C MARC, as the promoter of IPHMR, could mobilize for the first time in India the entire pharma industry representing both nationals and multinationals on one platform in Mumbai on December 17-19, 2003 and again in Delhi on August 20-21, 2004.

Any Academic Programme for effective contribution to Human Resource Development has to be designed appropriately through selection and preparation of modules in accordance with the basic objective and in the light of the composition of participants.

Much would depend on the aptness of the Programme to ensure right take-home input for introspection and learning in retrospect. Success of any programme, irrespective of the duration, would depend on the ability to get the mind conditioned effectively in a thoroughly value-oriented manner. Everything remaining constant : the more time one gets, the more confident one feels.

IPHMR has accepted the challenge in the light of the uniqueness of creative excellence of C MARC as a research based healthcare management consultancy service.

The committed researcher must have the right mindset for designing/coordinating the programme innovatively and effectively.

IPHMR looks for active support of the discerning industry leaders; and proposes to pass through the most stringent and critical trials in a proactive manner.

Consistent and proactively critical support to IPHMR for making innovatively forward looking experiments with right sense of perspective in the specific interest of the industry to enable IPHMR to come up as the unique institution in the same manner in which C MARC has for long been making continuingly discerning contribution to the industry through the window of innovative research with vision and creativity.

Let IPHMR, as the extension of the concept of C MARC as an institution, seize the scope and opportunity of making lasting contribution to the industry on a wider canvas befitting the challenges and opportunities of the industry on global setting.

Let there be integrated growth of the industry through the process of unity in diversity.

Let the students come up to the expectations of the management leaders in the most fitting manner.

Let the discerning reader note what Mr Ajay G. Piramal, Chairman, Nicholas Piramal India Ltd said while christening IPHMR on December 18, 2003, the IPHMR Foundation Day :

• "As we look at the pharmaceutical industry today, C MARC has played a very important role in raising the standards and the quality of management in this industry. Compared to several other industries that I am involved in, I find that the quality of data and of research in the pharma industry is at a much higher level. It is my observation that C MARC defends its facts, tells the hard truth, and sticks to that, no matter whom they are talking to, even if they are potential clients. Credibility has been built in this fashion; and, more often than not, you have proven to be right even when you disagreed with senior managers. There could be no better institution than yours to think of and to initiate a concept such as IPHMR."

• "… … In pharma you need a good knowledge of science and a good knowledge of management. An understanding of R&D and patent law is necessary also. The quality of legal input today constrains our growth; the merger of science and legal is an important approach. So, I think, Professor Mitra has taken the right step to sow the seeds to start an institute that will develop people in the pharma industry. This industry has a great future and the best people will drive that future. You have my full support."

Accountability : Let accountability act as a driving force in emancipating the mind, while one tries to seek truth from facts, in giving shape to the course of events determining the future as one single identity.

Perfection : Let everyone have deep love for the work to be done. The urge for perfection comes from within as the driving force.

Attitude – the mindset : Let the individual get committed to the 'quality of life'. Let the organization comprising the individuals get committed to the 'quality of life'. Let the approach become holistic, institutional in character, combining and integrating both physical and mental/perceptual traits and features.

Let there be complete unification of values, ethical in form, practice and manifestation. Uniqueness becomes evident. Growth and development becomes organic.

Let IPHMR come up to the expectations of the industry.

Let there be complete fulfillment of the perspective on the backdrop of what all the industry leaders articulated on the occasion of the christening of IPHMR.