chennai itm chennai recently organised cognito a national conference for students to bring up their intelligent thoughts to improve practices in human resources finance marketing and operations in management of an organisation more than 60 students presented management papers on emerging trends and challenges faced by industries at global level the students made best use of the platform to present the research papers on several topics like work life harmony performance and performance approach inventory management social media marketing brand management corporate social responsibilities etc from industry perspective the papers were presented in the categories like conceptual empirical descriptive and case studies the students also examined viable strategies adopted by companies few papers highlighted challenges faced by firms or economy cognito 2016 has set up a wonderful platform for students to showcase their potential for research students are encouraged to apply and present their research papers pertaining to management under the categories of finance human resource marketing and operations management said dr prasanna sivanandam director itm business school chennaithe best five research papers as selected by the panel would be presented in an internationally listed management research journal