PGDSM-MIghTians Rock!

PGDSM-MIghTy participants find their place in the league of Extraordinary Titans, in B-School events held across the country. With the best brains at work it sure must be quite a kick to be right at the top!!

Team Titans in the finals of Annual Paper Presentation Contest, IIT Delhi

Vikash Choudhary and Sumit Gandhi of Team 'Titans' have qualified for the finals of the ‘Annual Paper Presentation Contest’ of IIT, Delhi.

The topic for the paper was ‘Building Organisational Resilience’. The paper required participants to analyze individual and organizational resilience, an issue that has gained special urgency in today’s unstable world environment.

Vikash and Sumit’s paper described an effective way of mitigating and monitoring risks by using 5X5 Matrix approach. The paper goes ahead to explore the avenues that may help Wipro Technologies to improvise rapid responses to unforeseen crisis.

Finals: 27th October

Time: 10 AM

Venue: IIT, Delhi

Other teams in the fray: IIMC, FMS, NITIE, MDI, IMI, SBI Capital, Knowledge Management Centre

Event Details: http://www.iitdmba.com/giftresult.php

Team ChakDe in the finals of Abhyutthan, AVENUES.07 conducted by SJMSOM, IIT Bombay

Team 'ChakDe' comprising Manish Mrinal, Harsha Rao, Somit Basak and Karthick Raghavan has qualified for the finals of ‘Abhyutthan’ - the championship games at AVENUES.07 conducted by SJMSOM, IIT Bombay.

In the prelims, participants were tested across 7 verticals of management namely: Leadership, Strategy, Marketing, Systems, Finance, Operations and Negotiation.

After the preliminary round, 12 teams were selected to fight it out in the mega finals.

In the mega finals, the teams will be tested across all the management disciplines through a mix of online and case-based competitions.

Finals: 27^th and 28^th October

Venue: SJMSOM, IIT Bombay

Other teams in the fray: NITIE, IIM A, ISB, XIMB, MDI, XLRI, DMS IITD, IIMC, NUS Business School, Singapore

Event Details: http://www.sjmsom-avenues.org/

Team Kiran in the finals of Elevator Pitch, Empresario conducted by NITIE, Mumbai

Arjun S and Arun CR of team ‘Kiran’ qualified for the finals of ‘Elevator Pitch’ conducted by NITIE, Mumbai as a part of their annual fest Empresario, wherein one had to sell an idea in just two minutes to Venture Capitalists. It was a compressed version of a regular B-Plan competition. A Q&A session followed the 2 minute presentation.

Other teams in the fray: ISB, FMS, IIT Kharagpur and NITIE

Event Details: http://www.nitie.in/empresario/elevator_pitch.htm

Team Saksham in the finals of Battle of second Naxos, Milestone 35 conducted by IMT Nagpur

Shubham Arora and Aditya Singh of team ‘Saksham’ have qualified for the finals of ‘The Battle of Second Naxos - E-Business Model’ at Milestone 35, conducted by IMT Nagpur. The event revolves around the Information Technology domain and requires planning and a well-crafted strategy to prepare an army for all contingencies.

Finals: 20th October 2007

Venue: IMT, Nagpur

Other teams in the fray: VGSOM, IIT Kharagpur, IMT Ghaziabad, IMT Nagpur,K.G Somaiya Institute of Management Studies and IMI Delhi

Event Details: http://www.milestone35-imtn.com/Event.html

Cheers,

Manisha and Aparna