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

Data collated by Cult Com'07

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.