady Topper Priyanka Gaur

Graduating Students (MBA-HRM)

NTPC Gold Medal for Lady Topper Shreya Goenka

Graduating Students (MBA - RM)

Top Rank Holders & Awardees of Gold Medals

Adyasha Sahoo Manoj Kumar Sahu Nisha Gangwani

Graduating Batch of Executive MBA (Full-Time) 2014-2015

Anurag Bose Sam C. Verghese Samvrant Dwivedy

Executive Postgraduate Diploma

Top Rank Holder & Awardee of Gold Medal

Aditya Kumar Nayak Siddharth Jain Rajib Kumar Dhal

Abhijeet Singh Levina Pradhan Suvendu Sekhar Das

Graduating Students (PGDM - PT) 2013-2016

Xavier School of Communications

Inauguration of the St. Ignatius Chapel, Jesuit Residence and

His Excellency, Archbishop Salvatore Pennacchio,

The Two New Schools of the University

A summit on “Sustainability Leadership” was organized

The inauguration of Xavier School of

Centre of Excellence in Fiscal Policy

Foundation Day Lecture

State Level Convention of CHAI

UGC Expert Committee Visit

Visit of the Chairman Saqs

Global Compact Network India (Gcni)

Strategic Planning for the Schools

Connecting Academics & Research

Sustainability Leadership Summit

the foundation day of the School of Sustainability. With

National Conference on Fiscal

Great Conversations - Future of