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In accordance to the MOU of Indian and NZ government, to promote bilateral trade, within the two nations, the first New Zealand India Business Forum was successfully held at Hamilton, New Zealand in the month of November, 2012 and it went ahead as building a platform for the academicians and corporate fraternity of both the countries to come together and understand the nuances of doing businesses at each other’s territories. While the first Business forum, hosted at Hamilton, focused largely on channelizing NZ investments to India and developing a better understanding of Indian markets and business practises, the 2nd forum was proposed to be a platform for exploration of mutual and reciprocal opportunities in chosen areas of economic development.

N.R. Institute of Business Management (GLS MBA) hosted 2nd New Zealand-India Business Forum on December 14, 2013 in association with University of Waikato, New Zealand and Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FICCI).

Guest of Honour for the event was Mrs. Jan Henderson, High Commissioner of New Zealand, amidst the presence of various dignitaries consisting of Shri Sudhir Nanavati, Executive Vice President, GLS, Shri Devang Nanavati, Honorary Secretary, GLS, Prof. Geof Holmes, Chairperson, India Regional Group, University of Waikato, the convenor of the forum from New Zealand: Dr. Asad Mohsin, Director, Institute of Business Research, University of Waikato, the convenors of the forum from India: Dr. Hitesh Ruparel, & Dr. Rajesh

Asrani, N.R. Institute of Business Management and Ms. Chandni Kapadia from Gujarat Law Society. In order to give justice to these broad ranging themes, the forum featured various key-note addresses and panel discussions.

Mr. Nilesh Purey, Vice President at GIFT City, Savan Godiawala, Sr. Director – Deloitte Touche, Prof. John Gibson, University of Waikato, Mr. Prashanta Mukherjee, Director India Horizons Limited, New Zealand, Mr. Rohit Swarup, the Chairman of International research foundation and founder director of Xplora Designs and Future Explored, Mr. NV Gautam, Gallagher, New Zealand and Dr. Surya Pandey, Institute of Business Research, University of Waikato participated in Colloquium on “Growing Business Opportunities India and New Zealand”.

The next session focused on Opportunities in Education Sector and the dignitaries of the Colloquium were Dr. Bradford Morse, Dean, School of Law, University of Waikato Dr. Vijai Kattiyar, Dean, National Institute of Design, India and Dr. Hemant Trivedi, Director, PDPU, India.

Prof Shyam Lodha - Professor and chairman, Marketing Department at Southern Connecticut State University addressed the key session on “Opportunities for India NZ Business”.

Dr. Asad Mohsin, University Waikato, Dr. Sandeep Kulshreshta, Professor, Indian Institute of Travel and Tourism Management and Mr. Param Shah from FICCI participated in the colloquium on “Mutual Opportunities in Tourism”.

Prof. Jay Mitra, University of Essex, United Kingdom addressed the key session on “Building Entrepreneurial Competencies”.

The next session focused on “Information Technologies and Communication- Opportunities and Challenges” and the dignitaries were Prof. Geof Holmes, University of Waikato, Mr. Tarun Kanji, Director and Global Chief Financial Officer at Pinger Group, New Zealand and Mr. Pankaj Shah, President at Gujarat Electronic and Software Industry Association.

Dr. Jayanti Ravi, Commissioner of Technical Education, Gujarat delivered the key note address on ‘Education Scenario in India.

The last session of the Business Forum focused on “Dynamics of Agribusiness Dairy Industry”. The dignitaries in this Colloquium were Dr. Frank Scrimgeour, Unviersity of Waikato, Dr. Mustafa Farouk, Sr. Scientist, Ag- Research, New Zealand, Mr. Parag Desai, Executive Director, Waghbakri Tea, Mr. RS Sodhi, MD at Amul and Mr. Bimlesh Singh, Director Flourish Pure Foods.

The event also witnessed the release of book ‘Exploiting Global Boundaries: Managing Business Transitions’ edited by Dr. Hitesh Ruparel, Director, N.R. Institute of Business Management and Dr. Rajesh Asrani, Professor, Gujarat Law Society.

Pahel –A unique CSR Initiative

Pahel was started by students of N.R. Institute of Business Management-PGDM with a dream to do something for kids who are special in some or the other way, but doesn't get an opportunity to prove. The underprivileged and differently-abled kids are given an opportunity to display their talent in music, dance and allied areas. Students of NRPDGM visit NGOs to meet the children and help them prepare for the competitions as well.

More than 150 children between the age group of 7 to 18 years, who are visually impaired, hearing impaired, mentally challenged or have other disabilities showcased their talents in various arts including vocals, dance and thematic representations and drama through 17 performances from various NGOs like Blind Peoples Association, Samvedna, Sarjan, Sparsh, Uthan Taleen Kendra, Savera and many more.

Judges and guest invited for the event were (IPS officer) Deputy Municipal Commissioner of Ahmedabad - Mr Siddhartha Khatri, Radio Jockey- Vasisth Thakkar (Radio Mirchi), Actor -Ravi Meena and District Social Defence Officer-Mr Bharat Desai. Participants were very enthusiastic and performed extremely well. The constant motivation and cheers from the students made it an evening to remember!

The Institute organizes an inter-class chess tournament for its students. Chess tournament helpes the students to develop their mental abilities and contributed a lot to their brain development.

The institute recognizes the pressures that students face during their academic life as well as the stress they would be facing in the future in their corporate careers. To alleviate this stress and teach them to cope with it, an annual yoga and meditation camp is organized wherein students are taught some basic meditation techniques and asanas for relaxation and stress management. Yoga provides all-round benefits to a human being. It has a strengthening effect on the nervous system through its non-tiring physiological activities that bring about poise of body and mind. Unlike the normal workouts that concentrate more on the inflation of the muscles, Yoga takes care of every little part of the anatomy. GLS MBA recently organized a yoga and meditation camp at the GLS Lawn. Mr. Tapan Mankodi from Swami Shivananda Ashram introduced the students to some of the basic meditation techniques as well as some asanas for relaxation and stress management. 68 students attended this camp and benefited immensely from it.

Every year the Institute organizes an inter-class cricket tournament for its students. Apart from the physical health benefits, cricket can also bring other benefits and opportunities such as Eye–hand coordination, Team skills, Social skills like cooperation, communication and learning how to cope with winning and losing.