The future business managers and corporate leaders need to create businesses and jobs that lift thousands of countrymen and women out of poverty instead of just aiming to climb the corporate ladder, said Charlie Nelms, chancellor of US-based North Carolina Central University.
Delivering the second annual convocation of the city-based Asian School of Business Management (ASBM), Nelms said, the management students graduating from elite business schools should consider the model of Grameen Bank of Mohammed Yunus and aim to be the agent of change in people’s lives.
Stressing on the growing significance of corporate social responsibility (CSR) to overcome hunger and provide adequate healthcare, Nelms urged the budding corporate leaders to focus on CSR. Speaking on the occasion, Rakesh Kalra, chairman, board of governors of ASBM and managing director, Navistar Automotives Limited, said in turbulent times it can never be business as usual, but as the captain of the ships, the future managers get the opportunity to show their true strengths to make decisions in the face of the turmoil when the sea gets rough and storms of obstacles rip through our sails. He urged the future action leaders of ASBM to make relentless efforts to steer the organisation in the desired direction. Biswajeet Pattanayak, founder director, ASBM emphasized on the unique value proposition attached to the process of management learning.
More than 200 students of the different management programmes of ASBM participated at the convocation.