MSM MBA alumnus wins ECOLAB 2016 Global Supply Chain Excellence Award

MBA30 alumnus Mr. Sumiran Singh has won the ECOLAB 2016 Global Supply Chain Excellence Award in the category: Safety, Service and Savings. The Global Supply Chain Excellence Award is presented annually and only 1% of the 48,000 ECOLAB employees wins this prestigious award. Ecolab is the global leader in water, hygiene and energy services and headquartered in Saint Paul, Minnesota (VS).

The award is granted to employees who operate more effectively to enable profitable growth for ECOLAB and its business partners. Sumiran has won the award because of his intensive collaboration with internal and external partners to redesign the technical processes of packaging systems and implement solutions to minimize risks. All this has resulted in huge cost savings which makes Mr. Sumiran Singh a true award winner.

Mr. Sumiran Singh joined the one-year full-time MSM MBA program in 2013. He successfully completed the program with a research thesis on ‘Open Innovation paradigm in a large life sciences company’ [Internship DSM].

“MSM’s specialized pathway helped me to develop skills in key business-related areas such as people management, project delivery and reporting. It gave me the opportunity to put myself at the forefront in dealing with our daily business issues. The MBA covered the gaps and linked different business ideas together helping me to find beneficial solutions. It taught me valuable networking and communication skills enabling me to develop personal and professional networks. I benefited greatly not only from the education received from professors who have extensive professional and academic experience but also from the practical case studies carried out in groups”.

MSM congratulates Mr. Sumiran Singh with this great achievement.

Master thesis: final assignment of MBA at MSM
Students complete the full-time MBA program at MSM with an individual assignment. They write a master’s thesis that aligns with their specialization, documenting how they apply their academic knowledge gained during the program. The students are supervised by an academic advisor and present the conclusions and recommendations of their thesis on campus in front of a jury of academics. The specialization courses are set up around four specialization topics: (i) Entrepreneurship in Emerging Markets, (ii) International Business and Sustainable Development, (iii) Accounting and Finance, and (iv) Public Sector Management. You can choose only one specialization, either from MSM full-time MBA specialization offer or one of the other specializations offered at participating academic partners.