IIM Calcutta Wins
Prestigious ETCiti Grandmasters & Tata Business Leadership Awardstext
It seems that winning has become
a regular habit with IIM Calcutta. The recently concluded mega shows like the
7th Tata Business Leadership Awards (TBLA) and the ETCiti Grandmasters
were both won by IIM-C students. IIM-C and Tata
Chemicals were adjudged the winners from campus and internal track
respectively, for the 7th Tata Business Leadership Awards (TBLA) while the team
of IIM Calcutta comprising Arnav Sinha and Vijay Anand Menon emerged as the
winners in the ETCiti Grandmasters held in Mumbai on January 30. text
Tata
Business Leadership Awards (TBLA)text
The winners were handed over the
trophy and cash prize of Rs. 1 Lakh by Ratan Tata, Chairman, Tata Sons.
The IIM-C Team consisted of Puneet Jain, Amit Mehta, Puneet Gandhi and Ritesh
Saxena.text
Speaking on the occasion, Mr.
Tata said, "It's wonderful to see an organisation of this size reacting to the
call for greater innovation. The Tata Group, in the years to come, will look
back and find many new areas, which we have entered, or many new processes or
products that we have undertaken or enterprises that we have nurtured, have in
fact had the foundation in an exercise such as TBLA." text
The participants were invited to
present ideas on the theme of 'Globalization - Identifying Global Growth
Opportunities for the Tata Group'. The teams were given the challenge to
present a business case on the opportunity for the Tata Group to grow globally,
which could be organic or inorganic. text
TBLA has been successfully
conducted for students from the country's top seven business schools in India
for the past six years. This year, TBLA was also extended to the employees of
the Tata Group companies across geographies in which the group operates.text
ETCiti
Grandmasterstext
The team of IIM Calcutta
comprising Arnav Sinha and Vijay Anand Menon emerged as the winners in The
ETCiti Grandmasters held in Mumbai on January 30. text
Of the five finalists, IIM-C was
the clear leader with 118 points until the seventh round. In the final (eighth)
round, however, IMT Ghaziabad gave jitters to the winners as they made 30
points, finishing as runners-up with a score of 117.text
Winners were awarded a Zen
Estilo each and Acer Laptops and also job offers from Citi. The
runners-up received 42-inch & 32-inch LCD TV-sets from Philips.
While collecting their prizes, the duo from IIM-C thanked ET and Citi
for providing the platform, and their institution for supporting them. Mr.
Dilip Walse-Patil, Minister for Higher & Technical Education, Medical
Education & Energy, Government of Maharashtra, was the Chief Guest for the
evening. text
Ian Gore, South Asia HR
Head, Citigroup, said, "The grandmasters were a good way of looking at
solutions in a different way. Unlike regular quizzes, the grandmasters had
rounds that made participants think rather than just recall. In the sixth round
called 'stalemate', teams had to come up with a one-minute strategy on
developing an idea. Also the quiz, with the theme of chess, made B-school
students think beyond Drucker and Ogilvy, and feel the real pulse of India."
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Noted theatre personality,
Alyque Padamsee, put emphasis on finding multiple solutions than just
recalling, something that was a part of the quiz. text
The championship started with the
online case study. ICRA, the knowledge partners, powered the content,
methodology and evaluation of the cases. NDTV Profit and
Indiatimes.com respectively were the TV and online partner for the event.
The prizes were sponsored by Acer, Philips and Police.text
