'Bridge the gap between students' expectations, business environment'

BKMEA President Fazlul Hoque speaks at a roundtable on 'Responsible business behaviour: Business students' expectations' at The Daily Star conference room in the city yesterday. On his right is Bangladesh Federation of Women Entrepreneurs President Rokia Afzal Rahman. Photo: STAR

A roundtable on 'Responsible business behaviour: Business students' expectations' was organised at The Daily Star conference room in the city yesterday.
Star Campus, a weekly student magazine of The Daily Star, and Management Development Programme (MDP), IBA of Dhaka University, were the joint initiators of the event.
The seminar was aimed at bridging the gap between the expectations of the undergraduate students of IBA and the ground realities that dictate the country's business environment.
Bangladesh Federation of Women Entrepreneurs President Rokia Afzal Rahman, Bangladesh Knitwear Manufacturers and Exporters Association President Fazlul Hoque and OIC Matco Enterprise Consultant Rassel Hassan Kadir were the panellists at the programme.
Assistant Prof of IBA Shama-E-Zaheer moderated the roundtable which was attended by Prof Sheikh Morshed Jahan and Editor of Star Campus Shahnoor Wahid.
A group of 30 undergraduate students from IBA participated in this interactive session.
The perceptive reasoning of the panellists negated many of the notions propagated by conventional wisdom. The importance of re-branding Bangladesh was underscored with renewed vitality at the session filled with pertinent questions and insightful answers.
A wide variety of topics ranging from the true impacts of the global financial crisis on the knitwear sector and the impediments facing the manpower sector to the future prospects of women entrepreneurs in the country were covered during the lively exchange of ideas.
Business students got a glimpse of the daunting challenges confronting businesses in the country, while the panellists also gained an insight to the perceptions and beliefs held by the upcoming business professionals.