(L-R: Gautam Krishnan and Venkatraghavan (IIM Bangalore) and Angad Keith and Saurabh Sharma (IIM Kozhikode), all Acumen South Zone debate participants)
The old debate ‘B-Schools make managers, not entrepreneurs’ was raked up again and with fresh perspectives at the Business Today Acumen National B-school Challenge – South Zone Regionals held in the Indian Institute of Management
(IIM), Bangalore campus on Friday.
Of the debate preliminary rounds taking place in two different rooms, the first room yielded quarter finalists in Amrita School of Business, Coimbatore, IIM-Kozhikode, Bharathidasan Institute Of Management, Bangalore and IIM-Bangalore.
In the second room, Christ College, Bangalore, Institute for Technology and Management, Bangalore, ICFAI, Bangalore and TAPMI, Manipal eliminated the rest of the teams to reach the second batch of quarter-finalists.
Quarter-finals shall witness the teams debate on ‘Surrogate advertising needs official censorship’.