Students from one of India's leading B-school are happy with Trump as the US President, and feel Modi's demonetisation move is good for the country

In a survey to understand how India is taking Donald Trump’s election as the US president and the demonetization drive by PM Modi, students from MDI, one of India's leading B-schools, said they feel that Indo-US political and defence relations will improve during Trump’s tenure and demonetization move could actually curb black money.

It was an on-the-spot survey carried out by MDI students as several industry leaders and stalwarts congregated in the campus to celebrate the 20th edition of Delphique, MDI’s annual National Management Convention and a most-awaited event in the institute’s calendar.

With more than 800 participants, 24 companies and 65 industry stalwarts at the 3-day event, Delphique was buzzing with intense discussions around Patanjali, Bond markets and alternative funding sources for the infrastructure sector, Benchmarking of Indian cigarettes industry vis-a- vis foreign markets and Employer branding on social media.

Staying true to its theme of ‘Research, Review and Resolve’, the students carried out an on-the-spot survey around Donald Trump and Modi’s demonetisation drive.

Interestingly, a big percentage of the sample group of eminent industry leaders and students of MDI who took part in the survey felt that Indo-US political and defence relations will improve during Trump’s tenure while few felt that there is likely to be a slowdown in the IT sector. On demonetisation, the sample group felt that it could actually curb black money in the long run. The panelists from the participants only, however, did not agree to the prediction that India might face a subdued GDP growth.

Another major highlight of Delphique was the Cerebro-National Case Study competition, which was conducted in association with The Times Group. More than 200 participants across top B-schools in India took part in the competition, with the scenarios getting tougher in each round.

A new entrant in this year’s Delphique was a business plan and start-up idea competition ‘Vincenza’ organised in association with Indian Angel Network and VCCircle. The event even saw international participation with teams from the UK which was affiliated with the Erasmus Student network.

Big names from the industry like Rajeev Talwar, CEO and Whole-time director, DLF Ltd. and Robert Menzies, Head- Strategy and corporate planning, Godrej Industries Ltd. were in the campus as inaugural speakers. Meanwhile discussions with others like - Sofia Eriksson, Global Head of Communications at Ericsson India Global services; Rajesh Kurup, Managing Director at Millward Brown; Sanjay Bakshi, Managing Partner at ValueQuest Capital; Kiran Ramamurthy, Senior Vice president at Ogilvy & Mather; Pawan Singh, Director – PTC India Financial Services – on deep insights and industry expertise had many students saying it was an extensive learning experience for them to engage with the leaders.