Other competitions at Megabucksa09 include: Markstrat, the Market Strategy ContestCXO is a business simulation game involving business problems, environmental issues, and organisational resources that imitates reality through a back-end software application. It will place your team in charge of a company with resources such as stocks and cash. CXO is an exciting way to learn […]

As part of the initiative, Dr Prahalad will be travelling to Goa in the second week of January 2009 to speak at an event hosted by GIM on the theme aGlobal Restructuring of Industries. Is there an India Advantage?a. GIM has also invited Mr Anoop Madhok, Professor at the Schulich School of Business, York University […]

The Box allows villagers to make a call by simply pressing a button which will connect them to an operator at Open Mind. He can inquire about anything related to farming, trade, market, society, travelling, current affairs etc. and the operator will provide a suitable answer for the same by searching for relevant information over […]

KK Pai, Chairman TAPMI, Dr Ramdas Pai, Chancellor Manipal University, Dr HS Ballal, Pro Chancellor, Manipal University, Dr Raj Warrier, Vice Chancellor, Manipal University, Dr H Shantaram, Trustee, TAPMI, Ashok Pai, Chairman, Manipal Cooperative Bank, Sathish Pai, MD and Gautam Pai, CEO, Manipal Press, H V Kamath, Secretary, Dr TMA Pai Foundation, MV Kamath, renowned […]

The Jury consisted of the Chief Economist of the Aditya Birla Group (ABG), the Editor of Business Today (BT), Publishing Director Business Today and CEO and Founder of Naukri.com. The competition got off to a start with the first semi final between IIFT- Delhi and IIM-Bangalore. The topic was aCut Prices, not Production in a […]

The first lecture was given by Mr Veerendra K Jaitly, President,AstroWix (USA) and founder dean of Jaypee University ofInformation Technology. He talkedabout how a successful project manager must simultaneously manage thefour basic elements of a project: resources, time, money, and scope. Philosophy of Project Management was discussed by Mrs Seema Giri, ChiefOperating Officer, AstroWix. The […]

Mr Gururaj Deshpande, Chairman, Sycamore Networks asked the graduates of today to be part of the resurrection process of the economic engine. Entrepreneurship, he said is the most challenging occupation that one can pursue but the rewards are incomparable. Mr GRK Reddy, MD, MARG and Chairman, CII, Chennai Zone emphasized on the potential of the […]

Inaugural Address was given by Deepak Jain, Dean, Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University. Talking about the Indian education system, he said aIndian parents concentrate on giving their children the best education. He cites this as the differentiating factor that will keep India aheada. Dr Seenu Srinivasan, Professor of Marketing, Stanford University gave the keynote […]

The need to increase revenue per employee (*see footnote) and the number of management consultants in the IT industry is both an opportunity and a challenge for technology and subject matter experts. On one hand, they would do well to pick up some management consulting skills, progress beyond routine technology or engineering roles and get […]

After completing her Bacheloras Degree in Arts, she pursued her Masters Degree in Management Studies at the Jamnalal Bajaj Institute of Management Studies (JBIMS). Post her MBA in finance she joined the erstwhile industrial finance company ICICI in 1984 as a management trainee – Project Appraisal & Monitoring and worked on projects in a wide […]