MICANVAS has been a platform to bring together eminent professionals and the best brains from the top B-schools in India and put them through grueling rounds of events that bring to the fore their ability to think on their feet. As the pre-eminent Communication Management School, MICA has always blazed the trail in inviting people […]

For those of you who could not keep up with the Business Today-Aditya Birla Group Acumen 2006 regional rounds’ results, we present them here. The following teams shall clash in what we all have been waiting for: the Acumen 2006 finals at The Ballroom, ITC Grand Central Sheraton and Towers, Mumbai on November 4, 2006. […]

IIM Calcutta on Saturday emerged winner of Acumen 2006 East Zone regionals by taking both the Quiz and Debate titles. Puneet Jain and Rahul Gupta, both from IIM Calcutta won the East Zone Quiz with a clear margin and shall now face IIFT, New Delhi and IIM, Bangalore and the West Zone winner at the […]

Two exciting days of India’s best b-school students pitted against each other yielded IIM Bangalore as the winner in both the Debate as well as Quiz events of Business Today Acumen 2006 South Zone. Venkatraghavan and Gautham Krishnan, both IIM Bangalore students took away the South Zone Debate title by speaking for the motion ‘Big […]

Mr. Aseem Puri, an alumnus of IIFT, Delhi now a Brand manager at Unilevers is looking after the laundry segment, especially Surf Excel, in Asia. The discussion centered on the pivotal theme of building powerful brands. Mr Aseem Puri gave the students an insight into how a brand is conceptualized, nurtured, marketed so as to […]

Indian Institute of Foreign Trade (IIFT), Delhi beat MDI-Gurgaon in a battle of reason to win the Business Today Acumen 2006 North Zone Debate finals. IIFT’s Arka Bhattacharya and Swarnim Bharadwaj (in the picture) will now compete with the teams from East, West and South Zones at the finals on November 4, 2006 in Mumbai. […]

MDI’s Priyanka Todi and Saumya Mittal (in picture) and IIFT’s Swarnim Bharadwaj and Arka Bhattacharya won the finals of the Acumen 2006 North Zone debate to enter the finals. The finals shall be held Saturday evening. They shall debate on the topic ‘Amitabh Bahchan everywhere: Celebrity endorsements don’t work’ As this report is typed, the […]

After a closely fought Acumen 2006 Quiz preliminary round, IMT-Ghaziabad, IMI-Delhi, Delhi School of Economics and The Business School, University of Jammu entered the finals of the North Zone regionals. Meanwhile, FMS, MDI, IIFT and Amity Business School entered the semi finals of the Acumen Debate. On Saturday, Ankush Trakru and Nishika Bajaj of FMS […]

The Business Today – Aditya Birla Group Acumen 2006 National B-school challenge today kicked off its North Zone rounds at the Indian Institute of Foreign Trade, New Delhi. B-schools from around Delhi and Lucknow participated in the event, and several familiar names won the debate on the relevance of foreign brands to enter the quarter […]

The event commenced with a team from NCDEX conducting a workshop on commodities and derivatives trading. The workshop educated the participants regarding the commodity markets in India, their evolution, product conceptualization, design and contract specifications, risk and settlement process. It was supported by a demo of an NCDEX trading terminal to view live action on […]