{"id":8883,"date":"2018-01-29T16:34:16","date_gmt":"2018-01-29T16:34:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/faceinews.com\/?p=8883"},"modified":"2018-01-29T16:34:16","modified_gmt":"2018-01-29T16:34:16","slug":"liba-beacon-2018-paves-way-for-leadership-and-ethics-for-new-india","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.faceinews.com\/?p=8883","title":{"rendered":"LIBA BEACON\u00a02018 paves way for Leadership and Ethics for New India"},"content":{"rendered":"

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L to R –\u00a0Fr. Christie, SJ, Director, LIBA, Mr. Surya, Associate Vice President, Infosys Limited,\u00a0Rev. Fr. A.M. Francis Jayapathy SJ and member of the jury<\/p>\n

\u00a0Infosys bags this year’s Mother Teresa Award for Corporate Citizenship<\/em><\/p>\n

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Chennai, 29th<\/sup> January, 2018<\/strong>:\u00a0\u00a0Loyola Institute of Business Administration – LIBA’s annual flagship conference BEACON\u00a0focusing\u00a0on the promotion of ethical standards, was inaugurated by the Honorable US Consul General Mr.Robert Burgess.<\/strong> This year, the\u00a0event witnessed Infosys Ltd. being rewarded the prestigious\u00a0Mother Teresa Award for Corporate Citizenship.<\/p>\n

The theme for the day-long conference was \u201cLeadership and Ethics for the New India\u201d which focused on providing a direction to build a strong business platform for emerging leaders. The conference was spread across two sessions with various industry experts including Dr. V. M. Rajasekaran, CEO, ITC\u00a0 Limited (Matches and Agarbathis Division), Ms. Jahanzeb Akhtar, Principal Commissioner of Income Tax – Government of India,\u00a0Mr C K Ranganathan, CMD, CavinKare Pvt. Ltd<\/strong>. addressing various key aspects of ethical leadership in the context of new India.<\/p>\n

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Infosys Ltd., a global leader in technology services and consulting was awarded the renowned Mother Teresa Award for Corporate Citizenship.\u00a0Instituted by LIBA in 1998, the award is presented every year to a company that has shown exemplary commitment to the ideals of corporate citizenship.\u00a0This year’s panel of jury consisted of experts from varying industries academia and former government officials.\u00a0Shri. M.M. Rajendran IAS, Former Governor of Orissa presented it to Infosys and the report was given by Mr. N. Vittal, IAS (Retd.), Former Chief Vigilance Commissioner, Govt. of India.\u00a0<\/strong>Mr. Surya, Associate, Vice President, Infosys Limited<\/strong> accepted the award on behalf of the company.<\/p>\n

Commenting on the occasion, Fr. Christie, SJ, Director, LIBA said, \u201cThe award is an annual honour given to a company which has gone far and beyond its regular works to promote welfare activities for the benefit of the poor and marginalised sections. This year’s\u00a0worthy winner, Infosys is being rewarded for displaying exemplary commitment to the ideals of corporate citizenship. We are proud to play a small yet defenitive role in creating an effective change in the society.<\/p>\n

About LIBA:<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n

Loyola Institute of Business Administration (LIBA) is a premier B-school, established in 1979 in Chennai. It endeavors to contribute to the sustained development and inclusive growth of the nation, by preparing managers imbued with a spirit of innovation and entrepreneurship. LIBA stands for excellence and ethics. The Institution works with an undeterred zeal to offer its students the best of the education, experience and thereby conducts several activities related to learning for their overall growth and development. Loyola Inclusive Innovation Impact Centre (L3iC), the start-up eco-system at Loyola Campus, is co-located at Prof. C.K.Prahalad Centre for Emerging India at LIBA.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

L to R –\u00a0Fr. Christie, SJ, Director, LIBA, Mr. Surya, Associate Vice President, Infosys Limited,\u00a0Rev. Fr. A.M. Francis Jayapathy SJ and member of the jury \u00a0Infosys bags this year’s Mother Teresa Award for Corporate Citizenship Chennai, 29th January, 2018:\u00a0\u00a0Loyola Institute of Business Administration – LIBA’s annual flagship conference BEACON\u00a0focusing\u00a0on the promotion of ethical standards, was […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":8884,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8883","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-education"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.faceinews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8883","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.faceinews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.faceinews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.faceinews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.faceinews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8883"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.faceinews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8883\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8886,"href":"https:\/\/www.faceinews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8883\/revisions\/8886"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.faceinews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/8884"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.faceinews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8883"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.faceinews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8883"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.faceinews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8883"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}