JBIMS will be hosting ‘Strategym-2008’ on October 20-21, 2008 at the ITC Grand Maratha, Mumbai. Strategym, now in its 13th year, provides a platform for the students of JBIMS to apply their knowledge and business acumen to find solutions to contemporary management issues. Among the 8 finalist selected from the elimination round, following are the papers to be presented this year:
1. Diagnosing corporate sickness
2. Weather Derivatives
3. Social Security in India
4. Reorganizing Indian retail
5. Indian railways: What next?
6. Economic Footprinting
7. Home equity liquidation
8. Connecting Bharat

Marketing Maestro, the entrepreneurial event of JBIMS will be held on October 22, 2008. The event will be judged by Mr Arun Sehgal, the man behind Winning Edge, an organization spread across seven countries. The game would require the participants to set up a trading enterprise.

The theme for ‘Samanvay 2008’ is ‘Hope: In Today’s age of turbulence’. It will be held at the BSE Convention centre on October 23, 2008. This year will witness participants like Mr Arun Maira, Director, Boston Consulting Group, Mr Rakesh Jhunjhunwala, Partner, Rare Enterprises, Mr Sameer Sain, CEO and MD, Future Capital Holdings and Mr Sudip Bandyopadhyay, CEO, Reliance Money interacting with the students.

The week concludes with Prayaag on October 24-26, 2008 on the theme ‘Athena: The Greek Goddess of strategic warfare and heroic endeavor’. It will consists of 16 different events spread over three days which will test the art, wisdom, skills, knowledge, business acumen and application of participants. ‘The Quest to reach Olympus’ is the flagship event and will test the participants in a multi-faceted manner. Tata Kwizkraft will have a quiz hosted by Mr Dhananjay Shettigar. Apart from the above events, there are other events like Hermesa Vision, Demeter, Athenaas Scroll, Titanomachia, etc.

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