Hall of Fame

This one goes out to all the SPites who made it big at various B-school events! Heartiest congratulations to all the winners for staging such exemplary performances and making us all proud! Wish you all the very best in your future endeavours and may you scale even greater heights.

(14-07-2007)
Deepak Bhaskaran and Arvind Iyer bagged the 2nd prize in the National Case Study conducted by BMC wherein they developed an implementable strategy for Slum Sanitation.

(22-09-2007)
Varsha Krishnan won Synopsis - paper presentation competition held by FMS Delhi. Her paper was on e-retailing illustrating future growth opportunities for non-profit organizations.

The quizzing wizards Vijay Pillai and Siddharth Natarajan won 2nd prize at both the Electron Quiz organized by NTPC and Prashnavali organized by IIT SJMSOM on the 10th and 28th of October 2007 respectively.

(12-10-2007)
Piyush Tandon and Rohan Sehgal bagged the second prize at IMT, Ghaziabad in the event Shih which was a paper presentation competition on International Business with emphasis on mergers and acquisitions.

(14-10-2007)
Nilay Chandra and Arpit Dhariwal won the Marketing Colesium event organized by IMT Ghaziabad. The contestants were asked to launch a product in a foreign country and make story board and print ads for the same.

(28-10-2007)
Taru Gupta and Shilpa Kendre were the 1st runners-up in women’s doubles Badminton Tournament held by NITIE.

(03-11-2007)
Ravindra Goyal and Tarun Pal emerged as the winners of Lucratif – Xpressions held by XIMB where they designed a portfolio a Mutual Fund focussing on SEZ companies and presented the valuation of five companies.

(03-11-2007)
Rohit Kedia and Suraj Damani were the 1st runners-up of SRIJAN – a competition that required valuation of a target private bank in a takeover, held by NITIE

(04-11-2007)
Nischal Shah and Aditya Srivastava designed a road map for entry of a KPO catering to global clients into India and won NITIE’s Prerna Stratagem.

(23-11-207)
Jagnoor Singh won the 2nd prize in Sans Peril event at MDI Gurgaon which was a core marketing event that involved STP for a mobile hand set in the Indian market, suggesting features, pricing, branding followed by the launch strategy through distribution channels.

(25-11-2007)
Abhijit Petkar, Mohit Agarwal, Pawan Badgujar and Suchita Sanghi won the 3rd prize at Opulence a case study competition on Supply Chain Management organized by IIMA.

(29-11-2007)
Jagnoor Singh and Deepak Bhaskaran bagged the 2nd prize in the Global Forum held by ICFAI Mumbai. The event was a discussion on the emergence of the BRIC nations where Jagnoor and Deepak represented Brazil.


For exhibiting commendable spirit and putting in hard work, we would like to have a special mention of those who just missed the mark.

(11-10-2007)
Pavan Badgujar secured the 8th position in IIMB’s Bullz Eye stock market simulation game.

(27-10-2007)
Swapnil Walunj, Abhishek Singh Yadav, Sandeep Verma, Sriram Sandipudi, Bhaskaran and Ankit Rawal secured the 16th position in IIMA’s Confluence –Mousetrap, a strategy game.

(27-10-2007)
Anindya Gupta and Deepak Bhaskaran were among the top 3 national teams in Jantar Mantar – IT for SMEs, an event hosted by IIT Bombay.

(12-11-2007)
Saravanan, Rahul M, Ateet Bansal, Pratyusha Pallavi, Kulpreet Kaur and Charan Puneet Singh were among the final 4 teams at Vista’07, Tata Board Room Wars- a strategy game about starting a car company in Europe , after having successfully competed against teams from some of the other reputed schools.

(24-11-2007)
Ashwini Jain, Prachi Phadnis, Pratyusha Pallavi and Sridevi Chavali were evaluated 4th in IIMA’s Confluence 2007 Master Plan – a business plan competition.

Passing thought: "The rung of a ladder was never meant to rest upon, but only to hold a man's foot long enough to enable him to put the other one somewhat higher"- Thomas Henry Huxley

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Eco Forum hosts Guest Lecture by Mr. A V Rajwade

The Economic Forum at SPJIMR recently hosted a guest lecture by Mr. A V Rajwade on the Subprime Crisis as part of its strategic task to enhance interaction between participants and experts from the field of economics. The Subprime Crisis has been haunting the US economy for the past few months and its impact is now starting to be felt globally, especially on the Asian economies of China and India.

Mr. A V Rajwade, the eminent speaker, has been an independent Forex and Treasury management consultant for over two decades. He currently holds the position of a director in several public and private limited companies as well as being the Member/Chairman of various sub-committees of these companies. He is also a former member of the supervisory board of India Opportunities Fund, Bermuda and Mauritius, and Director of CRISIL, India's first credit-rating company.

Organised on the 1st of December 2007, the guest lecture was well attended by participants cutting across different programs. Mr. Rajwade spoke about certain fundamentals such as credit derivatives, credit default swaps, total return swaps, structured finance, collateralised debt obligations (CDO’s), risk and uncertainty and how all these fundamentals help us to diagnose the root cause of the recent credit crisis/subprime crisis. Overall, the lecture proved to be extremely informative and we look forward to similar sessions in the future.

SPJIMR hosts HSBC seminar on CSR

On 28th November 2007, SPJIMR in association with 'Partners in Change' and HSBC organized a CSR seminar as part of the lecture series on 'Investing in Business Leaders of Tomorrow', conceptualized and implemented by Partners in Change. 25 studens from the Industrial Engineering and Business Administration courses of the University of Twente, Netherlands, attended the seminar as a part of their study tour to evaluate CSR practices and initiatives of business enterprises in India.

The seminar was inaugurated by Mr. Peter Brew from IBLF (International Business Leadership Forum) and Mr. Viraf Mehta, CEO, PIC. Mr. Brew spoke about the need for students to take interest in issues affecting the society at a global level. Mrs. Malini Thadani, corporate head, HSBC gave a brief presentation on the CSR initatives taken up by HSBC in India and abroad.

A documentary titled ‘The Merchant princes of Bombay', which tracked growth from that of HSBC right from the days of David Sassoon, to the growth of charity from philanthropy in latter days, to CSR initiatives of corporate today, was screened. This was followed by a panel discussion on 'The Scope for inclusion of CSR in Management Curriculum'. The panel moderated by Mr. Sarang Tamhane, comprised of Mr. D.B. Raju (Larsen & Toubro Ltd.), Ms. Hima Mehta (Colgate Palmolive) and Ms. Suvrata Gharge ( Head-CSR, Mahindra & Mahindra).

Students and alumni from SPJIMR, students from University of Twente and those from AIESEC, shared their views on CSR and the day ended with a splendid high tea; all for a good cause! CSR aware and skilled human capital is becoming vital to a company's sustainability and not enough is being done to foster it. The DOCC committee took an initiative of organizing this event and very effectively highlighted that CSR is the need of the hour.

SBU Marketing organizes workshop on 'Branding'

SBU Marketing arranged for a two day workshop on ‘Branding’ for the future marketer on the 23rd and 24th of November 2007. The workshop was conducted by Mr. Anand Halve, alumnus of IIMA and founder of the Chlorophyll brand & communications consultancy, Mumbai. The workshop talked about the nuances of branding, giving the participants a preview into how branding is done for various products ranging from eggs to newspapers. It gave them an opportunity to put on their creative hats and act as brand managers for specific products. The participants were divided into teams and each team was given the task of coming up with creatives for a specific product.

Mr. Halve has been in the thick of the advertising world for over 28 years now. He has extensive experience in advertising and research for advertising, having worked in Research and Account Management at major advertising agencies including Lintas, Rediffusion and Enterprise, before Chlorophyll. He has presented research papers on Communication topics at MRSI (Marketing Research Society of India) and is a regular visiting faculty at MICA (Mudra Institute of Communications, Ahmedabad), and IIMA (Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad). He has also authored a popular book ‘Planning for Power Advertising’, in the year 2005.

Mr. Halve critiqued the presentations and shared his views on them, making it a tremendous learning experience for the presenters. The workshop saw a huge turnout and was appreciated by one and all. Mr. Halve with his wittiness and good sense of humour, kept the participants in splits whilst recounting his experiences in the advertising world, spanning almost 25 years.

The latest buzz on Inter B-School Events

We wish the following teams all the best for their upcoming events:

Confluence 2007 - Tata Globalization Challenge (IIMA) 25th Nov. 2007

Suneet Surana PGDM 2007-09

Smiti Murarka PGDM 2007-09

Priyanka Gupta PGDM 2006-08

Sumit Gandhi PGDSM-MIT04

Srinivas Davuluri PGDM 2007-09

Intaglio Swiss Knife (IIMC) 4th - 6th Jan. 2008

Diksha Mangla PGDM 2007-09

Manav Mahajan PGDM 2007-09

Abhijit Kishor Petkar PGDM 2007-09

Tarun Pal PGDM 2007-09

Ashish Rampuria PGDM 2007-09

Shubham Arora PGDSM-MIT04


Imperium Marquity - Sans Peril (MDI Gurgaon) 24th – 26th Nov. 2007

Jagnoor Singh PGDM 2007-09


We also take this opportunity to congratulate Shiddharth Natrarajan, Vijay Pillai, Jackson Rajan and Amrita Ramanathan from PGDM 2007-09 for having secured the 2nd position in the Western Region Round of Electron Quiz by NPC held on 10th October 2007. Wish you guys all the very best for the National Round.

Hearty congratulations to Pratyusha Pallavi, Charan Puneet Singh, Sarvanan R, Kulpreet Kaur, Ateet Bansal and Rahul M from PGDM 2007-09 for having stood 4th (among 9 other qualifying teams from top B-schools in India) at the Tata Board Room event organized by IIMB from 12th-14th October 2007.

Looking forward to the upcoming events while SPites gear up to bring more laurels home!

Guest Lecture by Mr. Ramesh Damani

A guest lecture was organized by the Eco Forum on the 19th of November 2007. The eminent speaker invited for the lecture was Mr. Ramesh S. Damani, member of the Bombay Stock Exchange Limited and a broker for over 16 years. Mr. Damani is also a well known host of the TV show, “Dalals of Wall Street” on CNBC TV 18 and a frequent commentator on financial issues on CNBC and NDTV news. The topic for the guest lecture was - “THE BULL RUN” The Stock market boom – Is it real???

Mr. Ramesh Damani commenced the lecture by highlighting the major bull runs over past century. He spoke about the dynamics behind a bull run and the dimensions attached to it viz. price and time. He also gave some basic rules for novice investors such as invest early, think long-term and hold on to your investments. Towards the end, a short question and answer session was held during which questions related to future trends of the stock market, impact of population on growth rage and the impact of BRIC countries on the global economy was discussed.

Overall, the event was an enriching experience for all the participants who came away with a better understanding of complex financial issues. We look forward to more such interesting lectures organized by the Eco Forum, who deserve kudos for a job well done.

Welcome to the SPrint zone

The first step in a journey to establish closer links within and outside the PGDM family. Welcome to SPrint zone - a unique initiative that seeks to establish a blog/EBB for/by participants of the SPJIMR PGDM programme.

Look around, explore, suggest, discuss and just be yourself. Rules and Procedures regarding posts on this blog will be communicated soon. Till then. Njoy.