Daandiya Raas @ SP!

Dandiya being the traditional Gujarati Folk dance, Dandiya Night, organized by CoLosSeuM and Cultcom was the most eagerly awaited event of the term. The event was a grand success with party-holic people, rocking music and prizes in different categories. Above all it was the 'dance' or rather 'daandiya raas' which had participation from one and all.

Not to forget the fashion meter at this do was quite high. Girls were spotted in Ghaghra Choli and Chanya Choli. The guys on the other hand were wearing Kurta Pyjamas and some in Pathani style.

The live band kept the pace of the evening high! It renderied popular Dandiya numbers which kept people glued to the dance floor till the end. Shilpa Kendre and Niloy Chandra of PGDM won the Mr and Ms Dandiya Night respectively. Ravindra Goel and Taru Gupta won the Mr and Ms Well- Dressed prizes. The best Dandiya group prize went to Aparna and group from PGDSM-MIT. Aditi Ma’am, Vanita Ma’am, Shailaja Ma’am and Lata Ma’am won the prizes for the best faculty group.

All in all, the event was a welcome break from regular classes and would linger on for a very long time to come :)

Cheers!

Vikas

Rock on....!

Team ‘High Spirits’ in high spirits!! :)

Ayush Kumar and Arunav Roy of team ‘High Spirits’ from qualified for the finals for Jantar Mantar, The Systems Game conducted by IIT B. Their paper was on Prospects of IT product start-ups in India.

Finals: 27th October 2007

Venue: IIT Mumbai

Other teams in the fray: Alpha, IIM A; Synergy13, DoMS IIT Madras; Team Perception, SPJIMR; The Bulls, IMT Ghaziabad

Pragati path pe ‘Team Pragati!’ !!

Lakshmi and Maneesha qualified for the ‘Markshastra’ event, which was part of Kurukshetra, Gurukul conducted by XIMB.

For the preliminary round, the team had presented Paper on ‘Marketing for the Bottom of the Pyramid’.

Finals: 2nd November 2007-10-27

Venue: XIMB

For more info on the same, check http://www.ximbxpressions.com/

Cheers!!

Virginia Tech Contact Session - Dr. Tarun K Sen

It is indeed a great pleasure for us to extend a warm welcome to Dr. Tarun K Sen.

Dr. Sen is the Associate Dean of "Graduate and International Programs" Program at Pamplin College of Business, Virginia Tech and he will be here along with us from October 22 nd to October 26th 2007. He would be teaching "Information Systems Design and Data Modelling" to the participants of PGDSM-MIT04.

His presence will indeed be a great opportunity for all participants of SPJIMR to interact and gain insight into his areas of expertise.

Vista at IIMB Conquered! Congrats Team Pratham :)

Team ‘Pratham’ consisting of Nishant Pradhan, Rajat Chowdhary and Ganesh Sheshadri won the third place at Milestones, Vista ’07 at IIMB!

About Milestones

Milestones was a case-based test that sought answers to a detailed practical and real-time problem provided by John Deere. Participants were expected to identify the requirements and analyze the needs of rural Indians for a rural automobile.

http://www.iimb-vista.com/milestones.html

About John Deere

John Deere is a world-class producer of North America's broadest line of lawn and garden tractors, mowers, and other outdoor power products.

About the Event

John Deere, now in India, invited Indian B-school students to find a key to exploring the rural four-wheeler market based on the special needs of Indian villages and towns.

The teams were supposed to recommend top 3 vehicle segments or products that Deere should introduce or develop. For the product suggested, an entry strategy was to be devised (consumer special needs, infrastructure issues, competitor analysis, need gap and detailed entry strategy), in line with Deere’s expertise areas and the challenges/practical considerations faced by automobile players in rural India.

In all 57 teams participated in the competition and 9 best teams were selected to make a presentation to the judges. The 9 teams that made it were the ones from IIM B, SPJIMR (PGDSM-MIT), IIM I, IIM K, MDI, XIMB, 2 teams from SPJIMR (PGDM) and IMT Ghaziabad.

IIM-B won the case study competition. The team from IMT Ghaziabad stood second. Team Pratham was adjudged third and walked away with a cash prize of Rs 15,000.

About Team Pratham's Strategy

Team Pratham had suggested an innovative way of marketing and a unique entry strategy (as guided by Prof Atish Chattopadhyay). The judges were quite impressed with not only the marketing strategy but also the unique combination of products suggested to be launched in the Indian rural market.

Cheers,

Aparna and Manisha

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

Shailesh, the quizzing champ!

This time its’ quizzing!!

The students of PGDSM-MIT04 are back again with a winning spree. Shailesh bagged the first prize in Chanakya – Day 6 ( A theme Quiz) organized by IIMK as a part of Event – Horizons 2007.

Horizons 2007 is an event organized by IIM-K every year. This year the theme of event is Bharat Ek Khoj. Chanakya is a daily quiz revolving around this theme. The quiz on day 6 was based on Brand India.

Other B-schools in the league were IIM-K, IIM-C, IIM-B and NMIMS. Further details can be found on http://horizons.iimk.ac.in/event_the_bharat_ek.htm

Congratulations to Shailesh! We’re waiting for you to sweep away all the quizzing events!

- Prathibha

Saurabh wins grand finale at IMI, Delhi!!

Saurabh Shukla, participant of PGDSM MIT 04 has won the grand finale at Spandan’ 07 organised by the International Management Institute (IMI), New Delhi. Spandan is a foundation for Human Values for Management and Society at IMI. The topic for the presentation was ‘If I were to teach Human Values. The aim of the contest was to sensitize aspirant professionals about balancing their professional goals with organizational needs.

After a gruelling preliminary round, 6 finalists across India were chosen to battle it out at the finals held at IMI, Delhi. The other finalists were from TISS, IMI Delhi and Delhi School of Economics. The distinguished jury panel comprised of Prof. G.P. Rao, Founder of Spandan, Prof. C.S Venkata Ratnam, Director IMI and Prof. K Sankaran, Dean, Student welfare.

The presentation round was followed by an exacting Q&A session where the finalists were grilled on their views on the topic. Questions ranging from ‘Role of management in encouraging value system in an organisation’, ‘The learning cycle of values’ and ‘Relationship between value dimension and power dimension’ ensured that the best was brought out in the finalists. They were also asked to cite real life examples from corporate where these principles hold good.



Saurabh says he is thankful to Prof. Lata Dhir, Prof. Mona Nanavati and Prof. Prem Chandrani whose guidance helped him during his preparatory phase. He walked away with a certificate, memento and a cash prize of INR 5000.

Congrats Saurabh :)

- Manisha