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For all three categories, students were given caselets (for general management and for innovative marketing) and rules for building their idea (for entrepreneurship) in advance and the students emailed their responses to the PaGaLGuY.com team.
Indeed, it was heartening to see the number of responses that the event generated amongst the enthusiastic students of IBA, in spite of the short notice that the students got. The fact that these students were just a week into the courses spoke volumes of how they have structured their thought processes in tackling business issues.
The day started off with the visiting trio giving a brief overview of PaGaLGuY.com to all the MBAs-in-making and how the community has grown over the years. Due to the paucity of time, next on agenda was round 1 of the process where each student that had submitted an entry was to be interviewed by one of the PG team. The team from PG then divided the entrants into three distinct groups based on the categories that the students participated in. The general management category saw the most participation from the IBA students. More than a few enterprising students also took the opportunity to submit their entries just before the start of the round 1 of elimination.
The shortlisted candidates
The team from PG was definitely impressed by some of the entries which clearly gave away the depth of thought and innovation in implementing workarounds to what the students saw as common pain points. The round 1 stretched well into the afternoon and by the time, the interviewing of all students was done, it was well past 2pm. The team from PG then went on to have a lunch at the in-house canteen of IBA. During lunch, the interactions with the IBA students clearly showed how some of the students have their reasons for MBA all right and how they were taking advantage of what IBA had to offer, in terms of opportunities.
Rohit Awasthi and KVJ Subrahmanyam, PaGaLGuY panelists
From round 1, 4-5 students for each category were short listed and were informed prior lunch that they were to get prepared for further questioning on their submission in round 2. To avoid any perceptual bias, it was decided that round 2 will be a group interview of the candidate and his/her submission by all the three members from PG. It was interesting to see how some of the students were clearly meticulous in their planning and preparation in presenting their case to the interviewing panel. At the end of round 2, it was indeed turning out to be the proverbial tough decision in deciding the winners of the scholarship. This was more so the case with the entrepreneurship category where the team from PG felt that two candidates had very good and implementable ideas. After a lot of deliberations, and discussions with PGHQ as well as IBA management, it was finally decided that in the interest of fairness, the award amount be split between the two participants. Finally, at the end of a long day, the four recipients of the PaGaLGuY.com Maverick Manager were decided.
General Management - Prerna Duhan
Innovative Marketing - V Ganesh
Entrepreneurship - Shiv Kumar Pandey and Ganesh Iyer
Scholarship winner Prerna Duhan with PaGaLGuY panelist Kunal Nagar
Ravin K, one of the students interviewed for the scholarship said, “I came to know about the scholarship through Pagalguy. The three people from Pagalguy who came to interview us for the scholarships gave us a great learning experience by making us think on touch and on-depth questions. My business plan was about opening a tiffin business in Ahmedabad on the lines of Mumbai. Despite having spent five months in the hospitality industry, the panelists' questions showed me that I had overlooked many things in my plan.”
“The Maverick Manager Scholarship was constituted by IBA to identify and nurture talented students. The new entrants were not aware that they would be participating in such a contest even before they had adjusted to their new environment. Hardly a fortnight at IBA, and they were enthusiastic to participate in a contest that was to identify the latent entrepreneurial and managerial abilities in them,” said Mr Rakesh Bhaskar of IBA on the exercise.
“However, at the final round of presentations and interviews, it was evident that the best candidates in each category had been identified. These students were at their competitive best, fighting with their wits yet in a spirit of camaraderie. It was obviously the place to identify the hidden talents in many of these bright youngsters,” he added.
“The presentations were well done – realistic and well thought out. There were strong elements of strategic thinking coupled with a holistic approach. These could be made into viable business propositions with help and guidance. This was indeed a good start to their 2 year program at IBA where they would learn to further hone these innate skills. We wish these motivated and talented students a very bright future, who will do themselves and IBA proud. I am happy to be with the Pagalguy forum and explore more avenues for the students' cause.” he mused.
The team from PaGaLGuY thoroughly enjoyed the interaction with the aspiring MBA students and took away memorable thoughts with the promise of returning next year with a Maverick Manager Scholarship that is more encompassing in its scope and more rigorous in its selection.
Some of the bigwigs like Mr Jiggy George, Director, Cartoon Network, Aman Kothari, Head, International Marketing, Godrej & Boyce, Riddham Desai, Country Manager, Morgan Stanley will share memories of cutting chai and current market strategies in the same breath. The evening has an exciting lineup of events ranging from playing golf to basketball laid out for the stars to chill. The best part of the evening would of course be the recognitions, imparted through the hall of fame and the innovation awards. For the batches that have just forayed into the corporate world, there are enough avenues to win exciting prizes, if lady luck smiles.
Amidst all the fun and memories, the Welingkar Alumni Network will also commit towards making a difference to the Institute and society at large through many social projects and causes that Welingkar has initiated.
Institutions change, jobs change and so do faces. In the process of keeping pace with the changes in our lives, we tend to detach from the changes happening around us. Here's a chance for Welingkar alumni to catch up with their old pals, share moments of nostalgia, make valuable connections and grow.
Come, enjoy and unmask a new Welingkar on the 14th October 2006 from 6:30 p.m. onwards.
This year's aim is clear and simple: surpass last year's phenomenal success and provide an excellent platform for interaction among industry/political stalwarts, academic experts and top management students from across India and the world.
Last year, Intaglio attracted a huge influx of enthusiastic participants. It brought together scholars from institutions such as Harvard, Kellogg, Dartmouth's Tuck, National University of Singapore and the Asian Institute of Management in addition to those from the other IIMs and other premier institutions across the country.
The list of sponsors included the who's who of Indian corporations. The Times Group was the Title Sponsor, while Tata Consultancy Services was the Associate Sponsor. Sponsors of individual events included Cognizant, UBS, ITC Limited, CNBC TV18, Bank of America, Philips, Outlook, Reliance Mutual Fund, GSK, rediff.com, Motilal Oswal, Mckinsey&Company;, SAP and Business India. The Cognizant sponsored lecture series “Reverberations” was well received and had, among other speakers, Rodger Desai – CEO of Rave Wireless Inc. but better known as the “Serial Entrepreneur”.
Furthermore, the Indian Oil Corporation Ltd. sponsored Cicero's Senate, which brought together top women achievers from various walks of life to debate on significant issues. Some of the movers and shakers such as Deputy MD of ICICI, Chief Marketing Officer Wipro, International Programme Officer UN, Senior VP Morgan Stanley, Global Decision Manager TCS and Senior GM of Eveready Industries contributed to an enriching session.
A wide variety of intensely competitive events, case study competitions and paper presentations were held on the entire spectrum of business functions such as finance, marketing, systems, operations, consulting and strategy. While IIMC managed to hold onto the prestigious “Swiss Knife” trophy for overall excellence in Intaglio, ISB Hyderabad pipped 2 IIMC teams to win the Quizzical event conducted by the renowned quizmaster Joy Bhattacharya. The team from NUS Singapore won the award for the best foreign team.
Euphoria's performance gave a fitting conclusion to IIMC's Intaglio 2005-06. The cultural night finale – Regalio - of the international B-school meet organized by IIMC saw all the participants and students dancing to the melodious songs which have rocked the nation over the years. After four days of intellectually stimulating games, quizzes, lecture series and host of workshops participants and the organizers got a chance to let their hair down and party till late at night.
Interested? Excited? We are sure you all are just like the rest of us! So come one, come all and be part of the Intaglio experience. Visit our website www.iimcal.ac.in/intaglio for regular updates and news.
And one rung of the ladder that takes them to those heights is having qualifications that are globally recognized rather than being specific to countries. The problem with most such qualifications till now has been the necessity for candidates to travel out of the country to take the exams. Added to this were the prohibitive costs involved and a lack of uniform recognition around the world.
The Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) designation offered by the CFA Institute, an organization based in the US of A addresses a few of these concerns if not all. For starters it is respected worldwide. The CFA Institute, on its website, calls the CFA as the “gold standard” in financial education. Not without reason too. A Russell Reynolds study quoted on the CFA Institute website talks about CFA-charter holding individuals out-earning their peers by over 50 pc across experience levels. It also mentions that between a CFA and an MBA it is the CFAs who demand a higher average salary. Another source, the Financial Times in an article published in June spoke about how the value of the charter is even higher in Asian economies like India and China.
But all this excitement comes at a cost too. It takes an average of 20,000 rupees to take each of the three exams needed to be cleared to get the CFA designation. Add to this a one time registration of 18,000 and it becomes an exam where not passing can be an expensive proposition. So considering a market like India, how does this investment pay-off?
To answer this question let us try and understand what the CFA Program actually involves in terms of content. Roughly speaking, the CFA is something like a Masters in Finance (or an MBA in Finance), although the CFA tends to be more investment banking focused. Post clearing the exams the market will consider you fairly adept at the intricacies of finance like Financial Statement Analysis, Investment Instruments etc. All this is relevant in the financial services industry and these are the people that will most probably pick you up once you are a CFA charter holder.
The financial services industry in India is booming, breaking records every year for everything from foreign acquisitions to value added outsourcing. The sensex has its own tale to tell with markets booming. (The BSE Sensex of course has a way of reneging almost anything said about it in press so it might just have recorded a record crash by the time this article goes to press). In other words, the context has been set for India to become the financial services hub of the world not unlike London and New York.
The primary employment opportunity is with Investment Banks, Private Equity firms, Equity Research and KPOs. Each seems to value the knowledge base that the CFA seems to bring to the table. The good news is that you do not need to clear all three levels to be considered for jobs. Every level leads to an enhanced career path. Organizations like JP Morgan Chase, Bank of America Corp., Citibank, etc. are not only keen to take CFAs but also encourage their employees to take the exam with some of them even financing the course for employees. Salaries easily start from 6 lakhs p.a. for a Level I Candidate and obviously it just gets better.
The number of Indians going in for this exam is increasing at an incredible rate. Sample this: When the CFA Institute, based in Charlottesville, Virginia, first held its exams in India in 1993, there were two candidates who took the exam. This rose to 1,288 in December 2004 and close to 5,000 Indian students took the test on the 3rd of December this year.
Who should go in for the CFA Exam?
The qualification would make sense to people with a wide variety of profiles. The most interested might be BMS and BCom graduates looking to enter the financial industry with an international qualification or as an alternative (or even in addition) to the CA. MBAs looking to enhance their finance credentials almost always end up taking this route as an entry strategy in to I-Banks. And of course investment banking professionals still form the largest section of people taking this exam.
So what does it take to become a CFA Charter Holder?
Basic Requirements to appear for the Exam:
Examination Procedure:
All three exams are administered on paper, on a single day; the Level I exam is administered twice a year (usually the first weekend of June and December). The Level II and III exams are administered once a year, usually the first weekend of June.
Both Level I and Level II are entirely multiple choice with no negative marking, while Level III consists of a session of short-answer questions and a session that is multiple choice.
Exams are challenging, with only 34% Indian pass rate for the Level I exam in June 2006.
How much time, money?
There are two parts to the designation. Firstly you have to clear the three levels sequentially. Secondly, you have to apply for the charter by supplying the 4 year relevant work experience along with the three level clearances. Clearing the three levels takes at least two years. If you do not have any work experience then the entire process can take 6 years. The good news is that you do not have to wait for even 2 years to apply to companies. Clearing one level leads to a considerable improvement in the employment prospects in the financial industry. And after completing all three levels, it becomes simply a matter of time before receiving the Charter.
In the final scheme of things the CFA program has a few obvious advantages over the other degrees. The most important is that candidates can prepare and take this exam along with a full time job. With respect to the cost it is around one-fifth of the expenses of an MBA in India Add to all this the fact that it is a degree recognized all over the world and it all comes down to a pretty good option to consider when looking at financial markets as a career.
This article was prepared with inputs from Munira Lokhandwala, who other than being a serial 100 Percentiler in CAT has now started off a CFA classroom training academy. She can be reached at [email protected] or www.TesseractIndia.com
This article is a sponsored feature and does not reflect the views of PaGaLGuY.com.
In its launch year, Pune gave a grand start to IQ. Pune repeated this history for IQ where the line to enter the event extended to 100 meters outside the venue. For the first time the Armed Forces Medical College students participated in this event and also was one of the six teams to participate in the city finals. Symbiosis Societies Law College won this event.
Over 272 teams who participated in the preliminary round hailed IQ, at Nagpur. The hall capacity at the IQ venue in Nagpur was 600 and we had over 800 students pouring in to participate in the event. 70 teams (200 students) took the preliminaries (25 questions) squatted in the gangways, on stage and beyond the exit door. The preliminaries eliminated over 100 teams and took the event to its climax with the city finalists trying to tackle the questions IQ was throwing at them. The eliminated teams stayed back to cheer the intense competition between VNIT and SRKNEC. VNIT won the quiz on the second last buzzer question.
IMS Quotient at Kolkata did well too, with 85 teams participating in the finals in spite of a long vacation and repeated strikes. NUJS-National University of Judicial Sciences won the quiz. IQ, at Patna received a warm welcome from the student community. 240 teams registered for the event and awaited IQ to reach their city. The sharp-witted students put in their best effort to qualify for the city final. Finally, students of the Anugrah Narayan College proved themselves the best of the lot by winning the IQ in Patna.
A 10 day Study Tour to Australia for the National Winner along with their Institute Head plus a Rs. One lakh grant for the winning institute from the N.R.Rane Trust. A 2 day Goa cruise for the First Runners-up and bikes, laptops and i-pods for the other winners. The effect was similar to a new SRK blockbuster pulling crowds at a movie hall.
From the West. To the rest of India.
The IQ had begun its quizzing run at Pune in 2006, with great success following suit. The city's 'lucky charm' quite naturally made it the Starting Point for IQ 2007 as well.
And boy, was it the right decision! IQ 2007 came calling and Pune answered with cheer, in unison. The city witnessed participation on a wider scale with colleges that stayed away from the quiz in 2006 also coming in. The Armed Forces Medical College was one such institute. Any trepidation of whether the IQ would be able to pull off a second run was blasted away by Pune's overwhelming response. From here on, the quiz organizers – IMS, got the conviction and courage to take the quiz across the country with full-hearted confidence. Confidence, in fact, would play a bigger role than envisaged in keeping the Quiz on track for the rest of its schedule. Here's why. The Quiz could only be held on weekends. And you had 4 weekends to cover 24 cities. This meant the Quiz would be entering multiple cities on the same day for the rest of its schedule. In fact, some days saw the Quiz running simultaneously in as many as 4 cities at the same time. What would give any professional event management team sleepless nights, IMS teams carried out perfectly well without any major glitches. What's the secret? Common sense, quick thinking and that attribute we talked about earlier, confidence.
House-full everywhere
The auditoriums were just not big enough to hold participants in any city.
Here are glimpses of what ensued in a few cities. In Nagpur, the hall capacity was 600 whereas the students numbered to 800 plus. As a result, the Qualifiers were held both inside the auditorium and outside. In Bhubhaneswar, not one but two halls, adjacently located, were eventually used to hold the qualifiers. Also, since one hall had a screen while the other hadn't, visual-based questions were dropped from the Quiz format. In Lucknow, one hall witnessed two Qualifiers, back to back, to accommodate all the entrants. Students took the Qualifiers in the aisles, on the steps, outside the auditoriums, and in some cases, even on the streets. And surprisingly, no one complained. Though the venues lacked on space, not one quiz enthusiast was sent back. In all, the IQ 2007 saw over 6000 teams participating, across India. That's over 18,000 students battling it out to be crowned India's Smartest 3.
The Art of Quizzing
A quiz is only as good as its Quizmaster. IQ 2007 deployed 8 quizmasters with the Grand Master being none other than Charanpreet. A huge hit with quiz takers in IQ 2006, Charanpreet scaled up the intensity and interest quotient of questions in IQ 2007.
So how does a Quizmaster choose his questions? The quick-witted, IIT-Kanpur and Iowa University MBA Alumnus had this to say “I choose my questions from every genre of life. There is a trick however, in the manner you choose your questions. If your questions are such that no one has ever heard of them, then you have a dead quiz on your hands. The beauty of IQ is, the answers to a lot of the questions are somewhere at the back of your head. The response I aimed to generate at the quiz was “Damn! I knew that. Think, Think!”
Grand Finale. Grand Locale.
Everything about a good sequel has to score over the predecessor. Everything including the ending. And the climax of IQ 2007 couldn't have been any grander. The 24 teams making it through the 24 City Finals were invited to Mumbai to get on board India's premium luxury cruise liner – the Superstar Libra for the Semi-finals and Finals. The closing stages of IQ 2007 took place over a 2 day cruise along the Mumbai-Goa corridor.
There were 3 Semi-finals, each witnessing fast and furious action between 8 teams to propel 2 entrants into the Finals. Many a time, spectators end up getting disappointed with a much awaited cricket or tennis final. With the IQ 2007 Grand Finale, there was no such possibility in the remotest sense. These were the 6 smartest student teams in the country and their wide knowledge and quick responses didn't afford anyone the time to loosen their nerves. The result was a nail-bitingly intense tie break. St. Stephens - Delhi and IIT – Madras tied at 100. NIT – Calicut at 95. Symbiosis Law College – Pune and IIT – Mumbai tied at 90. And NIT Trichy chasing the rest at 40. Incidentally, the IIT – Mumbai team had the same 3 students who won the first IMS Quotient in 2006. They were however, pipped to the post this year by St. Stephens – Delhi. That makes Arka Banerjee, Justin Thomas and Gautam Das the Smartest 3 Collegians in India.
So was IQ 2007 just a quiz?
The answer to this question is best articulated by IMS' Head of Marketing - John Gabriel “The IMS Quotient is more than just a hunt for the Smartest Collegian Trio. A successful student is a well-rounded individual, one whose learning goes beyond academics. The IQ provides students with the motivation to pursue, if I may coin the term, 'extra-academic' learning and also the platform to exhibit and celebrate this learning”. The IMS Quotient was a sincere endeavour from IMS to help nurture the passion for knowledge seeking in students across India. The road to fully achieving this vision will see many more IQs coming along the way.
A business school that blends the best of academics and hands-on industry experience to offer a one-year program that puts the advantage completely on your side. True to our baseline, “Learning for the real world”, our programs are tailored to make you industry-ready, with lessons by professionals from the industry as well as a solid bank of trained academicians.
Spanning every area that's making waves in our world today, from Retail to IT, from HRM to Marcom, from Marketing to ITES, CBS courses are the smart choices available to those with more than just plain old ambition. With lessons drawn from the business world around us, and training modules focused on the industry's requirements, CBS chalks out a route that goes far beyond a textbook, to make your learning not just relevant, but also useful.
As Jyotsna R. specialising in the Retail vertical says “I joined CBS to learn the nuances of management and pursue a career in Food Retailing, after studying Nutrition and Dietetics. This one year at CBS has changed my life in terms of the way I perceive things, and has also empowered me to take decisions and handle responsibilities. For instance, listening to people like Mr.Radhakrishnan, CEO, Hypermarkets, Reliance Retail, helped me appreciate much more, the strong link between textbook concepts and real world corporate practices. All the holistic learning I've had over this one year has made me realise the various dimensions of my personality.”
Classes follow no one pattern; they change hues and formats in order to best accommodate the constantly morphing demands of work. The carefully planned programs synergistically address two key concerns of industry: the acute demand-supply imbalance, and the chasm between the perspective and skill-sets that industry requires versus what management education institutions are able to create. Established to empower, rather than just educate, to fuel ambition rather than just feed it, even the campus reflects the vision and leadership of our distinguished captains of industry. That probably explains why 50% of our students got appointment letters even before they started classes.
In the words of Dean AS Srinivasan, “One basic criterion for admission to CBS is ATTITUDE. We place more emphasis on the candidate's attitude towards his/her chosen area of specialisation, since we strongly feel that this is what makes the difference between ordinary and outstanding performance in the real business world.
“Also, we believe that we should be developing real managers, not pretending to create them in the classroom, hence our motto - "Learning for the real world". Our emphasis is on industry leaders sharing their real world experiences, which can be related to management concepts. So learning at CBS is based on using best-in-class business practices to understand management concepts, rather than the other way around – using management concepts to understand business practices.”
The team behind CBS features some formidable names: industry professionals who have a combined work experience over 100 years, and knowledge to inspire and motivate each one of the students to excel in what they're best at. Mr. P.K. Mohapatra, President & CEO, Technology Business Sector, RPG Enterprises, Mr. J.N. Amrolia, Executive Director, Ashok Leyland, are just a few of the minds working behind the scenes at CBS. Their vision goes a long way in differentiating CBS form any other management program.
CBS offers 5 fields to choose from, 7 management specialisation options that are revolutionising the way people want and buy brands, and even the way economies are structured. Here's a quick look at them:
Human Resources Management (HRM), which has grown today to play a vital role in tomorrow's business world, spelling excellent career growth opportunities.
Marketing Management and Marketing Communication Management, ushered in on the new waves of liberalisation and globalisation that have introduced international brands in almost all product/service categories, opening up marketing in India to unforeseen levels of innovation and opportunity.
Retail, the next big thing that's headed our way, with unexpected growth witnessed in the recent years, with the establishment of international quality formats modified to suit the Indian purchase behaviour, entry of several domestic and international players, development of retail-specific properties and improvement in retail processes.
Telecom, the popular and much loved child of globalisation, greater deregulation, availability of cutting-edge technology and entry of major players, all of which have made the telecom industry one of the fastest growing and most promising industries in India.
Information Technology, one of the largest industry verticals. In India, constituted by two key components of software and hardware business. Today, IT has become synonymous with rise of the Indian Software exports industry and has the distinction of having created the maximum amount of jobs in India in the past 5 years and today employs over 500,000 professionals.
All of these areas are spurred on by the youngest of minds and the sharpest of intellects. Naturally, they create endless opportunities for students to dive in and have the most fun, even as they learn the skills and know-how to perform well in their jobs, right from
Day 1
Ask Deepak Rao about a typical CBS class. “After 23 sessions on learning to make choices between 'efficiency' and 'responsiveness' in designing a supply chain, we had a really great learning experience with Prof. Raghavendra Ravi in his session on Supply Chain Management.
“…watch out for technological development with all your senses wide open. Technology may help you achieve both. Dell Computers is a classic example,” Prof.Ravi said, just before he distributed the case study for classroom discussion”. Deepak's experience captures the new norm. Education that's informative, empowering and more importantly, a great way to further your interest in an area and capitalise on your natural aptitude.
That's where education is headed. To greater heights of relevance, effectiveness and enjoyment. So if it's a meaningful learning experience you want, combined with a place that gives your plans for the future the perfect launch, step in to CBS. And discover that the best time to make a smart decision for your career is now.
The Theme:
Spinning around the motif, 'Unleashing what lies Beyond and Beneath', Nimitt '07 looks beyond the visible horizons to support the common man at the bottom of the economic pyramid.
Increasing global competition coupled with the self confidence of a young and culturally diversified population is transforming India's billion problems into a billion opportunities for innovation. With around 700 million bottom-of-the-pyramid consumers at varying levels of income, the need for innovations that meet many of the issues in healthcare, education, energy, agriculture etc. will become relevant for not only the world's poor but also for the population of developed countries, where affordability is becoming a serious issue.
Nimitt '07 provides an opportunity for the corporate world to garner budding ideas from across the country, harness the latent talent of the fertile minds, contribute to the society using the wealth of their knowledge and establish a relationship with prominent personalities from the industry and academia.
The event is scheduled to be held on 13th and 14th of July, 2007 and would see numerous participants from different Business Schools and top tier engineering colleges from across India.
NASSCOM & TiE are our Knowledge Partners for Nimitt '07 and are guiding us in bringing the corporate world & participants from B schools together to discuss the different ways of managing innovation in the industry in order to benefit the common man.
Plethora of Events
BizzWay
Aakruti - The business plan contest and Vedanta the business quiz are here to put you in the fast track on the business highway... so fire up your grey cells and get ready to zoommmmm…
Antidotes
Let your minds be the breeding ground for original and innovative ideas and let Nimitt be the enabler... Find the antidotes to pertinent topics through Tatva (the paper presentation), Sarvodaya (the BMC case study) and Anveshan (corporate case studies)
CorpDesk
From the corporates, by the corporates especially for the students... Don't miss the Industry Gurus coming together to celebrate the confluence of academic brilliance, industry experience and youthful exuberance through Tark Vitark (the panel discussion) and Gurukul (myriad of guest lectures)
Campbuzz
The campus will be brimming and buzzing with fun and frolic on 13th and 14th July 2007. A spoon of music...a pinch of humor....a cup of fun and we have Anubhav...the memories of which will linger on in the minds of corporates for days to come.
So come and "Unleash what lies Beyond and Beneath" because there can be only one Nakshatra (the star team of Nimitt '07)...
For details & registration please visit:
http://www.spjimr-nimitt.org
| Nimitt Faculty Coordinator: Prof. Shailaja Gogate | Email: [email protected] |
| Chief Coordinator: Manas Sahu | Mob :+91 93229 33404 Email : [email protected] |
Event Enquiries: | Mob : + 91 98906 83720 Email : [email protected] |
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The deadline for the First Round – Submission of Executive Summary, is September 30, 2007.
Highlights of Eureka!
•Eureka 07 is open for all.
•The biggest Business Plan Competition in India and one of the top five in Asia in terms of participation, prizes and resources.
•Eureka! is now in its 10th edition and has already seen the launch of more than 15 successful startups including multimillion dollar companies like MyZus and eInfinitus.
•An extremely reliable and thorough business plan competition because of its unique mentoring process and transparent judging.
Incentives:
* Resources worth more than 14 lacs.
* Opportunities for Venture Capital funding through a wide network of VCs.
* Opportunities to get incubation in 20 Business Incubators across India.
* Business Consulting to Eureka! Finalists provided by Economic Laws Practice (ELP).
* Intensive Mentoring to Eureka! 2nd stage qualifiers.
* Best Entry in Rural sector to be rewarded.
Cash Prizes:
•First Prize : Rs.4,00,000
•Second Prize : Rs. 2,50,000
•Third Prize : Rs. 1,50,000
Best Entry in Rural Category : Rs. 1,00,000
Top Student Team: Rs 50,000
(Amongst the remaining finalists)
For registration and other details logon to www.eureka.ecell.in
The Open SimCAT was designed to make the students CAT-ready. The CAT can be tamed by those who manage to remain composed under any given test scenario. While conceptual clarity and management aptitude are the requisites for taking the CAT; poise, confidence and presence of mind are instrumental for succeeding at the test. Open SimCAT format checked the CAT aspirants on all these areas.
The IMS' Academic Innovation Wing last year had crafted the paper so inventive in terms of structure and pattern that the Math section had poetry in it. “I am a non-IMS student and while giving this paper I really felt that I was giving CAT: for the reason that it was a completely unexpected paper,” said Nikki, another SimCAT taker. Last year's Open SimCAT became popular with the student community for the shock it gave them.
Hence, bolstered by all the positive student feedback on last year's Open SimCAT, IMS has scheduled this year's SimShock for the 4th November 2007.
To better assist the CAT aspirants across the country, IMS allows the non-IMS students to take the SimShock. SimShock is a must take for all the CAT 07 aspirants as it will give them a chance to experience the CAT one time before the actual CAT.
The test would be relevant to the CAT 2008 aspirants in many ways too. Getting into a high repute B-School has become even more challenging with the increased competition. To experience the CAT, students need to be in their final graduation year. But, CAT aspirants today prefer to start their preparation earlier than that. In their sophomore year itself, students start readying themselves for the CAT.
The SimShock this time will be shocking enough to make news. The test will power the students with the knowledge of their exact standing amidst the thousands preparing for the CAT. To register for the SimShock you can visit the nearest IMS centre or you can register at the venue to get cracking. For further details you can click on this link http://www.imsindia.com/simshock/.
Established in 1970, IFMR was sponsored by ICICI, the House of Kotharis and other major industrial groups. Here's a look into how the school can help you achieve the goals you seek from an MBA degree.
Academic Programs
IFMR offers various programs in management that are AICTE approved. The flagship PGDM is also AIU approved. IFMR's curriculum offers a mix of theory and simulated real life exposure. Its graduates are equipped to meet challenges from the day they join the corporate sector. The programs offered are:
• PGDM -This program offers specializations in Finance, Marketing, HR, IT and Operations.
• PGDM (Financial Engineering) – This program prepares the students for careers in Treasury, Project Finance, Risk Management and Investment Banking.
• PGDM (Development and Sustainable Finance)- This program caters to the needs of Rural Banking, Microfinance, Development Finance, not for profit organsiations etc..
The IFMR edge
• Faculty - IFMR's faculty is its strategic asset. The institute has a student faculty ratio of 4: 1 seldom matched by other B- schools
• Excellent infrastructure and international alliances with leading international institutions including Harvard, MIT-OCW and London School of Economics
• IFMR is ranked 10th among all private B-schools in India as well as 10th. in Intellectual capital by Outlook magazine September 17 2007
• 100 percent placement since inception with a highest salary of Rs 7.5 lacs per annum for the batch of 2007
• Scholarships for deserving candidates including the prestigious T.Thomas Scholarship.
If you're interested, you can contact IFMR at the following address:
Institute for Financial Management and Research
24, Kothari Road,
Nungambakkam,
Chennai-600034
Tel:044-28303400
Fax:044-28279208
Website: www.ifmr.ac.in/lp
Unmaad is the biggest B-school Culfest in the country. Let's do a quick flashback – Unmaad 2007 - over 50,000 footfalls in 3 days flat! Over a 1000 participants from 500 colleges all over the country! What can possibly get bigger than this?
Well, no prizes for guessing Unmaad 2008! It's bigger, better and promises to make you experience an emotion you've never experienced before, the tenth Rasa - an emotion exclusive to Unmaad!
So whether you are a latent rockstar, a Leonardo Da Vinci in disguise or a cool dudette who just wants to have fun, Unmaad 2008 has something in store for you. The range of events that Unmaad has to offer is huge and this time there is something for the corporates too. Some of the categories that Unmaad dabbles in are Literary events, Fine arts, Musicals, Performing Arts and Specials. Corporates will be warring it out in Mad-Ads and various other events.
And with the likes of LG, Channel V, Radio Mirchi, Times Now, Rediff, PagalGuy, INOX, Garuda Mall, JAM, I-ticket, TNT, BPCL, GMR etc patronizing the celebration, prizes worth Rs. 7 lakhs await you!
And if you thought that's all that is to Unmaad, think again! Professional nights at Unmaad 2008 present - Rock maestros Mother Jane and Zero setting the stage on fire on the 1st of February. A unique concept, initiated by Unmaad three years back will again make its appearance in the form of the Unity Concert - a Pakistani band (Strings) and an Indian band (Mrigya) together on stage for the first time ever in India on the 2nd of Feb!
So join the celebration of a lifetime...Experience the tenth emotion at Unmaad 2008!
For registration, getting pronite tickets or more details visit: www.unmaad.com or mail us at [email protected]
These workshops will be conducted across 3 cities :
Mumbai : 2nd March, 5 pm, Sydenham college of Commerce, Churchgate, Mumbai
Pune : 8th March, 5 pm, Brahme Sabhagruh, Senani Bldg, Ex-Servicemen Colony, Near More Vidyalaya, Paud Road, Pune – 411038.
Nasik : 9th March, 2 pm, Rotract Club Hall, Ganjamal, Nasik
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